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Photo radar grows BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Speedsters beware. Red Deer city council gave the green light to a third
photo radar van in a 5-4 split decision on Monday. The new radar will be nabbing heavy-footed drivers as early as April. Councillors Tanya Handley, Dianne Wyntjes, Buck Buchanan and Lawrence Lee voted against adding the third van. In favour were Mayor Tara Veer and
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Councillors Paul Harris, Frank Wong, Ken Johnston and Lynne Mulder. Council heard the photo radar is missing the mark for projected revenue but is making some headway in improving safety.
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EX-CENTRAL ALBERTA MLAS RECEIVED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN TRANSITION ALLOWANCES BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF A defeated Central Alberta MLA received $870,000 through a governmental transition allowance program that has now been scrapped. Some 33 departing MLAs received a total of $12.5 million following the 2012 provincial election, with ex-Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre MLA Ty Lund’s share the third highest of all at $870,000. The allowances are based on the equivalent of three months of salary per year of service, based on a member’s three highest-paid years in office. A six-term MLA who held a variety of cabinet positions between 1994 and 2006, Lund was defeated in the 2012 election as the Wildrose Party swept Central Alberta ridings outside of Red Deer. His post-election payout trailed only former Speaker Ken Kowalski’s ($1.18 million) and ex-Premier Ed Stelmach’s ($995,000). Other former Progressive Conservative MLAs who received the allowance were ex-cabinet minister Luke Ouellette (Innisfail-Sylvan Lake), who earned $517,318, Ray Prins, who served two terms representing Lacombe-Ponoka and earned $281,362, and Drumheller-Stettler’s Jack Hayden who hauled in $226,362. Richard Marz, who represented OldsDidsbury-Three Hills before resigning in early 2012, received $551,745 last year. The transition allowance program was scrapped following the 2012 election as part of a major reform of MLA compensation by the government. However, sitting MLAs elected before 2012 will still receive the payouts based on what they had accumulated under the program. The finance report detailing the transition payments also breaks down compensation for all sitting MLAs for the year ending March 31, 2013. The numbers show that only Premier Alison Redford cost taxpayers more during those 12 months than Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas. Dallas, Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations, earned $231,285 in salary and benefits for the year, the same total earned by two other cabinet ministers. Redford earned $252,911.
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Laurence Rooney and his wife, Barbara, of Parkland Beach, work on their minion ice sculpture. A minion is a popular character featured in the hit animated movies Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2. The Rooneys started on the near three-metre-tall sculpture on Dec. 20. The body is carved from solid ice, the glasses are made from Lego boxes, his hair is telephone wire and his overalls are made from a blue tarp. Laurence flosses the minion’s teeth regularly to help them stand out and when the yellow paint fades, and Barbara touches things up with food colouring. The couple have been building sculptures for years, to the delight of their neighbours.
Burke seeks big bruising roster BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR
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One of the most colorful and outspoken figures in professional hockey shared his insights at a Red Deer Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Monday. And Brian Burke didn’t disappoint. The Calgary Flames’ president of hockey operations described how his team needs to get bigger, and his affinity for players who can hit and fight. He talked about his misgivings — albeit temporary — about drafting Daniel and Henrik Sedin when he was general manager of the Vancouver Canucks. And he took a few shots at Edmonton Oilers fans, but also defended the efforts of the Flames’ northern Alberta rival to rebuild. Burke, who joined the Flames in September after serving as general manager of the Toronto Maple
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Leafs, the Anaheim Ducks (where he won a Stanley Cup in 2007), the Vancouver Canucks and the Hartford Whalers, said he’s pleased with the Flames’ work ethic and their willingness to follow a game plan. What the team lacks is size. “Our junior team, the Calgary Hitmen, is bigger than our team. That’s not good.” Burke pointed out that the St. Louis Blues, which beat the Flames 5-0 last Thursday, averages 208 pounds a player. The Ducks team that he led to the Stanley Cup had a big bruising roster, and every subsequent champion has followed suit, he said. “I think you can really impose your will on a team if you’re physically strong enough to do it. “We need to get bigger.”
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Brian Burke, Calgary Flames president of hockey operations speaks to a Red Deer Chamber of Commerce luncheon Monday at the Sheraton Hotel
Ramo earns first shutout as Flames blank ’Canes The Calgary Flames were looking for a positive when they visited the Carolina Hurricanes. Karri Ramo delivered it. Story on PAGE B5
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While some bundled up in downtown Red Deer Monday morning others all but ignored the sudden burst of winter — choosing to wear shorts through the worst of the snow. According to Environment Canada, this week temperatures will be more spring-like than winter with highs above the freezing point through the week and weekend values expected to go to the doubledigit above-freezing level.
RADAR: City could reap $800,000 Coun. Wyntjes said she would like to see the proof that the photo radar is working or whether it is simply a cash grab for the city. Wyntjes said the city should look at other initiatives for road safety instead of penalizing motorists with a ticket. “I see there are other initiatives that we can take throughout our city,” she said. Coun. Buchanan said he has mixed feelings over the issue because the initiative comes with a hefty price tag and he somewhat questions whether it is actually improving safety on city streets. Buchanan said if they were to use that logic they should double the number of photo radar vans in the city. Other councillors said they should trust the recommendation made by former Supt. Warren Dosko to add a third vehicle to improve safety. Coun. Harris said this is one strategy of many the city can do to improve safety. He said anything that can improve safety on the streets is worth doing. “I’d really like to see some red light cameras around here,” said Harris. “There’s too many people running red lights and too many people dying at intersections.” The photo radar equipment and van comes with a one-time $300,000 cost and ongoing cost of $6,093 in future budgets. With traffic fine revenues of $1.6 million generated in 2013, the city could reap $800,000 over two years if everyone paid their tickets. In 2011, when the second photo van was put on the streets, the city estimated there would be $1.8 million more in revenue, doubling the revenue of the existing photo radar van. This target has never been reached. Handley said the city should adjust its expectations and stay the course with the two vans. Greg Scott, director of Community Services, told council this shortfall is owed to a number of factors including weather, delays in leasing the van and that motorists may be slowing down. He stressed to council that the issue is about safety not making money. Council adopted a subsequent motion directing administration to develop a traffic safety plan identifying various strategies, including photo radar, as a means of bringing about traffic safety.
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The RCMP have reported a 35 per cent reduction of injury collisions from Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, 2013 with the second radar van in action. Acting Supt. David Elliott said the photo radar van is one tool in the fight to keep Red Deer streets safer. He said the rate remains very high but they are working to get those numbers down. “It’s a good tool to use in places where it is not safe to do traffic enforcement or have an officer stop a vehicle,” said Elliott. “This could back up traffic and make it unsafe for the motorists and the police officers.” Council also asked the audit committee to add a process for monitoring and reporting of the fine revenue shortfalls to its 2014 work plan. The recommendations will come to council at the mid-year budget review. The fine revenue program will be monitored for the first six months of 2014 and a report brought back to the 2014 mid-year budget review, if additional support is required. Council did not approve any new funding on Monday and the proposed budget stands at $305 million with a projected 3.93 per cent municipal tax increase. In other budget news: Council approved $105,000 for downtown initiatives that include another summer of the Ross Street Patio. Councillors Tanya Handley and Frank Wong voted against the funding because they were not sold on the patio’s existing location. Later this year, the city will be seeking public input on the project including whether the patio should stay up in the winter months. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
BURKE: Character also important The recent addition of six-foot four-inch, 234-pound forward Kevin Westgarth, to complement the similarly proportioned Brian McGrattan, is already paying dividends, noted Burke. “It’s made a material difference in the amount of abuse our smaller players have to absorb.” But size isn’t the most important factor when choosing players, he pointed out. Character is. “We try to focus on work ethic, leadership, followership — if the guy’s not a leader we want a guy who just wants to play hockey — discipline, coachability, empathy for teammates, academic work.” Burke pointed to former Vancouver Canucks great Trevor Linden as an example. He recalled how, as an 18-year-old, second-overall draft pick,
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Linden called to say he couldn’t make it for psychological and physical testing because it conflicted with branding day on his uncle’s ranch. “I said, ‘What’s your job on branding day?’ He said, ‘Well, when (calves) come in the pen I grab them by the neck and hold them down while we brand them and cut their nuts off.’ “I said, ‘Kid, you just skip these tests.’” Burke said the exchange showed him the strength of Linden’s family values. “That, to us, spoke volumes about the character level of the kid.” He also recalled going out on a limb to draft the Sedins second and third overall in 1999. When Burke later travelled to Sweden to watch the twins play, he was dismayed to see a less-than-mediocre performance from the pair. Too angry to face them himself, he ordered Canucks scout Thomas Gradin to confront the brothers in the locker-room. “I said, you go down and talk to them, and if they both don’t have the flu, I’m going to fire you, because I’m going to get fired right after this.” Gradin reported that Daniel and Henrik were exhausted after studying for a calculus exam most of the previous night. That was music to Burke’s ears, because it demonstrated their commitment and discipline. Despite directing some taunts at Oilers fans during his presentation, Burke praised Edmonton for its hiring last year of Toronto Marlies coach Dallas Eakins. “That took courage,” he said of the promotion of an American Hockey League coach to behind an NHL bench. He also dismissed criticism of the Oilers firstround draft picks in recent years, pointing out that they took the best players available. Burke even acknowledged that he’s mended his relationship with Edmonton president of hockey operations Kevin Lowe, after the two men had a public spat in 2007 after the Oilers signed restricted free agent Dustin Penner away from Burke’s Ducks. Burke said he extended a hand to Lowe after his son Brendan Burke was killed in a car crash four years ago. Brendan, he explained, had criticized his father about the feud. Asked for his thoughts on the men’s hockey competition at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Burke predicted that the host team would be tough to beat. But the general manager of the United States 2010 Olympic team also said he likes Canada’s chances. “Canada is always a problem in international hockey. “I think Canada is the only country that could enter two teams into most of these tournaments.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com
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VANCOUVER — Evidence shows the often-reclusive wolverine has taken up residence for the first time on an island off British Columbia’s Central Coast and the animal’s eating habits have changed along with its relocation. The study, published Monday in The Canadian Field-Naturalist, shows that at least two wolverines inhabit Princess Royal Island, part of B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest. There are about 3,000 to 4,000 wolverines in B.C., but most of them are in the Interior, in snowy habitats and higher elevations, the study said. Department of Fisheries and Oceans biologist Tom Shardlow, who authored the report, said it was the first proven sighting of a wolverine in the area. “The main thing is it’s an oddity,” said Shardlow. “It’s the first time anything has been published that indicates wolverines occupy these islands.” Wolverines are typically the same weight as a mid-sized dog. The largest land-inhabiting member of the weasel family, the wolverine also has a reputation for fierceness. There have been reports of wolverines killing caribou, according to the Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology. The animal is rarely sighted on the coast, and while there have been occasional stories of the animal being spotted on the islands of The Great Bear Rainforest, none have been verified and published until now, he said.
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Study finds Alberta leads in disturbing natural landscape ALBERTA LEADS IN THE AMOUNT OF LAND DISTURBED AT ABOUT 410,000 SQ. KM. BY BOB WEBER THE CANADIAN PRESS A national study suggests that Alberta has disturbed more natural landscape than any other province. The analysis by Global Forest Watch adds that Wild Rose Country also has two of the three areas in Canada where the rate of disturbance is the highest. “There were at least three major hotspots, two in Alberta,” report author Peter Lee said Monday. The report combines government data, satellite imagery and cropland maps to look at human intrusions in the last decade into all major Canadian ecozones. Those disruptions included everything from roads to seismic lines to clearcuts to croplands. “We took all the available credible data sets that we could find and combined them all,” said Lee. “We ended up with what we believe is the best available map of human footprint across Canada.”
Alberta leads in the amount of land disturbed at about 410,000 square kilometres. Almost two-thirds of the province — 62 per cent — has seen industrial or agricultural intrusion. Saskatchewan, at 46 per cent, is second among the larger provinces. Quebec comes nearest in area with 347,000 square kilometres. The Maritime provinces actually have the highest rate of disturbance. The human footprint in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia is 94, 85 and 72 per cent respectively of each province’s total area. But those provinces are so relatively small that the actual amount of disturbed land is dwarfed by totals elsewhere. In addition, when Lee compared the current map to one developed about 10 years ago, he found two of three areas where the rate of development was highest were in Alberta as well. One was in the oilsands region; the other along the eastern slopes of the Rockies.
The third area is in a heavily logged part of northern Quebec. New intrusion in northeastern British Columbia, where there is extensive energy development, is almost as heavy. Lee said development in the three top zones is pushing into previously untouched land at the rate of five to 10 kilometres a year. The report’s calculations include a 500-metre buffer zone, which corresponds to the distance animals such as woodland caribou tend to keep between themselves and development. Duncan MacDonnell of Alberta Environment said the government has plans to set aside about 20 per cent of the remaining boreal forest, which covers the northern third of the province. That includes about 20,000 square kilometres in the oilsands region. MacDonnell said Alberta plans to eventually combine old and new protected areas to create the largest connected boreal conservation area in North America. Those plans haven’t been imple-
Air Canada apologizes after soldier charged for service dog THE CANADIAN PRESS An Alberta soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder says she’s disappointed Air Canada wouldn’t allow her dog on board a plane as a service animal. Sgt. Shirley Jew said the airline told her PTSD isn’t recognized as a disability that requires a service dog. Staff told her she’d have to travel with her pug-schnauzerterrier Snoopy as a pet — for a $50 fee. “I never thought I would be treated like a third-class citizen like I was with them. It was a slap in the face,” Jew said Monday after taking a different flight from Edmonton to Toronto on WestJet. She said WestJet let Snoopy fly for free. Air Canada refunded Jew’s ticket and, in a statement, apologized, calling the matter a “misunderstanding.” “Air Canada does have a policy in place to accept service animals of passengers with disabilities. These disabilities are not limited to physical disabilities,” said the statement. The airline said it allows trained service animals for customers with disabilities, if they are confirmed by a doctor’s note.
“In this particular case, we have invited the customer to provide us with more complete information to allow the customer to travel on Air Canada with her service animal.” Jew said she doesn’t understand what went wrong because, after she booked her ticket, she emailed Air Canada copies of letters from her doctor and the agency that trained her dog. When she was later on the phone with the airline’s medical desk, she said she was asked prying questions about her health and her dog. The 48-year-old woman, based at the 4 Wing base in Cold Lake northwest of Edmonton, said she was diagnosed with PTSD in 2012, after serving three tours overseas. She got Snoopy last spring and the dog helps calm her down when she gets anxious or angry. “She’s always got my back,” said Jew. “She’s my angel.” The little black and white dog will pull on the leash wrapped around Jew’s waist if it senses the woman is getting upset. When she’s sleeping and having a bad dream, the dog will wake her up before it blows up into a nightmare. “People think ‘Oh, she’s your pet!’ No, no. She keeps me so that I
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Woman appeals killing conviction CALGARY — A Central Alberta woman sentenced to four years in prison for killing her husband has filed an appeal of her conviction. Heather Wilson-Duncan, who is 63, was found guilty last month of manslaughter with a firearm. Barry Duncan, who was 68, was found shot to death in their rural home near Didsbury in December 2010. Wilson-Duncan’s case is to be spoken to in the Calgary Court of Appeal on May 13.
Two workers hurt after walls collapse CALGARY — Two workers have been injured at a home construction site in Calgary. Carol Henke with the city’s fire department says it appears several framed walls of the three-storey house fell over in the wind. One of the workers fell about 4 ½ metres and was rescued by firefighters before being handed over to EMS personnel.
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Sgt. Shirley Jew and her service dog Snoopy. Jew, an Alberta soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder, says was disappointed Air Canada wouldn’t allow her dog on board a plane as a service animal. can actually function semi-normal in society.” Jew flew on Air Canada last November to attend a conference in Ottawa about service dogs. The airline didn’t question her then about the dog, she said. Snoopy sat quietly by her feet on the flight. Her flight on Satur-
day was booked after her grandmother suddenly died in Toronto. Mehgan Search and Rescue, the group that trained the animal, as well as the agency’s lawyer, called the airline. But they also had no luck convincing staff they were making a mistake, said Jew.
Avalanche triggers slide, blocking highway BY THE CANADIAN PRESS No vehicles were caught under a large avalanche that rolled over Highway 16 and blocked off traffic for most of Monday near Mount Robson on the Alberta-B.C. boundary, said RCMP. The 400-metre-wide slide of snow and debris came down at about 9:30 in the morning. Initially, RCMP said they weren’t sure if any vehicles were under the heavy, packed snow. Greg Bruce, district operations manager with the Transportation Ministry, said they have confirmed that no vehicles were caught by
the slide and no one was injured. However, RCMP said that a person in a pickup truck did attempt to get through the slide and became stuck in the debris and packed snow. No detours were available to get around the slide, but the highway was re-opened around 6 p.m. Monday. Bruce said an avalanche technician was over at the slide assessing the potential danger Monday afternoon. Avalanche control was expected to begin immediately after the assessment. “The area has received 50 to 60 centimetres of snow over the last three days,” he said in an inter-
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COMPENSATION: Dallas second only to Redford Dallas’ expenses too were second only to those of Redford. He charged $131,804 for the time period, including $100,222 for travel. An MLA since 2008, Dallas has made numerous trips abroad as part of the cabinet role he has held since 2011. A trip to the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait in Nov. 2012, for example, cost $42,057.73 for Dallas and his chief of staff.
mented and all are the subject of controversy with area aboriginals. MacDonnell said the province is developing land-use plans for the entire province which are intended to balance pressures on the landscape. Representatives from the federal government were not available for comment. Lee notes his findings come at a time when Canadian and provincial policies on development are being increasingly scrutinized, whether they involve forestry, energy or agriculture. He said this sort of basic, commonsense data-gathering should be done by Ottawa. “It’s those sort of general questions that the person in the street asks,” said Lee. “Where are all the disturbances in Canada? Where are the pristine areas? “This is a simple monitoring analysis that should be done and could very easily be done by the feds ... (but) they’re not doing it.”
view. “Snowpack levels at our Robson weather station, which is really close to where the avalanche took place, is sitting at a higher level than we’ve seen it in the last 20 years at this time.” The heavy snow over the weekend was followed by a deluge of heavy rain Monday. “Conditions deteriorated rapidly,” Bruce said. Flagger crews were at both ends of the slide, and in Tete Jaune, McBride, Valemount and Jasper. Highway 1 and Highway 23 were also closed due to avalanche danger.
Dallas earned $175,557 in salary and benefits in the 2011-12 fiscal year, a year in which he was appointed to the provincial cabinet in October. Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski earned $180,015 in 2012-13 and racked up $60,024 in expenses. Both of those totals were higher than her 2011-12 numbers, the former thanks to greater CPP, WCB, and health benefits. Most MLAs who served before the election and remain in their posts saw a rise in remuneration and benefits in 2012-13, though for the fiscal year the government eliminated tax-free allowances for members, worth $12,570 in past years, and pay relating to committee work. According to briefing notes accompanying the report, average compensation for members — excluding employer-paid benefits — declined in 201213. Average government member compensation fell
CALGARY — A Calgary man who was dragged about 100 metres while trying to prevent a thief from stealing his pickup truck is in hospital recovering from serious injuries. Police say the man awoke around midnight to the sound of someone trying to make off with the vehicle from their northwest-area home. He confronted the thief in an alley and was initially pinned against a fence before he was dragged. The pickup was found abandoned a few blocks away and police say they’re investigating a possible link between it and another stolen truck discovered nearby.
$1B loan guarantee rapped EDMONTON — Alberta’s official Opposition says a $1-billion loan guarantee from the government to a refinery project shows poor business judgment. Wildrose party critic Jason Hale says the money is at risk because the project has already hit cost overruns and delays at a time when other refinery developments are being mothballed. On Friday, Premier Alison Redford’s cabinet agreed to put up $1 billion in provincially backed loans or other guarantees for the $8.5-billion North West Redwater refinery project near Edmonton. Hale says North West Upgrading Inc. has donated more than $36,000 to Redford’s Progressive Conservative party since 2008.
Canada Post withdraws $5 surcharge FORT MCMURRAY — Canada Post has backed away from charging companies an extra $5 for mailing packages to Alberta’s oilsands town. The extra fee was supposed to have started Monday for commercial deliveries in Fort McMurray. Fort McMurray Chamber of Commerce president Nick Sanders says the business community is happy that Canada Post is not going ahead with the extra fee. He says businesses in the community nearly 440 kilometres northwest of Edmonton order a lot of supplies from other places. Canada Post spokeswoman Anick Losier says the extra fee was to reflect the cost of doing business in Fort McMurray. She says other delivery companies currently charge a fee ranging from $2.75 to about $9. Losier says Canada Post has had a hard time getting and keeping workers.
from $189,212 to $156,311 while average opposition member pay fell also fell to $156,311 from $170,878. MLAs voted late in 2013 to freeze their pay for the next three years, but Alberta politicians remain among the best-paid provincial representatives in Canada. Among other Central Alberta MLAs, Kerry Towle (Innisfail-Sylvan Lake) had the highest salary and benefits earnings at $163,767. Joe Anglin, who replaced Lund, took in $159,939 and Olds-DidsburyThree Hills MLA Bruce Rowe earned $148,114. Rod Fox of Lacombe-Ponoka and Rick Strankman (Drumheller-Stettler) earned the same $154,459 total. Anglin’s expenses were highest at $64,913, while Towle’s amounted to $63,983. Rowe claimed $55,188 in expenses, while Fox claimed $33,765 and Strankman’s amount was $20,928. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com
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Little buses and big ideas I have this Calgary friend who every time she comes to visit, asks: “Why does Red Deer have all these big empty transit buses running around? Why not use smaller buses?” And every time I answer: “I don’t know.” Now I can hardly wait to tell her she may have to quit MARY-ANN with the annoyBARR ing questions because right here in River City, light years ahead of Calgary of course, we could see some little buses with Red Deer Transit. It’s one of the ideas coming out of current city council budget deliberations, not as a budget item at the moment but as part of the grand scheme of things in the not-to-distant future. The small bus idea could come up again during the Transit Master Plan update later this year. City Coun. Frank Wong has pushed for the small-
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er buses for some time apparently, although current budget discussions was where I first heard about it. Essentially, little buses would feed into the larger major routes. In some cases, smaller buses would also be able to go where the big buses can’t, like in older neighbourhoods. Interestingly, large buses cannot get into the new seniors development in the Michener area, so they have no bus service. Why would a seniors development not accommodate busing? Something else that’s come up in budget discussions is the possible end to the nice little touch offered in Red Deer’s fabulous park system — free firewood. It seems a certain segment of our late evening society likes to use the free wood to start big fires and that sometimes leads to burning down or damaging picnic shelters. Alas, every city has a moron factor — even Red Deer. By the way, when did the city stop offering free sand to residents? It must have been one of those chintzy little budget cuts in the past. The city used to have a box of sand available, just off 47th Street near Carnival Cinemas, so residents could fill up a pail or two to lay down on their residential sidewalks. Soon when the
big melt and freeze cycle starts up, sometime this week, sidewalks are going to get very slippery. These little things, all together, are often what makes a better place to live — things like the city maintaining community rinks or the downtown skating oval, or keeping the weeds down in playgrounds. One of the scarier items mentioned during the budget talks is the possibility of establishing a third city snow storage site, at a possible cost of $4.9 million. Whoa! This is a record snowfall winter, so our two snow storage areas are nearing capacity. But how can a snow storage area cost nearly $5 million? If we don’t see this kind of snow for another 50 years, it will be a major waste to spend this kind of money. Council should be looking at this item very, very closely. They might find it makes more economic sense to buy equipment that turns snow into water as a way of moving it. There are many much bigger items in the city’s 2014 operating budget, estimated at about $305 million, worthy of note. One, of course, is the revamped snow control policy that won’t kick in until the next winter season.
I hope the city’s learning a lot from the unprecedented current situation, and will apply it to the future. We should give big kudos to those frontline workers who are under big pressure and who have been grading city streets since November. One final budget note that could become quite a concern: Soon into this year ,the city plans to implement an 18-month pilot project that will see unarmed civilians — instead of a police officers — handle non-urgent police complaints. The idea is to speed up the city’s response to lower priority complaints, which actually comprise about 60 per cent of the calls. It will also free up the real cops to deal with more serious crime. This is something citizens should watch closely. Apparently, there’s a lot of citizen frustration over lower priority complaints not being dealt with quick enough. If the city doesn’t lay out the pilot project clearly, and communicate so that citizens understand what it’s trying to accomplish, it could be dead before it gets out of the gate. Mary-Ann Barr is the Advocate’s assistant city editor. She can be reached by email at barr@reddeeradvocate.com or by phone at 403-314-4332.
