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BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Things just didn’t seem right for Terry Haakman after he returned to Canada in 2010 after four years in Bosnia-Herzegovina, working as a civilian contractor for NATO. Before that, Haakman, 38, had also seen army duty in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as a member of the Canadian Forces peace support mission. He served nine years in the military, from 1996 to 2005. In the army — he joined when he as 19 — he was a signals operator, and then with NATO, specializing in digital communications. He won’t talk about the work he did because he said it is confidential. On his return, he found a job in Red Deer — he now works in Information Technology. Haakman lives in the city with his wife who he met in Bosnia. He was struggling to reintegrate, trying to find the right fit, trying to get used to ordinary life back in Canada. At first, Haakman, who is originally from Ottawa, thought it was just the transition, but then he found himself being really cold toward others. “I was sort of a jerk. I had low tolerance of people, a short temper, and I wasn’t like that before.”
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Grandfather Frost looks over a Christmas Tree during the seventh annual Russian Children’s New Year’s Party at the Red Deer Public Library’s Snell Auditorium. Children were invited to take part in the interactive play and help save Grandfather Frost’s presents on the darkest day of the year. The play was performed entirely in Russian.
Cirillo and Vincent named Newsmaker of the Year BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Two Canadians killed in cold blood on home soil for simply wearing a soldier’s uniform have been selected the country’s Newsmaker of the Year for 2014. Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, whose senseless murders in October shook the country, were the top choice of editors and news directors surveyed by The Canadian Press. “It’s very sad but very deserved,” Vincent’s eldest sister Louise Vincent said in her first interview since his funeral. “First it was a family death and after that we realized that his death was not only ours.” Indeed, the two unsuspecting and unarmed soldiers quickly became household names for reasons Canadians could barely fathom. Vincent, 53, described as a quiet, determined person who was always looking to help others, died Oct. 20 after a “radicalized” Martin Rouleau, 25, deliberately ran him down in a parking lot in Saint-Jeansur-Richelieu, Que. Two days later, with the country struggling to process Vincent’s death, terror gripped the nation’s capital when Michael Zehaf Bibeau shot Cirillo, 24, in the back before storming Parliament Hill and dying in a hail of bullets. The photogenic, dog-loving reservist had been quietly standing ceremonial guard with an unloaded weapon at the Tomb of the Unknown soldier when he was attacked without warning. Once again, Canadians were dismayed and saddened at the prospect of a soldier killed on home
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Kathy Cirillo is comforted in front of the coffin of her son Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at his regimental funeral service in Hamilton, Ontario, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, two Canadians killed in cold blood on home soil for simply wearing a soldier’s uniform, have been selected the country’s Newsmaker of the Year for 2014. soil — this time someone who might have looked like a “big tough man” but was, as a cousin said, “such a kid at heart.” Photographs of Cirillo’s dogs poking their heads
from beneath the fence of the family home in Hamilton only added to the palpable grief. Even before his state-like funeral, Canadians learned of the valiant efforts to save and comfort the dying father of a five-year-old boy. “You are so loved,” lawyer Barbara Winters said she repeatedly told him. In scenes not seen since the repatriation of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, thousands of Canadians lined the “Highway of Heroes” to show support for the two men. “These two men did not ask to be in the news,” said Fred Hutton, news director with VOCM in St. John’s. “They were random victims who were thrust into the spotlight by deranged individuals who made us all question our own safety.” Michel Lorrain, general director with Cogeco nouvelles in Montreal, noted in his survey comments how rare it is in Canadian history for soldiers to be killed outside of a combat mission. Their deaths, said Murray Guy, managing editor of the Times and Transcript in Moncton, N.B., symbolized Canada’s “sudden loss of innocence in a world where we thought we were all detached from the dark threat of terror that has plagued so many seemingly so far away.” In all, Cirillo and Vincent picked up 23 of the 85 votes cast to be named 2014 Newsmaker. Cirillo’s still-grieving family refused to comment but Louise Vincent called the result a show of respect for the depths of their sacrifice.
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Red Deer Food Bank still short for 2015 budget BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The cupboards are well stocked at the Red Deer Food Bank, but the piggy bank needs plenty more coins, dollars and cheques. Executive director Fred Scaife said the agency has raised about $200,000 towards its $550,000 budget for 2015 and is still shy about $300,000 to keep the lights and the heat on and staff paid at the food bank. “Although I’m concerned about the situation financially right now, I have faith in our community. I have faith in the people that live here. How can I not. Eighteen years doing this and every time I’ve said — oh, oh — this community has responded in spades,” Scaife said on Friday. The food bank takes in about 70 to 75 per cent of
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cash donations in its fourth quarter. Thankfully, food donations have been strong, he said. “We might be doing this with our coats on with flashlights because we can’t afford the heat or the lights, but as long as we have food, we’re going to feed people some way, somehow.” He said donors don’t seem to be giving less money. There just seems to be fewer donors and the food bank is in that transitional period between losing donors and getting new donors. He said the bulk of money that comes in are $25, $50, $100 donations. Large amounts only make up about 25 per cent of donations. The food bank may have to apply for things like government grants when it has always prided itself in being able to avoid that, he said. The food bank may also put its barbecue crew to
work at more events next year to raise money, and possibly organizing a larger fundraising event, like a ‘mac and cheese’ luncheon. In the meantime, the food bank is bracing for another busy winter when people face larger utility bills. People can save money by buying food on sale, but there is never a sale when it comes to utilities, Scaife said. “February is our busiest month of the year. In the shortest month of the year, we will feed more people than in any other month.” He hopes sinking oil prices won’t hit people as hard as during the last recession that struck in and around 2008. “We know there is a storm on the horizon.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
NY Cop killer had long criminal history The gunman who fatally ambushed two police officers in their squad car had a long criminal record and mental instability. Story on PAGE D3
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A spate of public opinion surveys this autumn has prompted the usual end-of-year parsing of political fortunes and chin-stroking prognostications about a federal election that may still be 10 months in the future. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are up. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are down. Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats are out of it. Reader beware. In fact, a look at months of results from six different pollsters suggests Trudeau’s Liberals remain imperviously buoyant, Harper’s Tories have seen only marginal gains despite a number of issues breaking their way, and NDP fortunes are stalled, notwithstanding Mulcair’s widely lauded parliamentary performance. In the past week alone, national polls from recognized opinion surveyors have placed Liberal support as high as 41 per cent (Forum Research) and as low as 32 per cent (EKOS), Conservative support from 33 to 31 per cent and NDP support at 19 (Leger), 20 (Forum) and 17 per cent (EKOS). Back in September, before an event-packed fall that supposedly moved the public opinion dial, Liberals polled as high as 38 per cent (Abacus and Ipsos Reid), Conservatives were between 30 and 31 per cent and New Democrats between 21 and 23. ThreeHundredEight.com, which aggregates political polling, says the average of all public polls put Liberal support last week at 36 per cent, Conservatives at 32 and the NDP at 20. In September, those averages were 38-30-22.
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Benjamin Richards and his daughter Hanna, who is spending her first Christmas in Canada after moving from Poland weeks ago, roast a marshmallow at City Hall Park on Saturday morning as part of the North Pole Stroll programming. Red Deerians could head down to City Hall Park to listen to some Christmas carols and make their own s’mores. The event was free to the public. hour north, in my opinion, you’re getting one of the best.” Haakman has encountered only a few problems, one being at a convenience store but when he explained Koda was a medical service dog, they were OK with it. “Everywhere else is great. We go to Walmart, Home Depot, the grocery stores, anywhere I go, she comes with me in the malls.” He did have one other problem when a doctor did not want to see him with Koda. Haakman said the doctor was afraid of the dog and so he had to wait a few weeks before he got in to see a different doctor. “People in Red Deer are generally accepting. One of my challenges is actually getting out of the house on a regular basis.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com
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PTSD: Shell shock Eventually, about two years ago, his symptoms would lead to a diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) — a now not unfamiliar health issue amongst soldiers who have seen warfare. At one time, the tolling effects of war was known as shell shock. Haakman has been on disability now since April through his employer. But he is also getting coverage for psychological counselling and his medications from Veterans Affairs Canada. The federal assistance is for two years and he is about halfway through it. Still struggling with issues in his therapy, he does not want to share the actual events that led to his PTSD. Through his trials, especially his anxiety and “hypervigilance”, Haakman has found help that involves neither medication or therapy — in the form of Koda the service dog. After he was diagnosed, he attended a service dog demonstration event in Canmore for UN and NATO veterans that showed the benefits the dogs have on people suffering PTSD and other mental illnesses. Haakman then went in search of a young dog that could be trained through Courageous Companions, in partnership with the Canadian Legacy Project, which provides service dogs to veterans of the Canadian Forces who suffer from PTSD. All the costs, including training and travel, are covered by the program that relies on donations. Haakman already had two pet dogs at home but they were older, and because the investment to train a service dog can be between $5,000 and $15,000, it’s better to start with a young dog. Haakman found Koda, a German shepherd cross, at the Red Deer SPCA. She was eight months old. They went to training together in Winnipeg and B.C. just over a year ago. Some of the PTSD symptoms he has include high levels of anxiety, depression and nightmares. And there’s the hypervigilance. “I’m always looking over my shoulder. I’m always scanning for threats or things like that and. With the dog, she can do that for me and I can just look at the dog and she’ll indicate if there’s something that needs my attention, so I don’t have to keep scanning all over the place,” said Haakman. “When my anxiety level gets high ... she’ll jump on me to distract me from whatever it is that’s making me anxious. She looks in my face and kind of says, ‘Pet me, pet me I’m soft.’ ... She wakes me up from nightmares by jumping on me or putting her paws on
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Former soldier Terry Haakman, who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, sits with his PTSD Service Dog, Koda, at his home Thursday afternoon. Koda was adopted from the SPCA in 2013. me to wake me up. “She pulls me out of stressful situations as well. If I’m at an event where I’m extremely uncomfortable she’ll pull me toward a door.” Haakman said having the dog has helped him cut back on some of his medications. Koda has had a lot of training to make sure she knows how to behave herself in public. And she’s had symptom detection training, “which is different for everybody because everybody has different symptoms.” “Now she’s with me everywhere I go.” “When she has her vest on she knows it’s time to work.” Koda wears a special vest provided by Courageous Companions. In Red Deer, Haakman has found bringing the service dog with him has been mainly well received. He points to a recent study that indicated Calgary was the most intolerant city in Canada when it comes to service dogs. The study involved owners trying to take the dogs to a variety of places, and often they were turned away from taxis, restaurants and other businesses. Red Deer wasn’t part of the study but Haakman believes this city would have rated very well. “I found it odd you can rate Calgary as one of the worst cities in Canada for service dogs but only an
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In second spot with 13 votes apiece were Kevin Vickers, the sergeant-at-arms credited with stopping Zihaf Bibeau, and disgraced CBC radio personality, Jian Ghomeshi. Steve Murphy, executive news editor with CJCH-TV Halifax, called Vickers a “genuine hero.” Ghomeshi was already known to millions of people before he was accused of sexually or physically assaulting several women — allegations he has strongly denied. Some of those voting felt the scandal surrounding the ex Q host had a more profound and lasting impact than did the Parliament Hill horrors. “I hate to say it but it’s true,” said Adrienne Tanner, deputy editor of the Vancouver Sun. “Not only was he a Canadian icon brought down after years of people protecting him, but he raised the larger issue of sexual harassment in the workplace, a story that unfortunately still resonates in the highest echelons of business and politics.” Even though the 32-year-old Bibeau’s headlinegrabbing attack on Cirillo and Parliament Hill put him in contention for the year’s top newsmaker, only a few of those voting actually picked his name. Some, such as Darryl Mills, with the Daily Herald in Prince Albert, Sask., called it “offensive” the gunman was given any consideration. “There is no reason to allow him any more exposure,” Mills said. While many might consider former crack-smoking Toronto mayor Rob Ford to be firmly yesterday’s man — he was voted Newsmaker of the Year in 2013 — the ailing politician placed fourth overall with 12 votes.
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Police make arrest after assault puts girl, 6, in hospital BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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A collision between an SUV and car on Hwy 20 claimed the lives of two people on Sunday afternoon.
Two dead after collision on Hwy 20 BY ADVOCATE STAFF Two people are dead after a collision between a car and an SUV on Hwy 20 near Township Road 420 Sunday afternoon. Rimbey RCMP responded to a twovehicle collision around 1 p.m. An investigation showed that a northbound Kia Rio crossed the centre line and struck a southbound SUV — A Mitsubishi RVR — carrying five passengers.
STONY PLAIN — Mounties say a six-year-old girl from the Paul Band First Nation west of Edmonton is in critical condition after a serious assault over the weekend. RCMP say they have made an arrest in the case, but added they wouldn’t release any names in order to protect the child’s identity. Police say the girl was transported to hospital by helicopter and that while her condition remained
critical on Sunday, she was stable. Global News in Edmonton reported that family members said the child had been skating with friends on Saturday and was then left at home with a family member. Neither were there when others returned to the house, and it was initially assumed she had returned to the rink. Global reported the family members it interviewed say she was later found beaten and naked in the woods. RCMP say they are continuing to investigate the case, along with police from Edmonton’s major crimes unit.
One of the passengers of the SUV died at the scene, as did the lone male driver of the car The other four occupants of the SUV were taken to hospital with serious injuries and STARS air ambulance assisted in the transport of one of the passengers, who was critically injured. An RCMP investigation suggests that road conditions and weather were factors in the collision. No other information about the victims is available until next of kin notification is completed.
