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Keystone XL vote fails ALBERTA PREMIER PRENTICE DISAPPOINTED U.S. SENATE REJECTS BILL BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says he is disappointed the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill authorizing the immediate construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. But Prentice says he is encouraged that the controversial line is gaining increased bipartisan support in the halls of the U.S. lawmakers. Prentice says he plans to travel to Washington in January, but no specific dates have been set.
Pipeline supporters needed 60 votes to win approval for the bill, but it went down to defeat by a margin of 59-41. Had it passed, U.S. President Barack Obama was widely expected to veto the bill, which was designed to short-circuit the White House’s own environmental review process. The pipeline would take Alberta bitumen to ports in Texas, but environmentalists say it poses a danger to the ecosystem and encourages the production of greenhouse gases. “We’re obviously disappointed that the Keystone
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project did not reach the requisite number of votes in the Senate,” Prentice said Tuesday afternoon. But Prentice is still hopeful it will pass eventually. “It’s fair to say that it’s the end of a particular Congress and there is a new Congress that will be sworn in in the beginning of January, a new Senate, specifically, and I’m certain the process will carry on at that point in a Senate that is more clearly dominated by Republicans.”
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RED DEER PUBLIC REVERSAL AVOIDS HOLDING UP RED DEER CATHOLIC PROJECT BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A lack of shared spaces at the site of three proposed high schools led the Red Deer Public School District board to vote against the site concept plan at first. Eight days later, board trustees held a second vote and changed their position, supporting the site. The multi-school site is at the northeast corner of 67th Street and 30th Avenue. Public school district superintendent Piet Langstraat said the board was told by the City of Red Deer it had to approve the site concept plan so Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools district could get its new high school on time. On Oct. 22, the proposal for the Northeast High School Site Concept Plan was defeated by a vote of four to three by the public school board. Trustees Bev Manning, Cathy Peacocke and Bill Stuebing voted in favour and trustees Diane Macaulay, Jim Watters, Bill Christie and Dick Lemke voted against. “We came quickly to the realization that unless we were to give our consent, the Catholic school board wouldn’t be able to go ahead with their project,” said Manning. “We did not want to hold up their project.” On Oct. 30, a special meeting was called and a second vote on the site concept plan took place. Macaulay was the only person to vote against the plan at that point. Watters, Christie and Lemke changed their votes. Macaulay asked for a recorded vote. The three high schools will be built on the site in phases. The Catholic high school will be the first on the site and needed the project approved. Utility servicing work on the site could be completed by the end of the year. Guy Pelletier, Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools board chair, said the his board voted unanimously in favour. “We got the funding announcement for it in early 2014,” said Pelletier. “We’d like to be under construction next spring. We need it.” The proposed Catholic high school already has a name, St. Joseph’s High School. It is tentatively scheduled to open in September 2017. When opened, it would have the capacity for 1,200 students. Ultimately, there will also be a Francophone high school built at the site. The public board had hoped to have more shared facilities at the site, such as a gym or a career and technology studies lab that could include manufacturing, design, construction, trades and heavy-equipment related programming. “There are certain facilities at high schools that are very expensive to build,” said Manning. “We can do our taxpayers a huge service if we work together to share those spaces. “It came back to us showing separate buildings.”
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City of Red Deer Fire Chief for a Day Matthew Feehan, 6, reaches up to activate the emergency lights on a pumper truck as his brother Zachary, 8, and fire-medic Matt Ree look on Tuesday morning. Feehan’s name was drawn from 1,500 entries as part of the Fire Prevention Week recently. As part of the day, Feehan and his brother were picked up from Mattie McCullough Elementary school and taken to Emergency Services Station No. 1 for a tour and then returned back to school where they enjoyed a pizza party with some Emergency Services personnel. Feehan also got a $150 gift card, as did one student from each school that participated in the Fire Prevention Week program.
Christmas charities ramping up campaigns BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Work is underway to ensure that those in need have toys for their children and food for their families this Christmas. Teresa Kutynec, Red Deer Christmas Bureau president, said numbers are up slightly from the same time last year with 124 registrations so far. Last year the bureau assisted 850 families and 946 children. “We think there may be a bit of an increase this year just because of the economy. I think people are going to find it tough,” Kutynec said on Tuesday. “I think we’re going to see more kids this year.” People have until Dec. 17 to register and until Dec. 18 to choose toys. People from Red Deer, Penhold, Springbrook and Red Deer County are eligible to apply. The bureau plans to give out 850 food hampers again this year that include traditional Christmas fixings worth about $100, along with a gift card for food. Kutynec said volunteers are bracing themselves for the big rush when parents arrive at the bureau to choose toys, games, and books for their children. “Our clients are so happy there is a service for them to help them because toys are so expensive. Stuff will be flying out.”
She expects Disney’s Olaf toys will be a favourite. Parents can also get mitts, toques and scarves and holiday pyjamas. The bureau discourages donations of gift cards even for teens, who are notoriously hard to please. That way, everyone has something to unwrap on Christmas morning. Since last week, about 40 families have registered for Salvation Army’s Adopt-A-Family campaign that matches each donor with a family. Between 160 and 180 families are expect to sign up by the Dec. 12 deadline. Deanna Scott, family services co-ordinator with the Salvation Army, said more sponsors are supplying grocery gift cards instead of buying food so families can choose what is suitable to their tastes, dietary restrictions and cultural preferences. “Gift cards are almost the better option because you never know what they want to eat. Twenty years ago, it didn’t matter,” Scott said. Mall gift cards for teens are also a safe present because they can buy exactly what they want, she said. The Salvation Army suggests sponsors provide $100 in gifts for each child and $50 in food for each member of the family. “Some people stick to it. Some people go way above and beyond,” Scott said.
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s biggest income earners lost ground to the other 99 per cent in the post-recession world, as new data suggested a narrowing of the gap experts could not immediately explain. The highest-earning Canadians — the so-called top one per cent — saw their share of the country’s overall income tumble to 10.3 per cent in 2012, a drop from a peak of 12.1 per cent six years earlier, Statistics Canada said in a report Tuesday. The agency found the six-year period was also the first “prolonged” stretch in 30 years that saw the income shares of earners in the lower levels — the bottom 90, 95 and 99 per cent — stabilize or climb. To qualify for the exclusive club, the report said an individual had to earn a minimum of $215,700 in 2012, a feat achieved by 261,365 people who filed taxes that year. The debate over income inequality and the fate of the middle class has become a hot political topic in Ottawa, where Canada’s political class is already jockeying for for working-class votes ahead of next year’s election. One expert who has done extensive research on income distribution said the gains at the lower and middle sections of the income spectrum made Tuesday’s data release “modest good news.” “In fact, the only group that has not improved is the group at the very top,” said Michael Veall, a McMaster University economics professor. “Proportionally, those at the top end of the income distribution have lost more income since the great recession (of 2008-09) than any other part of the income distribution. However, it’s obvious that they were in a better position to afford that.” However, the data offers few clues about the underlying reasons for the changes, Veall said. He said it could be linked to capital income and the very low interest rates. Perhaps, Veall added, bondholders earned smaller returns or maybe people who made important gains on the stock market had yet to sell. Veall believes Canada stands out when compared to many countries in Europe and the United States, where he said the data suggests the chasms between the rich and the poor have grown since the recession.
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KEYSTONE: Issue likely to resurface in new year Last week, Obama suggested that Keystone XL would have a negligible positive impact on the U.S. economy, an assertion denied by both TransCanada Corp., the company behind it, and the Canadian government. On Tuesday, Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford insisted otherwise as he expressed disappointment in the result of the vote. “This project will create jobs, long term economic prosperity, energy security and environmental stewardship on both sides of our shared border,” he said in a statement. “Keystone XL has strong public support, and the U.S. State Department has, on multiple occasions, acknowledged that it will be environmentally sound.” Further, Rickford continued, the State Department has already concluded that the project would not by itself result in increased output from the Alberta oilsands, and would replace “insecure sources” of crude with “a secure, reliable supply from Canada, North Dakota and Montana.” TransCanada Corp. has also long insisted the project would create tens of thousands of U.S. construction jobs. Greenpeace Canada, long an opponent of the project, cheered the Senate for rejecting the proposal on environmental grounds.
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Keystone XL “would enable the production of over 24 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year while threatening communities and their water supplies,” said spokesman Mike Hudema. “Prime Minister (Stephen) Harper should read the warning signs and catch up to the rest of the world already acting to address the growing climate crisis.” As a result of the vote, the question of whether to approve the project, which would transport bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast, is not likely to resurface until the new year. That’s when the pro-Keystone Republicans will take over control of the Senate, wrested from the Democrats in midterm elections earlier this month.
SCHOOLS: Original concept plan had more shared facilities Langstraat said the original concept plan had separate public and Catholic schools, but in between the two buildings was another structure with all kinds of shared facilities. “We were looking at shared gym space, CTS space, arts space,” said Langstraat. “If we each build a technology lab inside our own schools, we’ll get an OK technology lab. If we were to pool all of our funds and share the space, we could build a state-of-the-art, fantastic technology lab that we would share. That was the idea.” The public board hopes that going forward there may be some shared facility between the Franco-
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This week, the Salvation Army’s Kettle Campaign kicks off at Bower Place on Thursday at noon near Santa’s workshop. Koinonia Christian School choral choir will be singing at 11:45 a.m. Major Larry Bridger said last year the kettles raised over $190,000. The goal again this year is $200,000 to fund family service programs, including the new bed program, food and medication assistance, and the weekend backpack program that helps feed 146 children on Saturdays and Sundays during the school year. Last year, Central Alberta Women’s Outreach’s Adopt-A-Family program helped 202 single-parent families and 416 children. The deadline to apply is Dec. 12. Family Services of Central Alberta is working on 600 gift bags for seniors through its Gifts for Grandparents program. For more information, call the Christmas Bureau at 403-347-2210, the Salvation Army at 403-346-2251, Central Alberta Women’s Outreach at 403-347-2480, and Family Services of Central Alberta at 403-3436400. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
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Misconduct allegations could be assault: NDP law expert BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Craig Scott, a New Democrat MP and former law professor, said to the Liberals that what he was told happened to one of his female colleagues could be defined as an alleged sexual assault, multiple sources have told The Canadian Press. It was Scott’s second-hand assessment of the alleged conduct that prompted Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s decision to suspend two members of his caucus, said the sources, who were not authorized to release details. They say Scott, a Toronto MP and former Osgoode Hall law professor, was involved in behind-the-scenes discussions about complaints by two female New Democrat MPs about the conduct of Liberals Massimo Pacetti
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RCMP say natural gas pipeline shot with highpowered rifle HINTON — RCMP in western Alberta are investigating the shooting of a natural gas pipeline but don’t believe it was malicious. Mounties say the Talisman Energy pipeline was intentionally hit with one bullet from a high-powered rifle on the weekend. The line, located about 60 kilometres north of Hinton, leaked a large quantity of natural gas before safety devices shut it down. There was no explosion. Const. Steve Lundberg describes the shooting as isolated. He says it’s common for people in the area to use deactivated pipelines for target practice. “I don’t know if perhaps the shooter thought this was a deactivated lease site and didn’t expect natural gas to be actively in the pipe,” he says. “I definitely wouldn’t call it sabotage or terrorism ... I believe it was just carelessness and foolishness.”
Alberta Medical Association president disappointed province didn’t ban menthol EDMONTON — The president of the Alberta Medical Association says he is disappointed the province did not include menthol in its flavoured tobacco ban law. Dr. Richard Johnston says he wrote to Health Minister Stephen Mandel a few weeks ago saying the association strongly supports banning menthol. He says studies show youth menthol
and Scott Andrews. During a third meeting between Liberal and NDP whips on Oct. 30, Scott — who had accompanied one of the complainants to the meeting — explicitly said that based on what he’d been told about one of the allegations, it “constituted a criminal act, namely sexual assault,” said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity. Neither woman has gone to the police with their allegations and, thus far, both have refused to pursue their complaints through either a formal investigation or informal mediation. Scott could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Nycole Turmel, the NDP whip, said Tuesday she doesn’t recall whether or not he referred to a criminal act. A week after the Oct. 30 meeting, Trudeau suspended Pacetti and Andrews over what he described as com-
plaints of “serious personal misconduct” lodged by two other MPs. Trudeau did not identify the names, gender or party affiliation of the complainants, although it later emerged that they were female New Democrats. And he has refused since then to elaborate on the nature of the complaints. Pacetti and Andrews have both insisted they’ve done nothing wrong, yet they remain in limbo as parliamentarians grapple with how to handle a sexual misconduct dispute between two MPs — a scenario for which there is currently no process. Neither Pacetti nor Andrews have been heard from since the day they were suspended, and neither responded immediately Tuesday to a request for comment. The multi-party board of internal economy, which oversees the operation of the House of Commons, concluded
Tuesday that it has no mandate to develop a process. It punted the matter to the procedure and House affairs committee. Speaker Andrew Scheer, meanwhile, responded to Liberal whip Judy Foote’s request for an independent investigation into the complaints by a neutral third party. In a letter to Foote, he said she and Turmel have been offered the impartial and confidential use of House administration resources as well as “external experts.” But he also noted that “the most successful resolution of any harassment complaint relies on the willingness of all involved parties to come together to address the issues.” Should the women continue to refuse to pursue the matter, that will put Trudeau in a particularly sticky bind.
smokers smoke more cigarettes than their non-menthol smoking peers and they are three times less likely to quit smoking than non-menthol smokers. Johnston praised the government for other steps it announced last Thursday to protect young people from tobacco. They include making it illegal to smoke in a vehicle when there are children inside. Johnston says Mandel has indicated the province will take another look at a menthol ban sometime in the future, and when it does he says the association will advocate for the change. “It is disappointing, therefore, that menthol is not on the list of banned substances at present,” Johnston wrote in a letter to Alberta physicians Tuesday. “There is still opportunity to advance a menthol ban. The AMA will advocate accordingly as will the Canadian Cancer Society, Action on Smoking on Health and many others.” The federal, Ontario and Manitoba governments have also balked at including menthol in flavoured tobacco ban legislation.
Smith says her party will introduce a motion in the legislature to push forward the idea of enshrining property rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Conservative members, who said they didn’t want to tie the hands of school officials. The NDP supported the motion in the spring and plans to support the Liberal bill this fall. Premier Jim Prentice says he wants to see the contents of the bill first before he comments further.
Wildrose says bill to protect private property rights weak EDMONTON — Alberta’s Wildrose party says Premier Jim Prentice isn’t going far enough to protect the rights of property owners. Prentice has introduced a bill to cancel the controversial Land Assembly Project Area Act. The legislation was passed in 2009 but has yet to be proclaimed into law. Some landowners and the Opposition say the act is fundamentally unfair because it allows the province to expropriate land without proper compensation or fair recourse to the courts. Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith says other related bills need to be changed as well to ensure that the rights of private property owners are respected.
RCMP say horse shot doesn’t appear to be hunting mishap ST. MICHAEL — RCMP are investigating after someone shot a horse northeast of Edmonton. Police say the horse was in a pasture near the community of St. Michael when it was hit in the torso by a bullet. The animal is recovering from the wound. RCMP say it appears the shooter was deliberately trying to harm the horse and there are no indications that it was a hunting accident. Residents of the area have reported seeing people shooting a gun from inside a pickup truck on the road. Police say injuring animals is a Criminal Code offence that carries a maximum penalty of five years in jail.
Wildrose Leader Smith looking to support bill to help protect gays in school EDMONTON — A private member’s bill to help protect gay students in schools is gaining strength in the Alberta legislature. Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith now says she is looking at supporting the bill, which will be introduced by the Liberals in the coming weeks. The bill would require school boards to support students who want to establish gay-straight alliances in schools. The alliances are basically peer support networks to help prevent gay students from being intimidated or bullied. A motion to support the alliances was rejected in the spring by a coalition of Wildrose and Progressive
Suncor makes wildlife training mandatory after bear attack FORT MCMURRAY — Suncor Energy Inc. is bringing in mandatory wildlife safety training for its oilsands workers in northern Alberta after an employee was killed by a bear. Lorna Weafer was attacked by a black bear in May while working at the company’s base camp north of Fort McMurray. Other workers who were with the 36-year-old tried to scare off the animal with air horns but the noise had no effect. Suncor spokeswoman Sneh Seetal says the company reviewed its training practices following the woman’s death. Wildlife training will be mandatory for all workers and contract employees in the Wood Buffalo region starting March 31. She says the level of training will vary, depending on where the employees work and what type of work they do. “We believe a broader spectrum of employees need to have that basic awareness training,” Seetal said Tuesday. “The training provides the knowledge on how to prevent wildlife encounters and how to respond to a wildlife encounter.” She said Suncor is also reminding employees to be diligent about reporting any wildlife encounters to its environmental affairs hotline so the company can notify other employees.
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MPs in a cone of silence Almost two weeks after being suspended from the Liberal caucus over alleged misconduct against two female NDP colleagues, MPs Massimo Pacetti and Scott Andrews have essentially fallen off the face of the parliamentary earth. With their careers and their reputations on the line, neither Pacetti nor Andrews has yet added a single public line to CHANTAL his initial deHÉBERT nial of wrongdoing. As of Monday afternoon, their last Facebook posts preceded their suspensions and none of their Liberal colleagues had come forward to speak in either man’s defence. Their Montreal, and Newfoundland and Labrador riding associations are equally mum. Since both have also been suspended as candidates in next year’s election, local Liberals will presumably have to head back to the nomination drawing board at some point.
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Meanwhile, the two MPs’ parliamentary profiles have been scrubbed of references to their recent Liberal affiliation. A thick cloud of uncertainty as to the way forward surrounds the extraordinary cone of silence within which Pacetti and Andrews have found refuge. What is clearest is that all roads, in this instance, are likely to lead to a dead end for the two suspended MPs. Their alleged NDP victims remain anonymous; the substance of their grievances has not been made public. In the absence of formal complaints, it is hard to see how any body, parliamentary or independent, could come to an informed conclusion. But even if all parties agreed on a venue to air the issue, the exercise would still come down to taking the word of an MP over that of another. In that same predicament, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau chose the allegations of the NDP complainants over the denials of his own MPs. So far, few have publicly secondguessed his call. Given that, it would be wrong to describe Pacetti and Andrews as Liberals in limbo. Their banishment from the party fold stands to be permanent. The prerogative of leaders to oust
MPs from their caucuses is without appeal, legal or otherwise. And parties are entitled to prevent would-be candidates from running under their banners. Just last weekend, the Liberals refused to give former leadership candidate David Bertschi the nod to run for an Ottawa-area nomination. The party says one reason he can’t run is because he has failed to clear his leadership debts. Bertschi is convinced that he is being blocked to clear the way for star candidate Andrew Leslie. The bottom line is that there is precious little he can do about the decision to exclude him for next year’s Liberal election lineup. Instances of nominated candidates being disqualified after the fact are fewer but there are still plenty of precedents. In the 1970s, then-Tory Leader Robert Stanfield refused to sign the nomination papers of Moncton Mayor Leonard Jones because of his opposition to the party’s bilingualism policy. More recently, candidates have been dumped in midcampaign for outof-line ranting on social media or for falsifying their credentials. All of which is to say that short of the NDP approaching Trudeau to withdraw the allegations that stand against
Pacetti and Andrews, their days as Liberal flag-bearers are behind them. Those troubled either by the notion that two male MPs might have felt empowered enough to cross the line into misconduct against female colleagues and/or by the absence of due process in dealing with the issue will find little solace in the latest proposals designed to cleanse Canada’s political arena of alleged harassment. NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair is championing a new code of conduct and the appointment of a non-partisan officer of Parliament to hear and arbitrate complaints. In Quebec, the president of the national assembly has tasked female MNAs with drafting a proposed set of guidelines. Both suggestions have merits. But at the end of the day, it will still come down to a credibility contest that few among those who are harassed or abused by workplace tormentors usually have the stomach for. When all is said and done, the grim political fate that Pacetti and Andrews have incurred for their alleged sins will go a longer way to deter future parliamentary offenders than any after-the-fact remedy. Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.
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Abandoned nursing homes could house the homeless Thank you to Rev. Jeffrey Rock for bringing to the attention of the citizens of Red Deer the plight of our most vulnerable citizens, since the Barachah Place, the city’s only day shelter, has closed its doors. (Red Deer Advocate, Nov. 7, 2014.) On the evening of Oct. 16, I took part in the Point of Time count of the homeless in Red Deer. After completing our assigned area, my partner and I drove past the former Valley Park Manor (in Riverside Meadows). The building was lit up like a Christmas tree; it stands empty and it is my understanding the building has 24/7 security! Across the city in south Red Deer, the former Red Deer Nursing Home building is also closed and empty. Both buildings have been empty for several years! As Rock so clearly identified, the vulnerable citizens of this city are at risk. The extreme weather conditions have arrived! Do we have the political will to make a difference? Fellow citizens, contact your provincial and municipal representatives and urge them to establish suitable day shelters for our homeless. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Shirley Challoner Red Deer
A breakthrough on climate change When news got out that U.S. President Barack Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping had reached an agreement on climate change, the American blogosphere lit up with negative comments. “The problem is, Obama probably means it,” wrote Jazz Shaw of the major conservative political blog Hot Air, “while China is almost certainly just yanking the world’s collective chain yet again with a bit of lip service as they seek better trade arrangements.” But Jazz Shaw has got it exactly backwards. It’s the United States that cannot be trusted to keep its commitGWYNNE ments, because the American DYER political system is mired in a perpetual civil war and at the moment it is the climatechange deniers who have the upper hand. Whereas the Chinese will probably keep their word, because there are no denialists in China and the government is genuinely terrified of climate change. The Obama-Xi deal is not wonderful, but it is the first step in the right direction that the world’s two biggest emitters of carbon dioxide have taken together. Obama promised that the U.S. will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to at least 26 per cent below the 2005 level by 2025. Xi promised more vaguely that China’s emission would peak by 2030 or earlier (and, by implication, then start to decline). That looks a bit lopsided, of course, but any deal that takes account of current realities is bound to look like that. China is still a poor country, and it is
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racing to grow its economy fast enough to preserve political stability. That means it has to generate a lot more energy fast. China is installing a great deal of clean power (around half the world’s new solar energy plants last year, for example), but just to keep the lights on it has to go on building lots of fossil-fuel plants as well — and most of them burn the dirtiest fuel, coal. Official policy is driving the number of new coal-fired plants down, however, which is one reason why Xi thinks he can keep his promise that emissions will stop growing by 2030. Obama, by contrast, presides over an economy that is already very rich. The average American citizen still consumes twice as much energy as the average Chinese, but total U.S. energy consumption stopped rising years ago. Making 26 per cent cuts in American energy use over the next 10 years is not a huge challenge; it only requires a reduction of about 2.6 per cent a year. So the American and Chinese commitments in the new deal, while asymmetrical, are not unequal in terms of the political and economic burdens they impose. The real difference lies in the likelihood that the two sides will stick to the deal over the next 10 to 15 years as they have promised. China probably will. The United States probably won’t. The Chinese regime knows what global warming will do to the country if it is not contained. A study commissioned by the World Bank about a decade ago, but never published (quite likely at China’s insistence), concluded that if average global temperature rises by 2 degrees C, China will lose about 38 per cent of its food production. As in all predictions of this sort, that number may be wrong by five or even 10 percentage points, but
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that doesn’t really matter. Even a 28 per cent loss of food production would mean semi-permanent famine in China. The regime would not survive that, and much of the growth that has been achieved by great sacrifice in the past three decades would be lost. Beijing takes climate change very seriously. Even though the regime must also keep the economic growth going if it wishes to survive, it knows that it must start making real concessions on emissions in order to facilitate a global deal. Xi did not set this target of capping Chinese emissions by 2030 without a great deal of discussion and debate within the regime. Having made the promise, he will keep it. So will his successors, at least so long as the Communist Party goes on ruling China. Whereas Obama will be gone in two years, and cannot bind his successors to keep his promise in any way. Indeed, even in the past six years he has never got any legislation on climate change through the Republican-dominated House of Representatives. Instead, he had to resort to issuing executive orders through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make even modest improvements like raising the fuel efficiency of U.S.-made cars. Now the House has voted to repeal the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, which would strip even that power from him. The new Republican majority in the Senate will probably do the same. Obama could veto such a law, but all the Republicans have to do is attach it to the budget and they would set up a confrontation that would shut the U.S. government down again. The Chinese know this, of course, but they are so desperate to get matters moving on the climate front that they are willing to take a chance that the deal will survive. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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Couple faces nearly $1-million medical bill after unexpected birth in Hawaii HUMBOLDT, Sask. — A Saskatchewan mother says she is facing more than $900,000 in medical bills after giving birth unexpectedly in the United States and being told the costs won’t be covered by insurance. Jennifer Huculak was nearly six months pregnant when her water broke while on vacation in Hawaii in October 2013. After a lengthy hospital stay, Huculak’s daughter, Reece, was born prematurely and required a twomonth stay in the neonatal intensive care unit. Before her trip, Huculak said she purchased Blue Cross insurance and got the green light to travel from her doctor. “We were told we were covered. We paid our premium. We obviously still feel that Blue Cross should cover the bill,” she said, adding her family is now facing bankruptcy. “It’s a very sad position to be in. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.” The total bill of $950,000 included more than $160,000 for Huculak’s hospital stay and $40,000 for a medical evacuation, she said. The rest of the cost went to care for Huculak’s daughter. So far, she said Saskatchewan Health has paid for $20,000 of the bill and the U.S. picked up the cost of Reece’s delivery, at $12,000. That leaves $918,000, she said. Blue Cross denied her claim, citing a pre-existing condition.
Tories urged to increase aid spending on youth reproductive health OTTAWA — A Dutch princess lauded by the Harper government for her efforts to oppose the forced marriage of young girls is calling on Canada and its wealthy partner countries to boost
overall aid spending. Princess Mabel van Oranje of the Netherlands praised the government’s so-called child bride initiative, saying it has made Canada a world leader on an international development issue that has few champions. On Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird bestowed the government’s John Diefenbaker human rights award on van Oranje’s organization, Girls Not Brides, an umbrella group of 400 non-governmental organizations operating in 60 countries. Baird also announced another $10 million contribution to the initiative on top of a $20-million commitment earlier this year. For her part, van Oranje was effusive in her praise of Baird’s initiative, calling it an example of “smart development” that will have maximum impact. Van Oranje said it is crucial for all countries to boost overall aid spending to the United Nations development spending target of 0.7 per cent of GDP. Canada’s current spending level is below 0.3 per cent. “I think it’s wise for rich countries to spend 0.7 per cent of their GDP on international development,” van Oranje said. “That’s a smart investment, and the amounts involved are not enormous.”