Young strikes a chord on integrity The intersection between politics and celebrity on this continent has been blurred so long, the moment the two officially merged is lost in time. Particularly to the south of us, movie stars of renown and those best forgotten shill for presidential candidates, interview invisible presidents in empty chairs, play benefit concerts and get themselves arrested at pipeline protests. Action figures campaign for fringe Republicans, actors are elected governor and, once upon a time, one became president. Which brings us to Neil TIM Young, who sat Sunday in a HARPER very familiar place, on the Massey Hall stage, and delivered a savage attack on Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. The 68-year-old musician took on the government for its single-minded thirst for petrodollars, its lack of integrity, its hypocrisy, its ignorance of science and its shameful treatment of this country’s First Nations. Young hasn’t lived in this country for almost five decades and he has never asked for the confidence of voters here. He is an iconic musician of superlative talent. But should we care what Neil Young says about our government’s resource policies? Is he just another celebrity carping on a single issue, further diminishing the currency of celebrity in the political debate in North America? Actually, Neil Young will — and should — be listened to. He is likely Canada’s most famous musical export
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and though he has left the country, he has revisited it many times in his music, whether he is singing about Yorkville or his Prairie roots. As a Canadian, he crystallized the grief and horror over the Kent State shootings with a counterculture anthem he performed at Massey Hall more than 42 years ago and more recently recorded an anti-war anthem against George W. Bush including the nonetoo-subtly named Let’s Impeach the President.’ Sunday, Young kicked off an Honour the Treaties tour in support of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations, an Alberta community about 200 km downstream from the oilsands development in Alberta. He is raising money for their legal challenges of the Jackpine Mine Expansion project, a proposed Pierre River Mine and a provincial land use plan they say runs rampant over their treaty rights and traditional land uses. The Jackpine extension is particularly controversial. Its expansion was approved by the federal government last month, even though federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq agreed there would be “significant adverse environmental effects,” justified under the circumstances. “Canada is trading integrity for money. That’s what’s happening under the current leadership of Canada, which is a very poor imitation of the George Bush administration,’’ Young told reporters. He said the thirst for resource extraction is killing aboriginals and “the blood of these people will be on modern Canada’s hands.’’ In a theatrical touch, the stage was designed with three empty seats for Aglukkaq, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt. “I see a government completely out of control. Money is No. 1. Integrity isn’t even on the map,’’ Young said.
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Last year, Young drew heat in Alberta after his visit to the oilsands, when he likened Fort McMurray to Hiroshima, and he said Sunday he stands by his “pretty mellow” remarks, but adding he was struck by all the hard-working people there — “I respect hardworking people.” The ACFN is not calling for the oilsands to be shut down, but is calling for a timeout until the environmental and health concerns can be responsibly studied. When he was elected, Chief Allan Adam said he was prepared to work to ensure his community would benefit from development — until he was handed a report about the health problems caused to his people by unbridled economic expansion. In the past two months, there have been nine deaths in his community, he said, five from cancer. “We have a runaway train without a conductor,’’ he said. Young, in many quarters, will be branded as an interloper, an old rocker with no grasp of the issues, who should stick to his music and leave our issues to us. But that’s missing the point. He doesn’t need to tour on behalf of an Alberta First Nations community. He could stick to his music and head back to his California estate. But he has done his homework and pushed the issue into the news again, as he will continue to do as he speaks out later this week in Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary. “It’s embarrassing, as a Canadian, to listen to some of this stuff (from the government),” he said. You don’t have to agree with him and you don’t have to buy into the power of celebrity. But he decided he would try to make a difference when he could have stayed home. Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer. He can be reached at tharper@thestar.ca.
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LETTERS Put people ahead of ideology Gwyn Morgan’s Jan. 8 column in the Advocate makes claims that the greatest threat to Canadian economic development is, apparently, so-called “environmental zealots.” A second threat he labels “defacto veto to First Nations” people. He cites several historical instances in an attempt to prop up his shaky argument. He claims the motivations of environmentalists and others who are opposed to resource development in Canada are “ideologically-driven” and, presumably, wrong. While I could argue against Morgan’s anti-environmental and anti-aboriginal positions, space prohibits such an argument here. I will, however, point out his faulty argumentation and his own ideological bias, limiting myself to three basic points. First, Morgan’s article begins by marking the history of “the day the first Europeans set foot on our soil” in Canada. The ownership of “our soil” in this phrase is telling. Morgan’s historical conceptualization of Canada is decidedly colonial; it is an imaginary land without history, without people, and with vast untapped natural resources free for the taking and development. If there were any people on this land prior to contact (by the way, there were), they were certainly too primitive to realize the land’s potential except to use bitumen to “seal their canoes.” The Canadian vision, for Morgan, is to turn it into something better, namely an economic engine for industrialization. Morgan’s dismissal of and contempt for the political power granted First Nations people is appalling, suggesting his belief that aboriginal people have no claims, political or otherwise, to the land and resources of Canada. The colonial history trumps all. Second, Morgan dismisses environmentalists’ concerns that oil spills might result from the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. Whether or not spills will happen in the future is unknowable for certain, yet Morgan’s argument to support the pipeline is that oil is transported every day in Canada without incident. Therefore, we should not worry. It is a rather simple (and perhaps banal) logical point that the safe transport of some oil does not imply the safe transport of all oil. Accidents happen, and they are sometimes quite significant, despite our predictive capabilities. The recent BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is a good example. Yes, BP extracts some oil without incident in the Gulf, but this accident should give us pause about the safety and consequences of oil extraction. Third, one of Morgan’s tactics is to dismiss legitimate environmental and aboriginal concerns as mere ideology, as if his own position is somehow exempt from ideology. One cannot escape ideology, and it is always a factor whether visible or invisible. Morgan’s own ideological leanings favour “creating prosperity and jobs.” The suggestion is that opponents to industrial development want to destroy prosperity, jobs and the economy. Morgan’s argument is almost exclusively monetary (with some fervent nationalism thrown in). And, it is true: slowing resource development would likely create an economic slowdown. That is one cost. Yet, costs are not solely economic. There are other types of costs and the obvious one is environmental. Another cost is the historical cost. Many proponents of resource extraction ignore historical claims of aboriginal people. Even Stephen Harper himself has offered a stunning denial of history at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh in 2009. Regarding Canada, Harper said, “We also have no history of colonialism.” Currently, Harper is muzzling Canadian scientists, dismantling avenues of public information like the CBC, and closing down and burning the books from Canada’s scientific libraries. These actions are naked ideology of Orwellian status. Economic and industrial developments are necessary; the question is the extent to which we, as a nation, want to pursue these benefits and their related costs. Despite Canada’s vast resource wealth and history of prosperity, there are important and serious costs to these advantages. Dismissing the facts of environmentalism and history does no one any good, except, perhaps, for those of unscrupulous and unconscionable actions. Facts, whether or not you agree with them, remain true. The question is when we will begin to face them. Roger Davis Red Deer
Years ago, an atomic energy reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine, melted down with serious damage to the land, air and waters. The U.S. and other countries around the world monitored this meltdown very rigorously and kept a very close eye on it. As of today, to memory, 30 km around the plant site is dead land and no one is allowed to go into that area without special permission or purpose. Just over a year ago, we had another nuclear power plant disaster in Fukoshima, Japan. This one is far more serious yet a lot less time was given this one by our western presses and TV outlets. Why? To my knowledge, Japan has not given the world an outright answer or admission that they have had a meltdown. This plant has been spewing millions of litres of contaminated water daily into our oceans, including radioactivity into our atmosphere, since that meltdown. Just last week I read an article about some very radioactive gas headed to North America. Is anyone monitoring this problem in Canada and the U.S. or are they just sticking their heads into the sand and ignoring the situation? So the question here is are Canada and the U.S. monitoring our air and water on our western coast for radioactive contamination from the Fukoshima plant? A few months ago, a huge dead fish was discovered off the coast of the U.S. All that was said was the cause of death of this fish wasn’t known. The question here is was this fish checked for radiation poisoning? It should have been checked and then reported to the people what the findings were. How much pollution are we getting into the oceans from ships and yachts dumping their sewage into the water without treatment? A few weeks ago, TV showed that the Canadian navy confiscated a drug shipment. They just cut the bags open and dumped it into the ocean. The U.S. has offered to take the Syrian war chemical out of Syria and offshore to dispose of them. Does this mean dumping into the ocean? We know from past information that the Russians have been dumping their nuclear waste into the ocean. A few years ago, the Canadian government sent a ship through the Arctic water and flatly stated they were not sending a sewage ship with it. Who else is and has been dumping it’s untreated garbage into the oceans? We have had two world wars with thousands of ships being sunk to the bottom of the ocean with, God only knows, all kinds of chemicals, fuels, war equipment and whatever we the citizens of the world will never know. I know that the oceans are huge but 100 years of dumping into them for easy garbage disposal has polluted them to a certain extent and a lot of this pollution may have been transferred to shores around the world. No one really knows for sure about this but is anyone trying to see what is happening? I don’t think so, but if we do have scientists monitoring this why are we not informed about it. Then we wonder why our marine life has deformities and strange cycles and activities. Absolutely everything we create creates waste to build it. Eventually everything like homes, cars, etc., have created a lot of waste to produce and after time even the homes are torn down and disposed of. There is nothing humans do that doesn’t create waste and garbage. It’s a big problem and we had better address all of it before it’s too late. There are many more avenues of recycling to explore. I have pictures and article on a large plastic bottle pollution in the Pacific ocean. The claim is that this bundle of floating plastic is larger than mainland U.S. and a inventor in Europe is trying to build a ma-
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What are the economic alternatives? Why do some editors seem to shy away from letters from socialists? Maybe this is because socialists are gloomy with regard to the prospects of the Canadian economy and indeed the world economy in general. However, socialists are not alone in their prognosis. The U.K. has just received what is, on face value, very good news from the think-tank the Centre for Economic and Business Research. The CEBR report that the U.K. will have the largest economy in Europe by 2030. Unfortunately, hard on the heals of this report comes a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research with some very bad news indeed, as pointed out by an editorial in the Independent last month entitled Addicted to debt: The U.K. recovery is underway and it is fuelled by the same disastrous borrowing as before. The editorial says “The Independent enjoys good news as much as anyone but the IPPR’s grim warning is based not only on hard fact but also on a canny reading of the obsessively short-term way our rulers’ minds work.” So what, you might ask, has this to do with Canada? Well apart from the fact that the world economies are now linked and interdependent, there is another important similarity. The Independent points out that British households have cut their debt as a share of their income to around 140 per cent but the Office for Budget Responsibility fears that it could hit 180 per cent by 2018. This increase will be the result of using renewed borrowing by working people to fuel an upturn. Canadian household debt is currently running at around 165 per cent of earnings and any substantial upturn here will have to be based on the same factor of increased borrowing by wage earners. The threat of another economic crash fueled by credit is in fact a reality. In 2014, as we head toward the next election, the all-important question of an economic alternative will be put to the Conservatives, Liberals and the NDP. Keith Norman Wyatt Innisfail NDP (personal capacity)
Turning our oceans into dumps I am not an environmental freak but I am very concerned about the environment and may soon become one. There are many topics to be discussed on the environment but I am going to stick to the pollution of our oceans.
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Three Amigos to meet HARPER TO JOIN OBAMA AND PENA NIETO IN MEXICO NEXT MONTH BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join his North American counterparts in Mexico next month for a continental summit, amid broader doubts about the relevance of the socalled Three Amigos meetings. Harper’s office confirmed Monday that he will travel to Toluca, Mexico, on Feb. 19, where President Enrique Pena Nieto will host him and U.S. President Barack Obama. It will be the first meeting of the trio since a brief gathering almost two years ago. That Washington meeting came in April 2012 and marked the first time leaders of the three countries had met since 2009. Next month’s talks will be Pena Nieto’s first trilateral continental summit, and will it comes at a time of tension between Canada and Mexico. The Mexicans are pushing for the lifting of Canadian travel visa requirements on visiting Mexicans, and Harper has said he would like to see that lifted. The Mexican ambassador to Canada, Francisco Suarez, has previously told The Canadian Press that the ongoing irritant — Canada imposed the visa on
Mexican travellers in 2009 to curb what it said was a rise in bogus asylum claims — might colour future planned travel by Harper to Mexico this year. Harper’s spokesman would not comment on the visa issue, and said the economy will be central to the agenda for the talks. “Prime Minister Harper will be focused on strengthening our trade, energy and security relationship with our partners in the United States and Mexico,” Jason MacDonald said in an email. “Our top priority remains creating jobs and driving economic growth through free trade.” Harper’s office had few other details, and had yet to formally announce the trip as of Monday afternoon. In Washington, where the White House announced the event on Monday, indications were that it would not be a lengthy affair. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama would be travelling to Mexico “on Feb. 19” but he refused to say whether the president would be staying the night. “We’ll have more details for you later,” Carney said. “At the summit, the president looks forward to discussing with Mexican President Pena Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister
Harper a range of issues important to the daily lives of all of North America’s people, including economic competitiveness, entrepreneurship, trade and investment, and citizen security.” Next month’s meeting will be the seventh such North American leaders’ summit, but a leading foreign affairs analyst said the relevance and the importance of the process has been greatly diminished in recent years. Fen Hampson, director of the global security program at the Waterloo, Ont., Centre for International Governance Innovation, said greater focus needs to be placed on revitalizing the North American Free Trade Agreement “to meet the competition from China and the tigers of Asia.” “Summits of the three amigos are little more than photo-ops and this one promises to deliver little more than that,” Hampson said, placing the blame firmly on Obama’s shoulders. “Washington has not only shown precious little leadership in recent years but actually gone out of its way to make life difficult for its NAFTA partners, whether the issue is border management, beef, trucking, energy or welcoming Mexico and Canada to the TPP talks.”
New cardinal condemns Quebec charter BY THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC — Canada’s freshly appointed cardinal says Quebec is making its people increasingly afraid of each other with its controversial values charter. Quebec Archbishop Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, among a new batch of cardinals selected Sunday by Pope Francis, spoke out Monday against proposed Parti Quebecois legislation. The PQ government’s plan would ban public sector employees — including teachers and doctors — from displaying or wearing religious symbols. “We’re dividing people,” he told a Quebec City news conference when asked about the charter, a document tabled last fall by the minority PQ government. “People are every day more afraid of each other. Instead of bringing us together and bringing our cultures together and sharing the richness of who we are, we’re starting to build walls and be afraid of each other. “And I don’t like that. I don’t think that that’s where humanity should be going.” The bill would force state employees to take off their headscarves, kippas, turbans and larger-thanaverage crucifixes if they want to keep their jobs. The government argues the charter would shield the province from what it describes as increasing fundamentalism and says it would provide protection against gender discrimination. The proposal will go under the microscope Tuesday in Quebec City, when public hearings into the document are set to begin. Lacroix was one of 19 men named to the senior ecclesiastical post, joining an elite group near the top of the Roman Catholic Church. The appointment means Lacroix will have a hand in electing the next pope, which is a cardinal’s most important task.
Time to phase out old, unsafe ST. MAARTEN tank cars carrying oil, says CN Apparent switch
The railway industry wants to “aggressively phase out” older model tank cars that have been implicated in several recent accidents, the head of CN Rail’s safety division told an industry forum Monday. But the consensus at the day-long workshop was that there’s no quick fix for a decadesold problem that has almost 80,000 sub-standard DOT-111 tank cars carrying flammable liquids on North American tracks. And whatever the solution, the cost eventually will be borne by consumers. Sam Berrada, director general of safety and occupational health services for CN, told an overflow crowd of industry types, regulators, lobbyists and local first responders that railways “will continue to push aggressively” for safer, stronger tank cars. A derailment and fire involving a CN train in northwestern New
Brunswick last week has renewed calls for greater safety in the booming oil-by-rail trade, which became an international cause following last summer’s deadly derailment and fire in Lac-Megantic, Que. Transport Minister Lisa Raitt responded on the weekend by promising the government will formalize the standard for new tank car construction adopted by the rail industry in October 2011. “Our government’s new tougher standards to the DOT-111 tank cars are part of our commitment to making the rail sector safer,” spokesman Remi Moreau said in an email Monday. But the government’s announced standards are not new and not tougher — they simply match those already voluntarily adopted by industry more than two years ago. The forum heard from CN’s Berrada and others that even better cars than the post-2011 model might be in or-
der, although Berrada did praise the performance of three post-2011 cars involved in the New Brunswick derailment. Moves to date, however, don’t even begin to address the vast majority of older rolling stock. Governments in Canada and the United States have been reluctant to deal with the huge number of older DOT-111s, in part because of the cost and logistics of an overhaul. Moreau said Raitt has asked an advisory council “to report back to the minister on additional enhancements and recommendations with respect to the DOT-111.” Raitt will be working on the standards with her U.S. counterpart, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, Moreau added. An official with the Canadian Transportation Agency also told the forum the government is considering the idea of a rail industry disaster fund, similar to the fund financed by the shipping industry for environmen-
tal clean-ups at sea. Monday’s forum heard that out of 335,000 tank cars of all types in use in North America, 228,000 are the model known as DOT-111. About 92,000 DOT-111s are used to carry flammable liquids, and only 14,000 of those are the new, stronger cars built after October 2011. That means 78,000 older DOT-111s remain the workhorse of the oilby-rail boom. “You can’t just snap your fingers and change the fleet overnight,” Bob Ballantyne, a career railway man who now works for the Freight Management Association of Canada, said in an interview. Ballantyne told the forum that railway companies collectively own fewer than 700 tank cars (CN Rail owns just 20), while eight leasing companies own more than 243,000 tankers and shippers own another 79,000. Retrofitting older cars can cost more than $70,000 each, while new tank cars cost well over $100,000.
Neil Young reiterates criticism of oilsands, Harper government with new statement TORONTO — Neil Young reaffirmed his criticism of the Harper government and the Alberta oilsands on Monday, responding to a statement from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s spokesman with a pointby-point refutation. On Sunday, Young held a press conference in Toronto during which he compared a Fort McMurray industrial site he’d visited to the atomic-bomb devastation of Hiroshima, Japan, and said that he was “embarrassed” by a Canadian government that was “trading integrity for money.” Harper spokesman Jason MacDonald countered in a statement that the natural resources sector was a “fundamental part of our country’s economy.” MacDonald continued that “the lifestyle of a rock star relies, to some degree, on the resources developed by thousands of hard-working Canadians every day.” In a statement Monday, Young replied that his issue was with the government “breaking treaties with the First Nation and plundering the natural resources the First Nation has rights to under the treaties.” The 68-year-old also added that “rock stars don’t need oil” and pointed out that he drove his electric car from California to the oilsands and on to Washington “without using any oil at all.” “And I’m a rock star,” continued the Toronto-born guitarist. “My car’s generator runs on biomass, one of several future fuels Canada should be developing for the post-fossil fuel age.” “As to the thousands of hard-working Canadians,” he added, “we have respect for all working people. The quandary we face is the job they are working on. They are digging a hole that our grandchildren will have great trouble digging their way out of. ... There are better jobs to be developing, with clean energy source industries to help make the world a safer place for our grandchildren.” Young is in the midst of a four-date tour benefitting the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Legal
Fund, with shows still to come in Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary after his Toronto debut. His statement included specific allegations of the toxic environmental effects of the oilsands, while also pointing out that the “oil is not going to Canada, but to China where the air quality has been measured at 30 times the levels of safety established by the World Health Organization.” “Is that what Canada is all about?” he asked. “As a Canadian citizen, I am concerned that this government is not acting within the advice of science.” Young closed by responding to another of MacDonald’s statements, in which he pledged that the government “recognizes the importance of developing resources responsibly and sustainably and we will continue to ensure that Canada’s environmental laws and regulations are rigorous.”
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Military funeral for Sharon ISRAELIS BID FINAL FAREWELL TO EX-PRIME MINISTER AND WAR HERO BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Ariel Sharon was laid to rest Monday at his ranch in southern Israel as the nation bid a final farewell to one of its most colorful and influential leaders — a man venerated by supporters as a warrior and statesman but reviled in the Arab world as a war criminal. After Israeli politicians and international dignitaries honoured Sharon, the military funeral carried a more personal tone, with Sharon’s two sons eulogizing their father as an inspiration for the nation. On a day full of warm eulogies, speakers made only passing references to the exploits that made him such a divisive figure. Sharon died on Saturday, eight years after a devastating stroke removed the prime minister from office and left him in a coma from which he never recovered. He was 85. His younger son, Gilad, re-enacted his final moments: in a hospital room, with music playing, family members chatting and his grandchildren running about. “And only the hero of the play is lying motionless,” he said, pausing. “I hold your hand and stroke your face, the face of my dying father. Beloved father, you have come home.” With hundreds of officials and everyday Israelis on hand, Sharon’s other son, Omri, addressed his father a final time. “Look around, and see the nation gathering around this hilltop. Look and see how they thank you for guarding them. How they appreciate you protecting them and leading them. How they love you and miss you and bow a head. You were worthy of such praise,” he said. One of Israel’s greatest and most divisive figures, Sharon rose through the ranks of the military, moving into politics and overcoming scandal and controversy to become prime minister. He spent most of his life battling Arab enemies and promoting Jewish settlement on war-won lands. But in a surprising about-face, he led a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, uprooting all soldiers and settlers from the territory after a 38-year presence in a move he said was necessary to ensure Israel’s security. His backers called him a hero, remembering his
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A man mourns next to the flower-covered grave of late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, at the family farm near Sderot, southern Israel, Monday. Israel said its last farewell to Sharon on Monday with a state ceremony outside the parliament building before his flag-draped coffin was taken on a cross-country procession to its final resting place at his family home in the country’s south. daring exploits that helped turn the tide of the 1973 Mideast war in Israel’s favour and, after becoming prime minister, his harsh crackdown that helped end a violent Palestinian uprising. His detractors held him responsible for years of bloodshed. They remember his role in a 1953 commando raid that killed 69 Arabs in the West Bank, and as the mastermind of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon — where he became complicit in a massacre in the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps by an Israeli-allied militia that killed hundreds of Palestinians. Even Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza is scorned as a unilateral act that left the beleaguered area doomed for failure. “He has prepared the foundation for further con-
Iran agrees to enact nuclear deal HARDLINERS STILL OPPOSED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s reformers and moderate conservatives welcomed an agreement Monday between Iran and six world powers on how to implement a nuclear deal struck in November, saying it will shore up Iran’s sanctions-hit economy. Hardliners however inside the Islamic Republic remain opposed. The six-nation group — the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany — and Iran agreed to start implementing the terms of the historic interim deal from Jan. 20. That will start a six-month clock for a final deal to be struck over Tehran’s contested nuclear program. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said that enforcing the deal opens new windows for Iran and paves the way for expanding its economic dealings with the outside world. “By enforcing the deal, there will be some openings for Iran’s economy and restrictions will be eased,” said Boroujerdi, a moderate conservative. “Economic sanctions will reduce and the way will be paved for expansion of economic activities.” Iran’s hard-liners have called the deal a “poisoned chalice,” challenging moderate President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif with the task of trying to convince skeptics that they are not compromising on key issues of national sovereignty. Speaking in Beirut, Zarif said that the issue has more to do with a lack of trust inside Iran than the nuclear program itself. “There is a very serious confidence deficit visa-vis the west in Iran. Our people believe that our peaceful nuclear program has been dealt with in a totally unfounded way,” Zarif said. “Hopefully once we resolve this issue we can move forward with better confidence.”
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK, Thailand — Anti-government protesters seized key intersections across Thailand’s capital on Monday, blockading major roads into the heart of Bangkok’s downtown districts at the start of a renewed push to derail elections next month and overthrow the prime minister. The protesters vowed to “shut down” the city of 12 million people, but life continued normally, with the majority of businesses and shops open. The intensified protests were peaceful and even festive, as vast swarms of people blew whistles, waved Thai flags and spread out tents and picnic mats at seven key crossroads where demonstrators wearing bandanas and sunglasses turned cars back. Still, the protests raise the stakes in a long-running crisis that has killed at least eight people in the last two months and fueled fears of more bloodshed to come and a possible army coup. The army commander has said he doesn’t want to be drawn into the conflict, which broadly pits the urban middle and upper class opponents of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra against her supporters in the poorer northern countryside. The demonstrators, who accuse the government of corruption, have vowed to stay in the streets for as long as it takes to achieve their goals. They are demanding that Yingluck’s administration be replaced by a non-elected “people’s council” which would implement reforms they say are needed to end corruption and money politics. The main opposition party is boycotting Feb. 2 elections that Yingluck has called in a bid to ease tension — and which she would almost certainly win.
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BANGUI — The interim leader of Central African Republic vowed Monday that the era of anarchy in the tumultuous country was now over, a bold declaration made only days after the man who had seized power in a coup last year stepped down under international pressure. Alexandre Ferdinand Nguendet heads the national council that will now select a new interim president for the country by the end of next week. The council is due to convene today to begin the work of replacing Michel Djotodia, the rebel leader who resigned on Friday. Djotodia came under mounting international criticism after his government failed to stem unprecedented levels of violence.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters, has supported Iran’s nuclear negotiating team, calling them “sons of the revolution” and “our own children.” Prominent political analyst Sadeq Zibakalam said the accord has boosted Iran’s regional might. “By implementing the deal, tensions between Iran and the West will be eased and the Islamic Republic’s regional stance will be boosted. It will also nullify efforts by Israel and some of Iran’s Arab neighbours to isolate Iran,” he said. Zibakalam said both Rouhani and Obama have to fight an uphill task with hard-liners who seek to undermine the process. “We should not ignore efforts by extremists both in Iran and the U.S. to sabotage the process. They are those who benefit from a crisis and will increase pressures on the government as of now. Hardline Congressmen and pro-Israel lobby groups will do the same in the U.S.,” he said. Hardline Iranian cleric Mohammad Reza Ashtiani on Monday told local officials in Qom, a holy city 130 kilometres south of Tehran, that the terms of the deal was not appropriate. “They are going to give us part of our own money as if we are indebted,” the semiofficial Fars news agency quoted him as saying. Hard liners say the agreement “practically tramples on Iran’s enrichment rights.” Under the deal, Iran has agreed to halt its enrichment of uranium to 20 per cent, a level just steps away from weapons-grade material, but will continue enrichment up to 5 per cent. It also will convert half of its stockpile of 20 per cent enriched uranium to oxide and dilute the remaining half to 5 per cent. In exchange, no new sanctions will be imposed against Iran and the current sanctions would be eased for a period of six months as talks continue for a permanent deal.
flict and undermined the chances of peace by adopting the policy and strategy of militarism, unilateralism and violence, by acting in a way that the end justifies the means and by having total disregard for Palestinian lives and rights,” said Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian official. In Gaza, the territory’s Islamic Hamas rulers held a victory parade marking the five-year anniversary of a fierce battle against Israel. In speeches, they mentioned the funeral “of our enemy leader Sharon” and vowed to continue to battle Israel. In a reminder of the ever-present conflict, Palestinian militants fired four rockets at Israel, including two that landed several miles from Sharon’s ranch shortly after his funeral.
