[{"id":35401,"date":"2019-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/obituaries\/connie-pawloff-nee-chalifoux\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:55:51","slug":"connie-pawloff-nee-chalifoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/obituaries\/connie-pawloff-nee-chalifoux\/","title":{"rendered":"Connie Pawloff (nee Chalifoux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>November 16, 1942 &#8211; May 22, 2019<\/b><br \/>The family of Connie (Constance) Pawloff of Red Deer is deeply saddened to announce her passing on May 22, 2019.<br \/>\nShe is survived by Dick (Richard) her devoted husband of 54 years; her beloved children Robie (Robert) of Red Deer and Karen Miller (Brent) of Sherwood Park; her wonderful young granddaughters Jordan and Paige Miller and her precious puppy Mishka.<br \/>\nShe also leaves to mourn her sister Paula Roberts (Red Deer); her brothers Ron (Sue) Chalifoux of Edmonton and Denis (Doris) Chalifoux of Spruce Grove; a large extended family (especially Carmen Ethier of Hinton); and close friends Barb &#038; Dave Blacker; Doreen &#038; Jim Guilloux; and Diana &#038; Good Dixon. She was predeceased by her parents Robert and Alice Chalifoux and her sister-in-law Gloria.<br \/>\nConnie lived her life with integrity, kindness, generosity and courage despite serious health challenges. Connie and Dick married November 22, 1964 settling in Red Deer to become an integral part of the community. Together they made special family memories travelling to explore, canoe, hike and ski in their Volkswagen Westfalia and Sprinter campers. Fondly remembered for her celebratory turkey dinners marking special occasions with family\/friends, Connie always welcomed others to her home and table. To her husband Dick, she was beautiful, loving highly supportive, loyal and worked hard with him to contribute to family home life. To her children Connie was a devoted, fiercely loyal and selfless mother who no doubt is &#8220;still watching over them&#8221;. To her younger siblings she was the &#8220;best&#8221; big sister &#8211; with her and Dick offering their unwavering support during challenging times. To her agin parents (who relocated to Red Deer), she was devoted daughter providing exceptional support with Dick&#8217;s assistance. To her friends Connie was true, loyal, kind and generous.<br \/>\nThe family wish to sincerely thank the entire health care team at Horizon House for the compassionate and competent care provided to Connie and support they gave to the family. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later time for family and close friends. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer Society of Canada. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 16, 1942 &#8211; May 22, 2019The family of Connie (Constance) Pawloff of Red Deer is deeply saddened to announce her passing on May 22, 2019. She is survived by Dick (Richard) her devoted husband of 54 years; her beloved children Robie (Robert) of Red Deer and Karen Miller (Brent) of Sherwood Park; her wonderful<a href=https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/obituaries\/connie-pawloff-nee-chalifoux\/ style='padding-left:15px;color:#ff6666;'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":35409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":35390,"date":"2019-04-09T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/news\/b-c-prepared-if-alberta-shuts-off-fuel-supplies-david-eby-says\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T18:49:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T00:49:49","slug":"b-c-prepared-if-alberta-shuts-off-fuel-supplies-david-eby-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/news\/b-c-prepared-if-alberta-shuts-off-fuel-supplies-david-eby-says\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. prepared if Alberta shuts off fuel supplies, David Eby says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p>B.C. Premier John Horgan enraged his Alberta NDP counterpart Rachel Notley by trying to stop construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, but her rival Jason Kenney says he&rsquo;ll really &lsquo;turn off the taps&rsquo; to B.C. as soon as he&rsquo;s elected.<\/p>\n<p>That would aggravate B.C.&rsquo;s gasoline and diesel shortage, driving up prices at the pump that are already the highest in North America.<\/p>\n<p><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p>Responding Tuesday, B.C. Attorney General David Eby called Kenney&rsquo;s proposed action &ldquo;rash and legally unconstitutional&rdquo; and said he would seek an immediate injunction if it happened.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A-G <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dave_Eby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Dave_Eby<\/a> repeats that Alberta\u2019s threat to turn off the tap for fuel to B.C. is \u201cunconstitutional\u201d and he\u2019ll go to court if necessary <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yC6heN2ntP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yC6heN2ntP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Fletcher (@tomfletcherbc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomfletcherbc\/status\/1115662318128381952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When the B.C. NDP government announced it was going to court in an effort to restrict Alberta oil sands crude transport across the province, Notley responded last year by banning B.C. wine, cutting off talks with B.C. Hydro on electricity purchases, and preparing legislation to shut off fuel shipments to B.C.<\/p>\n<p><ins><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/news\/b-c-to-refer-alberta-crude-restriction-to-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alberta drops wine boycott, Notley says Horgan &lsquo;blinked&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><ins><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/news\/alberta-buying-its-own-rail-cars-to-move-oil-without-feds-notley-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alberta buying its own rail cars to move crude oil west<\/a><\/strong><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>United Conservative leader Jason Kenney, the front-runner to take over as Alberta premier after the April 16 election, says blocking fuel to B.C. was his idea and he will deliver.