Mariner appeals conviction in fatal ferry sinking off B.C., cites judge’s errors VANCOUVER — The judge who oversaw the trial of a mariner convicted of criminal negligence in the fatal sinking of a British Columbia passenger ferry made numerous errors when instructing the jury, resulting in an unfair trial, the man’s defence lawyer said Tuesday in B.C. Appeal Court. Karl Lilgert’s lawyer asked the court to overturn convictions of criminal negligence causing the deaths of two passengers, who were never seen after the Queen of the North ferry sank in March 2006 and were presumed drowned. A jury found Lilgert guilty last year and he was sentenced to four years in prison, though he was released on bail pending his appeal. Lilgert was the navigating officer on the Queen of the North as it made
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RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 A5 an overnight voyage from Prince Ruringing and ringing,” she said. “You pert to Vancouver Island. The vessel could smell some smoke.” missed a routine turn and struck an island. His lawyer, Glen Orris, told a threejudge Appeal Court panel that the trial judge incorrectly defined the offence of criminal negligence causing death when she explained it to the jury. In particular, Orris noted, the judge WINNIPEG — The Manitoba govtold the jury Lilgert had a duty to safeernment is promising to wind down ly and properly navigate the ship in acthe use of hotels to house children in cordance with marine rules, known as need of emergency foster care, but the collision regulations. great-aunt of teen who was killed after Orris said those regulations are running away from one wonders why it merely guidelines, which leave navitook the searing spotlight of a tragedy gators with a level of discretion. And to make changes. while he acknowledged Lilgert had a Family Services Minister Kerri legal duty to navigate the ship, he said Irvin-Ross said the province is creatthat doesn’t mean any mistakes that ing 71 new emergency foster home result in a collision are necessarily spots across the province. It also plans criminal. to reduce its reliance on outside con“He had a legal duty to navigate, tract workers by hiring 210 permanent and obviously to navigate safely is the childcare workers over two years. goal of all navigators, but it’s not a leBut Tina Fontaine’s great-aunt, gal duty,” said Orris. Thelma Favel, questions why it took a death for the government to push forward. The children’s advocate has criticized the use of hotels for more than a decade. “I lost my baby,” said Favel, who TORONTO — A powerful explosion took Tina into her home in Powerview, at a Toronto condominium may have Man., and raised her as a daughter for been caused by a “clandestine drug years. lab” operating out of a residential “Nothing is ever going to bring her unit, police said Tuesday as a drug back. Why did it have to take her death trafficking charge was laid against a for them to open up their eyes to see man in relation to the case. there were problems out there?” The blast took place at a condo Tina, 15, was in foster care for less building in the trendy Liberty Village than two months when Favel said she neighbourhood, just west of the downran away from the Winnipeg hotel she town core, on Monday evening and left one man with minor burns to his hands was taken to temporarily in August. Her body was found wrapped in a bag and face. in the Red River nine days later. Andre Hagen, 36, was charged on Manitoba has around 10,000 chilTuesday with one count of possession dren in care — the highest proportion for the purpose of trafficking a narin the country — and the vast majorcotic, police said. ity are aboriginal. On any given day, Police had said earlier in the day dozens of those children are put up in that the sixth-floor unit that was the hotel rooms because there isn’t room site of the blast was suspected of bein a foster home. ing a drug lab, although they did not In addition to the new emergency elaborate on what kind of drugs might spaces, the province is also creating a have been involved. new secure facility for between six to The explosion blew out a number of 10 high-risk girls. windows and doors at the building and “What’s going to happen with all sent three elevators across from the the other hundreds of kids?” Favel unit down to the main floor. said. “What about the other hundreds Davida Gragor, who lives on the of girls that are still out there? What floor where the blast took place, said the building’s fire alarms started going about them? They need more than just six beds. There are so many of them off around 6:30 p.m. on Monday. “The alarm went off and it just kept that get lost like Tina.”
Manitoba moves to get children under government care out of hotels
Drug lab suspected in blast at downtown Toronto condo
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Boston Pizza Opens Doors In Gasoline Alley By Teena Dickerson Advertising Feature “I fell in love with the business and ended up telling my parents that I wasn’t going back to med school,” says Richard Carramusa with smile, partner at Boston Pizza in its newest location on Gasoline Alley. From a teenage server to owner, entrepreneur Carramusa has been involved with Boston Pizza for 26 years. Boston Pizza has been part of the Red Deer business community for over 25 years. Boston Pizza Red Deer supports the community through many sports team sponsorships and donations to charitable organizations and events. “Over the course of 25 years we have donated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to Red Deer,” explains Mr. Carramusa. At Boston Pizza, they are passionate about sports and support programming for both children and adults with a priority on local kids. Community support and involvement is part of the success of the Boston Pizza restaurant concept. Beginning with a single restaurant in Edmonton in 1964, Boston Pizza’s “‘two experiences under one roof’ – a family-friendly casual
dining restaurant with a separate sports bar” has grown to 360 restaurants across Canada. Over 40 million Canadians enjoy pizza, pasta, sandwiches, ribs, and salads at Boston Pizza each year. With Red Deer and its businesses expanding into Gasoline Alley, Boston Pizza recognized the opportunity to become part of dynamic business community and enterprising location. “The corridor between Calgary and Edmonton is the busiest highway corridor in North America. We looked at this area, and decided to construct a Boston Pizza here.” Last year the company did the same thing. Recognizing the growing community of Blackfalds, Boston Pizza built a restaurant there in 2013. “It’s been a busy few years,” says Carramusa. Bids were sent out for construction of the new restaurant at Gasoline Alley and Boston Pizza used mostly local trades for the build. Budal Construction and Arctic Mechanical, both Red Deer contractors, were instrumental in the completion of the project. Training in preparation for the official opening on Monday, November 17, had been on going with staff. Five trainers from Boston Pizza International prepped staff on product knowledge and
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quality testing. As part of the training process, people around the community were invited to the restaurant for complimentary “dry runs” allowing staff to practice and gain confidence in food preparation and service. Over its 25 years in Red Deer, Boston Pizza has employed thousands of individuals in the community through its five locations. Carramusa deeply values staff and is proud to retain staff members for many years, referring to them respectfully as
friends and family. He works to make Boston Pizza Red Deer’s employer of choice in the restaurant industry. After an afternoon of shopping or before a night out for a movie, stop by the new Boston Pizza location on Gasoline Alley at 122 Leva Ave for lunch or dinner. Boston Pizza has a large, ever changing, menu that is sensitive to food allergies and dietary requirements. For more information, check out the BP website at www.bostonpizza.com.
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A7 Jets strike ISIL bomb factory BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Canadian fighter jets and other coalition aircraft have effectively flattened a warehouse in northern Iraq as part of a major nighttime operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The attack took place near Mosul, the embattled country’s second-largest city and was announced Tuesday in a news release from Defence Minister Rob Nicholson’s office. Four CF-18s dropped a total of eight precision bombs on the building, which was being used to train enemy fighters and to build roadside bombs and booby traps for use against Iraqi forces, the news release said. All coalition aircraft returned safely without incident. Later in the House of Commons, Nicholson confirmed the strike, but released no other details. “All eight bombs hit their target and
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they did so simultaneously,” he said. “This is a testament to the skill and professionalism of our armed forces. As always, Canada is doing its part to fight ISIL terrorism.” The attack was carried out in the overnight hours Monday to limit socalled collateral damage, said defence officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. It is Canada’s third bombing mission since CF-18 fighter jets began combat operations out of undisclosed bases in Kuwait at the end of October. The officials, who were not authorized to release details publicly, insisted there were no civilian casualties, but would not speculate about whether any enemy fighters were killed. The military was reluctant to admit last week that its second strike of the air campaign — on a towed artillery piece — had killed ISIL extremists. The commander of the country’s Iraq task force would only say that it was “likely” that there were enemy casual-
ties. During the Afghan war, senior military commanders refused to discuss Taliban casualties, saying their measure of success did not involve body counts. The fighter jets have flown a total of 52 sorties in the current campaign, National Defence said Tuesday. The Canadian military also has two CP-140 Aurora surveillance planes and a C-150 refueller in the region. The Auroras have flown 15 missions to seek out ISIL targets, Mosul is considered an Islamic State stronghold. Last week, U.S. commanders said in the coming months the city would be the focus of a major offensive designed to root out extremists. Local media reports in Erbil, where Canadian and U.S. special forces are acting as advisers, say the operation to liberate Mosul is expected to begin early in the new year and could involve as many as 80,000 Iraqi troops. Prior to the government’s acknowl-
Inquest hears about chaos at scene of Quebec fire BY THE CANADIAN PRESS RIVIERE-DU-LOUP, Que. — A firesafety co-ordinator who arrived at a Quebec seniors’ home as it was burning last January described a scene of chaos while 32 people were engulfed by the flames raging within. Christian Chenard-Guay told a coroner’s inquest on Tuesday he reached the scene at 1 a.m. on Jan. 23, nearly 40 minutes after the first alert at the Residence du Havre in L’Isle-Verte. No command post or evacuation measures had been put in place and the few firefighters on the scene were scattered about, Chenard-Guay told coroner Cyrille Lepage. Chenard-Guay works for the MRC Riviere-du-Loup, a regional grouping of 13 eastern Quebec communities, including L’Isle-Verte. While he had no position of command that night, Chenard-Guay turned up in support, given the scale of the tragedy. The man in charge was Yvan Charron, head of the fire department in L’Isle-Verte, which has a population of about 1,500 people. “I didn’t see too many firefighters and things hadn’t really swung into
gear,” Chenard-Guay told the inquest, which continues Wednesday before resuming next Monday. He said Charron’s team was trying in vein to put out the inferno, although there was not much more that could be done to save the building’s older wing, which was made of wood and had no sprinklers. Many of the occupants in the 52-unit building were over 85 and all but a handful had limited movement, being confined to wheelchairs and walkers. Delage is expected to hear testimony from more than 50 witnesses at the courthouse in Riviere-du-Loup, northeast of Quebec City. His job will be to determine the cause of death of each of the 32 victims and the origin and likely causes of the fire. Chenard-Guay was later cross-examined by Pierre Duquette, the lawyer for the town of L’Isle-Verte, who tried to portray as futile the trial evacuations Chenard-Guay supervised in 2012 and 2013. Duquette cited the example of eight people with limited mobility who lived on the second and third floor of the Residence du Havre and who were unable to flee the burning building. In the tests, the residents had been
able to get out within eight minutes. “Were you confident this scenario could be repeated?” Duquette asked him. Chenard-Guay responded: “We only act as observers.” Duquette also referred to a message sent by Residence du Havre co-owner Irene Plante seven minutes after the initial alert. In it, she says the evacuation had not yet begun. “I can never predict stress management in the heat of the action and whether people are capable of responding,” said Chenard-Guay. “There are no guarantees.” Chenard-Guay said Charron should have called earlier for backup from neighbouring municipalities instead of waiting 19 minutes after the alert. The inquest heard that an agreement had come into effect last Jan. 1 aimed at allowing several municipalities, including L’Isle-Verte, to have a system of automatic mutual aid in case of fires. The system never really got going by Jan. 23, with Chenard-Guay saying Charron wanted to keep his autonomy even though he didn’t want to block the project. Delage has said his goal is not to assign criminal blame.
Psychiatrist unable to find Magnotta’s acquaintances BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — A psychiatrist who assessed Luka Rocco Magnotta for criminal responsibility wasn’t able to interview two people the accused said had a major presence in his life. Dr. Joel Watts told Magnotta’s murder trial Tuesday he would have liked to speak to both individuals but was unable to get any solid information on how to track them down. Magnotta, 32, has pleaded not guilty to the slaying and dismemberment of Jun Lin in May 2012. While Magnotta admits having caused Lin’s death, Watts and another psychiatrist have testified he was psychotic the night of the killing and was incapable of telling right from wrong. One of the people Magnotta described to Watts was a woman named
Rebecca for whom he housed a python that was central to an infamous online video that showed a cat getting killed. The second person he talked about was an American called Manny, who Magnotta says allegedly treated him violently after they met in 2010. In the version of Lin’s slaying Magnotta gave to Watts, Manny suggested to the accused that Lin was a government agent sent to kill him. Magnotta then reportedly heard other voices telling him to kill the Chinese engineering student. The Crown said Magnotta’s version of events as given to Watts doesn’t tend to match what was captured by video surveillance at the apartment. Magnotta is not able to say with certainty at what time Lin was killed, but Watts believes Magnotta’s version is reliable. He cautioned against trying to match
Magnotta’s memories with the video evidence the jury has seen, saying it isn’t uncommon for people suffering from psychosis to have a disjointed chronology of events. “Mr. Magnotta is not recounting his account of exactly what happened on a moment-to-moment basis based on the time log of those videos,” Watts said. Magnotta told the psychiatrist that at times he couldn’t remember if his recollections were memories of the actual night or memories of Lin’s dismemberment video that he saw later with his lawyer, Luc Leclair. Watts said it also remains unclear if either Manny or Rebecca actually exists.
edgment of the latest air strike, the assistant deputy minister of finance at National Defence appeared before the Senate finance committee. Kevin Lindsey was questioned by a Conservative senator about the cost of the anti-ISIL campaign. Lindsey did not reveal the estimated price tag, but said the department has not yet had to ask for additional funding. The government has been criticized for not spelling out how much it thinks the bombing campaign and the simultaneous special forces training mission will cost. “Obviously, we are just beginning our engagement,” Lindsey said. “We don’t know if we will need more money as we go along.” There will be another opportunity later in the fiscal year for the department to receive a top up and Lindsey said “to the extent additional funding is required, we will seek it at that time.”
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Jury sees damaged boat of fisherman BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — The damaged boat that Phillip Boudreau was on before he disappeared in a Cape Breton harbour was shown to the jury on Tuesday at the second-degree murder trial of a man who has pleaded not guilty in his slaying. Jurors crowded around the fourmetre vessel in the basement of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Port Hawkesbury, N.S., as an RCMP civilian firearms expert pointed to four gashes in different areas of the boat that he testified were bullet holes. Joseph Prendergast, who said he examined the boat two days after Boudreau’s disappearance on June 1, 2013, told the trial of Joseph James Landry that he found a bullet under a loose piece of fibreglass at the stern, or rear, of the weathered boat. At one point, Prendergast lifted up a rectangular piece of loose fibreglass from the boat and brought it near the stern. He laid it on the floor and told the jury he found the bullet underneath it during his examination. “The bullet was located in this general area ... just below this piece of fibreglass,” he said, pointing to an area in between two rear seats. Prendergast testified about the trajectory of the bullets and pointed to where he said they would have entered and exited the boat at various points of its stern and starboard and port, or right and left sides. Jurors bent down next to the red and white vessel and jotted down notes as Prendergast testified. Judge Joseph Kennedy later told the jury they would be able to revisit the boat if they wanted, as it has been entered as evidence in the case. A number of cracks, bends and gashes were visible on the boat, including a large rectangular hole on its side. Landry, 67, sat emotionless during the proceedings Tuesday, often crossing his arms as he listened to testimony. On Monday, Prendergast told the court that Boudreau’s boat was shot at from different angles, based on his analysis of bullet holes, residue and fibres.
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BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Imagine placing your living room furniture into a house you’re thinking of buying, to gauge its look and fit. Now picture performing this task on a computer or smartphone thousands of kilometres away. Thanks to the integration of hightech hardware and software by Red Deer resident Jesse Tutt, such remote rearranging is now possible. The founder of 3D Scan Experts Ltd. has developed a system that allows prospective home buyers to view and even move through 3D images of a building. “You can actually walk through the house and see everything,” said Wes Giesbrecht, a Realtor with Realty in Red Deer and a longtime friend of Tutt’s. “You can take measurements from the screen shot. It’s incredible.” Tutt unveiled the system this week, and is already being asked to scan homes for Realtors. “I’ve already got customers lined up in Edmonton and Canmore, so those will be the next two areas that we move into.” Giesbrecht’s firm, which is an affiliate of Century 21 Advantage, has jumped on board in Red Deer.
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Real estate agents Wes Giesbrecht, centre and Aaron Thulien, right, of Realty In Red Deer, look at a TV where a 3-D image of a home is played while Jesse Tutt of Scan Experts manipulates the image on a laptop. To the right is the camera the 3D images were shot with. “We do professional photography already. This is just taking it a step further. “This sells houses — there’s no question.”
Tutt sees a couple advantages of 3D imaging over the traditional twodimensional photos that appear with house listings. The detailed pictures will provide a more accurate render-
Lots of events on the November agenda With the harvest over and the fall fair International in Edmonton saw work complete, and the cattle sorted a change this year. The show’s dates and ready for winter, farmers are were condensed to the same week as ready to tackle tasks of a difthe Canadian Finals Rodeo, ferent kind. So November is which allowed for more a month for meetings and crossover with the Heritage events. Ranch Rodeo events. Lots Dominating the calendar of folks were able to take in is always the busy combinaboth styles of rodeo. tion of Agri-Trade in Red As a rancher’s daughter Deer, and Farmfair and the myself, it was fun to be able Canadian Finals Rodeo in to see the Ranch Rodeo Edmonton. Both shows have contests like team brandentered new eras, and like ing, sorting and doctoring. any long-standing occasions, Cow sense, in both horses seek ways to keep what they and ranch hands, went a offer relevant to their audilong way to success. DIANNE ence. A big congratulations FINSTAD For Agri-Trade, under to the San Emideo Ranch the leadership of show manof Innisfail for finishing ager Dianne Smirl, the chalon top of eight very skilled lenge is always bringing the outfits. Each member of the right kind of exhibitors to team received spurs for the attract the farmers, and enough farm- victory. As well, San Edmideo’s Geoff ers to keep the exhibitors returning. In Hoar received the award for the top an age where there are fewer farmers, working cow horse of the event. who manage much larger acre numThere were also some local winners bers, that means exhibitors want to in the cattle show arena. The supreme see the right kind of Agri-Trade visitor. champion bull was an Angus from ReThey want to spend meaningful time mitall Farms of Olds, while Rancier connecting with existing or new cus- Farms of Killam garnered supreme tomers. champion female honors with their Farmers want to look at new prod- Simmental entry. As well, the grand ucts and technology. But they also want champion bull calf in the Legends of to see each other and visit, because the Fall competition came from M&R one of the greatest assets of agricul- Cattle Company of Wimborne. ture is the people involved. Bringing it Of course, central Alberta was home all together is no small task, and Smirl to plenty of championship honors in does it all with a smile. the Canadian Finals Rodeo. I always I saw a lot of information-sharing enjoy being able to watch those jourhappening on the busy Agri-Trade neys through the week as competitors floor this year. One of the new fea- get on a roll, or struggle, with the chaltures was a “modified indoor” space lenge and opportunity provided by the — putting a tent cover and heat over intense quest for the buckle in the seapavement by the Agricentre, to allow son-end playoffs. for more exhibitors. Although it takes Being down behind the chutes to a while for people to realize there’s capture go-round winner interviews another area to see, the exhibitors I and absorbing the atmosphere is a spoke with there were happy to be part highlight for me. Working the CFCW of the show, and warm! live radio broadcast of the CFR, with As a member of the Agri-Trade ad- Duane Daines providing commentary, visory committee, our homework dur- meant we had a bit of an inside track ing the show is to check in with ex- on the Sydney Daines barrel racing hibitors in a designated area, to get story. She was so excited to have Team feedback on the show. Overall, I heard Daines there in Edmonton on openfrom them that farmers were in an op- ing night: some of her teammates from timistic mood this year, although still the basketball and soccer squads she’s cautious in their spending plans. part of at RDC. For many of them it With grain prices off their highs, was their first trip to a rodeo, and a and some transportation and market- real eye-opener to the other passion of ing challenges, plus the cost of new their talented teammate. equipment, the idea of prudent, careBoth proud parents were excited ful spending seems wise. Even though to see their daughter’s success, but cattle prices are incredibly high, the Duane, always quick with a quip, noted days of the BSE bust are still fresh they’d been saving all their life for her enough in many ranchers’ minds that college education, and she’d earned they’re not going to extend themselves $44,000 in just a week of CFR! Duane, financially too deep just yet. who’s been in a wheelchair all his Another focus for Agri-Trade is how daughter’s life, also recalled attending to attract and relate to the youth in ag- the CFR just before Sydney was born. riculture. Young people were targeted “It was my first trip out of the Glenin a new reception on the Friday of the rose hospital,” said Daines, whose show, hosted by MNP. It was an infor- back was broken in a rodeo accident mal gathering, featuring the Alberta- that fall. “We took the C-train over, and based Prairie Storm Chasers. That’s a the arena elevator was broken. team of young weather watchers who “I remember getting the chair stuck are as passionate about weather as in a snowdrift. Cheryl was pregnant many of the attendees are about agri- with Sydney. You’re kind of in a bubculture. ble in the hospital, and there in the It’s also great to see the Agri-Trade snowdrift was when we looked at each scholarships given out each year, to other, and our new reality set in. students enrolled in agriculture pro“We had a moment here this year grams. A portion of each Agri-Trade watching Sydney win, when we both admission now goes that direction, as looked at each and remembered that a way for the show to give back to the instant. community and encourage youth in “It’s all turned out pretty good,” smiled the always-inspiring cowboy. agriculture. Up the road, which stayed relatively clear of snow during the week, FarmPlease see FIELD on Page B2
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ing and help ensure those who express an interest in the property are good prospects. Also, the number of showings for people who aren’t interested in the house but weren’t able to make that determination from 2D pictures should be reduced. Buyers might even be able make an informed decision without setting foot in the house, he added. “I’ve actually had a couple calls about doing this in Fort McMurray specifically, because people are moving there from out of country or from out of province and they don’t have the ability to actually see the home.” A former Red Deer College student, Tutt has done software development and server consulting, much through a predecessor business to 3D Scan Experts called Technology Innovation. “I’ve done pretty much the full gamut of IT.” He turned his attention to 3D imaging after recognizing its potential in the real estate industry. After acquiring the necessary equipment — a device with eight cameras and three laser scanners — he set to work developing the software to make this application work.
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From the left, Terry Zipp, Lucia Hoogland and Darcy Olson share a laugh at the Edmonton Potato Growers booth at the Potato Growers of Alberta conference taking place at the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer this week.
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Suncor issues 2015 capital spending range of between $7.2B and $7.8B CALGARY — Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) plans capital spending of between $7.2 billion and $7.8 billion in 2015, with the Calgary-based integrated oil giant saying average production is expected to be between 540,000 to 585,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. “Our production guidance for next year reflects a continued trend of improved reliability and steady growth,” president and CEO Steve Williams said in a statement released Tuesday after markets closed. “We remain focused on driving down our oilsands cash operating costs, underscoring our commitment to creating value for shareholders.” The higher end of the capital spending range matched that of a year ago, but this past July the company reduced its target for 2014 by $1 billion to $6.8 billion. Suncor said that about 55 per cent or up to $4.3 billion of the 2015 capital spend is expected to go towards growth projects, with more than $2 billion earmarked for the oilsands segment. About 45 per cent, or up to $3.5 billion, is expected to be allocated towards sustaining capital investments focused on “safe, reliable and efficient operations across the company’s assets,” it added. \“Our disciplined approach to building a strong balance sheet and prudently managing our capital program has positioned us to execute on our strategy even during periods of lower crude prices,” Williams said.
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A Sears customer call centre is shown in Montreal, Thursday, January 16, 2014. Sears Canada Inc. racked up another quarterly loss, more than doubling its loss a year ago, as the department store continued to face challenges in the effort to turnaround its business.
Further setbacks in Sears Canada turnaround BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Sears Canada Inc. (TSX:SCC) racked up another quarterly loss, more than doubling its loss a year ago, as the department store continued to face challenges in the effort to turnaround its business. After widespread job cuts and numerous store closures, the retailer posted a $118.7-million net loss as both revenue and the industry barometer of samestore sales fell. The loss amounted to $1.16 per share for the 13 weeks ended Nov. 1, compared to a loss of $48.8 million or 48 cents per share in the comparable period last year. Sears Canada’s revenue for the quarter dropped 15 per cent to $834.5 million, from $982.3 million a year earlier, partly as a result of store closures. Sales at locations open for at least a year fell 9.5 per cent. The lumbering effort to improve Sears Canada’s books has been playing out for several years, under numerous leaders, with little improvement. It was the first quarterly financial report since Ronald Boire stepped in as acting chief executive last month, replacing Douglas Campbell who left the role and returned to the United States for what the company said were “personal family issues.” Boire said the results were disappointing, but that Sears Canada’s management is focused on building its relationship with consumers by providing “great fashionable product made of high quality at affordable prices.” “The company has done well at managing expenses year to date and maintaining a strong balance
sheet, and we are now working at growing our top line to have our sales match the high level of loyalty and support that Canadians have for the Sears brand,” Boire said in a statement. One positive note was that costs related to its multi-year “transformation” effort were lower, coming in at $4 million versus $20.2 million in the 2013 third quarter. Sears Canada announced earlier this year that it would cut 2,200 jobs on top of thousands more it eliminated last year. The company also sold leases in some of its highest profile locations, including the Toronto Eaton Centre, as part of a move to reduce costs. On Monday, the company said it will end a credit-card issuing partnership with U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase when the current 10-year agreement expires next November. Sears Canada sold its credit and financial services business to JPMorgan Chase in 2005 for about $2.2 billion. The agreement came with a “long-term marketing and servicing alliance” between the two companies. Under that agreement, JPMorgan Chase will remain the service provider for the Sears Card and Sears Mastercard until Nov. 15, 2015. Under certain circumstances, the U.S.-based bank could pay Sears Canada up to $174 million as part of the windup. Boire arrives from parent company Sears Holdings Corp., as the Canadian operation focuses energy on locations outside of big cities, in hopes it can lure customers away from Walmart and Target. Before joining Sears Holdings, he also held various retail leadership roles, including as president and CEO of retailer Brookstone Inc. and Toys R Us where he was president of the North American division.
