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Pipeline pep talk CANADIANS’ FUTURE ‘HANGS IN THE BALANCE’ IN DEBATE: PRENTICE BY JAMES KELLER THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Alberta’s premier is urging the country to get behind several controversial pipeline projects linked to the province’s oilsands, warning that all Canadians will “feel the pain” if they aren’t approved and built soon. Premier Jim Prentice told a business audience in
Vancouver that energy development such as Alberta pipelines, B.C. liquefied natural gas terminals and Quebec hydroelectric developments will be at the heart of Canada’s economic future. In particular, Prentice said the country’s existing pipelines will be full by the end of the decade. Without increased capacity, producers would be forced to sell Canadian oil at deep discounts, he said, which in turn would eat into government royalties and taxes. “So it’s realistic to look ahead and to say Canada’s
public services will feel the pain if and when we allow this to happen,” Prentice said during an event hosted by the Vancouver Board of Trade. “In fact, all Canadians will feel the pain as and when this begins to happen.” The premier pointed to the Northern Gateway, Trans Mountain, Keystone XL and Energy East pipelines, which he described as “nation-building.”
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Santa has his hands full as Natalia Steenbergen, 2, and her little sister, Kaisa, nine months, of Red Deer, sit on his lap at Bower Place on Monday. Beginning each day at 11 a.m., Santa will be at Bower Place visiting with children young and old up to and including Christmas eve. Santa’s schedule is available on the Bower Place web site.
Drug runner to be sentenced early next year BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Sentencing will be held early next year for a young Red Deer man arrested for running drugs. Chris Hernberg, now 22, pleaded guilty to trafficking crack cocaine before Justice Monica Bast in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday. Hernberg was 19 when he and two other men were arrested on July 12, 2011, after a drug raid at a residence on Jamieson Avenue in Red Deer. Crown prosecutor David Inglis said Hernberg was the only runner over the age of 18 in a residence that had raised suspicion among neighbours. Members of the Red Deer City RCMP Street Team
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News that a performing arts/concert hall ranked near the top of a community’s wish list did not surprise members of Red Deer’s arts community. And now they want the city to start making the facility a reality. “It’s encouraging to think the community thinks it’s important for Red Deer to have a performing arts centre that is independent of the college,” said Chandra Kastern, the executive director of the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra. “The downside is it appears to be pushed aside by council, which it makes it very difficult for groups like ours to envision where we fit in long-term planning in the city.” In last week’s summary report of the city’s community amenity project, residents ranked a performing arts/concert hall No. 4 in the priority list, after more trails, a multi-use aquatic centre and a Bower Ponds expansion. The list, built as a result of public consultation, ranked 148 amenities. But a performing arts centre/concert hall appears not to be in the city’s plans until 2023 at the earliest — it is listed by city administration as a placeholder then, within the long-term plan. But sometime early next year, city council will sit down in a workshop to discuss the results of the consultation and potentially tweak the priority list. Coun. Paul Harris, who has been a strong advocate for the arts community, was part of a committee what worked on the city’s Cultural Master Plan in 2000 and the cultural vision update in 2008. Harris said he plans to push the amenities discussion to an open forum, possibly at a council governance and policy meeting, so the public can hear the debate, understand the rationale and so the meeting is recorded. He said the city spent a year asking the public what they wanted and in the order they wanted, and now it’s time to figure out how to make it happen. “I feel very strongly that if we can’t address the Top 10 and figure out how we are going to move them along, we’re doing something wrong,” said Harris. “I don’t know how we move the concert hall along but I would suspect we have to start by defining exactly what it is that needs to be built ... and the timing. Certainly it needs to be built within 10 years.”
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RCMP may not release video made by Bibeau BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A video made by Michael Zehaf Bibeau before he staged his attack on Parliament Hill in October may not be released to the public after all, RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson said Monday. The opposition New Democrats and Liberals criticized the top Mountie for withholding information that they said was in the public interest, especially since he has already spoken about it publicly. But Paulson told a news conference on Monday that investigators still need a chance to complete a full investigation of the video, which police recovered in the wake of the deadly Oct. 22 rampage. Paulson has said in the past that the video laid out Zehaf Bibeau’s reasons for the attack, which took the life of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo as he stood sentry at the National War Memorial. Zehaf Bibeau himself was killed moments later in a gunfight inside the Centre Block building on Parliament Hill. The commissioner had also indicated he wanted to see the video released publicly, but he now says that won’t happen. Some version of its contents, such as a transcript, could be released later, he said. “I had said that I hoped to release the video, but I think it forms a central part of the evidence. ... I think we need to think thoroughly through the benefits and the merits of releasing the video,” Paulson said. “We may look at releasing some aspects of the transcript of the video. But I don’t know that we will be releasing the video.” Paulson earlier told a Senate committee that the video laid out a rationale for the attacks that was rooted in Zehaf Bibeau’s religious beliefs and opinion of Canada’s foreign policy. “We’re looking at preserving evidence for some sort of court process if we need to. We’ll have to examine that as time unfolds,” he said.
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PIPELINES: Several criteria Prentice was sworn in as Alberta’s premier in September, and he inherited the increasingly difficult task of selling new pipeline projects to the rest of Canada. The premiers of B.C., Ontario and Quebec have all attached conditions for any pipelines crossing their provinces. B.C. Premier Christy Clark has long maintained that projects such as Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline and Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain line would need to meet several criteria, including robust spill response, First Nations approval and a “fair share” of benefits for her province. Late last month, Premier Kathleen Wynne of Ontario and Premier Philippe Couillard of Quebec released a list of seven conditions for Trans Canada’s proposed Energy East pipeline. Those conditions include emergency response measures, First Nation consultations, and consideration of the impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Prentice plans to meet with Wynne and Couillard separately this week. “I don’t want to prejudge those discussions,” he said after his speech on Monday. “I’ve had preliminary and positive discussions with both the premier of Ontario and the premier of Quebec, and I’ll wait to see what they have to say.” Prentice met with Clark in early November. The pair did not hold any formal meetings during Prentice’s visit this time, though they did see each other at Sunday’s Grey Cup game in Vancouver. Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion project has recently been overshadowed by protests from environmentalists and First Nations, who set up an encampment at the site of drilling work on Burnaby Mountain, near Vancouver. Prentice said Alberta, too, is concerned about responsible development that minimizes the impact on the environment and climate change. “I think all Canadians would expect that if we’re going to export hydrocarbons, either from the East Coast or the West Coast of Canada, that we would have absolutely top-notch environmental standards,”
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Bruce Gladue tosses one of hundreds of Christmas trees onto a pile in a tree lot in the south east corner of the Sheraton Hotel parking lot on Monday morning. Joe Butterfield, who has operated the lot at the corner of 32nd Street and Gaetz Avenue on the south end of Red Deer for the past 30 years, has brought in a variety of sizes of Nordman fir and Fraser fir trees for this Christmas season. he said. With respect to First Nations, Prentice said it’s important their concerns be taken into account. “My views are well-known: we need to secure economic opportunities and partnership opportunities for First Nations associated with these projects,” said Prentice, who served as minister of Indian affairs, as the portfolio was previously known, during his time as a Conservative MP. Along with the environmental and First Nations issues, another common concern is that other jurisdictions bear the risks of the pipelines once they leave Alberta but receive comparatively little benefit. Clark’s demand for a “fair share” of pipeline benefits soured her relationship with former Alberta premier Alison Redford. They later agreed Alberta would not share any royalties with B.C., and instead Clark would need to seek any financial compensation from the industry. Prentice said those benefits will come from the terminals that serve as the end point for the proposed pipelines. Local governments along the routes also collect property taxes, he noted. “There has to be a port facility, and that port facility is never located in Alberta,” he said. “The economic opportunities are being created elsewhere.”
WISH LIST: Some movement better than nothing Kastern said some movement is better than no movement and the logical first step would be to conduct a feasibility study for the concert hall. She would like to see a group such as an ad hoc committee through the city or community-based group. The Red Deer Symphony Orchestra has been a staple in community for nearly 30 years with sell out seasons nearly every year. Kastern said they have limited access to the Red Deer College Arts Centre and there is no opportunity to expand the concert dates or seating. She said there is no other venue in Red Deer that is acoustically appropriate and appealing to the au-
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COURT: Sentencing dates to be set on Jan. 5 At the time of his arrest, Hernberg had two small packets of crack cocaine in the front pocket of his shorts, said Inglis. Police found more drugs inside the house, including just under 100 gm of marijuana, 10 more packets of cocaine, a variety of items suitable for using and selling drugs and $175 in cash, he said. Sentencing has been delayed for at least two months to allow time for the preparation of a presentence report. Defence counsel John MacNaughton said his client may qualify for a conditional sentence order, which would include a period of probation. Also arrested in connection with the bust, which involved raids on a nearby home as well as a storage locker in Edmonton, were Raed Abdulla and Ahmed Nur, both 32. Charges against Abdulla were stayed late in September, when he was scheduled to stand trial. Nur stood trial in late September and early October. He was convicted on two of the three charges against him. Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Charlene Anderson convicted Nur on two counts of trafficking drugs, but delayed giving her decision on whether he is guilty of possessing proceeds of crime for the roughly $65,000 in cash seized from his person and his pickup truck. Sentencing dates for Hernberg and Nur, as well as the date for Anderson’s decision on Nur, are to be set on Jan. 5. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com
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dience. “With no ability to grow, it’s really hard to envision where we go,” said Kastern. Diana Anderson, Red Deer Arts Council co-ordinator, said she was thrilled to hear that Red Deerians want to improve the cultural offerings in the city. “I am extremely thrilled that they see the need because we certainly do,” said Anderson. “Because the arts sometimes gets left out of things. To see it ranked fourth is astounding and wonderful.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
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Bill introduced on gay youth rights OPPOSITION CALLS IT INTOLERANT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice’s government plunged the knife Monday into a private member’s bill guaranteeing students the right to form gay support groups by proposing instead a bill which does not. The Tories’ Bill 10 also revokes the right of parents to pull their children out of class if sexual orientation is discussed, said Sandra Jansen, the backbench MLA sponsoring the bill. “We’re moving forward incrementally,” said Jansen, a longtime advocate of LGBTQ issues. “We have to get everybody on the same page on this.” Jansen said the government will push to raise awareness of gay-straight alliances with school boards. “We are continuing to have those conversations and I believe at the end of the day we’re going to get to the point where there is no school in the province that will refuse (the alliances).” The bill was signalled last week by Prentice as a way to settle what he said was becoming a polarizing and
unfairly divisive debate over how the province treats homosexuals. The bill will amend Alberta’s Bill of Rights to make it clear that Alberta respects the gay community but also respects parental rights. To that end, it will allow students to form gay-straight alliances in schools but will give schools the final say on whether to allow them. If the school says no, students can appeal to the school board, and finally to the Court of Queen’s Bench. Gay-straight alliances are studentled support networks to help gay students gain support and friendship. Statistics show that the alliances help reduce suicide among gay youth. Earlier Monday, Dirks told the house there are 94 gay-straight alliances in Alberta. The opposition Liberals said none of those are in faith-based schools, private schools or in rural areas. The bill also amends a controversial section of Alberta’s Human Rights act that allows parents to pull students out of class when sexual orientation is taught. Critics say the “sexual orientation”
phrase stigmatized the LGBTQ community by implying it was a topic to be shunned. Bill 10 was hurriedly drafted last week amid growing support for Liberal Laurie Blakeman’s private member’s bill, Bill 202. Bill 202 would have given students the automatic right to create gaystraight alliances and, like Bill 10, would also no longer allow parents to pull children out of class when sexual orientation was taught. Blakeman said Bill 10 will bump her bill off the Order paper because two bills on the same issue can’t be debated in the house. She said the government is catering to the demands of a small and vocal lobby group of home schoolers. She added she was appalled by the talk of “incremental” progress on people’s fundamental human rights. “When human rights arguments are given that way, you just have to say, ‘What is wrong with you people?’ ” said Blakeman. “Seriously, what is wrong with you people that you are afraid of a group being extended a human right? I don’t
Homicide rate dropped last year BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The country’s homicide rate fell last year to 1.44 victims for every 100,000 people, its lowest level since 1966, Statistics Canada reported Monday. The agency said the 2013 rate was eight per cent lower than in 2012. That follows reports that the overall crime rate also declined in 2013 compared with 2012, falling eight per cent to its lowest level since 1969. Statistics Canada said last summer that the crime rate was continuing a longterm, downward trend that began in the early 1990s. But the drop in murders and a falling crime rate overall haven’t deflected the Harper government from its tough-on-crime agenda. And there remain concerns about the cost of fighting crime, even as the incidence falls. The Fraser Institute reported in September that police costs have soared even as crime falls. “Between 2001 and 2012, police officers per 100,000 of population in Canada rose 8.7 per cent while the crime rate declined by 26.3 per cent,” the institute’s report said. And while police cost more, their workload dropped, the report added. “Real per capita police expenditures in Canada between 1986 and 2012 rose 45.5 per cent while Criminal Code incidents per officer declined by 36.8 per cent.” The latest statistics said says police reported 505 homicides in 2013, down 38 from the previous year.
In comparison, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says there were more than 14,000 homicides in the United States in 2013 for a rate of 4.5 for every 100,000 population - more than three times the Canadian rate. Statistics Canada attributes the overall decrease in homicides in 2013 to a drop of 40 deaths reported in Quebec after two years of higher-thanaverage numbers of homicides in the province. Quebec reported 68 homicides in 2013, representing a rate of 0.83 per 100,000 population, the lowest rate recorded in the province since reporting began in 1961. Six provinces reported modest increases in the number of homicides in 2013, although even with those increases, the homicide rates in nearly every province and territory were below their 10-year averages in 2013. The exceptions were Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island, where the 2013 homicide rates were above their previous 10-year average. Homicide rates continued to be generally highest in the West and the North. Provincially, Manitoba reported the highest homicide rate with 3.87 per 100,000 population, followed by Saskatchewan with 2.71, Alberta at 2.04 and British Columbia with 1.66. Nunavut, with 11.24 per 100,000, and the Northwest Territories, with 4.59, reported homicide rates higher than any province, while there were no homicides in Yukon for the third consecutive year. Among metropolitan areas, Regina reported the highest homicide rate at
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3.84 per 100,000 population, followed by Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. Homicide rates were below the national average in the two largest metropolitan areas, as Toronto had a rate of 1.34 and Montreal was at 1.08. Vancouver, at 1.72, was above the national average. Firearm-related homicides were down, but fatal stabbings increased. There were 131 homicides tied to guns in 2013, down 41 from 2012. This was the lowest rate of firearm-related homicide since comparable data became available in 1974. Shooting still accounted for about a quarter of homicides. Most gun-related homicides were committed with handguns, a trend that has held over the last 20 years. Despite this, the rate of handgun-related homicides reached its lowest point since 1998. The number of fatal stabbings grew by 31 cases, to 195 deaths. Knives accounted for about 40 per cent of all homicides. Gang-related homicides fell to 85 in 2013, compared with 96 reported the previous year. It was the first drop after three years of steady numbers. The rate of gang-related homicide was 0.24 per 100,000 population, its lowest level since 2004. The rate of gang killings was highest in British Columbia and Manitoba. The victims in almost 90 per cent of homicides knew their killers. The rate of stranger homicide was at its lowest level in over 40 years.
understand that.” NDP Leader Rachel Notley said Bill 10 entrenches inequality and suggested Prentice’s government is becoming more socially conservative. “This bill does nothing to help (gays and lesbians) and in fact it crystallizes the fact that those who don’t want to help them will continue to be allowed to do so,” said Notley. The issue has become a litmus test of tolerance in Alberta. In the spring, a coalition of Progressive Conservatives and Wildrose members joined forces to vote down a Liberal party motion urging the government to support gay-straight alliances in all schools. The NDP, the Liberals and some Tories, including Jansen, voted for the motion. “Students have to have the freedom to decide if a gay-straight alliance is needed in their school,” said Jansen at the time. “It’s not a question of sexuality as much as it is a question of the right to free speech and free assembly.” Jansen said Monday she still stands by those comments.
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Something for nothing THE SALE OF THE CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD RAISES SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS I’ve never been a fan of the Canadian Wheat Board. Growing up on a small mixed farm, I gained my resentment of the CWB, the railways and the quota system by osmosis. If there was value in any of these, my Dad and my family never saw very much of it. So I shed no tears in 2012, when the Harper government put an end to the CWB monopoly. But as a taxGREG payer, I at least NEIMAN expected some payback when it would be privatized. As would, I assumed, the Prairie farmers whose forced sales of their wheat and barley had built the CWB into a global grain marketing power. Now we discover that won’t be the case. In addition to the marketing contacts and expertise within the CWB, there are physical assets that must be evaluated when the marketing entity
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goes public. But as early as 2011, news reports quote federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz saying the CWB has no assets. So, what about the 3,400 rail cars? Or a couple of Great Lakes freighters, or the four high-throughput elevators the CWB hastily ordered into construction? The transition from public board to private business is necessarily being done in secret. The minister uses his executive powers to control all financial information about the status and operation of the CWB. That much seems necessary. But I thought the government was doing this to protect my interests as a taxpayer. According to recent news reports, not so much. Reports say Ritz also denies the government “owns” the CWB. The government fired the farmer-represented board and appointed its own selected board — and they don’t own it? They gave the CWB $349 million in taxpayer dollars to facilitate the transition to private ownership, and the government says taxpayers have no stake or share in its assets? And that whoever ends up owning the CWB before the government-set deadline in 2016, for whatever price, neither farmers nor taxpayers will see
a cent of it? Right now, if you are a farmer who sells grain to the CWB this year, you are eligible to set up a contract under which, for $5 a tonne of delivered grain in the future, you will get partial ownership of the CWB. In other words, producers will be allowed to pay for their tiny slice of the new organization that will grow out of the CWB, but the new majority owners (most likely one of the U.S.-based transnational giants) will not put up one cent of the purchase price. Taxpayers will get zero for their investment into the CWB. Prairie farmers, whose forced sales created the assets the CWB now owns, get nothing. And the Harper government sees this as a good deal. I opposed the sale of Petro-Canada. It was a bad deal then and looking back, taxpayers would have been a lot better off as owners of an integrated energy company than as sellers of it. As it stands now, the national oil companies of France, Norway and China own and control more energy assets in Alberta than Albertans do. But at least we (the owners) got something back when Petro-Canada was privatized. From the few facts available about the privatization of the Canadian
Wheat Board, we get nothing. A group of Saskatchewan farmers formed the Farmers of North America, which spun off Genesis Grain and Fertilizer. NFA claims about 10,000 members and they put up a bid to buy the CWB, which they apparently valued at $270 million. That bid was rejected, with no reason given. Another group of farmers launched a lawsuit, saying over $17 billion in value simply disappeared when the CWB monopoly disappeared. That case will be heard in spring. When the whole CWB privatization debate was ongoing, there were experts (and others) presenting facts about grain sales that could make your head spin. But there was the gut acknowledgement that forced monopoly grain sales for Canadian Prairie grain, and for no one else, was wrong. Expect further spin when privatization is summarily announced. But it appears the gut acknowledgement that farmers and taxpayers would get some cash value from this will go by the boards. That’s wrong, too. Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.