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SURVEY SHOWS SOME POSITIVE BUT NOT SIGNIFICANT SIGNS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Growth in the U.S. is helping lift the economy, but corporate Canada remains concerned about weak demand and domestic uncertainty, the latest business outlook survey by the Bank of Canada suggests. “The winter business outlook survey provides some positive signs for the economic outlook, notably for exports and investment, although responses do not yet appear to suggest a significant strengthening,” the bank said. “For many businesses, weak demand and domestic uncertainty continue to temper sales expectations and expansion plans.” The survey by the Bank of Canada, done between Nov. 18 and Dec. 12, found that 34 per cent of those surveyed saw sales growth over the last 12 months, while 37 per cent saw lower sales. However, 51 per cent said they expected sales to
improve over the next 12 months compared with 22 per cent who expected sales to fall. The balance of opinion also suggested more firms expected to increase investment in hard assets and to hire more workers. The survey found 42 per cent of firms expected investment spending on machinery and equipment to rise, while 23 per cent expect to spend less. Meanwhile, 53 per cent expect to hire more employees, while 11 expect to have fewer workers over the next 12 months. The more optimistic outlook for the Canadian economy follows a weaker than expected jobs report last week that found 45,900 jobs were lost in December. TD Bank economist Connor McDonald said the Bank of Canada survey results Monday were indicative of the cautious optimism that has been building in the economy. “A stronger economic outlook for the U.S. will continue to support future sales and modestly drive
Canadian growth. “For the Bank of Canada, the moderate growth profile and well-anchored inflation expectations imply little reason to move off the sidelines in the near term.” The business outlook survey results came as the central bank’s senior loan officer survey suggested a slight easing in overall business-lending conditions, continuing a trend since late 2009. “The balance of opinion regarding the demand for credit from financial institutions during the fourth quarter tilted slightly toward an increase in demand, mainly from corporate borrowers,” the Bank of Canada said. “This follows a reported decrease in demand from all categories of borrowers in the third quarter of 2013.” The Bank of Canada is expected to make its next interest rate announcement and release its updated monetary policy report Jan. 22.
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Burke has 3 goals for teams BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR
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A worker on the production line at Chrysler’s assembly plant in Windsor, Ontario, works on one of their new minivans on Tuesday. Chrysler is considering a $1-billion dollar upgrade at its Ontario plant to build a new minivan, which is expected to go on sale in about two years.
Tories seek outside consultant to help auto industry in trade talks dustries: South Korea and Japan. The government’s statement of work says it wants a consultant to provide “an analysis of Canada’s trade interests, identify risks and opportunities associated with potential trade agreements, and provide strategic and economic advice in the context of Canadian manufacturing industries.” The government is focusing on the automotive sector, as well as “mass transit manufacturing (bus, rail, heavy duty trucks),” the statement says. “The consultant(s) will provide ... written reports analyzing Canada’s offensive and defensive interests, identify risks and opportunities, trade policy provisions which can result in a Canadian
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government wants to hire an outside consultant to give strategic advice on how it can negotiate free trade agreements that are advantageous to the auto sector. The consultant would be paid up to $420,000 for three years to provide Canadian trade negotiators strategic advice on how to get the best deal possible for makers of cars, buses, and heavy trucks. The federal government solicited bids for the contract on Monday, citing the fact that is moving forward with free trade talks on a number of fronts, including two countries with thriving auto in-
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Employers need to be employee-friendly Employers fretting about attracting and retaining workers should look in the mirror. Their corporate culture could be an asset or a liability. David Irvine, a leadership and personal development expert, will offer some insights into creating an employee-friendly environment during a presentation in Rocky Mountain House on Jan. 30. He will speak on the topic, Building a high-performance culture — the power of values alignment to attract and retain your best people. Irvine will be the keynote speaker at the quarterly meeting of the Rocky Employee Attraction & Retention Network (EARN) Committee. Organized by Rocky’s Rural Alberta Business Centre and Central Alberta Economic Partnership, the meeting will begin with a 7 a.m. breakfast, followed by the presentation of labour market information and then Irvine’s address at 7:45. The breakfast meeting will wrap up with a networking session from 9:30 to 10. Cost to attend the meeting, which will be held at the Lou Soppit Community Centre, is $15 for advance
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advantage, and provide strategic advice to allow Canadian manufacturing industries to optimally benefit from a particular trade agreement.” The Tories, ardent free traders, landed their biggest deal last fall when they signed an agreementin-principle on a sweeping pact with the European Union. As Monday’s call for bidders makes clear, many more deals are being sought including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as well as separate, bilateral pacts with South Korea and Japan. The government says the new consultant would help create the most favourable conditions possible to help Canadian businesses compete.
Olds College will be the site of a workshop on bedding plant production. The Jan. 28 and 29 event will kick off at the Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development field office in Airdrie on day 1, with instruction shifting to the Land Sciences Building at Olds College on the second day. The workshop is designed for new and intermediate growers interested in learning about the bedding plant industry, including financing, economics, production and growing. The Olds College segment of the workshop will consist of a day in a greenhouse environment, with discussions focusing on issues like growing materials, greenhouse structures, the growing cycle, insect pests and diseases. Advance registration is required, and costs $70 for Alberta Greenhouse Growers Association members and $100 for non-members. Online registration is available at www.eventbrite.ca/e/bedding-plantproduction-workshop-tickets-8958257389. Additional information can be obtained by calling Rob Spencer, commercial horticulture specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, at 310-3276.
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There’s more to hockey than wins and losses. Brian Burke, the Calgary Flames president of hockey operations and acting general manager, told a Red Deer audience on Monday that he has three objectives for his teams. They must be entertaining, run like a business and involved in the community. The 58-year-old, who became general manager of the Hartford Whalers 22 years ago and subsequently held similar positions with the Vancouver Canucks, Anaheim Ducks and Toronto Maple Leafs, said all of his teams have played a similar style. “We don’t trap, we don’t play boring hockey; my teams trade chances. We try to hit in all three zones and we fight.” Burke explained that his goal is to entertain fans, who have many other places they could spend their money. “I view the competition we face as not just other pro sports teams. “We compete for your entertainment dollar, and that includes going to movies, going to concerts, whatever.” This connects to the second pillar of Burke’s operational philosophy. “We try to run it with the same prudent fiscal principles that you all run your businesses with,” he said during the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce luncheon. “I think it’s easier to get people to support a team if it’s run like a business.” That includes corporate stakeholders like sponsors, marketing partners and suite owners, he said. They’re more likely to support a team if it’s financially responsible. When Burke joined the Canucks in 1998, the team was attracting small crowds and had lost $36 million that year. By putting a more entertaining product on the ice and watching the numbers, he cut the deficit to $28 million the next year. The following seasons the losses decreased to $14 million and $8 million, before hitting zero and then turning into profits. Community service is another hallmark of his hockey organizations, said Burke. “It’s not optional on my team. We do about twice as much as the next team.” Not only does this connect the team to the community, “it’s the right thing to do,” said Burke, who leads by example. The causes he focuses on are Ducks Unlimited, the Canadian Safe School Network, the You Can Play Project, the Special Olympics, and support for first responders and members of the military. “I’ve been to Afghanistan three times and Kuwait twice to visit the Canadian soldiers there.” Burke’s son Patrick co-founded You Can Play, after another son Brendan — who was gay — was killed in a car crash. The project combats homophobia in sports. Burke said his position with the Flames — president of hockey operations — is rare in the National Hockey League, where general managers have traditionally called the shots. “This model exists in about half a dozen teams in the NFL, the NBA and Major League Baseball, and I think it’ll be the wave of the future.” Burke explained that the president of sporting operations can provide broad direction to the organization while the GM focuses on the day-to-day responsibilities of running the team. It helps eliminate drastic changes every time a GM is replaced and allows one person to focus on the big picture without distractions or concerns about job security. The GM’s position is full of risk, said Burke. From trades to draft picks, the person calling the shots can look pretty foolish with the benefit of hindsight. “You’ve got to take a big risk. You’ve got to have a riverboat gambler’s mentality to be a good GM — with some caution.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com
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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 99.26 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.25 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.41 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.11 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.49 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.59 Cdn. National Railway . . 58.83 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 163.44 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.76
Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.08 Cervus Equipment Corp 23.60 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 41.89 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.71 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 26.22 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.30 General Motors Co. . . . . 39.58 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.87 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.85 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 49.43
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pany said fourth-quarter revenue and profit will be significantly lower than its previous estimate, saying sales had been on track through December but were significantly below target this month. The company’s new estimate for diluted earnings per share is between 71 and 73 cents, a reduction of seven cents. The energy sector led TSX decliners, down 1.3 per cent as February crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange slid 92 cents to US$91.80 a barrel. Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) lost 69 cents to C$37.27 while Imperial Oil (TSX:IMO) gave back 85 cents to $45.36. The tech sector fell 1.22 per cent. BlackBerry Ltd. (TSX:BB) has hired Eric Johnson, a senior executive from German global software giant SAP, as president of global sales for the smartphone company. He and BlackBerry chairman and CEO John Chen worked together previously at Sybase, which Chen turned around and grew before its sale to SAP for US$5.8 billion in 2010. BlackBerry shares fell 36 cents to $8.40. Industrials were a major source of weakness as as Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) lost $3.63 to $163.44. The gold sector was ahead abut 2.15 per cent as February bullion edged $4.20 higher to US$1,251.10 an ounce. Iamgold (TSX:IMG) ran up 33 cents to $4.16. Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) is making a $2.6-billion cash and stock takeover play for Montreal-based Osisko Mining Corp. (TSX:OSK). Goldcorp shares lost 25 cents to C$25.04 while Osisko jumped 20.7 per cent to $6.24. The base metals sector gained 0.38 per cent as March copper rose one cent to US$3.35 a pound. Capstone Mining (TSX:CS) gained 12 cents to C$3.08 as the company released positive production results from its Pinto Valley, Cozamin and Minto mines.
TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Monday as traders wondered about the resiliency of U.S. markets and the pace of winding up key stimulus by the U.S. Federal Reserve. The S&P/TSX composite index fell 66.04 points to 13,681.48, with the market finding some support from the mining sector. The Canadian dollar was higher after five straight losing sessions, up 0.47 of a cent to 92.2 cents US as the Bank of Canada said its winter business outlook survey showed some positive signs for exports and investment. However, the central bank said the business survey doesn’t appear to suggest a significant strengthening for the economy. New York sold off as comments on the state of U.S. markets from the chief equity strategist at Goldman Sachs gave traders pause just as the fourth-quarter earnings reporting season starts to heat up this week. The Dow Jones industrials tumbled 179.11 points to 16,257.94, the Nasdaq was down 61.36 points to 4,113.3 and the S&P 500 index drifted 23.17 points lower to 1,819.2. This earnings season follows a strong 2013 where the S&P 500 rocketed about 30 per cent, helped in large measure by Fed stimulus. Investors want to see if strong earnings and revenue can justify that gain and push stock prices higher but Goldman Sachs’ David Kostin warned that the S&P 500 index’s valuation is “lofty by almost any measure.” There was also increased concern about the pace of how quickly the Federal Reserve may move to end its key stimulus program, its massive monthly bond purchases, despite Friday’s American government employment report, which showed that only 74,000 jobs were created in December. That missed estimates for at least 200,000 jobs. The Fed moved last month to reduce purchases by $10 billion to $75 billion a month. On Monday, Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart said he supports similar tapering steps so long as the economy grows at the 2.5 to three per cent pace that he’s forecasting this year. Meanwhile, shares of Lululemon Athletica (Nasdaq:LULU) plunged 16.6 per cent to US$49.70 in New York after the Vancouver-based com-
MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close of Monday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,681.48 down 66.04 points TSX Venture Exchange — 964.88 down 1.67 points TSX 60 — 787.47 down 3.74 points
Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 68.40 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 36.81 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.96 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.20 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 99.17 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.60 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.38 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.00 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 16.33 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.90 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.08 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 59.98 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.49 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.66 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.73
Dow — 16,257.94 down 179.11 points S&P 500 — 1,819.20 down 23.17 points Nasdaq — 4,113.30 down 61.36 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 92.20 cents US, up 0.47 of a cent Pound — C$1.7771, down 1.94 cents Euro — C$1.4826 down 0.70 of a cent Euro — US$1.3670, up 0.05 of a cent Oil futures: US$91.80 per barrel, down 92 cents (February contract) Gold futures: US$1,251.10 per oz., up $4.20 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.928 oz., up 9.6 cents $737.14 kg, up $3.09 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Monday at 964.88, down 1.67 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 145.59 million shares. ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan. ’14 $3.90 lower $416.90; March ’14 $3.90 lower $425.90; May ’14 $4.00 lower $435.00; July ’14 $4.20 lower $443.50; Nov. ’14 $4.40 lower $456.70; Jan ’15 $4.00 lower $461.80; March ’15 $4.60 lower $465.10; May ’15 $3.70 lower $466.70; July ’15 $3.70 lower $467.20; Nov ’15 $3.70 lower $463.40; Jan. ’16 $3.70 lower $463.40. Barley (Western): March ’14 $9.50 lower $136.50; May ’14 $9.50 lower $138.50; July ’14 $9.50 lower $138.50; Oct. ’14 $9.50 lower $138.50; Dec. ’14 $9.50 lower $138.50; March ’15 $9.50 lower $138.50; May ’15 $9.50 lower $138.50; July ’15 $9.50 lower $138.50; Oct. ’15 $9.50 lower $138.50; Dec. ’15 $9.50 lower $138.50; March ’16 $9.50 lower $138.50. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 596,200 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 596,200.
Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.78 First Quantum Minerals . 18.66 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 25.04 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.77 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.97 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 36.42 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.61 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 26.06 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 28.15 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 90.40 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 52.55 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.67 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 52.05 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 35.85 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.00 Canyon Services Group. 11.57 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 29.76
CWC Well Services . . . . 0.870 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 18.77 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.61 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 98.55 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 49.58 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.68 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 33.28 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.36 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.55 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.04 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.365 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.84 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.27 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.17 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.36 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.17 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 60.80
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Chevy sweep: Corvette, Silverado take top awards AT NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — General Motors’ Chevrolet brand swept the North American Car of the Year and North American Truck/Utility of the Year on Monday, giving the resurgent Detroit automaker another boost at the beginning of the Motor City’s annual auto show. The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray received the car award, and the truck was the Silverado. The Chevy sweep came after General Motors Co. made the most appearances on this year’s list finalists, which also included the Cadillac CTS and Mazda3 on the car side and Acura MDX and Jeep Cherokee on the truck/ utility side. The Cadillac ATS took top car honours last year. The awards always kick off the press preview days for the North American International Auto Show, though they aren’t affiliated with the show. Fortyeight full-time automotive journalists vote on winners from the list of finalists. The win for the Corvette, which starts at just under $52,000, is a strong point of pride for the company. The Stingray debuted exactly one year earlier and represents a redesign of a model that’s been in production for 60 years. Alan Batey, soon to be GM’s North American chief, said the company can’t make enough Corvettes.
“Everything that’s in the factory is pretty much customer sold,” he said. Batey added that the Chevrolet brand isn’t as healthy as it needs to be globally, but the independent awards should help show that the brand and automaker are “on the move.” Sweeps are a frequent feature in the awards program: GM also nabbed the truck honour for the Silverado in 2007, while the car award that year went to the Saturn Aura. Ford pulled off a double-win in 2010 with the Fusion Hybrid and Transit Connect. Honda’s Ridgeline and Civic pulled it off in 2006. A vehicle must be all new or substantially changed to be eligible for the awards, now in their 21st year. Organizers accept no advertising, though carmakers try to capitalize on the marketing value of the honours. Incoming GM Chief Executive Mary Barra, who attracted a throng of moving journalists as she left the hall where the awards were announced, said the sweep shows that designers, engineers and product development specialists “sweated the details.” The awards, she said, should translate into customers at least considering the Chevrolet brand. “I hope that people look and if they haven’t considered General Motors or Chevrolet, they’ll get into the showroom, because I’m confident if they get into the showroom they’ll see a lot of vehicles they like,” Barra said.
Lululemon drops after it says Q4 revenue, profit will be lower BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Lululemon Athletica Inc.’s unexpected lowering of its fourth-quarter profit outlook sent its stock tumbling Monday and raised questions about how long the yoga fashion retailer’s problems will last. Chief financial officer John Currie said Monday that the company was on track to deliver on its sales and earnings guidance through December, but had seen traffic and sales trends “decelerate meaningfully” since the beginning of January. “As we end 2013, we are starting to see the results of the significant investments we made throughout this past year to strengthen and enhance our back-of-house product operations structure,” Currie said. “While we realize that it will require continued investment and time to get to best-in-class status, with our new leadership in place we are very focused on building on this stronger foundation to execute our long-term
growth strategies.” But analysts questioned the Vancouver-based company’s (Nasdaq:LULU) future amid guidance revisions that, as Cowen and Co. analyst Faye Landes put it, are “starting to feel like a chronic injury.” “To say that these are weak results would be an understatement,” she said in a note to clients as she downgraded the stock from outperform to market perform. “We are losing count of the number of intraquarter guidedowns that the company has had in the past year plus, which is not what we, or anyone else, wants to see in what is ostensibly a growth stock.” John Zolidis, an analyst with The Buckingham Research Group, reiterated his underperformance rating, noting that “we are closer to the beginning of problems for Lulu than their resolution.” “Revised guidance implies sales ’’ell off the cliff’ in January,” he said in a note to clients, adding that while many investors credit former CEO
About 30% of retired Canadians return to work to pay bills: survey BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Nearly a third of retired Canadians, or 30 per cent, have returned to work and the main reason is they misjudged how much the easy life would cost. Two new surveys from ING Direct found that the divide between how much people saved, and how much they actually needed, was too wide to handle without a paycheque. About 48 per cent of retired respondents to an online poll said they took another job because of financial reasons. Of those, 31 per cent returned to work full time. Another online survey found that 33 per cent of respondents who went back to work said they hadn’t saved enough money for retirement, while 31 per cent said they faced higher living costs than expected. The surveys portray a notable disconnect between Canadians’ expectations of life after the workforce and the reality of the cost.
ING Direct said that respondents wished they had found more ways to save for retirement, that they had started saving earlier and hadn’t “spent money so mindlessly.” “The reality of retirement for many Canadians is a sobering reminder that you can’t put your financial future on the back burner,” ING Direct president and CEO Peter Aceto said in a release. “Among the many other financial priorities we face during our prime working years, we need to make sure that retirement planning doesn’t get overlooked.” Both of the online surveys were conducted with about 1,000 Canadian adults who were at least 55 years old and Angus Reid Forum panellists. The polling industry’s professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population.
Christine Day with Lululemon’s success, she has done a poor job of setting up her successor. “Experience suggests this will not be an easy fix,” Zolidis said. “Lulu enjoyed several years of extremely strong growth as a faddish demand for its product produced record setting levels of sales productivity and the highest ever operating margins we’ve seen for a specialty apparel retailer. Those days are now behind the company (and Lululemon) has never operated in an environment of declining sales demand.” Lululemon isn’t the only retailer facing headwinds as American shoppers deal with an uncertain economic recovery and more U.S. giants, such
as Target, move into what’s already a competitive retail space in Canada and put pressure on pricing. But the company has suffered some specific setbacks of late — including its handling of a problem with its black Luon pants, the fabric of which was sometimes so thin, the pants were seethrough. Lululemon said the problems were due to a style change and production issues and moved to fix them, but new complaints emerged later about the quality and durability of the pricey workout gear. Day, who had been seen as a key part of Lululemon’s recent success, announced in the summer she would leave.
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Not every Internet user in Canada is on Facebook STILL THE WORLD’S BIGGEST SOCIAL NETWORK BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Facebook may be the world’s biggest social network, and particularly popular in Canada, but there are still plenty of Canadian holdouts who refuse to join or have logged off permanently, suggests recently released research. One in three Canadian Internet users told pollsters that they did not use Facebook in the previous month, according to a report by the Media Technology Monitor, based on telephone surveys with more than 4,000 Canadians last spring. Of them, 14 per cent said they used to have a Facebook account but quit, 16 per cent said they’re technically still a member but rarely use the site, and 70 per cent said they never joined at all. Younger non-Facebook users were more likely to have abandoned their profiles. Poll respondents between 18 to
24 who said they weren’t using Facebook were 10 times more likely to have dropped their account, rather than having never signed up in the first place. And non-Facebook users between 25 to 33 were three times as likely to have started and stopped with the social network, rather than having never tried it. When poll respondents were asked why they quit Facebook, the most common response was they didn’t find the site useful, followed by privacy concerns, and a lack of time to engage with the site. As some younger users are signing off, older members appear to be picking up the slack, according to the report. While estimated growth among 18to 34-year-old users was just four per cent from the fall of 2010 to the spring of 2013 — based on surveys by MTM — it was 26 per cent among users 50 to 65 and 38 per cent among those over 65.
The results of the MTM poll are considered accurate within 1.5 percentage points 19 times out of 20. Another recently released report indicates the Facebook market in Canada has matured to the point that growth is now slowing down. According to estimates by the U.S.based research firm eMarketer, Facebook is on pace to add another 500,000 users in Canada this year, pushing the membership base here past 17 million. That would represent an overall user increase of about 2.9 per cent over last year, down from the annual increase of nearly five per cent in 2012. EMarketer expects that by the end of 2014, 92.6 per cent of Canadian social media users will have a Facebook account, as will 63 per cent of Internet users, and 49.1 per cent of the overall population. But eMarketer is also projecting the number of Canadian social media users who use Facebook will decrease by 1.3 percentage points this year.
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Woman keeps on being betrayed by cheating girlfriend Dear Annie: I have been in a committed relation- bound. You desperately want Dennie to be someone ship for a year. Admittedly, my girlfriend and I (we she is not, and it isn’t working out. Unless you want are lesbians) rushed into things. We moved in to- your heart broken over and over, please let her go. gether quickly when she broke up with her girlfriend Even if she doesn’t return to her ex, her next relaof five years. After the first month, “Dennie” cheated tionship might not be with you. If you can accept this on me with her ex. I wrote it off, but a few months outcome, you can move forward. later, she cheated again. I have generalized anxiety Dear Annie: Growing up, I thought if I had sibdisorder and started to associate going to work with lings, I would have learned how to get along with Dennie’s cheating, which made my work life miser- others my own age. But now that I have reached the able. ripe old age of 70, I am grateful to have Shortly after all of this happened, I been an only child. Here’s why: emotionally cheated with an ex of my There was enough money to send me own. I admitted this to Dennie. She was to college. I have read countless letters angry and sad, but I said she should give in your column complaining about sibme a second chance because I’d already lings and have listened to the complaints given her two. I deleted my ex’s phone of my friends about theirs. I knew it was number and blocked her in all forms of totally on me to make decisions about my communication. parents’ health as they became unable to I recently found out that Dennie visdo so, with no arguments from siblings. ited her ex when she was briefly in the So for your readers out there who are hospital. It wasn’t cheating, but we had thinking of stopping after one child, I say agreed that one of the conditions of congood idea. - Only Child in Massachusetts tinuing our relationship is that all conDear Child: We are glad you have emtact with the exes must be stopped. One braced your status. But for every person MITCHELL month later, Dennie cheated on me again who is happy to be an only child, you & SUGAR with this same girl -- in our home. It’s will find others who could not imagine hard for me to look at Dennie the same their lives without their loving siblings. way. My head keeps telling me to let her Granted, people complain about their go, but my heart isn’t ready. relatives, and when it comes to advice I’ve asked Dennie to go with me for columns, you are more likely to read counseling, but she says she wants us to work it out about problems. We know that siblings can drive you on our own. She says she isn’t the only one at fault. crazy -- so can spouses and parents. But a good relaWe’ve both made mistakes, but the difference is that tionship with a brother or sister can be a source of I’ve learned from mine. I can’t continue unless we comfort throughout life. both can be faithful. What should I do? - Cheated On Dear Annie: “A Loving and Lonely Grandma” said Again her teenage granddaughter avoids her because of Dear Cheated On: Dennie is not yet over her ex, her raspy voice. At least one of the parents is comand you seem well aware of it. You were her re- plicit in the girl’s behavior. I can understand her be-
ing embarrassed. Teenagers can be embarrassed by your breathing. But sometime in the distant past, her parents should have stopped the behavior, saying, “How would you feel if someone treated you like that because you had a different voice?” It’s a teaching moment. - S.B. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
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Expand your wine horizons BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES A lot of New Year’s resolutions are about reduction — shedding pounds or lowering debt or cutting back on stress. But for wine enthusiasts, the resolving should be about expanding, especially one’s horizons. Among the options worth your consideration: Get out of that rut: If you only drink chardonnay, try some viognier or chenin blanc (or a blend of those two). If you switched from merlot to malbec as your go-to red in recent years, give merlot another chance. If you’re crazy about New Zealand sauvignon blancs, check out what’s emanating from France (Touraine or Bordeaux or, for a few dollars more, Sancerre or Pouilly-Fume). Love moscato? Look for some inexpensive riesling or Muller-Thurgau. Branch out when you dine out: At a restaurant, especially when you’re traveling, try something new and unfamiliar. Most wine lists these days are nicely crafted (in fact, it can be a bad sign if you see too many familiar brands). And the expansion of by-the-glass offerings in many eateries provides a chance to sample a couple of “exotic” offerings -- and pairings. Branch out at home: Try the occasional unconventional pairing at the dinner table: an oaky chardonnay with grilled steak, a young zinfandel with tuna. Or just a wine you like with a dish you like but never thought to combine. And cook more with wine, but only good stuff so that it actually enhances the flavor of the dish. Get to know more local wine-mongers: There’s nothing that will help you drink better wine more than getting to know a merchant or three, and letting them get to know you (or at least your palate). No holding back on your end, and you’ll know fairly quickly if you’ve found a simpatico soul. Get to know more local wineries: Forget wines that you might have eschewed five or 10 years ago. Wineries are getting better every year, as the fledgling industry discovers where best to grow certain grapes and how best to turn them into our favorite fermented juice. And go to the source (often a necessity with so few brands in stores, but also a great excuse for a nice excursion). Bubble up: Drink more sparkling wine, white or pink, from Champagne (if you can afford it) or anywhere, even New Mexico. These are wines, folks, just like pinot noir and chardonnay (in fact, many if not most are made with those grapes). And they are pretty much guaranteed to play well with almost anything at the dinner (or brunch) table, from omelets to lamb to milk chocolate.