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will make it clear to our partners in the federation, such as the B.C. government, that if they continue to obstruct our energy and violate the economic union of Canada guaranteed in the Constitution, we will use the &lsquo;turn-off-the-taps&rsquo; legislation,&rdquo; Kenney said during a campaign stop Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is what I proposed nearly two years ago. The premier finally followed our advice after mocking the idea, but it&rsquo;s clear she never really meant it. If B.C. is going to continue its trade war in Alberta, we&rsquo;ll finish it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Eby challenged the NDP legislation after it was passed, arguing it is unconstitutional. His case was dismissed because Alberta had not proclaimed the law, meaning it is not yet active.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Eby tried to cool the campaign rhetoric. He said if Kenney wins the election and follows through with his threat, the first step would be to seek an injunction to prevent the blocking of fuel shipments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;British Columbians should be reassured that we are ready to go if necessary, but also that we hope we will be able to resolve this with Alberta without courts,&rdquo; Eby said. &ldquo;But if necessary we will go to court.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr width=\u201c75%\u201d>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomfletcherbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@tomfletcherbc<\/a><a href=\u201cmailto:tfletcher@blackpress.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>tfletcher@blackpress.ca<\/a><br \/><strong>Like us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BCNews\/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackPressMedia\u201c target=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style>\n<p class=\"p1\">If B.C. continues pipeline battle, &lsquo;we&rsquo;ll finish it,&rsquo; Alberta&rsquo;s Jason Kenney vows <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2621,"featured_media":35391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[256,263],"class_list":["post-35390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-news","tag-bc-legislature","tag-trans-mountain-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":35375,"date":"2019-04-03T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/news\/florida-police-officer-jailed-on-child-rape-charge\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T21:25:00","slug":"florida-police-officer-jailed-on-child-rape-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/news\/florida-police-officer-jailed-on-child-rape-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida police officer jailed on child rape charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say a Florida police officer faces rape charges after an image of a nude girl was found on his cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Undersheriff Pat Ivey says 39-year-old Officer Matthew Harper Butler was charged Tuesday with capital sexual battery of a victim under 12 years old. He remains in jail and bond was set at $1 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernonmorningstar.com\/news\/kamloops-man-admits-to-molesting-stepdaughter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Kamloops man admits to molesting stepdaughter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Times-Union reports the agency&rsquo;s integrity unit received a tip on Friday about the cellphone image.<\/p>\n<p>Butler is a nine-year veteran of the department. No other information about the girl or Butler&rsquo;s relationship to her was released.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, sheriff&rsquo;s officials arrested another Jacksonville officer on aggravated assault charges for threatening his girlfriend and two other women with a gun.<\/p>\n<p>An attorney for Butler wasn&rsquo;t listed on jail records.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernonmorningstar.com\/news\/it-would-have-killed-him-teen-cyclist-avoids-injury-after-hitching-a-ride-on-semi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lsquo;It would have killed him&rsquo;: Teen cyclist avoids injury after hitching a ride on semi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like us on <a href=\u201chttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BCNews\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BlackPressMedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos of a nude girl was found on his cellphone 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behind proposed CFL franchise in Halifax closer to landing deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plan by a business group to establish a CFL franchise in Atlantic Canada has taken a big step forward.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Schooners Sports and Entertainment confirmed the group has signed a letter of intent with Canada Lands Company outlining a potential deal that would see a multi-use sports and entertainment hub built on the Dartmouth side of Halifax harbour.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony LeBlanc, one of the group&rsquo;s partners, says a scaled-back, $130-million stadium in Shannon Park would be made available for community youth, amateur and recreational sports for about 300 days each year.<\/p>\n<p>LeBlanc says the facility, which would include a sports dome for the winter months, would also be made available to local schools and community groups for daytime weekday use.