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Just business as usual? WE LOST A GREAT DEAL WHEN DANIELLE SMITH WALKED AWAY FROM THE WILDROSE You would have thought there would be nobody in Alberta politics who could make us forget Alison Redford. The former premier’s name has appeared as a single paragraph in virtually every news story about Alberta party politics — almost like some press secretary has it to copy and paste into every GREG news release, NEIMAN which is then dutifully reprinted and sent on the wire. You’d think her political legacy bears more repetition that that of Ralph Klein. Maybe it does. But now we have a new footnote: Danielle Smith. For the past month or so, since the disastrous Wildrose Party annual meeting in Red Deer, and the four byelection losses that preceded it, I had been regarding her like you might regard a friend in a bad relationship. As in: “What’s she doing with this guy?” What was Danielle Smith doing leading a party that the membership
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obviously would not follow? Smith, engaging and erudite, a fierce debater with the facts at her fingertips, did her best to seem comfortable as the face of a supposedly grassroots party. But those roots contain a vigorous flat-earth faction that will never allow it to govern in a modern, secular and increasingly diverse democracy. News flash: Bill Aberhart’s been gone a long time and there’s no bringing him back, Tea Party or no Tea Party. That’s why the elected members of the Wildrose Party passed a caucus resolution on equality rights that effectively repudiated one passed by the card-holding party membership at their Red Deer AGM. There was a definite rift between the elected Wildrose members as to their expectations of what will pass in society today and that of the grassroots members who expect to create party policy in their image, and bring it to power. But, like everyone, I was shocked when she and eight other Wildrose MLAs crossed the floor to become Progressive Conservatives. Even more so when I read that negotiations to do so had been going on for a month. To her credit, I suppose, Smith was bringing herself to leave a bad relationship. But for the leader of the
Opposition to become a Tory? With expectations of a “meaningful position” in the party? What has politics become? An episode of the TV series House of Cards? And then everyone in Canada got to look at the photo of what has got to be the most awkward political embrace of all time. Premier Jim Prentice and Danielle Smith — with their hands on each other! And smiling! I’m not on Facebook, but I figure that almost everyone who is probably has at least one cringe-worthy photo of themselves in its unerasable archives. Look at that photo of Smith and Prentice. Ask yourself: what’s she doing with that guy? We can easily surmise the fates of the MLAs who crossed the floor with her. From their first meetings in their new caucus, they are going to learn as backbenchers what “transparent” means in a transparent Tory government. It means being invisible. As in: “See right through me, walk right by me and never know I’m there.” The fate of Smith is less certain. There will be an election, and all the MLAs who crossed the floor will be judged by the voters. As a partisan writer, I have come to believe the bar for electability of a Tory candidate in an election (federal or provincial) in Alberta is pretty low.
In a whole lot of ridings for a whole lot of years, all you ever needed was that signed nomination paper. Wildrose changed that. More than any other party, Wildrose showed Albertans that they could vote other than Tory and the heavens would not fall. I do regret the recent historic events. I do not see any infusion of new strength, new ideas or vitality for our province in them. Perhaps Smith will be given the social services portfolio. Then she could become the face of government, explaining why we need more cutbacks. Or, given the Wildrose interest in surface rights of landowners, she could be given that portfolio. Then she could explain (as Advocate columnist Bob Scammell so ably describes) how surface rights should apply to leaseholders on crown land who would be paid handsomely when land they do not own is torn up for oil exploration, but not for Farmer Brown, who doesn’t want a fracking well on property his family has held for generations. Historic change, this. But long term, business as usual. Albertans may never know how much they lost when Smith & Co. changed relationships. 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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A monumental travesty of trust Prostitution is thriving in Alberta. And Danielle Smith is its prim and proper egomaniacal pimp. The en masse Wildrose traipse across the floor at the legislature to join the governing Progressive Conservatives is not only infuriating, but also a monumental travesty of trust. It slaps each and every one of us in the face. It pukes on our political system. It’s gutless. It borders on treason. Over 440,000 Albertans have been lied to and betrayed. Smith slithered out from under the same rock as Alison Redfraud! It also speaks volumes of Jim Prentice that he gladly takes such a disgracefully disloyal person as Smith and her cronies into his caucus. A man of integrity would have had nothing to do with this sham. Shame, shame, shame on them all. It’s all about the power, pension and paycheques. These people will do anything to hedge their bets. It’s about ensuring a very good position at the trough; no morals, no scruples, just a bunch of rats abandoning ship. It’s not defection, it’s betrayal, with a capital B. If Wildrose voters can get over the pain of this knife in the back, they will see this is as it really is, a disgusting display of greed and treachery. And yes, this includes Kerry Towle, who defected earlier and in doing so thoroughly abused those Innisfailians who supported you with their pocket books and countless hours of volunteer work. Was Smith really devastated and betrayed by Towle a couple weeks back, or just annoyed Towle beat her across the aisle? Seeing as Smith was already negotiating with the PCs, would it be rude to suggest the latter? While she was negotiating to join the PCs, she has the audacity to chirp still another boldfaced lie to us. The disgusting display of zero ethics by a band of hypocritical opportunists is an immoral, outright lie to the electorate, somewhat surprising when one considers their holier-than-thou rhetoric spewed during the election campaign. They should resign and allow us to go to polls. Many Albertans voted Wildrose as a last resort. The real travesty here is there are no regards for the electorate. We are meaningless pawns. Do you still wonder why we get voter turnouts of about 30 per cent in this province? Democracy? Highly unlikely. More like debauchery. There should be a way to launch a class-action lawsuit for breach of trust, not to mention their outright theft of the democratic process from the populace. And there should also be legislation enacted to prevent this betrayal by our own little Tea Party from ever happening again. There needs to be a mechanism that bounds the person to the party and the constituents who elected that person. No floor crossing. No get out of jail free cards. And the resulting byelections should be conducted at the expense of those who intended to cross the floor. Was it not taxpayers’ dollars that funded election costs in the first place? Why did we even bother with an election if, when the governing PCs have all the toys, the opposition just trots on over to their side of the sandbox? Give up and resign if you must — but defect? Pathetic. If we were in a Third World country, people would be taking up arms. Let’s get off our asses and demand democracy be respected. They have made a mockery of the right to vote. Expel each and every one of them.
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Community answers need in a big way Twas the night before Christmas when all should be happy Problems arose between mama and pappy Things went pear shaped and turned helter skelter But we escaped safe, went and stayed in a shelter When mama was worried about where we would live Us kids wondered if Santa would give to those in a shelter on Christmas Eve There wasn’t a chimney or our own tree where he could leave the presents or stocking in this strange place and as sad as we may be we won’t let Mama see it on our face because we know she is doing the best that she can to make a new life for us and start again. ... On Christmas morning Santa had found us The Patchwork Angels gave him our address The people of Red Deer knew we were in here and made sure Santa found us to spread his good cheer! I’m Angie Garcia, The Executive Director for The Patchwork Angels. We started the Wrap a Child in Love Christmas campaign in 2011with total success each year, but this year I felt compelled to give a HUGE shout out of gratitude to the community of Red Deer for their amazing donations and helping raise awareness of homelessness in Red Deer.
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Reaching out to Red Deer’s homeless I must say I was inspired to write this letter by an article in Dec. 16 Advocate. On Page C1, there was an article about a man who truly cares about the homeless. He is a 25-year-old business owner who cruises the streets of Red Deer to hand out soap, water, snacks, gloves, and other such needed items to the city’s homeless from the trunk of his car. He also buys them hot chocolate and cheeseburgers at McDonald’s downtown from his own pocket and organizes barbecues for them. Fortunately, others are helping out as well and if anyone wants to find out more about this and help out, Tom Raba can be contacted by visiting Line of Hope Red Deer Style on Facebook. I also agree completely with the lady who wrote recently, wondering if the not-so-very-old Valley Park Manor building could be used by the homeless. It has been empty with over 100 separate rooms, each with a bathroom, since 2010. What is Alberta Health Services planning to do with this facility? Could it be donated to the city or to Safe Harbour? I realize Valley Park Manor is located close to an elementary school. But then we must remember that the homeless are not monsters. They are simply people who are down on their luck and who need some help. If they had a place to stay and good people to talk to, they would have a much better chance of getting a job and getting back on their feet. What do you think Red Deer? Should Valley Park Manor be left empty another year, or should it be put to good use? Ellen Ingolfsson Red Deer
What is the reality of ignoring faith? Greg Neiman’s column about gay-straight alliance clubs in the Dec. 9 issue of the Advocate, entitled Reality trumps dogma, is troubling in a number of respects. He takes issue with Bill 10 because “it would have allowed individual school boards to deny the formation of these student clubs on religious grounds.” Then he notes that the current education minister, Gordon Dirks, is ... “an evangelical pastor whose theology says homosexuality is a sin.” He suggests that the minister should be able to “look past his personal religious convictions, to his wider responsibilities to a diverse society governed by the Canadian Constitution and the Bill of Rights. When you think about that, you would need to realize that school boards, even school boards that are religiously-based, should be able to do the same.” Neiman also takes issue with Premier Jim Prentice’s assertion that “rights are never absolute,” and wonders whether he was “thinking about the rights of religious-based school boards that accept a great deal of tax money from a diverse, secular society.” But taxes are used in other cases to support activities not acceptable to all Canadians. What about money contributed for health care by millions of “faith-based” Canadians who oppose abortion on demand? Maybe that should be scrutinized, too. The dominant theme in Neiman’s thinking seems to be that religion must be cast aside when the gov-
ernment prepares legislation dealing with controversial issues. But now Neiman himself is ignoring reality. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) which supersedes the Bill of Rights (1960) to which Neiman refers, guarantees freedom of conscience and religion, as well as freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression. It also confirms every Canadian’s right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination, according to various criteria which include religion. Therefore, when drafting legislation, governments are legally required to take Canadians’ religious beliefs into account. But what is religion? Most people think of it as the cultic practices of a denomination or organized group, such as a church. But atheism, agnosticism, and secular humanism are just as religious, as are any core commitments that people are not willing to compromise. For example, many believe that no one should try to impose his or her values on someone else. Yet, if I am religiously committed to the idea that I can determine my own values without being concerned about their impact on others, there will be a contest between two gods: society and me. My point is that we are all religious in a general sense, and that the real question is not whether we believe, but rather what or whom we believe. And it’s not a question of whether religious beliefs will be applied or not, but which ones. This applies to government ministers, too. Dirks’s alleged, but unlikely, belief that homosexuality is a sin, and any possible impact of that on the progress of Bill 10 and what it says about gay-straight alliance clubs is no more religiously intolerant than the act of promoting them. Prentice is right when he says that balancing competing rights in legislation “should not be done in haste.” There should be no rush to judgment. Also, doesn’t Neiman’s attack on religion as an obstacle to these clubs constitute a form of bullying? Let’s see: society is a god. Neiman is a spokesman for this god, and all Canadians had better fall in line with his line of thinking, or they will be criticized and perhaps even deprived of funding for their children’s education, especially if they are members of a specific religious group. In the name of tolerance, those who profoundly disagree with social liberalism are discredited. As one who has attended meetings of a gaystraight alliance club in Red Deer, I can tell you that although I appreciated the accepting atmosphere, I felt it promoted the homosexual lifestyle among youngsters whose sexual identities had not yet crystallized. If a person disagrees with that for groupreligious or personal-religious reasons, (s)he ought not to be criticized for doing so, because that would constitute intolerance as well. It is interesting that simple disapproval of the homosexual lifestyle often triggers accusations of “homophobia.” Phobia means fear, but simple disapproval does not constitute fear, nor is it a hate crime as some are quick to allege. It is simply a function of deeply-held beliefs which are no less valid than anyone else’s. If we would just all do for others what we want done for ourselves, we wouldn’t need to have gaystraight alliance clubs. In a civilized society, we are all each other’s protectors as well as advocates for human dignity and mutual respect. There is no excuse for scapegoating, persecuting, ridiculing or marginalizing — neither of homosexuals, nor of critics of the gay lifestyle, so let’s all defend our neighbours and make the dogma that “love conquers all” our new reality. Jacob M. Van Vliet Red Deer County
There is still a place for God Several days ago an acquaintance sent me an email with the following heading: Yesterday mornings CBC surprise poll results. The CBC polled viewers and listeners and asked Canadians: “Do you believe that the word ‘God’ should stay in the iconic national anthem ... as part of Canadian culture?” CBC received the highest number of responses that they have ever had for one of their polls. The percentage to keep ‘God’ in the national anthem was 86 per cent and 14 cent voted against. The poll numbers show a healthy percentage of Canadians still believe in God, and logically every reasoned Canadian should want, and ask God’s blessing, to keep our land glorious and free. Evidently there are some who question if there is a God. The question of the reality of God was asked 300 years ago by King Louis of France. The king asked Blaise Pascal, the great Christian philosopher, to give proof of God. Pascal answered “Why the Jews your majesty, the Jews.” Pascal was a learned man, had deep Bible knowledge and knew about the God of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The philosopher was well versed with the Bible, and knew of the fulfilled prophecies foretold by the prophets Isaiah and Micah, that a lovely Jewish teenager, a Virgin, would be favoured and give birth in Bethlehem to the long-awaited Christ child, and that His name would be Yeshua (Jesus) Saviour, Emmanuel (God with us). These prophecies were given Circa 750 BC by Isaiah the Jewish prophet. Some 250 years later in 500 BC, the prophet Micah foretold the saviour would be born in Bethlehem, and here we are a good 2,000 years later we celebrate the birth of Jesus. As many of you know the Bible is filled with prophecies, and we witness prophecy fulfilment right before our eyes. To give proof of God, do as philosopher Pascal suggested to King Louis XIV. Watch the Jewish people, focus on Israel. With United Nations approval, Israel became a democratic state on May 14, 1948. The land bequeathed to the Jews was a waste land and mostly swamp land, but today the land blossoms like a rose. The Israeli economy is second to none, and 160,000 Arabs choose to become Israeli citizens. Most amazing and as the Bible foretold, God would bring the Jews back to the land He gave them, from the four corners of the world. This is happening right now! It’s all in God’s amazing book the Bible, and every prophecy about the land of Israel and its people is sure to come true. For those of you who question the Bible, let me tell you it is not some antique book. It is current and up to date. The Bible is really a small library, containing 66 books. It informs about the distant past, the present and the future. Make a 2015 New Year resolution: become Bible knowledgeable, get on the right side of God. Focus on Jesus the Saviour, attend church this Christmas and worship the coming King. We are living in chaotic times, but this Jewish Messiah wants to be your Messiah and all who in faith embrace Him, He’ll give assurance and peace that passes all understanding. Wishing you a blessed Christmas and great new year. Peter C. Hansum Red Deer
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Canadian man shot by border guards after pointing gun at them: officials DETROIT — The U.S. border agency says a Canadian man was shot after allegedly pointing a handgun at guards at the Ambassador Bridge crossing between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says in a statement the man stopped his car before the U.S. inspection booth around 3 a.m. Sunday and starting walking towards border officers while waving a gun. It says the officers ordered him to drop the weapon but that he then pointed it in the officers’ direction, prompting them to open fire. The agency says the man, who it hasn’t been identified, was treated and released from hospital before being taken into custody. It says the man has had “previous encounters” with Canadian law enforcement. The statement says border and Department of Homeland Security officials are investigating along with Detroit police. Spokesman Kris Grogan says no additional information will be released at this time.