CALGARY — For young Canadians looking to land a good job, the West is where it’s at, according to a new report released by the Fraser Institute on Tuesday. The right-leaning think-tank said Alberta and Saskatchewan offer the best opportunities for to 25-to-34 set. Meanwhile, Ontario and Quebec have prospects that are just as dim as the Atlantic provinces, from which there’s long been a westward exodus of workers. “Today, any young Canadian seeking economic opportunity — a full-time job and the possibility of a middle-income salary or better — has a much better shot in Western Canada,” said Mark Milke, author of the study. “Ontario and Quebec are not providing opportunities for young adults and have been losing their best and brightest to the dynamic, opportunity-rich economies of Western Canada.” The average unemployment rate over the 20032012 period for the younger age group in Alberta was 4.2 per cent and in Saskatchewan it was 4.8 per cent, versus more than seven per cent in Ontario and Quebec. During that period, on a net basis, nearly 61,000 young adults came to Alberta from other parts of the country, while Ontario and Quebec together lost nearly 52,000. Alberta also has a big edge over other provinces when it comes to private sector investment, a “key driver of employment growth,” according to the Fraser Institute. In 2012, private sector investment in Alberta totalled $60.5 billion, compared with $43.1 billion in Ontario and $25.7 billion in Quebec. Average per-person income in Alberta during that year was $52,207, compared with $40,838 in Ontario and $37,106 in Quebec.
Loonie lower: traders look to positive German data TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed lower Tuesday amid declining oil and metal prices and data showing rising business confidence in Europe’s biggest economy. The loonie was down 0.03 of a cent at 88.5 cents US. The ZEW institute said its investors’ confidence index rose by 15.1 points in November, bringing it back into positive territory with a reading of 11.5. That is still far below its long-term average of 24.4 points and ZEW head Clemens Fuerst warned that “the economic environment remains fragile, not least due to ongoing geopolitical tensions.” Germany posted 0.1 per cent third-quarter growth, avoiding recession after a second-quarter contraction. The data was a relief to markets since a string of downbeat economic reports suggesting Germany could drop back into recession helped spark the October sell-off on stock markets. Oil prices continued to hover around the US$75 a barrel mark with the December contract down $1.03 to US$74.61 a barrel. The December gold contract gained $13.60 to US$1,197.10 an ounce while the December copper contract fell four cents to US$3 a pound.
Should you pay off mortgage instead of investing? IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE SITUATION Derek, I’m wondering if it makes sense to pay off that may make investing more favourable. The next my mortgage instead of investing? part to consider is what will interest rates do moving It seems that every week I have this same ques- forward. tion posed to me, so certainly you’re not In the example above, if you would find the only one wondering. My answer is the yourself financially constrained if your same whenever this question comes up mortgage rate went from three per cent to and the answer is always: It depends on five per cent at your next renewal, it makes you. Let me explain. sense to pay down your mortgage more The first part to consider is the math aggressively. Or, perhaps you invest that behind it all. The reality is that if you additional dollar (so long as you’re earning have a mortgage at an average rate today at least four per cent), and then take your of around three per cent, any dollar that investment and pay down your mortgage you put towards it will “save” you three with your earnings at maturity. per cent on that dollar. With this in mind, the rate of interest is a Now if you have to make a decision as factor that is known; this won’t change until to where to put that dollar and you feel maturity. The return on your investment is you can earn greater than three per cent likely unknown, but has the potential to be DEREK by investing, it makes sense to invest. The higher than four per cent This is something FUCHS math is pretty straightforward, but also that one needs to consider when looking at not that simple. Any time you consider inthese numbers. vesting you need to determine what your Another part to consider is whether the “net” return is — essentially what have interest on your mortgage is tax deductible. you made once the tax man collects. TakJust like the equation above regarding the ing another look at it, if you earn three taxation on your investment earnings, if the per cent on an investment in a taxable account, you debt is essentially a write-off, or an expense for you, it really have only earned 2.25 per cent (assuming a tax may not make sense to pay down the mortgage aggresrate of 25 per cent). sively. So in that same example, it would have made This may be the case if the mortgage is on a rental better sense to pay down your mortgage. Using that property, but be sure to discuss this with a qualified same tax rate, you need to earn at least four per cent accountant. The final part to consider is how you feel on your investment to justify investment versus pay- about having debt. I’ve met many people who would ing down your mortgage. Put another way, earning simply rather not have any debt, and I don’t think four per cent on a dollar is equal to saving three there is anything wrong with that thinking. Put anper cent interest. If you’re investing in a tax-free ac- other way, even if the numbers make sense to invest count, like a tax free savings account (TFSA), then rather than pay down your mortgage, but you simply
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Tutt said there’s nothing like it in Alberta, and he’s not aware of a similar system in Canada. “As far as I know, no one’s doing it.” He and Giesbrecht are enthused about the potential of the technology. “It’s a totally different way of showcasing real estate,” said Tutt. “It’s great for giving people perspective and allowing them to see every angle and all of the merits that a building provides.” Giesbrecht is arranging for 3D imaging for some of his listings. These will be accessible via links from the Multiple Listing Service site. Tutt is already looking ahead to further innovations, including virtual realty goggles that would allow potential buyers to walk through a 3D rendering of a house. “The technology is coming.” A sample of 3D imaging can be viewed on 3D Scan Experts’ website at 3dscanexperts.com. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com
FIELD: Big-picture Speaking of inspiring, I’m looking forward to once again being part of the FCC Forum in Red Deer Nov. 26. The speakers always bring big-picture inspiration to people involved in producing the food we eat. This year’s lineup include The Wealthy Barber and Dragons’ Den member David Chilton, Olympic gold medallist Adam Kreek and performance expert Patrick Leroux. One more note of accomplishment, Agri-Trend’s Rob Saik of Red Deer, who also serves as the AgriTrade advisory committee chair, was just honored as Canadian Agri-Marketer of the Year by the Canadian Agri-Marketing Association. Dianne Finstad is a veteran broadcaster and reporter who has covered agricultural news in Central Alberta for more than 30 years. From the Field appears monthly in the Advocate.
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cringe each time you look at your mortgage, it may be best to pay it down as quickly as possible. There are others who don’t mind having mortgage debt and focus all of their attention towards investing. There is no magic formula here and it simply comes down to your personal preference. Where I typically guide clients is to consider both options. There are many strategies that may apply, with the example being paying down your mortgage aggressively, but directing some cash flow to an investment. For some clients, they invest aggressively to their registered retirement ravings plan, and then use their tax return to pay down their mortgage. Others use their TFSA as an investment account for their future mortgage payout. These are only two small examples and I would suggest speaking with a qualified financial adviser to see what may work best for you. Lastly, before you consider either choice, be sure to check the rate on your mortgage, contemplate about how you feel about investing for the long term, and decide if you’re the type who can’t stomach any kind of debt. Once you decide on those factors, have a talk with a qualified financial adviser and move forward with your choice. A little planning can go a long way. Derek Fuchs is a wealth adviser with ScotiaMcLeod in Red Deer, and a certified financial planner, financial management adviser and a fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute. He can be contacted at derek.fuchs@ scotiamcleod.com.
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Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.33 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.52 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 93.10 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.79 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 30.69
Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 115.60 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.83 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.21 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.17 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.10 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.37 Cdn. National Railway . . 80.16 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 228.68 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.75 Capital Power Corp . . . . 27.12 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.11 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.07 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.37 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 27.45 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.17 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.27 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.66 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.34 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.60 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 35.15 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.78 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.56 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 56.00
Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.04 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.36 First Quantum Minerals . 17.19 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 24.08 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.96 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.37 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.87 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.01 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.75 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.46 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 28.30 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 32.68 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 63.55 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.67 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 48.71 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 40.46 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 17.38 Canyon Services Group. 10.99 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 27.62 CWC Well Services . . . 0.7200 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.11 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.99
Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 126.55 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.00 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.99 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 60.07
MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market registered a solid advance Tuesday afternoon as German economic data suggested Europe’s biggest economy is stabilizing. The S&P/TSX composite index jumped 90.47 points to 14,972.97, led by a large gain in the gold sector amid rising bullion prices. The Canadian dollar was up 0.03 of a cent to 88.5 cents US. U.S. markets also made headway as the Dow Jones industrials rose 40.07 points to 17,687.82 and the S&P 500 index climbed 10.48 points to 2,051.8 — both closing at fresh record highs. The Nasdaq ran up 31.44 points to 4,702.44. Germany’s ZEW institute investors’ confidence index rose by 15.1 points in November, bringing it back into positive territory with a reading of 11.5. That is still far below its long-term average of 24.4 points and ZEW head Clemens Fuerst warned that “the economic environment remains fragile, not least due to ongoing geopolitical tensions.” The data was a relief to markets since a string of downbeat economic reports suggesting Germany could drop back into recession helped spark the October sell-off on stock markets. New York markets have recovered all the lost ground and reached new highs in the last few weeks, while the TSX has clawed back a good chunk of the losses that sent it into correction territory. The gold sector was the biggest percentage advancer, ahead about 5.2 per cent as a weaker American dollar helped push the December bullion contract up $13.60 to US$1,197.10 an ounce. The base metals sector
shed 0.21 per cent as the December copper contract fell four cents to US$3 a pound. The energy sector slipped 0.3 per cent as oil prices continued to hover around the US$75 a barrel mark with the December contract down $1.03 at US$74.61. On the earnings front, Sears Canada (TSX:SCC) posted a quarterly loss of $118.7 million or $1.16 per share, more than double the retailer’s 2013 third-quarter loss. Sears Canada said its quarterly revenue dropped to $834.5 million from $982.3 million and its shares fell 24 cents to $10.75. George Weston Ltd. (TSX:WN) earned a profit from continuing operations attributable to shareholders of $53 million or 30 cents per share, compared with $168 million or $1.21 per share a year ago. Results were hit by costs related to the acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart by Weston subsidiary Loblaw Cos. (TSX:L) last year. George Weston shares inched up a dime to $94.60. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate was expected to vote on TransCanada’s (TSX:TRP) Keystone XL pipeline Tuesday night. Supporters need 60 votes, but it was not clear that they have the numbers. MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Tuesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,972.97, up 90.47 points Dow — 17,687.82, up 40.07 points S&P 500 — 2,051.80, up 10.48 points Nasdaq — 4,702.44, up 31.44 points Currencies:
Walmart Canada lays offs 210 employees at head office, field management TORONTO — Walmart Canada has laid off 210 people, most at its head office in Mississauga, Ont., just west of Toronto. The retail giant handed out the pink slips Tuesday, with both management and non-management positions affected. It says the positions being eliminated are at the head office and its regional and district operations. “The changes are designed to create a more efficient organizational structure as the company positions itself competitively for the future,” Andrew Pelletier, vice-president of corporate
Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 94.87 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 48.54 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.31 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.22 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 54.19 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.30 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 4.76 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.045 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.65 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.17 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 6.50 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.22 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.29 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 59.68 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.14 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 69.17 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04.67 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.59 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.19 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.08 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 47.74 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 80.50 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.91 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 54.18 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.95 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 82.14 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.57 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.99
Cdn — 88.50 cents US, down 0.03 of a cent Pound — C$1.7661, down 0.06 of a cent Euro — C$1.4164, up 1.01 cents Euro — US$1.2536, up 0.86 of a cent Oil futures: US$74.61 per barrel, down $1.03 (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,197.10 per oz., up $13.60 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $18.959 oz., up 2.3 cents $609.53 kg., up 74 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan ’15 $2.00 higher $433.30; March ’15 $1.90 higher $436.00; May ’15 $1.70 higher $437.00; July ’15 $1.60 higher $438.60; Nov ’15 $3.30 higher $435.30; Jan. ’16 $3.30 higher $440.10; March ’16 $3.30 higher $444.60; May ’16 $3.30 higher $444.60; July ’16 $3.30 higher $444.60; Nov. ’16 $3.30 higher $444.60. Barley (Western): Dec. ’14 unchanged $160.00; March ’15 unchanged $163.00; May ’15 unchanged $163.00; July ’15 unchanged $163.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $163.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $163.00; March ’16 unchanged $163.00; May ’16 unchanged $163.00; July ’16 unchanged $163.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $163.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $163.00. Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 299,160 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 299,160.
affairs and sustainability, said in an emailed statement. The company said it was offering severance packages and access to career counselling services to those being let go. “It is difficult to say goodbye to colleagues who are affected by this change,” he said. “We are extremely grateful for their contributions and will ensure they are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.” Pelletier also noted that there are 1,600 employees at the company’s head office, adding that the job losses account for just 0.3 per cent of Walmart Canada’s total workforce of 95,000. None of the layoffs affect store-level positions. Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has been trying to boost sales at its stores, particularly in the U.S., as it faces increased competition from online, dollar stores and drug stores.
Families failed to prove wind turbines harmful, government lawyer argues BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON, Ont. — Families opposed to the erection of large-scale wind farms near their homes failed to prove the projects would cause any serious harm to their health, an Ontario government lawyer said Tuesday. In his opening comments, Matthew Horner told a Divisional Court panel that a review tribunal was correct to reject objections to the turbines based on health concerns. “There’s no indication that the tribunal made a palpable and overriding error,” Horner said late on Day 2 of the hearing. “The tribunal found as a matter of fact that the evidence failed to show that the projects will cause serious harm to human health.” He also said the tribunal was right to reject the residents’ “novel argument” that the approvals process violates the constitution. Four families are asking the appellate court to throw out decisions by the Environment Review Tribunal that upheld approvals of three large-scale wind-energy projects. They also want the approvals process declared unconstitutional on the grounds that the law precludes them from arguing turbines might cause them harm. Another government lawyer, Danielle Meuleman, rejected in her submissions suggestions the tribunal had been unfair to the families. Among other things, the families’ lawyer had argued the tribunal was wrong in failing to grant a requested adjournment to allow time to get expert evidence together. Meuleman countered the tribunal took into account “all the procedural rights” of everyone involved. She also dismissed suggestions the tribunal had “failed” to allow the fami-
lies to enter a Health Canada study on the effects of wind turbines as evidence. A summary of the study, only released Nov. 6, found no direct link between turbines and the health of nearby residents but did find a link to their levels of “annoyance” which could have adverse health effects. “They never asked the tribunal to stop the clock and wait for the results of the Health Canada study,” Meuleman said. In addition, she said, only a summary of the study has been released and no one knows what exactly it means. “We’re all speculating,” Meuleman said. She also said wind project approvals are only granted if a list of conditions related to factors such as distances to homes and noise levels are met. Earlier in the day, the lawyer for the families wrapped up more than a day of submissions by asking the court to order the tribunal to hold new approval-review hearings on the projects. “Send it back with constitutional relief,” Julian Falconer told the justices. The constitutional relief, Falconer said, would involve “reading down” the relevant legislation, the lawyer said. Justice David Brown asked what the altered legislation might look like and Falconer said it should create a “reasonable prospect of harm” as a ground to challenge wind-energy projects. As it now stands, opponents have to prove they have suffered actual harm before they can stop a project, the lawyer said. “I understand it’s not much of a test if you first have to get sick in order to prove it,” Associate Chief Justice Frank Marrocco observed. The case is slated to wrap up Wednesday, with the government and project proponents making further submissions.
Newfoundland to face pressure from lower oil prices MOODY’S INVESTORS SERVICE REPORT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Newfoundland and Labrador is expected to have a tougher time weathering low oil prices than its resource-rich brethren in the West, according to a new report by Moody’s Investors Service. However, Canada’s easternmost province, along with Alberta and Saskatchewan, has enough flexibility to maintain its credit profile even if crude falls to US$60 a barrel and stays there through the 2015-2016 fiscal year, the credit rating agency said. Oil prices, after having surged above US$100 a barrel last summer, are currently hovering around the $75 mark, with the December contract closing down $1.03 at US$74.61 on Tuesday. “All of the three provinces are solidly positioned in their rating category and have some headroom there to withstand lower oil prices,” said Kathrin Heitmann, lead analyst on the report and assistant vice-president at Moody’s. The comments by Moody’s follow Ottawa’s fiscal update last week that predicted cheaper oil would shave $500 million from the federal government books this year and $2.5 billion per year between 2015 and 2019. Alberta and Saskatchewan have the highest credit rating available from Moody’s — AAA stable. Newfoundland and Labrador’s AA2 stable rating is
a bit lower, but still among the top categories. All three provinces have a track record of adjusting spending to market conditions and have strong liquidity positions, but Moody’s says a prolonged slump would hit government coffers. Newfoundland and Labrador, which anticipates a $538-million deficit for 2014-2015, is expected to come under the greatest pressure. “The biggest difference between that province and Alberta and Saskatchewan is the lack of a reserve fund to withstand specifically the volatility of the oil prices,” Moody’s vice-president Michael Yake said. “Over the last several years, Newfoundland’s been running deficits as well, so they’re trying to fight deficits at the same time as offset the volatility.” Even though Alberta is Canada’s biggest oil-producing province, Moody’s says it has the strongest protection against price volatility. That province forecasts a $1.4-billion surplus and its direct oil royalties account for 18 per cent of total government revenues, providing some wiggle room. Alberta has a $5-billion contingency fund to help cushion it from short-term volatility. Saskatchewan is budgeting for a surplus of just $75 million, but oil royalties account for only 11 per cent of revenues.
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Tigers 4 Rebels 2 MEDICINE HAT — The Red Deer Rebels knew they’d have their hands full going up against the high-flying Medicine Hat Tigers Tuesday night. They were correct, and yet the Rebels made life too easy for their hosts. “We weren’t mentally engaged in the game at all tonight. We had a lot of very, very average players,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, following a 4-2 Western Hockey League loss to the Tigers in front of 4,006 fans at the Medicine Hat Arena. “We dropped our guard. We never played with the emotion and intensity that we’ve been playing with to have success this season.” The Rebels trailed 4-0 before Presten Kopeck connected at 11:53 of the third period. Wyatt Johnson added
a power-play marker seven minutes later, converting a feed from Grayson Pawlenchuk, but the two goals were too little, too late. The Tigers led 1-0 after 20 minutes on Cole Sanford’s 15th of the season, and got unanswered second-period tal-
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lies from defencemen Ty Stanton and Tommy Vannelli. Rearguard David Quenneville made it 4-0 at 3:57 of the final frame before the Rebels replied with a pair of late goals. Tigers netminder Marek Langhamer made 23 saves for his 10th win of the season. Rylan Toth stopped 35 shots for the Rebels. “We never had a full load here tonight,” said Sutter. “Mentally, we weren’t sharp. We took a lot of penalties and our battle level along the boards wasn’t where it has to be. We had no forecheck at all tonight. We never got on top of them.” For the Rebels, it was their first setback regarding a lack of work ethic and energy since mid-October. “We knew how they (Tigers) were going to play,” said Sutter. “We didn’t respond the way we needed to respond. It was the worst game we’ve played in our last 12 to 14.” The contest was the first of six in
succession — with the exception of a Nov. 29 date with the visiting Swift Current Broncos — the Rebels play against division rivals Medicine Hat and the Calgary Hitmen. “This is a big run for us,” Sutter noted. “We’re playing some big divisional games over the next couple of weeks and we can’t play like we did tonight.” ● The Rebels, who return to action Friday against the Tigers at the Enmax Centrium, were one-for-six on the power play and six-for-six on the penalty kill . . . The Tigers were awarded all three game stars — (1) Vannelli, (2) Trevor Cox, who had two assists, and (3) Blake Penner . . . The Rebels play three games in three days this weekend, starting with the visiting Tigers Friday and continuing with a homeand-home with the Hitmen — Saturday at the Centrium and Sunday afternoon at the Saddledome. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
Flames rally to down Ducks in shootout BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 4 Ducks 3 SO CALGARY — Sean Monahan scored in the shootout to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-3 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday. Dennis Wideman had a pair of goals for the Flames (12-6-2), who have won three straight games. Playing in his first game against his former team, Calgary goalie Jonas Hiller made 24 saves in regulation and overtime. After Monahan scored in the third-round of the shootout, Hiller stopped Corey Perry’s breakaway attempt to preserve the victory for the Flames. Sami Vatanen had a goal and two assists for the Ducks (11-4-5), who also lost 6-2 at home to the Florida Panthers two nights earlier. Matt Beleskey and Kyle Palmieri also scored for Anaheim, while goalie Frederik Andersen made 16 saves in a losing cause. Jiri Hudler also scored for Calgary, while Markus Granlund had two assists. Rookie forward Johnny Gaudreau set up Calgary’s best chance of the opening period when he broke in on a two-on-one with Jiri Hudler, who redirected a pass from his linemate just wide of the Anaheim net. The Ducks opened the scoring at 15:54 of the first when Vatanen snapped a shot from the point that deflected off Calgary defenceman Raphael Diaz’s stick and through Hiller’s legs. Sven Baertschi attempted to block the shot, but Vatanen did a nice job to sidestep him before shooting it into the net. During an early man advantage for the Ducks in the second, Hiller made a nice glove save on a shot from the high slot by Anaheim forward Ryan Getzlaf. On the same power play, Hiller kicked out his right pad to stop a shot from in close by Kyle Palmieri. Beleskey put the Ducks up 2-0 at 12:29 of the second with a power-play goal when he tipped a point shot by Hampus Lindholm past Hiller. Hudler pulled the Flames within a goal at 3:25 of the third when he deposited a shot from the slot into the net behind Andersen, who was out of position. Wideman then blasted a pair of slap shots - at 9:03 of the third and again at 13:43 - past Andersen to put the Flames up 3-2. Palmieri scored another power-play goal for the Ducks at 15:05 of the third. Hiller made the initial save, but the puck bounced up and over him and
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Calgary Flames goalie Jonas Hiller celebrates his team’s win during shootout NHL action against the Anaheim Ducks in Calgary, Tuesday. across the goal line to send the game to overtime. The Flames had a great chance to win the game in overtime when Ryan Kesler was penalized for cross-checking Calgary defenceman T.J. Brodie. Wideman nearly completed his hat trick, but Andersen stuck out his right pad to turn aside the point shot. Notes: The Flames honoured Hall
of Fame broadcaster Peter Maher with a pre-game ceremony. Maher was the radio voice of the Flames from 1981-82 until his retirement at the end of the 2013-14 season. In total, Maher called 2,954 Flames games. In seven seasons with Anaheim before signing with the Flames on July 1, Hiller compiled a record of 162-110-32 to go with a 2.51 goals-against average and a .916 save
percentage while wearing a Ducks’ uniform. Heading into the game, Flames captain Mark Giordano had recorded at least a point in nine straight games to match a personal best which he set last season. Giordano had five goals and nine assists during that stretch before failing to record a point against the Ducks.
Prince Albert’s new mascot stirs public controversy BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — A Saskatchewan junior hockey team is under fire after unveiling a new mascot that critics are calling offensive to Middle Eastern people. Prince Albert Raiders spokeswoman Amber Pratt said the mascot’s costume is based on the Western Hockey League team’s original logo introduced in 1982 which depicts an Arabian raider character holding a sword and a hockey stick. “The version that we brought to life is happy, with a big smile on his face,” she wrote in an email on Tuesday. “He wears hockey pants and a hockey jersey. He is a positive symbol of Raider history and was loved by fans when introduced on Friday night.” Pratt said she is surprised by the criticism and the organization has received way more positive comments than negative. But Rhonda Rosenberg, executive director of the Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan, said the mascot plays into possible discrimination. “The idea of a somewhat violent Muslim man is a stereotype that is really difficult for a lot of people to live
with,” she said. their sponsorship package as a supRosenberg added that if a team uses porter of junior hockey in the commua mascot representing a particular cul- nity.” tural group “at the very least they need Ellen Staurowsky, a professor at to check in with some people who are Drexel University in Philadelphia speof that background.” cializing in cultural appropriation in “Really mascots are not where we sports, said the mascot’s image draws should be depictupon old, stereoing cultural groups typical notions of ‘THE INTENT OF USING of people,” she said. racial and ethnic “We just need to THIS CHARACTER AS OUR minorities. look at what values “In this time of MASCOT WAS TO BRING trying and ideas are beto educate ing put forward, and consumers and peoBACK AN ICON FROM whether they are reworking in sport THE GLORY DAYS OF THE ple ally embodying what about creating open we want to be sharPRINCE ALBERT RAIDERS and inclusive enviing.” ronments, this kind AND TO BRING SOME The mascot is of stereotyping reNOSTALGIA BACK TO THE ally undermines named Boston Raider, because of those efforts,” she FANS.’ a sponsorship from said. Boston Pizza. Staurowsky com— AMBER PRATT Perry Schwartz, PRINCE ALBERT RAIDERS SPOKESWOMAN pared the Prince spokesman for BosAlbert mascot to ton Pizza Internaa high school mastional, said the franchisee in Prince cot in California for a team formerly Albert has a long-standing relationship known as the Coachella Valley High with the Raiders. School Arabs. “Our franchisee didn’t see the new The team changed its name to the mascot or logo prior to it being un- Mighty Arabs in September and alveiled on the weekend,” Schwartz said tered the mascot’s image after months in an email. “This was simply part of of pressure from anti-discrimination
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groups. “In the United States there has been a tremendous amount of controversy around these images across the entire range of sport entities, from high schools all the way through the professional level,” Staurowsky said. “(Teams) need to be aware of all of the constituencies that comprise their fan base as well as the people living in the communities that are affected by these images.” Pratt said the Prince Albert Raiders logo was worn on jerseys from 1982 to 1996 and later returned as a third jersey in the early 2000s. It was also a shoulder crest on the Raiders jersey from 2010 to 2013. “The Prince Albert Raiders won a Memorial Cup in 1985 and fans identify with the logo worn at the time. It’s synonymous with the success and winning of the franchise,” she said in an email. “The intent of using this character as our mascot was to bring back an icon from the glory days of the Prince Albert Raiders and to bring some nostalgia back to the fans,” she said. “It was never our intention to offend anyone nor do we feel that the character is in any way a negative representation of Middle Eastern people or their culture.”