<\/p>\n<p>To help get those events organized, the business group also announced it has signed a formal partnership with Sport Nova Scotia, a non-profit group that advocates for more than 50 provincial sport organizations.<\/p>\n<p>LeBlanc confirmed the talks with Canada Lands had taken longer than expected, which is why the group has yet to submit a formal proposal to the local or provincial governments.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BCNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BlackPressMedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potential deal would see a multi-use sports and entertainment hub built on Dartmouth side of Halifax harbour <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2622,"featured_media":35371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":35366,"date":"2019-03-30T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/trending-now\/el-chapo-the-fashionista\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T16:30:00","slug":"el-chapo-the-fashionista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/trending-now\/el-chapo-the-fashionista\/","title":{"rendered":"El Chapo, the fashionista?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Chapo, the fashionista?<\/p>\n<p>The convicted drug lord and his wife have stylish future plans: Creating clothing with the brand name &ldquo;El Chapo.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Daily News reports that 61-year-old Joaquin Guzman and his 29-year-old wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, are working together on the project.<\/p>\n<p>She tells the newspaper that his signature would be part of the brand logo. And there&rsquo;s already an official website.<\/p>\n<p>El Chapo was found guilty in February of murder conspiracy charges, drug trafficking, money laundering and firearms possession. He&rsquo;s awaiting sentencing and could spend the rest of his life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>But living behind bars may not be a deal-breaker when it comes to fashion with the kind of edgy image that&rsquo;s sexy to some people.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BCNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BlackPressMedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The convicted drug lord and his wife have stylish future plans, including a clothing line <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3839,"featured_media":35367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":35363,"date":"2019-03-30T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/news\/pope-visits-morocco-to-highlight-migrants-muslim-ties\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T16:20:00","slug":"pope-visits-morocco-to-highlight-migrants-muslim-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/news\/pope-visits-morocco-to-highlight-migrants-muslim-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope visits Morocco to highlight migrants, Muslim ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis landed Saturday in Morocco for a trip aimed at promoting moderate Islam and showing solidarity with the plight of migrants at Europe&rsquo;s door.<\/p>\n<p>Francis will address both issues on his first day in the North African kingdom and will tend to the country&rsquo;s Catholic minority when he wraps up the visit Sunday with a Mass and a meeting with Moroccan clergy on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>King Mohammed VI was on hand to greet Francis when he arrived under a pouring rain in Rabat, the Moroccan capital, for a 27-hour visit.<\/p>\n<p>The two then took separate vehicles &mdash; Francis in his popemobile and the king in a convertible Mercedes &mdash; and paraded in tandem into town for a formal welcome ceremony at the complex where two of Morocco&rsquo;s past monarchs are buried.<\/p>\n<p>Women ululated as Francis and the king walked along the promenade of the Hassan Tower complex under umbrellas.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the trip is likely to be Francis&rsquo; visit Saturday to the Mohammed VI Institute, a school of learning for imams that epitomizes Morocco&rsquo;s efforts to promote a moderate brand of Islam and export it via preachers to Africa, the Middle East and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco, a Sunni Muslim kingdom of 36 million, reformed its religious policies and education to limit the spread of fundamentalism in 2004, following terrorist bombings in Casablanca in 2003 that killed 43 people.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend trip follows Francis&rsquo; February visit to the United Arab Emirates, where the pope and the imam of Cairo&rsquo;s Al Azhar, the seat of Sunni learning, signed a landmark joint statement establishing the relationship between Catholics and Muslims as brothers, with a common mission to promote peace.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;Human Fraternity&rdquo; document outlines a shared set of values and principles common to Christians and Muslims, focusing on the dignity of every person and a rejection of violence committed in God&rsquo;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims, Christians and Jews have long lived peacefully in Morocco, even though Catholics are a tiny minority of about 23,000. The pope is travelling to Morocco 34 years after St. John Paul II became the first pope to visit.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As Christians and Muslims, we believe in God the creator and merciful one, who has created men and women and placed them on earth so that they might live together as brothers and sisters, respecting each other&rsquo;s diversity and helping each other in their need,&rdquo; Francis said in a video message to Moroccans released on the eve of the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Later Saturday, Francis will visit a migrant centre run by the Caritas charity organization.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco last year became the main departure point for sub-Saharan African migrants seeking to reach Europe via Spain, after Italy essentially closed its borders to migrants leaving from Libya.