Jurors in Magnotta trial will spend a seventh day trying to reach verdicts MONTREAL — The jury will deliberate for a seventh day on Monday at Luka Rocco Magnotta’s murder trial. Day 6 on Sunday came and went without the 12 jurors reaching verdicts in the five charges against the accused. Magnotta is charged with first-degree murder and four other offences in the slaying and dismemberment of Chinese engineering student Jun Lin in May 2012. The eight women and four men deciding his fate began deliberations on Tuesday and have since contacted the court only twice - once to ask a legal question and once to get technical help. Magnotta has pleaded not guilty by way of mental disorder and is trying to be found not criminally responsible. His lawyer says he is schizophrenic and couldn’t tell right from wrong at the time of the slaying, but prosecutors say Lin’s death was planned and deliberate. In addition to the murder charge, Magnotta TELUS is also accused of crimiOPTIK TV nally harassing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament; mailing obscene and indecent material; committing an indignity to a body; and publishing obscene materials.
Police say 3-year-old boy struck in face, abandoned at Surrey bus stop THE CANADIAN PRESS SURREY, B.C. — A three-yearold boy who police allege was slapped and abandoned by his father at a bus stop was “very distraught,” says the woman who took care of him for hours in a nearby liquor store in Surrey, B.C. One of Lucy Ingram’s customers told her on Saturday morning that a man had struck a boy in the face and boarded a bus without him. When she found the child, his feet were soaking wet and he was wearing swim trunks, a T-shirt, a summer jacket, a toque and one mitten. “He came right to me, arms up, and I just picked him up and brought him across the street and into the store,” said Ingram, who works at Berezan Liquor Store. “We were trying to get him to say anything, but he didn’t say anything, not even a word for over an hour and a half.” RCMP are recommending the Crown lay assault and child abandonment charges against the boy’s father. The suspect has since been released with conditions and the boy has been safely reunited with his mother.
in his early 40s. Police are also recommending a theft charge because they allege he was caught on security video stealing three cans of juice from a nearby convenience store shortly before the alleged incident at the bus stop. Johal thanked witnesses who called police and circulated the boy’s photo on social media, saying they helped officers swiftly identify the suspect and get him into custody on Saturday. “A lot of people called and (there were) a lot of tips, and even the arrest that took place was due to a tip from a citizen who observed and called us,” he said. Police felt it was safe to return the boy to the mother’s care but the ministry will keep its file open, said Johal. The investigation continues and police are still looking to speak with additional witnesses. No names have been released. Ingram remains shaken by the incident. She said she feels “sick to her stomach” thinking about the boy being left alone at the stop. “I just couldn’t imagine,” she said. “The thought of that being my grandson or my granddaughter or one of my daughters when they were small, it just horrified me.”
Ingram said she and a coworker cared for the boy for four hours on Saturday, trying to cheer him up with iPhone games and toys, until workers with the Ministry of Children and Family Development arrived. She was touched by an outpouring of support after a customer posted the toddler’s photo on her community Facebook page. “The amount of people that came in just from the Facebook page to bring him teddy bears, little dinosaur toys... That perked him right up when he saw the dinosaur toys. From there on in his name was ‘dinosaur.’ That was all he would say,” she said. Another customer drove home and came back with sweatpants and a hoodie for him to wear, she added. Ingram said police came within the hour but the boy remained in the store until about 2:30 p.m. when ministry workers arrived. By that point she and her coworker had grown so attached to the little boy they had trouble saying goodbye, she said. She recalled that once the boy finally began talking, he asked for his mother. Staff Sgt. Joe Johal said the suspect is a Surrey resident who is
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Oilers can’t hold off Stars GIVE UP THREE-GOAL LEAD, LOSE IN SHOOTOUT TO DROP SEVENTH STRAIGHT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Stars 6 Oilers 5 (SO) EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers looked poise to snap a six-game losing skid Sunday night. But the Dallas Stars wouldn’t let that happen. Up 5-2 over Dallas in the last minute of the second period, the Oilers were forced to settle for a single point when the Stars rallied for three unanswered goals to tie the game before Shawn Horcoff scored the winner in the eighth round of the shootout for a 6-5 Dallas victory. “We were sitting back on our heels a bit for the second half of the game and that can’t happen,” said Edmonton’s interim head coach Todd Nelson, who was overseeing his third game since replacing the fired Dallas Eakins. “When you are up you have to keep forechecking hard and pressing for the puck. Those things weren’t happening. We were loose on the puck. We need to be consistent for 60 minutes.” Horcoff, a former Oiler, also added a goal in regulation time as the Stars (14-13-5) erased the three-goal deficit to win their fourth straight game. Tyler Seguin had two third-period goals and added an assist, and captain Jamie Benn scored on the power play at 19:39 of the second period to start the Dallas rally. Erik Cole had the other Stars goal. “It was a gutsy effort,” said Benn. “We laid an egg in the second period and we found a way to grind it out for 20 minutes and found a way to win the shootout. We have a lot of character guys in here and we really wanted to finish this road trip off with two points.” Added Seguin: “We all tested ourselves in the third and I think (head
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Dallas Stars’ Ales Hemsky is stopped by Edmonton Oilers goalie Ben Scrivens during first period NHL action in Edmonton, on Sunday. The Oilers lost to the Stars 6-5 in a shootout. coach) Lindy (Ruff) challenged us. We’ve had a few games in the past where we’ve been down a goal or two in the third and we haven’t had much of a push, but I thought we dominated the game in the third period.” Taylor Hall and Mark Arcobello each had two goals and Teddy Purcell had the other for the Oilers (7-20-7), who extended their losing streak to seven. They have just one win over their last 19 games. “You just can’t let teams come back like that,” said Hall, who halted a career-high 11-game scoring drought. “You can’t let them get the momentum. That power-play goal we gave up at the
end of the second, that was a worldclass goal. I don’t know what we could change on that. But in the third period they really forechecked us hard and as a team we were unable to break out and get it into their end. “It was tough sledding in that third and they had the momentum the whole time. It is tough to play like that.” Horcoff said it’s always fun to come up big against your old club. “Yeah it did (feel good), I’d be lying if I said it didn’t,” he said. “We needed that win and just coming back in the third the way we did.” Edmonton got on the board first with a power-play goal three minutes
in. Stars starter Kari Lehtonen made the stop on a Jordan Eberle shot, but Hall came racing in to shoot in the rebound from a tough angle. Dallas pulled even three-and-a-half minutes later as the rebound from a Jyrki Jokipakka shot through traffic was corralled by Horcoff in front, and he batted the puck through the legs of Edmonton goalie Ben Scrivens. The Stars went up 2-1 midway through the opening period as an Ales Hemsky shot deflected off an Oiler defender right onto the stick of Cole, who got the puck by a diving Scrivens.
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Tanev’s OT winner gives Canucks win over Flames CALGARY SUFFERS EIGHTH STRAIGHT LOSS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Team Canada’s Connor McDavid (17) is checked by Team Sweden’s Oliver Kylington (4) and Gustav Forsling (8) as Sweden’s goaltender Samuel Ward looks for the puck off his arm during third period exhibition hockey action in Ottawa Sunday.
Canada downs Sweden in World Junior tune-up BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 5 Sweden 2 OTTAWA — Curtis Lazar doesn’t need to score goals to make an impact. Lazar didn’t pick up a single point in Canada’s 5-2 win over Sweden Sunday night in World Junior exhibition play, but there was no denying his impact. The 19-year-old Lazar - the oldest player on the roster by a matter of days - is on loan from the Ottawa Senators for the tournament. Having NHL experience means big things are expected from him both on and off the ice. “After three months in the NHL I think he’s seen a lot and he’s seen many older guys in the NHL doing certain things,” said Canada’s coach Benoit Groulx. “You can tell maturity speaks in his case.” Lazar joined the team late Friday, but Groulx says he has already made an impact. “He’s loud on the bench,” said Groulx. “He likes to communicate with his teammates, likes to cheer for them, likes to tell them about positioning and stuff like that. It comes naturally for him obviously and a good hockey club needs that.” Canada looked good Sunday night, getting goals from five different skaters. Max Domi, Josh Morrissey, Anthony Duclair, Shea Theodore and Sam Reinhart scored for Canada while Eric Comrie made 17 saves. Gustav Forsling and William Nylander
had goals for Sweden, which got a 28-save performance from Samuel Ward. This was Canada’s first game since finalizing its roster for the IIHF World Junior Championship on Saturday. The tournament gets underway Dec. 26 with Canada taking on Slovakia in Montreal. The game also marked Connor McDavid’s first taste of action since he suffered a broken bone in his right hand on Nov. 11. It was Lazar’s first game since being loaned to the team. The duo played together with Nick Ritchie and while they didn’t score, they did create a number of solid scoring chances. Much was made of McDavid’s return to action. While the 17-year-old showed some signs of rust, Groulx noted that he improved as the game went on. “He showed some good things out there, showed speed and he went by a couple of defencemen to take pucks to the net,” said Groulx. “I think he had a great second half of the game and it’s good to see him back playing his style after such a long time being sidelined.” McDavid said he felt pretty good and felt he and his linemates were able to create some good chances. “It was nice,” said McDavid. “You never really want to be off and watching. It’s never a lot of fun. To be back in game action was a lot of fun.”
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Canucks 3 Flames 2 (OT) VANCOUVER — Chris Tanev celebrated his birthday in style Saturday night with a game-winning goal that snapped the Canucks out their slump. Tanev scored just 18 seconds into overtime on a pass from Henrik Sedin, as Vancouver defeated the Calgary Flames 3-2 at Rogers Arena. “Yeah it’s awesome. A good birthday gift,” said the 25-year-old Tanev, who rushed down the ice on a 3-on-2 with Henrik and Daniel Sedin before beating Flames goalie Jonas Hiller with a quick shot. Radim Vrbata and Yannick Weber scored in regulation for the Canucks (18-11-2), who snapped a five-game winless skid. Goalie Ryan Miller made 26 saves in his first win since Dec. 2 at Washington. Tanev’s goal wasn’t the only gift on the night. The Canucks took the first lead of the game at 4:40 with Hiller out of the net for an extra attacker on a delayed penalty call. Flames defenceman Dennis Wideman shot a pass from near the Canucks’ net that skipped off Mason Raymond’s stick at the blue-line and all the way into the empty Calgary net. Weber was credited with the goal for his second of the season. “That was a great bounce for us,” said Canucks coach Willie Desjardins. “You don’t get those very often. It was a good break for us and fortunately we took advantage of it.” Johnny Gaudreau and David Jones found the back of the net for Calgary (17-15-2), which is now winless in eight games. Flames coach Bob Hartley saw the own goal as symbolic of his team’s recent struggles. “For my part that’s the first time I have been involved in a goal like this and that sums up the way it has been going for us,” said Hartley. “But credit to our guys, we never quit and it’s too bad we couldn’t get that last goal.” The Canucks win was marred by a scary moment early in the second when Vancouver forward Jannik Hansen took a big hit from Wideman and immediately skated back to the bench before appearing to collapse forward. Medical staff rushed over and helped Han-
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sen back to the locker-room. Hansen did not return to the game as a “precautionary measure,” the team announced. Desjardins said after the game that Hansen was checked out at hospital and would be fine. “Everything looks good,” said Desjardins. “It’s concerning. He seemed like he couldn’t get his breath there. When that happens it’s not usual, so you’re concerned. But everything’s checked out at the hospital and everything is fine.” Vancouver made it 2-0 while on the power play midway through the first. With Alex Burrows hovering over Hiller and batting at the loose puck, Vrbata found the rebound and knocked it in at 9:24 for his 13th this season. It was the Canucks’ first power-play goal in their last 19 chances. “You are going to go through these stretches,” said MIller. “I thought we kept working, got some good bounces tonight and that’s what happens with hockey.” Miller looked sharp in the first when he stoned star Flames defenceman Mark Giordano, who took a point-blank slap shot from the face-off circle. Giordano leads NHL defencemen with 31 points, including nine goals. Calgary got on the board at 7:31 of the second period when Miller gave up a big rebound, as the puck popped out of his glove right to Jones, who fired it back in to make it 2-1. The Flames outshot the Canucks 15-10 in the second. Calgary tied it 2-2 at 12:55 in the third period when Jiri Hudler circled around the boards before finding Gaudreau in the slot and the rookie wristed it past Miller for his seventh of the year. It was a goal Miller would probably like to have back, but he made amends minutes later when he closed the door on a Sean Monahan breakaway attempt. Calgary had a power play in the final four minutes of regulation on a Kevin Bieksa high-sticking call, but couldn’t capitalize. “They’re playing smart hockey,” Miller said of the Flames. “They’re on the puck, they’re aggressive and it’s hard to work around that. It’s tough, they’re catching up. The young guys are getting smart and they’re going to be a tough team to contend with.” Hiller, who hasn’t won a start since Nov. 18, stopped 29 shots.