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Peterson suspension part of bigger picture Of course Adrian Peterson deserved switch in this instance is the functional to be punished. He whipped a four- equivalent of a weapon, particularly in year-old child until the child bled. the hands of someone with the strength There was evidence. He never claimed of an accomplished professional athhe didn’t do it; he just said there was a lete. reason. He pled to a lesser charge in a “Third, you have shown no meaningTexas court. He asked to ful remorse for your conduct . come back to work. . . These comments raise the Roger Goodell, meanserious concern that you do while, needed to punish not fully appreciate the serisomebody, and be right ousness of your conduct, or about it. He’s had trouble even worse, that you may feel with that, lately. This was free to engage in similar conan easy one. Adrian Peterduct in the future.” son deserved to be punAll true. Really, you can ished. Even the NFL comhardly disagree with one missioner couldn’t miss. word. Some people will conHis concern rang out, in a test the mere notion of punpublic proclamation. ishment, because there’s a “First, the injury was sadly rich history of people BRUCE inflicted on a child who who mistake violence for ARTHUR was only four years old,” good parenting. The only good wrote Goodell, in an open part of this whole mess is that letter to the Minnesota somewhere a parent who hits Vikings running back. their kids learns about the “The difference in size and strength damage you inflict by hitting your kids. between you and the child is signifi- Maybe Adrian Peterson will learn. He cant, and your actions clearly caused has been directed by the league to unphysical injury to the child. While an dergo counseling. Education is the first adult may have a number of options step. when confronted with abuse — to flee, The NFLPA is objecting, saying Peto fight back, or to seek help from law terson has already missed nine games, enforcement — none of those options albeit with pay, in the hazy forbidden is realistically available to a four-year- zone of the commissioner’s exempt list. old child. Further, the injury inflicted Peterson immediately appealed. Both on your son includes the emotional may as well howl at the moon. The and psychological trauma to a young players’ association gave Goodell the child who suffers criminal physical power of god in the last collective barabuse at the hands of his father. gaining agreement, just gave it away, “Second, the repetitive use of a so when NFLPA executive director
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DeMaurice Smith told ESPN that the NFL seems to be making it up as they go along, he was right, and he should know why he was right. Peterson’s appeal, meanwhile, would go straight to appeal judge Roger Goodell, if Goodell so chooses. Peterson’s season is over. In the context of the NFL, it’s difficult to argue with. Still, something isn’t right. That power that Goodell is using — the hammer, in search of nails — is one reason that he needed a win in the first place. We’re already collectively forgetting the muck from earlier this season: the sad little two-game suspension he gave Ray Rice for the now-famous domestic violence episode in the casino elevator; the non-suspension of Carolina’s Greg Hardy as he appealed a domestic violence conviction; the credible reports that a version of the elevator tape was sent to and received by someone at the NFL; the rapid expansion of the Rice suspension, because he could. Remember Goodell’s empty boilerplate press conference on that Friday afternoon? The independent investigation, run by a partner for the law firm that had represented the NFL in DirectTV negotiations? The ESPN story that ran within the hour that blew holes in his story, saying the Ravens knew exactly what was on the tape? Remember the TMZ reporter saying to Goodell, we got the tape with one phone call, why couldn’t the NFL? Remember all that? But we’ve forgotten, right? Ben Roethlisberger threw all those touch-
NHL general managers scrap dry scraping of ice before overtime BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ice crews, grab your shovels. The NHL is scrapping the dry scrape before overtime. General managers decided Tuesday to end the practice of having the ice scraped but not resurfaced at the end of regulation. The goal when it was instituted was to cut down on the number of shootouts, but when that didn’t have enough of the desired effect and the flow of the game was interrupted, the call was made to go back to shovelling the ice beginning Saturday. “That was my bad idea,” Ken Holland of the Detroit Red Wings said. “The feeling in there was the dry scrape is a buzz kill. It is just taking too long to get from the end of the game back to playing, so we’re going to use people to shovel the ice, try within 90 seconds to two minutes to get back up and playing.” Games were being delayed anywhere from just under five minutes to just under seven, according to NHL executive vice president and director of hockey operations Colin Campbell. Even though slightly more games are ending in overtime rather than a shootout, it wasn’t the evidence that GMs needed to make the switch. Instead, David Poile of the Nashville Predators saw fans leaving after the third period, and his colleagues didn’t like how it affected game action. “I think that common sense, just watching the games, watching the delay and just looking at the flow,” Lou Lamoriello of the New Jersey Devils said. “There are assets to doing it. But I think that game itself is more important, and the flow of the game, and it took away from that.” Campbell said the league had talked to the Players’ Association, and players seem to be on board with the change. Switching ends for overtime, which leads to longer line changes, will remain in place. The league will not do a dry scrape of the middle of the ice before shootouts, as had been the case in previous years. Expanded video review, three-on-three in overtime and knee-on-knee hits were among the many other topics discussed at the annual meeting the day
after the Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremony that’s used to set the table for March’s three-day gathering in Boca Raton, Fla. The American Hockey League is experimenting with three minutes of four-on-four followed by four minutes of three-on-three in OT and has experienced a rise in games decided before shootouts. Many GMs like what they’ve seen but want to give it some more time and watch more games before deciding. “You do like to see the game end with a goal versus the shootout,” Poile said. “Possibly you could say three-on-three is more of a compromise. I’m not sure yet.” The NHL has been internally tracking goaltender interference issues this season and the group looked at six separate examples and voted on whether the goal should be allowed or disallowed. In past meetings there wasn’t enough of a consensus on goalie interference to make changes, and some questions remain before a “It’s a popular topic at every meeting and just the goal of getting it right, basically,” Jarmo Kekalainen of the Columbus Blue Jackets said. “It’s so hard for the referees and the speed of the game and how it happens at ice level. I guess we want to further talk about and have a discussion about how we can review to get them right more than wrong and still not have too many reviews and slow the process of the game too much.” Stephane Quintal gave his first presentation in front of the GMs since taking over for Toronto Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan as vice-president of player safety. Knee-on-knee hits were part of that, as Quintal said they’re happening once every 14 games instead of once every 24 games last year. “We’re seeing an increase of lower-body injuries, more knee incidents,” Quintal said. “We’re paying attention to it.” Bryan Murray of the Ottawa Senators postponed a chemotherapy session to attend. Murray revealed last week he had Stage 4 colon cancer that spread to his liver and lungs. “I just go to work,” Murray said. “I do what I can do. I rely on my assistants quite a bit to do a lot of the travelling and scouting more than maybe in the past. But beyond that, I’m fine.”
downs, the Patriots roared back to life, the Packers put up 50 points twice and the Bears gave up 50 points twice. After nine weeks have passed, some people are all too ready to embrace Roger Goodell’s powers again. The wonderful machine is designed to obscure its effects. The whole point of a lot of that is that investing godlike powers of discipline in a commissioner opens up a universe full of messy mistakes. It gives one man unharnessed power, and the notion of the benevolent monarchy isn’t likely for a man whose stated goal is to grow his bloodsport from $9 billion (U.S.) to $25 billion in revenues. Every single thing Roger Goodell does is in service of that goal. So is this. The problem, of course, is that everything the NFL does is designed to accomplish that, too. If it wasn’t Goodell, it would be someone else. It would be the league doctors who pushed junk science on concussions, or the negotiating committees that broke the referees’ union, or the lawyers who crafted the criminal concussion settlement. The NFL is designed to win, in service of the NFL, always. Adrian Peterson deserved to be punished. This punishment was correct. But this is public relations, too, in the service of something bigger. It just happens to coincide with something that feels right. Bruce Arthur is a sports columnist for the Toronto Star and was named the 2012 sportswriter of the year by Sports Media Canada
CANADA GETS TIE
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Panama’s Luis Tejada, right, and Canada’s Doneil Henry head the ball during a friendly soccer match in Panama City, Tuesday. The match ended tied 0-0. Goalkeeper Milan Borjan made several big saves to help Canada get the tie. The Canadian men offered little in terms of attack other than a late surge that saw play in the Panama end. But a draw in the hostile confines of Central America represents progress for a Canadian side building for the future.
Canadian Russell Martin will be a big impact player for Blue Jays BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada’s Russell Martin is a threetime all-star who has some pop at the plate to go with his top-flight defensive skills. The new Toronto Blue Jays catcher is also known for his poise, game-calling ability and pitch framing skills — attributes that don’t show up in the boxscore but can still have a big impact. “He’s got a lot of emotion, a lot of passion and a lot of desire,” said Baseball Canada coach and national teams director Greg Hamilton. “But he’s just able to slow things down and play under control. That’s the thing that I’ve always respected in Russ’s game. He’s able to slow the game down and really have control of the game, the pace of the game. “You see some players that are always in a hurry. They’re trying to catch up to the game and it’s anything but with Russ. He is always very gathered, very controlled. It’s a special player that can do that and he was able to do that from a young age.” Martin joined the Canadian junior team in 1999 and later played for the national senior team at the 2003 Olympic qualifier and the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
The 31-year-old Toronto native, who grew up in Chelsea, Que., signed a US$82-million, five-year deal with the Blue Jays this week after spending the last two seasons in Pittsburgh. The Blue Jays announced the free-agent signing Tuesday morning. A team spokesman said the Blue Jays are planning to introduce Martin at a news conference Thursday. The five-foot-10 205-pounder has a career .259 average with 119 home runs and 540 RBIs in nine seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Pirates. His teams have reached the playoffs on seven occasions. Hamilton said in addition to his impressive statistics, Martin is a people person who has the ability to improve a pitcher’s comfort zone. “He really is able to manage their approach and their game days in a way that keeps them focused and keeps them controlled,” he said. “And he’s a very gifted defensive player.” Martin played 111 games for the Pirates last season and hit .290 with 11 homers and 67 RBIs. The 2007 Gold Glover had a .402 on-base percentage and threw out 39 per cent of would-be base stealers. Hamilton said one of Martin’s standout positional skills is his ability to take a mid-90’s fastball — even one that is sinking — and stabilize it while present-
ing it over the plate so that an umpire is comfortable seeing it. “It’s so subtle that you don’t even recognize it really when you’re watching the game unless you’re really focusing on that,” Hamilton said from his Ottawa office. “But again, it’s back to how soft his hands are and how controlled he is in terms of being able to receive with balance.” “It’s not that he takes a non-strike and makes it a strike,” Hamilton added. “It’s that he takes a borderline pitch that’s on the black and receives it with ease. And he’s able to show it to the umpire in a way which it continues (to) be a strike as opposed to it carrying out of the strike zone.” The Toronto pitching staff is anchored by veterans Mark Buehrle and R.A. Dickey and includes youngsters Marcus Stroman and Drew Hutchison. The fifth spot appears to be up in the air but could go to J.A. Happ, newly acquired Marco Estrada or rising star Aaron Sanchez.
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Off-season changes coming for Roughriders BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — The atmosphere in the Saskatchewan Roughriders locker-room Tuesday was in sharp contrast to the jubilant scene at the end of last season. A year ago, the Roughriders celebrated winning the Grey Cup at home for the first time in franchise history. This time they were cleaning out their lockers in a sombre mood two days after an 18-10 loss to the Edmonton Eskimos in the West Division semifinal. With the Roughriders falling short of their goal to repeat as Grey Cup champions, the team is promising changes will be made this off-season. That means some of the players will see their time with the Roughriders end in disappointment. “It sucks. I don’t know how else to say it,� said offensive lineman Brendon LaBatte. “Even after last year you knew there were going to be changes. You knew you were seeing guys for the last time unless you end up playing against them in the future. And for some guys, this is the end of the road. It sucks to end it on this note, too.� As was the case a year ago, the Riders face an off-season that is sure to be loaded with difficult decisions when it comes to coaching staff changes and player personnel. The Riders have 27 players eligible to file for free agency on Feb. 15, and several on that list are marquee talents, though a handful of those players are 30 years or older. “I like the guys that we have on our team as far as age goes,� head coach Corey Chamblin told the media. “There are some pieces that will be retooled. Some guys will be let go in free agency and we won’t sign because maybe they don’t fit the plan going forward. Some of these guys have different mindsets from what they want for the 2015 season. There are some things that we can’t give them, whether that would be money or a position or whatever they may want.� Two of the Riders’ four starting defensive lineman
— 32-year-old Ricky Foley and 31-year-old Tearrius George — are eligible for free agency. That duo combined for 24 sacks in 2014 in leading the Riders to a 10-8 record and a third-place West Division finish in the regular season. Also on that list are starting safety Tyron Brackenridge (30) and linebacker Brian Peters. Brackenridge had 11 tackles and an interception on Sunday and was a West Division all-star for the second straight year. Peters led the Riders in tackles this season with 78 and special teams tackles with 20. Cornerback Tristan Jackson, who also starred as a special teams returner, also is a free agent. He led the league in combined return yards with 1,531. On offence, the biggest name on the free agent list will be Weston Dressler, who will turn 30 during the off-season. He signed a one-year deal with the Riders in August after he was cut from the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs. At the time, Dressler didn’t rule out testing his luck down south in 2015. He confirmed those feelings again on Tuesday. “I’m not going to commit one way or the other,� he said. “I don’t think the smartest thing to do right now would be to shut any doors. I’ll take it day by day and see what kind of opportunities are out there for me.� Elsewhere, the Riders’ playmakers aren’t getting any younger. Dressler, along with slotback Chris Getzlaf (31) and wideout Taj Smith (31) are all over
30 and dealt with injuries this past season. Forty-one year old quarterback Kerry Joseph, who was coaxed out of retirement in October, said after Sunday’s loss that his playing career is over. He threw five interceptions in the game against Edmonton. Starting quarterback Darian Durant is 32 and is still recovering from surgery on right elbow. He signed a contract extension in April that runs through 2016. Durant plans to rest and rehab in the near future and is dedicated to coming to training camp fully recovered. “There’s no need for me to go out and push it and try to throw and do those different things,� he said. “I can just sit back and go through therapy and let (his elbow) heal so I can begin my regular lifting program. It’s all about downtime and making sure my arm is 100 per cent as quickly as possible.� The Riders raced out to an 8-2 start behind a healthy Durant. But the star quarterback tore a tendon in his right elbow on Sept. 7 in a game versus the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the team, especially the offence, never recovered. “We sputtered too much too often,� Dressler said. “We didn’t generate enough drives and give ourselves a lot of opportunities to make plays. We never got into the flow. After Darian went down, we never found that energy, that consistency throughout an entire game. We had spurts but it wasn’t consistent.� Chamblin plans to meet with general manager Brendan Taman to discuss potential free agents on the Riders’ roster and who might become available through free agency elsewhere in the league. Whether it’s rebuilding or restructuring, the Riders are prepared to undergo some retooling. “I think we were really close this year,� Dressler said. “Maybe a couple of guys here and there with a little more experience and a little more of that veteran leadership may have made a difference. It’s hard to say. You want to keep that continuity in the locker room but you also want to have the right guys in place. I don’t get paid to make those decisions, so we’ll see what happens.�
Lions vet Marsh says team had no identity BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SURREY, B.C. — As he quietly cleaned out his locker, Dante Marsh indicated he didn’t have anything to say. But once the B.C. Lions’ veteran defensive back turned around and started talking, there was plenty to get off his chest. Marsh spoke openly about what ailed the CFL club in 2014, a 9-9 season that started with the promise of hosting the Grey Cup and ended with an embarrassing 50-17 defeat at the hands of the Montreal Alouettes in Sunday’s East Division semifinal. “We just weren’t who we were,� the 35-year-old said. “I don’t know. It was just ... no identity.� Marsh, who has patrolled B.C.’s secondary for the last 11 years, said he didn’t expect to be back in 2015 after a frustrating campaign that included an ankle injury that kept him out from September until the team’s final game of the regular season. “I’m a happy person. I don’t have any regrets,� said Marsh, who was curiously asked to stay away from the team while he recovered. “I will be playing football for another year or two, somewhere.� Marsh wouldn’t say whether or not players had started to tune out head coach Mike Benevides, but the Oakland, Calif., native questioned the anointing of leaders in the locker-room, adding that some of the veterans jettisoned in recent years still had more to give to the franchise. “There were players who I thought still had a lot of football left in them that still should have been
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durability and may look at other options heading into training camp after general manager Wally Buono revealed he didn’t know who his starting quarterback would be next season. “I wasn’t able to help my team much this season. That’s first and foremost where my focus is,� said Lulay. “For me, I’ve got to be healthy enough to play. Period. I can’t play if I’m not healthy enough and that’s all I can concern myself with.� Apart from Lulay, the Lions also lost running back Andrew Harris and slotback Courtney Taylor to injuries, while the offensive line was also beat up for long stretches. Despite all the players on the training table, consistency among those in the lineup was a constant theme, and one that was never really settled as the team wobbled to a crossover playoff berth in the East. B.C.’s defence held strong most weeks, but the unit led by rookie co-ordinator Mark Washington lost steam over the final two games of the regular season before the disaster in Montreal. “I’m proud of what our defence accomplished for many weeks of the season, but when it counted we just didn’t get it together,� said Elimimian. “We didn’t play good as a team — offensively, defensively and special teams. I feel like we have great players in this locker-room. I feel like there’s good coaches on the staff and I feel like there’s the recipe to win.� At least one player heading out the door isn’t so sure. “I’ve been here a long time — no identity,� said Marsh. “You didn’t know what you were going to get week in and week out.�
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SURREY, B.C. — Grey Cup organizers were hoping for different outcomes in the CFL playoffs over the weekend, but they still believe the big game on Nov. 30 will be a sellout. Both the hometown B.C. Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders — who have the most rabid fanbase in the league — were eliminated from post-season play on Sunday. Despite those disappointing results, 102nd Grey Cup Festival general manager Jamie Pitblado is confident the remaining 6,500 unsold tickets will be gone by kickoff on Nov. 30 at Vancouver’s B.C. Place Stadium. “Once we get those two finalists the big push will start and we’ll certainly be sold out come game time,� Pitblado said Tuesday. “We were certainly hoping the Lions would have a stronger showing and continue the march and we’d move a few more (tickets) along the way, but it is what it is. “We always prepare a game and a festival not knowing who’s going to be in it. The last three years organizers got spoiled having the home team in. Now it’s just back to having to do some hard work and push the tickets.� The Calgary Stampeders host the Edmonton Esvs kimos in the West Division final, while the Hamilton Tiger-Cats welcome the Montreal Alouettes in the East showdown. “I think all the teams will draw well. Certainly if you look at (Lions’) home games, when we play Calgary we get quite a large contingent of red and white,� said Pitblado. “So Calgary would be a strong vs one and a helpful one, but Edmonton’s playing some
SCOREBOARD Hockey
CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL 21 15 4 1 1 22 11 8 1 2 22 11 8 1 2 23 11 9 2 1 21 8 13 0 0 21 5 12 3 1
Pt 35 28 25 20 18 12
GF 80 80 66 81 56 52
GA 49 64 55 78 89 87
Pt 32 25 25 25 16 14
WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 23 20 1 2 0 113 Victoria 24 12 10 2 0 77 Prince George 23 11 12 0 0 68 Kamloops 23 9 10 2 2 71 Vancouver 21 9 12 0 0 71
GA 53 83 99 81 70
Pt 42 26 22 22 18
GA 53 60 59 62 89
Pt 31 28 21 21 21
Everett Tri-City Spokane Seattle Portland
GP 20 23 19 22 23
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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Brandon 22 17 4 1 0 107 68 Swift Current 24 12 8 0 4 66 65 Regina 22 12 9 1 0 77 61 Moose Jaw 21 9 10 1 1 60 71 Prince Albert 22 9 13 0 0 64 77 Saskatoon 22 6 16 0 0 54 102
Medicine Hat Calgary Edmonton Red Deer Kootenay Lethbridge
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U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 14 3 2 1 14 9 0 0 9 7 3 0 9 10 2 1 9 11 0 3
GF 75 67 57 58 75
Tuesday’s results Regina 5 Edmonton 4 (OT) Medicine Hat 4 Red Deer 2 Vancouver 6 Prince George 4 Victoria 4 Kelowna 3 (OT)
Second Period 2. Medicine Hat, Stanton 4 (Labelle, Lewington) 12:06. 3. Medicine Hat, Vannelli 8 (Cox, Stanton) 16:42. Penalties — Polei RD (holding) 7:06, Mahura RD (slashing) 13:22, Vannelli MH (slashing) 14:34, Johnson RD (tripping) 17:16. Third Period 4. Medicine Hat, Quenneville 4 (Labelle) 3:57. 5. Red Deer, Kopeck 7 (Doetzel, De Wit) 11:53. 6. Red Deer, Johnson 10 (Pawlenchuk, Cote) 18:48 (pp). Penalties — Bleackley RD (inter. on goaltender) 5:17, Toth RD (tripping) 5:50, Staples MH (tripping) 12:00, Quenneville MH (hooking) 14:43, MH Bench (served by Owre, too many men) 15:52, Vannelli MH (hooking) 17:21, Fleury RD (slashing) 19:52, Sanford MH (slashing) 19:52. Shots on goal Red Deer 9 6 10 — 25 Medicine Hat 18 8 13 — 39 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (L, 10-6-2); Medicine Hat: Langhamer (W, 10-3-1). Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 1-6; Medicine Hat: 0-6. National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 20 14 5 1 29 Tampa Bay 20 13 5 2 28 Boston 20 12 8 0 24 Detroit 18 9 4 5 23 Ottawa 17 8 5 4 20 Toronto 19 9 8 2 20 Florida 16 6 5 5 17 Buffalo 20 5 13 2 12
GF 55 73 53 50 47 58 35 34
GA 51 54 49 42 45 60 42 69
Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 17 13 3 1 27 18 12 6 0 24 18 8 7 3 19 18 7 7 4 18 19 8 9 2 18 16 7 7 2 16 18 6 9 3 15 18 6 11 1 13
GF 64 59 52 50 47 51 43 44
GA 35 52 50 58 56 53 55 64
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 18 12 4 2 26 St. Louis 18 12 5 1 25 Winnipeg 20 10 7 3 23 Chicago 18 10 7 1 21 Minnesota 17 10 7 0 20 Colorado 19 6 8 5 17 Dallas 19 6 9 4 16
GF 52 49 40 51 50 47 53
GA 37 35 43 36 39 61 67
Pittsburgh N.Y. Islanders Washington N.Y. Rangers New Jersey Philadelphia Carolina Columbus
Wednesday’s games Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. Brandon at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Portland at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Prince George, 8 p.m. Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Friday’s games Swift Current at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Edmonton at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Moose Jaw at Calgary, 7 p.m. Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Everett at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Regina at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Spokane at Seattle, 8:35 p.m. Tuesday’s summary Tigers 4, Rebels 2 First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Sanford 15 (Cox, Lewington) 15:54. Penalties — Maxwell RD (roughing) 7:30, Staples MH (roughing) 18:43.
Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 20 11 4 5 27 54 50 Calgary 20 12 6 2 26 63 53 Vancouver 18 12 6 0 24 53 52 Los Angeles 19 10 5 4 24 50 42 San Jose 21 10 9 2 22 57 57 Arizona 19 8 9 2 18 48 59 Edmonton 18 6 10 2 14 44 60 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime
loss.
Thursday
Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 5, N.Y. Rangers 1
● Women’s college hockey: NAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Lacombe, 7:15 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Orangemen vs. NWS, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Vikings, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.
Tuesday’s Games Calgary 4, Anaheim 3, SO Boston 2, St. Louis 0 N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 2 Detroit 5, Columbus 0 Buffalo 4, San Jose 1 Nashville 9, Toronto 2 Pittsburgh 4, Montreal 0 Winnipeg 3, New Jersey 1 Carolina 6, Dallas 4 Washington 2, Arizona 1, OT Los Angeles 5, Florida 2
Friday
Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Edmonton, 6 p.m. Thursday’s Games Minnesota at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. St. Louis at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Nashville at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m. Detroit at Winnipeg, 6 p.m. Arizona at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Washington at Colorado, 7 p.m. Chicago at Calgary, 7 p.m. Anaheim at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Carolina at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Florida at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday’s summary Flames 4, Ducks 3 (SO) First Period 1. Anaheim, Vatanen 5 (Silfverberg) 15:54. Penalties — Engelland Cgy (fighting) 3:06, Jackman Ana (fighting) 3:06, Jackman Ana (slashing) 3:06. Second Period 2. Anaheim, Beleskey 8 (Lindholm, Vatanen) 12:29 (pp). Penalties — Granlund Cgy (tripping) 5:10, Wideman Cgy (tripping) 11:27. Third Period 3. Calgary, Hudler 6 (Granlund, Brodie) 3:25. 4. Calgary, Wideman 6 (Granlund) 9:03. 5. Calgary, Wideman 7 (Gaudreau) 13:43. 6. Anaheim, Palmieri 1 (Fowler, Vatanen) 15:05 (pp). Penalties — Palmieri Ana (roughing) 0:44, Palmieri Ana (hooking) 6:21, Jooris Cgy (tripping) 14:39, Silfverberg Ana (hooking) 15:42. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — Kesler Ana (cross-checking) 4:40. Shootout — Calgary wins 2-1 Anaheim : Kesler goal, Silfverberg miss, Perry miss. Calgary : Gaudreau goal, Hudler miss, Monahan goal. Shots on goal Anaheim 9 10 6 2 — 27 Calgary 4 3 10 2 — 19 Goal — Anaheim: Andersen (LO, 7-2-4); Calgary: Hiller (W, 9-4-1). Power plays (goal-chances) — Anaheim: 2-3; Calgary: 0-5
Football CFL PLAYOFFS Semi-finals Sunday, Nov. 16 Montreal 50 B.C. 17 Edmonton 18 Saskatchewan 10 Dvision Finals Sunday, Nov. 23 Montreal at Hamilton, 11 a.m. Edmonton at Calgary, 2:30 p.m. National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 8 2 0 .800 323 Miami 6 4 0 .600 249 Buffalo 5 5 0 .500 200 N.Y. Jets 2 8 0 .200 174 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 6 4 0 .600 310 Houston 5 5 0 .500 229 Tennessee 2 8 0 .200 168 Jacksonville 1 9 0 .100 158 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 6 3 1 .650 224 Pittsburgh 7 4 0 .636 288 Baltimore 6 4 0 .600 261 Cleveland 6 4 0 .600 216 West W L T Pct PF Denver 7 3 0 .700 293 Kansas City 7 3 0 .700 241 San Diego 6 4 0 .600 218 Oakland 0 10 0 .000 152
PA 218 180 204 265 PA 253 204 250 282
NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 7 3 0 .700 299 Dallas 7 3 0 .700 261 N.Y. Giants 3 7 0 .300 205 Washington 3 7 0 .300 204 South W L T Pct PF Atlanta 4 6 0 .400 238 New Orleans 4 6 0 .400 261 Carolina 3 7 1 .318 215 Tampa Bay 2 8 0 .200 194 North W L T Pct PF Detroit 7 3 0 .700 188 Green Bay 7 3 0 .700 330 Chicago 4 6 0 .400 215 Minnesota 4 6 0 .400 181 West W L T Pct PF Arizona 9 1 0 .900 237 San Francisco 6 4 0 .600 211 Seattle 6 4 0 .600 260 St. Louis 4 6 0 .400 185
PA 221 263 181 195
Monday’s Game Pittsburgh 27, Tennessee 24
PA 224 171 192 265
Sunday, Nov. 23 Green Bay at Minnesota, 11 a.m. Cincinnati at Houston, 11 a.m. Tampa Bay at Chicago, 11 a.m. Cleveland at Atlanta, 11 a.m.