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Transparency pledge fades over time There was always less than met the eye in Stephen Harper’s use of a parliamentary committee to vet his Supreme Court nominees. The MPs could not overturn the nomination, they were given precious little time to prepare for the hearing and they often veered into partisan show instead of substance. Likely few Canadians paid much attention. But they did provide some accountability and transparency to the process, a key commitment by the prime minister and something his party had pushed while in opTIM position. HARPER The hearings have proved disposable. They are now gone. Montreal lawyer Suzanne Côté was appointed last week without a hearing, the second time in six months that Harper bypassed the system he created. If hearings were largely a facade, they were nevertheless a facade that Harper embraced and his disposal of them illustrates two key points about a prime minister soon to mark nine years in office. When things don’t go Harper’s way, his impulse is to just toss the initiative away rather than try to fix it. And it is but the latest example of Harper governing in a manner he railed against while in opposition. Essentially the hearings are gone because of a previous leak to the Globe and Mail of names under consideration by the government in an earlier va-
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cancy. What made the leak particularly newsworthy was that it showed that four of the six names on the government list were ineligible to sit on the top court. When that was pointed out by NDP justice critic Françoise Boivin, Justice Minister Peter MacKay shot back that the committee may have been behind the leak. He said the process was impugned and those who may have wanted to be considered would not put their names forward for fear they would be leaked. “What I say about the necessity of preserving the integrity of the system, it was very much a consideration ... when I read in the Globe and Mail that our list that we were working from, that you and other members were a part of forming, was leaked,” he told Liberal Sean Casey, who had to remind the minister he was not even involved in the process. Irwin Cotler, the former Liberal justice minister, says the lack of transparency and accountability in the last two appointments (including Clément Gascon in June) involved no transparency or accountability and represents “a serious regression to a process that is secret, unaccountable and unrepresentative.” By cutting the parliamentary selection committee, opposition MPs no longer had a stake in the process, meaning the committee hearings could lead to embarrassing questions about Harper’s selection. So the whole process had to go. Ten years ago, MacKay was calling for greater transparency in the making of Supreme Court appointments, but that was MacKay in 2004. More notably, Stephen Harper of 2014 is not the Stephen Harper of 2004. He has walked away from previous commitments to accountability when things didn’t go his way.
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He fulfilled a promise to create a commission to develop guidelines and oversee major federal appointments. But when his nominee as chair, business magnate Gwyn Morgan, was rejected by a parliamentary committee, Harper shelved the commitment. Harper was the man in opposition who condemned the Liberals for tabling omnibus bills, but in majority government he has used them more often and made them larger. He vowed Senate reform, then stacked the Upper Chamber, setting records for patronage appointments until that all blew up. Just last week, the one-time champion of accountability ensured Canadians would not be told the cost of our mission to degrade the Islamic State group as part of an allied air bombing effort. Harper is hardly the first prime minister to attack while in opposition then slowly morph into the type of government he vowed had to be defeated. The Canadian political landscape is littered with promises of change from those seeking power that are quietly allowed to drift into the mist once power is attained. It happens over time and, in this case, the freedom of majority. It is worth remembering when NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau tell you over the coming year that they will do things differently, because either one of them would also likely over time revert to practices they found odious while in opposition. If he were still in opposition, it’s hard to imagine Harper would like this current government. Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer. He can be reached at tharper@thestar.ca.
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Report of abduction of soldier may be false BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is now working on the assumption that the reported abduction of an Israeli-Canadian woman by Islamic militants may in fact be false, The Canadian Press has learned. A government official who was not authorized to speak on the record about the matter offered that assessment Monday as two federal cabinet ministers urged Canadians to avoid following in the footsteps of Gill Rosenberg, who joined Kurdish fighters overseas. The government has not been able to confirm that Rosenberg is free and OK, but several unconfirmed social media reports suggest that is the case. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said Canadians who want to fight terrorism should be content to support domestic law enforcement and not put their lives at risk in fighting overseas. Blaney and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird reiterated past warnings to all Canadians to avoid travelling to Syria and Iraq. “The best way to fight terrorism is to support our national law enforcement or national security agencies,� said Blaney. “It is important to follow the consular advice and avoid engaging in combat activity abroad without the scope of our national Canadian Armed Forces or national security agency.� Foreign Affairs said in a release Monday night that it is aware of “reports that a Canadian citizen was falsely reported kidnapped in Syria.� “We will continue to pursue all ap-
propriate channels to seek confirmation,� the department said. Baird said earlier that public servants from his department were trying to find out more information about Rosenberg’s status. “We have advised for some time against all travel to either Syria or Iraq because we have virtually no capacity to be able to provide support on the ground in most of those countries,� Baird said. The Jerusalem Post reported Rosenberg’s capture on Sunday based on websites “known to be close� to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. However, other social media posts that emerged Monday appear to indicate that Rosenberg is free, and still fighting with her new Kurdish comrades. Rosenberg was reportedly abducted in clashes between ISIL and Kurdish troops have occurred around the Syrian city of Kobani, near the Turkish border. According to an emphatic Monday blog post, Rosenberg is safe and was never in the Kobani theatre. Blogger Mutlu Civiroglu, who describes himself a Washington, D.C.based Kurdish affairs expert and journalist, wrote that he spoke Monday to the Kurdish defence chief for Kobani, who assured him that Rosenberg had never been in his area. Civiroglu said he spoke to another Kurdish official who personally met Rosenberg on Sunday. “The official, who wanted to remain anonymous because she was not authorized to speak, said Gill is safe and she wants her beloved ones not to worry about her well-being,� Civiroglu wrote on his blog.
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Toronto police identify homicide victims as mother and young sons Toronto police have identified three people found dead in an apartment in the city on Saturday as a mother and her two young sons. The bodies of Zahra Abdille, 43, Faris Abdille, 13, and Zain Abdille, 8, were found in the building (at 85 Thorncliffe Park Drive) following an earlier incident on a nearby highway. Cause of death has not been released. Police say investigators are working with traffic services on a possible connection with the death of a man on the Don Valley Parkway on the same day. The man fell to his death hours before police came upon the three dead bodies, closing the southbound lanes. The homicide investigator handling the case said Sunday there is “some correlation” between the two incidents, but called it “very non-tangible at this time.”
Government will work with thalidomide victims, ensure they’re supported OTTAWA — Health Minister Rona Ambrose says the federal government is eager to work with thalidomide victims to ensure they’re properly supported. Ambrose met today with representatives from the Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada. In a statement, she says all Canadians empathize with the pain and suffering thalidomide survivors have endured since the 1960s. She adds that it’s clear their health needs have changed and they require ongoing support, but she is not announcing anything specific in terms of a government action plan or financial support. Thalidomide victims have called for more financial support from Ottawa. All the victims were born to mothers who took the government-approved drug in the 1950s and 60s without knowing of its disastrous side-effects. The meeting comes the same day as the House of Commons is voting on an NDP motion of support for the victims. “Today’s meeting was a step forward in building a partnership to find a solution,” Ambrose says in her statement. “Our government is committed to working with the Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada to determine how we can best support their health needs going forward.”
Winnipeg woman charged with hiding remains of six infants seeking bail WINNIPEG — A bail hearing for a woman accused of hiding the remains of six infants in a storage locker has been delayed. Andrea Giesbrecht was to appear in a Winnipeg court on Monday. But defence lawyer Greg Brodsky said he didn’t yet have an autopsy report and couldn’t go ahead with a bail application. Giesbrecht, 40, is facing charges of concealing the bodies, as well as unrelated fraud charges and a count of breaching a court order. She has been in custody since her arrest in October following the discovery of the remains by employees at a storage locker facility. The bail hearing has been rescheduled for Dec. 16.
Opposition demands Fantino resign BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Julian Fantino was greeted Monday in the House of Commons by opposition demands that he step down — but how much of a political liability the veterans affairs minister may be for the Conservative government remains to be seen. Smelling blood in the water, the third-party Liberals have launched slick online ads to capitalize on the outrage that followed the auditor general’s critical assessment of how Veterans Affairs has been treating mentally ill exsoldiers. One such ad, which features the ex-soldier who successfully fought the government over disability pension clawbacks, says: “Veterans fought for us. They shouldn’t Julian Fantino have to fight their own government.” Both the opposition New Democrats and the Liberals piled on during question period Monday - Fantino’s first since auditor general Michael Ferguson tore a strip off the government for making soldiers with post-traumatic stress wait up to eight months to find out if they’re eligible for treatment. Fantino, who was in Italy last week attending commemorative Second World War events while controversy raged at home, brushed aside the criticism. Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair called Fantino’s recent absence from the Commons an act of “cowardice,” and wondered aloud why he continues to have the confidence of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. “He showed dereliction of duty by fleeing the
country,” Mulcair said during question period. “Will the minister — for once — do the honourable thing and resign?” Liberal House leader Ralph Goodale was more blunt, saying Fantino has lost not only the confidence of the opposition parties, but former soldiers and the Canadian public as well. “There is no trust or credibility left; will the minister simply stop the travesty and resign?” said Goodale, who later urged Harper to “fire this failed minister.” Through it all, Fantino stuck to his question period notes and rattled off a laundry list of steps the government has recently taken to improve mental health benefits and access to services for ill and injured soldiers. “While the opposition resorts to exploiting veterans, fear-mongering and mud-slinging, we on this side of the House are continuing to make real, tangible improvements,” he said. Those improvements, however — announced in the run-up to Ferguson’s scathing report - are now under the microscope. On Nov. 23, just days before the report’s release, a parade of federal cabinet ministers unveiled $200 million in new money to improve access for veterans, open additional operational stress injury clinics and enhance research and training. Background information provided during the announcement said there would be an up-front investment of $18 million in the clinics, with a further $152 million to flow throughout the lifetime of the program. A published report last week said it could take up to 50 years for that money to be distributed, since veterans in their early 20s will require services for the rest of their lives. Some of the cash, earmarked for additional counsellors and mental health first aid, will be spent over five years.
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NAMED TO SELECTION CAMP FOR NATIONAL JUNIOR TEAM BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Haydn Fleury wasn’t necessarily sitting by his phone Sunday night, but he was awaiting a call. Sure enough, his phone rang and the Hockey Canada person on the other end had good news for the Red Deer Rebels defenceman. “I was a bit nervous last night, like I’m sure everyone was,” Fleury said Monday, less than 24 hours after learning that he will attend the Canadian junior national team final selection camp Dec. 11-15 in Toronto and St. Catharines, Ont. “Just to get that phone call was a bit relieving. “It’s a huge honour to have the chance to represent my country. It’s always been a dream of mine to play for Canada at Christmas time.” The 2015 World Junior Hockey Championship will be played Dec. 26 to Jan. 5 in Toronto and Montreal. Fleury has yet to reach the pinnacle of his game this season, but stood out at the national squad’s summer development camp and was selected by the Carolina Hurricanes seventh overall in June’s NHL entry draft. The six-foot-three, 205-pound rearguard also has a history with Hockey Canada, playing for Team West in the World Under 17 Challenge and twice suiting up with the country’s under-18 team. The 18-year-old has scored once and added nine assists
with 37 minutes in penalties in 24 games this season. He’s also a minus-7 in the plus/minus category, but his play has improved over the past handful of games and he realizes he’ll have to be at his best going into the selection camp. “I have to start preparing to play the right way leading into the camp. If I can do that and help the Rebels win games, I’ll have some momentum going into the camp. “I think I’ve been playing pretty good lately. I kind of had a slow start to the season but my game has been coming around and I’ve been playing with a lot more confidence. And helping the Rebels win games is always a bonus.” The Rebels have been a force at home this season. The club is riding an eight-game home-ice winning streak and is 9-3-1-0 at the Centrium heading into tonight’s clash with the visiting Calgary Hitmen. “We’ve established dominance on home ice this year. That wasn’t the case last season so it’s really nice to see this year,” said Fleury. “We’re on a bit of a run and we’re going to try to keep that going.” The Rebels’ secret to success is actually quite uncomplicated, said the Rebels blueliner. “We’re just playing our style,” he said. “We’re not the most skilled team in the league, we’re not going to wow people with toe drags or anything like that. “We’re just going to keep playing a straight-line game and work teams down low.
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Red Deer Rebels Haydn Fleury has been named to the selection camp for the Canadian national junior team. Now his goal is to prepare by playing the right way and gain some momentum heading into the camp which takes place Dec. 11-15. We have three lines that can dominate any defence corps down low and we’re just going to keep doing that and generate offence that way.” The Red Deer blueline brigade has also been a strength this season. “I think we have the most depth on D than any team in
the league,” Fleury insisted. “We have three pairings that can make plays any night and shut down the other team’s lines. It’s been really exciting to see.” Fleury will attend the national team selection camp with the intention of not only earning a berth with the
squad, but securing a spot on the roster as a go-to guy. “I feel there’s not doubt that I can play at that level and that’s my goal — to be not just a player on the team but a key player who is used in all situations,” he said. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com
Rebels get grit Oilers continue run of and offence in futility with loss to ‘Yotes swap with ‘Canes LOSING STREAK RUNS TO 10 IN A ROW SEND FAFARD AND BURKE TO LETHBRIDGE FOR RILEY SHEEN season, was difficult, Sutter admitted. “The tough thing with ‘Faf’. . . the hard thing about this trade from our perspective is Grit and offence. Riley Sheen brings both as that we’re trading a great guy the newest member of the Red with tremendous character. He’s been a really good team Deer Rebels. “He gives us some more guy,” said the Rebels bench punch up front and he plays boss. “But with where we’re at a greasy game too,” said Rebwith our back end, he els GM/head coach wasn’t able to play Brent Sutter, who his natural position. on Monday acquired We had him playing Sheen, a 20-yearboth left wing and old winger, from the right wing. He did struggling Lethbridge fine with that but it Hurricanes in return wasn’t something he for overage forward/ was comfortable with. defenceman Devan He’s disappointed to Fafard and 17-yearbe leaving but he unold centre Brayden Riley Sheen derstood the situation Burke. and he realizes that “He’s a hard player to play against. After I made he has a chance now to play the trade, some of our players his normal position. His role said they didn’t like playing here was limited and this is a chance for him to play a bigagainst him.” Sheen, an Edmonton native, ger role.” Fafard is currently out with played four games with Medicine Hat as a 16-year-old and an upper body injury and his 46 games with the Tigers the return date is uncertain. Burke, selected by the Rebfollowing season. He was dealt to the Seattle Thunderbirds in els in the seventh round of 2012 and put up 13 goals and the 2012 WHL bantam draft, 40 points that season, then was played two games with the traded to the Hurricanes dur- Rebels last season and appeared in one game with the ing the 2013-14 campaign. Sheen registered 16 goals club this fall before suffering and 41 points in 49 games with a leg injury that will keep him Lethbridge last winter and sidelined another two to three has 23 points (3-20) in 27 games weeks. The five-foot-10, 155-pound this season. He was the ‘Canes’ leading scorer when he was centre had 19 goals and 47 points in 31 games with his dealt Monday. The five-foot-11, 166-pound midget AAA club in Edmonton forward has produced 36 goals last winter. But Sutter didn’t and 115 points in 209 WHL see him earning full-time emregular-season games and two ployment with the Rebels this goals and six points in 15 play- season or even next. “With Burke, he’s a 17-yearoff contests. “This kid can give us of- old who if he’s going to play in fence,” said Sutter. “He’s a the league he has to be a toptop-nine forward and he can nine guy, and with our depth play any one of the forward up front he wasn’t going to positions. At the end of the play that here this year and day we’ve added to our team there’s a chance he wasn’t goin a different way. We’ve add- ing to next year,” said Sutter. “Lethbridge wants to get a ed more offence and someone who, although he’s not an over- bit younger and Burke can add to that.” ly big guy, plays big. The Rebels also received a “He’s a play-hard guy with conditional bantam draft pick skill and he can really skate.” Parting with the hard-nosed in the deal. The pick will deFafard, who’s been with the pend on Burke’s performance Rebels since 2011 and was with the ‘Canes. converted from a defenceman to a fourth-line forward this Please see REBELS on Page B2 BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Coyotes 5 Oilers 2 Edmonton captain Andrew Ference thinks the Oilers’ play on special teams was “a joke” on Monday night. Tobias Rieder scored two short-handed goals on the same penalty kill as the Arizona Coyotes snapped a threegame losing skid with a 5-2 victory over a hapless Edmonton team. The Oilers (6-15-4), who got their goals from Jordan Eberle and Jeff Petry, have now lost 10 games in a row. Ference said there’s simply no excuse for coming out to start the second period with a 1-0 lead and a power play but allowing two short-handed goals. “You come in here, you’re up a goal and I don’t think (Arizona) had a good period,” said Ference. “Guys are letting their guard down, and we’re in no position to be doing that - to be taking a rest and relaxing. We start the period with a power play and we’re looking for some jump. You’re looking for some momentum and it’s a matter of falling into old habits, floating around and expecting the other team to lie down because you’re so great. “It doesn’t happen, we made the same mistakes, it cost us games and it definitely puts you in a hole again. We allow two on the same power play, it’s a joke.” Edmonton has not won at home since October, and remains winless against Western Conference opponents, dropping to 0-12-3 in that category. Viktor Fasth, who started in net for the Oilers, agreed with Ference that a team simply can’t allow two short-handed goals on the same power play. “Giving up two shorthanded goals at the beginning of the second, it’s not a good thing to do,” said Fasth. “I wish I could have made at least one of those two saves and kept us in the game. But they scored four in the second period and we didn’t manage to battle back.” Ference said that something clearly has to change for the Oilers, because what is happening now isn’t even close to working. “The definition of insanity
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Arizona Coyotes’ Tobias Rieder scores a goal against Edmonton Oilers goalie Viktor Fasth during second period NHL action in Edmonton, on Monday. is doing the same thing over and over again when it doesn’t work,” he said. “Do you try it again or look for a different path. I think that you’ve seen that with some of the mistakes, that’s what it is, insanity.” Rieder said his two shorthanded goals will be something he remembers for a long time. “I obviously wasn’t expecting anything like that,” he said. “It is just amazing that we scored two short-handed goals. That was really exciting, I’m not sure if I really realize what happened yet. It’s pretty hard to even score goals on the power play in this league, let alone to get two shorthanded that quickly.” Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Mikkel Boedker and Martin Erat also scored for the Coyotes (10-12-3), who won for just the second time in their last seven games, extending their point streak against Edmonton to a franchise-record 16 games. “I’m glad that the leadership in this room came out and grabbed this game,” said Coyotes coach Dave Tippett. “We played a lot of the game the right way. Our special teams were excellent, obviously with Toby getting those two shorthanded goals, but also getting a couple on our power play. It was a much-needed win. “Now the challenge is to continue this night in and
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night out.” Coyotes goalie Mike Smith, who snapped a personal seven-game losing streak, said he hopes that this is the start of a turnaround for his team. “Now is an important time for us,” he said. “It is a lighter month for us and we need to get back in the hunt before Christmas. We are done talking and having meetings. We know what we have to do now. It’s just about going out there and doing it. Edmonton actually started the scoring on the power play five-and-a-half minutes into the first period as Smith lost the handle on a Taylor Hall shot, with the puck landing in the blue paint for Eberle to swat his fifth of the season into a wide-open net. However, the Oilers came unglued to start the second period, allowing two short-handed goals on the same power play. Just 36 seconds in, Hall coughed up the puck in the neutral zone and Rieder went in on a breakaway, tucking his third of the season through Fasth’s legs. Rieder scored his second short-handed goal on the same Edmonton man advantage just 58 seconds later as Martin Hanzal blocked a shot and sent the former Oiler draft pick up the ice with speed.