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The calm before the storm
FEMALE MAJOR MIDGET CHIEFS GET WELL DESERVED BREAK BEFORE JUMPING INTO HEAVY SCHEDULE THAT INCLUDES HOSTING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF
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Goaltender Sarah Murray of the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs makes a save against MacKenzie Reynolds of the St. Albert Slash during Alberta Major Midget Female hockey action Saturday at the Collicutt Centre. scored while Courtney Toney made 18 saves in the loss. For the Chiefs, this all leads to a well earned break. For the first time in a number of years they will not be at the Macs AAA Midget Hockey Tournament in Calgary. Instead, they have an intensive schedule in the new year with tournaments and what they hope is a long road to the Esso Cup. The time off will be much needed. “I promised the girls I would give them a good Christmas break because last year I felt we didn’t do well at the
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — The Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League saw itself as the oil-rich rival to the NHL, offering a tempting, if less prestigious, alternative to playing in North America. As the league planned to expand as far as Britain, the money on offer even attracted Russian stars like Ilya Kovalchuk and Alexander Radulov, who walked out on lucrative NHL deals to return home. Then came the crash of the ruble this week. The financial crisis has threatened the plans of players like former Vancouver Canucks goaltender Curtis Sanford, who came to Russia to save for his retirement. “It’s just really happened all of a sudden,” the 35-year-old Sanford told The Associated Press. “These are some things that you don’t expect when you sign a contract. Right now, you just have to ride the rolls of how it’s going and hopefully it stabilizes and gets better.” The ruble had been sliding against the dollar for most of the year against the backdrop of low oil prices and economic sanctions against Russia, but went into freefall Monday and Tuesday. Following a slight recovery, it has still lost almost half of its value against the dollar this year. With KHL rules stipulating ruble-only contracts, that is bad news for the many U.S., Canadian and European imports on the rosters of the league’s 22 Russian teams. Russia’s economic woes are starting to spread into neighbouring nations like Belarus and Kazakhstan, potentially shrinking the incomes for players on KHL teams there. Some players have already started to rebel. Revealing that he had not been paid for three months at Russian club Yugra Khanty-Mansiisk, except small amounts to buy food, forward Ilari Melart told the Ilta Sanomat newspaper in his native Finland that he was not “in Siberia for charity.” Another Finn, goaltender Mikko Koskinen, was accused by Russian media earlier this month of having refused to play for Sibir Novosibirsk because his ruble salary had dropped. Koskinen, who denies the claims, was traded to SKA St. Petersburg two days later. For the first time since the league was founded in 2008, KHL management has been forced to deny the league could collapse. “The league’s financial situation is stable and we’re looking calmly at the current economic situation. The season will be finished as planned,” league president Dmitry Chernyshenko told local media after meeting with club heads Thursday. He also dismissed rumours the league could enforce across-theboard pay cuts for players. Chernyshenko, who led the organizing committee of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, did suggest that some clubs could be removed from the league if they lacked the money to function properly. “There are completely clear criteria for taking part in the league, including financial guarantees,” he said. “We’ll demand . that the financial guarantees are provided and not just that some pieces of paper are handed in.” Smaller KHL teams like Yugra, which depend on the generosity of benefactors in Russian regional government and state-run companies, have long struggled financially. Delays in paying players have been common in recent years, but have reportedly increased this season as government budgets come under strain and Russian state oil and gas companies struggle with low prices for their products. Without large-scale subsidies, many clubs could become financially unstable. Compared to players’ wages, income from ticket sales and TV rights is typically far from enough to keep a club viable. Despite posting league-record crowds last season and reaching the KHL’s Gagarin Cup finals, Czech team Lev Prague withdrew from the league for financial reasons in July.
Raptors win sixth in a row, beat Knicks before lengthy road trip BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 118 Knicks 108 TORONTO — They’re riding a leaguebest six-game winning streak, a franchise-best record for this point in the season, and sit atop the Eastern Conference standings. The Toronto Raptors couldn’t have done much more to cushion themselves for their first major test of the season - a gruelling trip west. The Raptors won their sixth game in a row Sunday afternoon, beating the struggling New York Knicks 118-108 behind Kyle Lowry’s 22 points and nine assists. Then they rolled their suitcases out of the comfortable confines of the Air Canada Centre to board a flight to Chicago. Awaiting them: the Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers, Denver Nuggets, PortPhoto by THE CANADIAN PRESS land Trail Blazers, Golden State War- Toronto Raptors forward Amir Johnson fouls New York Knicks riors and Phoenix Suns. “I’m ready for it,” coach Dwane forward Quincy Acy while battling for a rebound during first half Casey said of the looming road games. NBA action in Toronto Sunday. “I’ve been preaching it, and we should early schedule. They’ve played more home games be ready for it. Everyone is all excited. But again, reality is real, and we have to be ready for than any other team, and have capitalized on it, goadversity whenever it hits. You go in with positive ing 14-3 at the ACC this season. And their six-game vibes and are ready to kick some behind, but when winning streak came entirely against teams from the adversity hits that’s when you find out how close we weaker Eastern Conference. “It’s going to be a challenge,” Vasquez said on the are and how we have to stick together.” The Raptors (22-6), who reached 20 wins before trip west. “We’re looking forward to this challenge. Christmas for the first time in team history, have Any time you go to the west, it’s not easy but I think thrived on their togetherness. Toronto is also 16 we’re good enough to come out with a couple of wins games above .500 for the first time in club history. and do our job. We’ve got to remain humble and hunSunday’s game followed a similar balanced sto- gry and continue to work. “It’s important that we play good teams because ryline. Lou Williams and Greivis Vasquez came off the it’s really going to test our character,” he added. “We haven’t really faced adversity and everything right bench to contribute 22 and 21 points, respectively. Terrence Ross finished with 18 points, including now is great, but I think we’re ready for a couple of a jaw-dropping dunk that saw him corral a long pass premium tests. “We can’t be satisfied because we’ve got a 22-6 refrom Lowry and take flight near the free-throw line. James Johnson and Jonas Valanciunas finished with cord. We want more.” The Raptors’ long trip 10 points apiece. Lowry, who has built his game on hustle and hard coincides with the world work, was at his bulldog-best. On one memorable junior hockey championplay, the point guard bolted to save a loose ball, and ships in Toronto. They don’t return home was running so hard he ran halfway up one of the exit tunnels. He needed to grab on to a railing to until Jan. 8, when they host the Charlotte Horslow himself down. But the Raptors were blessed with a favourable nets.
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Macs, and part of it was we were pretty tired,” said Chiefs head coach Tom Bast. “I really feel these girls need a break because I’m pretty intense, I’m a pusher.” The Chiefs have played mostly strong hockey this year. Their goaltending duo of Murray and Bailey Knapp have provided them a backbone to build from, while putting up some of the best numbers in the league. Murray (12-4-0) is second among all goalies with a 1.18 goals against average and a .950 save percentage while Knapp (4-5-0) sits seventh with a 1.98
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Chiefs 3 Raiders 2 (SO) The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs already know where their season will end up, right now they are concentrating on getting there in the best possible shape. As Esso Cup hosts, the Chiefs (16-50-4) already have a bye to the female midget AAA national championship, but they have no intentions of resting on their laurels. Their goal is to win the Alberta Major Midget Female Hockey League and then knock off the B.C. provincial champ and earn their way in. They got off to a red-hot start this season but have stumbled in recent weeks. However, with a 3-2 shootout win over the Rocky Mountain Raiders (8-8-5-3) on Sunday at the Collicutt Centre, they head into their Christmas break in second place, two points behind the Calgary Fire (17-2-2-2) for first. It was a good bounce-back game after falling 2-1 to the St. Albert Slash (14-7-3-2) on Saturday at the Collicutt Centre. “Last night’s loss was kind of rough for us, so getting the win was definitely nice before Christmas,” said Chiefs goalie Sarah Murray, 17. “We started the season really strong and the other teams are starting to catch up to us, so we just got to push through and work on our conditioning and keep going.” Murray made 15 saves on Sunday while Tyra Coutts and Gina Sosnowski scored in regulation. Cassidy Hollman and Mairead Bast scored in the shootout to clinch the win. Hailey McCallum tied the game for the Raiders at 18:09 of the third period with a power-play goal to send the contest to the shootout. Kate Minor also
G.A.A. and a .920 save percentage. For Murray, there’s a little extra motivation to prove her critics wrong. Murray was a casualty of Calgary amalgamating the Flyers and Bruins clubs. However, the Chiefs offered the fivefoot-four goalie an opportunity to play and she has taken full advantage. “This year they cut down to one team and I got cut from there and ended up here, luckily,” said Murray, who was 4-8-1 with a .920 save percentage and a 2.90 G.A.A. on the last place Flyers. If the Chiefs do have a weakness at this point it is on offence. Breanna Martin leads the team with 16 points (10 goals, six assists) while defenceman Abagael Thiessen is second with 15 points (11-4-15), placing them 19th and 22nd in the league overall. With Sunday’s win, both Bast (in 13 games) and Hollman hit 10 points, beyond that they rely on more of a scoring by committee mentality. “A coach’s dream is to have consistent scoring from everybody,” said Bast. “I would like to have more scoring from other people, but I think I’m going to get that through time, confidence and hard work.” They do have time to build that offence. The key is to stay focused on the end goal, the Esso Cup from April 19-25. “In the second half of the season we have to prepare for the league playoffs,” said Bast. “We’ve got to continue to grow as a team and continue to learn processes and systems.” NOTES — Hollman scored Red Deer’s lone goal in their 2-1 loss to the St. Albert Slash on Saturday, as Murray made 28 saves in net for the Chiefs ... The Chiefs next league game is Jan. 4 in Edmonton against the Thunder. Their next home game is Jan. 10 against the Raiders. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Seahawks 35 Cardinals 6 GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Seattle Seahawks sure look like Super Bowl material again after dominating Arizona with a stifling defence and dynamic offence. Russell Wilson threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, Seattle set a franchise record with 596 yards of offence and the streaking Seahawks closed in on another NFC West title with a 35-6 romp over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday night. Seattle (11-4) moved into a tie with Arizona (11-4) for first in the NFC West and the Seahawks hold the tiebreaker by virtue of two wins over the Cardinals. Wilson had the longest run of his career (55 yards) and matched the longest pass of his career (80) in the Seahawks’ fifth straight victory. Marshawn Lynch sat out the first quarter with what the team called an “upset stomach,” then came in to score on a 6-yard run in the second quarter and a spectacular, multiple tacklebreaking 79-yard scoring run in Seattle’s 21-point fourth quarter. After his long run, Lynch spun around in the air and grabbed his crotch facing the field before falling to the turf. A Seattle win at home over St. Louis in next weekend’s regular-season finale would clinch the No. 1 seed in the NFC for the defending Super Bowl champs. Arizona’s only hope of winning the division is that the Seahawks lose to the Rams and the Cardinals win at San Francisco. Otherwise, Arizona will be relegated to a wild-card spot and a first-round game on the road. The Cardinals had their most onesided loss of the season and their only one at home in eight games. Third-string quarterback Ryan Lindley, pressed into action with an injury to Drew Stanton in the previous game, was 18 for 216 yards and an interception against a Seattle defence that ranks No. 1 in the NFL and has allowed 33 points in its last five games. Arizona hoped to stay close and keep it low-scoring with its usually tough defence. But Seattle ripped it apart through the air and on the ground. Wilson completed 20 of 31 for 339 yards, including touchdown passes of 80 and 20 yards to tight end Luke Will-
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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson tries to avoid a tackle by Arizona Cardinals free safety Rashad Johnson during the first half of an NFL game, Sunday, in Glendale, Ariz. son of LaSalle, Ont. Lynch gained 113 yards in 10 carries, and Wilson ran for 88 yards in six attempts. The blowout would have been worse had Steven Hauschka not missed three field goals. Arizona’s only scores were field goals of 27 and 32 yards by Chandler Catanzaro. The Cardinals’ only scores the last two games are six field goals by the rookie kicker. Just as he did in Seattle’s victory 193 over Arizona a month ago, Wilson did a great deal of the Seahawks’ damage with his feet. His 55-yard run on the final play of the first quarter moved the Seahawks past midfield, but Seattle stalled and Hausschka’s 52-yard field goal was wide right. Arizona took over at its 42 and, with
the help of two Seattle penalties and Arizona moved in to get Catanzaro’s first field goal and lead 3-0. On the second play after Arizona’s kickoff, Willson got behind the Cardinals’ defence, Wilson lofted the ball in perfectly and the 80-yard touchdown play put Seattle up 7-3 with 7:03 to play in the half. Another Wilson scramble, of 22 yards, helped set up Lynch’s 6-yard touchdown run that made it 14-3 3:41 before the half. It stayed 14-3 until the fourth quarter, when the bottom fell out for the Cardinals in what had been termed the biggest regular-season game in franchise history. Then the three late TDs made it a blowout.