PA 251 212 263 256 PA 255 252 300 279 PA 156 225 290 220 PA 176 212 215 258
Thursday, Nov. 20 Kansas City at Oakland, 6:25 p.m.
Tennessee at Philadelphia, 11 a.m. Detroit at New England, 11 a.m. Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 11 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 11 a.m. Arizona at Seattle, 2:05 p.m. St. Louis at San Diego, 2:05 p.m. Washington at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m. Miami at Denver, 2:25 p.m. Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 6:30 p.m. Open: Carolina, Pittsburgh Monday, Nov. 24 Baltimore at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m. NFL Odds (Odds provided by SportsBetting.ag; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Thursday KANSAS CITY at Oakland 7 42.5 Sunday Tampa Bay at CHICAGO 5 46.5 NY Jets at BUFFALO 4.5 39.5 Cincinnati at HOUSTON 1 43.5 Jacksonville at INDIANAPOLIS 13.5 50.5 GREEN BAY at Minnesota 9 48.5 Tennessee at PHILADELPHIA 11 48.5 Detroit at NEW ENGLAND 7 48 Cleveland at ATLANTA 3 47 Arizona at SEATTLE 6.5 42 St. Louis at SAN DIEGO 4 43.5 Washington at SAN FRANCISCO 9 44 Miami at DENVER 7 49 DALLAS at NY Giants 3 47 Monday Baltimore at NEW ORLEANS 3 49.5
● Peewee AA hockey: Foothills at Olds, 6 p.m. ● College volleyball: Olds at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Strathmore at Stettler, 7:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Elks, 8:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 8:30 p.m.; Stony Plain at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday
● Bantam AA hockey: Foothills at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Lethbridge at Olds, 3:30 p.m.; Red Deer Ramada at Sylvan Lake, 5:45 p.m. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Spruce Grove at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Canucks
at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Taber at Sylvan Lake, 5:30 p.m., Eckville. ● College basketball: St. Mary’s at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Portage College at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Blackfalds at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena.
Sunday
● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Bow Valley at Sylvan Lake, 3 p.m., Eckville. ● AJHL: Bonnyville at Olds, 2 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Foothills at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m., Bentley; Taber at Red Deer Elks, 5:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Calgary, 4 p.m., Saddledome (The Drive). ● Men’s basketball: Grandview vs. Monstars, Wells Furniture vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, Rusty Chuckers vs. Silver Spurs, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. NWS, Alken Basin vs. All Sports Cresting Lacombe, Driven vs. Sheraton Red Deer, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.
Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 8 2 .800 — Brooklyn 4 6 .400 4 Boston 3 6 .333 4 1/2 New York 3 9 .250 6 Philadelphia 0 10 .000 8 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Washington 7 2 .778 — Miami 6 5 .545 2 Atlanta 5 5 .500 2 1/2 Orlando 5 7 .417 3 1/2 Charlotte 4 7 .364 4 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 8 3 .727 — Cleveland 5 4 .556 2 Milwaukee 6 5 .545 2 Indiana 4 7 .364 4 Detroit 3 8 .273 5 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 10 1 .909 — Houston 9 2 .818 1 Dallas 8 3 .727 2 New Orleans 6 4 .600 3 1/2 San Antonio 6 4 .600 3 1/2 Northwest Division
Portland Utah Denver Oklahoma City Minnesota Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers
W L Pct 8 3 .727 5 7 .417 3 7 .300 3 9 .250 2 7 .222 Pacific Division W L Pct 8 2 .800 5 4 .556 6 5 .545 6 5 .545 2 9 .182
GB — 3 1/2 4 1/2 5 1/2 5 GB — 2 2 2 6
1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2
Tuesday’s Games L.A. Lakers 114, Atlanta 109 Milwaukee 117, New York 113 Utah 98, Oklahoma City 81 New Orleans 106, Sacramento 100 Wednesday’s Games Boston at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Dallas at Washington, 5 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Orlando, 5 p.m. Charlotte at Indiana, 5 p.m. San Antonio at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Memphis at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Phoenix at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. New York at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Denver, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Houston, 7:30 p.m.
Bowling Heritage Lanes High scores Nov. 10-16 Monday 55+: Bill Dunlop, 272 high single; Joann Hersikorn, 619 high triple. Monday mixed: Steve Thomlinson, 315; Thomlinson, 675. Tuesday mixed: Harvey Von Hollen, 393; Von Hollen, 832. Wednesday 55+: Marg Dawson, 264; Bill Dunlop, 646. Thursday ladies: Donna Cain, 273; Cain, 574. Thursday Special Olympics mixed: June Rolfson, 260; Franklin Mclellan, 371.
Thursday mixed: Matt Desjardins, 347; Desjardins, 738. Monday scratch: Gene Ziebarth, 347; Ziebarth, 1,198 four games. Sunday Fun League: Ryan Weetman, 304; Shelby Chrest, 680. Youth Bowling Bumpers: Caiden Hort, 79. Bowlasaurus: Dyson Seifried, 105. Peewees: Brody Ross, 114; Sylis Gray, 200 two games. Bantams: Karys Zirk, 201; Zirk, 507 three games. Juniors: Brody Kopec, 273, Kopec, 670. Seniors: Brendan Innes, 296; Cody Pratt, 693.
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Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended free agent OF Dayton Alexander 76 games after a positive test positive for metabolites of Methandienone and Methyltestosterone and free agent OF Ben McQuown 50 games for a second positive test for a drug of abuse under the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Singed RHP Oliver Drake. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with LHP Zach Duke on a three-year contract. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with RHP Shaun Marcum and RHP Dustin Molleken on minor league contracts. HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with OF Alex Presley on a one-year contract. SEATTLE MARINERS — Named Pat Listach manager of Tacoma (PCL). TEXAS RANGERS — Named Tony Beasley third base coach. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with C Russell Martin on a five-year contract. National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Named David Finley vice-president, amateur & international scouting, Galen Carr director of player personnel, Jeff Pickler special assistant, pro scouting & player development and Jack Cressend as pitching crosschecker. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Named Frank Cacciatore coach at Reading (EL); Greg Legg manager, Rob Ducey coach and Steve Schrenk pitching coach for Clearwater (FSL); Shawn Williams manager and Nelson Prada coach for Lakewood (SAL); Pat Borders manager at Williamsport (NYP); and Brian Sweeney pitching coach of GCL Phillies. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms
with Collin Balester, LHP Jeremy Bleich, RHP Deolis Guerra, RHP Brad Lincoln, INF Gustavo Nunez, RHP Blake Wood, RHP Felipe Gonzalez, RHP Marek Minarik, RHP Tyler Sample and OF Junior Sosa on minor league contracts. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS — Assigned G Nick Johnson to Rio Grande Valley (NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Minnesota RB Adrian Peterson for the remainder of the season for violating the NFL personal conduct policy. ARIZONA CARDINALS — Placed TE Troy Niklas on injured reserve. Signed TE Matthew Mulligan. ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed DT Ricky HaviliHeimuli to the practice squad. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Activated FB Mike Tolbert from the injured reserve/return list. Signed WR-CB De’Andre Presley from the practice squad. Waived WR Jason Avant. Placed OT Nate Chandler on injured reserve. CHICAGO BEARS — Signed WR-KR Marc Mariani to a two-year contract. Waived S Ahmad Dixon. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed LB Terrell Manning to the practice squad. Released LB Justin Jackson from the practice squad. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived RB Ben Tate. Signed LB Zac Diles. Re-signed DL Jacobbi McDaniel to the practice squad. Signed LB Scott Solomon to the practice squad. Released LB D.J. Smith from the practice squad. DALLAS COWBOYS — Released G Jeff Baca and LB Will Smith from the practice squad. Signed LB Keith Smith and CB Robert Steeples to the practice squad. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed KR Josh Cribbs and TE Weslye Saunders. Placed RB Ahmad Bradshaw on injured reserve. Waived LB Victor
Butler. Signed RB Michael Hill to the practice squad. Released WR Eric Thomas from the practice squad. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed RB Dominique Williams to the practice squad. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Placed WR Brandin Cooks and S Rafael Bush on injured reserve. Waived RB Edwin Baker. Signed LB Moise Fokou. Signed CB Terrence Frederick from the practice squad. Signed S Pierre Warren from Minnesota’s practice squad. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Released RB LeGarrette Blount. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released T Andrew McDonald and S Steven Terrell. Signed C Lemuel Jeanpierre and DT Travian Robertson. HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Reassigned D Stephen Johns to Rockford (AHL). Recalled F Joakim Nordstrom and D Adam Clendening from Rockford (AHL). COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Assigned D Frederic St. Denis to Springfield (AHL). DALLAS STARS — Recalled D Jyrki Jokipakka from Texas (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned RW Martin Frk from Grand Rapids (AHL) to Toledo (ECHL). FLORIDA PANTHERS — Recalled F Rocco Grimaldi from San Antonio (AHL). MINNESOTA WILD — Assigned G Josh Harding to Iowa (AHL). American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Albany D Mark Fraser three games for an illegal check to the head of an opponent in a Nov. 14 game at Portland. Suspended Albany RW Paul Thompson two for of a charging incident in a Nov. 15 game at Portland. CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Signed LW Gabriel Desjardins to a professional tryout contract. SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Released D Mike Cornell from his professional tryout contract.
Kelsie Small poured in 35 points Monday to lead the Young Gunns to a 65-54 Red Deer Women’s Basketball League win over Funk. Kaitlin Rose scored 20 in a losing cause. In other league games: ● Jaci Horvath netted 18 points as the Spartans dumped the Royals 54-25. Karli Hoffman had nine for the Royals. ● The Xpress, with Julie de Vos scoring 15 points, downed Triple Threat 38-24. Dana Stephanyk scored seven for the losers. ● The Big Ballers, with Katrina Papenhuyzen dropping in 17 points, downed Rampage 48-24. Rebecca Schabb had six in a losing cause.
MEN’S BASKETBALL All Sports Cresting Lacombe got a 32-point performance from Chad Kelloway in an 83-43 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over the Silver Spurs. Bryce Krausher added 20 points for the winners, while Brian Miller had eight for the Spurs.
CORRECTION The article in Tuesday’s Advocate regarding the Central Alberta Sting teams was in reference to ringette, not hockey as the headline stated.
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Forsberg blossoming into NHL star PREDATORS ROOKIE IS BIG PART OF TEAM’S HOT START BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — With every goal and assist, Filip Forsberg is helping the Nashville Predators continue their hot start, and making a 2013 deadline trade look more lopsided by the day. The 20-year-old Forsberg is 10th in the NHL in scoring with 20 points on eight goals and 12 assists. He’s a big reason why Nashville is pushing Chicago for first place in the Central Division more than a month into the season. “We knew he was going to be good; I don’t think we expected him to be this good this early,” defenceman Ryan Ellis said. “He’s got some unbelievable hands and his confidence is high right now, which goes a long way on the ice.” Confident but not cocky, Forsberg has grown physically and mentally from the player the Washington Capitals somewhat reluctantly drafted 11th overall in 2012. Projected to go in the top three, the Swedish forward with the slick skill slipped down the board. Less than a year later, the Capitals wanted to make a push for the playoffs and traded Forsberg to the Predators for veteran winger Martin Erat and young grinder Michael Latta. Erat’s role was minimalized in Washington last season — he asked for and got a trade to the Phoenix Coyotes — and Latta is a fourth-liner. Forsberg struggled in his first long look in the NHL with the Predators and was sent to the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League. That was perhaps the best thing for him and the team. “Everybody gets to the NHL when they’re ready to get to the NHL, when they’re good enough,” general manager David Poile said. “We probably forced him. I think he was just too young. How many times do we need to realize that these guys really benefit from coming over
to North America, going to Milwaukee, going through that process.” Forsberg knew of the Predators from Swedish star Peter Forsberg (no relation) playing for them several years ago and quickly learned that Nashville was famous for country music. He didn’t plan to play in Milwaukee, but it worked out. “You really learn what it takes to be a pro,” Forsberg said. “I think I handled that pretty well.” Predators captain Shea Weber “could see that he has something there” when Forsberg was just breaking into the league. Weber noticed growth on Forsberg’s part when he returned for training camp. Forsberg spent the past two summers home in Sweden working out. “Hopefully I’ve put on some muscle,” he said. He’s noticeably bigger and stronger than he was at the draft or when he showed up in North America that summer for development camp. He’s also a crisper player. His skating is much improved and he has adjusted to the pace of the NHL. “Hopefully I’ve become better at most stuff,” Forsberg said. “I think I’m way stronger with the puck. I think that’s kind of the key to my game. I’m a pretty big-sized guy, so I think if I can be strong on the puck I can be successful.” Forsberg credited linemates Mike Ribeiro and James Neal for his success this season. Several teammates pointed to him being a consistent performer. “He’s showing up every game and (putting in) good effort and can play both sides of the puck,” Ribeiro said. “He’s a deceiving shooter, too. He’s mature for his age. He’s a guy who gets prepared for games and wants to make a difference.” Consistency is a prerequisite playing for coach Peter Laviolette, who has been im-
Nashville Predators’ Filip Forsberg controls the puck as St. Louis Blues’ Jay Bouwmeester defends during an NHL game Nov. 13, 2014, in St. Louis. The Predators got Forsberg at the 2013 trade deadline for Martin Erat, who has been traded again since. Forsberg, meanwhile, is 10th in the NHL in scoring as Nashville is off to an unexpectedly hot start. pressed by Forsberg since development camp. “He’s a good young player that’s finding his way, he’s done a nice job at the start of the season,” Laviolette said. With Forsberg leading the scoring charge, Weber on defence and Pekka Rinne in goal, the Predators are exceeding expectations in the first season under Laviolette. They’re third in the league in goals against per game. Ellis said while Barry Trotz — who moved on quickly to Washington — was a great
coach, the Predators are benefiting from a change of scenery. Not only is Laviolette new, but Poile pointed out that Nashville has a handful of new forwards, including Ribeiro, Neal and Derek Roy. Rinne being back after an injury and infection-plagued season helps, too. “There’s no question that psychologically you probably play a little bit different with Pekka in net than we did last year for 51 games that he wasn’t there,” Poile said. “It’s a good difference and it’s a big
Brodeur still has the ‘fire’ and wants to play again BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Martin Brodeur isn’t burning up his phone trying to find a place to play. While he lets his agent do that leg work, the legendary goaltender keeps working out and skating as much as he can in the hopes that his NHL career isn’t over. More than a month into the season, Brodeur is 42 and without a job. But he hasn’t given up. “I don’t want to cheat myself on any opportunities,” Brodeur said Monday night before the Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremony. “I still have the fire, I’d like to play again, but it’s understandable with the quality of goaltending around the league. The youth of the quality of goaltending is pretty tremendous. We’ll see if my experience is valued to an organization or not.” Brodeur is the all-time leader in wins (688) and shutouts (124) and won three Stanley Cups with the New Jersey Devils (1995, 2000 and 2003). He posted save percentages of .901 the past two seasons, split time with Cory Schneider his final year in New Jersey and left as a free agent over the
NHL GOALTENDING summer. No team signed Brodeur on July 1 when free agency opened, and when he was asked how close he got to a contract, the Montreal native quipped: “Depends what you mean close. I’m still here, so it wasn’t that close.” Brodeur conceded his wait for another opportunity was “getting a little long” but insisted he’ll stay ready. In the mean time, he has been travelling, spending time with his children and watching games. One thing Brodeur isn’t interested in is playing for Canada at the upcoming Spengler Cup. “I have some conversations, but right now that’s not my goal is to play around Christmastime in Switzerland, that’s for sure,” Brodeur said. As for NHL chances, Brodeur said the teams he might be interested in playing for and those who want him might be different. But the career starter is not going to be picky about being a starter again. “I’m willing to play in any kind of role that would be offered to me to a certain extent,
in the right fit and in the right market,” Brodeur said. “For me, it’s not about ego or anything. I just love to play the game, and I know I can help the team out somehow. I just want to try and get an opportunity. The role will be the role that will be assigned to me.” It’s hard to envision a perfect scenario for Brodeur. There already seems to be a surplus of goaltending, with the Minnesota Wild waiving Josh Harding and other previous backups like Jacob Markstrom, Dan Ellis, Kevin Poulin and Peter Budaj are under contract in the minors. Schneider has started the first 18 games of the season for the Devils, who have alternated veteran Scott Clemmensen and rookie Keith Kinkaid as his backup. It’s a much different world for a franchise that handed the reins to Brodeur for two decades. Along with Brodeur, Ilya Bryzgalov and Tomas Vokoun are without jobs and could be more attractive options because they’re younger. Bryzgalov had a bit of a revitalization last year with the Wild and went to camp with them
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before getting released. Brodeur never got that far, and it’s difficult for him to stay in playing shape while getting ice time three or four times a week and practising with a couple of shooters at a time. But don’t mistake that for an unwillingness to play right away if a team comes calling. “It depends, it depends the situation you’re in,” Brodeur said. “If you need a goalie tomorrow, that could be a tough one, but, hey, I’m willing to do it. It doesn’t matter. I’ve done it before. I’ve came back from injury without playing for four or five months and jumped right in it.” Standing on the red carpet before the 2014 Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Brodeur didn’t play into the talk about his own night potentially being a few years away. “That’s the greatest honour you can have as a hockey player is to be part of this,” he said. “It’s something that if it happens will be an awesome feeling.” Reminded that if he plays this year, it backs up his eligibility by a year, Brodeur smiled. “That’s all right,” he said. “That’s no big deal.”
difference and it’s one of the huge factors of why we’re winning more games than we’re losing right now.” Having Forsberg clicking like he has so far doesn’t hurt. All the while, he keeps producing without much fanfare. “He’s very level-headed, he’s very humble,” Ellis said. “He’s a lot of fun to be around. He’s a simple kid and he’s just kind of having a good time right now and enjoying the success. He’s just going about his business and being successful.”
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MONEY SOUGHT FOR DESIGN, BUSINESS PLAN BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Supporters of a proposed cultural centre in Lacombe were given another show of support from Lacombe city council. Last week, Coun. Grant Harder was appointed liaison with the committee behind the Cranna Community Cultural Centre, known locally as the C4 Initiative. A request for up to $25,000 in funding to cover half the cost of a preliminary design and business plan will be dealt with in council’s upcoming 2015 budget deliberations.
The budget is expected to go to council for approval next month. C4 is a two-year-old partnership comprised of the Lacombe Performing Arts Centre Foundation, Lacombe Day Care Centre Society, Lacombe and District Family and Community Support Services, and the Parent Link Centre. Their goal is to create a community hub. It would include a performing arts venue, studio spaces, daycare, as well as providing space for a range of programs and services for all age groups. Wolf Creek School Division is also on board and, with the city, holding land east of City Hall for the centre. The agreement expires next spring.
Foundation president Lann Lieurance said progress is being made on the project, which they hope to see completed in 2020. “We’re moving ahead actually quite well right now,” said Lieurance. If the city comes through with funding, supporters of the project will seek to match it through fundraising and an application to the charitable foundation of local country music star Gord Bamford. Once funding is lined up, it will be used to hire architects to do preliminary design work, and create a business model with cost estimates and potential funding sources. Three architecture firms have al-
ready been short listed. Municipal and provincial financial support, and local fundraising and sponsorships will be tapped to build the centre. Harder, who is former president of the performing arts foundation and very familiar with the project, shared Lieurance’s optimism. “It’s definitely moving along.” A feasibility study was done in 2012 that demonstrated a need for the centre. “There’s fairly significant support in the local community, I feel,” Harder said. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
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Chad Yanulik carries a branch from a maple tree taken down on the site of the new Native Friendship Centre in Red Deer on Tuesday. Work began this week clearing the land and some of the wood taken from the site will be milled and turned into furniture by Yanulik who operates Chad-Lee Designs Custom Furniture in Red Deer. The site clearing is being done by Trimmed Line Tree Services of Red Deer. Much of the wood will be salvaged including maple, poplar and spruce which will be used in the construction of Friendship Centre.
Red Deer’s biggest Christmas tree will light up the downtown on Saturday night to kickoff the 2014 Festival of Trees. The outdoor yuletide party — Festival Lights the Night — at City Hall Park runs from 4 to 6:30 p.m. with hot chocolate, snacks, fire pits, and children’s activities and entertainment. The switch will be flipped to light up the trees in City Hall Park at 5:15 p.m. and the biggest Christmas tree will shine in front of the Old Court House at 6 p.m., along with a holiday light show. A parade will no longer be part of the festivities due to weather and road condition uncertainties. Instead, a Human Christmas Tree Decorating Challenge will feature Red Deer media and others like city councillors, RCMP and the Red Deer Rebels. The challenge runs from 5:30 to 5:45 p.m. Each team is allowed to bring one garbage bag full of decorations and lights. Teams get three minutes to decorate before audience applause decides who wins. The 21st annual Festival of Trees at Westerner Park runs from Nov. 26 to 30. Money raised will go towards equipping two dedicated operating rooms for scheduled caesarean sections and emergency obstetrical procedures at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.
School boards split on weighting shift Although they voted against the motion to reduce the grade weight given to diploma exams, the Red Deer Public School District board stands behind the Alberta School Boards Association’s decision to lobby for the reduction. Under the proposal, the results of the diploma exam would account for only 30 per cent of a student’s final mark. For the past 30 years, the diploma exam has been worth 50 per cent of a student’s final mark. Red Deer Public was one of the few boards to vote against the motion at meeting on Monday. It received 83 per cent approval.
DIPLOMA EXAMS Bev Manning, Red Deer Public board chair, said they stand with the association’s decision. “There has been concerns raised about the 50-50 weighting of the provincial test results,” said Manning. “Throughout the province there has been good discussion and there have been lots of good opinions. “Red Deer Public did not vote in favour. One of the reasons was we felt there was a lot of research on either side of the argument. We felt there needs to be some validity to the exam mark.” Kelly Aleman, Alberta Teacher’s Association local 60 president for
Red Deer Public, said they are happy the board association is pursuing the change. “The association’s position, for as long as I can remember, has been to reduce the weighting of those provincial exams,” said Aleman. “The government tests don’t measure everything that is going on in schools. Giving them a 50 per cent weighting isn’t appropriate.” Aleman called the exams a snapshot of the learning and teaching students receive. He added that not all students do well on tests. “We didn’t feel comfortable saying 30 per cent was the right number,” said
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Manning. “I think we need to have a broader conversation about student assessments and what we expect our students to achieve at the end of their high school completion and how we expect them to go forward.” Manning’s Catholic counterpart Guy Pelletier said the Red Deer Regional Catholic Schools board supported the change in weighting for the diploma exams. “I think the feeling over the years has become that the 50 per cent was too heavily weighted to that single exam,” he said. “There is still support for universal testing at the provincial level, but to reduce it from 50 per cent to 30 per cent and put more emphasis on the classroom work.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
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Armed robbery spree probed in Blackfalds Blackfalds RCMP are looking for suspects involved in three armed robberies that occurred within minutes of each other on Monday night. Police say that around 9 p.m., a man with a handgun entered the Canadian Pizza on Parkwood Road and demanded that the clerk hand over an undisclosed amount of cash. Police believe the suspect then ran to the Liquor Store on Hwy 2A, just north of the Canadian Pizza in the same strip mall, and brandished a handgun while again demanding money from the clerk before leaving the store. Minutes later, two suspects entered the Pony Express Liquor Store, south of the first two armed robberies, and demanded the cash from the till and left the store. None of the clerks were hurt in the three robberies. Blackfalds RCMP are attempting to identify the suspects and vehicles, if any, involved. Anyone with information that may help the investigation is asked to call the Blackfalds RCMP complaint line, 403-885-3333. To remain anonymous, submit information online to www. tipsubmit.com or call Crime Stoppers, 1-800-222-8477.
ATV riders raise funds for couple who lost home A group of ATV riders are turning their annual Christmas get-together into a fundraiser for a couple burned out of their home. ATV club member Phyllis Cameron said an annual family Christmas party had already been planned for Kozy Korner in Lacombe on Dec. 6 when they heard about the plight of their fellow riders, Samantha Woodley and her boyfriend Justin Olan, of Linden. Last Friday, they lost their trailer home to an early-morning fire. ATV riders have decided to turn their party into a fundraiser with all proceeds going to the pair. Cash donations or donations for a silent auction can be made by calling Phyllis at 403358-2302 or can be dropped off at PowerSports Unlimited at 6143 48th Ave. in Red Deer. The party and fundraiser runs 3 to 5 p.m. at Kozy Korner at 5024 53rd St.
Tobacco trial delayed in Wetaskiwin The trial of a former Montana First Nation chief has been vacated and a new trial date set after her co-accused failed to show up for court. Carolyn Buffalo, 48, and Ontario resident Robbie Dickson, 41, were scheduled to stand trial in Wetaskiwin on charges that they had illegally trafficked in tobacco. Charges were laid in 2011 after the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission alleged the seizure of 16 million contraband cigarettes from a building on the Montana First Nation Reserve, located near Maskwacis. A new trial has been set for Jan. 26 to 30 in Wetaskiwin provincial court.