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Canada names invitees to world juniors camp MCDAVID, FUCALE AMONG SEVEN RETURNEES INVITED TO SELECTION CAMP BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL - While Connor McDavid will be the star, he will likely share the 2015 world junior championship spotlight with goaltender Zach Fucale. Fucale will not only be one of the local boys, he is also a Montreal Canadiens draft pick and will have a huge cheering section when Canada opens the tournament Dec. 26 at the Bell Centre against Slovakia. “There’s pressure everywhere, whether it’s in junior or anywhere you step on the ice,” the Halifax Mooseheads goalie said Monday as Hockey Canada released a list of 29 players invited to the team selection camp that opens Dec. 11 in Toronto. “We’re living the moment and we don’t really have time to think about it. We just try to get ready for the games.” Canada finds itself in a five-year gold medal drought - and two years without any medal at all - at the event officially called the IIHF Under-20 World Championship. It hopes to end that by icing a team of mostly 19-yearold players, at least seven of whom are returning from last year’s tournament in Malmo, Sweden. They include Fucale, defencemen Chris Bigras of the Owen Sound Attack and Josh Morrissey of the Prince Albert Raiders, plus forwards McDavid of the Erie Otters, Frederik Gauthier of the Rimouski Oceanic, Nic Petan of the Portland Winterhawks and Sam Reinhart of the Kootenay ice. All are 19 except McDavid, the 17-year-old phenom who is expected to go first overall in the NHL draft in June. The Newmarket, Ont., na-
tive broke a bone in his right hand in a fight Nov. 12 with the Mississauga Steelheads’ Bryson Cianfone. While McDavid, who was leading the Ontario Hockey League with 51 points in 18 games when he got hurt, has not returned to action, there was no concern about inviting him to the selection camp. He is expected to skate with the team in camp and be ready for the tournament. “It’s a no-brainer to select him,” said Scott Salmond, Hockey Canada’s vice-president for national teams. “Even with one hand, he still might be one of the best players in the world. “We’ve had good conversations with Connor and his family and we feel he’s going to be 100 per cent ready to go. He’s getting another evaluation (on Dec. 9) and hopefully gets clearance at that time. We’ll ease him back into the process, but we expect that on Dec. 26, he’ll be a huge part of our team.” Still unclear is whether some 19-year-olds currently playing in the NHL will be loaned to Team Canada. The clubs have until the Dec. 19 NHL roster freeze to decide. Hockey Canada has already been told that Florida defenceman Aaron Ekblad will remain with the Panthers, but there is a chance to have Jonathan Drouin of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Curtis Lazar of the Ottawa Senators or Bo Horvat of the Vancouver Canucks, who played at last year’s world juniors, or New York Rangers forward Anthony Duclair. Actually, 2013 first overall pick Nathan MacKinnon is still eligible, but he’s firmly established with the Colorado Avalanche. The team coached by Benoit Groulx
will be pared to 22 players for the tournament. The 29 invitees include 10 defencemen, 17 forwards and only two goalies: Fucale and Eric Comrie of the Tri-City Americans. Seven will be cut after camp to leave two goalies and likely seven rearguards and 13 up front. It is a second year in a row Canada has chosen its goalies in advance. Director of player personnel Ryan Jankowski said Fucale and Comrie have been the country’s most consistent junior puck-stoppers over the last two years. A third goalie can be added during the tournament if needed. “It gives them longer to prepare mentally for the challenge ahead of them,” said Jankowski. “They know they’re the goalies and we have confidence in them. That’s more important than a competition in camp.” Added Salmond: “Zach is a very composed young man. We really believe Zach’s the guy who can handle that pressure. We talked about it in depth. We believe his ability on the ice and his mental capacities and maturity will allow him to be at his best.” Last year’s team coached by Brent Sutter was its second-youngest ever at the tournament. It was seen at the time as a planned move to have a more experienced squad with this year’s event played at home. Canada plays the group stage in Montreal and the knockout games in Toronto. Among 19-year-olds who could make the team are six-foot-seven defenceman Samuel Morin of Rimouski and six-foot-four Darnell Nurse of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, first round picks in 2013 by Philadelphia and Ed-
monton respectively. Among forwards, there are first rounders Max Domi of the London Knights (Arizona) and Morgan Klimchuk of the Regina Pats (Calgary). Some highly regarded 18-year-olds (born in 1996) include the Kelowna Rockets’ Rourke Chartier, currently leading the Western Hockey League with 29 goals and 48 points in 27 games, Vancouver first rounder Jake Virtanen of the Calgary Hitmen and Red Deer Rebels defenceman Haydn Fleury, taken seventh overall in June by Carolina. “This team will be built on speed and skill,” said Salmond. “There will be an opportunity for all four lines to play with skill. “When we look at the last couple of years, we haven’t got the production from what people would term our bottom six. So we’re looking for more production from those guys, which translates into more skill on the third and fourth lines.” Other defencemen invited were Madison Bowey of Kelowna, Dillon Heatherington of the Swift Current Broncos, Joe Hicketts of the Victoria Royals, Travis Sanheim, a Flyers first rounder from the Hitmen, and Seattle’s Shea Theodore. Hicketts is fifth in WHL scoring with 36 points, including seven goals. Forwards also invited were Nick Baptiste of Erie, Lawson Crouse of the Kingston Frontenacs, Michael Dal Colle of the Oshawa Generals, Jason Dickenson and Robby Fabbri of Guelph, Remi Elie of the Belleville Bulls, Nick Paul of the North Bay Battalion, Brayden Point of the Moose Jaw Warriors and Nick Ritchie of the Peterborugh Petes.
Dolphins rally, get three field Grizzlys swing blockbuster goals from Sturgis to beat Jets to bring in more offence BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Dolphins 16 Jets 13 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - It’s all in the mindset. “Scratch, claw, bite, kick, whatever you have to do make a play and win,” Dolphins defensive end Cameron Wake explained after Monday night’s dull but effective slugfest with the New York Jets ended in a 16-13 Miami victory. “It’s December,” added rookie receiver Jarvis Landry. “The only thing that matters is winning, no matter how you get it done.” The Dolphins found the right formula to stay in the AFC playoff race: Simply let the Jets run the ball all night, and wait for New York to make mistakes - something the Jets have done quite well all season. Caleb Sturgis’ third field goal, from 26 yards with 1:57 remaining, gave Miami (7-5) the comeback victory over its archrival. New York (2-10) rushed for 277 yards on 49 carries, but made enough key errors in the second half to lose. “Can’t believe we’re 2-10,” Jets coach Rex Ryan said, shaking his head and pausing. “It’s a joke.” The Dolphins remained a factor in the wild-card race thanks to special teams; Landry’s eight receptions; Lamar Miller’s 4-yard TD run early in the fourth quarter; and plenty of defence
when the Jets needed to pass. New York’s Geno Smith threw only 13 times, fewest in the NFL this season, and gained 49 yards. The usually reliable Nick Folk missed two field goals. All of that offset a season high on the ground as Chris Johnson had his best performance for the Jets with 105 yards. “We had to draw a line in the dirt. No more,” Wake said of his team’s stinginess after halftime. “We came out in the second half scheme-wise the same, but guys played the way they’re supposed to play.” Sturgis also made field goals of 43 and 44 yards. After trailing most of the way, Miami tied it on Miller’s run with 10:24 remaining. That brought the loudest cheers of the night; thousands of Dolphins fans at MetLife Stadium braved the wet, windy conditions. Jets problems with penalties on special teams hurt them all night, and a holding call against Saalim Hakim set up the Dolphins at New York’s 39 on the tying drive. On the winning possession, backup tight end Dion Sims had catches of 18 and 17 yards. The Jets kept pounding the ball effectively. They even got into field goal position after Miami made it 13-13. But Koa Misi’s sack pushed New York back to the Miami 27 and Folk missed wide left for the second time. Folk had made 18 of 20 entering the game.
RINGETTE The Central Alberta U14AA Sting posted a pair of weekend ringette victories, 11-6 over the host Leduc U16A team and 8-1 over the visiting Edmonton U16A squad. Kianna Doyle, Hannah Morrison and Carly Cherniak each netted three goals against Leduc, with Megan Grubb and Saxon Anderson adding singles. Ashlin Caine and Hannah Morrison each tallied twice versus Edmonton. Jamie Lalor, Rachel Vandervlis, Cherniak and Doyle had the other Sting goals. Goaltender McKenna Smalley was
solid in both games. ● Reese Pollitt fired four goals as the Central Alberta U16AA Sting downed the Red Deer U19A team 8-3 Sunday. Sydney Cherniak, Sara Kelly, Emily Lemasurier and Megan Conrad accounted for the other Sting markers, while Muriel Aurora, with two goals, and Isabel St. Pierre replied for Red Deer. The Central Alberta Sting will host their Ice Breaker AA tournament Dec. 12-14 in Lacombe.
BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Olds Grizzlys have swung another big trade, bringing in Grande Prairie Storm leading scorer Jade McMullen. Heading north in the trade are a trio of Grizzlys, Dustin Gorgi, Josh Zablocki and Alex Brewer. McMullen, a five-foot-10, 170-pound forward out of Edmonton, has 32 points (19 goals, 13 assists) in 31 games this year, good enough for eighth in the Alberta Junior Hockey League. The 19-year-old is in his third season in the AJHL, all of it spent in Grande Prairie, and is committed to the Rochester Institute of Technology for next season. “Jade obviously brings a scoring presence with him and we believe he is a guy who will fit in well with our top six forwards to make us a threatening team offensively,” said Grizzlys head coach and general manager Brett Hopfe, in a press release. “It’s tough to give up three very good players for us in Gorgi, Zablocki and Brewer, how-
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REBELS: Win-win “Basically this is a trade that’s a win-win for everyone,” said Sutter. “Riley comes here and gets a chance to play on a different type of team in a different environment and the other kids go there (Lethbridge) and have a chance to play. Riley is very excited about coming here.” Sheen will be in the Rebels’ lineup when the Calgary Hitmen visit the Centrium tonight. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
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Falling Stars, Preds rise among NHL surprises BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Tyler Seguin thought the Dallas Stars could’ve been a contender. They still might be, but it’ll take some work. More than a quarter of the way through the regular season, the Stars are 11th in the competitive Western Conference and five points back of a playoff spot. Along with the successes of the Nashville Predators, Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames and Montreal Canadiens, the Stars’ struggles have been among the biggest surprises in the NHL so far. “We’ve lost games we probably should’ve won,” general manager Jim Nill said recently. “But it’s that old analogy: When you dig a hole, it takes more dirt to fill it in. We’re finding more dirt right now.” Seguin said before training camp that Dallas was ready to contend with the Los Angeles Kings, Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues, the top teams in the West. A trip to the playoffs last season, even though it ended in the first round at the hands of the Anaheim Ducks, infused plenty of belief in the Stars, and off-season additions of Jason Spezza and Ales Hemsky added to that. “(Being a contender is) something earned more than just given, and I think we did that last year,” Seguin said in September. “But that’s one year. We want to be a consistent team.” Consistent, the Stars have not been. Coming into Tuesday night’s game at the Toronto Maple Leafs, Dallas is 3-41 in its past eight games. Starting goaltender Kari Lehtonen (.905 save percentage) hasn’t played well, and backup Anders Lindback whose struggles in replacing Ben Bishop for the Tampa Bay Lightning last spring all but handed a first-round vic-
tory to the Canadiens - has been worse we’re losing right now.” with a goals-against average of 4.63 and Rinne missed much of last season save percentage of .861. with a hip injury and an infection. He A young, unproven defence hasn’t returned for the end of 2013-14 and helped, so Nill changed up his blue- starred for Finland at the world chamline by trading veteran Sergei Gon- pionships. Now that he’s in a groove char to Montreal for forward Travis again on a winning team, Rinne said, Moen and Brenden Dillon to San Jose “It’s great to be back.” for Jason Demers. Kevin Connauton The Predators are back in contenwas claimed off waivers by the Colum- tion under new coach Peter Laviolette bus Blue Jackets, thanks in large and call-up John part to some new ‘EARLY ON IT WAS OUR Klingberg (three additions. TwenGOALTENDER MAKING A goals and five asty-year-old Filip sists in 10 games) Forsberg is NashBUNCH OF SAVES AND OUR has been better ville’s leading DEFENCE SCORING. WE than advertised. scorer, and his Up front, the NEEDED MORE THAN THAT TO linemates - freeStars are withsignee Mike HAVE SUSTAINED SUCCESS. agent out winger Valeri Ribeiro and trade Nichushkin until WE’VE GOT A LOT OF SEASON. acquisition James March after he Neal - have proWE’RE ENCOURAGED OF had hip surgery. duced plenty, as And Hemsky still HOW WE’RE PLAYING AND well. hasn’t panned out “We believe WHERE WE ARE, BUT WE with just a goal that we have a THERE’S A LOT TO CLEAN UP good team here and five assists in 23 games. we can comAND A LOT TO GET BETTER IN.’ and “We’ve had a pete against any lot of guys on our — BRAD TRELIVING team,” Ribeiro team (who) just CALGARY FLAMES GM said. haven’t clicked,” “Obviously we Nill said. have one of the The opposite is true for the Preda- top goalies, the defence corps, and if tors, whose 34 points through 23 games we can play well defensively and be were tied for tops in the league pend- able to score two to three goals, it gives ing the Lightning’s game Monday at you a chance to win with the goalie the New York Rangers. Nashville has that we have.” gotten superb goaltending from Pekka Goaltending has been crucial to the Rinne, who leads all starters with a early success of three Canadian teams: 1.82 GAA and .933 save percentage. Ryan Miller’s Canucks, Jonas Hiller’s “There’s no question that psycho- Flames and Carey Price’s Canadiens. logically you probably play a little bit Miller (2.42, .911) has stabilized the different with Pekka in net than we did position in Vancouver after a few years last year for 51 games that he wasn’t of drama surrounding Cory Schneider there,” GM David Poile said. “It’s a and Roberto Luongo. After shutting good difference and it’s a big differ- out Columbus last week, Miller said ence and it’s one of the huge factors of he’s “still building the right kind of why we’re winning more games than game to play with this team.”
So is Hiller, signed to be the Flames’ starter after getting pushed out by younger depth in Anaheim. He and Karri Ramo have been excellent in Calgary, and defensive scoring has gotten GM Brad Treliving’s team into a playoff spot in the early going. “Early on it was our goaltender making a bunch of saves and our defence scoring,” Treliving said. “We needed more than that to have sustained success. We’ve got a lot of season. We’re encouraged of how we’re playing and where we are, but we there’s a lot to clean up and a lot to get better in. For me it’s encouraging that we’re having some success.” Coach Bob Hartley is up there with Laviolette among early Jack Adams Award candidates, but Treliving didn’t want to comment on a possible extension. This was supposed to be another rebuilding year for the Flames, which also means they won’t be hard-core buyers at the trade deadline, even if this kind of winning continues. “We’re still looking at this as taking a long-term view,” Treliving said. “We’re not going to give up young assets, long-term assets for something that’s going to help us for two weeks.“ Montreal GM Marc Bergevin has already been making moves, specifically to add depth on defence and free up cap space in 2015-16. In addition to turning two more years of Moen into one of Gonchar, Bergevin sent Rene Bourque and his contract to Anaheim for Bryan Allen and his expiring one. Second in the Atlantic Division to the Lightning going into Monday’s action, the Canadiens have relied on Price (2.34, .922) in a major way. “Obviously goaltending’s been very good,” Bergevin said. “Overall I think our compete level’s been there most of the year, and when you compete and you have good goaltending, you’ll win your share of games.”
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Winnipeg Jets head coach Paul Maurice instructs Blake Wheeler, Andrew Ladd, Dustin Byfuglien and Bryan Little during overtime against the Colorado Avalanche during NHL action in Winnipeg on October 26, 2014. Head coach Paul Maurice has some theories about why the Winnipeg Jets have twice as many wins on the road than they do at home, but it has nothing to do with getting away from distractions or extra-comfy hotel beds. (that) now we’re at a point where we’re really comfortable with our game, period, whether we’re playing at home or on the road.” Ladd practised on a line with Blake Wheeler and Mark Scheifele replacing injured centre Bryan Little, but Maurice had a goodnews update. Little and injured defenceman Toby Enstrom will try to practise Tuesday, and if they feel good they should get the green light to return to the lineup. Little took a puck to the knee in last Friday’s 2-1 overtime loss to Boston. Enstrom missed Winnipeg’s successful three-game road trip (2-0-1) with a lower-body injury and defenceman Grant Clitsome filled his spot in a pairing with Zach Bogosian. Ladd, Wheeler and Little have eight goals apiece, with Ladd and Wheeler adding eight assists each and Little seven. “He plays every situation for us,” Wheeler said of Little. “You really can’t even explain how
much he means to our group. It’ll take a lot of guys stepping up if he misses time. We hope he doesn’t.” The Jets begin a stretch Wednesday that has them playing every second day through Dec. 13. Maurice’s plan for his goaltenders might include using both starter Ondrej Pavelec (8-8-2) and Michael Hutchinson (4-1-2). “Just make sure neither one of them is out of the net more than seven games, for the most part,” Maurice said when asked about his goalie philosophy. Hutchinson’s goals against average of 1.56 and save percentage of .947 both top the NHL. He’s started six games and played in eight. Maurice said Hutchinson has created his own success. The rookie has a competitive work ethic in practice, is square on the puck during games and doesn’t let a lot of rebounds get away from him. “He has the ability to fight and find pucks in traffic, and then he’s just played that way all the way through,” Maurice said.
LONDON - The goalkeeper who won the World Cup will be challenging Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for the Ballon d’Or. While the footballer of the year prize has switched between the world’s top scorers since 2008, Manuel Neuer of Germany is the first goalkeeper to make the Ballon d’Or top three since 2006. Ronaldo won the 2013 honour, ending Argentina forward Messi’s three-year run as the world’s best player since FIFA and France Football magazine merged their awards. In the women’s category, five-time winner Marta of Brazil was nominated on Monday alongside 2012 winner Abby Wambach and Germany midfielder Nadine Kessler, who is seeking the honour for the first time. The winners, chosen by national team captains and coaches, plus selected journalists, will be announced in Zurich on Jan. 12. Messi has broken the Champions League and Spanish league scoring records this month after winning the Golden Ball at the World Cup, but he will end 2014 without a team honour. Argentina lost to Germany in the World Cup final, Bayern Munich goalkeeper Neuer keeping a clean sheet as he followed winning the German league and cup by lifting football’s biggest prize. The last goalkeeper to make the Ballon D’Or top three was Gianluigi Buffon after Italy won the World Cup final in a shootout against France. Neuer earlier this month played down his chances of winning the top individual award in football by citing his lower profile away from the pitch, particularly his lack of photo shoots wearing underwear. Ronaldo, though, is one of the most marketable men in sport - posing regularly in adverts when wearing little and celebrating scoring in the Champions League final in May by ripping off his shirt to show his muscled body to cameras. Although the two-time Ballon D’Or winner triumphed in the Champions League and UEFA Super Cup with Real Madrid this year, he scored only one goal at the World Cup as Portugal went out in the group stage. That solitary goal was not enough to make FIFA’s goal of the year shortlist. Two nominees for the Puskas Award were World Cup goals: James Rodriguez’s volley for Colombia against Uruguay and Robin van Persie’s header for the Netherlands against Spain. The shortlist was completed by an unfamiliar name with Ireland forward Stephanie Roche nominated for her goal for Peamount United, socred in front of a handful of fans in a domestic game against Wexford Youths.
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SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● Senior high basketball: Ponoka at Lindsay Thurber, Lacombe at Notre Dame, Camrose at Sylvan Lake, Wetaskiwin at Stettler; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● WHL: Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Enmax Centrium. ● AJHL: Drumheller at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Monstars vs. Wells Furniture, Vikings vs. Rusty Chuckers, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday
● JV basketball: Sylvan Lake at Hunting Hills, Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, Wetaskiwin at Stettler, Rocky Mountain House at Ponoka, Innisfail at Camrose; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.
Thursday
● Senior high basketball: Rocky Mountain House at Hunting Hills; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Men’s basketball: Carstar vs. Kingsmen, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Henry’s Eavestrouging, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m. Lindsay Thurber.
Friday
● WHL: Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Enmax Centrium. ● AJHL: Calgary Mustangs at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Buffaloes at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Stettler, 8 p.m.; Banff at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Stony Plain at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.; Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 8:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Lacombe, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday
● Minor midget AAA hockey: Rockyview at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Northstar, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Ramada, 12:20 p.m., Kinsmen A; Medicine Hat at Lacombe, 8:15 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 3:30 p.m. ● Junior women’s hockey: Medicine Hat at Central Alberta, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Major midget girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● WHL: Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. (The Drive). ● College men’s exhibition hockey: Bentley Generals at RDC Kings, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Strathmore at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Banff at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Three Hills, 8 p.m.
Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland
CFL PLAYOFFS Semi-finals Sunday, Nov. 16 Montreal 50 B.C. 17 Edmonton 18 Saskatchewan 10
Denver San Diego Kansas City Oakland
Finals Sunday, Nov. 23 Hamilton 40 Montreal 24 Calgary 43 Edmonton 18 Grey Cup Sunday, Nov. 30 Calgary 20 Hamilton 16 CFL Grey Cup Results Past Grey Cup results (with host city in parentheses): 2014 - Calgary 20 Hamilton 16 (Vancouver) 2013 - Saskatchewan 45 Hamilton 23 (Regina) 2012 - Toronto 35 Calgary 22 (Toronto) 2011 - B.C. 34. Winnipeg 23 (Vancouver) 2010 - Montreal 21 Saskatchewan 18 (Edmonton) 2009 - Montreal 28 Saskatchewan 27 (Calgary) 2008 - Calgary 22 Montreal 14 (Montreal) 2007 - Saskatchewan 23 Winnipeg 19 (Toronto) 2006 - B.C. 25 Montreal 14 (Winnipeg) 2005 - Edmonton 38 Montreal 35 (OT) (Vancouver) 2004 - Toronto 27 B.C. 19 (Ottawa) 2003 - Edmonton 34 Montreal 22 (Regina) 2002 - Montreal 25 Edmonton 16 (Edmonton) 2001 - Calgary 27 Winnipeg 19 (Montreal) 2000 - B.C. 28 Montreal 26 (Calgary) 1999 - Hamilton 32 Calgary 21 (Vancouver) 1998 - Calgary 26 Hamilton 24 (Winnipeg) 1997 - Toronto 47 Saskatchewan 23 (Edmonton) 1996 - Toronto 43 Edmonton 37 (Hamilton) 1995 - Baltimore 37 Calgary 20 (Regina) 1994 - B.C. 26 Baltimore 23 (Vancouver) 1993 - Edmonton 33 Winnipeg 23 (Calgary) 1992 - Calgary 24 Winnipeg 10 (Toronto) 1991 - Toronto 36 Calgary 21 (Winnipeg) 1990 - Winnipeg 50 Edmonton 11 (Vancouver) 1989 - Saskatchewan 43 Hamilton 40 (Toronto) 1988 - Winnipeg 22 B.C. 21 (Ottawa) 1987 - Edmonton 38 Toronto 36 (Vancouver) 1986 - Hamilton 39 Edmonton 15 (Vancouver) 1985 - B.C. 37 Hamilton 24 (Montreal) 1984 - Winnipeg 47 Hamilton 17 (Edmonton) 1983 - Toronto 18 B.C. 17 (Vancouver) 1982 - Edmonton 32 Toronto 16 (Toronto) 1981 - Edmonton 26 Ottawa 23 (Montreal) 1980 - Edmonton 48 Hamilton 10 (Toronto) 1979 - Edmonton 17 Montreal 9 (Montreal) 1978 - Edmonton 20 Montreal 13 (Toronto)
7 7 7 W 9 8 7 1
5 5 5 West L 3 4 5 11
0 .583 328 242 0 .583 320 298 0 .583 252 245 T 0 0 0 0
Pct .750 .667 .583 .083
PF 361 279 277 176
NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 9 3 0 .750 375 Dallas 8 4 0 .667 302 N.Y. Giants 3 9 0 .250 257 Washington 3 9 0 .250 244 South W L T Pct PF Atlanta 5 7 0 .417 291 New Orleans 5 7 0 .417 323 Carolina 3 8 1 .292 228 Tampa Bay 2 10 0 .167 220 North W L T Pct PF Green Bay 9 3 0 .750 380 Detroit 8 4 0 .667 231 Chicago 5 7 0 .417 253 Minnesota 5 7 0 .417 233 West W L T Pct PF Arizona 9 3 0 .750 258 Seattle 8 4 0 .667 298 San Francisco 7 5 0 .583 231 St. Louis 5 7 0 .417 261
PA 276 249 224 337
PA 285 273 319 322 PA 299 318 331 314 PA 267 207 337 257 PA 224 221 244 285
Thursday, Dec. 4 Dallas at Chicago, 6:25 p.m.
PA 247
Monday, Dec. 8 Atlanta at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Memphis 15 2 .882 Houston 13 4 .765 San Antonio 13 4 .765 Dallas 13 5 .722 New Orleans 7 8 .467 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 13 4 .765 Denver 9 8 .529 Oklahoma City 5 12 .294 Utah 5 13 .278 Minnesota 4 11 .267 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 14 2 .875 L.A. Clippers 11 5 .688
GB 1 1/2 2 1/2 5 1/2 8 GB 1 1/2 2 4 8
GB 2 2 2 1/2 7 GB 4 8 8 1/2 8 GB 3
10 9 4
8 8 13
.556 .529 .235
5 5 1/2 10 1/2
Sunday’s Games San Antonio 111, Boston 89 Chicago 102, Brooklyn 84 Golden State 104, Detroit 93 Memphis 97, Sacramento 85 Miami 86, New York 79 Orlando 93, Phoenix 90 Portland 107, Minnesota 93 L.A. Lakers 129, Toronto 122, OT Monday’s Games San Antonio 109, Philadelphia 103 Washington 107, Miami 86 Denver 103, Utah 101 Minnesota at L.A. Clippers, late Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Boston at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Brooklyn at New York, 5:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Dallas at Chicago, 6 p.m. Indiana at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Portland at Denver, 7 p.m. Toronto at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Orlando at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games L.A. Lakers at Washington, 7 p.m. Chicago at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at Boston, 7:30 p.m. San Antonio at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Memphis at Houston, 8 p.m. Dallas at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Philadelphia at Minnesota, 8 p.m Toronto at Utah, 9 p.m. Orlando at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Bowling Heritage Lanes High scores Nov. 24-30 Monday 55+: Bill Dunlop, 289 high single; Dunlop, 704 high triple. Monday mixed: Ken Bement 279; Marcel Serre 644. Tuesday mixed: Ashley Ehret 320; Paul Waisman 760. Wednesday 55+: Don Knowler 286; Knowler 825.
WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 28 22 3 3 0 129 Victoria 30 15 13 2 0 97 Kamloops 29 11 13 3 2 88 Prince George 27 13 14 0 0 82 Vancouver 28 10 18 0 0 84 GP 25 25 29 27 27
Everett Spokane Portland Tri-City Seattle
U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 16 5 3 1 14 8 3 0 14 12 0 3 15 12 0 0 11 12 2 2
GA 68 100 100 113 102
Pt 47 32 27 26 20
GF GA Pt 86 66 36 70 69 31 96 105 31 75 70 30 70 75 26
Sunday’s results Kootenay 4 Everett 3 (OT) Seattle 4 Spokane 1 Tuesday’s games Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Saskatoon at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Portland at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Wednesday’s games Brandon at Regina, 6 p.m. Prince Albert at Prince George, 8 p.m. Saskatoon at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Red Deer Rebels Scoring Johnson Feser Cote Musil Bleackley Kopeck Pawlenchuk Polei Maxwell Sandhu Strand Fleury Nell Doetzel Charif de Wit Fafard Dixon McCarty Grman Mahura Toth Burke Burman Goaltending Toth Burman
GP 28 28 28 28 26 28 28 28 28 28 26 24 28 28 11 26 26 24 8 13 16 25 1 7 MP 1448 241
G 13 10 4 8 8 8 7 12 7 8 4 1 6 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
A 14 17 20 15 14 10 10 4 9 4 7 9 3 9 7 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
GA SO 73 1 15 0
Pts 27 27 24 23 22 18 17 16 16 12 11 10 9 9 8 6 4 2 1 1 1 1 0 0
GAA 3.03 3.74
PIM 22 27 14 30 39 15 7 40 23 8 21 37 16 27 2 11 38 30 7 17 8 2 0 0 Svs 653 86
+/18 2 17 1 2 4 5 -5 -2 2 5 -7 -10 3 -4 -1 -2 -1 -4 -5 -6 — 0 — Sv% .899 .851
Rourke Chartier, Kel Nick Merkley, Kel Cole Sanford, MH Brayden Point, MJ Joe Hicketts, Vic Trevor Cox, MH Austin Carroll, Vic Cole Ully, Kam Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Jack Rodewald, MJ Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Tyson Baillie, Kel Chase De Leo, Por Jaedon Descheneau, Koo Tim McGauley, Bra Coda Gordon, SC Adam Helewka, Spo Connor Gay, Reg Dryden Hunt, Reg Nikita Scherbak, Eve Madison Bowey, Kel Ivan Provorov, Bra Colby Cave, SC Rihards Bukarts, Bra Matt Needham, Kam Jansen Harkins, PG Nicolas Petan, Por
G 29 8 17 15 7 5 20 12 18 13 13 19 15 15 15 14 13 13 12 12 8 8 11 11 9 7 5
A 19 38 20 21 29 31 15 23 16 21 21 14 18 17 17 18 18 18 19 18 22 22 18 18 20 22 24
Pts 48 46 37 36 36 36 35 35 34 34 34 33 33 32 32 32 31 31 31 30 30 30 29 29 29 29 29
14 11 8 13 13 10 14 11 14 13 13 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 5
14 17 20 14 14 17 12 15 11 12 12 12 13 14 15 15 16 17 18 20
28 28 28 27 27 27 26 26 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25
National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 25 17 6 2 36 Montreal 26 17 7 2 36 Detroit 24 14 5 5 33 Boston 25 14 10 1 29 Toronto 23 12 8 3 27 Florida 22 9 7 6 24 Ottawa 23 10 9 4 24 Buffalo 24 8 14 2 18
GF 91 69 74 63 76 46 61 43
GA 67 66 61 61 69 55 63 76
Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 23 16 5 2 34 N.Y. Islanders24 17 7 0 34 N.Y. Rangers24 11 9 4 26 Washington 23 10 9 4 24 New Jersey 24 9 11 4 22 Philadelphia 23 8 12 3 19 Carolina 23 7 13 3 17 Columbus 24 7 15 2 16
GF 81 77 71 65 58 61 54 54
GA 55 65 70 65 71 74 68 84
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 23 16 5 2 34 St. Louis 24 16 6 2 34 Chicago 24 15 8 1 31 Winnipeg 25 12 9 4 28 Minnesota 23 13 9 1 27 Dallas 24 9 10 5 23 Colorado 25 9 11 5 23
GF 64 66 74 52 65 70 67
GA 46 51 48 56 55 84 79
Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 26 15 6 5 35 71 68 Vancouver 24 16 7 1 33 75 66 Calgary 25 15 8 2 32 78 64 Los Angeles 24 12 7 5 29 65 57 San Jose 25 11 10 4 26 68 70 Arizona 25 10 12 3 23 62 76 Edmonton 25 6 15 4 16 56 87 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Sunday’s Games Detroit 5, Vancouver 3
Third Period 6. Arizona, Erat 5 (Stone, Schlemko) 2:03 (pp). 7. Edmonton, Petry 2 (Klefbom, Perron) 4:21. Penalties - Arcobello Edm (interference) 0:15, Erat Ari (hooking) 8:20. Shots on goal Arizona 5 13 6 - 24 Edmonton 7 9 11 - 27 Goal - Arizona: Smith (W, 5-11-2); Edmonton: Fasth (L, 2-6-2). Power plays (goal-chances) - Arizona: 2-3; Edmonton: 1-5. Canadiens 4, Avalanche 3 First Period 1. Montreal, Sekac 4 (Prust, Price) 8:09. 2. Colorado, Briere 6 (unassisted) 19:26. Penalties -None. Second Period 3. Colorado, O’Reilly 4 (Tanguay, Duchene) :35. 4. Montreal, Markov 3 (Galchenyuk, Plekanec) 6:28 (pp). 5. Colorado, Barrie 3 (Talbot, Guenin) 12:01. 6. Montreal, Subban 6 (Markov, Eller) 15:16. Penalties - Guenin Col (slashing) 4:41, Tanguay Col (goaltender interference) 19:14. Third Period 7. Montreal, Pacioretty 12 (Desharnais, Subban) 13:54. Penalties - Eller Mtl (tripping) 5:53. Shots on goal Montreal 8 18 4 - 30 Colorado 11 9 9 - 29 Goal - Montreal: Price (W, 14-5-1); Colorado: Pickard (L, 3-4-0). Power plays (goal-chances) - Montreal: 1-2; Colorado: 0-1. Lightning 6, Rangers 3 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Johnson 7 (Palat, Hedman) 6:32. 2. NY Rangers, Hayes 3 (Hagelin, Stempniak) 12:14. 3. Tampa Bay, Connolly 3 (Hedman, Bishop) 16:02. Penalties - Stamkos TB (slashing) 17:43. Second Period 4. NY Rangers, Fast 2 (Brassard, Nash) 2:42. 5. NY Rangers, St. Louis 10 (McDonagh, Stepan) 9:24 (pp). 6. Tampa Bay, Carle 2 (Johnson, Filppula) 14:23. Penalties - Zuccarello NYR (interference) 5:54, Kucherov TB (tripping) 6:50, Paquette TB (hooking) 8:45, Hayes NYR (hooking) 11:17, McDonagh NYR (hooking) 11:57. Third Period 7. Tampa Bay, Connolly 4 (Stamkos, Hedman) 5:34 (pp). 8. Tampa Bay, Johnson 8 (Kucherov, Gudas) 6:58. 9. Tampa Bay, Palat 6 (unassisted) 19:33 (en-sh). Penalties - St. Louis NYR (slashing) 5:09, Hagelin NYR (boarding) 15:33, Filppula TB (hooking) 18:13. Shots on goal Tampa Bay 8 5 8 - 21 NY Rangers 12 12 11 - 35 Goal - Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 15-3-2); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (L, 9-7-3). Power plays (goal-chances) - Tampa Bay: 1-5; NY Rangers: 1-4. Ducks 3, Bruins 2 First Period No Scoring. Penalties - Kelly Bos (tripping) 2:48, Lindholm Ana (stick holding) 11:09, Kesler Ana (slashing) 15:04. Second Period 1. Boston, Marchand 6 (Pastrnak, Trotman) 10:20. 2. Anaheim, Vatanen 6 (Maroon) 11:17. 3. Anaheim, Smith-Pelly 4 (Fowler, Silfverberg) 19:38. Penalties - Fraser Bos (high-sticking) 5:12, Cogliano Ana (tripping) 8:13, Morrow Bos (tripping) 13:37. Third Period 4. Anaheim, Beleskey 12 (Getzlaf) 4:43. 5. Boston, Gagne 2 (Paille, Hamilton) 10:20. Penalties - None. Shots on goal Boston 13 15 6 - 34 Anaheim 7 11 10 - 28 Goal - Boston: Rask (L, 11-7-1); Anaheim: Andersen (W, 11-4-4). Power plays (goal-chances) - Boston: 0-3; Anaheim: 0-3.
Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Rangers 3 Columbus 2, Florida 1 Montreal 4, Colorado 3 Arizona 5, Edmonton 2 Anaheim 3, Boston 2 Tuesday’s Games Ottawa at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m. New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Vancouver at Washington, 5 p.m. Nashville at Carolina, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. Dallas at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Florida at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Arizona at Calgary, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at San Jose, 8 p.m. Boston at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Minnesota, 5 p.m. St. Louis at Chicago, 6 p.m. Edmonton at Winnipeg, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m. Monday’s summaries Coyotes 5, Oilers 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Eberle 5 (Hall, Nugent-Hopkins) 5:37 (pp). Penalties - Michalek Ari (roughing) 5:16, Crombeen Ari (fighting) 8:15, Gazdic Edm (fighting) 8:15, Vermette Ari (kneeing) 17:26, Doan Ari (roughing) 19:49. Second Period 2. Arizona, Rieder 3 (unassisted) :36 (sh). 3. Arizona, Rieder 4 (Hanzal) 1:34 (sh). 4. Arizona, Ekman-Larsson 4 (Yandle, Boedker) 4:53 (pp). 5. Arizona, Boedker 8 (Vermette, Korpikoski) 19:43. Penalties - Hall Edm (cross-checking) 4:08, Hall Edm (boarding) 7:49, Stone Ari (slashing) 15:11.
Blue Jackets 2, Panthers 1 First Period 1. Columbus, Calvert 3 (Chaput, Leopold) 15:07. Penalties - Johnson Clb (interference) 3:32, Calvert Clb (hooking) 8:49. Second Period 2. Florida, Ekblad 3 (Boyes, Bergenheim) 1:23 (pp). Penalties - Rychel Clb (high-sticking) 0:29, Olsen Fla (stick holding) 2:08, Bergenheim Fla (highsticking) 8:11. Third Period 3. Columbus, Jenner 2 (Rychel) 10:05. Penalties - None. Shots on goal Florida 6 10 9 - 25 Columbus 4 7 12 - 23 Goal - Florida: Montoya (L, 2-2-1); Columbus: Bobrovsky (W, 6-8-1). Power plays (goal-chances) - Florida: 1-3; Columbus: 0-2.
. . Virtanen, picked sixth overall by the Vancouver Canucks in June’s NHL entry draft, and Sanheim, drafted 17th overall by the Philadelphia Flyers, will attend the Canadian national junior team final selection camp Dec. 11-15 in Toronto and St. Catharines, Ont. . . . Mack Shields is 11th among WHL goaltenders with a 2.73 goalsagainst average. Injuries: Calgary — D Ben Thomas (lower body, day-to-day). Red Deer — D Nick Charif (lower body, five weeks). Special teams: Calgary — Power play 20 per cent, 10th overall; penalty kill 83.8 per cent, eighth. Red Deer — Power play 18.8 per cent, 14th overall; penalty kill 86.5 per cent, third.
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Basketball Phoenix Sacramento L.A. Lakers
CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt 27 19 6 1 1 102 65 40 29 14 10 3 2 89 77 33 28 14 10 3 1 100 92 32 28 14 11 1 2 101 84 31 28 13 15 0 0 85 110 26 27 6 17 3 1 63 108 16
Adam Tambellini, CAL Luke Philp, Koo Parker Bowles, TC Brett Pollock, Edm Wyatt Johnson, RD Scott Feser, RD Jari Erricson, PG Carson Stadnyk, Eve Jayden Hart, P.A. Carter Popoff, Van Chase Witala, PG Jake Debrusk, SC Craig Leverton, P.A. Chad Butcher, MH Radel Fazleev, CAL Travis Sanheim, CAL Steven Owre, MH Reid Duke, Bra Ivan Nikolishin, Eve Peter Quenneville, Bra
Rebels vs. Calgary Hitmen Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium Calgary sits fourth in the Central Division — one point in arrears of Red Deer — and seventh in the Eastern Conference with a 14-11-1-2 record. The Hitmen are coming off Saturday’s 6-3 loss to the visiting Vancouver Giants and are 5-3-1-1 in their last 20 games . . . Overage C Adam Tambellini leads all Calgary scorers with 14 goals and 28 points. LW Radel Fazleev (10g,15a) and D Travis Sanheim (1015) are next in line with 25 apiece. RW Chase Lang and C Pavel Kamaukhov have each netted 11 goals and third-year LW Jake Virtanen has recorded 19 points (7-12) in 17 games .
Monday’s Game Miami 16, N.Y. Jets 13
PA 283 247 338 329
GB 6 7 1/2 9 1/2 13
Medicine Hat Edmonton Red Deer Calgary Kootenay Lethbridge
WHL Scoring Leaders
Sunday’s Games Houston 45, Tennessee 21 St. Louis 52, Oakland 0 Minnesota 31, Carolina 13 Indianapolis 49, Washington 27 Buffalo 26, Cleveland 10 San Diego 34, Baltimore 33 Jacksonville 25, N.Y. Giants 24 Cincinnati 14, Tampa Bay 13 New Orleans 35, Pittsburgh 32 Atlanta 29, Arizona 18 Green Bay 26, New England 21 Denver 29, Kansas City 16
Sunday, Dec. 7 N.Y. Giants at Tennessee, 11 a.m. Carolina at New Orleans, 11 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Minnesota, 11 a.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 11 a.m. St. Louis at Washington, 11 a.m. Baltimore at Miami, 11 a.m. Indianapolis at Cleveland, 11 a.m. Tampa Bay at Detroit, 11 a.m. Houston at Jacksonville, 11 a.m. Buffalo at Denver, 2:05 p.m. Kansas City at Arizona, 2:05 p.m. San Francisco at Oakland, 2:25 p.m. Seattle at Philadelphia, 2:25 p.m. New England at San Diego, 6:30 p.m.