<\/p>\n<p>The rising numbers of migrants have put pressures on the kingdom, and become a hot political issue in Spain ahead of that country&rsquo;s April 28 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the year, nearly 47,500 migrants have arrived in Spain by sea, while hundreds have died or gone missing on the dangerous journey, according to the International Organization of Migration.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco&rsquo;s government says it stopped 68,000 illegal migration attempts last year, and the EU agreed over the summer to give Morocco $275 million to halt the flow of migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Winfield And Amira El Masaiti, The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BCNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BlackPressMedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Mohammed VI was on hand to greet Pope Francis when he arrived under a pouring rain in Rabat <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2622,"featured_media":35364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":35361,"date":"2019-03-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/trending-now\/woodstock-69-artifacts-showcased-in-museum-50-years-later\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T16:00:00","slug":"woodstock-69-artifacts-showcased-in-museum-50-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/trending-now\/woodstock-69-artifacts-showcased-in-museum-50-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodstock &#8216;69 artifacts showcased in museum 50 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcycle, a bass guitar and speakers are among 170 artifacts from the 1969 Woodstock festival showcased in a new museum exhibit opening this weekend at the site of the festival in upstate New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Museum at Bethel Woods opens for the 2019 season Saturday with an exhibit marking the concert&rsquo;s 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit includes instruments, clothing, equipment, art and photography. Highlights include a bass guitar from Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane and handwritten lyrics for &ldquo;Goin&rsquo; Up the Country&rdquo; by Alan Wilson of Canned Heat.<\/p>\n<p>A motorcycle driven by Woodstock promoter Michael Lang and part of the Woodstock stage will also be on display.<\/p>\n<p>The famous three-day concert kicked off Aug. 15, 1969 in Bethel, New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BCNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BlackPressMedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibit includes instruments, clothing, equipment, art and photography <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3839,"featured_media":35362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":35359,"date":"2019-03-30T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/news\/trump-issues-new-permit-for-stalled-keystone-xl-pipeline\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:50:00","slug":"trump-issues-new-permit-for-stalled-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/news\/trump-issues-new-permit-for-stalled-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump issues new permit for stalled Keystone XL pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moving defiantly to kick-start the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline, President Donald Trump on Friday issued a new presidential permit for the project &mdash; two years after he first approved it and more than a decade after it was first proposed.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the permit issued Friday replaces one granted in March 2017. The order is intended to speed up development of the controversial pipeline, which would ship crude oil from tar sands in western Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge blocked the project in November, saying the Trump administration had not fully considered potential oil spills and other impacts. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris ordered a new environmental review.<\/p>\n<p>A White House spokesman said the new permit issued by Trump &ldquo;dispels any uncertainty&rdquo; about the project. &ldquo;Specifically, this permit reinforces, as should have been clear all along, that the presidential permit is indeed an exercise of presidential authority that is not subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act,&rdquo; the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p><ins><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/business\/u-s-government-appeals-ruling-that-blocked-keystone-pipeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. government appeals ruling that blocked Keystone pipeline<\/a><\/strong><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><ins><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/national-news\/u-s-judge-blocks-construction-of-10-billion-keystone-xl-pipeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. judge blocks construction of $10-billion Keystone XL pipeline<\/a><\/strong><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>But a lawyer for environmentalists who sued to stop the project called Trump&rsquo;s action illegal. The lawyer, Stephan Volker, vowed to seek a court order blocking project developer TransCanada from moving forward with construction.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By his action today in purporting to authorize construction&rdquo; of the pipeline despite court rulings blocking it, &ldquo;President Trump has launched a direct assault on our system of governance,&rdquo; Volker said Friday in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s attempt to &ldquo;overturn our system of checks and balances is nothing less than an attack on our Constitution. It must be defeated,&rdquo; Volker said.