Four more teams earn playoff berths while Patriots get bye BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers both qualified for the NFL playoffs with wins Sunday. Next week, they will play for division titles at home. Defending Super Bowl champion Seattle also qualified, routing Arizona 35-6, and moved into a tie for the top spot in the NFC West. The Seahawks (11-4) own the tiebreaker over the Cardinals should they both finish with the same record. Dallas clinched the NFC East with a 42-7 romp past Indianapolis, ending any chance for Philadelphia to make the post-season. The Steelers (10-5) beat Kansas City 20-12 to secure at least a wild-card berth. They will win the AFC North by defeating Cincinnati next Sunday night. The Bengals (9-4-1) host Denver (11-3) on Monday night. “It was such a sense of urgency this week, knowing what was at stake. I just thought we answered the challenge,” said Pittsburgh defensive end Cam Heyward. Green Bay topped Tampa Bay 20-3 and heads to Lambeau Field for next
Sunday’s showdown with Detroit for the NFC North crown. Both are 11-4 after the Lions won 20-14 at Chicago. “We’ve won six out of seven games, so I’d like to classify that as playing a lot of solid football, that’s for sure,” said Packers coach Mike McCarthy. Seattle’s lopsided victory gave it a good shot at the top seed in the NFC and was its fifth in a row, ninth in 10 games. It swept Arizona over the last four weeks. The Seahawks host St. Louis, while the Cardinals visit San Francisco. With their wins in Week 16, the Falcons (6-9) and Panthers (6-8-1) set up a winner-take-all game for the NFC South next Sunday at Atlanta. Carolina beat Cleveland 17-13, and Atlanta defeated New Orleans 30-14. “Now it all comes down to one game and that’s all we can ask for is to be in that situation,” Panthers coach Ron Rivera said. New England earned an AFC firstround bye with its 17-16 victory at the New York Jets. It will get home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs
by beating Buffalo next week at home. The Patriots are the first team since the current format was adopted in 1990 to get five straight first-round byes. “I’m glad it came out the way it did — makes for a better Christmas,” Tom Brady said. Still alive in the AFC are Baltimore (9-6), whose loss to Houston (8-7) also kept the Texans in contention; Kansas City (8-7); and San Diego (9-6), which won Saturday night at San Francisco. The Chargers will be in if they win at Kansas City next weekend. Buffalo (8-7) lost all chance of ending its NFL-high string of non-playoff appearances, now at 15, by falling at Oakland 26-24. The NFC is less muddled, except for which team will get the top seed. Dallas (11-4), which is at Washington next Sunday, Seattle, Arizona, Green Bay and Detroit all have a shot. “In so many ways, this is such a long journey and to get to a point to achieve your first goal of winning the division title, a lot goes into that,” said Dallas coach Jason Garrett, in his fourth full season. “I think the way you play in securing that matters, and I thought we played really, really well.”
OILERS: Battled Edmonton tied the game 11 seconds into the second period as Ryan NugentHopkins battled off a Stars defender and sent the puck across to Purcell, who scored on Lehtonen. The Oilers then took the lead less than three minutes later as a Jeff Petry point shot was picked up by Arcobello on the Dallas doorstep and hooked into the net to make it 3-2. Edmonton went up by a pair with just under 11 minutes left to play in the second period as Arcobello followed up a Steven Pinizzotto shot by putting the rebound into the net for his second of the game. The goal chased Lehtonen from the Stars net after he allowed four on 19 shots. Anders Lindback came in as his replacement. The Oilers went up 5-2 with seven minutes left to play in the second period as Hall got a partial breakaway and beat Lindback through the legs for his second of the game. Dallas got one of those goals back with 21 seconds remaining in the second as Jason Spezza made a cross-ice feed to Benn, who sent a perfect laser beam of a shot to the top corner. The Stars made it a one-goal game again 52 seconds into the third period as Seguin took a shot and raced in to deposit his own rebound for his 24th goal of the year and 41st point. Dallas tied the game 5-5 with 10:47 left in the third period. Scrivens made a stop on a Benn shot but couldn’t stop Seguin on the rebound. Notes: It was the second of three games between the Oilers and Stars this season, with Dallas winning the first contest 3-2 on Nov. 25. The Stars came into the game on a five-game winning streak in Edmonton and having won 14 of their past 17 games against the Oilers. … Hall hadn’t scored since last month’s loss to the Stars. ... Oilers rookie centre Leon Draisaitl was a healthy scratch, despite not being loaned to play for Germany at the World Junior Hockey Championships. Centre Anton Lander, who was recalled from Oklahoma City of the American Hockey League on Friday, took his place.
JUNIORS: Chemistry The trio of Domi, Duclair and Reinhart continue to display chemistry and were once again dangerous around the net as they combined for six points, including three goals. “It’s a short tournament and it gets going pretty quick so the sooner you can find (chemistry) the better it is,” said Domi. “For our line personally, we’re really close off the ice and do a lot of things together and we talk about certain plays in practice and we just keep working on that stuff.” Leading 3-1 to start the third, Canada extended its lead on Theodore’s goal at the six-minute mark of the final period. Theodore picked up his own rebound and beat Ward glove side. Reinhart rounded out his line’s scoring as he picked up a power-play goal midway through the period, beating Ward short side under the arm. Nylander, a Leafs prospect, made it 5-2 as he beat Comrie on a penalty shot late in the third period. After a strong start to the game, Canada didn’t have a great second period, registering just three shots on goal. Sweden made it a 2-1 game early in the second on Forsling’s power-play goal, but Canada regained its two goallead on a goal by Duclair, who is on loan from the New York Rangers. Swedish coach Rikard Gronborg says getting the opportunity to play Canada is always a good test. “We know we have a lot to learn and we definitely have to chip away on some stuff,” said Gronborg. “Definitely in the defensive zone we need to do better in front of our own net and that’s stuff we’ll focus on over the next couple days.” Canada opened the scoring with a power-play goal two minutes into the first period as Domi banged home a rebound at the side of the net. Morrissey made it 2-0 midway through the period with a shot from the point. Canada plays its final exhibition game Tuesday against Switzerland.
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SCOREBOARD Hockey GA 116 98 112 114 124 161
Pt 52 42 38 33 33 17
GF 133 134 124 106 109 83
GA 86 101 117 102 129 133
Pt 50 41 40 37 36 21
WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 36 28 5 3 0 157 Victoria 37 17 17 2 1 121 Prince George 35 17 18 0 0 107 Vancouver 34 16 18 0 0 105 Kamloops 38 13 20 3 2 114
GA 86 131 141 110 143
Pt 59 37 34 32 31
Everett Portland Spokane Tri-City Seattle
CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL 34 24 8 1 1 34 19 12 1 2 35 18 13 3 1 35 16 14 3 2 35 18 17 0 0 33 8 20 3 2
GP 33 36 33 33 33
U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 20 9 3 1 19 14 0 3 18 12 3 0 17 15 0 1 14 15 2 2
GF GA Pt 112 94 44 122 124 41 93 91 39 93 89 35 86 92 32
Saturday, December 27 Brandon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Regina at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Prince George at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Tri-City at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.
Detroit : Datsyuk miss, Nyquist goal, Tatar goal, Sheahan miss, Franzen miss, Kronwall miss, Zetterberg miss, Jurco miss, Smith miss. Shots on goal Colorado 5 7 9 2 - 23 Detroit 10 10 14 1 - 35 Goal - Colorado: Pickard (W, 6-5-2); Detroit: Mrazek (LO, 3-2-1). Power plays (goal-chances) - Colorado: 1-2; Detroit: 1-4.
Saturday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 3, Carolina 2, SO Columbus 3, Chicago 2, SO Los Angeles 4, Arizona 2 Colorado 5, Buffalo 1 Philadelphia 7, Toronto 4 Montreal 4, Ottawa 1 Washington 4, New Jersey 0 N.Y. Islanders 3, Tampa Bay 1 Pittsburgh 3, Florida 1 Nashville 6, Minnesota 5, OT Vancouver 3, Calgary 2, OT San Jose 3, St. Louis 2, OT
Rangers 1, Hurricanes 0 First Period 1. NY Rangers, McDonagh 2 (Stepan, Zuccarello) 4:10. Penalties - Brassard NYR (interference) 8:24. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties - Faulk Car (high-sticking) 9:46, Lindholm Car (stick holding) 15:47. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties - Sekera Car (tripping) 16:12. Shots on goal Carolina 4 10 4 - 18 NY Rangers 11 13 7 - 31 Goal - Carolina: Khudobin (L, 0-8-2); NY Rangers: Talbot (W, 3-3-1). Power plays (goal-chances) - Carolina: 0-1; NY Rangers: 0-3.
Sunday’s Games Colorado 2, Detroit 1, SO Dallas 6, Edmonton 5, SO Boston 4, Buffalo 3, OT N.Y. Rangers 1, Carolina 0 Chicago 4, Toronto 0 Philadelphia 4, Winnipeg 3, OT Monday’s Games Ottawa at Washington, 5 p.m. Nashville at Columbus, 5 p.m. Pittsburgh at Florida, 5:30 p.m. Arizona at Vancouver, 8 p.m. San Jose at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Calgary at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Nashville at Boston, 5 p.m. Carolina at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Montreal at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m. Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Toronto at Dallas, 5 p.m. Buffalo at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m. Arizona at Edmonton, 6 p.m. St. Louis at Colorado, 6 p.m. Winnipeg at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Sunday’s summaries
Sunday, December 28 Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 1 p.m. Prince George at Victoria, 2:05 p.m. Seattle at Vancouver, 3 p.m. Moose Jaw at Brandon, 3 p.m. Kootenay at Calgary, 4 p.m. Edmonton at Red Deer, 5 p.m. Swift Current at Regina, 5 p.m. Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m. Spokane at Portland, 6 p.m. Everett at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m. National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 34 21 11 2 44 Tampa Bay 35 20 11 4 44 Detroit 34 17 8 9 43 Toronto 34 19 12 3 41 Boston 34 17 14 3 37 Florida 31 14 9 8 36 Ottawa 33 14 13 6 34 Buffalo 34 13 18 3 29
GF GA 92 83 113 93 94 84 114 102 86 88 69 79 89 92 66 109
Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 32 22 6 4 48 33 23 10 0 46 31 17 10 4 38 32 16 10 6 38 33 13 14 6 32 32 14 15 3 31 35 12 17 6 30 33 9 20 4 22
GF GA 102 72 104 91 93 81 95 85 92 99 79 102 77 102 68 92
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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 35 24 7 3 1 160 Regina 33 20 11 2 0 124 Swift Current 35 17 14 0 4 110 Prince Albert 35 16 18 1 0 105 Moose Jaw 35 15 17 2 1 105 Saskatoon 35 7 25 2 1 91
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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 34 23 9 2 48 106 67 St. Louis 33 21 9 3 45 100 81 Nashville 31 21 8 2 44 87 64 Winnipeg 34 17 10 7 41 83 80 Minnesota 31 16 12 3 35 91 84 Dallas 32 14 13 5 33 95 109 Colorado 33 12 13 8 32 85 101 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 35 22 8 5 49 101 96 San Jose 34 19 11 4 42 97 87 Vancouver 32 19 11 2 40 92 90 Los Angeles 34 17 11 6 40 94 84 Calgary 35 17 15 3 37 100 95 Arizona 32 11 17 4 26 74 104 Edmonton 34 7 20 7 21 74 116 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Stars 6, Oilers 5 (SO) First Period 1. Edmonton, Hall 9 (Purcell, Eberle) 2:58 (pp). 2. Dallas, Horcoff 5 (Jokipakka, Sceviour) 6:36. 3. Dallas, Cole 6 (Hemsky, Goligoski) 10:20. Penalties - Ja. Benn Dal (goaltender interference) 2:48. Second Period 4. Edmonton, Purcell 5 (Nugent-Hopkins, Hall) :11. 5. Edmonton, Arcobello 6 (Petry, Ference) 2:44. 6. Edmonton, Arcobello 7 (Pinizzotto, Hendricks) 9:19. 7. Edmonton, Hall 10 (Purcell) 13:17. 8. Dallas, Ja. Benn 10 (Spezza, Seguin) 19:39 (pp). Penalties - Roussel Dal (fighting) 8:36, Gordon Edm (fighting) 8:36, Demers Dal (hooking) 13:31, Yakupov Edm (stick holding) 13:31, Gordon Edm (holding) 18:34. Third Period 9. Dallas, Seguin 24 (Klingberg, Goligoski) :52. 10. Dallas, Seguin 25 (Ja. Benn, Hemsky) 9:13. Penalties - Pitlick Edm (delay of game) 1:40, Ference Edm (tripping) 5:36. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties - None. Shootout - Dallas wins 3-2 Dallas : Spezza miss, Seguin goal, Ja. Benn miss, Daley miss, Hemsky miss, Fiddler goal, Jo. Benn miss, Horcoff goal. Edmonton : Hall miss, Perron miss, Eberle goal, Hendricks miss, Nugent-Hopkins miss, Purcell goal, Arcobello miss, Lander miss. Shots on goal Dallas 11 14 16 4 - 45 Edmonton 12 9 5 3 - 29 Goal - Dallas: Lindback (W, 1-5-0); Edmonton: Scrivens (LO, 5-12-5). Power plays (goal-chances) - Dallas: 1-3; Edmonton: 1-1. Avalanche 2, Red Wings 1 (SO) First Period No Scoring. Penalties - Kronwall Det (high-sticking) 1:11, Mitchell Col (slashing) 3:25, Talbot Col (high-sticking) 16:34. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties - None. Third Period 1. Detroit, Datsyuk 13 (Sheahan, Zetterberg) 4:52 (pp). 2. Colorado, Johnson 8 (Barrie, Landeskog) 15:45 (pp). Penalties - Guenin Col (tripping) 4:10, Jurco Det (interference) 15:35. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties - None. Shootout - Colorado wins 3-2 Colorado : MacKinnon goal, Duchene goal, Tanguay miss, O’Reilly miss, Landeskog miss, Briere miss, Mitchell miss, Barrie miss, Iginla goal.