PA 253 232 217 319
WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Brandon 28 21 5 2 0 133 92 44 Regina 27 16 10 1 0 98 74 33 Swift Current 30 14 12 0 4 88 94 32 Moose Jaw 27 12 12 2 1 80 91 27 Prince Albert 27 13 14 0 0 84 92 26 Saskatoon 27 7 18 2 0 73 126 16
Sunday
● Major midget girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Bantam AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A; Medicine Hat at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m., Bentley. ● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 3 p.m., Eckville; Wheatland at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 5:30 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview vs. NWS, All Sports Cresting Lacombe vs. Johns Manville, Alken Basin vs. Triple A Batteries, 4:15 p.m.; Orangemen vs. Carstar, Sheraton Red Deer vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, Driven vs. Silver Spurs, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.
Football
National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 13 4 .765 Brooklyn 6 9 .400 Boston 4 10 .286 New York 4 14 .222 Philadelphia 0 17 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Washington 11 5 .688 Atlanta 9 6 .600 Miami 9 8 .529 Orlando 7 12 .368 Charlotte 4 14 .222 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 11 6 .647 Milwaukee 10 8 .556 Cleveland 8 7 .533 Indiana 7 10 .412 Detroit 3 14 .176
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National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 9 3 0 .750 378 Miami 7 5 0 .583 301 Buffalo 7 5 0 .583 264 N.Y. Jets 2 10 0 .167 190 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 8 4 0 .667 382 Houston 6 6 0 .500 287 Tennessee 2 10 0 .167 213 Jacksonville 2 10 0 .167 186 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 8 3 1 .708 260
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Wednesday mixed: Erin Arnold 294; Michael Dartnell 709. Thursday ladies: Linda Nikoleychuk 236; Nikoleychuk 583. Thursday Special Olympics: Mike Ward 219; Franklin Mclellan 373. Thursday mixed: Bonnie Clermont 284; Clermont 788. Monday scratch: Gary Baird 347; Kyle Makila 1,132 (four games).
Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League MINNESOTA TWINS - Named Butch Davis first base coach. National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS - Sent LHP Jarret Martin outright to Oklahoma City (PCL). PITTSBURGH PIRATES - Acquired INF Sean Rodriguez from Tampa Bay for a player to be named and cash considerations. Designated 1B Gaby Sanchez for assignment. Agreed to terms with OF Gorkys Hernandez, INF Deibinson Romero and C Sebastian Valle on minor league contracts. SAN DIEGO PADRES - Named Mark Kotsay hitting coach. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES - Reassigned F-C Jarnell Stokes to Iowa (NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS - Released LB Desmond Bishop. Signed OL Anthony Steen from the practice squad. Re-signed OT Kelvin Palmer to the practice squad. CINCINNATI BENGALS - Placed LB Jayson DiManche on injured reserve.
NEW YORK JETS - Released LB Antwan Barnes. Signed TE Chris Pantale. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL - Fined Minnesota D Marco Scandella $2,755.38 for an illegal check to the head during at Nov. 29 game. ANAHEIM DUCKS - Recalled G Ryan Faragher from Utah (ECHL) to Norfolk (AHL). COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS - Placed C Artem Anisimov on injured reserve. FLORIDA PANTHERS - Assigned G Sam Brittain and D Josh McFadden from San Antonio (AHL) to Cincinnati (ECHL). NEW JERSEY DEVILS - Signed C Scott Gomez. Placed C Travis Zajac on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 28. NEW YORK ISLANDERS - Reassigned G Kent Simpson from Bridgeport (AHL) to Stockton (ECHL). American Hockey League AHL - Suspended Utica LW Darren Archibald three games for an illegal check to the head of an opponent in a Nov. 29 game at Albany. BINGHAMTON SENATORS - Recalled F Danny Hobbs from Evansville (ECHL). MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS - Recalled F Patrick Cehlin from Cincinnati (ECHL). SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE - Reassigned G
Sam Brittain to Cincinnati (ECHL). UTICA COMETS - Recalled F Patrick Kennedy from Evansville (ECHL). ECHL ECHL - Suspended South Carolina’s Andrew Cherniwchan three additional games for his actions in a Nov. 29 game against Gwinnett. Suspended Utah’s Danick Paquette one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for his in a Nov. 29 game at Bakersfield. CINCINNATI CYCLONES - Released G Ian Ansel. ELMIRA JACKALS - Traded D Patch Alber to Missouri for F Kellan Tochkin. INDY FUEL - Released D Adam McKenzie. KALAMAZOO WINGS - Released G Larkin Saalfrank as emergency backup. ONTARIO REIGN - Loaned F Tyler Spurgeon to Adirondack (AHL). Released G Matt Zenzola as emergency backup. UTAH GRIZZLIES - Added G Justin Masterman as emergency backup. SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS - Announced F Thierry Henry will not return for the 2015 season. NEW YORK CITY FC - Named CJ Brown to the coaching staff.
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Davis Claffey and Megan Schmidt were named Boston Pizza RDC Athletes of the Week on Monday. Claffey, a freshman defenceman with the RDC Kings men’s hockey team, has made the jump to forward the last couple of weeks due to injuries. On Saturday, the Red Deer native chipped in two assists in a 6-5 loss to the Augustana Vikings on Saturday in Penhold. Schmidt, also a Red Deer product, is in her third year with the Queens volleyball teams and was named player of the game in their 3-0 (25-19,2516,25-19) win over the SAIT Trojans in Calgary on Saturday with seven kills, one dig and one stuff block.
Teegan Moore’s late second-period goal was the winner as the Bentley Generals downed the visiting Innisfail Eagles 5-1 in a Chinook Hockey League game Saturday. Josh Smith notched a first-period goal for the Generals and Kyle Sheen, Colin Dueck and Cam Maclise struck for unanswered third-period markers. Chad Ziegler potted the lone goal for the Eagles, knotting the game at 1-1 at 14:45 of the middle frame. Dustin Butler turned aside 28 shots for the winners. Eagles netminders Steven Stanford and Collin Rundell combined to make 42 saves. Bentley was one-for-10 on the power play, while Innisfail was zero-for-11.
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The struggle to save for retirement SOME CANADIANS STRUGGLE TO BALANCE RETIREMENT SAVINGS, DEBT REPAYMENT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Canadians may dream of retiring debt-free, but research done for Manulife suggests nearly 20 per cent of homeowners expect to lean on the value of their homes to finance life after work. An online survey conducted for the financial services company found about half of the 2,373 respondents expected to still be in debt when they retire. Of those polled, 10 per cent planned to borrow against their current homes, while about eight per cent were looking to downsize and use money from the sale of their home as income. Using home equity as a “fallback plan” suggests some Canadians are struggling to balance retirement with paying down debt, Manulife Bank CEO Rick Lunny said in an interview. “If people think they’re going to take out second mortgages and larger mortgages when they retire, that’s a pretty
concerning view and evidence of no financial plan whatsoever,” Lunny said. “These people, if they’re going to retire with mortgage debt on their homes, there’s significant risk that interest rates will go up in the future.” The Manulife survey also found that many still struggle with financial literacy. For example, one-quarter of respondents didn’t consider mortgages or auto loans to be part of their overall debt. Older respondents were less confident in their retirement goals and about half planned to continue working full-time or part-time to extinguish their debt, the survey said. Manulife’s findings come after years of warnings from the Bank of Canada and the federal Finance Department that many people are still amassing too much debt. Throw in concerns that Canada’s housing market may be overpriced, and the likelihood that interest rates will rise in the coming years, and several additional levels of risk could be
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introduced into the financial equation. “Canadians have been lulled into this sense of security because they’re paying three per cent or less on their mortgages, but that could change very quickly,” Lunny said. “People don’t have long memories and if their only reference period is the last five years or so, since the financial crisis, they better be prepared for it.” Debt problems are nothing new for most Canadians and neither are the surveys which conclude that most people aren’t properly saving for the future. TD Insurance released findings last month which said 39 per cent of Canadians would run into financial problems if they were forced to stop working due to a sudden illness. The figure rose to 44 per cent for respondents under the age of 35. Taking advantage of housing wealth in retirement isn’t necessarily a bad decision, suggested Thomas Davidoff, an assistant professor at the Sauder School of Business in Vancouver.
“What I think, arguably, would be crazy is to live a meagre retirement and not have tapped an enormous asset,” he said. “It really depends on how important it is for you to leave wealth to your heirs, and how nervous you are about surprise expenditures.” He said that borrowing on a home is better choice than turning to high interest rate credit cards. “I don’t care what rates do, it’s never more expensive to owe on a home equity line or reverse mortgage,” he said. The online survey, conducted by data collection agency Research House, polled Canadian homeowners between the ages of 20 and 59, with a household income of $50,000 or more, from Sept. 8 to Sept. 19. The polling industry’s professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error as they are not a random sample and therefore are not necessarily representative of the whole population.“
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BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR When Safeway checks out of Parkland Mall on Dec. 6, the north Red Deer shopping centre will be left with a 54,000-square foot void. But mall manager Dan Hachey doesn’t expect the former grocery store space to sit vacant for long. He said officials with Morguard REIT, which owns Parkland Mall, are in discussions with four “box-style national retailers” about the Safeway space and the 95,000 square feet that Sears occupied prior to its relocation to Bower Place in 2008. “From what I’ve been told, they’re crunching numbers. That’s always a good sign.” Empire Company Ltd., which owns Sobeys Inc. and acquired Canada Safeway in June 2013, announced six months ago that it was closing 50 Sobeys and Safeway stores, including the Safeway in Parkland Mall. Hachey said mall officials were talking to prospective tenants even before that announcement, speculating that Empire might reduce its Red Deer stores. Because it faces busy Gaetz Avenue, the Safeway in Parkland Mall site is a desirable retail location, said Hachey. The rapid development of northeast Red Deer has also increased the appeal of Parkland Mall for prospective tenants, he added. If new leases are signed, it would likely be next summer or later before tenants are in place, he speculated. That’s because structural work might be required before leasehold improvements begin, and there typically isn’t a big incentive for retailers to open during the traditionally slow first part of the year. The back-to-school and Christmas shopping seasons would probably be the timelines that new retailers would work toward, said Hachey. He downplayed the impact of losing a major food store from the mall. “There are so many grocery options that Safeway doesn’t have that same rural draw that they probably had as little at 10 years ago; maybe even seven years ago,” said Hachey, adding that Parkland Mall also still has a grocery retailer in Walmart. However, he acknowledged that Saturday will still be a sombre day at the mall. Not only has Safeway operated there since 1970, many of its approximately 80 staff members are well known around the shopping centre. “It’s a sad day for us to lose those friends.” When the Parkland Mall Safeway closes, Red Deer will still be served by the Port O’ Call Safeway at 4408 Gaetz Ave. Prescriptions from the grocery store’s Parkland Mall pharmacy have been transferred to there. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com
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Nutter’s Bulk and Natural Foods produce manager Harmony Lauzon keeps the shelves in the produce department stocked this week in the new Nutter’s location on the south side of Gaetz Avenue Crossing. The Medicine Hat-based bulk and speciality foods has relocated from its longtime premises on the north side of the same 5250 22nd St. shopping centre. Nutter’s new store, which occupies the space vacated by Coast Wholesale Appliances in March, next to Bulk Barn, consists of approximately 9,200 square feet, double that of its old store. This has allowed Nutter’s to increase the range and selection of its products.
CNRL investigating Alberta High Arctic pipeline leak; says clean-up signs in ‘advanced stages’ agreement for new rig in Papua New Guinea BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY - Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. said Monday that it’s working with the Alberta Energy Regulator to find out what caused 60,000 litres of crude to spill from a pipeline in Northern Alberta. The leak, near Red Earth Creek, Alta., was reported to the AER last Thursday. “Cleanup activities are well advanced, with the majority of the work complete, and we will continue to ensure that we mitigate and manage any environmental impact,” CNRL spokeswoman Julie Woo said in an emailed statement. “Canadian Natural is working to-
CFIB wants temporary foreign workers program replaced by special visa BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is calling on Ottawa to replace its controversial temporary foreign worker program with a visa that would provide a path to permanent residence for entry-level employees from abroad. The organization says in a report released today it’s proposing the Introduction to Canada Visa that would address labour shortages for small businesses. CFIB president and CEO
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gether with the Alberta Energy Regulator while we continue to investigate the cause of the incident.” The company and regulator say there was a “mechanical failure” on the pipeline in an area some 375 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. Woo says the leak has stopped and most of the product was contained on the company’s land, with some ending up along a nearby pipeline right-ofway. The AER says there have been no reports of harm to wildlife. In April, a pipeline owned by the company spilled 70,000 litres of oil and processed water in the region. The AER said at the time that the spill northwest of Slave Lake was not near any people, water or wildlife.
Dan Kelly says the temporary foreign worker program has been legitimately criticized for using TFWs to fill permanent labour market needs. He adds that small businesses would much rather hire permanent workers, but the immigration system doesn’t allow them to hire people with entry-level skills. The Canadian economy needs workers at all skill levels, Kelly says. The CFIB’s proposed new visa would give foreign workers in entrylevel categories an opportunity to work with an employer for two years as a defined step towards permanent residency. Kelly also says that under the proposals any company seeking to hire an entry-level worker from abroad would have to employ a Canadian employee at the same wage.
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BY ADVOCATE STAFF High Arctic Energy Services Inc. (TSX: HWO) has entered into a drilling services agreement with InterOil Corp. for a second heli-portable drilling rig in Papua New Guinea. The two-year deal involves the rig and a 100-person camp, and is projected to produce annualized revenue of approximately US$30 million for High Arctic once drilling commences — likely in the third quarter of 2015. “The execution of a two-year contract for Rig 116 in Papua New Guinea fulfills the growth strategy identified earlier in the year and further strengthens High Arctic’s market position in the country,” said Tim Braun, High Arctic’s CEO. The rig is currently in Houston Tex., undergoing upgrading. Another High Arctic rig is currently being commissioned for use in Papua New Guinea under another contract with InterOil. Based in Red Deer High Arctic, provides drilling and specialized well completion services, equipment rentals and other services to the oil and gas industry. It operates in Papua New Guinea and Western Canada.
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OF LOCAL INTEREST Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 108.89 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.72 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.21 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.63 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.39 Cdn. National Railway . . 77.09 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 212.68 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.86 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.83 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.67 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 48.12 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.98 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . 234.77 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.27 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.94 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.80 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.38 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.02 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.07 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.25 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 10.91 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 54.20
Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.74 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 94.66 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.22 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 33.55 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 14.07 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.73 First Quantum Minerals . 18.25 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 24.06 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.46 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.46 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.19 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.79 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.60 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 17.20 Energy
Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 128.50 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.25 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.76 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 61.99 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 18.74
Aeroflex . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.00 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.07 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 56.51 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.00 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 39.73 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.41 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 13.80 Canyon Services Group. . 9.58 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 25.37 CWC Well Services . . . . . 0.57 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 17.82 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.64
MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO - Small gains in key commodity prices couldn’t stop the Toronto stock market from losing further ground Monday as concerns about China’s economy took the spotlight. The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 119.38 points to 14,625.32, extending the near 300-point decline suffered in the final two sessions last week. The Canadian dollar gained 0.87 of a cent to 88.28 cents US. Weighing on equity markets was a new manufacturing activity report that indicated growing economic weakness in China. HSBC said its purchasing managers’ index declined to 50.0 in November from 50.4 in October on a 100-point scale in which numbers below 50 show activity contracting. The bank said domestic demand was sluggish and new orders were weak. China’s economic growth slowed to a five-year low of 7.3 per cent in the latest quarter. “With an economy that’s been incredibly supported by investment, as well as exports and manufacturing activity, to see data start to slow a little bit - that is obviously a bit worrisome in terms of the rate of growth for China,” Craig Fehr, an analyst with Edward Jones in St. Louis, Mo., said in an interview. “With the broad decline we’re seeing in commodity prices, coupled with the concerns about slowing growth outside North America, I would expect to see those sectors continue to be volatile, if not under pressure, in the near term.” On the TSX, the gold sector was the biggest gainer as December bullion lifted $42.60 to US$1,218.10 an ounce, the first time it has closed above $1,200 since late October. The mining and metals sector fell 2.7 per cent even as March copper rose five cents to US$2.90 a pound. Energy stocks also fell, down 1.4 per cent, despite the January crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange rising $2.85 to US$69 a barrel. Oil prices are experiencing “a little bit of a bounce after the
incredibly sharp drop” over the past couple months, Fehr said. The commodity has seen prices plunge around 35 per cent since mid-summer because of lower demand and a glut of supply, due in large measure to greatly increased production in the U.S. Midwest. Last week, the OPEC oil cartel decided to ignore calls for a cut in production in hopes such a cut would put a floor under prices. On Wall Street, early figures suggested U.S. retail sales over Thanksgiving weekend fell short of expectations. The Dow Jones industrials dropped 51.44 points to 17,776.80 while the Nasdaq slid 64.28 points to 4,727.35 and the S&P 500 index faded 14.12 points to 2,053.44. The National Retail Federation reported that early discounting, more online shopping and a mixed economy meant fewer people shopped over the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend. The group said that 133.7 million people shopped in stores and online over the four-day weekend, down 5.2 per cent from last year, according to a survey. Total spending for the weekend was expected to fall 11 per cent to US$50.9 billion from an estimated $57.4 billion last year. In the energy sector, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) is dealing with a spill of about 60,000 litres of crude oil in a remote area of Alberta. The Calgary-based company reported on Thursday that the spill was caused by a mechanical failure near Red Earth Creek, Alta., about 350 kilometres north of Edmonton. It shares rose 14 cents to $38.10. On Tuesday, bank earnings season gets underway in Canada with the Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) releasing its fourthquarter and 2014 fiscal year results. Canada’s other big banks will follow with Royal (TSX:RY) reporting Wednesday, CIBC (TSX:CM) and Toronto-Dominion (TSX:TD) on Thursday. Scotiabank (TSX:BNX) and National Bank (TSX:NA) close out the week with their results.
Canadian dollar gets a boost while China’s economy slows; oil prices rise BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - A slight uptick in oil prices helped send the loonie nearly a full cent higher on Monday despite concerns about the health of China’s economy. The Canadian dollar rose 0.87 to 88.28 cents US. A survey published by HSBC Corp. showed Chinese manufacturing activity weakened in November,
Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 92.35 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 41.21 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.70 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 24.40 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 50.56 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.51 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 3.80 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 0.03 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.34 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.48 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 5.14 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.23 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.67 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 51.27 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 83.29 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 69.13 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.10 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 34.69 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.16 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.18 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 46.75 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 79.61 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.62 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 52.32 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.92 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 82.78 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.46 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.07 MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Monday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index 14,625.32, down 119.38 points Dow - 17,776.80, down 51.44 points S&P 500 - 2,053.44, down 14.12 points Nasdaq - 4,727.35, down 64.28 points Currencies: Cdn - 88.28 cents US, up 0.87 of a cent Pound - C$1.7829, down 0.61 of a cent Euro - C$1.4128, down 1.04 cents Euro - US$1.2472, up 0.31 of a cent Oil futures: US$69.00 per barrel, up $2.85 (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,218.10 per oz., up $42.60 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.413 oz., down 1.7 cents $624.13 kg., down 54 cents ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG - ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan ‘15 $2.90 lower $422.40; March ‘15 $3.70 lower $422.00; May ‘15 $3.80 lower $423.60; July ‘15 $3.10 lower $424.80; Nov ‘15 $2.90 lower $420.60; Jan. ‘16 $2.20 lower $426.20; March ‘16 $0.50 lower $434.80; May ‘16 $1.20 higher $436.50; July ‘16 $1.20 higher $436.50; Nov. ‘16 $1.20 higher $436.50. Barley (Western): Dec. ‘14 unchanged $174.00; March ‘15 unchanged $177.00; May ‘15 unchanged $177.00; July ‘15 unchanged $177.00; Oct. ‘15 unchanged $177.00; Dec. ‘15 unchanged $177.00; March ‘16 unchanged $177.00; May ‘16 unchanged $177.00; July ‘16 unchanged $177.00; Oct. ‘16 unchanged $177.00; Dec. ‘16 unchanged $177.00. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 324,960 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 324,960.
adding to signs that an economic slowdown is deepening. HSBC said its purchasing managers’ index declined to 50.0 from the previous month’s 50.4 on a 100-point scale in which numbers below 50 show activity contracting. The bank said domestic demand was sluggish and new orders were weak. A better outlook came from Canada’s manufacturing sector which remained steady at a 12-month high in November. The RBC Canadian PMI remained at 55.3 last month, matching a high point set in November last year and again in October. A measure above 50.0 indicates the manufacturing sector is expanding.