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary-based TransCanada said in a statement that Trump&rsquo;s order &ldquo;clarifies the national importance of Keystone XL and aims to bring more than 10 years of environmental review to closure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump &ldquo;has been clear that he wants to create jobs and advance U.S. energy security, and the Keystone XL pipeline does both of those things,&rdquo; said Russ Girling, TransCanada&rsquo;s president and CEO.<\/p>\n<p><ins><strong>WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/news\/alberta-still-pushing-for-keystone-xl-pipeline-after-u-s-stoppage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alberta still pushing for Keystone XL pipeline after U.S. stoppage<\/a><\/strong><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blackpress.tv\/embed\/36890\/Alberta_still_pushing_for_Keystone_XL_pipeline_after_US_stoppage\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Keystone XL will create thousands of jobs and deliver crude oil to U.S. refineries &ldquo;in the safest, most efficient and environmentally sound way,&rdquo; the company said. An appeal filed by the company is pending.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Chamber of Commerce hailed Trump&rsquo;s action, saying in a statement that &ldquo;it shouldn&rsquo;t take longer to approve a project than to build it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Keystone XL will boost U.S. economic and energy security interests, said Christopher Guith, acting president of the chamber&rsquo;s Global Energy Institute. &ldquo;Review after review has found it can be built and operated in an environmentally responsible way. It&rsquo;s time to move forward,&rdquo; Guith said.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Swift, director of the Canada project for the Natural Resources Defence Council, an environmental group, said the pipeline &ldquo;was a bad idea from Day One and it remains a terrible idea. If built, it would threaten our land, our drinking water, and our communities from Montana and Nebraska to the Gulf Coast. And it would drive dangerous climate change.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump &ldquo;is once again showing his disdain for the rule of law,&rdquo; Swift said, adding that the last time Trump &ldquo;tried to ram this permit through he lost in court&rdquo; and is likely to do so again.<\/p>\n<p>Keystone XL, first proposed in 2008 under President George W. Bush, would begin in Alberta and go to Nebraska, where it would join with an existing pipeline to shuttle more than 800,000 barrels a day of crude to terminals on the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>After years of study and delay, former President Barack Obama rejected the project in 2015. Trump reversed that decision soon after taking office in 2017, saying the $8 billion project would boost American energy and create jobs. A presidential permit is needed because the project crosses a U.S. border.<\/p>\n<p>After environmental groups sued, Morris said the administration had not fully considered potential oil spills and other impacts and that further reviews were needed.<\/p>\n<p>TransCanada disputes that, saying Keystone XL has been studied more than any other pipeline in history. &ldquo;The environmental reviews are clear: the project can be built and operated in an environmentally sustainable and responsible way,&rdquo; Girling said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Associated Press writer Matthew Brown in Billings, Mont., contributed to this story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Daly, The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BCNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BlackPressMedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The permit issued Friday replaces one granted in March 2017 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3839,"featured_media":35360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":35357,"date":"2019-03-30T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/news\/five-things-in-wilson-rayboulds-written-evidence-on-the-snc-lavalin-affair\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:30:00","slug":"five-things-in-wilson-rayboulds-written-evidence-on-the-snc-lavalin-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/news\/five-things-in-wilson-rayboulds-written-evidence-on-the-snc-lavalin-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things in Wilson-Raybould&#8217;s written evidence on the SNC-Lavalin affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five things we learned from a written and audio submission made by former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to the House of Commons justice committee Friday.<\/p>\n<h4>On the cabinet shuffle<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau&rsquo;s former principal secretary Gerald Butts told the justice committee Wilson-Raybould was shuffled because they needed someone to fill in Indigenous Affairs and she refused. He said a minister has to serve at the pleasure of the prime minister and a refusal to be moved couldn&rsquo;t stand.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson-Raybould says she told Trudeau and his former principal secretary, Gerald Butts, she couldn&rsquo;t understand the rationale for being part of the January cabinet shuffle, and that she had told them many times in the past that she would never take on a job of &ldquo;delivering services to Indians&rdquo; under the Indian Act and was shocked that she was then offered the Indigenous Services ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Butts told the justice committee in March he didn&rsquo;t know her position on that when the offer was made but acknowledged he should have known.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson-Raybould also denies she ever referred to being attorney general as her &ldquo;dream job&rdquo; and instead said she thinks it was Butts who said it. Butts told the committee she called it her dream job when she was told she was being shuffled.