Proud of Red Deer? Tell the country Want to tell the country why you are proud of Red Deer? You could win town round trip tickets to your hometown. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) launched a campaign asking Canadians to showcase their hometown pride. As part of the campaign, the winner of the hometown story contest will receive two round trip tickets to bring loved ones home. Participants are asked to upload a picture and share what makes you proud of your hometown online at www.hometownproud. fcm.ca. The contest runs until Jan. 13. Full contest information is available at http://www.fcm.ca/home.htm. The Hometown Proud Campaign is the start of a conversation about building the Canada of tomorrow. Through the campaign, FCM wants to hear from Canadians about how they are connected to their hometowns, and how we can make them the best that they can be. These experiences, told through the stories that will be collected, are the building blocks of what makes Canada great. FCM is the national voice of municipal government.
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confronted someone who was trying to steal gas from their property at about 3:45 a.m. on Sept. 20. Police allege that a suspect in a stolen vehicle dragged Norm Scott for a distance after he reached through the vehicle’s driver’s side window. The suspect is alleged to have fled down Hwy 42 with Richard Scott in pursuit, ramming his vehicle four times before leaving the road and being blocked in by his pursuer, who then chased him on foot and held him until police arrived. Raven Joseph Beaverbones, 19, was charged with 13 offences, including assault with a weapon, dangerous driving, trespassing, possession of stolen property and breaching release conditions. His trial has been set for Red Deer provincial court on July 2.
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Trade show celebrates women over 50 Take time out for the Fabulous @50 Experience. The event coming to Red Deer celebrates baby boomer women. It happens at the iHotel (6500 67th St.) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Nov. 23. The first 100 women get a swag bag with swag at the door. The 18-and-over event is an opportunity for women to enjoy a day out and listen to motivational speakers who will present topics that matter to women between the ages of 40 and 70. Shop for new clothes, accessories, jewelry and a spritz of scent at the 26 trade show booths. There will be a fashion show, comedy by Zandra Bell and much more. Advance tickets are $12.50 each or two for $20. Tickets will be $15 at door. Purchase tickets in advance at www. eventbrite.ca and learn more about the day at www.fabulousat50.com.
Build a duct tape tree at the downtown library Teenagers can learn how to create an enchanted duct tape forest at an event at the downtown Red Deer Public Library branch on Nov. 26. Young people will learn how to make their own duct tape trees and collaborate to make an entire forest. Participants can get creative with their tree with pins and buttons, and other decorations. The event is for people aged 12 to 18 and runs in the Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room from 4 to 5 p.m. The library is located at 4818 49th St. For details, call 403-346-4576.
Conditional sentence on marijuana charges A conditional sentence has been granted to a man arrested during a drug raid in Red Deer almost two years ago. Chad West, 25, was charged with possession of marijuana for trafficking and possessing the proceeds of crime after a raid in downtown-area apartment building on Dec. 14, 2012. West recently pleaded guilty to some of the charges and was granted an 18-month conditional sentence, meaning he will serve his time in the community with strict terms and under court supervision.
Parental care in birds subject of presentation Birds that care for their young increase the chances of survival for their offspring. But the time looking after offspring can reduce the time adult birds have to defend their territory, feed or produce more offspring. An associate professor from Mount Royal University will speak about the evolution of parental care in birds in Red Deer on Nov. 27. Dorothy Hill has a doctorate in ecology, a master’s of science in zoology, and a bachelor of science in zoology. She speaks at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 7 p.m. Hill is speaking at an event sponsored by the Red Deer River Naturalists. The event is free and open to the public. The nature centre is located at 6300 45th Ave. in Red Deer.
Violent theft attempt goes to trial in July A trial has been scheduled in July for a suspect arrested after a violent confrontation with residents of a rural area southeast of Red Deer. Innisfail RCMP allege that Norm Scott suffered various injuries, including lacerations and a possible concussion, after he and his son Richard
The RCMP are looking for a few good men and women. Attend a career presentation at the Olds RCMP police station (5110 65th Ave.) to find out more about becoming an officer at 6 p.m. on Thursday. The RCMP hope to recruit 960 new officers across Canada over the next three years. The new recruits will work throughout the country. RCMP career presentations, entrance exams and workshops are held in a number of cities and towns throughout the year. A recent presentation at O’Chiese First Nation was cancelled because there was not a lot of interest. The RCMP will head back to the community next year after possibly changing the time of the session. The recruiting officer will next be in Red Deer on Dec. 2 and again on Jan. 5 at 6 p.m. at the downtown station (4602 51st Ave.). Registration is mandatory. Call 1-877-726-7472 or email RCMP.KRecruiting-KRecrutement.GRC@ rcmp-grc.gc.ca. A recruiting officer will discuss the diverse opportunities in a policing career with the RCMP, outline the stepby-step process, provide advice and answer questions. For more information, including the basic requirements for a career in the RCMP, visit www.rcmpcareers.ca.
Drug, weapons suspect guilty of some charges One of three suspects arrested during a drug and weapons raid in Red Deer has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to a portion of the charges against him. Ryan Litwyn, 27, is also prohibited from owning firearms for a period of 10 years on charges laid after police seized various weapons and drugs from a house in the Grandview subdivision on Sept. 25. Police allege seizing a pistol-grip shotgun, knives, crack cocaine, marijuana and drug trafficking paraphernalia from the house. Also charged with a total of 23 offences are co-accused Paul Edmund Fisch, 47 and Sharon Elizabeth Sharon Smith, 37. Fisch and Smith have not yet entered pleas on their charges and are due back in court on Nov. 27.
Fraud, theft jury trial set for next spring A jury trial will be held next spring for two men accused of running a fraud and theft scheme in the Consort area. Patrick Gramlich, 57, of Consort and Edmonton resident Samuel Skinner, 58, will stand trial before a judge and jury in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on multiple counts of thefts and fraud laid on May 8, 2012. RCMP allege that the two men defrauded and robbed eight complainants of more than $130,000. Their trial has been scheduled for March 23 to April 2.
Suspected drug runner faces trial next fall A suspected drug runner arrested following a fatal collision west of Rocky Mountain House will go to trial next fall. Rocky Mountain House resident Michael Jackson, 52, was arrested by local RCMP, who allege finding 77 kg of marijuana in the box of his pickup truck during their investigation of a collision that killed a 14-year-old pedestrian from Eden Valley. Police alleged at the time that the girl was struck down while walking or standing beside an SUV that was parked at the side of Hwy 12, about 40 km west of town, at 9:45 p.m. on Nov. 22, 2013. Police said Jackson stopped to help, but a fight broke out and he drove away. The injured girl was then placed
in the SUV, which hit the ditch on the way to Rocky. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Drug charges were laid against Jackson five days later when police allege finding marijuana hidden in the box of his truck during the course of their collision investigation. Jackson was ordered to stand trial after evidence against him was presented to a preliminary hearing in Rocky Mountain House provincial court on Aug. 19. He will be tried by judge alone in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Sept. 21 and 22.
Two poets to read work at Sunworks on Nov. 28 Two poets will read from their work at a free poetry reading in Red Deer on Nov. 28. Tracy Hamons will read from her new poetry book Red Curls and Kimmy Beach will read from her fifth book The Last Temptation of Bond. Both books deal with topics related to a man and his mistress or mistresses. Hamons’ book features a series of poems about Austrian artist Egon Schiele and his mistress model Valerie Neuzil. Beach’s book focuses on the fictional James Bond mythos and the cast of loved-and-left mistresses. The poetry reading will be upstairs in the Coconut Room at Sunworks at 4924 50th St. There will be appetizers and a cash wine bar. Book signing will follow. For details, call 403-341-3455.
Hockey centennial caravan in Red Deer Hockey Canada plans to celebrate 100 years of hockey with a tour that stops in Red Deer this weekend. The Hockey Canada Century Tour caravan includes many interactive displays and information about Canada’s national game. Viewers can step back in hockey history with a timeline of Hockey Canada and vignettes of key moments in its history. There are artefacts marking key moments in hockey history. The caravan also features interactive tablet stations, a replica of a locker stall where you can see what it’s like inside a dressing room. There are activities for children. The caravan is located in semitrailer units that will be parked at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday and Sunday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. The hall of fame is located at 4200 Hwy 2 No. 102 Red Deer, just west of Heritage Ranch. The tour launched in Ottawa on July 1 and will criss-cross the country until May 2015. For details more about the caravan, go to www.hockeycanada.ca/centurytour Hockey Canada is the governing body for ice hockey and sledge hockey in Canada.
Consort police investigate theft at Carillion Shop Consort RCMP are investigating a break-in at the town’s Carillion Shop. Sometime between the hours of 2:20 and 3:40 a.m. on Nov. 13, suspects entered the Carillion Shop and stole various items. The suspects drove a newer model Jeep Wrangler four-door, black hard top, greyish blue in colour, black rims with aggressive tires. The Jeep was parked facing east with lights on and running, sitting at the entrance of the Carillion Shop. This vehicle was also observed in the Consort area just prior to this incident. Anyone with information in regard to this vehicle and the occupants should contact the Consort RCMP at 403-577-3001 or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS(8437).
Seniors get information on staying independent People can learn how senior citizens can stay independent in their homes and communities at a free presentation and discussion in Red Deer on Nov. 27. Experts on nutrition, home care and medication management from Alberta Health Services will come together with a program director from Red Deer Family and Community Support Services for the Apple Talks event at the Golden Circle. The program runs from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The Golden Circle is located at 4620 47A Ave. The event is free and no registration is required. Apple Talks is part of the Passion for Health initiative, which aims to give Alberta more informal opportunities to connect with Alberta Health staff. For more information, go to albertahealthservices.ca/passionforhealth.
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Recovery of feeling can gradually improve for years after a hand transplant, suggests a small study that points to changes in the brain, not just the new hand, as a reason. Research presented Sunday at a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience sheds light on how the brain processes the sense of touch, and adapts when it goes awry. The work could offer clues to rehabilitation after stroke, brain injury, maybe one day even spinal cord injury. “It holds open the hope that we may be able to facilitate that recovery process,” said Dr. Scott Frey, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Missouri in Columbia. When surgeons attach a new hand, nerves from the stump must regenerate into the transplanted limb to begin restoring different sensations, hot or cold, soft or hard, pressure or pain. While patients can move a new hand fairly soon, how quickly they regain feeling and what sensations they experience vary widely. After all, the sense of touch isn’t just about stimulating nerves in the skin. Those nerves fire signals to a specific brain region to decipher what you’re touching and how to react. Lose a limb and the brain quickly rewires, giving those neurons new jobs. Frey’s work shows the area that once operated a right hand can start giving the left hand a boost. Brain scans suggest those changes are at least partially reversible if someone gets a hand transplant years later. But little is known about how the brain’s reorganization affects recovery. Telling where on the palms or fingers they’re being touched without looking is a persistent problem for hand transplant recipients, and a function of the brain’s main sensory area. Frey’s team compared four transplant recipients, four patients whose own hands were reattached immediately after injury, and 14 uninjured people. The longer the time since their surgeries, the more accurately patients located a light touch, Frey reported. Two who’ve had transplanted hands for eight and 10 years, respectively, were almost as accurate as uninjured people. So were two patients whose own hands were reattached 1 ½ and three years earlier.
Nerve regeneration is thought to take about two years, Frey said. “Yet their sensory abilities and motor abilities continue to improve, albeit gradually, as long as we’ve been measuring,” he said, suggesting the brain continues to adapt. Hand transplants are relatively new and rare. The United Network for Organ Sharing last summer began regulating them like it does organ transplants, and knows of about two dozen recipients in the U.S. since 1999. But they offer a model for the brain’s ability to reorganize after a stroke or other injuries that are harder to study, said Dr. Gordon Shepherd, a Yale University neuroscientist who wasn’t involved in the work. “It has quite broad implications” for research on recovery, he said. Touch isn’t just a functional sense: Another study presented Sunday examined its emotional side. Certain nerves register pain or itching. A completely different nerve detects the pleasure of a caress. Those nerve fibers have been studied mostly in animals. They’re found on the backs of mice, less on the limbs and never the paws. In humans, they’ve been found only in hairy skin. Previously, researchers measured the nerves’ activity in human forearms, and found they fired mostly after a gentle stroke that people called pleasurable but not after a fast pat. The theory is that these nerves evolved for social bonding. So Dr. Susannah Walker of Liverpool John Moores University tested if people experienced empathy when viewing video clips of different touches. Observing someone being gently stroked, people rated the touch to be pleasurable on the back and shoulder, but less so the forearm and not the palm, Walker found. A fast pat wasn’t deemed pleasurable. “It shows how our brains actually can vicariously take part in not only our own feelings, but in the feelings of those we see about us,” said Yale’s Shepherd. Touch is crucial for infant development, and Walker says a next step is learning if these nerves behave differently in developmental disorders such as autism.
Study finds gene mutations that lower heart risks RESULTS BOOST INTEREST IN HEART DRUG ZETIA director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, California. “We’re learning more and more Scientists have discovered gene mutations that give people naturally low- about protective mutations,” and er cholesterol levels and cut their risk the effect these had on heart disease risk was far greater than the degree of heart disease in half. That discovery may have a big im- to which they lowered cholesterol, he plication: A blockbuster drug that said. Topol had no role in the study, mimics these mutations has long been sold without evidence that it cuts the which was led by researchers from the chance of heart disease. Results of a Washington University School of Medilarge study that looked for that evi- cine in St. Louis, the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technoldence will be revealed on Monday. ogy and Harvard, The drug is and other instituMerck & Co.’s Ze‘IT’S A STUNNER. WE’RE tions. tia, also sold in LEARNING MORE AND Results were combination with another medicine MORE ABOUT PROTECTIVE published online Wednesday by as Vytorin. MUTATIONS’ the New England When Zetia was Journal of Medidesigned, scien— DR. ERIC TOPOL, tists knew how it DIRECTOR OF SCRIPPS TRANSLATIONAL cine. The work was worked to lower SCIENCE INSTITUTE mostly funded by LDL, or bad chothe National Inlesterol, and it won federal approval based on its abil- stitutes of Health. Researchers pooled results of studies that involved a total ity to do that. But the existence of gene mutations of 113,000 people around the world. that could do the same thing was not The relevant mutations were rare, with known, nor was it known if lowering an estimated one in 650 people carrycholesterol this way would translate to ing one. Researchers warn that the results a lower risk of heart problems. The new research gives a biological don’t mean Zetia will have the same good effects. Taking a drug in adultbasis to suggest the drug could help. Researchers found that people with hood is not the same as having benefimutations in a gene called NPC1L1 cial genes at work from birth. Still, the result does arouse interest had LDL that was 12 milligrams per decilitre lower on average than others in Zetia’s approach, Topol said. The gene mutations show “nature’s way of without a mutation. That is similar to how much Zetia protecting against heart disease. We got a major lesson here.” lowers LDL. The study on Zetia’s impact on heart The bigger finding was that the gene mutations lowered the risk of heart disease risk was presented Monday at an American Heart Association condisease by 53 per cent. “It’s a stunner,” said Dr. Eric Topol, ference in Chicago. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ask The Dentist! by Dr. Michael Dolynchuk, DDS
My Tooth Just Cracked - Whose Fault? Dear Dr. D: I am a frugal eldest child. I take care of everything in my life, from my house to my car to my clothing. Money is not short, but let's say there isn't much extra to go around. My mom was a child of the Great Depression and instilled in all of us the necessity of never wasting anything. My earliest memories are of her running around the house shutting off lights, and washing and rewashing plastic bags and food wrap. Our kitchen was waving to you with Saran Wrap on clothes pegs everywhere! My point is, I have never ignored an instruction from a dentist. I don't want more costly grief than necessary, so I floss twice daily and brush 3 times daily. Out of the blue, my lower molar cracked on me. It bothers me intermittently, but I need to know what to do about it? Whose fault is it? A:
Congratulations to your mom on being an original recycler! It also sounds like you have been a lifelong proponent of consistent dental care. Teeth are like cars – 'Keep 'em up or keep 'em new' is what my father used to say. The problem we all face is that our bodies are now outliving the 'best before date' of our teeth. With previous generations it was an accepted fact of life that you would lose your teeth eventually. Nobody thought less of you for that – simply at some point you could expect to put them in a glass of water at night. The simple fact is that at least some of your teeth will fail regardless of the seemingly diligent care one provides for them. As humans, we are subject to human frailty. If you suffer a heart attack or stroke, whose fault is that? We all have our Achilles Heel. You may grind your teeth at night and be unaware of it. Not your fault – but just pointing out that 'Stuff happens' that is beyond our control, such as genetic abnormalities. You're on the top of the list for self-prevention. The problem is that when problems occur they should be dealt with as soon as possible, to avoid a 'domino effect' with decay and bone loss. That cracked tooth of yours should have immediate attention to determine if it can be repaired. Aside from the risk of infection and discomfort you may feel, the severity of the crack will determine the best course of action. You may be lucky and the tooth may be a candidate for a crown only. In the case of a more severe crack which might extend through to the bone – an extraction may be the only logical treatment. Sometimes pain can be quite severe and the tooth may appear to the eye to be in relatively good shape – but only after extraction will the real source of the problem be apparent. In this case, the bone will recede at the site of the extracted tooth, and now your other teeth will 'jostle' for space. Teeth are mobile, even on folks in their 80's. See a qualified dentist ASAP to determine if this solution to replicate the existing tooth root and replace that tooth makes sense for you. It is an investment, but in some areas doing it 'on the cheap' just costs you more money in the long run! We can help. Call us for a free consultation. Also, remember to call our 1-800 'Ask the Dentist Hotline' at 1-800-970-9212 with any questions you would like us to address in future columns.
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WASHINGTON — She took on American politicians. Now a nurse who castigated what she considered ignorant and electoralist Ebola policies in her own country has a few words for the Government of Canada. Kaci Hickox had television crews parked outside the house last month as she defied quarantine orders, issued by certain state governors in the heat of U.S. election campaigns. The woman who became known in news headlines as “The Ebola Nurse” is now free to move around, after clearing the 21-day virus-free period. She was interviewed this week as she packed a trailer for her move across the state of Maine, to Freeport. And, yes, she’d heard about Canada’s clampdown on travel from parts of West Africa. The federal government has imposed far more aggressive rules than most countries, banning visas from Ebola-affected Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. “I had this terrible gut reaction,” Hickox said in an interview. “Discriminating against these entire countries, and groups of people that really need our help more than ever and need our support and our compassion more than ever, is quite shameful, actually.” Hickox’s return from Sierra Leone made her a cause celebre to some Americans, and a bete noir to others. The debate closely followed political lines, as her case landed in the middle of midterm elections. Big majorities have told pollsters that they want severe travel restrictions, similar to the measures imposed in Canada. But the U.S. government has resisted, saying those measures would be more harmful than helpful. Some state governors have taken measures into their own hands. In New Jersey, that’s what got Hickox quarantined in a tent after she landed at the airport, thus setting off a public dispute between her and the Republican governors in two states — that state’s
Chris Christie, and then Maine’s after she was sent home to complete her quarantine there. Hickox was between jobs after completing a fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control. She decided to volunteer for a month in Sierra Leone, with Doctors Without Borders. She counted 39 Ebola patients who walked out of her clinic, healed, during her time there. As for those who didn’t make it out, Hickox says she didn’t keep a list because it was too painful. The last one was a 10-year-old girl who suffered seizures, then died alone. Hickox says she’d go back — despite what happened upon her return. Amid the kind letters she’s received, there have been some hateful ones. One letter-writer said he hoped she’d get Ebola and die. Hickox blamed politicians for fanning fear. “It’s just incredibly disappointing to be doing the work you love — and then to come back and because politicians want to gain some votes, they make this into a re-election campaign (issue) instead of what it should be: which is a real public-health debate,” she said. “We should be listening to publichealth leaders. This should not be a political game. There was no reason for me to be put in a tent in New Jersey. There was no reason for me to be kept there for four days, except that Governor Christie was making a point. And that’s really scary, I think.” Another American back from a volunteer stint in Africa chose, unlike Hanson, to willingly place herself in quarantine. Jessi Hanson said she was lucky to have a supportive employer, who let her work from home through the 21day period. But she was equally scathing, perhaps more so, toward the Canadian policy. She characterized it as racist, saying Canada would never have considered banning visas from Europe, even though there were tens of thousands of measles cases and dozens of deaths a few years back. “Shocked and appalled,” Hanson said of the reaction she’s heard from friends in the U.S., to Canada’s Oct. 31 announcement.
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King caps white-hot year BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARDS
TORONTO — He’s published over a dozen books and received numerous award nominations, but writer Thomas King says he’s never been on a hot streak like this. In February, the 71-year-old from Guelph, Ont., won the $40,000 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for The Inconvenient Indian, in March he landed the $25,000 RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction for the same book, and on Tuesday he got a $25,000 Governor General’s Literary Award in the fiction category for The Back of the Turtle (HarperCollins Canada). Meanwhile, Daniel Poliquin’s French translation of King’s The Inconvenient Indian (Doubleday Canada) also won a $25,000 Governor General’s award on Tuesday, highlighting a career period that’s “just been busier than blazes,” says King. And yet such success also comes at a time when King feels the climate for his kind of “hard-hitting writing has gotten worse” as large corporations try to use their power to stifle critics, and “the social environment feels much chillier for saying something that needs to be saying,” he says. “I just saw where some large corporation is suing protesters for protesting,” the political activistturned-writer and professor said in a telephone interview. “They claim that they’ve lost money because people don’t like their product, basically, or don’t like the way they do business, which is idiotic. But nonetheless, they’re dragging individuals and organizations to court, because of course the large corporation has more money than the individual does. “I think that that climate, in terms of using writing to talk about social ills, to talk about the way we treat the environment, is much more fraught than it was 20 years ago.” King noted that in writing The Back of the Turtle, about a scientist who visits his mother’s aboriginal reserve community after it’s been deserted due to an environmental disaster, he had to change the name of one of the corporations he had created “because it was too close to another corporation and there was a chance that they might have taken that book to court.” “So I think the power of the corporations and their willingness to do a lot of really nefarious things to deflect criticism is kind of scary,” said King, who is of Cherokee and Greek descent, “and I think that writers, poets, artists of all sorts are always on the edge out there — and I think that edge has become razor sharp now.” The California native, who has been living in Canada since 1980, figures he’s able to get around such challenges because he writes with satire, which he calls his “haven.” He’s not interested in “beating somebody over the head with a blunt club” when it
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Author Thomas King is shown in a handout photo. comes to his messages, so he uses humour to do so. “I’m at an age now where there isn’t a whole hell of a lot they can do to me,” he said with a laugh. “I mean, truly. I’m on the backside of the moon right now.” Still, he’s received some backlash to The Inconvenient Indian, which focused on issues surrounding aboriginal history and land. “The Inconvenient Indian generated some fairly nasty emails. Things like, ‘You guys are all a bunch of ... bums. You should go back where you came from’ kind of thing,”’ said King, using an unprintable expletive. “That was one email. If you talk about native rights, if you talk about land rights in particular, you get some fairly violent reactions to that. “But those were in the minority, certainly.” The Canada Council for the Arts administers the Governor General’s Literary Awards, which honour writers in both official languages and in seven categories. Each winner, chosen by peer assessment committees, receives $25,000. This year’s English-language non-fiction winner is
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Innisfail Town Theatre producing Bedtime Stories
BRIEFS Juno-nominated hip-hop artist performs Saturday Juno-nominated hip-hop artist SonReal brings his innovative, feel-good rhyme schemes to Red Deer this weekend. The Vancouver-based rapper, best known for his video for Up Up Up, which was a smash hit on MuchMusic, performs Saturday at the International Beer Haus and Stage. SonReal’s public profile began growing with his 18-track mixed tape from 2012, which included the well-received single Words I Said in April, which was featured on some of the hottest hip-hop blogs. This was followed by his acclaimed album Good News. SonReal signed a recording deal with the independent label Black Box Records, which represents Shad and Classified. His first release with the label was a collaboration with East Coast rapper/producer Rich Kidd called The Closers. It debuted at No. 3 on iTunes hip-hop charts, next to Macklemore and Kanye West, and went on to nab a 2013 Juno Award nomination. Tickets to the SonReal show are $20 from TickNEW ITEMS etfly or the International EVERY Beer Haus. (Doors open at WEEKEND 7 p.m.) Call 403-986-5008.
Vancouver’s Michael Harris for The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection (HarperCollins Publishers). Montreal native Arleen Pare won the poetry prize for Lake of Two Mountains (Brick Books), while the drama honour went to Jordan Tannahill of Toronto for Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays Playwrights (Canada Press). The winner for children’s literature, text is Raziel Reid of Vancouver for When Everything Feels like the Movies (Arsenal Pulp Press). In the children’s illustration category, the honour went to Calgary native Jillian Tamaki for This One Summer, text by Mariko Tamaki (Groundwood Books/ House of Anansi Press). The English translation honour went to Peter Feldstein for Paul-Emile Borduas: A Critical Biography (McGill-Queen’s University Press) by FrancoisMarc Gagnon (Editions Fides). The awards will be presented Nov. 26 in a ceremony presided over by Gov. Gen. David Johnston at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
Take a peek at what goes on behind the bedroom door in Innisfail Town Theatre’s next production. Norm Foster’s Bedtime Stories weaves together six tales that all take place around a bed: a shock radio jock pays a couple to make love on the air; a woman visits a dying man she hurt long ago; an aging rocker is confronted by a groupie; two thieves discover a shocking secret; an accident-prone stripper meets with her boss; and a woman leaving her husband lectures movers on how to treat a lady. As the play unfolds, the audience sees a crosssection of humanity — from the hysterical to the poignant. “Foster never makes the audience work too hard to find meaning or humour in a situation. He’s reliable without being predictable,” states the production’s director, Janis Bell. Bedtime Stories, which celebrated the theatre group’s 35th anniversary, runs for nine performances including some dinner theatre productions, at the Ol’ Moose Theatre in Innisfail, starting on Thursday, Nov. 20, and running through Dec. 6. Tickets are $45 for dinner theatre shows or $25 for play-only stagings. Call The Legman at 403-227-5966.