Cyber Monday takes on added importance for retailers AFTER SLOWER-THAN-USUAL HOLIDAY WEEKEND BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Cyber Monday is turning into Cyber Month. Retailers rolled out discounts and free shipping deals on Cyber Monday, with millions of Americans expected to log on and shop on their work computers, laptops and tablets after the busy holiday shopping weekend. But with retailers extending their online deals into “Cyber Week” and even “Cyber Month,” early reports indicated shopping was less robust online on Monday compared with prior years. As of 3 p.m. ET, online sales rose just 8.7 per cent compared with last year, according to IBM Digital Analytics. The figures don’t take into account the many shoppers who plan to head online after work or in the evening. But a year ago, Cyber Monday sales jumped 20.6 per cent, according to IBM. It is still expected to be the biggest online shopping day again, as it has been each year since 2010. That is good news for retailers after a Thanksgiving weekend that saw fewer shoppers and lower spending than last year, according to some estimates. Mobile traffic, which includes smartphones and tablets, has accounted for nearly 39 per cent of all online traffic, compared with 30 per cent a year ago. Average order value was $133.07, flat with 2013. Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru said retailers could be playing it safe on deal offers since shoppers have been conditioned to head online to look for sales on Monday. “Cyber Monday offers aren’t super compelling, but don’t need to be,” she said. “It’s been the biggest shopping day of the year for the last few years, so they know people are going to come.” Courtney Lane Greenley, 25, from Alexandria, Virginia, was feeling regret Monday that she didn’t buy a knife block and cutlery earlier in the week, when she saw better deals online. Amazon was running a limited-time “lightning offer” for some Rachael Ray cookware on Friday under $100, but on Monday the same products cost more
than $100. “I should have pulled the trigger earlier,” she said. Greenley didn’t think she would make the purchases on Monday. On Monday, Gap and Banana Republic offered 40 per cent off all purchases. Amazon offered up to 45 per cent off some Samsung TVs and a deal later in the day for its Amazon Fire TV video streaming box marked down to $69 from $99. Wal-Mart said it has doubled its Cyber Week deals to 500 compared with last year, including up to half off some TVs, tablets and toys with free-shipping offers. Wal-Mart is also rolling out new deals later in the day in its so-called “Evening Edition” round of deals, including a Straight Talk Moto E Android Phone for $9.99, 90 per cent off its regular price. The name “Cyber Monday” was coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation’s online arm, Shop.org, to encourage people to shop online. After retailers revved up deals, it became the busiest online shopping day in 2010. The name was also a nod to online shopping being done at work, where faster connections made it easier to browse, less of a factor now. This Cyber Monday comes after a weekend that saw 5.3 per cent fewer shoppers and 11 per cent less spending, according to estimates by the National Retail Federation. Research firm comScore said late Sunday that e-commerce spending for the first 28 days of the November and December shopping season totalled $22.7 billion, up 15 per cent from last year. Sales jumped 32 per cent to $1 billion on Thanksgiving Day and 26 per cent on Black Friday to $1.51 billion. The firm expects people to spend about $2.5 billion on Cyber Monday alone. The NRF predicts 126.9 million people will shop online this year, down 4 per cent from last year. It has forecast overall holiday sales will increase 4.1 per cent to $616.9 billion in 2014.
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Residential plowing starts GREY, GREEN ROUTES TO BE CLEARED UNDER NEW SNOW PROTOCOL BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s new snow and ice program is being put to the test after the first major snowfall of the winter. Residential plowing is scheduled to start later this week. From Nov. 25 to 28, about 22 cm of snow fell in Red Deer, blanketing the roads and sidewalks with the white stuff. Enough snow fell over the weekend to get plows rolling, clearing snow on major arterial roads and on hills, bridges, overpasses, high hazard areas and around the hospital. Then on Monday, the city announced it would start plowing residential streets, collector routes and downtown starting this evening. Downtown snow removal is scheduled to start this evening from 7 p.m. to
7 a.m. on Wednesday, and continue on Wednesday and Thursday. Plowing on green routes, which include collector roads, transit routes and streets adjacent to schools, starts on Wednesday at 7 a.m. Grey routes, or residential roads, will be plowed starting on Thursday at 7 a.m. Residential and collector road clearing starts in Zone A, Johnstone and Kentwood neighbourhoods. “So far this winter, purple and red routes have been triggered and plowed, but residents will see the biggest change under the new program now that green and grey routes have been triggered,” said Elaine Vincent, director of development services. ‘No parking’ signs will be placed on collector routes. Signs will be placed at neighbourhood entrances prior to the start of residential plowing.
Snow will be removed from collector routes, but windrows will be left on residential streets on both sides. Last winter, Red Deer was hit with record snowfalls in November and December, leading to public pressure to change the snow policy. The biggest changes in the new policy are a more defined snowfall trigger for residential street plowing, and for industrial and commercial area plowing, as well as lower snowfall accumulations to trigger plowing on collector roads, transit routes and streets adjacent to schools. Industrial and commercial area plowing, called orange zones under the new policy, are now plowed when there is 15 cm of snowpack. Similarly, residential streets, called grey zones, are plowed when there is 10 cm of snow pack (about 30 to 40 cm snowfall). Previously, plowing occurred on
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those streets on a discretionary basis. Residential grey zones are further subdivided into different sectors based on location, combining several neighbourhoods into one snow zone. The other adjustment to the residential plowing is a change to the windrows. Rather than rotating which side of the street gets the windrow from year to year, both sides get a smaller windrow. According to the program, this change expedites the snowplow process. City council approved an increase in the operating budget for snow removal activities, adding $855,000. The city overspent its 2014 snow removal budget of $4.5 million earlier this year by more than $1 million. For more information visit www. reddeer.ca/snowzone. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
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Luring claim a misunderstanding A misunderstanding may have led a child to believe a man in a truck was beckoning her to the vehicle, when in fact he was stopped and waving for her to cross the road. A Red Deer RCMP release from last week indicated a girl walking home from Mattie McCullough Elementary School in Lancaster was alleged to have been the target of a child luring attempt on Nov. 24. However, a concerned citizen contacted the RCMP believing he may have been involved but that it was a misunderstanding. The driver of a truck recalled stopping his vehicle to wave a child across the road and then continuing on. He told police the child appeared concerned, but didn’t think much of it until a release from the RCMP painted a different picture of the incident. Police followed up and believe it was all just a misunderstanding. Reports of potential dangers to children are taken very seriously by police.
Riverlands trails to be rebuilt Red Deer city council earmarked $520,000 out of the 2015 capital budget to rebuild trails after the transmission lines are buried in Riverlands next year. Part of the funds will go toward some preliminary design work on the planned river walk that will stretch from Taylor Drive Bridge, up the escarpment to West Park. Burial of the AltaLink transmission lines is expected to get underway in March and finish in September. The trail and landscape will be removed in order to bury the lines. The money will be used to reconstruct the trail and restore the landscaping next to the Red Deer River in Riverlands.
Gym donates to school fitness Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff
Sue Choi and Joan Crawford work together to wrap a gift for a customer at Bower Place on Monday. Customers at the mall can bring their gifts for wrapping and pick up a poinsettia at the same time, and support the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter as they do it. About 50 poinsettias have been provided at a discount from Evergreen Greenhouses, with proceeds going toward CAWES. The giftwrapping booth will be open during all business hours at Bower Place until closing on Dec. 24.
A local gym is doing its part to help youth lead a healthy lifestyle. The gym, 360 Fitness, raised more than $24,500 during its annual fundraising gala for the Health Action Teams at the Red Deer Public Schools. The money will support local health and fitness initiatives for children. The gym will hand over the cheque at Central Middle School on Dec. 11 at 1 p.m.
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Addiction choices do exist, sister of victim maintains BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF A Sylvan Lake woman wants to share her story about the devastation of addiction because it doesn’t have to end the way it did for her brother. Jodee Prouse has written a memoir about a journey she took with her brother during his years of alcoholism that ended with his suicide. Brett Tisdale, a power engineer who worked in the oilpatch, ended his life at the age of 39. Prouse, 45, and Tisdale grew up and went to school in Red Deer and they were very close, bonded by common experiences in childhood, she said Monday. Prouse wants people to understand that addiction can be turned around, even though in her brother’s case that never happened. “This man was magnificent,” she said. “Everybody thought so, but addiction took control.” She said she started taking notes about her brother’s life in 2005. “No one would believe this could be alcohol. “My brother knew I was writing this story.” In 2006, after Tisdale returned home from yet another failed attempt at rehab, Prouse ended up saying goodbye to him, telling him she would only reconnect when he was ready to embrace
recovery. At that time, she came to realize she was enabling him. She was not holding him to the same standard as everyone else. And he was making the same choices year after year. She went to “a hundred meetings with him.” “I’ve known since 2006 my brother was going to die.” Everyone was telling them this, she said — therapists, psychiatrists, counsellors. In the end, there was a knock on the door, on March 19, 2011, at 3:10 a.m. with the news that he had killed himself. Prouse doesn’t drink. “I just never wanted alcohol to be a factor in raising my sons. “My husband (Jim) and I are also not perfect. We came very close to losing our way.” Through her book — which is about her brother but also about herself — she wants to bring awareness to addictions. “Addictions destroy relationships and lives.” She admits she is estranged from some of her family. “Because of my childhood, I was forced to be very strong.” “I am not saying (my brother) is an alcoholic because I’m judgmental. I’m saying it because it’s true.” Prouse suffers from anxiety. “I realized I think that’s maybe how he felt all the time ... I wished and I prayed and I encouraged him to be able to say ‘I am an alcoholic.’
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Author Jodee Prouse with the cover-art for her book. She recommends that people recognize the presence of addiction and get help. “I failed my brother for so many years and my children and husband along the way ... you are desperate and obsessed to save the one you love who is killing themselves one drink at a time. I spent years doing what I thought was helping only to learn what I was doing was enabling and actually worsening the problem. “I hope my story helps other families not to follow their heartstrings but to find the strength to listen to the professionals. And for those addicted to drugs and alcohol, that they know
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no matter how far they have gone down their own gravelly road that they can always turn around. “Treatment does work.” Prouse, who owns Happy Hippo Bath Co., recently started Hope and Humility, which sells inspirational jewelry. She donates 100 per cent of the profits from the online sales of the jewelry to the Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre in Calgary. Her book, The Sun Is Gone, will be out in mid-2015. barr@reddeeradvocate.com
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BRIEFS Modular classrooms sought for Lacombe Increasing enrolment pressures have led to the Wolf Creek Public Schools board to ask for modular classrooms for one of its Lacombe schools. The school board made a request to the provincial government for two additional modular classrooms for the Ecole J.S. McCormick Elementary School in Lacombe. There had been similar growth concerns in Blackfalds but with the new school tentatively ready for 2016, the board felt they did not need to send a request for modular classrooms. Board chair Trudy Bratland said schools along the Hwy 2 corridor are filling up fast. The request still needs to be approved and the board hopes the modular classrooms will be available by mid-2015.
Photo radar sites through Dec. 15 Here are the Red Deer photo radar sites from now until Dec. 15. School zones: Lawford Avenue, 48th Avenue, 40th Avenue, 55th Avenue, 42A Avenue, 60th Street. Playground zones: 57th Avenue, Holmes Street, Davison Drive, Oak Street, Allan Street, Lancaster Drive, 59th Avenue, Cornett Drive. Traffic corridors: 49th Avenue, 50th Avenue, 40th Avenue, Taylor Drive, 43rd Street, 50th Street, 49th Street, Riverside Drive. Police reserve the right to change sites without notice.
Another year will pass before two suspects arrested by an inquisitive police officer will go to trial. Troy Curtis Sear, 40, and Shawn Davis Olsen, 38, were arrested by an RCMP officer checking on two men hooking up a trailer with a skid steer on its deck alongside a road near Penhold at about 6 a.m. on July 23, 2013. Police allege that the trailer and skid steer were stolen from a work site near Bowden and that the pair was in possession of cocaine at the time. Both men are charged with possession of stolen property, possession of illegal drugs and other offences. They are set for trial by judge alone in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Dec. 10 and 11, 2015.
Man injured in collision on Hwy 54 near Caroline A man was flown by STARS to a Calgary hospital with multiple injuries following an early morning collision near Caroline on Sunday. Rocky Mountain House RCMP were called about 3 a.m. with a report of a single-vehicle collision on Hwy 54. Passersby found a vehicle in the ditch up against a fence. The lone occupant was found in the snow outside the vehicle. Others on the scene kept the victim warm until medical help could arrive. The cause of the collision is still under investigation. Police had no update on the driver’s condition as of Monday morning.
Child porn suspect faces trial in 2015 Trial dates have been set for a Red Deer man accused of luring a child to make pornographic images and possessing child pornography. Justic Peck, 22, is accused of coercing 13-year-old girl into sending sexual
images through Facebook, a social media service. Peck made his first court appearance on April 10 and later asked to be tried by judge alone in the Court of Queen’s Bench. His trial has been set for Oct. 26 to 30, 2015.
Trial set for Sylvan man accused of theft A Sylvan Lake man accused of stealing money from his employer goes to trial in the spring of 2016. Sean Keith Brouillette, 44, is accused of taking more than $70,000 from Red Flame Industries of Red Deer from July 28, 2011, through Feb. 25, 3013. Investigators allege that Brouillette made personal purchases with the company credit card and manipulated the payroll to overpay himself. He will be tried by judge alone in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench from April 11 to 15, 2016.
Red Deer Rec Centre closed Dec. 8 to Jan. 2 The Recreation Centre will close for annual maintenance from Dec. 8 to Jan. 2. During this time, the Recreation Centre administration office will maintain regular hours, and cashiers will be open for registrations and inquiries from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday. All other city recreation facilities will remain open during this time. The maintenance shutdown allows staff to conduct a thorough inspection and maintenance on all equipment and technical systems in the facility. Scheduled drop-in activities will resume on Jan. 2. Users with Recreation Centre cards are reminded their card also allows them to use the Michener Aquatic Centre. For more information on the Recre-
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Weight loss book examines psychology behind success
Christmas Light Tour returns for another year Red Deer’s long-running Kinsmen Christmas Light Tour will be back for another year. About 250 people, mostly seniors, will be taken out on Dec. 16 for about a 45-minute tour of some of the city’s best decorated and illuminated homes. Co-ordinator and Kinette Lisa Martin said residents from many seniors lodges are already signed up for the tour using city buses. The tour begins at 6:30 p.m. Following the circuit of holiday houses, the bus stops at Westerner Park’s Harvest Centre for some donated seasonal refreshments and snacks served by local Kinettes. Local students are also volunteering for the event, which ends about 9:30 p.m. There is still time for those who want to offer their home as a stop on the sight-seeing tour. Those interested in getting a seat on the bus can also call Martin at 403-343-2141 or 403-5976021.
A Red Deer woman who has struggled to maintain a healthy weight since she was a teenager hopes her new book will help others. Carmen Tayles, 45, tells her story in No Stone Unturned: Achieving a Healthy Weight for Life. She shares the psychological piece of the puzzle needed to stay at a healthy weight for life. Tayles, a married mother of two grown sons, has lost and regained 30 kg twice before. This time when she lost 30 kg (68 pounds), she went beyond diet and exercise to consider the psychological aspects of weight gain. “It is my hope that I may help or inspire someone else with their journey to a healthy weight and more importantly to loving themselves fully no matter what they weigh,” Tayles said. She will release her self-published book on Dec. 8 at Only Women’s Fitness from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Only Women’s Fitness is located at 4725 49th St. in Red Deer. The book costs $17.50. After the event, the book and ebooks will be available at www.carmentayles.com.
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I don’t want my kids to be afraid. battle of inner turmoil involving selfI don’t really know how to elaborate preservation against the responsibility on that idea — I just know I don’t want of herd immunity. them to have this burdening trait that It will be a difficult time for my afflicts me every day. babes, to say the least. That There are so many things is if they take after me and in this life that I am afraid have these insanely irratioof. nal fears. I’m scared of sicknessI want them to feel the —more appropriately, I’m thrill of an escalator withafraid of a deadly airborne out the constant anxious sickness taking over the concern of being sucked world, causing a zombie under it. apocalypse of sorts. That To know the fun of a would be a serious bummer wedding dance circle withtrying to outrun that with out the anxiety of knowing two small children in tow. they may be next. If you are a regular readAnd to be able to carry er of my work, you will also on a conversation with a LINDSAY be aware that I am terrilarge nostril fella without fied of our flying feathered the knowing fraught that BROWN friend— the bird. It’s jerkat any moment a wet slimy ing movements and erratic ME PLUS THREE booger could come shootflight schedule are enough ing out of that well roundto make me cower in the feed tube — easily infecting tal position for hours until them with the newest and the risk of being pecked to death has most terrifying sickness the world has unquestionably passed. to currently offer. Getting the hem of my pants stuck So how do I assure that my babes in an escalator track, dance circles at will live a fruitful life without these weddings and people with abnormally fears? large nostrils are a few more things I don’t — just another fear to add to that frighten the heebie-jeebies out of this heinously growing list. me. What I do know is that I must show So when people ask me if I am them how I can face my own fears— so frightened, the answer, no matter what in turn, they will face theirs. I want the situation, is undeniably yes. them to understand that it is normal to I’m scared of so many things I have be frightened sometimes. But standing lost track and am only reminded in the up against the fear is the real chalspur of the moment when the terror lenge. of the situation sneaks up on me. And Each time we face a fear we adonce again I will realize the horror of vance further on it. my petrified ways. I don’t want to teach Lars and SoThis is where the dread that my phie that it is silly to be afraid. I want children will carry on these fearful to teach them it is silly to cower. I want traits has originated from. I want my to teach them that existence will be so two darlings to be able to endure a much more difficult if they let trepidacold without worrying that they may tion rule their lives. have just collected the newest version I will teach them that life is an adof the bubonic plague. venture and no adventure would be And furthermore, I want them to be complete without a little fear to keep able to get a flu shot without the creep- the story exciting. ing demonic whispers in the back of And that a real hero always faces their head telling them the government his fears head on. has just shot them up with a populaSo with that said I think I will go hit tion control virus. up some dance circles, get a flu shot “SO LONG SUCKERS!” and even pet a few birds while I’m at Every year, they would have to deal it (I’m not going to lie, that last one is with the insane paranoia when getting pretty unlikely). their flu shot that in the next 24 hours Needless to say, what doesn’t kill they could be kaput! Believe me when you makes you stronger. I say it is not a pleasant thing to go Or braver at least. through. Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mothThen they will have this ridiculous er of two and freelance columnist.