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Customers enjoy a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau in Bayonne, southwestern France. Beaujolais Nouveau is a young wine released worldwide on the third Thursday of November every year. Pick a grape or region, any grape or region: Even the nuttiest of us grape nuts have states, countries or varietals that we just have not gotten around to exploring. There’s infinite fun to be had delving semi-deeply into Alsace or albarino, Greece or grenache, South Africa or sangiovese. Any and all such options offer a variety of styles, so keep an open mind. Augment your accessories: Try a Vintouri, which can really “open up” young red wines in particular. Put a good decanter on your wish list. Invest in some stemless (and dishwasher-friendly) glasses, which provide everything the stemmed ones do. And get comfortable with one type of corkscrew; the “rab-
bit” openers are easy to use but break way too often (too many teeny parts). Make wine more communal: Gather some friends to try a set of wines. It can be formal or informal, but do have at least one person take notes either way. The theme can be serious (Sicilian reds, chenin blanc from anywhere) or more flippant (naughty labels, wines that might go with corn dogs). The aim is to drink wine the way it was intended, in a social setting. The good news: Any of these steps can enrich your understanding and enjoyment of wine. The better news: This is not about leaving your comfort zone, but about broadening it.
When no-frills beer is what Healthy snacks can curb feeling you crave, try helles of self-denial TOO MANY BREWS FLAVOURED WITH FRUITS AND SPICES? HELLES LAGER OFFERS PLAIN TASTE FOR THOSE THAT ENJOY TASTE OF BEER
BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES “Doesn’t anybody like the taste of beer anymore?” A friend registered that complaint at a beer festival after sampling too many brews flavored with fruits, spices and the residue of used whiskey barrels. I can sympathize: My personal log for 2013 includes beers brewed with such unlikely adjuncts as marshmallow, ghost pepper, yuzu and curry powder. Have we become too jaded to enjoy a beer made from the four basic ingredients: barley malt, hops, yeast and water? If just plain beer is what you seek, you can’t get just-plainer than a helles lager. Helles (pronounced “HELL-us”) is the immensely quaffable golden lager downed by the tanker truckful in Bavarian beer halls. Stylistically, it’s a cousin to Pilsener. When the first pils appeared in 1842, its flaxen color and creamy white foam made it an instant sensation. By the 1890s, the new style was drawing enough market share from Central Europe’s murky brown lagers that even arch-conservative Munich brewers were forced to come up with their own version. Adapting the recipe to local tastes, they produced a lager that was the same brilliant gold but emphasized malt rather than hops. Munich’s Spaten brewery is credited with brewing the first true helles in 1894. A well-made helles is subtle but not boring. It should have that appetizing aroma of biscuits rising in the oven and a flowery/spicy hop finish that’s subdued but clear-
ly detectable. Brisk in carbonation, with a moderate alcohol level between 4.5 and 5.5 percent by volume, helles has a quality that the late beer writer Michael Jackson termed “more-ish”: One swallow invites another. Lighter beers don’t always hold up well on transoceanic voyages, and a fine German helles won’t taste the same when sipped from a green bottle stateside as when downed under a tent at the Oktoberfest. Fortunately, some of Munich’s most famous beer halls now have American outposts. You can get a freshly brewed helles, made to German specifications, at a Hofbrauhaus clone in Pittsburgh or the newly opened Paulaner Brauhaus in New York City’s Bowery neighborhood. Helles isn’t a popular style for American craft breweries, both because of the long maturation time it requires (six weeks or longer) and because it leaves no room for error: Off-flavors stand out all too clearly against such a delicate backdrop. But it isn’t as rare as it might seem. Sometimes it goes under such noms de plume as “golden lager,” “blond lager” or simply “lager.” Fordham Helles, for instance, was temporarily pulled from the market for a rebranding. Look for it to return as Gypsy Lager. The recipe remains the same, with Munich and Vienna specialty malts adding an elegant, almost vanilla-like sweetness. The word “helles,” incidentally, has no connection to the underworld. It’s simply a form of the German word for “bright.” That hasn’t stopped some American brewers from making sinister puns. Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, for instance, does a version called
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Helles is a beer type for those that don’t want the frill of modern beers and provides a plain taste for people who love the taste of beer. Hotter Than Helles Lager. And Monocacy Brewing in Frederick, Md., has teamed with D.C. taphouse Meridian Pint to make Long Road to Helles, brewed with precisely 666 pounds of grain per 15-barrel batch, according to the brewery’s marketing and sales manager Jim Bauckman. Most of that is standard Pilsener malt, but the formula, hashed out by Monocacy brew master Tom Flores and Meridian Pint’s Sam Fitz and Tim Prendergast, also includes a non-traditional ingredient not allowed under Germany’s purity law: a pinch of unmalted
barley, added to beef up the body without kicking up the alcohol. “Over the last year or so, Sam and I have become less enamored with over-the-top styles of beer that seem to be a dime a dozen these days,” says Prendergast, Meridian Pint’s cellarman. “Being hit over the head with bitterness, alcohol and flavor is frankly getting old. What really impresses us are the beers that are low alcohol, quaffable, and yet still seem to pack just as much complexity into a far more subtle package.”
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS With the excesses of the holidays behind us, it’s likely that those who had healthy eating habits before won’t have too much trouble getting back on track. But for many, establishing or re-establishing a healthy diet regimen will be harder, no matter how good the intentions of New Year’s resolutions. Healthy snacks can be a part of getting where we need to be, but only if we exercise “mindful” eating,“ says Heather Thomas, public health dietitian with the Middlesex-London Health Unit. What that means is snacking only when we are truly, physiologically hungry and then choosing snacks that “fit into healthier food categories, in alignment with Canada’s Food Guide,” Thomas explains. “The challenge is that sometimes we eat out of habit or boredom or frustration or anxiety and we don’t think whether we’re actually hungry. That’s when that mindless eating comes into play and that’s when snacks can get a bit out of hand.” On their website, www.dietitians.ca, Registered Dietitians of Canada warn that too much snacking can lead to unwanted weight gain. But they also not that healthy snacking is a good way to feel energized. “Snacks can keep your blood glucose (sugar) levels stable throughout the day if you find your energy level drops between meals. This can help to curb your feeling of hunger between meals and stop you from eating too much at mealtimes.” Snacks can also help to bridge the feelings of selfdenial some people might experience if they try to drastically change their eating habits overnight. “Coming out of the holiday season it’s a bit more challenging because we’ve been exposed to lot more of those higher-fat, higher-calorie, higher-sugar, higher-salt kinds of foods in the office, at home, at parties,” Thomas says. “For success and for longevity of healthy eating behaviours or physical activity or whatever, it’s going to take some time. Your eating habits didn’t happen overnight so they’re not going to change overnight either.” She is not a fan of many commercial snacks, no matter how “healthy” the packaging claims they might be. “For example, probably about 75 per cent of our sodium intake comes from packaged, prepared and processed convenience food.” Instead, she recommends getting “back to basics” and making things, including snacks, from scratch so you have control over all the ingredients, including fat, sugar, salt and overall calories. Not surprisingly, fresh fruits and vegetables top her list of the best snacks and homemade snacks made of ingredients that are “more true to their original form.” Having said that, she agrees there is “absolutely” room for the occasional indulgence. “It’s all about moderation. The trick is what’s moderation to me as dietitian is often very different from moderation to the general public. You have to recognize that it’s OK to have a couple of cookies. It’s not OK to have a row of cookies. You have to use common sense. “A healthy diet’s not going to be made or broken with a day’s worth of unhealthy snacks, but it’s the overall pattern that’s more of a concern. You want to have intake of a wider range of different foods, including fruits and vegetables, milk and alternatives, meats and alternatives. Foods that fit into your regular healthy eating pattern are more important than the ones that are higher in sugar, higher in salt, higher in fat. Behaviour change is hard and it takes time and commitment and it might take some failures before things move forward and that’s normal.”
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Classical treat planned for woodwind quintet BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Classical music lovers who miss the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra Chamber Series are in for a real treat this weekend. A special, one-off concert has been planned for the RDSO Woodwind Quintet for Sunday afternoon at the First Christian Reformed Church in Red Deer. The quintet is comprised of flutist Lucie Jones, oboist Melody McKnight, clarinetist Ilana Dahl, bassoonist Matthew Howatt and horn player Daryl Caswell. The first part of the 2 p.m. concert will entail the quintet tackling works by Maurice Ravel (Tombeau de Couperin) and Samuel Barber (Summer Music), as well as some fun, virtuosic works by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla.
RDSO CHAMBER SERIES The RDSO musicians will be joined in the second half by guest pianist Ruston Vuori in performing a four-movement work for sextet by Austrian composer Ludwig Thuille. McKnight, who is also executive director of the RDSO, said this special chamber concert was initiated by musicians — most notably Jones, who did the lion’s share of organization. “The musicians missed the (now defunct) chamber series. “They’ve been wanting to do something like this for a couple of years.” The RDSO used to spend about $10,000 towards staging regular chamber concerts, but had to discontinue them after a cut in provincial funding. “There’s no extra money now. It’s all having to go to our core
programming,” said McKnight. She noted musicians are donating their time and talents for this concert, and the church has also donated space and even the piano. All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards fundraising for the orchestra. Although no regular chamber concerts are being planned, McKnight said other orchestra members, for instance in the brass section, have voiced interest in staging another impromptu performance in future. Tickets for the RDSO Woodwind Quintet are $20 ($10 students/ seniors) from the RDSO office at 403-340-2948, or at the door at 16 McVicar St. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
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Flutist Lucie Jones will be part of a Red Deer Symphony Orchestra Chamber Series concert at First Christian Reformed Church in Red Deer on Sunday.
Multi-instrumentalist Shane Philip performing in Red Deer BY ADVOCATE STAFF
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Jake Gyllenhaal, left, is pictured in a scene of Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy, in a studio handout photo. Villeneuve’s surreal mind-bender leads the film nominations for the Canadian Screen Awards.
Eight films to compete for best picture AT CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Doppelgangers abound at the Canadian Screen Awards — Denis Villeneuve’s surreal mind-bender Enemy leads the film nominations while Space’s sci-fi clone saga Orphan Black tops the television contenders. Enemy — featuring Jake Gyllenhaal in dual roles as a paranoid teacher and as a cocky amateur actor who looks just like him — dominates the film categories with 10 nominations, ahead of Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm with eight and Louise Archambault’s Gabrielle with six. The three films will compete for best picture against The Dismantlement, Empire of Dirt, The F Word,The Grand Seduction and Maina. The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television says it’s the first time eight films will compete for the top title, a record number that CEO Helga Stephenson says speaks to the strength of the industry. “A few years ago we decided that if the jury decided they wanted to go further than five they could,” Stephenson said after a packed news conference Monday, noting they could have listed up to 10 nominees. “There was a lot of competition and the jury felt that in order to get kind of a representation of the best that was going on across the country they wanted to go to eight.” The TV race is dominated by Orphan Black, which has 14 nominations, including a best drama actress nod for star Tatiana Maslany. Her chameleon-like turns as various clones — including an uptight soccer mom, a streetsmart British orphan and a cornrow-headed science geek — also earned her an invitation to the Golden Globes bash on Sunday where she competed for best actress in a TV drama but lost to Robin Wright of House of Cards. Maslany’s co-stars said the Regina-bred actress was travelling back from Los Angeles during the nominations announcement in Toronto and they were celebrating for her. “We’re just extremely
proud, extremely happy for her and we just feel like it’s a dream come true for someone so talented in such a small show to be internationally recognized,” said Michael Mando, nominated for best supporting actor in a drama series for his turn as the volatile Vic, and also for best guest performance in a drama for Rookie Blue. Mando said Maslany was expected to be back on set Tuesday, with co-star Natalie Lisinska joking that the show’s star never gets a day off. “At the Golden Globes, she was actually shooting on set,” joked Lisinska, nominated for best guest performance in a drama for her turn as nosy neighbour Aynsley. “That was a clone that they sent to the Golden Globes.” Cracks aside, Lisinska said she’s been blown away by Maslany’s focus and passion. She noted that Maslany is also nominated for best film actress for her turn in the feature Cas & Dylan, opposite Richard Dreyfuss. That category pits her against Cara Gee of Empire of Dirt, Gabrielle Marion-Rivard of Gabrielle, Kawennahere Devery Jacobs of Rhymes for Young Ghouls and Isabelle Guerard of Rouge Sang. Orphan Black will compete for best drama against APTN’s Blackstone, Global’s Bomb Girls and CTV’s Flashpoint and CTV’s Motive. The best comedy battle is between TMN/Movie Central’s Call Me Fitz, CBC-TV’s Gavin Crawford’s Wild West, CBC-TV’s Mr. D, City’s sitcom Seed and Super Channel’s Tiny Plastic Men. The TMN/Movie Central comedy Less Than Kind is a notable omission in that category, despite being the top TV comedy contender with 12 nominations for its final season. Global’s cop series Rookie Blue earned nine while Call Me Fitz, the final season of CTV’s cop drama Flashpoint and Seed each got eight nods. The best actor race in film is dominated by international talent — Gyllenhaal is up for his intense turns in Enemy, while Daniel Radcliffe is nominated for The F Word and Brendan Gleeson is up for his part in The Grand Seduction.
They compete against Rajesh Tailang of Siddarth and Gabriel Arcand of The Dismantlement. The F Word scribe Elan Mastai said he was glad to see Radcliffe successfully break away from his Harry Potter roots. “For all his fame and success I don’t think he’s ever been nominated for an acting award so I think it’s really amazing that Canadians have recognized the actor that he’s become,” said Mastai, up for best adapted screenplay against Ken Scott and Michael Dowse of The Grand Seduction, Javier Gullon of Enemy, Robert Lepage for Triptyque and Michel Marc Bouchard and Dolan for Tom at the Farm. The F Word is among several titles that have yet to hit theatres. It’s expected out in the summer, while Villeneuve’s Enemy comes out March 14, immediately following the March 9 awards bash. The best director race is between Sebastien Pilote for The Dismantlement, Villeneuve for Enemy, Dowse for The F Word, Dolan for Tom at the Farm and Pedro Pires and Lepage for Triptyque. The competition for best national news anchor pits CBC’s Peter Mansbridge of The National against Global National anchor Dawna Friesen and Lisa LaFlamme of CTV National News. Other notable nominees this year include Juno Awards host Michael Buble for best host in a variety, lifestyle, reality/competition, performing arts or talk program or series. The crooner is also named in the best writing in a variety or sketch comedy program or series category and best performance in a variety or sketch comedy program or series where he competes against South Korean rapper Psy, who delivered a wild spectacle for the 2013 MuchMusic Video Awards. The Canadian Screen Awards honour achievement in homegrown television, film and digital projects, and replace the previously separate Gemini and Genie Awards. They’ll be handed out in Toronto with Canuck comic Martin Short returning as host. The awards will air on CBC-TV. Online: www.academy.ca
Award-winning multiinstrumentalist Shane Philip will perform twice in Red Deer this week. The winner of Best Live Act at the 2013 Vancouver Island Music Awards will play at The Vat on Friday, blending guitar, drums, didgeridoo into his own melodic — and sometimes wild and tribal — beat. The well-travelled musician will also perform, through a Red Deer friend’s organization, at a relaxation yoga class that runs at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday at A Whittle Piece of U Gallery at 4732 Ross St. Philip is a former teacher, river rafting guide, triathlete and member of B.C. crosscountry skiing team, who began gravitating towards music in a big way after learning the guitar. He has said his “obsessive” personality shifted him towards play-
ing umpteen different guitars, including Hawaiian, steel and slide, among others. Philip was later exposed to such exotic instruments as a djembe hand drum from Africa and the didgeridoo, an enormous wind instrument developed at least 1,500 years ago by the indigenous people of northern Australia. He performs his world-influenced music as a kind of one-man band. Some of the songs have lyrics about wild salmon fishing, logging and politically charged topics, but some are just instrumentals with highenergy back beats, ranging from rock to African, reggae or folk melodies. For more information about Philip’s performance at The Vat, call 403-346-5636. To hear him perform at the yoga class, call 403307-3528 to book a space in the class. It costs $20 for the 90-minute class.
Fox doing away with TV pilot season BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fox’s entertainment chief said Monday he wants to blow up the way television has done business for generations because it often doesn’t work. Kevin Reilly has taken a step in that direction by doing away with pilot season — the frantic period in the spring when broadcast networks make test episodes of dozens of potential new shows to put some on the fall schedule. “Honestly, it’s nothing short of a miracle that the talent is able to produce anything of quality in that environment,” Reilly said. Reilly said Fox has about 10 shows in various stages of development already, with episodes being written, and casting and shooting of episodes ready to go. One series well in the works is Gotham, which will follow Batman as a boy until he first puts on a cape. Fox’s viewership is up 4 per cent this year but it is down among youthful viewers. Some long-running shows such as Glee and The X-Factor are sharply down in ratings. But the success of the new shows Sleepy Hollow and Master Chef Junior has been a big help. Both already have been renewed for new seasons, Traditional ratings are becoming increasingly meaningless, Reilly noted. The audience for Sleepy Hollow nearly doubles when time-shifted viewing is taken into account, he said. Fox is also finding that people who stream episodes on sites such as Hulu are often more attentive viewers. Because of television’s traditional calendar, creators often find themselves rushing to get series ready during the summer and sometimes aren’t capable of making full 22-episode seasons, Reilly said. www.carnivalcinemas.net 5402-47 St. Red Deer MOVIE LINE 346-1300 NEBRASKA
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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A self-described petty street drug dealer took the stand as the defence’s only witness in his two-week-long trial for armed robbery of a Red Deer bank. Dustin Aaron Clark, 36, of Red Deer was the only witness called on Monday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before Justice Monica Bast. The Crown started the afternoon by wrapping up its case before the defence called the accused as its sole witness. On the stand, in leg irons, Clark was adamant that he was not the perpetrator of the Sept. 23, 2013, robbery of the Village Mall TD Canada Trust Bank. He faces several charges, including armed robbery with violence, assault with a weapon, possession of a dangerous weapon, wearing a disguise to commit an offence, mischief and theft under $5,000. Clark is alleged to have discharged a can of bear spray in the bank as part of the robbery. Clark testified he sells drugs at the street level and on the morning of the robbery he was driven to a local motel by his girlfriend and went into a room to collect a drug debt from a client. He said he had purchased the bear spray a week prior and had brought it with him
for protection. He said he had been robbed in the past and when he goes into situations like this, he doesn’t know what to expect on the other side of the door, so it is best to be armed and prepared for the worst. After knocking repeatedly and having one occupant open the door a crack, he pushed his way in and demanded the debt be paid. After tempers cooled, he said he set the bear spray canister down. After talking, Clark said they reached a repayment plan and that he would get the money back as early as that evening. He left the room and went to his girlfriend’s car. It was then that he realized he had left the bear spray behind, he testified. Not wanting to return to a room with a can of bear spray and the people he had just threatened with the bear spray, he left, he said. He said he regretted leaving the bear spray behind. That can of bear spray was previously entered as evidence into the trial with a fingerprint on it matching Clark’s.
Defence counsel Normal Clair also asked Clark about the rest of his day. Clark said he went on other drug dealer-related errands and carried on with his day. When asked what he was doing at 3 p.m., the time of the robbery, he said “certainly not robbing a TD bank.” In his cross-examination, Crown prosecutor Jason Snider walked Clark, Bast and the jury through a criminal record Clark described as “lengthy.” Snider noted how even though Clark described himself as a drug dealer — DUSTIN AARON CLARK “off and on since I was 12,” he had never been convicted of drug-related offences. “I just never got caught,” said Clark. “Maybe I should stick to that instead of this stuff.” When Snider asked Clark repeatedly about the robbery, Clark was adamant he was not there and that he did not attempt to rob the bank. Clark was the last witness called in the trial. Closing arguments are scheduled today. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
‘I JUST NEVER GOT CAUGHT... MAYBE I SHOULD STICK TO THAT INSTEAD OF THIS STUFF.’
OLDS DIRECTORY AVAILABLE Olds 2014 Community Directory is now available at the Town of Olds Office, Olds Aquatic Centre and Olds Municipal Library. The annual publication, sponsored by Olds Family and Community Support Services, contains information on local services and supports. The guide is available free of charge and includes an updated Olds trail map and pictures of community events and facilities. For more information, or to reserve a copy, call the community services department at the Town of Olds at 403-556-6981.
CENTENNIAL BOOK SECOND PRINTING OUT WEDNESDAY The popularity of Red Deer’s centennial history book has resulted in a second printing. Red Deer: The Memorable City, written by city historian Michael Dawe, sold its first 1,000 copies soon after its Dec. 9 release. The second printing of the 360-page book will be released on Wednesday. The City of Red Deer commissioned production of the book in celebration of Red Deer’s centennial in 2013. The book examines the community’s 100year history and includes information on the city’s landscape, geography and culture. Books are $35 plus tax. They can be purchased at Red Deer Public Library, Recreation Centre, G.H. Dawe Community Centre, Collicutt Centre, City Hall, Tourism Red Deer and the Kerry Wood Nature Centre.
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The Simmelink family north of Rocky Mountain House had their barn roof collapse under the pressure of heavy snow on Monday.
Snow collapses barn at Rocky SOME CATTLE KILLED, SOME TRAPPED BUT SURVIVED BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Cattle were killed or trapped north of Rocky Mountain House on Monday in the latest of a growing list of roof collapses this winter. The Simmelink family’s barn roof collapsed under the pressure of heavy snow around 8:30 a.m., said Sandra Simmelink. The barn was the larger one of two on the property and housed about 100 milking cows as well as 15 or so calves. As of around 3 p.m. on Monday, fire crews from Rocky Mountain House and Condor were still in the thick of cattle rescue operations, cutting trapped ones loose as well and trying to assess how many were dead. Twenty cows were still unaccounted for by the afternoon, Simmelink said. “They did find some in the back part of the barn that they are now trying to get out that are still alive,” she had said earlier in the morning.