Little Miss Higgins & The Winnipeg Five will perform some indelible country-blues county music on Thursday night at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer. The group is a high-energy collaboration between singer Little Miss Higgins, from Brooks, and a quintet of musicians from Manitoba, including trumpet, banjo and up-right bass players. Together, they create the kind of music that might have resulted if Memphis Minnie had jammed with Billie Holiday. Little Miss Higgins, also known as Jolene Higgins, is a Juno-nominated performer for her 2007 Junction City album, which collected a string of other honours — including a Maple Blues Award nomination, and wins at the Western Canadian Music Awards and eighth annual Indies Awards. She followed this up with a live 2009 release that yielded the favourites The Dirty Ol’ Tractor Song and I’m Gonna Bake My Biscuits, as well as the new tune A Lament for Louis Riel. Her newest release Bison Ranch Recording Sessions includes support from The Winnipeg Five, and was actually recorded in a barn in rural Manitoba. There’s a $10 cover charge for the 8:30 p.m. show. For more information, call 403-356-0033.
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Open Season, the 11thannual fundraiser for the Harris-Warke Gallery in Red Deer gets underway on Friday. This year’s benefit offers more fun options, including a three-course dinner, as well as live and silent art auctions. Dinner will be served from 6 p.m. in the Coconut Room, upstairs at Sunworks on Ross Street. Besides the delicious threecourse meal, there will be a cash bar and live music. Proceeds will go towards supporting the non-profit gallery. (Dinner tickets are $40. For more information, call 403-341-3455.) The board-run HarrisWarke gallery, on the second floor of Sunworks, features donated new works from local artists. The gallery opens to the general public at 7 p.m. The live auction of artworks starts at 8 p.m. Bidding for the silent auction closes at 8:45 p.m. The money raised will go towards supporting the local gallery and the artistic work it exhibits throughout the year.
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T.I.’s advice to protege Iggy Azalea on dealing with criticism: count your money BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It’s hours until T.I. will be flowing like silk onstage in Toronto, but the Atlanta rapper has already found a verbal momentum that seems impossible to interrupt. Sipping a Heineken in his hotel room prior to a recent club show at the Guvernment (which was granted a cameo by admirer Drake), T.I. is discussing how protege Iggy Azalea has thrived and thus absorbed the scrutiny of ubiquity, both from peers (Nicki Minaj and Snoop Dogg) and beyond (the Internet). Asked how he advises her to deal with such feedback, Tip quickly gets on a roll. “I’m going to be biased, because I see her as my little sister,” he said of the Fancy rapper, whom he signed and mentored. “I just know that for that kind of upside, you have to have some sort of negativity stitched in there somewhere. “And if opinions and criticism from people who have no real effect on your life, if that’s all you got to deal with, then I think we have other more pertinent things to worry about.” He pauses, for effect, then adds with a laugh: “Like, ’What we are going to do with all this money?”’ After the punchline his pace quickens, and he raps his fist on the coffee table to punctuate his points. “I try to tell her like that, man. Whenever you don’t like something somebody said, just ask yourself: ’What am I going to do with all this money?’ And if you’d rather think about what they said ... then you not getting enough money. Let’s go get some money. “I try to rationalize it to her like that. But little sis is little sis and she has her views and opinions and approaches to things. I respect her and support her, man, just because I know she’s a good person at heart. I know that she has done nothing to harm or disrespect or do anything bad to anyone intentionally.” He curses, drawing and drawling it out, then adds: “Obviously I know that anybody, if they was thrust into the position that she has been in such a short period of time, it takes time adjusting.” And just like that, the T.I. train has seemingly chugged back into the realm of his own experience. Born Clifford Harris, Jr., T.I. signed his first record deal as a teenager, released debut I’m Serious at age 21 and scored his first hit at 22 with the platinum-selling follow-up Trap Muzik. His velvet-plush flow smoothed the rougher edges of his street storytelling, and that talent for straddling grit and gloss only became more evident on the hit albums that followed in short succession: Urban Legend, King, T.I. vs. T.I.P., No Mercy and Trouble Man: Heavy is the Head. All those albums went platinum but the last two, merely gold-certified, releases. Over that period, he amassed two No. 1 singles of his own (Live Your Life and Whatever You Like) and three more that reached the Top 5 (Dead and Gone, What You Know and the star-studded Swagga Like Us.) He was a featured performer on two more songs that topped the charts: Justin Timberlake’s My Love and Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. He won three Grammys. His latest album, Paperwork, is his ninth, and he doesn’t have to look far for other milestones; for instance, it’s been a decade since his rousing smash Bring ’Em Out strutted into the chart’s Top 10. “It’s crazy how old an artist can get,” marvelled the rapper, 34. “That makes me seem so old.” Of course, T.I.’s high-flying career
was often grounded by his tumultuous personal life. As a teen, he dropped out of highschool, sold drugs and tangled with the law. His legal issues, obviously, didn’t end there. He was arrested October 2007 and eventually served 11 months in an Arkansas prison on federal weapons charges. He was subsequently sentenced to another 11 months in prison for violating the terms of his probation. Creatively, the sad saga inspired the introspective hit parade Paper Trail (written under house arrest), but it also immediately dashed his once-considerable momentum. “All the twists and turns and ups and downs and starts and stops, they’ve been a gift and a curse for me,” he said. “You accept — or endure — the consequences that come with bad decisions. “However it makes for a story that — I mean, I haven’t seen one similar to it. Aside from maybe Tupac. But it’s just been so much adversity riddling these 13 years. And I think every time you’re in the low part of it — being downtrodden and everyone looking down on you — it inspires you in a very creative way.” Longevity, then, can sometimes mean: “You just have to have an interesting life.” The personal setbacks are perhaps more surprising when contrasted with a creative sensibility that leans toward risk-aversion. His career is all workmanlike consistency, his personal life plagued by tumult. His creative dependability, anyway, has helped him cleave serious industry influence, and increasingly he’s recognized as a wizened elder of the genre. He’s collaborated with pretty much every notable name in post-millennial hip hop, and Paperwork alone features Jeezy, Pharrell, Azalea, Usher and The-Dream. At the recent fevered show in Toronto, Drake emerged unannounced to provide both a breakneck three-song medley (highlighted by 0 to 100) and the awed testimony of someone who has benefited from T.I.’s insight. “I would not be where I am in my career without this man,” Drake announced. “This guy gave me one of the most important talks of my life at one of the most important times in my life.” Pharrell also sees that profundity in T.I. Paperwork began with the two sharing hours-long discussions about the “present state of hip-hop” and its move away from organic instrumentation, and Pharrell continually needled him to dig deeper lyrically. “He sees me more moreso as a Nas, like an eloquent, intellectual storyteller,” he said. “I see me more as Ice Cube or Tupac. More of a rebel. “Somewhere in the middle, I think, we’re both right.” Hasn’t that friction between the two sides of his personality provided the thematic inspiration for much of his music? “I’m a Libra,” he replied, laughing. “If you say, ’Man, what’s your favourite colour?’ It’s: ’Well, I like... but I ALSO like...’ I’m always weighing up the options. “I didn’t just get stuck being ’You Don’t Know Me’ T.I., I didn’t get stuck being ’Swagga Like Us’ T.I. or ’Whatever You Like’ T.I. ... I think that has provided a diversity that has enabled me to defy the odds of time.” If his discography is free of any outright duds — 2010’s No Mercybeing probably his most lightly regarded work — it’s perhaps because he remembers holding his heroes to a high standard.
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Longtime Los Angeles Times film critic, arts columnist Charles Champlin dies at 88 LOS ANGELES — Longtime Los Angeles Times film critic Charles Champlin has died at age 88, the newspaper said Monday. Champlin died Sunday at his Los Angeles home of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, his son, Charles Champlin Jr., told the Times. A Harvard-educated native of Hammondsport, New York, Champlin worked at Time and Life magazines for 17 years before coming to the Times in 1965 as an entertainment editor and columnist. Champlin was the principal film critic at the Times from 1967 until 1980, when he shifted to book reviews and a “Critic at Large” column that took a broader look at the arts. He retired in 1991 but continued contributing to the Times and wrote books, including one on George Lucas and another on his own struggle with losing his sight. Champlin became legally blind in 1999. “Charles Champlin was one of the great gentlemen of American film criticism,” current Times film critic Kenneth Turan said Monday. He had a reputation as a kind critic, but his subjects, including the late actor Jack Lemmon, said Champlin could be tough. “I’ve gotten some pretty bad reviews along with the good ones from Chuck,” Lemmon told his biographer in 2000, “but he’s always been honest and constructive.”
Disney to help theatregoers with ticket flexibility to their Broadway shows NEW YORK — Disney is giving an early Christmas present to theatregoers in New York — the gift of flexibility. Disney Theatrical Productions is letting ticketholders to its Broadway shows — Aladdin and The Lion King — the chance to switch the dates they see the musicals for any reason as long as it’s done two hours before the performance. The offer, unprecedented for the commercial part of Broadway, starts immediately. Usually such flexibility with tickets on the Great White Way has been restricted to non-profittheatres. “Our aim is to empower ticketholders with an unprecedented level of flexibility so that they can make their plans in advance knowing there are options if they need to change their schedule,” said David Schrader, a Disney executive. Tickets can be exchanged at the original point of purchase via the Disney on Broadway hotline, Ticketmaster or in-person at the New Amsterdam or Minskoff theatre box offices. The exchange applies only for another performance of the show originally purchased.
More than one million people in France have now seen Xavier Dolan’s Mommy PARIS — Xavier Dolan’s Mommy
has cracked the one-million mark in terms of moviegoers in France. The Quebec director took to Twitter to share the news. “Thank you to everyone who has gone to see my film, who have written me and who have spoken about us,” Dolan said. The film, which has been out in France for more than five weeks, is Canada’s foreign-language selection for the Oscars. Dolan will find out in January if it has made the cut for the ceremony the following month. A spokesman for the film’s French distributor was also thrilled with the movie-going milestone. “That’s what we were dreaming about,” said Didier Lacourt, who works for Diaphana. The film hit 315 screens its first week in France and is now on about 200.
California man sentenced to five years’ probation, restitution for damaging Banksy art in Utah PARK CITY, Utah — A California man has been sentenced to five years’ probation for defacing two murals in Park City, Utah, that are believed to have been created by the elusive British graffiti artist Banksy. David William Noll, of Modesto, already paid about $9,000 in restitution before Monday’s sentencing. Prosecutors say they expect he’ll end up paying about $12,000 to cover the cost of restoring the murals. Noll pleaded guilty in September to damaging the works on Park City’s historic main street while he was visiting last New Year’s Eve. He struck a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time by paying the restoration costs. The murals appeared in 2010, when a documentary by Banksy debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. Banksy’s silhouetted figures and spray-painted messages have sold for as much as $1.1 million at auction.
Soap opera actor charged with vehicular assault, DUI after car crash in northeast Ohio JEFFERSON, Ohio — Soap opera actor Freddie Smith has been charged with felony vehicular assault and misdemeanour driving under the influence after a single-vehicle crash that injured his girlfriend in northeast Ohio. The 26-year-old Days of Our Lives actor lost control of his car on a curve in Ashtabula County on Oct. 7 and ended up in a culvert, causing his car to flip over. Authorities say Smith, who was visiting his Ohio hometown, was legally drunk at the time of the accident, with a blood-alcohol level of .093. The legal limit in Ohio is .08. Smith’s attorney declined to comment. Twenty-seven-year-old actress Alyssa Tabit of North Hollywood, California, was trapped in the car and was seriously hurt. She is recovering. Smith suffered minor injuries.
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FISHER Russel July 18, 1926 - Nov. 14, 2014 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He is survived by his loving wife, Nan, of 59 years, daughter Janet, grandsons Scott (Megan), Craig, and Brett and twin great grandsons, Raine and Skyler. In keeping with Russ’s wishes there will be no funeral. The family will gather at a later date to celebrate his life.
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FARM/FEEDLOT LOOKING FOR FULL TIME/ YEAR ROUND EMPLOYEE. Employment includes Animal Health, Farming and Equipment Operation, and Feeding Equipment Operation.† Must be physically fit.† Having a Class 3 an asset. Email: dthengs@hotmail.com Fax 403-638-3908, or Call 403-638-4165.† Start your career! See Help Wanted
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BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating Found primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are currently accepting GOLD and diamond ladies applications for a bracelet found in Bower JUNIOR OIL AND Mall on Nov. 12. Call to identify 403-343-3502 GAS OPERATOR in our Stettler Field. Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, Personals motivated to work hard and learn quickly. Associated industry COCAINE ANONYMOUS experience eg. instrumen403-396-8298 tation or facilities construction experience would be an asset but is not necessarily required. This position offers a diverse and challenging work environment with competitive pay, attractive benefits and the ability to within the organizaCLASSIFICATIONS grow tion. Applicants must live or be willing to relocate to 700-920 within a 20 minute commute of the work place location (Stettler). Caregivers/ Please Submit Resume’s Aides Attention Human Resources Live in Nanny needed for 7 Email: payroll@ and 1 1/2 year old must be bearspawpet.com able to commute from Fax: (403) 258-3197 sylvan lake to Red deer Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th 403-505-9935 Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1
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in Ponoka county, supplies oilfield septic containment & disposal throughout AB. We require Driver Operators for small vac trucks. Oilfield exp. is an asset. Must have H2S, First Aid, TDG, clean driver’s abstract & Class 5 license, drug testing. $20/ hr. to start, home every night, benefits. Fax resume to Chris 403-704-1127 or email: chris@ langansiteservices.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets. Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475
PRODUCTION TESTING EXPERIENCED SUPERVISORS and TESTERS Day & Night Must have tickets. Top paid wages. Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca
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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 THE RUSTY PELICAN is 37543 HWY 2N now accepting resumes for 700 3020 22 St. F/T Exp’d FOOD ATTENDANT LINE COOKS Req’d permanent shift at all stations. weekend day and evening MUST HAVE: both full and part time. 16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. + • 2-3 yrs. post secondary education. benefits. Start ASAP. • 2-3 yrs. on-the-job exp. Job description • Provide references www.timhortons.com The hourly rate will be Education and experience $13.25 - $15. per hour not req’d. dependant on experience. Apply in person or fax Mail to: 2079 50 AVE. resume to: 403-314-1303 Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 QUEENS Diner in Burnt or Call 403-347-1414 Lake Industrial Park is or Fax to: 403-347-1161 looking for a full-time prep/ line cook. Great hours! Closed by 4pm every day and closed on Sunday’s. Please email scottnshaw@telus.net with resume if interested or THE RUSTY PELICAN drop off at Diner is now accepting resumes (403-340-3302) for an EXPERIENCED BARTENDER. MUST You can sell your guitar HAVE REFERENCES. for a song... Able to work evening shift. or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Apply within: 2079-50 and we’ll sell it for you! Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone TAP HOUSE calls WILL NOT be accepted.
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F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo. THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & for experienced ladders required. Training F/T SERVERS provided, no experience Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. needed. Apply to: Apply within: 2079-50 satjobs@shaw.ca Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone Start your career! calls WILL NOT be accepted. See Help Wanted
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In Loving Memory of FRANK DUSSOME Feb. 20, 1934 - Nov. 19, 2013 We often lay awake at night When the world is fast asleep And walk down memory lane With tears upon our cheeks. The years we shared with you Are worth their weight in gold. The joy and laughter we shared Are ours to have and hold. Remembering is easy We do it every day But missing you is a heartache That never goes away. We hold you close within our hearts And there you will remain To walk with us through our lives Until we meet again. Remembered with love Connie and family
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McALLISTER Patrick (Pat) Louis Ret. Sgt PO2 Feb. 29, 1948 - Nov. 16, 2014 Pat passed away peacefully at home with his family by his side, after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer, at the age of 66 years. Loving husband and faithful companion of Candy for 31 years, caring father of Dale (d. 1970), Mark (Nora), Paul and Catherine, proud grandfather of Tasha Daniels, Carisa Van de Wetering, Alimah and Naia, thoughtful brother of Jim (Barb), Judy, David (Joyce), Gary and Dale Grant and former husband and friend of Marilyn Crooker. Pat was born in Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick to Robert McAllister and Theresa Roit (d. 1995). Pat was destined for a life in the military when he became a sea cadet at 12 years old. Before that, Pat’s love for the game of golf was born when he travelled to Florida as a teenager and had the opportunity to caddie for Arnold Palmer at one point. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1968 and began his career in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia before moving to Halifax to serve aboard the HMCS Terra Nova. He also quickly became known as a bit of a cowboy and earned the nickname “Country Mac” while wearing his boots on board ship. Pat devoted his life to being a sailor and soldier from the start. One of his first opportunities to serve overseas was a mission to Egypt, setting the tone for other future adventures across the country and around the world. Over time, Pat would take part in UN peacekeeping duties in Bosnia and Golan Heights. As a young man, Pat was able to overcome a number of obstacles and show his resilience. He quickly became the strong and proud man that his friends and family would recognize over the years. He was a proven leader both while on duty and in his off-time during recreational activities and volunteer work. Pat would spend countless hours helping organize activities and events, mentoring and coaching young people at the variety of bases where he was stationed from coast to coast. He also spent a great deal of time contributing to local TOPS chapters and other organizations in the communities where he lived. Each and every stroke along the way, Pat loved his time on the golf course. He was a fixture in the clubhouse no matter where he ended up. He was always competing in leagues and tournaments while keeping a smile on his face and joking with others. Pat will be remembered for his sarcastic wit and sense of humour, traits that attracted many close friends through the years. Although he retired from the military, Pat never stopped serving, either as a reserve or as a member and Sergeant-at-Arms for the Royal Canadian Legion in Innisfail. He even had the opportunity to reclaim his title as “Country Mac” while donning his cowboy hat and boots regularly. Pat’s cancer diagnosis and continued fight to beat the disease solidified how tough and resilient he was. His efforts to create awareness and raise money while doing so demonstrated an incredible example for others. He will forever be loved and missed by all those who were blessed to have him touch their lives. May he rest in peace. Memorial donations may be made to the Innisfail Legion or to the Red Deer Cancer Centre. A memorial service will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion, Innisfail, Branch 104 on Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 1:00 pm. HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES LTD., INNISFAIL entrusted with arrangements. 403-227-0006 www.heartlandfuneralservices.com
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THE OPEN RANGE SALOON in Sylvan Lake req’s Line Cooks. Full or Part time with Food Safety. Please contact Nancy 403-887-3033 or 403-887-3465
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EVRAZ Red Deer Works is now accepting applications for
Journeyman Millwrights, Electricians, and Machinists.
Individuals must be safety conscious, physically fit, able to work overtime and shift work. Wages start at $40.00 per hour and offer an excellent benefit and pension package. Please send resume to reddeerhr@evrazna.com or deliver in person to 27251 391 Township Road
GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires
SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!
HEAVEY DUTY JOURNEYMEN/ APPRENTICE SERVICE TECHNICIANS Peterbilt Red Deer is currently seeking Technicians for our North and South locations. • • • • • • • •
Competitive Wages Benefit and RRSP packages In-house and out of house training opportunities Large new clean shop with excellent work environment CAT/Cumming’s Engine experience required Electronic engine troubleshooting Long weekend every second week CVIP Inspection Station If this sounds like an opportunity that interests you please e-mail your resume to: jgrove@ peterbiltreddeer.com
NEWCART is looking for a full time
Landscape Labourer, as soon as possible. Duties will include: cutting grass, raking, litter removal, fertilizing, watering, snow clearing, operating light and heavy duty machinery, maintaining property maintenance equipment, general yard maintenance etc. This position will require some evenings, weekends, early mornings. 2 years experience minimum required. Hourly wage is $23-$25.00 depending on experience. Benefits available after 3 month probation period. Please submit resumes to: resumes @newcartcontracting.com or fax to 403-729-2396. NO phone calls please.
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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators. We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment. Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.
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Seeking mature individuals with car or small truck that are available during the day to deliver the new YP/Telus phonebooks into Red Deer. This is door to door delivery, no selling involved, can start immediately email lsenger@pdclogistics.ca
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LEVEL 1 ENFORM CHAINSAW BASICS. 403-505-7297
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
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HOUSE TO BE MOVED AUCTION SAT. NOV. 22 @ 1PM MAS Sales Centre Blackfalds, AB Approx. 2000 Sq Ft Cedar Log 2 Story House w/4 Bedrooms, Kitchen, Living Room & Stone Fireplace To View Please Call: Laureen @ Camp Kuriakos, Sylvan Lake 403-746-2702 All Ready Set Up on Moving Beams Must be Removed by Jan 31, 2015. Moving Must be Coordinated with the Approval Of McCaan’s Building Movers. See www.montgomeryauctions.com For pictures & info MONTGOMERY AUCTION SERVICES LTD 403-885-5149
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JENN AIR STOVE - older model, still works, Electronic fan, convection oven, indoor grill attachment. $40. 403-782-7439
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2 END TABLES Solid wood, opening doors in front. $20 each or 2 for $35. 403-782-7439 DINING set, pine wood, 4 chairs, 38”x72” with 18” leaf, good cond. $200. 403-346-0124 NIGHT Tables, (2) Red Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors with glass top to protect from scratches. $75. ea. 403-352-8811 SEALY Queen size mattress, boxspring, headboard, & frame. $100. ALSO HAVE: 4 drawer dresser for $30 & a pair of lamps for $20. Delivery Avail. 403-346-0674 or cell 403-392-5657
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EXTENDED custom towing mirrors for p/u truck $60; quad cargo bag (never used) $25; custom made moose leather jacket size 12 $25; 4 drawer chest (hi-boy), bevelled mirror 8 brass drawer pulls frame scallop sea shell, metal and wood castors $35 403-342-7460 HEADBOARD, for queen bed, 60” wide, $40; 3 Clean wool accent matching 3x5 oval carpets, $40. for all 3; David Winter Collector’s houses in original boxes, $25/ea; Ammo magazine clip for British Lee Enfield 303, $35; Upright Hoover Dirt Finder Vacuum Cleaner, self propelled, allergen filtration, $50. 403-352-8811 STONEY INDIAN MEDICINE MAN SHIELD $75. 403-347-7405 WHITE aluminum railing (like new), 3 pc. 15’, 11’ & 9’ new $1050, will take $375 Gary 403-350-9543
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Will consider either full or part time. Previous motor coach repair experience preferred. Part time position. Shop is located 6 miles from Red Deer. Applicants must have own transportation and be able to work flexible schedule.
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DEERPARK AREA Dixon Cres, Donnelly Cres, Duston St. area $482.00/mo. Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo. Dempsey St., Dodge Ave, Donlevy Ave area $327.00/mo. Dowler St., Daniel Cres. Dawe Cl., Dunham Close and area $412.00/mo. ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres, Close Root Close, Ralston Cres. $327.00/mo. For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306
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PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. 403-896-4869
VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its TOO MUCH STUFF? BEST! Let Classifieds 403-986-6686 help you sell it. 2nd. location in Calgary coming Seniors’ Dec. 1. www.viimassage.com Services
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Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614 SNOW shoveling/dump runs /odd jobs 403-885-5333
International ladies Painters/ BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 Decorators Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. DALE’S Home Reno’s Private back entry. 403-341-4445 Free estimates for all your MASSAGE ABOVE ALL JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. reno needs. 403-506-4301 Free Est. 403-872-8888 WALK-INS WELCOME DOORS, windows, siding, 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 Central Alberta’s Largest soffit, fascia and custom STRESSBUSTERS cladding. Call Dean @ Car Lot in Classifieds 403-923-0682 403-302-9210.
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SNOWPLOWING Comm/Res. Contracts welcome. 403-358-1614
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Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE With only 64 papers, approximately: $350.00/mo. For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301
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MOTOR COACH CLEANER
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ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the
Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.
HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC REQUIRED
ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, or cutting small trees? Call James 403-341-0617
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PENHOLD 1 bdrm., incl. heat/water, 4 appls. $760 avail. Dec., 403-348-6594
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As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle provided by company! Work 3 to 4 shifts a week. Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.
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NEED EXPERIENCED Class 1 drivers for short and long haul. Full Time. Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba & BC. Please call PROMAX TRANSPORT at 227-2712 or fax resume w/abstract 403-227-2743 RECYLCLE SORTERS F/T, required Immed. in Red Deer. Email resume with a min. of 2 references. to: canpak@xplornet.ca
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F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air Would you like to take the and clean abstract. Exp. GED in your community? preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. • Red Deer Red Deer. • Rocky Mtn. House • Rimbey GARNET’S • Caroline OILFIELD TRUCKING • Castor is looking for • Sylvan Lake CLASS 1 PICKER • Innisfail OPERATORS, • Stettler BED TRUCK DRIVERS & • Ponoka WINCH TRUCK DRIVERS • Lacombe to join our growing company. Competitive wages and Gov’t of Alberta Funding benefits. Must pass premay be available. employment substance screening. Fax or email 403-340-1930 resumes, drivers abstract www.academicexpress.ca & safety tickets Hiring for busy season. 403-346-8992 Holiday-break work sched. admin@garnetstrucking.com available for students. No phone calls. Flexible PT and FT sched. HALLCON is seeking with $17.25 guaranteed qualified drivers to base pay, cust. sales/sertransport rail crews vice, no experience throughout Red Deer area. necessary, we will train, Drivers are ideally based conditions apply. Visit out of RED DEER. No www.work4students.ca/rda overnight stays required. or call 403-755-6711 to This position is an on call secure a position. Start position. Employees are dates for Nov/Dec. responsible for taking trips during the period SHRUMS MEATS they have designated HIRING EXP’D. themselves available to do BUTCHER, $20-$30/hr. so. Transportation is done Phone 1-403-742-1427 in Hallcon company or fax 403-742-1429 vehicles. Vehicles are SOURCE ADULT VIDEO extensively & consistently requires mature P/T help maintained ensuring Sat. & Sun. 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. optimal safety for drivers Fax resume to: and clients. Drivers must 403-346-9099 or drop off to: possess valid Class 1, 2, 3301-Gaetz Avenue or 4 license, with clean driver abstract. Assisted THIS IS a perfect job for a licensing upgrade to retiree or parent with achieve a class 4 is school age kids! available. Pay is based at We are hiring a a rate of $16.00. Earning MAGAZINE potential is based on MERCHANDISER your availability, as our in Sylvan Lake & operation runs on a 24/7 Red Deer on call basis. Both full time Thursday/ Friday and part time employees approx. 10 hrs/week. are welcome. SemiEarly morning start retired, retired, full time, preferred. Email part time employees are resume to: welcome. Forward bmei@metronews.org resumes & current driver abstract: Shane Flack asmabnorth@gmail.com.