<\/p>\n<p>She said she took Trudeau at his word that the shuffle was not related to the SNC-Lavalin matter and agreed to take the job of veterans affairs minister, but said she made a decision to &ldquo;immediately resign if the new Attorney General&rdquo; issued a directive about the SNC-Lavalin case because it would confirm her suspicions she was moved for not intervening.<\/p>\n<h4>On her resignation from cabinet<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>Wilson-Raybould resigned from cabinet on Feb. 12, but told the justice committee in her live testimony that she couldn&rsquo;t discuss the conversations she had with Trudeau on the reasons.<\/p>\n<p>In her written submission, she is more clear about why she resigned, pointing to a comment Trudeau made to the media on Feb. 11.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Prime Minister stated publicly when issues about the propriety of the government&rsquo;s conduct in relation to the SNC matter arose that my ongoing presence in Cabinet spoke for itself,&rdquo; Wilson-Raybould wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I resigned the next day and I trust my resignation also speaks for itself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h4>Some Liberals felt Wilson-Raybould didn&rsquo;t like remediation agreements in general<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Bill Morneau&rsquo;s deputy chief of staff, Justin To, in a phone call with Wilson-Raybould&rsquo;s chief of staff, Jessica Prince complained that Wilson-Raybould was not intervening in the SNC-Lavalin case because she &ldquo;has a philosophical problem&rdquo; with remediation agreements and &rdquo;wouldn&rsquo;t even use it if we could.&rdquo; He calls it ironic that Wilson-Raybould is in favour of restorative justice in some sense but not for SNC-Lavalin.<\/p>\n<p>Prince tells him &ldquo;that is absolutely not true.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To apologized in a follow-up email and then Prince laid out for him all the things Wilson-Raybould had done in favour of remediation agreements.<\/p>\n<h4>Disagreement with her deputy minister<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nathalie Drouin, the deputy minister of justice, told the justice committee that Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick, had asked her office for a briefing on the consequences, including job losses, if SNC-Lavalin did not get a remediation agreement, but that once that document was prepared, Wilson-Raybould ordered her not to give it to Wernick or anyone else in the Privy Council Office.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson-Raybould denies that she ever knew about the memo or that she ordered Drouin not to hand it over to Wernick. She also says given that she had told Wernick she had made her decision she was not sure why he would have asked for such an opinion anyway.<\/p>\n<h4>Former prime minister Kim Campbell<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>Prince alleges that in a conversation with Butts, he pointed to a case involving former prime minister Brian Mulroney and the case of David Milgaard, who was wrongfully convicted for murder in 1970, and exonerated more than two decades later. Butts allegedly told Prince that Kim Campbell, who was then the attorney general, was asked by Mulroney to review the case after Mulroney met with Milgaard&rsquo;s mother. Campbell, who would replace Mulroney as prime minister in 1993, is reported to have told Mulroney she couldn&rsquo;t because it would interfere in an independent process.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson-Raybould says she fact-checked the story with Campbell in Vancouver the next day over coffee, adding the former Tory prime minister had a &ldquo;vivid memory of the case.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She categorically denied what Mr. Butts had said and was quite offended and outraged by the comments. She adamantly denied the characterization not only of her as the Attorney General, but also of her former boss, Prime Minister Mulroney,&rdquo; Wilson-Raybould wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Mulroney was &ldquo;too good a lawyer to intervene improperly in the matter,&rdquo; Wilson-Raybould recounted Campbell telling her.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BCNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BlackPressMedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jody Wilson-Raybould offers written, audio evidence to the House of Commons justice committee <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2622,"featured_media":35358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-home2","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":35355,"date":"2019-03-30T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/trending-now\/when-parents-play-favourites-what-happens-to-the-kids\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:30:00","slug":"when-parents-play-favourites-what-happens-to-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/trending-now\/when-parents-play-favourites-what-happens-to-the-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"When parents play favourites, what happens to the kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EDITOR&rsquo;S NOTE: This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many siblings, when they get together as adults, joke about which child was loved the most. But is it really a joke or is there an edge of truth that still rankles us?<\/p>\n<p>In one study, researchers asked adults whether their mom played favourites when they were kids. Close to 85 per cent of respondents perceived that she did.<\/p>\n<p>But surely once we move out of the nest, our annoyance regarding sibling favouritism subsides? No so. Upset from perceived favouritism appears to be long-lasting.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that we will fret long into adulthood over why a particular sibling got a better deal than we did.