It is believed most of the calves survived. No one was injured as Simmelink’s husband, David, had just wrapped up the morning chores around 8 a.m. and was in the house at the time of the collapse. The entire centre section of the “pitchstyle roof” went in, according to Simmelink. “The two ends of the roof and the parlour are there but they’re twisted because of the pressure, so all the walls are not right,” she said. “It’s a plain, basic barn. Not a wide span barn, not like the newer ones, and it was the older section of it that went — we built onto it about five or six years ago.” Simmelink’s son Brett was on scene with fire crews and said everything is “wrecked.” “About one-third of it is down, and the other two-thirds — the newer part we’d built — is twisted. ... The older part of the barn might be about 15 years old,” Brett said. It is the first roof collapse for the Simmelinks in all their years of farming. They cleared snow off the roofs once this
year and were going to do another clearing later this week. “You hear a lot about collapses this year but we didn’t have a wide barn and we’d been taking care of it so it’s a feeling of shock right now and trying to figure everything out,” Simmelink said. She said one of her sons has made arrangements with other dairy farmers in the vicinity to take the Simmelink cows until a more long-term solution is available. The Simmelinks have been running the dairy operation in the area for about 30 years. Last month, two other barn roofs came down in Central Alberta due to heavy snow loads. In one case, about 20 cattle died. A vinyl tent roof at Westerner Park was also no match for this season’s relentless precipitation. And on Jan. 4, the roof of the eagle enclosure at the Medicine River Wildlife Centre also caved in. Two bald eagles were killed. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com
Sylvan budget calls for Male faces murder charge residential tax boost MASKWACIS Sylvan Lake’s draft budget calls for a 2.69 per cent residential tax increase but nonresidential ratepayers will enjoy a tax rate freeze. The $29.3-million operating and $12.7-million capital draft budgets were scheduled to go to council on Monday night to be formally approved for public circulation. The budget was put together during five days of public sessions last week, wrapping up with deliberations on Saturday. “The non-residential tax rate freeze will bring Sylvan Lake’s tax rate more in line with other comparative communities, keeping Sylvan Lake a competitive option for businesses,” says town communications officer Joanne
Gaudet in a statement. A Coffee with Council session to answer budget questions has been scheduled for Jan. 25 from 8 a.m. to noon at Waves Coffee House at 3715 47th Ave. The budget will be voted on at council’s Feb. 10 meeting. Among new initiatives proposed: ● New curling rink contribution ● Spray park location search and design ● Library renovation ● New water well study ● Leisure Centre detailed design ● Residential snow removal service boost ● Two new RCMP members.
A 16-year-old male from the Samson Cree Nation has been charged with first-degree murder in a fatal shooting in Maskwacis on Thursday. Maskwacis RCMP believe the shooting of 20-year-old Jacob Soosay as he was getting out of a vehicle at the Samson Cree Nation townsite was gang-related. Officers responded to the shooting at 11 p.m. on Thursday. The youth charged cannot be named. He was arrested the next day and has been remanded in custody. He appeared in Edmonton Youth Court on Monday morning and will appear in Wetaskiwin provincial youth court on Wednesday. The youth is also charged with obstruction of justice. In a press conference on Monday, Insp. Charles Wood with the Maskwacis RCMP detachment credited the community in help-
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ing with the investigation leading to the swift arrest. “They’re tired of the violence,” he said, referencing residents of the community of over 12,500 north of Ponoka. “We’re seeing co-operation from every aspect of the community.” The shooting took place the same week that $2.9 million in federal funding for a gang reduction initiative was announced for the community formerly known as Hobbema. The money, to be spent over five years, is for a program that will see former gang members engaging with youth in the community and providing alternatives to the gang lifestyle. On the day of his death, Soosay posted a photo to his Facebook account of a handgun and his gang colours under the words “Ready for (whatever) ... brothers.”
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BRIEFS Armed robbery at The Bay store investigated Red Deer City RCMP are investigating an armed robbery at The Bay on Friday. Police responded to a call around 5:45 p.m. about the incident at the large retail store on Molly Bannister Drive, on the west end of Bower Place Shopping Centre. According to police, a woman entered The Bay, took several sweaters Robbery suspect to the women’s washroom and placed them in her purse. Two of The Bay’s loss prevention officers approached the woman as she was leaving the store. They were cut off by two men who are believed to have been waiting outside for the woman in a black Acura SUV. One of the men allegedly threatened the first loss prevention officer with a knife, while the other attempted to assault the second officer. The woman and the two men then fled the scene in the Acura. The female suspect is described as Caucasian in her late 20s with blonde hair and approximately 1.7 metres (five feet seven) in height. She was wearing a pink jacket, light black sweater and carrying a large white purse. The first male suspect is described as approximately 1.9 metres (six feet two) and wearing a black jacket. The third suspect, the second man, is described as Caucasian, about 1.8 metres (five feet 10), of medium build and wearing a white and black jacket. Anyone with more information is asked to call RCMP at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 to remain anonymous. Tips can also be reported online at www.tipssubmit.com.
Break-in reported at Burger King Red Deer City RCMP are asking the public for help in investigating a break-in at Burger King early Monday morning. The break-in was discovered shortly after 6:30 a.m. by an employee coming in to work. Police believe the incident occurred at the restaurant on 50th Avenue in the early morning hours. Police alleged the suspect must have tried to pry open the north doors before successful gaining entry through Burger King’s rear door. Inside, a large safe was found damaged but unopened. Anyone with more information is asked to call RCMP at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 to remain anonymous. Tips can also be reported online at www.tipsubmit.com.
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Members of the Golden Circle Singers belt out Danny Boy during a practice session Monday afternoon. About 35 members meet at the Golden Circle each Monday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. under the direction of Rose Howell with the musical accompaniment of pianist Vernon Murgatroyd. The choir performs in lodges and nursing homes and hosts occasional concerts.
Man accused of killing, dumping body still waiting for trial date The man accused of killing a Calgary mother and then dumping her body in a Red Deer recycling bin will have to wait two more months to get a trial date. It has been nearly two years since the body of Talia Meguinis, 27 was found in a recycling bin that was being unloaded at a facility in Red Deer’s Riverside industrial park. The body was found on Feb. 22, 2012. Nathan Desharnais, 25, is awaiting a trial date for numerous charges in relation to the incident, including second-degree murder and interfering with human remains. He pleaded not guilty and has chosen to be tried by judge and jury in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. After a preliminary hearing for Desharnais ended on Dec. 20, 2013, he was ordered to stand trial. He will next appear in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on March 3 for his arraignment in the hopes of setting a trial date.
Killing accused finds lawyer The adopted son of a former Edmonton police chief said he has found a lawyer to represent him at his upcoming trial. Mark Damien Lindsay, 26, is accused of killing an acquaintance and then dumping her body in a ditch near Innisfail in 2011. He is scheduled to stand trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench
starting on Nov. 4, 2014. Lindsay is charged with second-degree murder, performing an indignity to human remains and obstruction of justice in relation to the death of Dana Jane Turner, 31. Lindsay made an appearance in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday to tell the court he has found defence counsel and been in touch with Kent Tesky, an Edmonton lawyer. Lindsay said he plans to talk with Tesky later this week to see if he wanted him to represent Lindsay going forward. The matter will return to Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench arraignments on Feb. 3, 2014.
Sylvan to collect trash on sidewalks Sylvan Lake’s alleys are so snow clogged that the town is asking residents to leave their garbage and recycling containers in front of their homes. The town put out a request to residents on Monday to put out their garbage between windrows or near the front sidewalk beginning today. Trucks will continue to try to use alleys but recent heavy snowfalls and warming temperatures have made many alleys unusuable for heavy vehicles. Public works crews will continue to head out to alleys to clear snow so residents can reach their driveways and garages. For more information, residents can contact Sylvan Lake Public Works at 403-887-2800.
Clearwater budgets approved Clearwater County council approved its $32.4 million operating and $20.6 million capital budgets on Monday. There is no word yet on tax rate increases because the municipality must wait for the province to assess the amount of taxes the county will receive for the thousands of miles of pipelines and other linear infrastructure within its borders. “The linear tax is a big part of our assessment revenue. That assessment is done by the province and we don’t get those numbers until the end of February and the first part of March,” said Reeve Pat Alexander. When all the numbers are crunched, he anticipates a “slight” tax rate increase will be required to keep pace with inflation. The bottom line has been helped by an anticipated $800,000 boost in revenues from oil well taxes, which are now expected to generate about $2 million for the municipality. Among major expenses this year is $2.6 million to repair infrastructure damaged by last June’s flooding. A provincial grant will cover $2 million of that. A number of new initiatives have been included in the 2014 budget. An additional $250,000 has been put into the dust control budget and $250,000 has been put into the grader budget to boost service levels. The budget also calls for rehabilitation of about 30 km of gravel roads and asphalt overlays will go on another 25 km. Other expenses include $1.275 million to go towards renovations at the arena in Rocky Mountain House, which is expected to begin in April.
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Wondering if you’re in an abusive relationship? Consider the following questions. Does someone — make fun of you or put you down in front of others? — complain that you’re too sensitive if you take offence? — tell you that your thoughts or opinions are wrong? — regularly ridicule or dismiss your feelings? — remove or withhold love and affection? — constantly violate your boundaries? — remind you of your shortcomings? — belittle your accomplishments? — treat you like a child? — lack empathy for you? Emotional abuse is any behaviour designed to control and subjugate another person. It can include anything from verbal abuse and constant criticism to more subtle tactics such as intimidation, manipulation or trivializing. Even when under the guise of teaching, guiding or managing, the results are similar — the eroding of self-worth and loss of personal value. No one would set out deliberately to be abused — at least not consciously.
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“It’s my fault,” she cried. “It’s all my fault!” Father and I had arrived on the scene of a vehicle fire – an old pickup truck ablaze on the side of a country road. We were just returning from town when we happened upon it. A man wearing coveralls was standing next to a sobbing woman and a boy about 10 years old. “I can’t do anything right,” said the woman. “I do everything wrong.” MURRAY “What’s happened here?” FUHRER asked Father. The man shrugged. “Truck belongs to them.” He motioned with the thumb to the woman and boy. At the time, the boy was a few years younger than I. His face was expressionless.
The man — a farmer — happened to be working in a nearby field and when he saw the commotion came over to investigate. Apparently, the truck had quit suddenly, and when the farmer opened the hood to assess the reason, everything immediately went up in flames. “I should have known better,” she said, sobbing. “I’m so stupid.” Right then we heard a large whump. The gas tank had exploded and the whole vehicle was now engulfed in flames. The woman crumpled to the ground with a whimper. “It’s hopeless,” she sobbed. “I’m such a fool.” “Yep,” said the boy. “You sure are stupid.” Looking back, I realize that I was witnessing the response to a crisis situation from a person with exceptionally poor self-esteem. I discovered some time later that the woman was involved in an emotionally abusive relationship with her husband. No doubt the boy — having witnessed his father’s treatment of his mother — began to look at her with equal disdain. Unlike physical abuse, the scars of emotional abuse are within. Emotional abuse undermines our sense of self-worth and destroys our self-esteem. And emotional abuse can happen between parents and children, a husband and wife and even among relatives and friends.
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Social media can Snow is for those affect marital bonds who want to enjoy it BEST TO BE ON GUARD Question: How can I tell if Facebook the opposite sex. and social media are negatively imDo your conversations include pacting my marriage? things that should be kept between you I don’t think this is the case at pres- and your spouse? ent, but I don’t want to be taken by surDo you find yourself daydreaming prise either. about any of these people? Jim: Even the best marDo you look for excuses riages can fall prey to subtle to visit them online? threats posed by social meDo you share thoughts, dia, so you’re wise to be on feelings or problems with guard. them that you don’t reveal If you’re spending more to your mate? time on Facebook than you Are you convinced that are interacting with your they understand you better spouse, or if online “relathan your spouse does? tionships” are more satisfyIf so, there’s a danger ing than your marriage, this that these relationships is a definite sign that somemay be crossing the line bething isn’t right. tween the platonic and the JIM Secrecy in any form is anromantic. DALY other danger signal. If you are seeing any of Do you log off or minithese red flags, I’d urge you mize the Facebook window to sit down with your spouse when your spouse walks inand take a very close look to the room? at your situation. If so, you need to ask yourself why. It might be a good idea to do this Transparency is the foundation of with the assistance of a trained countrust, and trust is essential to every selor. successful marriage. You can locate one by calling Focus In connection with this last point, on the Family. there are several other questions to Catch up with Jim Daly at www.jimask yourself about your interactions dalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/ with online friends, especially those of DalyFocus.
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Often, children who were verbally abused by a parent (or by a sibling) will find themselves in a similar regrettable situation as adults. If someone else constantly defined their experiences and emotions, judged their behaviour and or invalidated their feelings and opinions, they may seek out someone in a relationship to continue the process — someone with whom they can feel at home. Studies have shown that recipients of emotional abuse struggle with feelings of being powerless and unworthy — overwhelmed by fear and inadequacy. Oddly enough, abusers often share the same feelings — only the abuser will project his or her feeling outward. Thus abuser and abused find themselves strangely attracted to each other. The abuser feels secure and in control while the abused feels a curious sense of familiarity and, oddly enough, comfort. Recognizing the patterns of abuse in relationships is the first step toward change. In truth, we often allow people into our lives who treat us as we expect to be treated. If we feel poorly about ourselves, we may choose a partner who reflects this image back to us. If we feel unlovable or unworthy of love, we may choose someone who is incapable of expressing love. This is a form of selfabuse – getting only what we feel (at some level) we deserve. Consider the words you might hear from an abuser — they might be the same words you’d say to yourself: “I’m stupid, I can’t do anything right, I should have known better, I’m hopeless.” Breaking destructive patterns of abuse is a process that will take time, self-awareness and likely professional intervention. Perhaps the first step is to acknowledge the elements of a healthy relationship. Sadly, many people do not know what a healthy relationship looks like. If I were to create a bill of relationship rights, it might read like this: You have the right to emotional support, to be heard and treated
author of Love Without Hurt writes, “Emotional abuse does not result from storms of anger. It emerges during droughts of compassion.” Learning to love and care for ourselves is an aspect of healthy selfesteem, and the better our self-image, the more likely we are to find ourselves in a healthy, mutually compassionate relationship. Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on selfesteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www. theselfesteemguy.com.
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with respect, to an opposing point of view, to your own feelings, to a sincere apology when you’ve been hurt or wronged, to encouragement, to a life free from emotional and physical threats, anger or manipulation, to be without unwarranted criticism or judgment, to be loved, honoured, cherished and respected. It seems the element most lacking in emotionally abusive relationships is compassion. Compassion for others and for ourselves blossoms forth naturally from healthy self-esteem. Steven Stosny, PhD, relationship expert and
It is no secret that this year our poor It is things like this that make me province has been riddled with the wary of the snow; it hides so much unwhite fluffy stuff. I suppose I shouldn’t der its beautifully pure layers of white. be complaining, as they say — we do And although it bothers me and always live in Canada! Not to mention I am has, I can’t help but smile when I see sure, that a mass majority of the public Sophie drop unguided into a pile to loves all of this snow. We’ve got the make a snow angel or Lars working so snowmobilers who speed hard to dig out more of his through our fields and hidden fort. These moments trails with a white powder fill me with a warmth that tail trailing them, the skinot even the winter chill ers and snowboarders who can take from me. I am pretty sure are revelBut then when I am beling in the coverage on the ginning to think I’m all mountains right now, and right with this winter wonnot forgetting of course, the derland, I decide to go for a children! drive. ... Currently the highThe kids have caught on est drift in our back yard to some colourful language is about five feet tall. My since these tremendous wonderful husband and my downfalls of snow have LINDSAY brother have made this into commenced. BROWN a fort/toboggan hill for the The roads...OH THE kids. ME PLUS THREE ROADS! I drive a minivan, The base of the drift has and not to knock the minibeen hollowed out and on van because usually she the opposite side they have smoothed stands up well to tough weather, but down a ramp for crazy carpets and GT this snow is kicking her butt! racers. The ruts that have formed on my I truly do appreciate the effort from street are deep to say the least. So poor these two men in my life, but I mustn’t minivan when she tries to pile drive lie when I say that watching Sophie in through those things, gets helped up by the little polar bear house (which they her low undercarriage and thrown this have named the snow fort) and Lars way and that. racing down the top of that same emMeanwhile I am trying to steer and bankment gives me a near heart attack having a heck of a time simply avoideach time I see it. ing the vehicles parked on each side of I continue to be assured that the the street. snow is frozen and strong enough so it But I suppose it is even worse when will not collapse, but it still freaks the I see an oncoming truck racing towards bejeezus out of me. So aside from my me...There I am creeping along at a constant eagle eye watch point when just high enough speed to ensure I will we are outside playing, there are about not get stuck in the mushy areas and I 100 other things that make life harder see this lunatic coming towards me at with all of this snow. a whopping 35 km/h! All the while SoOn average the kids and I have it phie is in the backseat telling me she down to about 10 minutes to get snow has to pee. gear on, and that’s if Sophie decides These are the moments when the she doesn’t have to pee half way kiddies learn the new words that later through getting dressed. Although that I will have to remove from their vois still preferable to the alternative of cabulary. her being outside for two minutes and It pains me to admit it, but it does having to come in, pee, and get dressed happen. all over again — this too we do on a So I guess what I’m trying to say regular basis. about this weird and wonderful weathOnce outside my mind immediately er of ours, is that there are three kinds begins spinning with each and every of people when it comes to the snow. danger that could be hidden under the Those who love it because it gives snow, the polar bear house included! them pleasure, those who are indifAnd did we put the axe away before ferent because they can simply ignore the snow came? it, and then there is me, caught someOr does it happen to be perfectly where in this strange place in between, balanced on its dull edge, just waiting happy for the joy it brings my kids, but for one of the kids to step on that ex- crazed from the infuriation it brings act area of snow, sink 3 feet down and me! slice their foot open. The thought literLindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mothally terrifies me. er of two and freelance columnist.
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Ramo earns first shutout as Flames down Hurricanes RAMO MAKES 22 SAVES AND HELPS GET FLAMES FIRST SHUTOUT IN 117 GAMES
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flames 2 Hurricanes 0 RALEIGH, N.C. — Having lost three straight, the Calgary Flames were looking for something positive when they visited the Carolina Hurricanes. Karri Ramo delivered just what they needed. Ramo made 22 saves in his first NHL shutout, and Mikael Backlund and Sean Monahan provided the offence in the Flames’ 2-0 win over the Hurricanes on Monday night The Flames snapped their skid and handed the Hurricanes their second straight shutout defeat. “It was probably our best team effort of the season,” Calgary coach Bob Hartley said. “We had quite a good first period, and I felt we pressured them and gained the momentum. Carolina came hard at us, and we did a great job.” Carolina’s offence has been shut down for two games following a season-best, five-game winning streak. The Hurricanes failed to match Calgary’s intensity at the start, and were shut out for the fourth time this season. “We spent too much time in our own end,” defenceman Brett Bellemore said. “We didn’t get off to a good start and they kind of got a lucky bounce off a skate or something (on their goal).” The Hurricanes now have a long wait before they host Florida on Saturday. “We didn’t have that extra jump,” Carolina coach Kirk Muller said. “It’s disappointing. We have four days ahead of us to sit on it. When you play teams like Calgary, it’s going to be a game in the trenches. “They got the lead, and once they did, they were able to sit back a little bit and defend.” Backland scored his seventh goal of the season for the Flames, who notched their second power-play tally in 26 chances. Backland gathered the puck in front after it bounced off the skate of Hurricanes forward Radek Dvorak. “It was nice to score first,” Backlund said. “It’s easier to play with some energy when you score than have to chase all the time like we’ve been doing lately.” Monahan scored his 13th goal midway through the third period to add some insurance. He scored into an open net after goalie Anton Khudobin was unable to get back across the crease from the far post. Ramo improved to 8-8-3 as the Flames swept the two-game season games from Carolina. It was Calgary’s first shutout in 117 games. “It’s good that it’s out of the way,” Ramo said. “It’s nice to finish one without a goal. Obviously, everyone thinks about it and knows the situation but you just have to focus and play normally.”
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Carolina Hurricanes’ Jeff Skinner charges into Calgary Flames goalie Karri Ramo while battling Ladislav Smid during the second period of an NHL game in Raleigh, N.C., Monday. Khudobin, who lost his second straight, did some of his best work in the first period when the Flames carried the play and held a 14-5 shots advantage. Khudobin made 27 saves overall. Carolina captain Eric Staal returned to the lineup after missing three games because of a lower body injury. NOTES: Calgary is 11-3-3 in games in which it scores a power-play goal. The
Flames went 1 for 3. ... Carolina activated C Jiri Tlusty from the injured list, and he was in the lineup for the time since Dec. 23, before he was sidelined because of an appendectomy. ... The Flames have won three straight and four of five against Carolina. ... Calgary RW Kevin Westgarth returned to face his old team for the first time since being traded by Carolina on Dec. 30.
Pair of Rebels get high draft rankings BY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Rebels defenceman Haydn Fleury is No. 6 among North American skaters eligible for the 2014 NHL entry draft, according to the Central Scouting Service mid-term rankings. Meanwhile, Rebels top-scoring forward and captain Conner Bleackley is ranked 31st. Both Red Deer players will compete in Wednesday’s CHL Top Prospects Game at the Calgary Saddledome. Prince Albert Raiders forward Leon Draisaitl is the top-ranked WHL player at No. 2, while other WHL skaters in the top 20 include forward Sam Reinhart of the Kootenay Ice (No. 4), Calgary Hitmen forward Jake Virtanen (ninth), and Swift Current Broncos defencemen Julius Honka (13th), and Brycen Martin (20th). Meanwhile, Ty Edmonds of the Prince George Cougars is the top-ranked North American goaltender for the 2014 entry draft, at No. 8. Other WHL netminders ranked among the top 30 are Austin Lotz of the Everett Silvertips (11th), Justin Paulic of the Moose Jaw Warriors (13th), Hayden Lavigne of the Tri-City Americans (15th); Alex Moodie of the Saskatoon Blades (24th), Alec Dillon of the Victoria Royals (26th) and Landon Bow of Swift Current (29th). Other WHL skaters among the top 100 Central Scouting prospects: Defencemen — Ben Thomas, Calgary, 49th; Nelson Nogier, Saskatoon, 55th; Riley Stadel, Kelowna Rockets, 58th; Brett Lernout, Swift Current, 80th; Dysin Mayo, Edmonton Oil Kings, 84th; Ryan Rehill, Kamloops Blazers, 98th. Forwards — Nikita Scherback, Saskatoon, 24th; Chase De Leo, Portland Winterhawks, 26th; John Quenneville, Brandon Wheat Kings, 33rd; Reid Gardiner, Prince Albert, 40th; Brandon Hawryluk, Brandon, 42nd; Brayden Point, Moose Jaw, 53rd; Alex Schoenborn, Portland, 57th; Keegan Iverson, Portland, 64th; Duke Reid, Lethbridge Hurricanes, 65th; Brett Pollock, Edmonton, 71st; Austin Poganski, Tri-City, 72nd; Colby Cave, Swift Current, 73rd; Justin Kirkland, Kelowna, 74th; Tyson Baillie, Kelowna, 90th. ● The Rebels return to WHL action Friday against the visiting Calgary Hitmen. The Lethbridge Hurricanes visit the Enmax Centrium Saturday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com
Raptors shoot down Bucks BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 116 Bucks 94 TORONTO — Even after his team had walked off the court with a comfortable victory, Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey made no apologies for his pre-game concerns his team would take this one for granted. “We don’t have any right, yet, to overlook anyone,” Casey said after the Raptors defeated the lowly Milwaukee Bucks 116-94 at Air Canada Centre on Monday night. “This is a tough league and we’re still building, we’re still getting there, so I can’t allow our guys to have that in their thought process.” Other than a brief stretch of the second quarter when Casey thought his team “got passive offensively and defensively” and let the Bucks cut the Toronto lead to single-digits, it was a convincing performance. Toronto, which took the lead for good on a pair of John Salmons free throws with 3:45 to go in the opening quarter, led by as many as 31 points in chalking up a third straight victory. With the win, the Raptors (19-17) are two games above .500 for the first time in four seasons. The last time was March 9, 2010 when Toronto was 32-30. The Raptors, who now have a 4 ½ game lead over the Brooklyn Nets atop the NBA’s Atlantic Division, featured a balanced attack with five players in double figures, led by Kyle Lowry’s 23 points. It was the sixth straight loss for the Bucks (7-30), who are the NBA’s worst team. Even though the Raptors have now won 10 of their last 11 games against teams with sub .500 records and play their next four against team who have lost more than they’ve won this season, Lowry rejected suggestions Toronto might get complacent. “I don’t think the schedule softens up,” Lowry said.
“You’re playing an NBA team every single night. “I don’t care what they’re record’s saying, that team we played tonight is a good team. We’re self motivated and we’re not worrying about what other teams are doing, we’re worried about what we’re doing.” Lowry, Toronto’s point guard, hit 6-of-8 shots from the field, including 4-of-5 three-point attempts, as the Raptors finished their homestand at 3-0 before 15,819 fans. “It was just another night at the office,” for Lowry, said Casey, adding he’s playing like an NBA all-star. In addition to Lowry’s team-high performance, DeMar DeRozan had 19 points, seven assists and seven rebounds while Jonas Valanciunas added 17 points and 10 rebounds. Ersan Ilyasova had a game-high 29 points for the Bucks, who sit last in the Central Division. Toronto led by 14 after one quarter, eight at the half and 15 points after three quarters. About the only thing that didn’t go well for the home side was a trip to the foul line for Jermain Defoe, introduced earlier in the day as a new member of Toronto FC. Sitting alongside American international Michael Bradley, who was also unveiled earlier Monday and given a large ovation while sitting courtside, the Englishman missed all three shots from the charity stripe during a break in second-half action. The Raptors visit the Celtics in Boston on Wednesday night before returning to the Air Canada Centre to host the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night and the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday afternoon. DeRozan said there’s no concern the Raptors will look past any of their opponents. “It doesn’t matter who we play, it’s an NBA team,” DeRozan said. “Besides us, there’s 29 other teams in this league and we prepare for each one of them the same. We don’t want to look back at the end of the season and say we left this game or that game on the floor.”