Misc. Help SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. $1 -$1.10 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580
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To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307
NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)
WASKASOO 43 & 44 Ave. KENTWOOD Kentwood Dr & Kirton Cl. ORIOLE PARK Oliver St. & Odell Gr. PINES Pearson Cres. ALSO Payne & Parsons Close ALSO Piper Dr. & Pallo Cl. RIVERSIDE MEADOWS 57 & 58 Ave., 59 & 60 St. ALSO 51, 52 & 43 Ave. & Apt. Bldg. on 60 St. For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308
ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in
INGLEWOOD AREA Illingworth Close Ingram Close Iverson Close Isbister Close MORRISROE AREA Vista Village SUNNYBROOK AREA Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Sunnyside Cres./Sutton Close Stirling Close Sherwood Cres LANCASTER AREA Long Close VANIER AREA Vickers Close Vincent Close Viscount Drive Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************
TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300
DEER PARK AREA Dixon Cres. $100.20/mo. Dunning Cres, Cl., and Depalme St. plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $136.24/mo.
GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 & 4200 Blocks of 40A Ave. and 4000 Block of 39 St. (North side only). $55.68/mo. WOODLEA AREA 47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $134./mo. For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306
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DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
1998 DURANGO, 119,700 kms. Must see! Safetied.
2006 SILVERADO Z71 special edition, e/c, 4X4. New windshield, remote start, 5.3, 1 owner, 160,000 km very clean. $12,500 no GST **SOLD**
2008 MONTANA, 2955RL, 2 slides, king bed, Mor-Ryde hitch, Arctic pckg. exc. cond., $27,500. **SOLD**
2011 CYCLONE 300C Toy Hauler, $44,500. 2007 GMC dually 1 ton 182,000 kms. Together $66,500. 403-507-0570
1966 FORD Mustang Coupe appraised $15,500. Runs good. Would like at least $9500 403-391-3456
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2006 VW Jetta TDI
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DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
1985 HONDA 250 SX Trike $950.00 **SOLD**
1999 GMC Sierra 1500 2WD, E/C, original owner, 252,000 km, Immaculate $3400. **SOLD**
2004 DODGE 1/2 ton 4x4 SLT quad cab. New tires, battery, power steering pump. $6000. 403-506-9632
DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2009 HYUNDAI Accent, 64,000 kms.
2011 RAV4 LIMITED Leather, sunroof, 8 way power driver’s seat, very clean, great cond. $19,500 obo. 403-341-0606
1988 23’ TIOGA 460 Ford motor, exc. cond. low kms. $6900, obo **SOLD**
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2004 DODGE DAKOTA 4x4 Good shape. $5700. 403-598-4131
ULTIMATE TRUCK CAMPER 2007 Okanagan 117 DBL - 2 Slides, Sleeps 6, Full bath & kitchen. Queen. Huge. Mint $24,250 obo 403-620-8106
2009 KEYSTONE Passport Ultralite 29 ft Reduced, 1 slide, dbl. bunks, queen bed, A/C. See Kijiji Ad ID 548133556 $19,000. 403-343-1043
1989 1 TON WITH PLOW, 4x4, controls inside, & dump. $6350. Good working order. 403-348-9746
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2004 TITANIUM
model 31E36MK. Loaded, many extras. $24,500 obo. 403-347-1050 or 304-4580
2007 SATURN AURA. Loaded, 1 owner, exc. cond. 86,000 km. Never winter driven. $10,500 403-391-3820
2010 16 XCALIBUR Legend, 18’ alum. welded hull, prem. pckg for leisure & fishing, deluxe console, conv. top, travel tarp, 75 hp Merc. $13,500 SOLD!!!
1989 GMC SIERRA Auto 350, s/b, no rust. Glass exc. 144,000km $4900. 403-340-8950
2001 VOLVO S60. Loaded, very good cond. 182,000 km. $4500 obo. 403-343-2058
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2007 VW Tourareg, fully loaded, AWD, new windshield, Nokian all season tires, in exceptionally good cond.. 180,000 kms. $14,750 obo 403-346-5440 or 403-391-0320
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1991 ALLEGRO-BAY 29’. Class A, 35,000 miles, Generator, AC, Rear Bed, Exc. Cond. $10,000 obo. Call 403-442-3837
Town N Country, Limited, AWD, leather, very nice cond. 159,000 kms. All avail. options
2002 CHRYSLER
2008 AVALANCHE, 4x4, nice shape. 587-679-1000
$6900.
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2010 DODGE RAM 3500, loaded SLT, white, 4x4, S/B, 60,600 kms., $39,000. 403-347-4896
2013 CHEV LTZ full load, sunroof, leather, over $4000 in extras. $41,000. Sliding box cover. 403-348-9746
1997 SKIDSTEER Case 1840, only 3300 hrs. $15,500. 587-679-1000
2002 FORD Dynamax (B Plus) 27000 mi., new tires/awning Onan gen, roof a/c, slideout, sleeps 4, 3 pc. bath, A1, $31,500. **SOLD**
2006 HONDA Goldwing Trike
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2010 Ford Explorer
w/Lehman Monarch 2 trike kit. Loaded W/all options + lots of extra chrome. 49,500 kms bike was triked in 2011. $33,000. (403)318-4653
2013 GMC 2500 HD 4x4, 36,000 kms., Duramax Diesel $42,300. 587-679-1000
1998 CHRYSLER AWD
2003 DAKOTA, 3.9, auto., 128,000., 60% tires, $4400. o.b.o. **SOLD**
2006 MURANO AWD, V6, Remote Start, hitch, no rust, great cond.125,000 mi., $8900 obo. 403-309-4585
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2014 SIERRA short box, 4x4. 587-679-1000
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2008 KUSTOM KOACH 24.5’ exc. cond, 1 owner, 110 Watt solar panel, 1 slide, $19,900 403-986-3834
$6500. ***SOLD***
Limited, 4.6L, V8, 112,000 kms., fully loaded, leather, DVD, every option, $20,500. 403-318-5505
2012 CAMARO 2SS Coupe 5500 km. Loaded. $41,900. 403-350-6434
2012 FORD Fusion SE 10,000 kms, $15,000 obo must sell. **SOLD**
2012 FORD Lariet 3/4 ton, 108,000 kms, set up for Ford 5th wheel, $35,000 403-362-1004
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D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014
Germany’s top diplomat trying to save Ukraine crease-fire deal BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — Germany’s foreign minister, on a shuttle mission between the Ukrainian and Russian capitals, called Tuesday for quickly drawing a division line between the government troops and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine to save a floundering peace deal. Even though the ceasefire agreement signed in the Belarusian capital Minsk in September has been repeatedly violated it offers the best chance possible to end months of fighting that has killed more than 4,000 people, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after talks in Moscow. “It would be a huge loss to reject that document,” Steinmeier said.
He made a similar point in Kyiv earlier in the day, saying that “Minsk remains a reference point, and that’s why I call for us to keep working on the implementation of the Minsk protocol.” Steinmeier argued that it’s necessary to “give a new impulse” to the Minsk agreement. He said that the parties are close to reaching an agreement on the line of division, adding that once it’s done the warring sides could proceed with the next step under the Minsk deal and start pulling heavy artillery back from the frontline. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke in support of quickly drawing the line of division. The Minsk protocol failed to produce a clear line of division and fighting has continued
to rage around the main rebel-held city of Donetsk and other strategic areas as both warring sides have sought to extend their gains. Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of violating the deal by continuing to back the rebels with troops and weapons and supporting regional elections held by the insurgents. Moscow denies those allegations. “We call on Russia to pull back its forces from eastern Ukraine and to respect the Minsk agreements,” NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg said. Speaking in London, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said “Russia has to be consistently reminded of its obligations under the Minsk protocol,” adding that the EU “will continue to apply pressure to Russia until it complies with those obligations.”
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Use of women guards in top Guantanamo camp on hold as judge puts off hearing MIAMI — A military judge is putting off a resolution of a dispute over the use of female guards in the highest security unit of the Guantanamo Bay prison. Navy Capt. J.K. Waits agreed on Tuesday to delay a hearing until January at the request of lawyers for an alleged al-Qaida commander. Lawyers for Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi asked to put it off because of delays collecting evidence. Al-Iraqi is held with other top prisoners in the secret unit on the U.S. base in Cuba known as Camp 7. Some of the prisoners have refused to meet with their lawyers unless the military only uses male guards to move them. Prisoners say physical contact with female guards violates with their Muslim faith. The judge left a temporary ban in place over government objections.
UN Population Fund releases report, director encourages family planning in Nigeria
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Omer Odovsc walks in front of his tractor trailer that got stuck on the 219 off ramp leading to Rt. 391 in Boston, N.Y., Tuesday. Parts of New York measured the season’s first big snowfall in feet, rather than inches, on Tuesday as 3 feet of lake-effect snow blanketed the Buffalo area and forced the closure of a 132-mile stretch of the state Thruway.
UN push to hold North Korea accountable for alleged crimes against humanity moves ahead The world’s boldest effort yet to hold North Korea and leader Kim Jong Un accountable for alleged crimes against humanity moved forward Tuesday at the United Nations, where a Pyongyang envoy threatened further nuclear tests. The U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee approved a resolution that urges the Security Council to refer the country’s harsh human rights situation to the International Criminal Court. The non-binding resolution now goes to the General Assembly for a vote in the coming weeks. China and Russia, which hold veto power on the council, voted against it. The resolution was inspired by a groundbreaking U.N. commission of inquiry report early this year that declared North Korea’s human rights situation “exceeds all others in duration, intensity and horror.” The idea that their young leader could be targeted by prosecutors sent North Korean officials on a furious campaign to derail the effort, finding it a potential embarrassment and threat to his carefully choreographed image. North Korea sent a sharp warning in comments before the vote. Trying to punish it over human rights “is compelling us not to refrain any further from conducting nuclear tests,” said
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Choe Myong Nam, a foreign ministry adviser for U.N. and human rights issues. His colleagues gave no details on that threat. Choe also accused the European Union and Japan, the resolution’s cosponsors, of “subservience and sycophancy” to the United States, and he promised “unpredictable and serious consequences” if the resolution went forward. The European Union quickly issued a statement welcoming the support of 111 countries in the vote. Nineteen countries voted against, and 55 abstained. “It is admirable that the member states of the United Nations are acting to protect the people of North Korea when their own government fails to do so,” the head of the commission of inquiry, retired Australian judge Michael Kirby, said in an email, adding that he is confident the Security Council will “act responsibly.” Human rights groups turned their attention to China and Russia, which could block any Security Council move. “No Security Council country, including China, can deny the horror endured by so many North Koreans,” Kenneth Roth, director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement just after the vote. “The time has come for justice.” North Korea and its allies have argued that a resolution that targets a
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Goods will be sold by online Auction at ibid4storage.com on Wednesday December 3, 2014 for Sentinel SelfStorage, 5433-47 Street, Red Deer, Alberta to satisfy outstanding charges for storage rental incurred by the following: Chris Chmura Cameron Serratore Michelle Moldowan Bids will be accepted from WEDNESDAY, December 3, 2014 to FRIDAY December 5, 2014. If interested in bidding, for more info and to view units, register at:
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single country would set a dangerous precedent and that other developing countries could be singled out, too. The resolution says the commission of inquiry report found grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed under policies “established at the highest level of the State for decades.” It calls for targeted sanctions against the people who appear to be most responsible. The commission of inquiry earlier warned Kim Jong Un that could include him. Cuba proposed an amendment that would have stripped out the tough language on the ICC, but the committee’s member countries voted that down earlier Tuesday. The mere possibility that its leader could be targeted by prosecutors has put North Korean officials, once dismissive of human rights issues, on edge. In recent weeks, it dangled the possibility of a visit by the U.N. human rights chief, among other attempts at outreach. But in the chamber Tuesday, the tone shifted. A North Korean foreign ministry adviser, Kim Ju Song, was witnessed trying to get a U.N. official to eject Shin Dong-Hyuk, a young man who fled North Korea and has since spoken out against the Pyongyang regime. The commission of inquiry report was based on interviews with dozens of people like Shin who had fled and detailed abuses including starvation and a system of harsh prison camps containing up to 120,000 people. North Korea has accused people who co-operated with the commission of inquiry of lying, and it produced a video showing Shin’s father in North Korea condemning him.
Hong Kong police arrest 4 after protesters try to force their way into legislature HONG KONG — Hong Kong police say they have arrested four men after a small group of protesters tried to force their way into the city’s legislature in overnight clashes. The arrests early Wednesday came after authorities cleared some barricades a day earlier from a small section of a site occupied by pro-democracy activists for nearly two months. Police used pepper spray against the protesters, who they said repeatedly charged their cordon. The protesters used metal barricades to smash glass doors at the entrance to the legislature, according to footage shown on local TV news channels. Three police officers were hurt. The student-led democracy protesters reject restrictions laid down by Beijing on inaugural 2017 elections for the southern Chinese financial hub’s top leader.
Agency seeks $7.5M for damage, cleanup from illegal dump in Guam HAGATNA — The Guam Environmental Protection Agency wants a couple to pay $7.5 million for an illegal dump on their property. Pacific Daily News reports the agency is asking a court to order Joseph Taitano and his wife Rosalind Castro to pay for damage, cleanup costs and other penalties for a dump on their property in Yigo. Agency Administrator Eric Palacios says a judgment for the court’s consideration should be ready sometime this week.
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LONDON — The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund is encouraging family planning in Nigeria to manage the country’s population growth. Babatunde Osotimehin told The Associated Press that allowing women to decide when to have children would benefit Nigeria’s economy. He was responding to a UN report released Tuesday that highlights the economic benefits of shifting from high fertility to low fertility rates. Nigeria featured as a case study in the “The Power of 1.8 billion: Adolescents, Youth and the Transformation of the Future.” The report claims Nigeria could benefit significantly from what is called a demographic dividend, which can occur when a county’s working age population is larger than the dependent, younger population. “A slight decline in fertility would raise output per capita by 5.6 per cent at a horizon of 20 years and by 11.9 per cent at a horizon of 50 years,” says the report.
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Synagogue attack kills four BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Two Palestinian cousins armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers Tuesday, killing four people in the city’s bloodiest attack in years. Police killed the attackers in a shootout. The attack ratcheted up fears of sustained violence in a city already on edge amid soaring tensions over its most contested holy site. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “respond harshly,” describing the attack as a “cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers.” He immediately ordered the demolition of the attackers’ homes, as well as homes of Palestinians who carried out several other recent attacks. Police said the dead worshippers were three Americans and a Briton, and that all held dual Israeli citizenship. The attack occurred in Har Nof, an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood that has a large population of Englishspeaking immigrants. The U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem identified the Americans as Aryeh Kupinsky, Cary William Levine and Mosheh Twersky. Twersky, the grandson of a renowned rabbi from Boston, Joseph Soloveichik, was the head of Yeshivas Toras Moshe, a religious seminary for English-speaking students. Israeli authorities identified the British man as Avraham Goldberg. Thousands of people attended a joint funeral for Kupinsky, Levine and Goldberg before sundown— held outside the synagogue where the attack occurred. Earlier, blood was streaked across the floors, soaked prayer books and shawls there. One Canadian was wounded in the attack, said Francois Lasalle, a spokesman for Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department. He declined to provide further details. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he spoke to Netanyahu after the assault and denounced it as an “act of pure terror and senseless brutality and violence.” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, the first time he has done so since a recent spike in deadly violence against Israe-
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays as Israeli rescue workers clean the scene of a shooting attack in a Synagogue in Jerusalem, Tuesday. Two Palestinians stormed a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday, attacking worshippers praying inside with knives, axes and guns, and killing four people before they were killed in a shootout with police, officials said. lis. He also called for an end to Israeli “provocations” surrounding a sacred shrine holy to both Jews and Muslims. The attack was the deadliest in Jerusalem since a Palestinian assailant killed eight students at a Jewish seminar in March 2008. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri identified the assailants as Ghassan and Oday Abu Jamal from the Jabal Mukaber neighbourhood in east Jerusalem, the section of the city captured by Israel in 1967 and claimed by the Palestinians as their capital. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small militant group, said the cousins were among its members, though it did not say wheth-
er it had instructed them to carry out the attack. Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that runs the Gaza Strip, praised the attack. In Gaza, dozens took to the streets to celebrate, with some offering trays full of candy. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said six people were wounded in the attack, including two police officers. Four were in serious condition. Yosef Posternak, who was at the synagogue during the attack, told Israel Radio that about 25 worshippers were inside at the time. “I saw people lying on the floor, blood everywhere. People were trying
to fight with (the attackers) but they didn’t have much of a chance,” Posternak said. Clashes later broke out outside the assailants’ home, where dozens of police officers had converged. Residents hurled stones at police, who responded using riot dispersal weapons. Neighbourhood residents, speaking on condition of anonymity for fears for their own safety, said 14 members of the Abu Jamal family were arrested. Mohammed Zahaikeh, a social activist in Jabal Mukaber, said a relative of the cousins had been released in a 2011 prisoner swap and re-arrested recently by Israeli police. He did not say why.
ISIL, ghosts of failed attempts haunt U.S. in Iran nuclear talks BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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LONDON — Bill Clinton tried. So did George W. Bush. Neither succeeded. As President Barack Obama’s own second term winds down, he is getting closer than either of his immediate predecessors to the goal of improving U.S. relations with Iran. But he’s not there yet, and plenty stands in the way, including a messy and brutal conflict in Iraq and Syria. As high-stakes negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program resumes Tuesday in Vienna ahead of a Nov. 24 deadline for a deal, the ghosts of previous failed attempts at AmericanIranian rapprochement loom large. So do very real and current concerns, largely the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, fierce opposition to a deal from Israel and open hostility in Congress and hardliners in Iran who already look to be trying to derail a potential agreement. Those issues, combined with the complex nature of the negotiations, have made for slow going and increased chances for something less than a full deal being struck by the target date. Officials say an extension
of the already once-extended talks is possible, but warn additional delays will invite more complications. Obama and his top aides deny that anything other than resolving the nuclear deadlock is in play. Yet, they also acknowledge a deal is key to any broader improvement in relations, something Obama is reported to have conveyed in a recent letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei. Though it hangs over the process, what appears to be a shared U.S.-Iranian interest in defeating Islamic State has been raised only tangentially. The Obama administration’s goal is to ultimately defeat the militants, whose rise it blames on atrocities committed by Syrian President Bashar Assad and the failure of the previous leadership in Iraq. Iran shares America’s goal of defeating IS, but while it may have acquiesced to the ouster of pro-Iranian Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki earlier this year, it has not given up on Assad, who the U.S. insists must go. Hence, Obama is treading carefully
as many demand more be done to get rid of Assad. He has rejected suggestions that more U.S. aid to Syrian rebels is aimed at toppling Assad. The U.S.-Iran divergence on Assad alone would be problematic, but it’s far from the only point of contention. Decades of mistrust weigh heavily on the talks. And they go back further than the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and the hostage-taking at the U.S. Embassy. Iranians also have long memories of U.S. support for the 1953 coup that overthrew Iran’s prime minister, Mohammed Mossadeq. For the past 14 years, the U.S. has tried to undo some of that damage. At the same time, they have increased pressure on Iran by imposing sanctions on it for sponsoring U.S.-designated terrorist organizations, supporting anti-Israel groups, rights abuses and its nuclear program. The Clinton administration sought to capitalize on the 1997 election of reform-minded Iranian President Mohammad Khatami by easing some sanc-
tions, acknowledging the U.S. role in the 1953 coup and engaging in limited contact over Afghanistan. That contact intensified after the Sept. 11, 2001, and the American-led ouster of the Taliban from Afghanistan, but quickly became snagged again over Iranian nuclear activity, President George W. Bush’s branding of Iran as a member of the “axis of evil” and the imposition of new sanctions. Yet, even the Bush administration sought to ease tensions, reversing a decision not to participate in nuclear talks between Iran and European nations. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice proposed in 2008 that the U.S. open an interests section in Tehran to restore an American diplomatic presence. Hostility from Iran’s leaders, along with growing nuclear concerns and the detentions of Americans in Iran, ran high as Obama moved into the White House in 2009 and sanctions were expanded.
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Parent worried daughter is dating a sociopath Dear Annie: You recently printed a letter from a woman who asked whether her biological daughter could be a sociopath. Could you please list the characteristics of a sociopath in your column? Our adult daughter is involved with someone we feel is not good for her. She seems to be oblivious to what is going on MITCHELL and probably & SUGAR will not recognize the signs, but if you could raise awareness, maybe it will prevent someone else from having to go through what our family is going through now. — Learning Experience Dear Learning: According to material from the National Institutes of Health: Sociopathology, also known as antisocial personality disorder, is a mental health condition in which a
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person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting or violating the rights of others. Genetic factors and environmental factors, such as child abuse, are believed to contribute to the development of this condition. People with an antisocial or alcoholic parent are at increased risk. Fire-setting and cruelty to animals during childhood are linked to the development of antisocial personality. Symptoms include: being able to act witty and charming; being good at flattery and manipulating other people’s emotions; breaking the law repeatedly; disregarding the safety of self and others; having problems with substance abuse; lying, stealing and fighting often; not showing guilt or remorse; often being angry or arrogant. Dear Annie: With the holidays approaching, how can a host encourage interaction with guests without being rude about cellphones? I recently attended a party where I knew few people. I spoke with the hostess when she wasn’t busy and later found another woman with whom I had some common interests. I tried to engage some of the young-
er children in a game, but they were glued to their iPods. Other female guests were on their cellphones. I finally found two men in the garage who were not on their cellphones. If I were the host, I’d get the impression that my guests think I’m dull and only came to eat the food I worked hard to prepare. People put up no-smoking signs in their homes. Is it out of line to ask guests to check their phones at the door or put them away in their purses or coat pockets until they leave? Am I the only one who is offended by this behavior? — In a Fog in Kentucky Dear Fog: Hardly. People are addicted to their cellphones. The constant beeping and vibrations encourage them to check the screen every few seconds. It is perfectly OK for you to announce politely that you’d appreciate it if guests would turn off their phones or set them on silent and leave them in their purses or pockets. Some may even comply. Dear Annie: “Grieving in Iowa” said he lost his life partner of 33 years and his partner’s sister lashed out at him. It’s amazing to me how these stress-
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HOROSCOPES Wednesday, Nov. 19 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jodie Foster, 52; Meg Ryan, 53; Larry King, 81 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: There could be some needless disputes today. Try to see the brighter side of the transits currently in play. We are building to a wonderful new start with greater abundance at the end of this LARISA MAIRA week. OZOLINS You will have to take action and do something to get from here to there. Allow for more effort and do what you know needs to be done. Very positive results are just around the corner. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will prove to be just what you need in order to get your ambitions off the ground and come to fruition. You will be able to reap rewards this year, but only later on. First, you will have to actively go out to achieve all the rewards you desire. If you are looking to become pregnant, then this will also be the year for you. Enjoy! ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will be motivated to work and find that proper balance with others today. There will be some stresses, but all in all, it is a good time to truly accept the responsibility you have to others in your life, be they work colleagues or your significant relationships. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will find a happy balance between learning more, accepting your limits and feeling empowered by others at work today. Motivation will come with a healthy dose of competition. Allow for others to instigate the changes that are needed for you to do an excellent job. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There is great opportunity to hang out with old friends today. So do just that, enjoy their company and allow any stresses with others to lift away. ‘You’ll still be trying to figure out the truth about some ongoing challenge with another. So, share and see what insights pop up. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will be able to mend old bridges with family and those found within your home environment now. There is a sense that you know more and that perhaps is the challenge presented to you today.
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ful situations bring out the worst in people. My husband and I had been together for five years when I found out how much his family disliked me. I was always a little uncomfortable around them, but after a sudden illness, I was cornered in a hospital room and accused of being a “gold digger,” and if the family had their way, I would be kicked to the curb. Fortunately, my husband and I are committed to each other despite what his family says or thinks. I tried to get along with those who were the most hurtful, but it became too difficult to walk on eggshells, always watching what I said so it couldn’t be misconstrued. I went to counseling and learned that it’s OK to give up on toxic people who make it their life’s mission to find fault with others. My husband and I have thrived without them. —Happier Now 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.
Be wise and do not start any arguments today, find peace with others. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There could be some challenges presented to you today. Allow for greater truth to come to the surface. Speak your mind, but do so to create more harmony with others. You’ll be more able to be honest in a fair way today. Allow for wisdom to prevail above all else now. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Yesterday’s serious tone will trickle into today’s ambition. You will focus on you, expressing who you are with no exceptions. This is what could create an argument; others will see you as different. This is simply because they didn’t see your truth before, keep shining brightly! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I am not going to lie, you will get into a bit of an argument with family today, or within the home environment you find yourself in now. There’s the ability to understand that your aspirations are bigger than the minor difficulties. Do try to tap into that, avoid any clashes. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your motivation will be to take action to find balance. Perhaps, just having that conversation, or maybe learning a new skill to improve your overall delivery will be instigated today. Don’t get discouraged and allow for the odd argument or disruption to happen today. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You might have some clashes with friends perhaps your work colleagues today. There is an atmosphere of competition or ambition that could create some heated debates. All in all, it will be a great day for you. Express yourself as you please, but be respectful. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Do not feel discouraged today. Your professional plans are being implemented. If you feel that you didn’t have enough time to complete something, don’t beat yourself up. You and everyone else are trying their best. Your dreams have not come true yet, but don’t give up! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Friends are more than likely coming to visit you from a distance. You could also feel, on a deeper level, that in order for there to be harmony, you have to work extremely hard and put in long hours. Yes, but you should not trouble yourself with time and focus on dedication. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your public reputation will be in focus today. There will be a high level of publicity in store for you now. Be careful with whom you socialize. Some friends might get jealous of your attention. Let them do their own thing from a slight distance today. Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate. COME SEE OUR KNOWLEDGEABLE STAFF
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