Bruins 4, Sabres 3 (OT) First Period 1. Boston, Hamilton 6 (Soderberg, Eriksson) 5:52 (pp). Penalties - Ennis Buf (tripping) 5:15, Bartkowski Bos (fighting) 14:08, Foligno Buf (fighting) 14:08, Foligno Buf (instigator) 14:08, Bartkowski Bos (game misconduct) 14:08, Foligno Buf (misconduct) 14:08, Bartkowski Bos (Interference - Major) 14:08. Second Period 2. Buffalo, Meszaros 1 (Stewart, Larsson) 6:06. 3. Buffalo, Ristolainen 3 (Ennis, Girgensons) 14:36 (pp). 4. Boston, Kelly 3 (Chara, Hamilton) 15:36. Penalties - Hamilton Bos (tripping) 13:07. Third Period 5. Buffalo, Schaller 1 (Deslauriers, Flynn) 1:27. 6. Boston, Hamilton 7 (Bergeron, Smith) 18:29. Penalties - None. Overtime 7. Boston, Eriksson 7 (Lucic, Chara) 2:14. Penalties - None. Shots on goal Buffalo 7 15 6 0 - 28 Boston 10 13 13 1 - 37 Goal - Buffalo: Enroth (LO, 10-11-2); Boston: Rask (W, 13-10-3). Power plays (goal-chances) - Buffalo: 1-2; Boston: 1-1. Blackhawks 4, Maple Leafs 0 First Period 1. Chicago, Rundblad 1 (Kane, Sharp) 15:30. 2. Chicago, Versteeg 9 (Kane, Sharp) 19:59. Penalties - Seabrook Chi (high-sticking) 1:32. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties - Polak Tor (boarding) 7:51. Third Period 3. Chicago, Kane 16 (Sharp, Seabrook) 9:07 (pp). 4. Chicago, Toews 13 (Seabrook, Keith) 11:22. Penalties - Versteeg Chi (interference) 6:26, Clarkson Tor (interference) 8:46. Shots on goal Toronto 7 9 15 - 31 Chicago 12 15 7 - 34 Goal - Toronto: Reimer (L, 6-4-0); Chicago: Raanta (W, 6-2-0). Power plays (goal-chances) - Toronto: 0-2; Chicago: 1-2. Flyers 4, Jets 3 (OT) First Period 1. Philadelphia, Voracek 13 (Giroux, Raffl) :46. 2. Winnipeg, Halischuk 1 (unassisted) 6:38. 3. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 8 (Little) 7:33. Penalties - Pardy Wpg (boarding) 11:13, Raffl Pha (tripping) 19:46. Second Period 4. Winnipeg, Perreault 6 (Scheifele, Frolik) 11:21. Penalties - Streit Pha (interference) 6:03, Little Wpg (slashing) 6:03, Kane Wpg (elbowing) 13:25, Clitsome Wpg (holding) 15:26. Third Period 5. Philadelphia, Streit 5 (VandeVelde, Lecavalier) 6:06. 6. Philadelphia, Lecavalier 3 (unassisted) 16:46. Penalties - Perreault Wpg (interference) 11:37. Overtime 7. Philadelphia, Voracek 14 (unassisted) :10. Penalties - None. Shots on goal Philadelphia 9 4 9 1 - 23 Winnipeg 17 9 2 0 - 28 Goal - Philadelphia: Zepp (W, 1-0-0); Winnipeg: Pavelec (LO, 10-8-5). Power plays (goal-chances) - Philadelphia: 0-4; Winnipeg: 0-1.
Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF y-New England 12 3 0 .800 459 Miami 8 7 0 .533 364 Buffalo 8 7 0 .533 326 N.Y. Jets 3 12 0 .200 246 South W L T Pct PF y-Indianapolis 10 5 0 .667 431 Houston 8 7 0 .533 349 Jacksonville 3 12 0 .200 232 Tennessee 2 13 0 .133 244 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 9 4 1 .679 311 x-Pittsburgh 10 5 0 .667 409 Baltimore 9 6 0 .600 389 Cleveland 7 8 0 .467 289 West W L T Pct PF y-Denver 11 3 0 .786 407 San Diego 9 6 0 .600 341 Kansas City 8 7 0 .533 334 Oakland 3 12 0 .200 239 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct y-Dallas 11 4 0 .733 Philadelphia 9 6 0 .600 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 Washington 4 11 0 .267 South
PF 423 440 354 284
PA 296 336 280 377 PA 359 290 389 411 PA 289 351 292 317 PA 303 329 274 405
PA 335 374 366 394
Carolina Atlanta New Orleans Tampa Bay
W 6 6 6 2
x-Detroit x-Green Bay Minnesota Chicago
W 11 11 6 5
W x-Seattle 11 x-Arizona 11 San Francisco 7 St. Louis 6 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division
L 8 9 9 13 North L 4 4 9 10 West L 4 4 8 9
T 1 0 0 0
Pct .433 .400 .400 .133
PF 305 378 378 257
PA 371 383 404 387
New England 17, N.Y. Jets 16 N.Y. Giants 37, St. Louis 27 Oakland 26, Buffalo 24 Dallas 42, Indianapolis 7 Seattle 35, Arizona 6
T 0 0 0 0
Pct .733 .733 .400 .333
PF 301 456 312 310
PA 252 328 334 429
Monday’s Game Denver at Cincinnati, 6:30 p.m.
T 0 0 0 0
Pct .733 .733 .467 .400
PF 374 293 286 318
PA 248 279 323 334
Thursday’s Game Jacksonville 21, Tennessee 13 Saturday’s Games Washington 27, Philadelphia 24 San Diego 38, San Francisco 35, OT Sunday’s Games Houston 25, Baltimore 13 Detroit 20, Chicago 14 Atlanta 30, New Orleans 14 Miami 37, Minnesota 35 Carolina 17, Cleveland 13 Green Bay 20, Tampa Bay 3 Pittsburgh 20, Kansas City 12
HERITAGE JUNIOR B Adam Ferguson’s goal midway through the first period was the eventual winner as the Red Deer Vipers downed the visiting Blackfalds Wranglers 5-1 in a Heritage Junior Hockey League game Saturday. Kale Lapointe scored twice for the Vipers, who got additional goals from Cole deGraaf and Nick Glackin. Bryce Boguski notched the lone goal for Blackfalds, which trailed 2-1 after one period and 3-1 heading into the final frame. Rylan Bardick and Klay Munro split goaltending duties for Red Deer, combining to stop 34 shots. Austin Steele made 32 saves for the visitors, who were assessed five of 10 minor penalties. The Vipers were 5-2 losers to the host Airdrie Thunder Friday, their two goals scored by deGraaf. Munro made 38 saves for Red Deer, which
Sunday, Dec. 28 Indianapolis at Tennessee, 11 a.m. Detroit at Green Bay, 11 a.m. Jacksonville at Houston, 11 a.m. San Diego at Kansas City, 11 a.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 11 a.m. Carolina at Atlanta, 11 a.m. Cleveland at Baltimore, 11 a.m. Dallas at Washington, 11 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Miami, 11 a.m. Buffalo at New England, 11 a.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m. New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m. Arizona at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m. St. Louis at Seattle, 2:25 p.m. Oakland at Denver, 2:25 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m. NFL Odds (Odds provided by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Monday DENVER at Cincinnati 3.5 47.5
led 2-1 after one period but trailed 3-2 after 40 minutes. Winning goaltender Kade Taplin stopped 37 shots. In other Heritage League weekend action: ● The Wranglers bounced back with a 7-0 win over the Ponoka Stampeders on Sunday in Blackfalds. Robin Carlson led the Wranglers with three goals and two assists while Wally Samson and Jordan Jakubow both scored twice. AP goalie Brody MacDonald made 26 saves for the shutout victory. Zane Steeves made 52 saves on 59 shots in the Ponoka net. ● The host Three Hills Thrashers, with Tyler Newsham, Kelby Stevens, Patrick Fougere, Tom Vanderlinde and Luke Scheunert each scoring once, downed the Stettler Lightning 5-2 Friday. Dylan Houston and Reese Anheliger replied for the visitors, who got a 40-save outing from Jordan McCallum. Brady Hoover turned aside 38 shots in the Thrashers net.
CHINOOK HOCKEY LEAGUE Travis Ziegler stopped all 29 shots he faced as the Innisfail Eagles posted their second consecutive home-ice victory Saturday, blanking the Okotoks Drillers 3-0. The clubs were scoreless through 40 minutes before Mark Bomersback, Justin Cox and Darrin Robak struck for power-play goals in the third period. The Eagles fired 51 shots at Drillers netminder Dan Dunn. On Friday, the Eagles sniped three unanswered third-period goals — including two off the stick of Mark Bomersback — en route to a 6-3 win over the visiting Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs. Brendan Baumgartner, with the eventual winner at 7:17 of the final frame, Mike Wirll,
Darcy Bomersback and Chad Ziegler also tallied for the winners. The visitors got two goals from Doug Auchenberg and a 41-save outing from David Tetrault. ● The Bentley Generals split their two weekend games, losing 5-2 in Stony Plain to the Eagles on Saturday and beating the Okotoks Drillers 5-4 in Bentley on Sunday. Saturday’s loss was the first of the season for the Generals in league play. Bentley got goals from Kyle Sheen and Cam Maclise while Travis Yonkman made 27 saves in the loss. On Sunday, Maclise scored twice and added an assist while Sean Robertson, Josh Smith and Brett Robertson also tallied. Dustin Butler made 30 saves for the win.
Rexall Place (The Drive).
Today
● Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Arena.
Saturday
Sunday
● WHL: Edmonton at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Centrium.
● WHL: Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.,
Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 22 6 .786 Brooklyn 11 15 .423 10 Boston 10 15 .400 10 1/2 New York 5 25 .167 18 Philadelphia 3 23 .115 18 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 19 7 .731 Washington 19 7 .731 Miami 13 15 .464 7 Orlando 10 20 .333 11 Charlotte 8 19 .296 11 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 17 9 .654 Cleveland 16 10 .615 1 Milwaukee 14 14 .500 4 Indiana 9 19 .321 9 Detroit 5 23 .179 13 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Memphis 21 6 .778 Houston 19 7 .731 Dallas 20 8 .714 San Antonio 17 11 .607 New Orleans 14 13 .519 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 22 6 .786 Oklahoma City 13 15 .464 Denver 12 15 .444 Utah 8 20 .286 Minnesota 5 21 .192 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 22 3 .880 L.A. Clippers 19 8 .704 Phoenix 15 14 .517
GB 1 1/2 1 1/2 4 1/2 7 GB 9 9 1/2 14 16 GB 4 9
Sacramento L.A. Lakers
12 8
15 19
.444 .296
11 15
Saturday’s Games Phoenix 99, New York 90 Portland 114, New Orleans 88 Charlotte 104, Utah 86 Atlanta 104, Houston 97 Dallas 99, San Antonio 93 Denver 76, Indiana 73 L.A. Clippers 106, Milwaukee 102 Sunday’s Games Toronto 118, New York 108 Cleveland 105, Memphis 91 Sacramento 108, L.A. Lakers 101 Phoenix 104, Washington 92 Miami 100, Boston 84 Philadelphia 96, Orlando 88 Brooklyn 110, Detroit 105 New Orleans 101, Oklahoma City 99 Indiana 100, Minnesota 96 Monday’s Games Denver at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Toronto at Chicago, 6 p.m. Portland at Houston, 6 p.m. Utah at Memphis, 6 p.m. Atlanta at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. Sacramento at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Chicago at Washington, 5 p.m. Boston at Orlando, 5 p.m. New Orleans at Indiana, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Cleveland, 5 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Denver at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. Portland at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Charlotte at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Dallas at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.
Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM - Signed RHP Ed Kohout to a contract extension. Signed OFs Cody Bishop and Xavier Macklin and LHP Matt Eshleman. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES - Recalled G Jordan Adams and F/C Jarnell Stokes from Iowa (NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League KANSAS CITY CHIEFS - Released G Jarrod Pughsley from the practice squad. Signed OT Curtis Feigt to the practice squad. MIAMI DOLPHINS - Released LB Jake Knott. Signed WR Matt Hazel from the practice squad. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS - Placed LB Chris Borland on injured reserve. Signed LB Chase Thomas from the practice squad. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS - Released TE RaShaun Allen. Signed TE Keavon Milton from the practice squad. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS - Placed S Major Wright on injured reserve. Signed DB C.J. Wilson from the practice squad. HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES - Activated F Alexander Semin from injured reserve. Reassigned F Justin Shhug to Charlotte (AHL).
COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS - Assigned G Oscar Dansk from Kalamazoo (ECHL) to Springfield (AHL). PITTSBURGH PENGUINS - Assigned G Eric Hartzell from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL) to Wheeling (ECHL). American Hockey League LAKE ERIE MONSTERS - Returned G Jeff Lerg to Toledo (ECHL). SPRINGFIELD FALCONS - Assigned G Scott Munroe to Kalamazoo (ECHL). SYRACUSE CRUNCH - Assigned G Allen York to Florida (ECHL). ECHL ECHL - Suspended Ontario F Norm Ezekiel one game and fined Tulsa coach Bruce Ramsay an undisclosed amount for their actions during recent games. ELMIRA JACKALS - Released G Ian Ansel as emergency backup. FLORIDA EVERBLADES - Loaned D/F Matt Mangene to Texas (AHL). GWINNETT GLADIATORS - Added G Greg Ozubko as emergency backup. RAPID CITY RUSH - Released G Scott Smith as emergency backup. TOLEDO WALLEYE - Released G Justin Sand as emergency backup. WHEELING NAILERS - Loaned D Paul Cianfrini to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL). Released G John E. McFarland as emergency backup.