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Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry, front, gets fouled against Milwaukee Bucks forward Caron Butler, back, during first-half NBA action in Toronto on Monday
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Aussie Open heats up on day two MELBOURNE, Australia — Roger Federer kept his cool on a scorching second day at the Australian Open, starting his record 57th consecutive Grand Slam tournament with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 victory in his first match with Stefan Edberg as a coach. Federer was the second match on Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday, and the temperature topped 41 Celsius (106 Fahrenheit) during his win over Australian wild-card entry James Duckworth. Two-time defending women’s champion Victoria Azarenka played the previous match on the centre court at Melbourne Park, and said it felt “pretty hot, like you’re dancing in a frying pan or something like that.” After her 7-6 (2), 6-2 win over No. 91-ranked Johanna Larsson of Sweden, Azarenka went back out to practice and said she planned an ice bath later as a recovery. Asked how he handled the heat, the 32-year-old Federer said: “I’m here. I’m speaking. Actually, it’s not crazy. I’m feeling OK right now.” He now owns the record for playing the most consecutive Grand Slam events, another milestone in a career that has already netted 17 major titles for the Swiss star. He kept the points as short as possible, and only gave No. 133-ranked Duckworth one look at a break point in the 1-hour, 46-minute match. He said it was “great fun” to finally play in front of childhood hero Edberg, who he hired on a part-time basis last month.0 “I used to watch his matches and get inspired,” Federer said, then added: “He warmed me up .... I won!” Conscious of the time and the temperature, former No. 1-ranked Caroline Wozniacki and No. 11 Simona Halep raced to straight-sets wins. Wozniacki said the court was so hot in her 6-0, 6-2 win over Lourdes
Dominguez Lino, which started at 11 a.m., that it seemed to melt her plastic water bottle. In her first Grand Slam match since her New Year’s Eve engagement to golfer Rory McIlroy, she did everything she could to keep cool. “Every time in the changeovers, ice bags, ice towels, everything; and then in the second set I could feel they were starting to heat up even more,” Wozniacki said. “I put the bottle down on the court and it started melting a little bit underneath, the plastic, so you knew it was warm.” Halep had a 6-0, 6-1 win over Polish qualifier Katarzyna Piter, while American Christina McHale advanced 7-5, 6-4 over Taiwan’s Chang Yung-jan and No. 16 Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain beat Vania King of the United States 6-3, 6-2. Players draped bags of ice over their necks and shoulders and sat under covered seats in the changeovers across Melbourne Park. They retreated into the shade at the back of the courts between points. A hot, gusty breeze swirled across the venue all day, making conditions more challenging instead of cooler. Spectators on outside courts covered their heads and shoulders with damp towels to cool off and queued up to stand in front of large electric fans blasting water at their faces. As well as the heat, there were injuries and retirements. No. 13 John Isner, the only seeded American man in the draw, retired after losing the first two sets 6-2, 7-6 (6) against Martin Klizan. He called for the trainer after the tiebreaker, tapped his racket on the ground three times while deliberating whether to go back out, and only played on for a few minutes in the third set. Isner attributed it to the same right ankle problem which bothered him on the way to the title at Auckland, New Zealand last week.
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Raonic advances to second round MELBOURNE, Australia — Milos Raonic began his Australian Open with a 7-6 (2), 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 defeat of Spain’s Daniel Gimeno-Traver on Tuesday to reach the second round in sweltering temperatures. Raonic, the 11th seed from Thornhill, Ont., was tested for nearly two and a half hours in the demanding heat that hovered just above 40 C. The heat was even too much for one of the ball kids, who had to leave the court in the middle of the match. Raonic finally put away the victory on his fifth match point against an opponent ranked 77th in a first-time meeting. Raonic took the victory with 21 aces, striking 48 winners and breaking on 7-of-20 chances. The 23-year-old was frustrated as he tried to close out the contest but finally got the job done when he broke the Spaniard’s serve. He’ll join compatriots Eugenie Bouchard, from Montreal, and Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil, who won their first-round matches on Monday. Raonic and Gimeno-Traver struggled to adjust to the conditions in the 46-minute opening set. Raonic emerged 4-4 after three consecutive breaks of serve before finally getting an edge on Gimeno-Traver. As the set wound into the tiebreaker Raonic took command, leading 5-1 on his way to setting up four set points and converting the first with an ace. Raonic, who reached the fourth round in Melbourne in 2011 and 2013, swept the second set 6-1,
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Milos Raonic makes a backhand return to Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain during their first-round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday.
but was caught out in the third as Gimeno-Traver got on the scoreboard. But Raonic re-asserted himself in the fourth, earning a 5-2 lead and reaching his first three set points. Forehand errors spoiled the quick winning scenario, with Raonic forced to finally go through on his fifth try as Gimeno-Traver sent a backhand return wide down the line. Canadian qualifier Frank Dancevic of Niagara Falls, Ont., was scheduled to face France’s Benoit Paire in his opening match later Tuesday.
Bouchard and Pospisil win opening matches MELBOURNE, Australia — Two of Canada’s rising tennis stars are into the second round of the Australian Open as Eugenie Bouchard and Vasek Pospisil each scored opening-day victories. Montreal’s Bouchard survived a scare from a 431st-ranked challenger from China, scoring a 7-5, 6-1 victory over Chen Tang Hao. Vancouver’s Pospisil, who is seeded 28th, eliminated Australian Sam Groth with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 win. Bouchard, the 30th seed, rode a roller-coaster in the one-hour opening set after earning a 3-1 lead, only to lose it a game later on a double-fault. Bouchard, recently named The Canadian Press female athlete of the year, was broken again to drop to 3-4 as Tang rifled back a return winner before holding for a 5-3 lead. Bouchard saved set points in the ensuing game on Tang errors before finally earning a 7-5 win on a break.
TFC unveils new star signings Defoe, Bradley on Monday BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — MLSE boss Tim Leiweke wasted little time Monday reminding everyone that despite the star power about to join him at the podium, Toronto FC had yet to win anything. He also acknowledged that the unprecedented spending spree on marquee players Jermain Defoe and Michael Bradley, on top of Gilberto’s signing last month, is being seen as fiscal insanity in some quarters. “I’d say some of our partners think we’ve lost our minds,” said Leiweke, president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment. At some US$10 million apiece, Defoe and Bradley each broke the MLS record for transfer fees. To put that further in perspective, their fees double the expansion fee MLSE paid before entering the league in 2007. It’s like telling your accountant you want to buy three Bentleys at once. And that’s before you add high seven-figure annual salaries and Gilberto’s package. Under Major League Soccer rules, the sky’s the limit with DP salaries — only US$390,000 of a DP’s annual pay count against a team’s US$3.1-million salary cap this season. “To do one DP is a smart move, to do two DPs is not the smartest thing we’ve ever done and to do three is financial suicide,” Leiweke told a raucous news conference Monday announcing the signing of Defoe and Bradley. “We don’t have enough seats to make economic sense out of this,” he added later. Leiweke and Toronto FC,
backed by buckets of MLSE cash, are taking a leap of faith and asking soccer fans to come with them — with the three designated players leading the way. After the MLSE board dug deep into its corporate pocket, Leiweke reached for the words of Bobby Kennedy as he tried to capture the start of a soccer Camelot. “Some people see things as they are and say ’Why?’ Others dream of what can be and they say ’Why not.”’ “Today is why not,” Leiweke added. “Why can’t we be great?” Judging from the chanting, singing fans looking down from the balcony of the hangar-sized Real Sports Bar & Grill, the early reviews are deliriously positive. Defoe, who will stay at London’s Tottenham until the end of next month, was clearly moved by the warm welcome. “To come here and to have a reception like that is unbelievable. Such a great feeling, I feel at home already,” he said. And why not. A double-decker bus with the Toronto FC logo and the words “It’s a Bloody Big Deal” was parked outside. Defoe — a slender five foot seven sheathed in a smart suit and tie — said all the right things, explaining he was here “to win trophies and do my best for the club and the team.” Bradley came out next, a model of intensity with laser-like eyes and shaved head over a black shirt. “I can tell you all I have never been more excited, more determined and more motivated for any challenge in my entire career,” he said. The families for both players watched from the front row with
Bradley’s infant son Luca, wearing a Toronto FC jersey, gurgling in his mother’s arms. Leiweke, who called the signings a “payback” to the fans for seven years of patience, sees Season 1 of the new Toronto FC as a loss-leader. It will take a year or two to get to the point “where it makes financial sense,” he added. A revamped, renovated BMO Field is part of the MLSE vision “to take soccer to the next level.” “Our owners gave us the ability to say ’What could we do?” Leiweke said. “We’re going to be the first $50-million gross-revenue club in the history of soccer in North America, going all the way to the Cosmos. Our owners believe in that, we believe in that. “If people saw what we saw in the potential of this marketplace, they’d understand why we’re doing it. But there are a lot of people that don’t understand, I’m OK with that. “I also understand our organization now has a target on its back. People will say we spent too much. I spent the weekend reading a wonderful article from across the pond that ripped us a new one and said that guys like Jermain were coming here to retire. “We’ll show them. And I hope there’s a few more of those articles. We’re going to post them up on the board here and in the locker-room and I think it will drive all of us.” The MLSE boss called the acquisition of the 31-year-old Defoe, 26-year-old Bradley and 24-yearold Gilberto “a very very dramatic statement” in how MLS is perceived.
The 19-year-old Bouchard was more in control in the second set and dominated to win the 6-1. “It was tough but I fought and got through it,” Bouchard said. “I didn’t play the way I really wanted, but it was good to win one like this. “It was really fun, I had some good support, it was good atmosphere,” said Bouchard, who admitted struggling the 35-degree heat. “It was hotter than past few days, tough for both of us,” she said. “It’s strange training at one temperature (around 25 C on Sunday) and playing in something completely different. But no complaints, it was the same for both of us.” She said she needed to be mindful of the hot sun. “I’m big on sunscreen and hydration, especially the night before,” said Bouchard. “I did a good job of it and was fine. I’d rather play tennis in the sun than do anything else anyway.“ Pospisil, 23, was never troubled by Groth and appears to have overcome a back problem which bothered him this month in India and Sydney. In the second round, Pospisil will face another Australian in Matthew Ebden, who beat Nicolas Mahut of France 6-3, 7-5, 4-6, 0-6, 6-3. Pospisil said that while he did not feel at 100 per cent, he played well. “I played surprising well, I was not expecting to play like this,” he said. “I wasn’t feeling that great and only played points the day before, I didn’t have much preparation. “But I returned and served well, overall I did fine.” “I didn’t feel any fatigue, I was playing relaxed because of my back,” he added. “I don’t anticipate any problems in the next round but I’m glad I didn’t have to go five sets.”
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Vipers edge Colts in a shootout Kale Lapointe’s shootout goal was the winner as the Red Deer Vipers edged the Mountainview Colts 3-2 in a Heritage Junior Hockey League game Monday at the Arena. Lapointe was the lone player to connect in the shootout as Vipers netminder Anthony Hamill stopped Evan Thompson, Braeden Anderson and Colten Anderson and Colts goaltender Thomas Della Siega foiled two Red Deer shooters — Dustin Spearing and Cole deGraaf. Scoring for Red Deer in regulation time were Nick Glackin and Justin Moltzahn. Lucas Fraser and Jason Edwards had the Mountainview markers. Hamill made 32 saves in regulation time. Della Siega stopped 34 shots. The clubs were tied 1-1 after one period and 2-2 after 40 minutes while splitting four minor penalties. The Vipers return to action Friday when they take on the Thrashers at Three Hills. Red Deer hosts the Airdrie Thunder Saturday at 8 p.m.
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SCOREBOARD Hockey GA 131 165 160 145 168 194 GA 115 112 122 142 135 210
Pt 52 51 50 46 32 28 Pt 63 59 51 48 46 23
WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 43 36 5 0 2 187 106 74 Victoria 46 29 15 0 2 138 110 60 Vancouver 45 22 15 5 3 153 153 52 Prince George 46 17 23 2 4 144 184 40 Kamloops 44 10 29 2 3 114 181 25 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 45 28 12 2 3 193 153 61 Spokane 42 26 13 1 2 155 125 55 Everett 44 24 13 6 1 134 119 55 Seattle 44 25 14 2 3 156 167 55 Tri-City 44 20 20 2 2 114 127 44 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Sunday’s results Kelowna 4 Calgary 2 Portland 5 Vancouver 4 (SO) Kootenay 5 Edmonton 4 Tuesday’s games Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Friday, January 17 Kootenay at Regina, 6 p.m. Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. Swift Current at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Prince George, 8 p.m. Moose Jaw at Portland, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Spokane at Everett, 8:35 p.m. Tri-City at Seattle, 8:35 p.m. Red Deer Rebels Scoring Bleackley Dieno Sterzer Fleury Maxwell Sutter Johnson Gaudet Musil Kopeck Mpofu Pawlenchuk Chorney Polei Charif Doetzel Feser Nell Dixon Fafard Burman Bear Bartosak Goaltenders Bartosak Burman
G 22 14 19 6 9 8 8 4 5 5 6 7 5 4 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Swift Current 45 23 16 1 5 150 Regina 45 23 17 3 2 153 Brandon 44 23 17 4 0 167 Prince Albert 43 22 19 2 0 148 Moose Jaw 44 13 25 3 3 118 Saskatoon 47 12 31 1 3 134 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Calgary 44 29 10 2 3 166 Edmonton 43 29 13 0 1 171 Medicine Hat 42 24 15 3 0 142 Kootenay 46 22 20 2 2 137 Red Deer 44 22 20 0 2 132 Lethbridge 46 9 32 2 3 118
GP 44 37 42 43 34 37 44 43 32 28 43 16 37 34 30 42 18 34 30 41 9 29 39
B7
A 31 23 17 24 11 10 9 13 9 8 5 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 4 2 0 0 0
GA 108 23
Pts PIM 53 33 37 17 36 53 30 26 20 21 18 64 17 56 17 52 14 28 13 10 11 30 10 0 9 16 9 23 7 13 6 64 5 7 4 6 4 88 2 108 0 0 0 27 0 4 SO GAA 3 2.89 0 3.47
+/13 0 5 13 1 -5 -2 -9 1 6 -3 3 -7 3 12 6 -3 -4 -3 -11 — -4 — Sv% .920 .896
Western Hockey League Leaders SCORING G A Mitch Holmberg, Spo 42 42 Nicolas Petan, Por 21 49 Joshua Winquist, Evt 27 35 Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por 28 33 Mike Aviani, Spo 30 30 Jaedon Descheneau, Ktn 28 30 Graham Black, SC 19 38 Nikita Scherbak, Sktn 24 32 Chandler Stephenson, Reg 20 35 Todd Fiddler, MJ-PG 24 30 Leon Draisaitl, PA 19 35 GOALTENDING (Minimum 840 minutes played) W L OT Jordan Cooke, Kel 26 2 2 Tristan Jarry, Edm 26 11 1 Brendan Burke, Por 23 10 4 Eric Williams, Spo 22 9 1 Dawson MacAuley, Reg 20 12 3 Patrik Bartosak, RD 20 16 2
Pts 84 70 62 61 60 58 57 56 55 54 54
GAA SO 2.24 2 2.30 5 3.16 0 2.55 2 3.40 2 2.89 3
CHL Top Prospects Game Rosters CALGARY — Rosters for the 2014 CHL Top Prospects Game, to be played on Wednesday at the Scotiabank Saddledome:
Team Cherry Goaltenders Ty Edmonds, Prince George Cougars (WHL); Alex Nedeljkovic, Plymouth Whalers (OHL). Defencemen Anthony DeAngelo, Sarnia Sting (OHL); Haydn Fleury, Red Deer Rebels (WHL); Aaron Irving, Edmonton Oil Kings (WHL); Roland McKeown, Kingston Frontenacs (OHL); Nelson Nogier, Saskatoon Blades (WHL); Alexis Vanier, Baie-Comeau Drakkar (QMJHL). Forwards Daniel Audette, Sherbrooke Phoenix (QMJHL); Ivan Barbashev, Moncton Wildcats (QMJHL); Conner Bleackley, Red Deer Rebels (WHL); Michael Dal Colle, Oshawa Generals (OHL); Chase De Leo, Portland Winterhawks (WHL); Robby Fabbri, Guelph Storm (OHL); Nikolay Goldobin, Sarnia Sting (OHL); Ryan MacInnis, Kitchener Rangers (OHL); Matt Mistele, Plymouth Whalers (OHL); Sam Reinhart, Kootenay Ice (QMJHL). Nick Ritchie, Peterborough Petes (OHL); Nikita Scherbak, Saskatoon Blades (WHL). Coaching Staff Head coach — Jim Peplinski. Assistant coaches — Tim Hunter, Paul Reinhart. Team Orr Goaltenders Julio Billia, Chicoutimi Sagueneens (QMJHL); Mason McDonald, Acadie-Bathurst Titan (QMJHL). Defencemen Aaron Ekblad, Barrie Colts (OHL); Aaron Haydon, Niagara IceDogs (OHL); Julius Honka, Swift Current Broncos (WHL); Brycen Martin, Swift Current Broncos (WHL); Alex Peters, Plymouth Whalers (OHL); Ben Thomas, Calgary Hitmen (WHL). Forwards Sam Bennett, Kingston Frontenacs (OHL); Clark Bishop, Cape Breton Screaming Eagles (QMJHL); Blake Clarke, North Bay Battalion (OHL); Eric Cornel, Peterborough Petes (OHL); Leon Draisaitl, Prince Albert Raiders (WHL); Nikolaj Ehlers, Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL); Josh Ho-Sang, Windsor Spitfires (OHL); Brendan Lemieux, Barrie Colts (OHL); Jared McCann, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL); Brendan Perlini, Niagara IceDogs (OHL). Jake Virtanen, Calgary Hitmen (WHL); Spencer Watson, Kingston Frontenacs (OHL). Coaching Staff Head coach — Lanny McDonald. Assistant coaches — Joel Otto, Mike Vernon. National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Boston 45 29 14 2 60 Tampa Bay 46 27 15 4 58 Montreal 46 26 15 5 57 Detroit 46 20 16 10 50 Toronto 47 22 20 5 49 Ottawa 46 20 18 8 48 Florida 45 17 21 7 41 Buffalo 44 13 26 5 31 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 47 33 12 2 68 Washington 45 22 16 7 51 N.Y. Rangers 47 24 20 3 51 Philadelphia 46 23 19 4 50 Columbus 46 22 20 4 48 New Jersey 47 19 18 10 48 Carolina 46 19 18 9 47 N.Y. Islanders 47 18 22 7 43
GF 129 134 117 118 128 131 105 77
GA 98 112 107 127 143 146 139 121
GF 152 136 118 121 129 108 111 130
GA 112 135 124 129 131 117 130 152
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 48 30 8 10 70 175 132 St. Louis 44 31 8 5 67 161 99 Colorado 45 28 12 5 61 132 115 Minnesota 48 25 18 5 55 118 119 Dallas 45 20 18 7 47 127 139 Nashville 47 19 21 7 45 109 141 Winnipeg 48 20 23 5 45 133 146 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 48 35 8 5 75 161 119 San Jose 46 28 12 6 62 148 116 Los Angeles 46 27 14 5 59 119 96 Vancouver 46 24 13 9 57 123 114 Phoenix 45 21 15 9 51 134 141 Calgary 46 16 24 6 38 103 144 Edmonton 48 15 28 5 35 126 169 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Sunday’s Games Buffalo 2, Washington 1, SO Toronto 3, New Jersey 2, SO N.Y. Islanders 4, Dallas 2 N.Y. Rangers 4, Philadelphia 1 Chicago 5, Edmonton 3 Minnesota 4, Nashville 0 Anaheim 1, Detroit 0 Monday’s Games Calgary 2, Carolina 0 Columbus 3, Tampa Bay 2 Winnipeg 5, Phoenix 1 Vancouver at Los Angeles, late Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Boston, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. San Jose at Washington, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. New Jersey at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Florida, 5:30 p.m. Colorado at Chicago, 6 p.m. Phoenix at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Calgary at Nashville, 6 p.m.
Ottawa at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Edmonton at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Buffalo at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Washington at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m. Monday’s summaries Flames 2, Hurricanes 0 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Semin Car (slashing) 7:33, Byron Cgy (interference) 9:36. Second Period 1. Calgary, Backlund 7 (Hudler, Wideman) 15:26 (pp). Penalties — Bellemore Car (unsportsmanlike conduct) 1:18, O’Brien Cgy (unsportsmanlike conduct) 1:18, Dwyer Car (hooking) 14:45. Third Period 2. Calgary, Monahan 13 (Byron, Galiardi) 9:36. Penalties — Semin Car (interference) 18:51. Shots on goal Calgary 14 6 9 — 29 Carolina 5 12 6 — 23 Goal — Calgary: Ramo (W, 8-8-3); Carolina: Khudobin (L, 6-2-0). Power plays (goal-chances)Calgary: 1-3; Carolina: 0-1. Blue Jackets 3, Lightning 2 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Dubinsky Clb (tripping) 4:28, Gudas TB (cross-checking) 10:16, Gudas TB (interference) 16:18, Sustr TB (cross-checking) 18:40. Second Period 1. Columbus, Johansen 17 (Murray) 3:46. 2. Tampa Bay, Killorn 12 (Carle, Gudas) 5:07 (pp). 3. Tampa Bay, Hedman 9 (Johnson, St. Louis) 6:04. Penalties — Dubinsky Clb (cross-checking) 4:17, Hedman TB (hooking) 10:41. Third Period 4. Columbus, Horton 2 (Johnson, Anisimov) 3:09 (pp). 5. Columbus, Letestu 5 (Johnson, Wisniewski) 17:22 (pp). Penalties — Cote TB (hooking) 2:11, Horton Clb (slashing) 5:42, Tyutin Clb (holding) 12:18, Johnson TB (hooking) 16:32. Shots on goal Tampa Bay 9 12 7 — 28 Columbus 10 7 11 — 28 Goal — Tampa Bay: Lindback (L, 5-10-1); Columbus: Bobrovsky (W, 13-11-2). Power plays (goal-chances)Tampa Bay: 1-4; Columbus: 2-6. Jets 5, Coyotes 1 First Period 1. Phoenix, Ekman-Larsson 5 (Boedker, Doan) 12:16 (pp). 2. Winnipeg, Jokinen 12 (Byfuglien) 12:52. 3. Winnipeg, O’Dell 2 (unassisted) 18:00. Penalties — Doan Phx (interference) 5:31, Ribeiro Phx (roughing) 8:35, Stuart Wpg (stick holding) 11:27, Vermette Phx (hooking) 14:23, Yandle Phx (hooking) 18:20. Second Period 4. Winnipeg, Wheeler 17 (Scheifele) 8:49. Penalties — Bissonnette Phx (fighting) 2:17, Peluso Wpg (fighting) 2:17, Bissonnette Phx (high-sticking) 9:51, Trouba Wpg (tripping) 9:51, Jokinen Wpg (cross-checking) 18:36. Third Period 5. Winnipeg, Frolik 10 (Pardy, Little) 4:18. 6. Winnipeg, Setoguchi 8 (Byfuglien, Enstrom) 9:34 (pp). Penalties — Hanzal Phx (slashing) 4:55, Wheeler Wpg (slashing) 4:55, Morris Phx (fighting) 5:33, Ladd Wpg (fighting) 5:33, Morris Phx (roughing) 5:33, Stone Phx (tripping) 9:07, Korpikoski Phx (tripping) 10:01, Phx Bench (Abusive language) 16:16. Shots on goal Phoenix 7 6 6 — 19 Winnipeg 12 13 13 — 38 Goal — Phoenix: Smith (L, 15-12-8); Winnipeg: Pavelec (W, 12-19-4). Power plays (goal-chances)Phoenix: 1-2; Winnipeg: 1-8. NHL Scoring Leaders Sidney Crosby, Pgh Patrick Kane, Chi John Tavares, NYI Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Joe Thornton, SJ Corey Perry, Ana Patrick Sharp, Chi Chris Kunitz, Pgh Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Jonathan Toews, Chi Alex Ovechkin, Wash Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Kyle Okposo, NYI Duncan Keith, Chi Joe Pavelski, SJ Taylor Hall, Edm Phil Kessel, Tor Patrick Marleau, SJ Martin St. Louis, TB Tyler Seguin, Dal Claude Giroux, Pha Erik Karlsson, Ott Henrik Sedin, Vcr Matt Duchene, Col Thomas Vanek, NYI Daniel Sedin, Vcr Alex Steen, StL Marian Hossa, Chi
G 25 23 21 23 5 25 25 24 11 17 32 12 19 3 21 18 21 20 20 21 13 10 9 16 15 13 24 17
A 42 33 35 30 45 24 24 25 37 30 14 34 26 41 22 25 21 22 22 20 28 31 31 23 24 26 14 21
Pts 67 56 56 53 50 49 49 49 48 47 46 46 45 44 43 43 42 42 42 41 41 41 40 39 39 39 38 38
Tennis Australian Open Results Tuesday At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia Purse: $29.72 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Men First Round Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, def. Jimmy Wang, Taiwan, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. Michal Przysiezny, Poland, def. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 6-3, 7-6 (4), 7-5. Stephane Robert, France, def. Aljaz Bedene, Slovenia, 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-0. Victor Hanescu, Romania, def. Peter Gojowczyk, Germany, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5), 6-3. Milos Raonic (11), Canada, def. Daniel GimenoTraver, Spain, 7-6 (2), 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. Martin Klizan, Slovakia, def. John Isner (13), United States, 6-2, 7-6 (6), 0-0 (30-0), retired. Grigor Dimitrov (22), Bulgaria, def. Bradley Klahn, United States, 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, def. Lucas Pouille, France, 6-4, 7-6 (9), 4-6, 6-3. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (10), France, def. Filippo Volandri, Italy, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. Kei Nishikori (16), Japan, def. Marinko Matosevic, Australia, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2. Roger Federer (6), Switzerland, def. James Duckworth, Australia, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. Women First Round Alize Cornet (25), France, def. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 1-0, retired. Simona Halep (11), Romania, def. Katarzyna Piter, Poland, 6-0, 6-1. Caroline Wozniacki (10), Denmark, def. Lourdes Dominguez Lino, Spain, 6-0, 6-2. Carla Suarez Navarro (16), Spain, def. Vania King, United States, 6-3, 6-2. Victoria Azarenka (2), Belarus, def. Johanna Larsson, Sweden, 7-6 (2), 6-2. Christina McHale, United States, def. Chan Yungjan, Taiwan, 7-5, 6-4.