Question: I recently read that narcis● Affirm your child for his consissistic behaviour is on the rise, and this tent positive and selfless behaviours. seems to confirm my own Finally, model uncondiobservations of a culture tional love while helping that seems to be increasyour child come to grips ingly selfish and entitled. with and take responsibilI’m especially concerned ity for wrongdoings — inabout my children growing cluding the need to ask for up with these influences. Is and accept forgiveness. there anything I can do to Question: November just prevent them from developended and already my son ing these negative traits? is telling me everything he Jim: According to our has to have for Christmas. counsellors, though a geI’m afraid he’s becoming netic predisposition to narself-centered and self-incissism may exist, it is most dulgent. Should we make commonly understood as a an active and intentional JIM learned behaviour. effort to teach him the conDALY Renowned psycholocept of self-denial? gists Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. Greg Smalley, viceDr. John Townsend identify president, Family Ministwo parenting factors that tries: The answer is defican contribute to the develnitely yes. Not only for you, opment of narcissism: Parbut for every parent. Discients may 1) ignore the bad behaviour pline is basic to sound parenting, and of their children and 2) fail to limit the you can’t discipline your child without grandiose perceptions of their chil- teaching self-denial. dren. Both lead to a child’s unrealistic, Focus on the Family has always beover-exaggerated sense of worth that lieved that the key to effective child impacts all future relationships. discipline is in balancing love and While the first few years of a child’s limits. Children cannot thrive without life are usually characterized by “nar- experiencing consistent and unconcissistic thinking” (including a lack of ditional love. But they also need — awareness of others, an all-knowing at- and actually desire — boundaries and titude, magical thinking, insensitivity ground rules. There is nothing contraand lack of interpersonal boundaries), dictory about the expression of love this should be a temporary state. For and the enforcement of limits. In fact, the narcissist, however, these traits they are closely related. continue into adulthood if he’s not Allowing a child to have his way taught consideration of and empathy without any restraint is not an exprestoward others, an accurate assessment sion of love. of his own mistakes, anger manageAt the other extreme, harsh, rigid ment, boundaries and interpersonal or authoritarian treatment of children skills. isn’t an appropriate way to set limits. So what can you do to prevent nar- Your goal lies in between: to exercise cissism in your child? Consider the the kind of loving guidance that helps following: a child grow into the sort of person ● Avoid anything that suggests to who is capable of imposing limits on your child he is superior and deserves himself. That’s what self-denial is all every advantage in life. about. ● Allow your child to experience The application of this principle the natural consequences of his ac- will expand as your child moves tions, while providing clear feedback through adolescence and into young and helping him maintain his dignity. adulthood. It will, for instance, directly ● Listen well and provide a safe, impact his attitudes toward sexuality respectful home and community envi- and his relationships with the opposite ronment. sex. ● Provide age-appropriate inforIt will also affect the way he views mation and guidance in establishing money — how much he spends, how boundaries. much he saves and how much he gives ● Encourage your child to develop away. his potential, to thoughtfully evaluate choices and to value interpersonal rePlease see DALY on Page C4 lationships.
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Remembrance: wondering if you left an impression “The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.” — Ken Venturi, American professional golfer and broadcaster
bus had broken down on the way to Vancouver. My dad said hippies were modernday gypsies and viewed them with disdain. I remember thinking that the Von Garnetts must be awfully kind people to offer help to a busload of hippy-gypsies. Who will remember you when you’re gone and what will you be remembered
“Opi,” cried Alexis. “Opi, come quickly!” I heeded the words of my granddaughter and headed in the direction of her voice. I found her standing before two small metal markers hammered in the ground parallel to each other. “No one remembers these people,” she said. “That’s very sad, isn’t it?” My daughter, granddaughter and I had been visiting the grave of a family member. When my granddaughter asked about the many monuments, my daughter explained that loved ones had placed the markers in remembrance of someone who had passed away. I knelt down before the two NEW ITEMS EVERY metal markers. WEEKEND The names and dates of death had been created with an old label maker. The markers had been placed before the graves nearly 30 years earlier and time and weather had all but obscured the names. That was OK. I knew who had been buried in the plots. The markers noted the final resting place of an immigrant couple with Bacon & Egg Special the surname Von Garnett. 2 eggs, 3 pieces of bacon “I remember these and hash browns people,” I told my granddaughter. She looked at me, the markers and then back at me. “Then you should get them a monument, Opi.” I remember someone telling me once that you’re truly dead when there is no-one left to remember you. I remembered the Von Garnetts. They lived in an old vine-covered house not far from where I grew up. They were a friendly though reclusive and childless couple. My father would visit them occasionally and help out with odd jobs around the house and farm. I would often tag along. On one visit, I remember seeing an old school bus parked near the house with flowers and peace signs painted all over it. Apparently, the Von Garnetts were helping some “hippies” from Montreal. The old
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for? Have you stopped to ask yourself, “What will be my legacy and what am I doing to establish it?” Some people establish a legacy by donating money to a worthy cause, supporting post-secondary education or contributing to the construction of a much-needed facility in their community. Those are fine contributions, but there are other ways to be remembered that have nothing to do with money. One of the best things you can do is to be a positive role model. Provide younger people — whether your children or grandchildren, or other people of a future generation — a positive model they will always remember to help shape their own lives. You can choose to live a good life, embodying
empowerment, living in harmony with your values and demonstrating healthy self-esteem. One way to be illustrate these qualities is to give freely of your time — appropriately and productively — to others. That can take the form of volunteering for a worthwhile group or organization, helping out in your community or simply being a good listener — an attentive and engaged friend who truly cares. Time is a valuable commodity. The people you admire most and remember fondly are likely those who share (or shared) time with you. And when that time is used to offer a hand in a genuine and caring manner, lessening someone else’s burden,
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A man rolls a medical marijuana joint at his home in Belfast, Maine. Health Canada has ordered the country’s medical marijuana growers to stop advertising their products with treatment claims and promotional images.
Health Canada sets new rules for medical pot growers VIOLATIONS COULD LEAD TO LICENCE SUSPENSION BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Health Canada has ordered the country’s medical marijuana growers to stop advertising their products with treatment claims and promotional images. The federal department issued letters this week to licensed pot producers, warning them to overhaul their advertising and marketing content on websites and social media by Jan. 12. Health Canada says failure to comply could lead to suspension or revocation of the company’s commercial licence.
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FUHRER: Decide how you want to be remembered And when that time is used to offer a hand in a genuine and caring manner, lessening someone else’s burden, you can make that person’s life a little better or day a little brighter. This sense of caring allows love to flourish and grow. We also remember the people who treated us with respect: the people who demonstrated through words and actions a genuine regard for our thoughts, ideas – for us as people. These people made us feel worthy and validated. Another valuable example to set is to be genuine. When you are a sincere and genuine person you automatically become more likeable and memorable, even to those you don’t interact with directly. One of the goals of selfesteem building is to become more
authentic. Make your guiding principle in life to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring. Probably the best way to be remembered is for an open, compassionate attitude. Compassion leaves a profound imprint on both the giver and receiver. You need to express from a place of love rather than a place of fear and judgement. Everyone you encounter is facing a burden. Be kind, gentle and loving to everyone. Don’t put people down. Treat everyone fairly. Maya Angelou, the renowned American author, poet, dancer, actress and singer, once wrote, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Looking back, the Von Garnetts were a memorable couple. They weren’t wealthy leaders of the community, and their names aren’t on any buildings. But I remember that they were genuine people who treated others with respect no matter who they were, and gave their time and support to whoever needed it. And perhaps someday – with a little help – I may ar-
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range an official memorial. Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.
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Tom Hanks sits for a portrait at the Carlyle Hotel in New York. The iconic actor is a recipient of the 2014 Kennedy Center Honors. are in the middle of something that’s bigger than them and fell into it by accident. And why isn’t the world working out?’ ” “You also learn stuff as you grow older,” he continues. “In my 20s, I was looking for employment and adventure and excitement, a tribe I could join. In your 30s, you end up entering an aspect of maybe legacy.” It’s a late morning in October and Hanks is sitting in a New York hotel room. His wife of 26 years, Rita Wilson, an actress and aspiring singer, recently wrapped up a two-week engagement performing at the Hotel Carlyle. Hanks arrives for his interview after a breakfast meeting with producer Scott Rudin. He’s headed back to Los Angeles for a few days of family time before flying to Berlin, where filming continues with Spielberg. On the surface, Hanks is defined by his ambitious schedule. He doesn’t race cars, own a minor league baseball team or play bass in a celebrity rock band. His work, he says, leaves little time for much else. Beyond the acting, there is Playtone, a company he formed in 1996 and that has been particularly adept at producing multi-part programs for HBO, including John Adams, Olive Kitteridge and Band of Brothers. Lewis and Clark is up next. In October, Hanks had his first short story published in the New Yorker, about four friends who take a trip to the moon. Within weeks, Alfred A. Knopf had the actor, who attended California State University at Sacramento in the 1970s but never graduated, signed to write a collection of short stories. It’s fitting that Hanks is writing fiction, because other than perhaps Thomas Pynchon, it’s hard to imagine anybody less likely to publish a tell-all. Poke around. Ask other actors. Google at will. There’s not much you can find on Hanks. No storming off sets. No DWIs. No errant tweets. He did once extend his middle finger to the paparazzi after being stalked at lunch, but he has never pulled an Alec Baldwin. In person, he is warm, thoughtful and funny. He’s a dynamic conversationalist, whether referencing Ralph
Ellison or making it clear that he’s not just a fair-weather fan of the Cleveland Indians. Who manned third base for the Tribe in 1979? Toby Harrah. One thing that sets the actor apart is his time on the set. Hanks tells a story related to him by Ron Howard. For 1986’s Gung Ho, the director had cast So Yamamura, a longtime actor. Early in production, Yamamura’s wife kept nudging a production assistant to show her the “edge of frame,” the space just outside camera view. For each scene, she would place a chair there and Yamamura, rather than hang out in a trailer when others worked, would sit, all day, watching the action. This is how he remained ready for his part. The anecdote resonated. Sure, there are times Hanks heads off set to take care of business or rest when he’s not in scene. But those moments are rare. When he’s making a movie, he tries to always be around. It reached a point, during the filming of the 2013 thriller Captain Phillips, that director Paul Greengrass began to worry about his star. Conditions were rough at sea, where they were filming the story of a ship captain who was kidnapped by Somali pirates. “Anyone who has been on one of those lifeboats in the ocean, those things pitch and roll and your inner ear goes every five or 10 minutes,” he says. “And you were trying to get Tom to take a break so he could clear his head. I remember him saying, ‘I would rather be there.’ ” A storm was coming the day they filmed the final scene of the movie. The moment called for Hanks’s character, who was rescued but in shock after being splattered with his kidnappers’ blood, to be examined by a Navy
medic. The storm meant time was tight. Complicating matters, Greengrass decided to improvise. What if they tried to shoot the scene in the ship’s cramped infirmary? He recruited Danielle Albert, a 23-year-old Navy medic serving on the USS Truxtun, for the part. The first take was a mess. “I remember thinking it was Tom Hanks in front of me,” Albert says. “I freaked out.” But something happened on take two. Tom Hanks was gone. The man who approached was dirty, sweaty, blinking and struggling to respond to the medic’s questions. She cut off his soiled shirt with a pair of shears. Something clicked. “It was an instant trigger,” Albert says. “We’re trained over and over again in the military for those instances when we remain calm and have to be there for the patient. He came in, it was just an automatic reflex. When that happened, he was just a patient.” As Hanks’s character tries to speak, his eyes water, he’s terrified. Albert takes his blood pressure and then has him lie on the table. “Captain, you are safe now,” she assures him. It’s a powerfully moving moment in a career rich with them. And when it was over, and the cameras were no longer running, Albert walked up to the director and whispered. During the scene, she had been taking Hanks’s vital signs. She was concerned. “Tom’s blood pressure is really, really high,” she said. Greengrass wasn’t surprised. Tom Hanks was playing his role.
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Dear Annie: Five years ago, my husband’s can mediate. We wouldn’t want this to hapbest friend, “Cary,” was in financial trouble pen again. and asked my husband for a loan, which Dear Annie: I have a plea for anyone he sent. I only found out about it when the who has a pool, pond or other body of wabank sent a receipt to our house. It was for ter around their home. This past Monday, $25,000. I nearly fell over. my beautiful, active, mobile 11-month-old I questioned my husband, and he said grandson got out of the house and fell into our loan kept Cary out of bankruptcy, so I the koi pond. Instead of planning his first dropped the subject. Last year, Cary told birthday, we are planning his funeral. my husband he still wasn’t able to pay back Please, if you have any type of standany of the money, and my genering water, put a fence around it. ous husband said he’d forgive No parent, grandparent or sibthe loan altogether. I found out ling should go through what we about this when we planned a are dealing with right now, espetrip to Cary’s area. I told my huscially for something so preventband I didn’t want to visit Cary able. — A Grieving Grandmother because he’d made no attempt in Redondo Beach, Calif. to pay back any of the loan, and Dear Grieving: This is so heartthat’s when my husband dropped breaking. Please know that your the bombshell. words of warning will save a life. I am angry that my husband Little children can drown in very didn’t discuss either of these delittle water, and they do not have cisions with me. He has worked the understanding or the physhard for his money, and we’ve ical dexterity to avoid a tragehad many ups and downs finandy. And no matter how closely MITCHELL cially. We don’t take extravagant you watch your child, accidents & SUGAR vacations, my car is eight years happen. Readers, whether the old, and we are paying three colchildren are yours or someone lege tuitions. My sister is strugelse’s, fence off these areas or gling, too, and I would love to keep them behind lock and key help her, but wouldn’t even conso they are safe for everyone. Our sider it without talking it over with my hus- deepest condolences to your family. band. I don’t understand how anyone could Dear Annie: I read of so many happy reborrow money with no intention of paying it unions with birth parents, but I certainly did back. How can Cary sleep at night? Should not have one. I call Cary and express my disappointment I found my birth mother when I was 35. I that he’s taken advantage of his best friend? discovered a half-brother who didn’t know — Loser Friends about me and resented me a great deal. We Dear Friends: Your problem isn’t Cary. have no contact. My birth mother lied to me It’s a husband who thinks he should be mak- with three different stories about why I was ing major financial choices without consult- adopted. She stayed with me for a week, deing his life partner. He didn’t want to get manded all of my time and expected to hug into a disagreement with you, so he made a me constantly. I did not care for her “conunilateral decision. It’s also possible he be- cern” after 35 years. lieves that if the money comes from his salShe visited twice more and nothing imary, it’s his to do with as he chooses. For mi- proved. I eventually cut off all corresponnor purchases, that’s fine, but $25,000 could dence with her. — Iowa put a dent in his family’s living situation and Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell affects all of you. You need to discuss this and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann with him, calmly, and explain why his ac- Landers column. Please email your questions tions were both hurtful and disrespectful. If to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Anhe cannot understand your position, ask him nie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd to come with you to see a counsellor who Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
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ANDERSON Jarret James 1984 - 2014 It is with heavy hearts, the family of Jarret James Seniuk Anderson announce his sudden passing on November 27, 2014 at his home in Red Deer Alberta. Jarret was born in Fort Nelson, B.C. with heart complications and spent the first six weeks of his life at the Vancouver children’s hospital, where he had heart surgery. After his recovery David and Edwina were thrilled to take him home. He would be the first of their four children. As a child Jarret was active in Boy Scouts, Junior Forest Wardens, and spent many weekends at the family cabin on Tetsa River. At the age of 15 the family moved to Lacombe, AB, where Jarret attended Lacombe Composite High School. Jarret enjoyed life and brought smiles to all that knew him. He loved to follow the NHL, hunting and fishing and spending time with friends and family. Jarret will be sadly missed by his parents David and Edwina, his siblings April (Dean), Lauren and Scott, as well as his niece Bailey and nephews Mitchell and Dryden. He also leaves his maternal grandparents Edwin and Audrey Seniuk of Drayton Valley and several Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and friends. A celebration of life for Jarret will be held at Royal Canadian Legion (5138- 49 St, Lacombe, Alberta) on Friday, December 5, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. The family is encouraging those attending to wear their favorite hockey jersey to commemorate Jarret’s love of the game. During the afternoon there will be an open mic for those who would like to share their favorite memories of Jarret and his funny, gentle soul. Donations in memory of Jarret can be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta #202, 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements. 403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”
BETTENSON Shirley Mae 1927 - 2014 Shirley Mae Bettenson of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at her home, after a lengthy illness, on Thursday, November 27, 2014 at the age of 87 years. Shirley was born on July 10,1927 to Don and Ruth Jellison, the second of five daughters. She grew up on a farm in the Coronation District and later moved with her family to Red Deer, where she completed High School. In 1947, Shirley married the love of her life, Carl and together they raised their family and built a successful business. Mom lived a full life. Over the years, she had been active in her church and the U.C.W., and was a Lioness in Association with the Lions Club. She enjoyed golfing and visiting and having fun with her many wonderful friends. She and Carl traveled the world and spent many warm winters in Arizona. Shirley will be lovingly remembered by her husband of sixty-seven years, Carl Bettenson; her children, Lee Conklin, Doug (Jane) Bettenson and Carol Bettenson; her grandchildren, Jeff (Danielle) Conklin, Parker (Pam) Bettenson and Joe (Heather) Bettenson; and her great grandchildren, Jessica and Payton Conklin, Emily, Kessler, Ryan and Daxon Bettenson and Jack Bettenson. Shirley was predeceased by her parents, Don and Ruth Jellison; sisters, Sandra Jellison and Irene Barker; and a son-in-law, Ken Conklin. A Funeral Service will be held at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, December 5, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. A Private Family Interment will be held at Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. If desired, Memorial Donations in Shirley’s honor may be made directly to the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and N.W.T. at www. alzheimer.ab.ca or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Ashley Paton, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
RAU Harriette 1926 - 2014 Mrs. Harriette Rau of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, at Bethany CollegeSide, Red Deer, Alberta on Sunday, November 30, 2014 at the age of 88 years. Harriette was born on May 3, 1926 at Dog Pound, Alberta. She married Vernie Rau on October 7, 1950. The couple was blessed with six children and eventually moved to Red Deer in 1977. Harriette and Vernie were active in both the Gaetz Memorial United Church and the Living Stones Church in Red Deer. After Vernie’s passing in 2010, Harriette continued on her own until finally moving to Bethany CollegeSide in November of 2012. Harriette will be lovingly remembered by her three sons, Eugene (Sharon) Rau of Lethbridge, Alberta, Sydnie (Virginia) Rau of Medicine Hat, Alberta and Cecil (Susan) Rau of Cochrane, Alberta; her three daughters, Alice (Wes) Jerome of Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Lois (George) MacLeod and Miriam (Trevor) Gamelin, all of Red Deer, fourteen grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. She will also be sadly missed by her brother-in-law, Harold Ball of Regina and three sisters, Marie Smith and Teunisje Harrison, both of Calgary, Alberta and Johanna (Nick) VanVeen of Abbotsford, British Columbia. Harriette was predeceased by her beloved husband, Vernie on April 1, 2010, and siblings, Wanda, Alice, Jeanette, Steven and Henry. Relatives and friends are invited to come and pay their respects at Parkland Funeral Home, Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. A Celebration of Harriette’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
CANN Bonnie Jean On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, Bonnie Jean Cann (nee McLeod) slipped with a graceful peace from the loving embrace of her family into the waiting arms of her Heavenly Father. Bonnie was predeceased by her parents; Jim and Lucile McLeod, her brother and sister-in-law; Blain and Margaret McLeod, along with numerous beloved aunts, uncles and cousins. She is survived by her husband of 62 happy years, Don Cann of Red Deer, and her daughters; Joyce Cann of Red Deer, Laurel and Don Johnson of Millet, Maureen and George Klingenberg of Blackfalds, and Betty and Chris Tronnes of the Rimbey area. She is also survived by her grandchildren; Rebecca and Eric Bouwsema and great-grandson Caleb of Calgary, SaraDawn and Brad Taylor or Wetaskiwin, Jamie Klingenberg of Blackfalds, Crystal Johnson and Kyle Brignall of Prince George, Michael Klingenberg and his girlfriend Cortney Taylor of Blackfalds and Lacombe, Scott and Brittney Tronnes of Penhold, and David Tronnes of Vancouver. Bonnie was born in Mirror, Alberta on May 18, 1932 and moved to Camrose where she completed her high school and met her future husband. She began her teaching career in Edberg, Alberta, and then taught in Camrose after she was married. Bonnie and Don welcomed their four daughters into the world, and then Bonnie returned to teaching with the Red Deer Public School District in 1967. She taught grade one at West Park Elementary School for many years and was much loved by her students. Even into her retirement, she would often hear “Hi, Mrs. Cann!” when she was spotted by former students. Bonnie was always devoted to her family first - was an avid bird watcher, wild flower lover, knitter of many warm things, and she loved many pets throughout her life. Her warm and loving smile will be remembered by many. Special thanks to the staff on unit B2 at Bethany Collegeside, and a sincere thank you to Dr. Konynenbelt who went above and beyond for our mom. Your care and compassion have not gone unnoticed. A Graveside Service will take place at the Red Deer Cemetery, 55 Street, Red Deer, on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. A Celebration of Bonnie’s Life will follow at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, at 2:30 p.m. In Bonnie’s memory and in lieu of flowers, donations would be gratefully accepted by the Red Deer & District S.P.C.A., 4505 77 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, T4P 2J1 or at Gaetz Memorial United Church. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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Technical Support Agent Growing national software company based in Red Deer seeking FT perm Tech Agent. Please visit us at visual-eyes.ca. WELL established land surveying firm has an employment opportunity for a full-time RECEPTIONIST/ SECRETARY. Successful candidate will have strong organizational and communications skills, and enjoy working with clients in a fast paced environment. Preference will be given to those with post-secondary education. We offer a competitive wage and benefits package and positive work environment. Please submit resume in confidence to: Snell & Oslund Surveys (1979) Ltd. 1, 5128 - 52 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 6Y4 Fax: 403-343-7025 Email: info@ snellandoslund.com Thank you in advance for your interest, however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
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IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR EXP’D. DENTAL RECEPTIONIST. We offer competitive wages & flexible hours. Must be willing to work days, evenings & some Saturdays. Please drop off resume ATT’N: Marina at Bower Dental Centre or email: marina@bowerdental.com
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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 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
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HAMPTON INN & SUITES Red Deer is now accepting resumes for a housekeeping supervisor. Must be able to work weekends. Apply within 128 Leva Ave. Red Deer County. Fax 403-341-9996 or email: info@hamptoninnrd.com
$2500 Bonus Every 100 days IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Oil & Gas Well Testing Supervisors, Night Foremen, Experienced/ Inexperienced Junior Day/Night Operators Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license. Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages. Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds
BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are currently accepting applications for a
JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR in our Stettler Field. Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard and learn quickly. Associated industry experience eg. instrumentation 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 grow within the organization. Applicants must live or be willing to relocate to within a 20 minute commute of the work place location (Stettler). Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1
NOW HIRING Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com
TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive salary and job bonuses. Resume to terry@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS
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NEWCART is looking for a fulltime
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knowledgeable in API, ANSI Must possess clean and Actuated Valves drivers abstract, know with the ability to deal with city well. The individual customers in service. must be able to work Entry Level positions unsupervised in a fast are also available Oilfield paced environment. Some experience would heavy lifting is required. be a great asset. We offer competitive wages and a Parts Person full benefit package with Parts person required for 100% prescription coverage. rapidly expanding HD Please forward a resume Parts Supply Store. HIRING SERVER to Advantage Valve Must be able to work Apply in person at Shiso either via e-mail at: unsupervised in a fast Japanese Restaurant, sbowman paced environment. 3731 Gaetz Avenue @advantagevalve.com Have experience in the No Phone Calls Please! cliff@advantagevalve.com heavy truck/trailer industry. or fax resume to our Must possess strong JJAM Management (1987) Sylvan Lake branch. customer service skills. Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s 1 Charles Industrial Way Requires to work at these Sylvan Lake, Alberta Above average wages, Red Deer, AB locations: Tel: 403-887-1462 benefits package. 5111 22 St. Fax: 403-887-1463 Apply with resume @ 37444 HWY 2 S www.advantagevalve.com Artic Truck, Email: 37543 HWY 2N Only qualified applicants ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com 700 3020 22 St. will be notified. Fax: 403-348-5198 FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening MILLARD TRUCKING LTD. both full and part time. is looking for a 2 Licenced 16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. + Journeyman Heavy benefits. Start ASAP. Duty Mechanics. Job description The successful applicant www.timhortons.com must be able to work well Education and experience in a high paced environSIDING INSTALLER not req’d. ment. We offer a great with or without trailer & Apply in person or fax working environment, very tools. F.T. year round resume to: 403-314-1303 competitive wages and work, must have truck and performance bonuses. THE RUSTY PELICAN 2 yrs. exp. $1.30 per sq.ft. All interested person are is now accepting resumes 403-358-8580 invited to apply to: for experienced Millard Trucking Ltd. F/T SERVERS Box 960, Sundre, AB Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. T0M1X0 Apply within: 2079-50 Fax: 403-638-4987 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. email: Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted. mbrodie@enerchem.com
THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for an EXPERIENCED BARTENDER. MUST HAVE REFERENCES. Able to work evening shift. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.