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Is sibling favouritism real, or perceived?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>It turns out parents do behave differently with their children and, of course, children have their different thresholds for noticing these differences.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have studied favouritism both by observing children as they interact with their parents and by asking children and their parents to report on their interactions. How often do the parent and child laugh or play together? How often do they fight or argue?<\/p>\n<p>These ratings are then compared across the different siblings to determine if one child receives more positive or negative attention than the other.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reassuring findings from these studies is that when the differences in how siblings are treated by parents are small, it has little to no consequence.<\/p>\n<p>It is only when the differences are large that we see links to children&rsquo;s health and relationships.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Parental stress plays a role<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>Research on all different kinds of relationships shows us that a big part of how we get along with others is about the fit of personalities. We find one person easier or more interesting than another. The same holds for parents and children.<\/p>\n<p>Although most parents love and nurture all their children, they will inevitably find that they are more in tune with one child than another. One child is perhaps a bit more social; another is more ready to anger, a third finds learning easier.<\/p>\n<p>These differences in how parents treat siblings have a basis in children&rsquo;s genes. Parents treat identical twins, who share 100 per cent of their DNA, more similarly than they treat non-identical twins, who share about 50 per cent of their genes.<\/p>\n<p>The more the personalities of siblings differ, the more their parents treat them differently.<\/p>\n<p>Another driver of parenting is, of course, a child&rsquo;s age. Parents interact with and discipline their children based on changes in developmental capabilities as they grow. Age and personality explain some of the differences in the parental treatment that children perceive.<\/p>\n<p>But while age and personality play a role in why one child gets more from a parent than another, over and above this are issues of parental stress. When parents experience financial strain, mental health problems or partner conflict, differential parenting or sibling favouritism becomes more marked.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Impacts on physical and mental well-being<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, perceived favouritism can create a divide between siblings. It is associated with siblings feeling less close to one another, both in childhood and adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>This finding has been established for both perceived, as well as observed favouritism.<\/p>\n<p>Popular wisdom suggests that the favoured child receives benefits from their special treatment. While this may be the case when favouritism is slight, research suggests that none of the siblings benefit when it is more marked. That is, when favouritism is considerable, it is associated with all siblings showing less physical and mental well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons for this are not currently clear. It is possible that children are activated by injustice. Or perhaps even when they are favoured they fear falling into the realm of being disfavoured.<\/p>\n<p>But most reassuring for parents are the findings that parental explanations for why they are treating siblings differently really change the experience for children. Explanations that focus on their different personalities, ages or needs are associated with lower levels of distress for children.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Five tips for fairer parenting<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Be aware. The first step is to be aware that it happens, and to seek out help or support from partners, family members, friends or health professionals &mdash; to try to understand why it happens. As a reminder, playing favourites is more likely to occur when your stress levels are high.<\/li>\n<li>Listen. When your child complains or you see fights between siblings in which they mention one getting more than another, try not to discount it. Be receptive to the child&rsquo;s feelings and think about why they might be feeling this way.<\/li>\n<li>Provide an explanation. Sometimes, children do need to be treated differently, like when one child is sick, hurt or has special needs. When this happens, explain it to avoid any misunderstanding.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid comparing children. While it may be a natural tendency to say &ldquo;why can&rsquo;t you be more like your sister?&rdquo; this sets up an unfair comparison. Try to focus on what each child does well, without pitting them against one another.<\/li>\n<li>Carve out individual time for each child. As much as possible, try to find 10 minutes each day to spend one-on-one with each child so that each has your full attention. Do any activity that they love to do with you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Sheri Madigan, Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children&rsquo;s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary and Jennifer Jenkins, Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BCNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BlackPressMedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out parents do behave differently with their children <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2622,"featured_media":35356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reddeerexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]