MINOR HOCKEY ROUNDUP Midget AAA The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs split their two road game this weekend, beating the Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs 5-4 on Saturday and falling 3-2 to the Sherwood Park Kings on Sunday. Brad Makofka led the Chiefs with a hat trick in Saturday’s win while Ryan Vandervlis and Kale Howarth also scored. Branden Bilodeau made 42 saves for the victory. On Sunday, Howarth and Regain Doig scored while Bilodeau made 30 saves in the loss. Minor midget AAA Justin Paarup recorded a hat trick and Owen Cummerford also scored as the Red Deer Northstar Chiefs posted a 4-3 win over the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes. Jeremy Klessens contributed three assists to the Northstar attack and Canon Whitbread made 22 saves as the hosts held a 46-25 advantage in shots. On Friday, the Chiefs fell 5-4 to the visiting Calgary Canucks as Seth Stratton scored twice in a losing cause. Jerryd Wold and Austin Lawson sniped the other Red Deer goals, while Justin Travis made 29 saves as the Chiefs outshot their guests 42-34. The Red Deer Aero Equipment Chiefs fell 6-2 to the Hurricanes on Sunday at the Red Deer Arena. Haden Ramm and Blake Mahura scored third period goals for the Chiefs while Riley Katchuik made 22 saves in the loss. Midget AA The Red Deer Indy Chiefs won both of their weekend games to head into the Christmas break on a high. On Saturday, Tanner Zentner scored a hat trick to lead Red Deer to an 8-1 win over the Airdrie Lightning. Logan Linnell added two more while Kyle Gibson, Keagan Kingwell and Declan Johnston each scored once. Geordan Andrew made 24 saves for the win. On Sunday the Chiefs beat the Bow Valley Thimberwolves 5-2 with Kingwell scoring twice and Linnell, Zentner and Devon Langelaar each adding singles. Justin Anderson picked up the win in net with 20 saves. The Red Deer Elks also won both of their home games, beating the Lethbridge Hurricanes 5-1 on Saturday and then hammered the Cranbrook Knights 7-2 on Sunday. Tyler Well led the Elks with the hat trick in Saturday’s game Kobe Scott and Reid Sterling also tallied as Carter Gendreau made 12 saves for the win. On Sunday, Thorne had four points (two goals, two assists) while Scott, Kyle Scogan, Nicholas Knezacek, Reid Sterling and Landon Siegle also scored. Klayton Sandquist made 22 saves for the win. Major bantam The Red Deer Rebels White dropped two close games this weekend, falling 3-2 to the Spruce Grove Saints on Saturday at the Red Deer Arena and then 3-0 on Sunday with the Lethbridge Hurricanes in town. Caileb Berge and Luke Bast scored for Red Deer on Saturday while Duncan Huges made 29 saves in the loss. On Sunday, Justin Verveda made 14 saves in the defeat while his team was unable to any of their 20 shots past Lethbridge goalie Aidan Kruger. The Red Deer Rebels Black also had a tough weekend, losing 11-2 to the Hurricanes on Saturday at the Arena and then 9-2 in Fort Saskatchewan to the Rangers. In Saturday’s loss, Clayton Hayden and Deegan Mofford both scored once while Steven Arthur stopped 33 of 40 shots before being replaced at 18:26 of the second period. Wyatt Argent stopped 17 of 21 shots the rest of the way. On Sunday in Fort Saskatchewan, Jace Paarup and Mofford scored while Argent stopped 54 of the 63 shots he faced. Major bantam girls Haley Mueller netted three goals and Caleigh Meraw and Shae Demale each potted a pair to lead the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs to a 10-2 romp over the visiting Southeast Tigers Saturday. Also scoring for the Chiefs were Shaelynne Bilodeau, Jade Bussard and Avery Lajuenesse. Demale added three assists. Mandi Fitzsimons made 18 saves as Sutter Fund held a 40-20 advantage in shots.
RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 B5
Chapman makes good in return HAVOC FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR It was only three months ago that Chris Chapman lost his mixed martial arts pro debut, but it felt like three years to the Red Deer fighter. “It felt good to finally get that one after losing my (debut) in September,” Chapman said Friday night, after defeating Jamark Brady of Red Deer by rear naked choke in the first round of a 165-pound bout on the Havoc Fighting Championship card at the Sheraton Red Deer. “I felt a lot more comfortable in there tonight than I did in September,” added Chapman (1-1), who trains out of Arashi Do Martial Arts. Chapman was quite familiar with the man he faced in the cage Friday. “We’re actually pretty good friends. I’ve cornered with him all of his other fights,” he said. Brady dropped to 2-7 with the early loss, tapping out just 1:46 into the scrap. “Actually I’m terrible at submissions. I’m more of a stand-up fighter,” said Chapman, who turned pro last fall after a successful eight-bout amateur career that produced a lightweight title in each of the Havoc and Hard Knocks associations. “I fought for the Hard Knocks title in January in Calgary, then I was asked if I’d turn pro and fight in September,” he said. “I’d had eight amateur fights. I thought that was a little much and that it was time to go pro.” So far, Chapman has noticed just subtle differences between the amateur and professional levels. “It’s not that much different (than amateur), just the rules are a bit. For example, kicking and kneeing to the head are allowed in pro fights, which are also longer (five-minute rounds as opposed to three in the amateur ranks), so you have to start training for
longer rounds.” Chapman credits fellow pros Ryan Mahan and Mike Davis for helping him develop as a cage competitor. “Both of those guys took me under their wing,” he said. “I feel I’m a pretty-well rounded fighter thanks to training with some good guys in Red Deer.” The 21-year-old, who lost his pro debut by unanimous decision to Scott Hudson of Mississauga, Ont., in Havoc FC 6 Sept. 5 at the Sheraton, will return to the cage in a Hard Knocks production Jan. 31 in Calgary. “I’ll probably take a week off training now and then get back into the gym,” said Chapman. The Red Deer fighter will take his talents onward and upward if possible. “I’d love to go as far as I can with it, but it’s super hard for Canadians to get anywhere, at least it has been lately,” he said. “All I can do is stay focused.” Another all-Red Deer pro bout Friday was stopped at 1:30 of the first round when Tanner Willshaw (0-0) of Kensei MMA was unable to continue after taking an unintended knee to the groin from Dwayne Mombourquette (3-1) of Black Dragon MMA. The 185-pound fight was ruled ‘no contest’. In a third pro bout — a 145-pound scrap — Sabah Fadai (10-4) of Chilliwack, B.C., defeated Tim Tamaki (1727-1) of Lethbridge by unanimous decision, and in the main event of the evening Jordan “Hellboy” Mackay (7-2) of Calgary defeated veteran Andrew Buckland (15-13-1) of Courtenay, B.C., winning by kimura (armlock) 2:09 into their 185-pound match. ● On the amateur card, Ryan Williams (3-1) of Red Deer Arashi Do defeated Connor Crebbs (0-1) of Red Deer Kensei MMA by unanimous decision in a 135-pound bout; Blaine Cust (1-2) of Red Deer Arashi Do lost to Dan Juricic (1-1) of Calgary by TKO at 2:24 of the first round of a 185-pound match; Dave Puhky of Calgary won his cage debut in a 170-pound fight versus Colton
Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff
Chris Chapman puts a hold on Jamark Brady during the Havoc Fighting Championships Friday night at the Sheraton Hotel. Chapman, who represents Arashi-Do Martial Arts, won the match. Cronkite (2-3) of Lethbridge, prevailing by first-round guillotine-choke submission; and Jess Elverum defeated Alex Beatty by guillotine choke at 2:21 of the
second round of an all-Calgary women’s 130-pound fight. Both were making their competitive cage debut. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
Analytics can give insight into coaching performance
ADVANCED STATS HIGHLIGHT PLAYERS’ TALENTS BUT CAN ALSO BE USED ON BENCH BOSSES In fact, Peters has done better, decreasing his team’s CA/60 by 4.9 while keeping their CF/60 fairly constant (-0.5). In other words, for every 60 minutes of 5-on-5 play, Peters’ team is giving up 4.9 fewer shot attempts and generating about the same number for themselves. Instead of getting about 50.6 per cent of the available points last season, the Hurricanes have managed a paltry 32.8 per cent this season and sit 29th in the standings. By no means are the Hurricanes a great team, but they’re not as awful as they look and shouldn’t be frontrunners in the Connor McDavid/Jack Eichel sweepstakes. Meanwhile, Barry Trotz left Nashville, took over in Washington, and left his old job for Peter Laviolette. Trotz, generally considered a defensive mastermind, has the Capitals playing something that has the faint whiff of defensively responsible hockey to it. Washington’s CA/60 has improved from 56.9 (23rd) to a middling 52.9 (15th). On the other side of the ledger, the Caps’ CF/60 has actually improved from 51.9 to 54.8. Whether it’s Trotz or off-season personnel changes, the Caps have gone from horrendous 5-on-5 play to respectable mediocrity. And yet ... the team isn’t winning many more games. Why? Adam Oates had better team goaltending (5-on-5 Sv% of .925 last season vs. .915 this season) and a few more power play opportunities per game. But if you rush to conclude Trotz is an unheralded genius, look at the Predators. Under Laviolette, Nashville’s taken a titanic step forward, improving its GF% by 16.7%, its Point % by 15.3%, its CF/60 by an absurd 7.7, and its CA/60 by 1.6. The Predators are simultaneously more exciting to watch and better defensively than they were under Trotz. Was Trotz holding them back? Or is this simply a combination of young defencemen like Ryan Ellis and Roman Josi continuing to develop, coupled with the emergence of Filip Forsberg, and a healthy Pekka Rinne? Then of course there are the Pittsburgh Penguins, whose off-season roster changes seemed like change for its own sake rather than improvement (James Neal and Matt Niskanen shipped out; Patric Hornqvist and Christian Ehrhoff brought in). If you told Mike Johnston this summer to expect Sidney Crosby to be on pace for a career low in goals and sidelined with
a case of the mumps in mid-December, I’m not sure he would have unpacked his boxes. Nevertheless, by every measure the Penguins are a much better team and on pace to finish with a better record than one that was sixth-best in the league last season. Johnston, who has publicly embraced analytics, has done a terrific job so far. Coaches’ results are dependent on their players’ ups and downs, so it’s not always easy to assess who should get a second chance and who should fall on his sword. Nevertheless, teams have to make
decisions about whether to retain or fire coaches somehow, and analytics can tell them a lot more than simply looking at the standings. The Department of Hockey Analytics employs advanced statistical methods and innovative approaches to better understand the game of hockey. Its three founders are Ian Cooper, a lawyer, former player agent and Wharton Business School graduate; Phil Curry, a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo; and IJay Palansky, a litigator in Washington, D.C., former high-stakes professional poker player and Harvard Law School graduate.
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Over the past year there’s been a gradual acceptance of analytics in professional hockey circles. A discipline that started as an online argument among superfans has gone from the basements of long-suffering hockey markets like Toronto and Edmonton to being routinely discussed in NHL front offices and TV studios. The basic premise underlying any statistical analysis of hockey is that a player’s performance can be objectively measured - that numbers can tell us things that our eyes miss. But what if we take a step back and look behind the bench? How do we measure the value of a coach? Much like a politician who gets credit or abuse depending on economic forces over which he has no control, a coach succeeds or fails depending on his players’ hot streaks and slumps. A mid-season coaching change may be as much about a top scorer’s run of bad luck as it is about the guy tapping players on the shoulder (memo to Dallas Eakins and Paul MacLean: it’s not all your fault). Off-season coaching changes present a different problem since they are usually accompanied by roster moves. We’ll never have a perfect laboratory experiment in which coaches play musical chairs and rotate teams over the course of a season, but analytics can still help us discern their impact on a team’s performance. The accompanying graphic shows how the six teams that made coaching changes at the end of last season are doing based on the following measures: (i) points earned as a percentage of total points available (Point %); (ii) 5-on-5 goals for percentage (GF%); (iii) 5-on-5 Corsi for per 60 minutes (CF/60); (iv) 5-on-5 Corsi against per 60 minutes (CA/60); and (v) 5-on-5 Corsi for percentage (CF%). To begin with, Hurricanes coach Bill Peters must be scratching his head and wondering what to do next. Brought in to fix a team that was 15th in the league in CF% (50.3) but 22nd in GF% (47.6), Peters was probably the beneficiary of some bad luck on the part of his predecessor Kirk Muller. Despite getting solid goaltending (5on-5 Sv% of .926), the Hurricanes just couldn’t find the back of the net last year, posting a 5-on-5 team shooting percentage of 6.82, good for 27th in the league. Surely all Peters would have to do is stay the course and things would improve.