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F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo. Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca LICENSED MECHANIC & AUTO BODY TECH. Reasonable rate. A.J. Auto Repair & Body 11, 7836 49 Ave. Call 403-506-6258
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CLASS 1 DRIVER with super B and grain hauling experience for Central AB. Call Wayne 403-341-9113 DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person. 6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.
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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RESPONSIBLE mature person req’d for weekly cleaning in South Red Deer. Ref’s req’d. Call 403-309-4554
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HALLCON is seeking qualified drivers to transport rail crews throughout Red Deer area. Drivers are ideally based out of RED DEER. No overnight stays required. This position is an on call position. Employees are responsible for taking trips during the period they have designated themselves available to do so. Transportation is done in Hallcon company vehicles. Vehicles are extensively & consistently maintained ensuring optimal safety for drivers and clients. Drivers must possess valid Class 1, 2, or 4 license, with clean driver abstract. Assisted licensing upgrade to achieve a class 4 is available. Pay is based at a rate of $16.00. Earning potential is based on your availability, as our operation runs on a 24/7 on call basis. Both full time and part time employees are welcome. Semiretired, retired, full time, part time employees are welcome. Forward resumes & current driver abstract: Shane Flack asmabnorth@gmail.com.
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Benefits: • Excellent hourly wage • Lucrative Safety Bonus and Christmas bonus • Excellent benefit plan • Retirement plan Fax or email your resume and driver’s abstract to: Fax: (403) 347-3406 Email: l.enzie@isolationequipment.com or drop by #239 Clearview Drive Clearview Industrial Park Red Deer County
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VALVE TECHNICIAN/SHOP ASSISTANTS
Duties include but not limited to the following: • Assembling and repairing control valves/frac heads • Calibration, testing and troubleshooting of valves as well as measurement and valve related instruments • Disassembly, cleanup and evaluation of parts • Signing and documenting date compliance sheets • Pressure testing processes with experience, will train • Forklift experience/loader experience, will train • Must be 18 years of age or older to apply • Must supply driver’s abstract
SUNTERRA Meats in Trochu is looking for a Journeyman Electrician to join our maintenance team. Job entails but is not limited to installation, maintenance, repair, service and trouble shooting. Successful candidate must have Industrial Electrician Red Seal Certificate and 3 years experience in the electrical field. Meat processing plant experience a definite asset. For more information call Dave Guay at 403-442-4202 or send resume to dave. guay@sunterrameats.ca.
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Isolation Equipment Services Inc. an expanding Oil Service Company is willing to train the right candidates as valve technicians and/or shop assistants in its fast and mechanical environment.
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SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Sat. & Sun. 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue
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KENMORE washer and Maytag dryer, large capacity, both $75 403-782-7439
Household Furnishings
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2 DUSTY ROSE upholstered arm chairs, 1 rocker, 1 recliner, $60/ea. or both for $90.; Sewing machine cabinet, dark oak, 3 large side drawers, fits any size machine. $85.; ROASTER, electric, large aluminum, $20; 403-348-6449
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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.
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2 HIGH back chairs, new, rayon material, small stripes $100/ea 403-347-2046
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DINING ROOM SET with 4 chairs & leaf, good shape. $175 obo. Nice top with light wood around side, brass legs on chairs. 403-346-4155
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Extremists attack two Nigerian state capitals BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAUCHI, Nigeria - Suspected Islamic extremists struck in two state capitals in northeastern Nigeria on Monday, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens with a double bombing at a crowded market and an attack on a police base. Around 30 extremists were also killed in clashes with security forces, police said. The attacks were the latest in a week of violence linked to Islamic militants that has killed more than 170 people in northern Nigeria. Police spokesman Gideon Jubrin said at least five people were killed at a market in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state where two female suicide bombers also killed 70 people a week ago. A vigilante official said two young female suicide bombers were also responsible for Monday’s blasts and that they had recovered their bodies along with those of six victims. Hospital officials said they were treating more than 40 people with serious injuries. The vigilante and hospital officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give information to reporters. In Damaturu, the provincial capital of Yobe state some 135 kilometres (85 miles) west of Maiduguri, extremists destroyed several buildings and killed at least two doctors when they stormed the residential quarters at the general hospital, according to the Hospitals Management Board. Three other doctors were abducted. Police there said the attackers drove State Security Service agents from their offices but were repelled, and about 30 terrorists were killed when they tried to take over Yobe Government House, where there is a military armoury. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Maiduguri blasts but people blamed Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group that has carried
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BAKING: Home stuffed with sweets Once set, the filling was unctuous and barely solid, silky and magnificent on the tongue, but I’m still wondering about those last 10 degrees. I can’t resist a financier (the confectionary kind, not the human kind) and fell headlong for the Chez Moi pistachio and raspberry version, baked in mini-
out many such attacks in a 5-year insurgency that has killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes. Bala Dauda, a trader at the market there, said rescue workers were evacuating the dead and wounded from the site. “I have seen very many victims dripping with blood, others with parts of their bodies dismembered by the blasts,” Dauda told The Associated Press by telephone. After the explosions, young men in vigilante groups barricaded some Maiduguri roads to try to ensure safety in the city. These community defence groups and security forces are accused of summary executions and other rights abuses of people they believe are extremists. In Damaturu, explosions and gunfire erupted before dawn Monday causing some residents to flee into the bush and others to cower in their homes. The militants targeted a rapidresponse police base on the outskirts of Damaturu, said resident Garba Musa. “It has been burned down completely,” he said. Police said the attackers also destroyed multiple buildings at the Yobe state university, while the Defence Ministry headquarters said a fighter jet was repelling the attackers. A helicopter gunship was hovering over the town. Witnesses said the aircraft drove the fighters out of Damaturu, strafing and bombing. “We don’t know where to hide, the shooting is all over ... We are running for our lives,” said resident Musa Abbas. The attacks on the two state capitals show an acceleration of the extremist violence in northeastern Nigeria. Boko Haram, the West African’s nation’s homegrown Islamic extremist group, has been striking with increased frequency and deadliness since the military declared the insurgents had agreed to a ceasefire in September.
LIMA, Peru - With this year on track to become the warmest on record, more than 190 nations began talks Monday on new limits for the greenhouse gases that are already changing global climate patterns and making life more difficult around the world. New targets for fossil fuel use were announced ahead of the climate conference by the U.S., the European Union and China, the first Asian nation to make such a pledge. This has injected optimism into negotiations that are supposed to climax in Paris next year with the adoption of a longawaited climate pact. But India, Russia, Japan and Australia have yet to commit to new limits; and scientists say much sharper emissions cuts are needed in coming decades to keep global warming within 2 degrees C (3.6 F) of pre-industrial times, the overall goal of the U.N. talks. Global temperatures have already risen about 0.8 degrees C (1.3 F), and more heat-trapping gases are emitted every year. Every degree of warming can cause long-lasting impacts, from melting ice caps and rising sea levels to the loss of species. “Human influence on the climate system is clear,” Rajendra Pachauri, who leads the U.N.’s panel of climatechange experts, told delegates at the opening session in Lima. To have a decent chance of reversing the warming trend before the planet hits the 2-degree mark, the world needs to slash emissions by 40 per cent to 70 per cent by 2050 and to near-zero by the end of the century, according to the panel’s assessments. Scientists are practically united in warning that there’s no way to meet this goal by continuing business as usual. It would require a sustained, permanent, worldwide shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources to power homes, cars and industries.
And even then, the transition might not happen fast enough without a largescale deployment of new technologies to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. “We call on the world to ensure the opportunity does not slip away,” said Nauru’s Marlene Moses, representing a group of Pacific island nations threatened by rising seas. The biggest challenge for the U.N.sponsored talks is dividing responsibilities between rich Western countries and emerging economies such as China and India. The poorest and most vulnerable nations also need help to develop their economies without aggravating global warming, and to adapt to climate changes that are already causing more violent weather, prolonged droughts and intense flooding. Among them is host country Peru, whose glaciers are melting ever-faster, threatening water supplies on the coastal desert where 70 per cent of its citizens live and threatening the nation’s hydropower and food security. The negotiators in Lima are focusing on a draft agreement that can be refined before the Paris meeting a year from now. A key issue is what data each government should provide so that formal emissions targets can be compared. Developing countries also want rich nations to make good on promises of financing to reduce emissions and mitigate climate change impacts, which range from the spread of diseases to coastal flooding to major disruptions to agriculture. There’s no common agreement on how that money should be used; for example, The Associated Press found that Japan has spent $1 billion of its climate financing on new power plants in Indonesia that burn coal - the top source of man-made emissions. Japan says it improves the environment because the new plans burn cleaner, but critics said coal has no place in climate financing.
muffin molds instead of the traditional and hard-to-find ingot molds. Apart from a mysterious optional ingredient (framboise) suddenly popping up in the middle of the instructions, the recipe behaved beautifully, yielding up a shiny batter thick enough to scoop when chilled and swooningly buttery when baked. Bubble eclairs are nothing but cream puff or choux dough, piped into little mounds of three. Despite a queasy moment when my piping went off course, the misshapen blobs took airy form, round and golden, just as they should have. I couldn’t tell whether they were hollow enough to fill in one
smooth piping, so I hastily filled each segment with its own burst of cream. Moments later, they were demolished, anyway. Greenspan calls the dough for croquets — little more than egg whites and nuts — a “misbehaver,” but mine was, strangely, not. Did I over-chop the macadamias, so that their fine particles coated the dough and made it less of a sticky proposition? Regardless, the biscotti-like fragments made for a fine sweet nothing to nibble on with tea and coffee. By the end of a week, our house was stuffed with sweets. For a moment, I thought about packing some up for the
Reserves — seasoned friends who have helped me clear out many an overdose of testing. Then I thought of the week ahead, and my kids loading up on Halloween candy while I watched. I kept the leftovers. In the end, Baking Chez Moi could be deemed a success. But Eating Chez Moi was even better. Chang regularly writes about food and reviews cookbooks for the Boston Globe, NPR and the cookbook-indexing Web site Eat Your Books. She lives in New England and is the author of “A Spoonful of Promises: Stories and Recipes From a Well-Tempered Table.” She blogs at Cookbooks for Dinner.
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Bakers across the world rejoice when Dorie Greenspan comes out with a new cookbook. Her newest, ‘Baking Chez Moi,’ is the 10th one she has devoted to the magic synergy of oven, flour, sugar and butter.
A crisp, filling effort BY T. SUSAN CHANG ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Bakers across the world rejoice when Dorie Greenspan comes out with a new cookbook. Her newest, Baking Chez Moi, is the 10th one she has devoted to the magic synergy of oven, flour, sugar and butter. With the publications, her Baking with Dorie app and the devoted Web followers who bake their way through her books on the Tuesdays with Dorie site, you could argue that Greenspan has claimed the country’s carb-loving heart as her own. Greenspan lives in Paris, New York and Connecticut, and Baking Chez Moi is the work of her Paris persona. Despite what you probably think of French pastry, Greenspan maintains that French home baking is the opposite of fussy, demanding little time and a minimum of ingredients. Even so, readers might at first find these recipes daunting. Greenspan’s style is to test exhaustively: terribly hard on herself, but a boon to others. She offers meticulous instructions on what to watch, listen and smell for so you don’t stray from the flour-strewn path of virtue. The recipes are long, but they hold your hand and go by quickly; if you pay attention, the rewards can be great. Moka Dupont is merely an icebox cake of petit beurre cookies, dipped in espresso, stacked up and mortared together with the world’s easiest buttercream (no mixer!). Even if your frosting technique is slapdash, everything’s hidden under an elegant scattering of chocolate curls. Equally easy are pailles made with store-bought puff pastry, slivered and arranged crosswise. If you’re comfortable with Legos, it’s no trouble at all. In the end, you have little cross-grained pallets, which you sandwich together with jam. Eating pure puff pastry might be a little one-dimensional, but that’s never stopped me. A mini-muffin, Greenspan observes, happens to look like a very, very small pie. With a tiny mince of apples, apricots and raisins within, and tiny vents in the top, her Apple Pielettes are doll-size and charming, gone in two bites. The dough — a simple galette dough smoothed with the smashing hand motion known as “fraisage” — threatens to misbehave, but it all comes together in the end, in a mini-muffin pan. The heady perfume of pears blends with the benzaldehyde sweetness of almonds in a tart; the egg white-almond topping bakes in a manner suggestive of nougat: sweet, crunchy yet also barely chewy, and almost obscene over the ripe, collapsing pears. Don’t be surprised if your pears don’t caramelize, or if after the prescribed five minutes in the pan they’re bathing in their own juice. (This might have something to do with how your fruit is; better to choose pears that are firm, just shy of ripe.) Just keep reducing till the pan’s nearly dry, and all will be well. A lime tart has only six ingredients (if you don’t count the sweet, yolky tart dough). Although the filling is just a simple lime curd, Greenspan’s instructions are painstaking, and I second-guessed myself. I pulled out my thermometer, looking out for signs: 180 degrees and the telltale bubbling of the curd. But the bubbling began at 160 degrees; what to do? I held my ground, stirring, till 170, at which point I lost my nerve and pulled it. Good thing, too, as the custard showed traces of cooked egg when I strained it.
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Bubble Eclairs. Unglazed eclairs are easy to make at home.
Bubble Eclairs MAKES: 16 eclairs PREPARATION: Once piped onto baking sheets, the eclairs can be frozen for up to 2 days and then can go straight into the oven; add a few minutes to the baking time. Or you can freeze the unfilled baked pastries for up to 2 months; defrost them in the refrigerator, warm in a 350-degree oven for 10 minutes, cool and then fill. INGREDIENTS For the pastry 1/2 cup whole milk 1/2 cup water 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into 4 equal pieces 1 tablespoon granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt 1 cup flour 4 large eggs, at room temperature Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting For the filling 1 1/2 cups whipping cream, chilled 1 1/2 to 6 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar, sifted 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, or as needed STEPS For the pastry: Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven; preheat to 425 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone liners. Combine the milk, water, butter, granulated sugar and salt in a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan over high heat. Bring to a rapid boil; add the flour all at once, reduce the heat to mediumlow and quickly stir energetically with a wooden spoon or sturdy heatproof spatula. The dough will come together; a light crust will form on the bottom of the pan. Keep stirring vigorously for another minute or two to dry out the dough. The dough should be very smooth. Turn the dough out into the bowl of a stand mixer or into
a large bowl in which you can use a hand mixer or a wooden spoon. Let the dough sit for 3 minutes, then beat in the eggs one at a time, making sure each egg is incorporated before adding the next and beating until the dough is thick and shiny, 1 to 2 minutes. The dough should be used immediately. Use a small cookie scoop, a pastry bag with a plain or open star tip, or a plastic zip-top bag with a hole cut in one corner to portion the dough. For each eclair, scoop or pipe a row of 3 balls of dough, each about 1 scant tablespoon, as close to one another as you can get them, snuggling each ball of dough up to the next. When you have 3 balls in a row, move on to the next eclair. Leave at least 2 inches of puff-and-grow space between the clusters. Slide the baking sheets into the oven; immediately reduce the temperature to 375 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes without opening the oven door, then rotate the baking sheets top to bottom and front to back; bake for about 10 minutes or until the eclairs are golden on the top and bottom and are firm to the touch. Transfer the eclairs to wire racks to cool. For the filling: Combine the cream and 1 1/2 tablespoons of the confectioners’ sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a balloon whisk, or use a hand-held electric mixer. Beat on low speed, then on medium-high just until the cream starts to thicken. Taste, and add confectioners’ sugar as needed, then beat on medium-high speed to the desired consistency. Blend in the vanilla extract (to taste). There are two ways to fill the eclairs. Transfer the filling to a pastry bag fitted with a medium plain pastry tip and poke a hole in the eclair, either in the bottom or in one side; nuzzle the tip into the hole and squeeze in enough filling to come to the edges of the hole. Or slice the eclairs horizontally, either in half or by cutting off the top third. (You can scoop out the eggy innards if you wish.) Pipe, spoon or scoop the filling into the bottom of the eclairs and cap with the tops. Dust the tops with a little confectioners’ sugar, if desired. Serve the eclairs right away.