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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 23, 2015, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A9 THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015 A 9 R E A D E R O F F E R | M I N D G A M E S P U Z Z L E B O O K MIND a publication from the MIND GAMES 45 Puzzles and games to challenge your mind including many made in Manitoba CROSSWORDS .. SODOKU .. WORD SLEUTH .. SCRABBLE KEN KEN .. SODATU .. HIDATO .. BANANAGRAMS AND 40 MORE SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 1 NUMBER $ 2.99 winnipegfreepress. com / subscribe- new/ Call: 204- 697- 7001 | 1- 800- 542- 8900 Email: fpcirc@ winnipegfreepress. com STAY SHARP this SUMMER Time to find a place to relax, put up your feet and challenge yourself with our 40- page weekly puzzle book. SUBSCRIBE TODAY! $ 1 50 / WEEK* Home delivery included For as low as CROSSWORDS SUDOKU WORD SLEUTH SCRABBLE CALCUDOKU JUMBLE HIDATO BANANAGRAMS AND MORE MIND GAMES * If you are a 6- day Winnipeg Free Press subscriber. Rates vary. UN FRIENDLY FIRE. Canada's services to veterans are under attack. Harper's Conservative government has cut over $ 113 million from the Veterans Affairs budget, closing 9 offices and slashing front- line positions. Our veterans deserve better. This government is cutting public service budgets across the country, without regard for the safety and welfare of millions of Canadians. HARPER'S CONSERVATIVES ARE BLEEDING OUR PUBLIC SERVICES. VOTE TO STOP THE CUTS. A MESSAGE OF PUBLIC INTEREST FROM THE PUBLIC SERVICE ALLIANCE OF CANADA. votetostopthecuts. ca N EWARK, N. J. - Republican presidential contender Rick Perry branded Donald Trump's candidacy a " cancer on conservatism" Wednesday in the strongest denunciation yet of the billionaire's provocations in the campaign. Perry's blistering criticism came after Trump announced plans to visit the Mexico border, a flashpoint in the primary contest ever since he declared that immigrants from Mexico are rapists and drug dealers. Trump's announcement signalled there would be no backing down - indeed, a possible further escalation - in his feud with presidential rivals and other figures in the party. That feud was sparked by his comments about immigrants last month and accelerated when he mocked Arizona Sen. John McCain's experience as a tortured prisoner in the Vietnam War. The Republican field was at first halting in responding to Trump's comments, but contenders reacted when he insulted McCain, with several saying Trump was not fit to be president. Now Perry, a former Texas governor, has taken the push- back further. " He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean- spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican party to perdition if pursued," Perry said in a speech in Washington hosted by a Super- Pac committee supporting his campaign. " Let no one be mistaken," Perry said, " Donald Trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded. It cannot be pacified or ignored, for it will destroy a set of principles that has lifted more people out of poverty than any force in the history of the civilized world - the cause of conservatism." Trump plans to travel to Laredo, Texas, today, where he will hold a news conference at the border, meet members of the union that represents Border Patrol agents and speak to law enforcement officers, his campaign said. The billionaire's taste for payback against those who criticize him was demonstrated Tuesday when he gave out Sen. Lindsey Graham's cellphone number to a crowd and TV audience, resulting in jammed voice mail for the senator. This was after Graham, one of the GOP candidates, called Trump " the world's biggest jackass." Graham made light of the episode Wednesday, appearing in a video entitled How To Destroy Your Cellphone With Lindsey Graham . In the video, released by the conservative media outlet, IJReview, Graham attacks a flip phone with a knife, golf club, sword and more, puts it in a blender, sets it on fire and drops it from a roof. " If all else fails, you can always give your number to The Donald," Graham says. Others weren't laughing. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, another contender, told Fox News on Wednesday that the country needs a president who " restores dignity and class to the White House" and that Trump is not worthy of the office. Other rivals commented on the furor, too. Campaigning in Nashville, Tenn., Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he's not concerned by Trump's prominence in the race. " I used to run track and I ran the half- mile," he said. " I realized there were some folks sprinting out ahead. I made sure I was ahead at the end of the race when it really mattered." Jeb Bush, in South Carolina, was asked about the coming primary debates, for which Trump is expected to qualify based on his performance in polls. " This will be a first for me," Bush said, " so I'm not certain how all this plays out." A day earlier he said Trump's rhetoric is " divisive, it's ugly, it's mean- spirited," but people who support him have " legitimate concerns about the country." Meanwhile, federal regulators made public information about Trump's wealth and financial holdings Wednesday, showing he holds leadership positions in more than 500 business entities, has assets of at least $ 1.4 billion and debt of at least $ 240 million. - The Associated Press Trump rival launches blistering response Perry calls candidate ' cancer on conservatism' By Jill Colvin STEPHEN B. MORTON / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is drawing plenty of sharp verbal reprisals. A_ 09_ Jul- 23- 15_ FP_ 01. indd A9 7/ 22/ 15 8: 58: 16 PM ;