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OBITUARIES D 6 Lottery numbers were not available at press time due to a change in policy by Western Canada Lottery Corp. to extend lotto- ticket sales by 90 minutes. LOTTERIES INSIDE SHERWOOD PARK, Alta. - Eli the potbellied pig is hitting the road after losing his right to live with his owners. Michelle Kropp and her family kept Eli as a pet in their Sherwood Park, Alta., house for more than 4 � years. But the porker is considered livestock under a county bylaw, and the family was told Eli would have to hoof it after a neighbour complained. The family took the matter to court, but a judge sided with the county last fall. The county then enforced its bylaw and said Eli had to be gone by August. Kropp says Eli is going to share a home with a fellow pig named Sparky, who at one time was featured on Telus TV ads. " Eli and Sparky get to live in the house," Kropp said. " The family has their granddaughter living with them, so the children element is still there for Eli. " This family's had pot- bellied pigs for at least 10 years, so they have plenty of experience." She says Eli's new owners understand the Kropps want to have their pet back if the bylaw is changed this fall. - The Canadian Press This little piggy gets a new home O TTAWA - Justin Trudeau is putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to the Conservative government's enhanced universal child care benefit. The Liberal leader maintains it's wrong to give the benefit to wealthy families. And to underscore that point, he's going to give his own family's windfall to charity. With three young children, one under the age of six, Trudeau is entitled to collect annual payments of about $ 3,400. On Tuesday, he said he'll give that money to La Maison Bleue, a charitable group in his Montreal riding devoted to helping vulnerable women during pregnancy and the early days of motherhood. Child- care benefits should go to families who need the help, " not families like mine or Mr. ( Prime Minister Stephen) Harper's," Trudeau said. " When it comes to child benefits, fair doesn't mean giving everyone the same thing, it means giving people what they need." Trudeau has previously promised he and his wife won't take advantage of the Conservatives' newly introduced parental income- splitting scheme - forgoing some $ 2,000 in potential savings on his family's annual income taxes. Should the Liberals win this fall's election, Trudeau is vowing to scrap income- splitting for couples with children, a measure worth more than $ 2 billion that many experts have said would benefit primarily the top 15 per cent of income earners. He's promising to plow that money, and more, into a single, new, tax- free child benefit. It would replace the UCCB and two other existing child benefits with what Liberals say would be more generous payments for most parents than what they currently receive from the Conservative government. Trudeau said he agrees with the Conservatives that boosting child benefits will help stimulate the sluggish economy, but he fundamentally disagrees with their insistence all families, regardless of income, should get the same amount. Under the Liberal proposal, benefits would be gradually reduced for families with incomes of more than $ 150,000 and cut off entirely for those with incomes greater than $ 200,000. " We're choosing to do more for the people who need it by doing less for the people who don't," Trudeau said. " Our plan is progressive." He stressed the Liberal benefit would also be taxfree, not clawed back through income taxes such as the universal child care benefit. The government is delivering the enhanced UCCB payments, retroactive to January, in lumpsum payments to parents this week. Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre wore a shirt emblazoned with the Conservative party logo at a government event Monday to tout the payments - calling them " Christmas in July." " Everybody knows that Christmas is followed by a month or two in which you're going to get the credit card bills," Trudeau said, accusing the Conservatives of trying to buy the votes of parents. " Come tax time, an awful lot of families are going to have to be paying back a chunk of that. money." Trudeau also had tough words for NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who has promised to keep the UCCB and introduce a program to create one million $ 15- a- day child spaces, which would be available to parents regardless of income. " They are continuing to give benefits and advantages to wealthy Canadians, which, quite frankly, I don't get," he said. " The NDP is supposed to be the party, I mean everyone thinks of it as a party that actually helps the people who need it and doesn't help the wealthy." He said he's mystified the NDP has panned his idea to hike income taxes for the wealthiest one per cent. - The Canadian Press Grit leader to donate child benefit to charity Trudeau won't pocket the cash SEAN KILPATRICK / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Justin Trudeau, with his wife, Sophie Gregoire, and two of their three children, Ella- Grace and Xavier. Not pictured is 17- month- old son Hadrien. A_ 0 2_ Jul- 22- 15_ FP_ 01. indd A2 7/ 21/ 15 8: 35: 54 PM ;