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Patrick Roy is in the final stages of negotiating a deal that will see him named the new head coach of the Colorado Avalanche.

Counting the Toronto game, the Jays system went 4-1 today. Dunedin Blue Jays (25-16) beat St. Lucie Mets 4-3 Josh Johnson made his first rehab start, it went well. 3.0, 3 hits, 1 earned, 0 walks, 5 k, 4 ground outs, 0 fly outs. Looks like a good first step. Danny Barnes: 1.0, 1 hit, 1 earned, 1 walk. Blow save and Win. Jon Berti: 1 for 2, double, walk. .262/.326/.327. Matt Newman: 2 for 5, k. .295/..378/.395. Andy Burns: 1 for 4, k. .329/..418/.540. Jon Talley: 1 for 4, 2 k. .220/..267/.430. K.C. Hobson: 1 for 3, double, walk. .216/.245/.427 Mike Crouse: 1 for 4, double, 3 k. 300/.417/.500 in 6 games. He missed more than a month with an injury. Pierce Rankin: 2 for 4. .180/.268/.220. Buffalo Bisons (25-18) lost to Charlotte Knights 5-1 Dave Bush: 6.0, 6 hits, 4 earned, 1 walk, 7 k. Loss. 4-4, 5.36. Buddy Carlyle: 2.0, 2 hits, 1 earned, 3 k. 4.30. Mickey Storey: 1.0, 2 k. 3.44. Jim Negrych: 0 for 4, 2 k. .386/.450/.583. Moises Sierra: 1 for 4, double, k. .324/.373/.497. Mauro Gomez: 2 for 4, k. .252/.336/.512. Ryan Goins: 1 for 3, walk, k. .274/.325/.349. New Hampshire Fisher Cats (23-22) beat Portland Sea Dogs 7-3 Marcus Walden: 6.0, 8 hits, 2 earned, 2 walks, 2 k. Win. 3-4, 2.96. Evan Crawford: 1.1, 2 hits, 1 walk, 1 k. 4.05. Joel Carreno: 1.2, 5 k. 1.85. 5th save. 5 outs, 5 k. He has 42 k and 8 walks in 24.1 innings. I think he's trying to suggest he shouldn't be in Double-A. Ricardo Nanita: 1 for 3, 2 walks, k. .255/.322/.365. Ryan Schimpf: 2 for 4, 2 home runs, 5 RBI, 1 walk, k. .219/.360/.521. Clint Robinson: 1 for 4, double, walk, k. .295/.397/.443. Brad Glenn: 1 for 4, double, walk, k. .256/.363/.421. Adam Loewen: 1 for 4, walk. .202/.312/.330. Lansing Lugnuts (18-23) beat Great Lake Loons 4-3 in 10 innings Alonzo Gonzalez: 6.1, 6 hits, 2 earned, 1 walk, 2 k. 5.62. Griffin Murphy: 1.2, 3 hits, 2 k. 3.44. Arik Sikula: 2.0, 2 hits, 1 earned, 2 walks, 1 k. Win. 2.01. Dwight Smith, Jr. 2 for 5. .295/.375/.423 Christian Lopes: 4 for 5, triple, home run. .319/.347/.425. Gustavo Pierre: 2 for 4, steal. .277/.275/.468. 0 walks in 141 at bats. How can you have 141 at bats and not take a walk? Balbino Fuenmayor: 2 for 4. .208/.287/.396.

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Do you think in the motivational moments prior to his team’s latest playoff game, the date (and tape) of March 31 may have come up for Red Wings coach Mike Babcock?

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A group of York University students is using comics to tackle an issue that doesn’t usually get the funny pages treatment: sexual violence.As part of Design for Public Awareness, a class taught by Prof. Jan Hadlaw, the students created 12 graphic art projects that address issues surrounding sexual assault.Hadlaw said she wasn’t sure at first about using comics to tackle such a weighty subject.“I had to think about it for a minute — it’s a challenging topic on many levels — but it was clearly an inspired idea,” she said.The course material was presented in conjunction with Noa Ashkenazi, the university’s sexual harassment prevention and education adviser.Sexual assault has been a hot topic at York. Taking action to prevent attacks must go beyond getting security or law enforcement involved, Ashkenazi said.“We cannot expect police to change the social norms. We need to change the social norms,” she said.In a single-panel comic called “In a Tight Situation,” Superman sits on a stool, hands covering his face, with a speech bubble that reads: “I shouldn’t have worn such tight clothing! I was asking for it. . . . It’s all my fault.” Beside him is Batman, a sympathetic look on his face and a hand on his comrade’s shoulder.“We wanted use the power in these heroes to comment on how people view sexual violence,” said Helén Marton, who created the comic with fellow design students Jane Kim and Shayna Lauer.It’s a humourous take on “victim-blaming,” a practice that was propelled back into the spotlight by the tragic stories of alleged rape victims Rehtaeh Parsons and Audrie Potts, and has inspired events such as SlutWalk Toronto.Comics are a fitting medium for this project, said Ashkenazi, because despite changes in the last few decades, women’s experiences are not being shared in comics. Most well-known superheroes are male, and female superheroes present a particular body image.Ashkenazi found the female-dominated class didn’t have much knowledge of the subject, save for their own experiences. They were encouraged to speak their minds about the topic in their work. A fictional university student named Amy is the central character of “The Monsters I See,” a 16-page graphic novella created by Esther Hui, Sophie Qi and Lily Li.The story chronicles Amy’s attempts to cope with the monsters she sees all around her, which begin to appear after an acquaintance sexually assaults her.The monsters, explained Hui, are the people in her everyday life, who Amy believes are judging her because she was raped.“The comic itself is also an exploration (of) ourselves,” she said of the work’s creators. “We’re just trying to scrape the surface of what someone might feel.”Plans aren’t concrete yet, but York’s Centre for Human Rights is looking at ways to publish the comics, including creating a booklet out of “The Monsters I See” and printing “In a Tight Situation” on T-shirts. The comics are to be distributed to York students during the coming school year.“With their skills as designers, they can be part of the movement against sexual violence,” said Ashkenazi. “Whatever our skills are, we can be part of the movement.”

The Metrolinx projects to improve the Georgetown South rail corridor and to build the Union - Pearson Express line recently started working on the bridge over Ray Avenue in the Mount Dennis neighbourhood. During this phase of the project, Metrolinx contractors are widening the bridge to handle more rail traffic. During construction, they’ll maintain pedestrian access at all times. Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, May 21, the TTC is detouring buses operating along the 71B](#t71b) Runnymede route to accommodate the work.

The City of Burlington is closing Lakeshore Road between Guelph Line and Martha Street starting tomorrow, Tuesday, May 21to accommodate a Region of Halton contractors who are working on a project to replace the watermains. The City of Burlington will follow the watermain work with a project to resurface the roadway and to install a multi-use pathway beside Lakeshore Road between Guelph Line and Torrance Street. Burlington Transit is detouring buses operating along the 3 Guelph route, to accommodate the work. It’s also setting up a temporary dial-a-ride service to replace regular transit service along Guelph Line and Lakeshore Road, while the street is closed. Construction and detours continue until November.