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, 6-1, 4-6, 6-1. Galina Voskoboeva, Kazakhstan, def. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5. Dominika Cibulkova (20), Slovakia, def. Francesca Schiavone, Italy, 6-3, 6-4. Camila Giorgi, Italy, def. Storm Sanders, Australia, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Monday Men First Round Stanislas Wawrinka (8), Switzerland, def. Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 4-1, retired. Mikhail Youzhny (14), Russia, def. Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2. Ivan Dodig (32), Croatia, def. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, 7-6 (8), 6-3, 7-6 (4). Sam Querrey, United States, def. Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (3). David Ferrer (3), Spain, def. Alejandro Gonzalez, Colombia, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. Tomas Berdych (7), Czech Republic, def. Aleksandr Nedovyesov, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. Richard Gasquet (9), France, def. David Guez, France, 7-5, 6-4, 6-1. Matthew Ebden, Australia, def. Nicolas Mahut, France, 6-3, 7-5, 4-6, 0-6, 6-3. Ernests Gulbis (23), Latvia, def. Juan Monaco, Argentina, 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-2. Fabio Fognini (15), Italy, def. Alex Bogomolov Jr., Russia, 6-3, 6-2, retired. Kevin Anderson (19), South Africa, def. Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, 2-6, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Vasek Pospisil (28), Canada, def. Samuel Groth, Australia, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Pablo Andujar, Spain, def. Albert Ramos, Spain, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Jeremy Chardy (29), France, def. Jesse Huta Galung, Netherlands, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, def. Tommy Haas (12), Germany, 7-5, 5-2, retired. Tommy Robredo (17), Spain, def. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-7 (7), 3-6, 7-6 (5), 8-6. Novak Djokovic (2), Serbia, def. Lukas Lacko, Slo-
vakia, 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-1. Women First Round Angelique Kerber (9), Germany, def. Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, 6-3, 0-6, 6-2. Ekaterina Makarova (22), Russia, def. Venus Williams, United States, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. Daniela Hantuchova (31), Slovakia, def. Heather Watson, Britain, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3. Li Na (4), China, def. Ana Konjuh, Croatia, 6-2, 6-0. Flavia Pennetta (28), Italy, def. Alexandra Cadantu, Romania, 6-0, 6-2. Ana Ivanovic (14), Serbia, def. Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, 6-4, 6-4. Eugenie Bouchard (30), Canada, def. Tang Hao Chen, China, 7-5, 6-1. Sam Stosur (17), Australia, def. Klara Zakopalova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-4. Julia Goerges, Germany, def. Sara Errani (7), Italy, 6-3, 6-2. Zheng Jie, China, def. Roberta Vinci (12), Italy, 6-4, 6-3. Monica Niculescu, Romania, def. Shahar Peer, Israel, 6-4, 6-1. Mona Barthel, Germany, def. Zhang Shuai, China, 7-6 (4), 6-3. Lucie Safarova (26), Czech Republic, def. Julia Glushko, Israel, 7-5, 3-6, 6-1. Luksika Kumkhum, Thailand, def. Petra Kvitova (6), Czech Republic, 6-2, 1-6, 6-4. Sabine Lisicki (15), Germany, def. Mirjana LucicBaroni, Croatia, 6-2, 6-1. Alison Riske, United States, def. Elena Vesnina (23), Russia, 6-2, 6-2. Vesna Dolonc, Serbia, def. Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4. Lauren Davis, United States, def. Sachia Vickery, United States, 6-3, 6-3. Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, def. Silvia SolerEspinosa, Spain, 6-3, 6-2. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, def. Dinah Pfizenmaier, Germany, 7-6 (5), 6-3. Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Ashleigh Barty, Australia, 6-2, 6-1.
BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with OF Dayan Viciedo on a one-year contract. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Named Steve Connelly pitching coach for Vermont (NYP). TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Named Gary Allenson manager and Randy St. Claire pitching coach for Buffalo (IL); Jeff Ware pitching coach for Vancouver (NWL); Willie Collazo pitching coach for GCL Blue Jays. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHP Lay Batista, RHP Yunesky Maya, LHP Atahualpa Severino, C Matt Kennelly, C Steven Lerud, INF Mat Gamel and INF Mark Hamilton on minor league contracts. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Named Carlos Subero manager, Sandy Guerrero hitting coordinator and Nate Dine strength and conditioning specialist for Huntsville (SL); Dave Chavarria pitching coach and Reggie Williams coach for Brevard County (FSL); Elvin Nina pitching coach and Chuckie Caufield and Kenny Dominguez coaches and Mike Hoffman strength and conditioning specialist for Wisconsin (MWL); Rolando Valles pitching coach and Jason Dubois coach, Luke Greene athletic trainer and Tim Gifford strength and conditioning co-ordinator for Helena (Pioneer); Al LeBoeuf coach of the Arizona League Brewers and Jeremy Reed minor league hitting co-ordinator. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed to terms
● College basketball: Concordia at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Canmore at Olds, 7:30 p.m. Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blue at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Three Hills, 8 p.m.; Ponoka at Stettler, 8 p.m., Castor. ● Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday
● Curling: Red Deer Oilmen’s Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Camrose at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● College volleyball: Camrose Augustana at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● AJHL: Bonnyville at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Mountainview at Three Hills, 8 p.m.
● Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber at Sylvan Lake; Hunting Hills at Stettler, Camrose at Ponoka, Lacombe at Rocly Mountain House, Notre Dame at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Gord Scott Nissan, Triple A Batteries vs. Triple Threat, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● Exhibition hockey: Canadian Olympic women’s team at Red Deer Optimist midget AAA, 7:30 p.m., Arena.
● JV basketball: Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, Lacombe at Notre Dame, Rocky Mountain House at Innisfail, Stettler at Wetaskiwin, Ponoka at Camrose; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Ponoka, 7:45 p.m.
Thursday
● Curling: Red Deer Oilmen’s Bonspiel, first draw at 12:30 p.m., Pidherney Centre. ● College women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Wells Furniture vs. Sheraton Red Deer, Bulldogs Scrap Metal vs. Monstars, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.
Friday
● Curling: Red Deer Oilmen’s Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre.
Saturday
Sunday ● Curling: Red Deer Oilmen’s Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.
Football Denver 24, San Diego 17
NFL Playoffs
Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 19 New England vs. Denver, 1 p.m. San Francisco at Seattle, 4:30 p.m.
Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 45, Kansas City 44 New Orleans 26, Philadelphia 24 Sunday, Jan. 5 San Diego 27, Cincinnati 10 San Francisco 23, Green Bay 20
Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 26 At Honolulu TBD, 5:30 p.m.
Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 11 Seattle 23, New Orleans 15 New England 43, Indianpolis 22 Sunday, Jan. 12 San Francisco 23, Carolina 10
Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 2 At East Rutherford, N.J. AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 4:30 p.m.
Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 19 17 .528 — New York 15 22 .405 4 1/2 Brooklyn 15 22 .405 4 1/2 Boston 13 26 .333 7 1/2 Philadelphia 12 25 .324 7 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 27 10 .730 — Atlanta 20 18 .526 7 1/2 Washington 17 19 .472 9 1/2 Charlotte 15 23 .395 12 1/2 Orlando 10 28 .263 17 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 29 7 .806 — Chicago 17 19 .472 12 Detroit 16 22 .421 14 Cleveland 13 24 .351 16 1/2 Milwaukee 7 30 .189 22 1/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 30 8 .789 — Houston 25 14 .641 5 1/2 Dallas 23 16 .590 7 1/2 Memphis 17 19 .472 12 New Orleans 15 22 .405 14 1/2 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 28 9 .757 — Oklahoma City 28 9 .757 — Denver 19 18 .514 9 Minnesota 18 19 .486 10 Utah 13 26 .333 16 Pacific Division
L.A. Clippers Golden State Phoenix L.A. Lakers Sacramento
W 26 25 21 14 13
L 13 14 16 23 22
Pct .667 .641 .568 .378 .371
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Sunday’s Games Sacramento 124, Cleveland 80 Memphis 108, Atlanta 101 San Antonio 104, Minnesota 86 Monday’s Games Toronto 116, Milwaukee 94 Houston 104, Boston 92 New York 98, Phoenix 96, OT Washington 102, Chicago 88 San Antonio 101, New Orleans 95 Dallas 107, Orlando 88 Utah 118, Denver 103 Tuesday’s Games Sacramento at Indiana, 5 p.m. New York at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Oklahoma City at Memphis, 6 p.m. Cleveland at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Chicago at Orlando, 5 p.m. Charlotte at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Miami at Washington, 5 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Sacramento at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Memphis at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Houston at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Utah at San Antonio, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Portland, 8 p.m. Denver at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.
Burton finishes well at Edmonton races ALPINE SKIING Oleandra Burton had a pair of top five finishes for the Red Deer Ski Club at the Nancy Green Ski League races in Edmonton, Sunday. Burton had a third and a fifth in the 10-year-old division while Kallista Chessor placed fifth and sixth in the eight-yearold class. Ava Vis was sixth and ninth in the seven-year-old category and Kennedy Brinkhurst had a seventh in the nine-yearold division. On the boys’ side, Gavin Johnson, 6, had a fifth and a ninth, Travis Chessor, 10, a fourth and Nolan Burton, 7, a ninth. Brad Gould was fifth and Kevin Clarke 10th in one of the two races in the eight-year-old division. ● Eight members of the Red Deer Club, which trains at Canyon Ski Hill, will compete in the Alberta Winter Games, set for February in Banff and Canmore. Jasmine Photinopoulos, Keelie Philiips, Therese Johnson and Teaghan Wilson will compete on the girls’ side and Jared Oakes, Ty Brinkhurst, Kale Chessor and Owen Green on the boys’ side.
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with INF Ronny Cedeno on a minor league contract. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Named Tom Prince manager of Bradenton (FSL), Brian Esposito manager of Jamestown (NYP), Edgar Varela Bristol (Appalachian), Dave Turgeon assistant minor league field co-ordinator, Frank Kremblas special assistant to player development, Larry Sutton minor league hitting co-ordinator, Carlo Alvarez sport performance co-ordinator, Hector Morales assistant co-ordinator of mental conditioning. American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed LHP Ethan Opsahl, RHP Brian Ernst and INF Anthony Kaskadden. GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed 1B Jeremy Hamilton. LAREDO LEMURS — Signed INF Miles Walding. Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed OF Will Walsh. Frontier League GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed LHP Dylan Chavez. Send RHP Zac Treece to Joliet to complete an earlier trade. LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Sent LHP Connor Whalen to Schaumburg to complete an earlier trade. TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Signed LHP Ian MacDougall. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Recalled F Shabazz Muhammad from Iowa (NBADL). FOOTBALL
National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Fired linebackers coach Chuck Driesbach. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed LB Frank Beltre, C Jarrod Shaw and CB Neiko Thorpe to reserve/future contracts. TENNESSEE TITANS — Named Ken Whisenhunt coach. Canadian Football League MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Signed S Daryl Townsend and DB Michael Carter to three-year contracts. HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS—Assigned D Nolan Yonkman to Norfolk (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned D Alexey Marchenko to Grand Rapids (AHL). OTTAWA SENATORS — Agreed to terms with general manager Bryan Murray on a two-year contract extension through 2016 and named him president of hockey operations. Promoted Pierre Dorion and Randy Lee to assistant general managers. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned G Cedrick Desjardins to Syracuse (AHL). TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Recalled F Peter Holland from Toronto (AHL). Sent F Jerry D’Amigo to Toronto (AHL). ECHL FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Announced F Kyle Bonis was reassigned to the team by Charlotte (AHL). GWINNETT GLADIATORS — Signed F Casey Pierro-Zabotel.
A trio of Red Deer Nordic skiers won their B finals placing fifth overall at the Haywood NorAm Cup cross-country event in Canmore Alberta on Saturday. Dahlin Wiebe, Anna Zimmerman and Bailey Johnson competed in the skate sprints where they advanced through quarterfinals and semifinals to win their B final heats. On Sunday they all competed in the 7.5km skate race where Zimmerman finished fourth, Johnson 11th and Wiebe 12th in their age divisions. Athletes from the four western provinces were competing.
MEN’S BASKETBALL Ben Cripps dropped in 12 points and Rusty Gilchrist added 11 as the Rusty Chuckers downed Gord Scott Nissan 73-65 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Sunday. ● The Orangemen got 35 points from Jarrett Hart, 28 from Ray Teskey and 14 from Tom Judd in downing the Dream Team 103-69. ● Sheraton Red Deer defeated The Secret Runs 76-57 as Brett Roberts hit 16 points and Jeff Diep 15. Carvy Luceno had 16 points and Randy Adosei 14 in a losing cause.
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Baker Isabella Iva Nov. 29, 1918 - Jan. 7, 2014 Isabel Baker passed away peacefully on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at Extendicare Michener Hill in Red Deer at the age of 95. She was predeceased by her husband of 29 years, Frank Baker, in 1977. She was also predeceased by her parents, Bertha and William Hewitt, her sister Marion Hewitt and her brother Jim. She will be missed by her stepdaughter, Elaine Stuart (Robert), daughters, Joan Toliver (Dan), Faye Oszli (Don) and son Jim Baker (Maureen). She is also survived by 10 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Isabel Hewitt was born at Bulwark, Alberta in 1918 and grew up on the family farm. She taught school in the Castor School District and then in Red Deer where she met and married Frank Baker. They farmed together with Art and May Baker in the Clarendon area east of Innisfail. They raised their children there and Isabel later referred to it as the busiest, happiest time of her life. They retired to Innisfail in 1975 and Isabel renewed her teaching interest through volunteer work. She moved to Red Deer to be closer to family and volunteered with the Adult Literacy Program. Throughout her life Isabel was deeply committed to improving the lives of others through education. Isabel enjoyed life at Parkvale Lodge prior to moving to Red Deer Nursing Home. Later she moved to Extendicare Michener Hill. The family is grateful to the Extendicare staff for their competent and compassionate care. Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer Society of Alberta a n d N o r t h w e s t Te r r i t o r i e s (ASANT), 10531 Kingsway Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5H 4K1, or the charity of your choice. A memorial service will be held at Heartland Funeral Services, Innisfail (4415 49th Street) on Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 2:00pm. Arrangements entrusted to HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES, LTD., Innisfail. Phone: 403-227-0006. www.heartlandfuneralservices.com.
DAVIS - S.S.M. (NATO), C.D. Murray L. It is with great sadness that the family of Murray Davis announces his passing January 9, 2014. Left to mourn his passing are his loving wife of 56 years, Maureen and his children: sons, John (Carla, children Keith and Ryan), Gary (Nancy, children Amanda, Heather (Byron, great grandsons, Sean and Connor), Andrew (Erin, great granddaughter, Gracie), Mark (Cathy, children Matthew and Megan); daughter, Joanne; daughter-in-law, Marlo, children, Kate and Tyson; three brothers and families; as well as numerous other relatives, friends, former colleagues and customers. He was predeceased by sons, Keith and Lee; granddaughter, Louise; 2 sisters; 1 brother and 1 brother-in- law. Murray was born in Viking, Dec 9, 1933 raised in Kinsella, Alberta until joining the RCAF in 1952. He retired from active service in 1972 moving to Red Deer with his family. He lived and served in several Canadian provinces as well as European countries. Murray had a rich and varied life experience and was always a hard worker. Murray founded AES Industrial Supplies in 1979. He worked tirelessly until his retirement in 1993 leaving the business running in the family. He made many friends and was always willing to lend a hand. He was a long-time member of the Knights of Columbus, Royal Canadian Legion, Branch No. 35, BPOE, RCAFA. Murray and Maureen enjoyed a life full of travel including a retirement trip to Australia and New Zealand and became snowbirds, going to Arizona for the winters until 2006. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5508 - 48A Avenue, Red Deer with Reverend Jozef Wroblewski presiding. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Murray’s name to the Red Deer Alzheimer ’s Society, Suite 105, 4419 - 50 Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 3Z5, to the SPCA or to the charity of the donor’s choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319.
DONALD Charles Gordon 1948 - 2014 Charles Gordon Donald of Ponoka, Alberta, passed away on his acreage in the Ponoka area, on the 7th day of January, 2014 at the age of 65. Charles was an entrepreneur of many things and will be remembered for his art!, his gardening, carpentry, his independent entrepreneurial business sense as well as his opinions and mostly for his huge kind heart. Lovingly remembered by his brother, David (Bev) Donald, his sisters, Betty (Greg) Coulter, Diana (Red) Michelsen, Lesley (Barry) Bateman, Carol (Ken) Vig, Debbie (Pete) Metcalf and Isabel (Jeff) Lunder, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Charles was predeceased by his mother and father Isabella and Richard and his brother Richard. If friends desire, donations may be made in his honor to the Red Deer and District SPCA 4505 - 77 Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4P 2J1. A Celebration of Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer on Friday, January 17, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Lenore Jacobson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040
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TRUEMAN 1951 - 2014 Linda Margaret Trueman of Red Deer passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Saturday, January 11, 2014 at the of age of 62 years. She is survived by her daughter, Lisa (Cory) Menzel, and their two sons Andrew and Stephen; her son Jascen (Amber) Boisvert, and their two daughters, Jasmine and Justine. Linda is also survived by four sisters, Bonnie (Bruce) Lucas, Vickie (Omer) Nicolas, Danita Trueman, and Carolyn (Terry) O’Leary; and three brothers, Bill Trueman, Tim (Cindy) Trueman, and Patrick Trueman; and many nieces, nephews, and special friends. Linda was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on October 17th, 1951. She did a wonderful job as a single parent raising two children in Prince Albert while working at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary. In 1992 she relocated to Red D e e r, A l b e r t a w h e r e s h e completed her career as a guard at the Bowden Institution. Linda retired in 2007 and preceded to travel the world with her close friends and family. Linda was predeceased by both parents, Peggy and George Trueman; one sisterin-law, Cheryl (Bill) Trueman; and two great-nephews, twin babies, Tadd and Mason Trueman. Linda really enjoyed her time spent travelling the world with her family and friends. She particularly enjoyed camping with her grandchildren and her time spent with her fur-baby, Kadee. The family would like to thank the wonderful medical staff of Unit 32 of the Red Deer Regional Hospital. Their kindness and compassion made a difficult and challenging time more bearable. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Unit 32 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital. A Celebration of Life for Linda will be held at the Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A S t r e e t ( Ta y l o r D r i v e ) o n Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040
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WELLHEAD ISOLATION SERVICE TECHNICIANS AND TRAINEES ISOLATION Equipment Services Inc., an expanding Oil Service & Supply Company is seeking quality
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Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, Start your career! be quick learners, motivated See Help Wanted and hard working and live 1ST RATE ENERGY or be willing to relocate Buying or Selling SERVICES INC., within a 20 minute commute your home? a growing Production to workplace location. This Check out Homes for Sale Testing company, based position offers a challenging in Classifieds out of Sylvan Lake, is work environment, attractive currently accepting resumes benefits with competitive for the following positions: pay and significant room Oilfield for promotion. Please submit resumes * Experienced
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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor 8 Vacancies, 1-2 yrs. exp. req’d. P/T & F.T. SHIFT WORK, $9.95 - $13.50/hr. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303
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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Counter Attendant 8 Vacancies P/T & F.T. SHIFT WORK, $9.95 $10.98/hr. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 LUAU Investments Ltd. (o/a Tim Hortons) Food Counter Attendant FT and PT positions available for day, night, evening and weekend shifts. $9.95 to $11.25 per hour depending on experience/availability. Apply in person at any of these locations 4217 - 50 Ave 6721 - 50 Ave 7111 - 50 Ave 62 Carleton Ave or email timhire@telus.net RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s. F/T MAINTENANCE PERSON... Experience preferred. Pool operation an asset. On call rotation. Bonuses, Drop off resume to 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433 or email: info@ramadareddeer.com
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ELEMENTS is looking 5 Beauty Treatment Operators. Selling seasonal gift packages & personal care products in Parkland Mall-4747 67th St Red Deer, $14.55/Hr. Plus bonus & commission, F/T, Beauty certification req’d email resumes: elementsreddeerbto@ gmail.com ELEMENTS is looking for 5 retail sales reps. selling season gift packages and personal care products in Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + bonus & comm. FT. No exp. req`d. Please email elementsreddeer@gmail.com SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & bath products $14.55/hr. + bonus & comm. Beauty cert. req’d. Location Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer. email premierjobrdbto@ gmail.com
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CARPET COLOUR CENTRE is currently looking for EXP’D. TILE INSTALLER Applicant must have ability to lay out tiles, be familiar with setting materials and products. This is a F/T position with a wage of $20 -$25/hr. depending on exp. Submit resume attn: Andrew: awiebe@ carpetcolourcentre.com or drop off at Carpet Colour Centre 1100, 5001-19 St. Red Deer, Ab. T4R 3R1 Start your career! See Help Wanted Experienced Siders Needed Call 403-588-3210 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS
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SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d. Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com
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STAFF ACCOUNTANT required by Red Deer CA firm focused on the accounting, advisory and tax planning needs of small businesses. Office uses Caseware, Jazz-it and Taxprep. The ideal candidate will have accounting experience and above average accounting aptitude. See our online ad for more details. Email resume and cover letter to ian.alexander@ swainsonalexander.ca
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Sales Associate/Office Position The successful candidate will have a positive outlook, good organization and computer skills, possess excellent phone and customer service, have the ability to multi-task in a team based atmosphere, jewellery knowledge an asset. To join our team, submit resumé to: 4910 - 45 Street, Red Deer 353041A10-23
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REQUIRED: CARPENTER/DRYWALLER for restoration company. This is a F/T position. Must have a valid drivers license. Duties: Carpentry, drywall, painting & finishing work. Fax or email resume to 403-347-4037 or crr@telus.net or contact Al @ 403-347-4001
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RONCO OILFIELD HAULING Sylvan Lake. Openings for Picker operator, bed truck drivers and winch tractor. Top wages and benefits. Email resume tom@ roncooilfield.ca or fax. 403-887-4892
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QUALIFIED JOURNEYMAN 3rd and 4th yr. ELECTRICIANS With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits. Fax resume to: 403-314-5599
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LOGGING Truck Drivers Wanted. Sundre, Alberta. Must have a Class 1 license with airbrakes, and off road experience. Commission based wages (approx. $33-$35/hour, plus benefits). Call Darcy at 403-638-6047 CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume to canpak@xplornet.ca or call 403-341-9300
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Owner Operators & Company Drivers in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558
F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer. Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds
ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING
WINTER START
850
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CLEARVIEW AREA Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $146/mo.
Kilburn Ave. & Krause Cres. Mustang Acres
403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca
Normandeau
ROSEDALE AREA Reichley St., Reinholt Ave., Robinson Cres. Area 106 Papers $568/mo. Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information
ANDERS AREA INGLEWOOD AREA MORRISROE AREA SUNNYBROOK AREA VANIER AREA
Call Prodie: 403-314-4301 for more info Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!
BATTERY DOCTORS Exp. not req’d but heavy lifting is involved, mechanical skills an asset. Hours: Mon. to Fri. 8-5. Apply in person at 1, 4801 78 St. No phone calls please. CROP PRODUCTION SERVICES is recruiting for a Full Time Operations Support person to join our team in Torrington, AB. Valid Class 1A and/or Class 3A license req’d. Interested applicants should fax their resume to (403)631-2424 or email: nikki.szakaly@cpsagu.ca
ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in
Kentwood
Nolan, Norwest & Newlands Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info
Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the BOWER AREA WESTPARK AREA Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting. Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $. Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316 DSM INC.
looking for laborers, in the Innisfail area. Salary is $15.00/hr. Fax resume to: 403-314-0676. WELCOME HOME FOR HOMELESS PROJECT in Red Deer is seeking a
Part Time Coordinator of Volunteers. Successful candidate may have a degree or diploma or other suitable work experience in volunteer management. The duties of this position include: • Assist in the implementation of the program, including the planning and coordination of its various activities. • Assist in the maintenance of volunteers who are matched with individuals who are newly housed. • Participate in the development and implementation of training and support for the volunteers. • Inform and consult with Oversight Committee at their monthly meetings. • Collaborate with CAPRA, Housing First, Everyone’s Home and other Red Deer Housing Team initiatives. Job Description provided on request to: lindaervin @sunnybrookunited.org. Send your resume to: Rev. Linda Ervin 12 Stanton St. Red Deer, AB, T4N 0B8 Deadline for applications is January 31, 2014.
CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:
Addinnell Close / Allan St. Abbott Close / Anders St. Anders Close INGLEWOOD AREA Isherwood Close Issard Close
Law Close / Lewis Close Langford Close Lamont Close Lund Close MORRISROE AREA Vista Village
Recently winning the 2013 Business of the Year award, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and have recently expanded our facilities into Calgary Alberta.
SUNNYBROOK AREA Somerset Close Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Sherwood Cres. VANIER AREA
We employ over 175 people and provide ample opportunities to employees to achieve their career goals. We provide handson training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.
Viscount Drive
If you would like to be a part of our growing and dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking both -
Volks Place / Vanier Drive
for full-time permanent shop positions
Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info
APPRENTICE AND JOURNEYMAN WELDERS Please fax resume to 403-227-7796, email to hr@bilton.ca
353218A10-14
We offer competitive starting Wages and benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.
DELIVERY PERSON Permanent P/T required 3-4 hrs. per day 4 days/wk Apply in person Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive, (directly behind Nutters)
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MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $282/mo. ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.
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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990
Computers
ASUS K53S laptop 15” CPU Intel 2.3 GHZ DVD player, memory 6 GB, OS Windows 7 Premium $150 403-347-7858
EquipmentHeavy
TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo. ALSO Timberstone Way, Talson Place, Thomas Place, Trimble Cl., Traptow Cl. & Thompson Cres. $307/mo. Call Jamie 403-314-4306
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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.
ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.
1600
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Tools
ROLLING tool bag, nylon, HD wheels and telescopic handle, never used $49 403-342-7460
Firewood
1660
AFFORDABLE
Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472
LOGS
Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275
Household Appliances
Household
1720
EXPERIENCED Furnishings MATERIAL HANDLING RECLINER, swivel, dark SUPERVISOR THE POSITION WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR: • Warehouse Management • Process received material (unload, verification, Computations entry) • Working with Quality Control & ensure allocation of materials • Knowledge of pipe, flange, fittings and steel plates • Initial receiving of product to our location • Maintenance of shipping and receiving of Raw Material • Product movement to the designated departments • Staging job specific material for timely distribution • Administering daily equipment checks and maintenance reviews • Prepare any documentation pertaining to product • Prepare shipping document Fusion offers a competitive salary, benefits plan and an opportunity to utilize your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment. If you are a proven Team Player with experience and initiative, please forward your resume along your salary expectation and availability date to Fax 403-347-7867.
NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company. Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position. Reliability essential. Own transportation required. Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca
brown, like new. $75. 403-346-0767 SEARSOPEDIC Comfort Plus dbl. bed, mattress, box spring and frame, clean, no stains, $200 403-352-8811 Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514
1760
2 MATCHING suitcases like new $25; antique oak student chair $75; Kenmore microwave oven, 1200w, $30; 3 wool accent matching carpets, clean, will sell seperate, $50, David Winters collectors house in original box $25 403-352-8811 DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino LANG 2014 CalenderAbundant Friendship, got 2 for Christmas selling 1 for $10 403-347-1017 MTD snowblower 5 HP $200 403-347-5873 403-350-1077 POTTERY soup set w/urn and ladle, 4 bowls, casserole dish, salad bowl w/4 plates, like new $100; Canon K920 copier w/metal stand exc. cond. $65 403-352-8811
Cats
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2 FRIENDLY 5 mo. old M. ORANGE KITTENS., Litter trained. Desperately need loving homes. FREE. 403-782-3130
Dogs
GOLDENDOODLES! Local breeder, breeding for 8 years. Black and Silver Medium doodles available. Meet the parents and see how your pup is raised. www.ooodlesofdoodles.com 403-346-2477
1840
SILVER Lab pups P.B. Parents CKC reg. vet checked, 1st & 2nd shots. 3 F, 1 M. $500 403-843-6564, 785-5772 MAREMMA puppies 7 M, 2 F, 403-392-7481
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Wanted To Buy
WANTED: SNOWBLOWER 403-886-5194
AGRICULTURAL
CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290
2010
Farm Equipment
7’ BLADE $325 403-784-2276
2140
Horses
WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly. 403-651-5912
2190
TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.
Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.
2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer
Condos/ Townhouses
3030
32 HOLMES ST.
1 1/2 blocks west of mall, 3 bdrm. bi-level, blinds, lg. balcony, 4 appls, no pets, n/s, rent $1245 SD $1000 Avail. Feb. 1st. 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 BEAUTIFUL Comfortable 3 bdrm. townhouse in Oriole Park. Super location for access to all major arteries without being bothered by noise. Att. garage, 1-1/2 bath, 5 appls., #23 6300 Orr Dr. N/S, avail. Jan. 1. $1425/mo. Hearthstone Property Management 403-896-8552 or 403-396-9554
KITSON CLOSE
newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 SD $1000. n/s Avail. immed. 403-304-7576 / 347-7545
Kyte/Kelloway Cres. Lovely 3 level exec. 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. immed. 403-304-7576 or 347-7545
LARGE 2 & 3 BDRM Condos have to go!! Bldg located on a quiet close backing onto treed area. Spacious suites c/w Dishwasher, large storage area & more. Short walk to schools & Parks. Starting at $925/mo. Heat & Water incl. in rent. Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to book a viewing.
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CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 To Advertise Your Business or Service Here
Call Classifieds 403-309-3300
classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com
Accounting
1010
INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351
Contractors
1100
DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301
DAMON INTERIORS
Drywall, tape, texture, Fully licensed & insured. Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. Call Roger 403-348-1060
1165 1200
ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, and roof snow removal? Call James 403-341-0617 GRANT’S HANDYMAN SERVICE. I can help you with all your home repair needs. Painting, plumbing, etc, etc. Call Grant 403-596-9161
Massage Therapy
1280
FANTASY
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Health Care Aide Medical Office Assistant Health Unit Coordinator Veterinary Administrative Assistant Dental Administrative Assistant and more!
You have to see to believe. 4 Bdrm, 3 baths w/double attached garage in the NEW part of West Park. High-end Luxury home at a great rate of $2100/month. Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 if you would like to know more.
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LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car
HEALTHCARE
GORGEOUS HIGH-END HOME
1860
Escorts
YOUR CAREER IN
2 BDRM. main floor of House. Newly reno’d. 403-872-2472
Boasting 2.5 Baths, designer colors & finishings, 6 appls & assigned parking. Be the first to live here!! Sporting This property will not last! Just $1695/month! Goods Hurry and call Tina at 2 PERSON ice fishing tent 403-896-8552 while it lasts. Hpman.ca $59, some accessories avail, Polyethalene sled for MOUNTVIEW hauling supplies over ice or snow, 62” x 22” x 5”d 3 bdrm. house, main floor, 5 appls., fenced yard, $63 403-342-7460 large deck, rent $1400 incl. all utils. $900 s.d. Avail. BROWNING hunting bow Feb. 1. 403-304-5337 48”, 29 arrows, padded carrying case, 4 razor SYLVAN LAKE, private 1 heads $175 obo bdrm. bsmt., $550.; or 2 403-356-9019 bdrm. $1200. Both fully furn. dishes, linen, cable & utils. incl’d. 403-880-0210 Travel
Grain, Feed Hay
WANTED
Misc. for Sale
GOLDEN DOODLES and LABRADOODLES, silvers and chocolate. Delivered to Alberta. Text 306-521-1371 or call 306-792-2113 www.furtettishfarm.ca
1710
FRYING Pan, electric, 12” Black & Decker. New still in box. $20. 403-309-7787 MICROWAVE, Kenmore 3 yrs. old, white. $75. FUSION PRODUCTION 403-742-4827 SYSTEMS INC., WATER Dispenser, a growing, well-established electric, 2 yrs. old. $50. fabrication facility 403-742-4827 in Red Deer is hiring for the position of
3020
Houses/ Duplexes
3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 30 tenants. No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1500, D.D. $1500. 403-341-4627
DOOR SECURITY
Vanson Close / Visser St.
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EXTRA FLUFFY & extremely cute! Teacup Babydoll Morkies†(very tiny). Call 587-987-3422 or email wendyschedel@gmail.com
is now accepting applications for P/T
CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.
Employment Training
FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390
THE TASTY BAKERY
Vickers Close
TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300
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353001A23
LANCASTER AREA
1840
Dogs
X-STATIC
ANDERS AREA Anders St. / Armstrong Close
880
Misc. Help
rentals
ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK
63 Ave. & 69 St.
ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk
880
Misc. Help
Johnstone Crossing
Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.
(Reliable vehicle needed.)
353002A23
ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK
SPRING START
ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer
353004A23
ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life
GED PREPARATION Feb. 10 START
(Reliable vehicle needed)
MEGA CRANES is looking for a ticketed crane and boom truck operator. Must have Class 1. Good wages, benefits, 10% holiday pay, RRSP’s, and most evenings and weekends off. Fax resume to 885-4269 or email cathy@megacranes.com
880
Misc. Help
880
ACADEMIC Express
• TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires
860
MASSAGE
Massage Therapy
1280
MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161
VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk of the town. www.viimassage.biz
Misc. Services
1290
5* JUNK REMOVAL
Property clean up 340-8666
Personal Services
1315
REIKO’S Finest Asian Massage
In call only. 587-377-1298 9 am - 10 pm. Mon. - Fri.
Seniors’ Services
1372
Hearing aid sales, servicing and programming. Hearing testing, battery sales. In-home service avail.(fee applies) A&E Hearing Care 403-347-2202
HELP FOR SENIORS:
in home or facility family business est. 1999 bondable staff, great rates, gift certificates avail. 403-346-7777 helpinghandshomesupport.com
Snow Removal
1380
APOLLO LANDSCAPING has skidsteer and tandem truck avail. for snow reSpecials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. moval. Commercial or Private back entry. 403-341-4445 residential. 403-598-1589 International ladies
Now Open
RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 B11
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SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca
Riverfront Estates
Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, blinds, large balcony, no pets, n/s, $11195 or $1220 along the river. SD $1000. Avail. Jan. 15 403-304-7576 347-7545
4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes
3050
ORIOLE PARK
4020
Houses For Sale
3060
1 BDRM partly furn. apt above Wies Western Wear downtown. Quiet person preferred. $750/mo, $750 d.d. Avail. Immed. 403-347-3149
2 Bdrm. Modern Suite in Johnstone
This great 2 bdrm bsmt suite has lots of functional space, 6 appls & is located on a quiet cresc. Just $1125/mo. Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 now to take a look at a home you will want to show off.
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FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com
MASON MARTIN HOMES Custom new homes planning service. Kyle, 403-588-2550
MUST SELL
New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage. 403-588-2550
Condos/ Townhouses
4040
Income Property
SPACIOUS 2 BDRM
This 2 bdrm apt is in a quiet,
LAST 2 remaining full duplex lots in desirable neighborhood in Central Alberta. Very well priced with 4 plex as a discretionary use. Contact Mike Dandurand Sundance Realty & Management 403-343-6655 391-7945
FINANCIAL
CLASSIFICATIONS 4400-4430
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THE NORDIC
1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444
Top-Floor 2 Bdrm. Apartment
This Adult only Bldg is located conveniently near all amenities. Perfect for the budget-minded at just $945/mo with Heat & Water included! Call Tina at 403-396-9554 while it’s still available.
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Private Mortgages Our Rates start at 8%. We lend on Equity. Bus. For Self & Bruised Credit Ok. Ron Lewis 403 819 2436
1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville 4 dr., saftied. 403-352-6995
at www.garymoe.com
Locally owned and family operated
5050
Trucks
2011 CHEV 1500 Z71 LTZ ext. cab. 100,000 kms. 403-350-1455
5190
Auto Wreckers
RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519
Vehicles Wanted To Buy
5200
RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519
Misc. Automotive
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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300
adult only building.
In a convenient location with easy accessibility to 67th Street & assigned offstreet parking. This could be the home you are looking for. Perfect for young professionals. Just $945/mo. Come take a look at the building you will be proud to call home. Call Tina now at 403-896-8552 before it’s gone.
2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040
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12 UNIT apartment building located in quiet Red Deer neighborhood. Contact Mike Dandurand Sundance Realty & Management 403-343-6655 391-7945
Money To Loan NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies. Call 403-343-7955 PENHOLD 1 bdrm., incl. heat/water, 4 appls. $725 avail. immed., 403-348-6594
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Cars
NEW CONDO
4110
1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852
8TH ANNUAL RED DEER COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION & SPEED SHOW. Mar 14 - 16. Westerner Park, Red Deer. 150,000 sq.ft. indoor show. Exhibitors space available. Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event. Consign today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGAuctions.com
1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550
ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water Commercial incld., Oriole Park. Property 403-350-1620 Gloria GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, SMALL / LARGE SPACES D.D. $825, N/S, no pets, -Free standing - fenced yards no partiers, avail immed. For all your needs. 403-346-1458 400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111
MORRISROE MANOR
5020
BRAND NEW 1340 sq. ft. bungalow, 2 bdrm., den, dbl. att. garage. $384,900. Call Glen 403-588-2231
3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. www.laebon.com rent, s.d. $650, incl water Laebon Homes 346-7273 sewer and garbage. Avail. Feb 1. 403-304-5337
Suites
Antique & Classic Autos
Public Notices
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FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT
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Theodorou hoping to break out on new season of TUF BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Fighter, actor, model, stuntman, dancer, TV pitchman and Harlequin Romance cover boy. Elias (The Spartan) Theodorou is a man of many faces. All are handsome, he would probably say. “Your mom’s favourite book cover. Your son’s favourite fighter,” says Theodorou’s Twitter bio. Viewers of Dragon’s Den may have seen Theodorou in his role as eye candy/bartender in a recent Martini on Wheels pitch. It went down in flames, although he says it might have gone better if his strategy document had been followed. Theodorou (pronounced Theo-dor-oh) still sees it as a win. “Being on TV is always a good thing,” he says. The 25-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., will be showing off both his personality and fighting skills on TV via the latest spinoff of The Ultimate Fighter reality TV show, which debuts Wednesday. Theodorou is part of the cast of TUF Nations: Canada vs. Australia. The Canadians, coached by UFC welterweight Patrick (The Predator) Cote, take on a team of Australian fighters led by Kyle Noke. The fighters square off until only two are left in each division. The final four, along with the coaches, will fight on a televised show in April to decide the winners. “It was an interesting and amazing experience,” Theodorou said of the six-week shoot that saw all the fighters cooped up in a lodge outside of Montreal. But not without its draw-
backs. “I missed women,” he added with no shortage of enthusiasm. To call Theodorou a people person does not do him justice. “I’m a very big extrovert,” he said with a grin. “A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.” A big personality, he is also good company. “I am a bit of a loudmouth. I just love to talk, which you will probably end up seeing on the show.” The other Canadian middleweights on TUF Nations are Luke Harris (10-2) and Sheldon Westcott (8-1) of St. Albert, Alta., and Montreal’s Nordine Taleb (8-2). The Canadian welterweights are Olivier Aubin-Mercier (4-0) and Kajan Johnson (19-10-1) of Montreal, Matthew Desroches (4-0) of Fredericton and Chad Laprise (7-0) of London, Ont. Theodorou (8-0) says MMA is his No. 1 passion but that hasn’t stopped him from branching out recently to acting with TV work on The Listener and Played as well a Lionsgate project for Netflix called The No. 1 Contender. He passed on work on the movie remakes RoboCop and Godzilla because he had fights coming up. Being able to fight without looking like the stereotypical mixed martial artist helps get him work. So does one particular part of his anatomy. “For whatever reason, Harlequin seems to like my butt,” he explained. The booty calls have all resulted in covers — done and in the works — that show Theodorou turning and looking back. “I like to think I’m Fabio 2.0 with punches and kicks,” he joked.
Ronaldo wins second FIFA player of year award BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ZURICH, Switzerland — Cristiano Ronaldo couldn’t hide how much it meant to him, finally being voted the world’s best player again. Having spent four years in the shadow of his great rival Lionel Messi, Ronaldo broke down in tears after being elected the Ballon d’Or winner for 2013 on Monday — a rare display of emotion that showed just how important it was for the Portugal winger to lay his hands on the trophy again. Ronaldo first won football’s biggest individual prize five years ago, but then watched as Messi found a way of upstaging him each year despite consistently scoring at an unprecedented rate for Real Madrid. “There are no words to describe this moment,” said Ronaldo, crying openly while his 3-year-old son, also named Cristiano, stood at his feet. The little boy had just been hoisted by Brazil great Pele to touch the golden trophy as dad gathered himself to speak. “People who know me know how many people helped me,” Ronaldo said in Portuguese. “If I have forgotten anyone, I do apologize because I am deeply moved.” Earlier Monday, Ronaldo was cautiously diplomatic at a news conference, facing media who mostly predicted his prolific 69-goal tally in 2013 would end Messi’s four-year run. Ronaldo’s stunning hat trick against Sweden in a decisive World Cup playoff in November also appeared to stand out as the year’s defining individual performance. “If I win, fine. If I don’t, life goes on,” he said, acknowledging that Messi’s sustained excellence for Madrid nemesis Barcelona had pushed him to improve.
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Rooms For Rent
3090
CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190
Realtors & Services
4010
HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net
Houses For Sale
4020
4 LEVEL SPLIT,
Sylvan Lake, 3 bdrms., 2.5 baths, large family room, 3 rd level walk out covered deck, oversized dbl.. garage, RV parking, close to schools. $329,000. 403-887-3966
800.219.8977 | embroidme.com Recently winning the 2013 Business of the Year award, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and have recently expanded by adding an office in Calgary Alberta. We employ over 180 people and provide ample opportunities to employees to achieve their career goals. We provide hands-on training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.
We currently have career opportunities for a professional
ESTIMATOR The successful candidate will prepare cost estimates, review, validate, and submit estimates for product manufacturing, projects, or other services as required. This position is responsible for a wide range of project cost estimating and all associated functions within a group of skilled professionals. Responsibilities; You will find success based on your ability to; • Interpret technical drawings to identify engineering specifications, evaluate and estimate materials, manpower, schedule and budget • Effectively analyze production benchmarks and historical costs • Obtain, review and maintain documentation of third party pricing • Interface and provide on-going technical support to customer • Support and comply with the policies, goals, efforts, and programs of Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. • Provide estimating support to various stakeholders at all stages of projects. • Interface with various stakeholders to ensure accuracy of all estimates. • Recognize key parameters such as equipment and material pricing guidelines, labour market updates, inflation, material take-off and other allowances, escalation philosophy, and site labour productivity factors.
Job Requirements; As the ideal candidate you will possess: • Thorough understanding of business processes, stakeholders involvements and their role, information flow and project scope and also ensure that developed estimates covers the entire scope of the projects. • Thorough knowledge of estimating techniques and strategies • Thorough knowledge of oil and gas industry • Ability to calculate mathematical extensions, analyze and understand production drawings, associated documentation, contracts, cost coding systems, work breakdown structures, etc. • Excellent computer skills in Estimating Software and Microsoft Office • Minimum of 3-5 years industrial estimating experience required
Career development, growth and unlimited possibilities – you’ll find it here! We offer competitive wage and benefits packages Only applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted. Please forward your resume via fax to 403-227-7796 or email to hr@bilton.ca
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Ronaldo also said he has made peace with FIFA President Sepp Blatter, whose ill-judged comments in October stating a preference for Messi seemed to confirm a long-held belief in Portugal and Madrid that their player was destined to lose. “We talked over the telephone and everything was cleared,” Ronaldo said. “This is no longer an issue, neither for us nor for football.” In a tight race, Ronaldo received 1,365 points, Messi had 1,205 and Franck Ribery, the France and Bayern Munich winger, got 1,127. Voting was done by national team captains and coaches, plus selected journalists in each FIFA member country. Canada coach Benito Floro cast his first-place vote for Ronaldo, while captain Atiba Hutchinson had Messi first and Ronaldo second. On hearing his name called — finally delivered by Pele after a dramatic pause and smile — Ronaldo closed his eyes, grinned and dipped his head, then turned to kissed his girlfriend.
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His mother regularly hands out the books to show off her son. He has also helped pay for his training via $1,800 from Fund a Fighter, a website that allows fans to contribute to fighters. So what do the fans get in exchange? Some get T-shirts. One woman paid $500 for a date. Theodorou is single and apparently available. He has also appeared on The Match Game on The Comedy Network. As for the Dragon’s Den appearance, Theodorou hooked up with Ms. Martini via Kijiji. “I throw it out there and see what happens,” he said. “As a necessity of coming up as a mixed martial artist, you have to have your hands in every single cookie jar,” he added. “Just the way my schedule is, I have to make money any way I can because mixed martial arts comes first.” The six-foot-one Theodorou has been living with his parents in Mississauga — which is between his various gyms — but plans to move to Toronto after the show. Today he trains in Toronto at the Headrush Training Center, formerly known as Grants MMA Gym, Joslin’s Mixed Martial Arts in Hamilton and Para Bellum MMA in Oakville, Ont. He took up MMA five years ago after his first year at Humber College where he studied creative advertising. Theodorou, who made the TUF Nations cast via open tryouts, holds titles in the Halifaxbased Extreme Cage Combat and Cleveland-based North American Allied Fight Series promotions.
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Woody’s RV World Finance Office has a challenging and rewarding full-time permanent position available immediate for a self-motivated, assertive and professional individual. Business management experience is required. The right candidate will possess a positive attitude, work effectively in a team environment, strong multi-tasking, customer relations and interpersonal skills. Weekend hours are required. • Verify sales contracts for accuracy and completeness • Assist customers in financing the purchase of unit • Negotiate terms & conditions with Financial Institutions • Schedule & organize delivery of units • Promote extended service agreements • Verify all documents for correct titles, taxes and lien information Woody’s RV World offers: • Above Average Income • Year Round Employment • Continuing Training • Excellent Company Benefits & Remuneration Please forward resume to:
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A wrap party after 40 years 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF DIANE VON FURSTENBERG’S WRAP DRESS CELEBRATED WITH EXHIBIT, STARRY PARTY BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Diane Von Furstenberg thought that, after 40 years, her wrap dress deserved a party. The 67-year-old designer and dozens of her famous friends celebrated the opening Friday of Journey of a Dress, an exhibit honouring the timeless style she introduced in the early 1970s: A flattering, easy-to-wear dress that fastens with a simple tie at the waist. “This is the first time that I ever honoured the wrap dress, and she did so much for me,” said an ebullient Von Furstenberg, wearing a black wrap dress with floor-skimming yellow kimono sleeves. “She made me famous. She paid for all my bills. And tonight we celebrate the wrap dress.” Marisa Tomei, Demi Moore, Tobey Maguire, Molly Sims, Edward Norton, Robin Wright and Rachel Zoe were among the many stars celebrating Von Furstenberg’s enduring design. “It’s a total standard in a woman’s closet,” said stylist Estee Stanley, who counts Jessica Biel and Lea Michele among her clients. “It’s just so easy: You throw it on, it’s not uncomfortable, and it’s sexy.” The exhibit at the Wilshire May Company Building, on view until April 1, features the designer’s favourite dresses from throughout the decades. Scores of mannequins stand in neat rows, their narrow waists all belted, each in different versions of the wrap dress. A stunning mass stands in the centre of the vacant department store, all wearing
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Diane Von Furstenberg attends the DVF Journey of a Dress 40th Anniversary Party at Wilshire May Company Building on Friday in Los Angeles. black and white. Von Furstenberg is also known for patterns and colour palettes, which splash across the exhibit space and serve as themes for the collections. A group of mannequins dressed in blues, browns and
oranges stand atop a blue snakeskin-patterned floor, beside yellow geometric walls. Part of “Journey of a Dress” is dedicated to the designer herself: Paintings and portraits of Von Furstenberg by artists including Andy Warhol
and Annie Leibovitz fill one room of the exhibit. The hallway is lined with oversized reproductions of the DVF wrap dress in the pages of 1970s Vogue magazine and on models and movie stars then and now.
Rene Russo, Jerry Hall and Iman wore them in the ’70s, as did Cybill Shepherd in Taxi Driver in 1976. Michelle Obama and Madonna wore them recently. So did Amy Adams in American Hustle.
Missoni offers men an escape MILAN, Italy — Missoni recognizes men’s desire to escape, and be one with nature. The fashion houses collection for next fall and winter, presented on the second day of Milan Fashion Week on Sunday, had the urban surfer in mind. He wakes early and pulls on a heavy cable sweater and knit sweat pants, slips his feet into a pair of tufty wool-lined sandals and heads to the beach to catch the waves before a day at the office. Emerging from the sea, he shakes off the salty water and wraps himself in a luxurious blanket of patchwork knit. The duality of his life extends to his wardrobe. For the office, he can pair his knit pants or chords with a closefitting top or shawlcollared sweater, worn with a knit jacket for a relaxed, yet functional office-ready look. For work, he can slip into a pair of Chuck Taylor Converse in Missoni knit and lined with shearling or side-zip boots in sheepskin. Who needs socks? “He’s an urban man who has a double life, who escapes from the city to find the perfect wave,” creative director Angela Missoni said in an interview in Missoni’s offices before the preview. “Instead of going jogging, they go surfing. It’s cool.” Missoni’s looks are by tradition relaxed and comfortable. The company was born as the maker of athletic wear, rooting what is a trend on the Milan runway this season deep in the fashion house’s DNA. The colours of the latest are inspired by the coastline: charcoal, greens, pine, indigo, with accents of orange and rust, the colours of the sunrise.
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