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Women make debut in WCup four-man bobsled CANADA’S HUMPHRIES AND AMERICAN MEYERS TAYLOR MAKE LEAP IN HOPE OF HOSTING WOMEN’S EVENT IN FUTURE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor entered the male world of four-man bobsled Saturday so they can have a race of their own in the future. Canada’s Humphries and Meyers Taylor of the U.S. made their World Cup debuts as four-man pilots Saturday in Calgary. Humphries and Meyers Taylor drove all-male crews to 15th and 16th respectively in a field of 17 at Canada Olympic Park. A Latvian sled crashed in the first run and did not race the second heat. Women’s bobsled has been a two-person event since it was introduced at the 2002 Winter Olympics, while the men have raced both two-man and fourman sleds since the 1932 Winter Games. “(Elana) and I really want to try and get more women driving the four-man and eventually have women’s four-man as its own event, so the women can have two events, two and four, and so can the men,” Humphries said following the race. “In the meantime, this kind of bridges the gap a little bit.” Humphries defended her Olympic gold medal in women’s bobsled while Meyers Taylor took silver in Sochi, Russia, this year. “Hopefully it’s a starting point to get our own women’s discipline,” Meyers Taylor said. “That’s what we’re after. If this is all we can do in the meantime, compete against men, we’re going to give it our best shot and go for it.” Humphries finished 1.03 seconds behind and Meyers Taylor 1.68 back of winner Oskars Melbardis of Latvia, who swept the men’s races in Calgary. Melbardis drove to four-man gold Saturday after winning the two-man race the previous evening. Francesco Friedrich of Germany took silver with teammate Maximilian Arndt driving another German sled to third. Calgary’s Chris Spring and Justin Kripps of Kelowna, B.C., were 10th and 11th respectively. Another Latvian sled piloted by Oskars Kibermanis upended in the first run and slid the remaining two-thirds of the way down the track on its side. It was a reminder of how challenging it is to steer 1,388 pounds worth of sled and bodies 120 kilometres per hour down an icy track. Four-man has been compared to driving a school bus. “Driving a four-man is no joke,” Humphries acknowledged. “It’s a premier event, but when it goes wrong, it goes really wrong. It is a lot harder to control and to steer. You’ve kind of got to take command of it.” It was a hectic race day for Humphries and Meyers Taylor as the pilots had less than an hour between women’s bobsled and the men’s event. Meyers Taylor and brakeman Charelle Barrett won their second women’s World Cup in as many races after taking gold in the season-opener last week in Lake Placid, N.Y. Anja Schneiderheinze and Franziska Bertels of Germany were second. Humphries and new brakeman Kate O’Brien of Calgary took bronze. After accepting their flowers, Humphries and Meyers Taylor jumped in cars and quickly returned to the top of the track for another pair of runs in the longer, heftier sleds with more horsepower pushing them off the start. Humphries was reluctant to claim making bobsled history. The 29-year-old Calgarian points out there
were mixed-gender sleds in the sport’s origins. “I don’t think we actually did make history,” she explained. “When the sport first began, there used to be four girls and one guy, way, way, way back. So really, in all fairness, I think we’re just going back to the roots of having a woman in with the men.” Humphries’ crew of Dan Dale of Grande Prairie, D.J. McLelland of Calgary and Joey Nemet of Hamilton, Ont. also made their World Cup debuts Saturday. “I’m really proud of what she did today and kind of overcame having to do all four runs, two different races and drive two different sleds,” Dale said. “It’s a testament to the kind of competitor she is.” Humphries decribed their first run as “sketchy”, but they were faster in their second run than Kripps’s sled. “Switching between two and four is a challenge especially today I think we saw that in my first run,” Humphries said. “That’s going to be the balance all year, for Alana and I to figure out how to switch between four-man and two-man. Most of the time we have a day in between to mentally wrap your head around it.” Four men built like linebackers charging a sled towards the start line is like watching the running of the bulls. It’s a testosterone-laden world. “It was pretty cool to be in the start house with all
the guys grunting and everything and I’m just sitting in the corner listening to my music,” Meyers Taylor said. “It’s pretty cool to get this World Cup under my belt.” Meyers Taylor says women sledders from different countries will talk to each other, congratulate and wish each other luck before and between races. “The men, they don’t talk before the competition at all. You don’t go say ‘hi’ to Germany or whatever,” the Californian said. “The women in general, we tend to take it as a competition against ourselves. We’re just trying to be as fast as we can down the hill. The men are competing one on one. They’re out for blood.” The Canadian bobsled and skeleton teams depart Dec. 30 for the next World Cup stop in Altenberg, Germany. Humphries will race the women’s event there, but not four-man on that track. Spring’s team had a crash there in 2012 that put three of them in the hospital. “It’s a track that’s not on the circuit all the time. Four-man for Kaillie this year isn’t about going out and winning World Cup medals,” Canadian bobsled coach Chris LeBihan said. “It’s about her skill acquisition of the four-man. It’s not that we don’t think Kaillie is good enough, but whether it’s really worth it based on what we’re trying to achieve and as a coaching staff we decided no.”
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Dynamic ceramics DAWN CANDY MARRIES HER LOVE OF DRAWING WITH WHEEL-DRAWN CERAMICS BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF From windswept fields to thunderous skies, elemental Prairie motifs decorate the ceramic mugs, teapots and bowls made by Red Deer artist Dawn Candy. The founder of Little Sister Pottery has married her two loves — of drawing and creating wheelthrown ceramics — in handmade functional objects that are starting to sell across Alberta. “Demand has been greater than expected. I was swamped this season. It’s been really busy,” said Candy, who works out of a basement studio in her Clearview home. As a result of growing demand, she’s in the happy position of shifting more of her energies towards creating, firing and glazing ceramic pieces that will be displayed on store shelves from the Alberta Craft Council in Edmonton, to retailers in Calgary’s Inglewood district, a gallery in Black Diamond, as well as Red Deer’s Sunworks. “I dream about clay,” said Candy, whose works bridge craft and art. The Taber native believes she does so much research and experimentation with textures, shapes, colours and designs, “I feel what I’m doing is an art.” Other people must think so, too, since she was recently asked to join the collective of artists exhibiting their works and curating shows at the Viewpoint Gallery in Red Deer’s Culture Services building. “It’s wonderful. I was very happy to be invited,” she said of the group made up of glassblower Darren Petersen, ceramicists Dawn Detarando, Brian McArthur, Shirley Rimer and Sally Smith, wood turner Andrew Glazebrook, multimedia artists Alysse Bowd and Robin Lambert, photographer Arto Djerdjerian, and painters Erin Boake and Susan Woolgar. The gallery at 3827 39th Street “allows me to display more new and experimental pieces, even my drawings, and I like that opportunity,” said Candy. Since her mother is an air-brush artist who’s done commercial and public art projects in Fairview, one might think Candy was destined for a career in the arts. But she didn’t initially see it that way. Although she enjoyed drawing while growing up, Candy felt more pulled towards history and sciences. She eventually graduated from Lethbridge University with a bachelor’s degree in world religions, analytic philosophy and history. She had temporarily moved back in with her parents, who had relocated to Fairview, and was trying to decide what to do next. “I was thinking should I get my master’s?” she recalled, when some friends suggested taking a pottery class for fun. Candy went from creating figures on her pots to learning raku. “I was totally hooked,” she said. When an instructor recommended she study ceramics at the Red Deer College’s visual arts program,
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Red Deer Ceramic artist Dawn Candy with some of her cups she has created. Candy moved to Central Alberta and dove into more artistic experimentation. Many of her pieces are now inspired by nature — whether it’s the wildflowers and poppies that decorate her latest line of ceramics, including “flower brick” vases, or the turbulent impressions on her earlier ceramic lines. Atmospheric “ripples across the Prairie landscape” informed the wave-like pattern of her first ceramics line, Tempest, and the ominous indigo glazes in her follow-up line, Storm. Textures, either applied as relief or as lines scratched into on her mugs and bowls, often create a sense of tension or movement. Candy said there’s a twisting suggested, just as Prairie grasses are sent swirling under the force of a thunderhead. The unique surfaces of her functional pieces are what seem to appeal to store owners and buyers — so much so that a growing proportion of her income (about half) is now derived from ceramics sales. The rest is made up of teaching, which she enjoys, and occasional other jobs that come her way. “I hear that people are really relating to the land-
scape aspect of my work,” said Candy. When customers pick up her mugs, “they see water or they see Prairie.” The artist can imagine branching into figurative designs someday — because she loves drawing people. But she insists all of her pieces, even the more ornamental ones, will remain functional. “I like the intimacy” she said, of knowing a mug she created will be held on a daily basis by the user. Candy sees so much potential in the various combinations of glaze, texture, surface decoration and form, that she feels her vocation will always present endless variety and interesting challenges. “It’s really rewarding ... I love the repetition, the pattern and imagery.” The very hands-on act of shaping clay on a pottery wheel provides her with satisfaction. “I get to let my mind go unfettered for a while when I’m throwing,” said Candy. And whenever the music she’s listening to begins to keep the same rolling beat as the turning wheel, “it’s the best . ... It just feels amazing.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
Daycare needs room to grow PENHOLD’S CHILD CARE PROGRAMS HOPE TOWN COUNCIL WILL APPROVE BIGGER LOCATION BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Hopes for a much-needed expansion of Penhold’s child care programs hinge on town council giving the go-ahead to a different and bigger location. The daycare program is currently located at the town’s old library, and the school age program runs out of the local elementary school. A larger building will allow the programs — both have waiting lists — to be expanded and in the same location. The Community TIES Society, a non-profit group that operates both child care programs, wants to move them to the Memorial Hall. The old library and Memorial Hall are owned by the town. A town council meeting earlier in December was jam-packed full with supporters of the proposal to move into the Memorial Hall . Daycare director Patti Muir said Community TIES has long waiting lists for the daycare and school-age programs. “With the growth of Penhold that we’ve had and surrounding area ... we’re maxed. I have a waiting list of about a year and a half for parents.” She currently has a list of seven families wanting to start full-time daycare in January or February. The daycare program in the old library is licensed for 24 children, a combination of toddlers and preschoolers in different rooms. “It’s teenie. It’s tiny. It did what it needed to do,” Muir said of the current location. The school-age program would also move over to the Memorial Hall location, a building that has three separate areas that could house school-age, and toddlers and preschoolers. Chris Cooper, president of the Community TIES Society, said Penhold is one of the youngest per capita towns in Alberta and a lot of young families are moving into the area. Penhold’s population grew nearly 20 per cent from 2011 to 2014 — from 2,375 to 2,842. “It’s the perfect community because ... the child can start at a daycare and progress in that daycare all the way to Grade 12.” “My son started in daycare as a toddler, and now he’s in kindergarten. We’re going to stay in Penhold. He’ll be able to grow up with the same friends his whole life all the way to Grade 12. That’s important. You know you lose some of that when you’re in the big city,” said Cooper. ”Penhold is no longer a bedroom community,” noting the town now has a new grocery store, Subway, doctor’s office, pharmacy, dentist, two new fullsize strip malls — and more businesses are coming. “Child care is expensive; it can be over $1,000. Penhold is $750 for full-time care.” The nonprofit group likes to keep their rates low, Cooper said. A recent report on child care in Penhold, prepared by Jamie Seiyama, child and youth co-ordinator for the town, said when respondents were asked if there was currently a need in their household for
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Nicole Funk reads with Silas Trudeau, left, and Bradey Kozie at the Community Ties Day Care in Penhold on Tuesday. child care, 23 per cent answered yes, and 23.8 per cent anticipated a need for it in the next five years. This need will more than double in the next five years as the majority population is young adults, the report said, and suggests the town continue to support Community TIES through funding, grants or
building space. Community TIES would like to be in the Memorial Hall by March. Town council decided to consider the proposal during its Jan. 7 budget deliberations and provide an answer by the end of January. barr@reddeeradvocate.com
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Trouble bubbling for ‘huff and puff’? OILSANDS LEAK THAT FOULED AQUIFER IS CLOSE TO SITE WHERE OIL BUBBLED TO SURFACE HIGH-PRESSURE CYCLIC STEAM STIMULATION THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. oilsands operation that has contaminated a groundwater aquifer is renewing questions about a technology that has already been linked to another serious leak in northern Alberta. The Alberta Energy Regulator says CNRL reported a break in a well at its Wolf Lake high pressure cyclic steam stimulation project in late October, and that the company later discovered elevated levels of hydrocarbons in the aquifer about 60 kilometres northwest of Cold Lake. The area is located about 10 kilometres away from the company’s Primrose East property where a bitumen-water mixture was found oozing to the surface last year. CNRL was using the same steam method there as well. “This is a problematic technology. There’s been problems dating back to 2009. And I think Albertans really have to ask themselves, how many times does this company get to say, ‘Oops, we did it again,’ before the government takes proactive action to deal with this technology, which clearly is riskier than
this company claims?” Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada said in an interview on Saturday. High-pressure cyclic steam stimulation — often described as “huff and puff”— is a process that alternates between injecting steam and drawing the softened bitumen to the surface. Earlier this year, the province’s energy watchdog suggested a link between the process and old drill holes in the Primrose area, which it said may have provided paths for fluids to flow to the surface. CNRL promised to switch to a low-pressure process known as steam flooding when it sought approval to resume crude extraction from Area 1 of its Primrose East property. It was granted permission in September to resume work at the site. Ryan Bartlett, a spokesman for the regulator, said Saturday that he didn’t know whether drill holes may have played a role in the contamination at Wolf Lake. “We’re still investigating what the cause is, so I wouldn’t want to speculate,” Bartlett said, noting the high pressure system is used by other companies elsewhere in Alberta. CNRL spokeswoman Julie Woo said in a brief email statement that both the Primrose and Wolf
Lake projects used the same technology. “Canadian Natural has detected elevated levels of hydrocarbons deep underground in a new monitoring well. We will continue to work closely with the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) to monitor and manage the situation,” the email stated. The regulator said the well at Wolf Lake has stopped operating and CNRL can’t resume operations until it meets regulatory requirements. Bartlett earlier said that public health and safety are not at risk and the nearest private water wells are 15 kilometres away. He said CNRL will be required to clean up the aquifer. Stewart, however, said it could take months for the steam to cool and the pressure to drop. He said that means any leaks from the well could continue. He also expressed doubts that a cleanup is possible “I don’t know how you get benzine out of an aquifer. There’s no process for filtering it out. It’s basically a mix of carcinogenic chemicals into this underground water system. It’s not like you can put in a scrubber and clean it all up,” Stewart said. “The only solution to this is prevention, to actually make sure the technology being used it safe and not just taking the company’s word for it but actually having a strong independent regulator who’s looking after the public’s interest rather than issuing orders after the leak has happened.”
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BRIEF WestJet pilots vote in favour of new four-year contract CALGARY -— Pilots at WestJet have accepted a new contract. The airline says the deal includes improved pay and scheduling that it says places the airline’s more than 12-hundred pilots among the highest paid in Canada’s airline industry. Statements from the airline and the WestJet Pilot Association issued on Sunday did not give any specifics of the contract. The four-year deal, which was hammered out last month, will expire April 30, 2019. WestJet flies to more than 120 destinations in more than 20 countries.
B.C. poultry supply unaffected by avian flu; turkeys brought in to meet demand VANCOUVER — Poultry producers are assuring B.C. residents there will be plenty of turkeys on store shelves during the holidays despite an avian flu outbreak that has killed thousands of animals. The industry group representing farmers who raise chickens, turkeys and eggs says it has bolstered its stock with birds from out of the province so prices remain stable. Two affected turkey farms in B.C. had to destroy about 30,000 birds that would have been destined for Christmas dinner tables, said Ray Nickel, president of the BC Poultry Association. Nickel described the shortfall as relatively small given that British Columbians typically consume about 3.3 million kilograms of turkey during the holidays.
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Red Deerians flocked to Bower Place and other stores throughout the city on Saturday in hopes of finishing — and in some cases starting— their Christmas shopping. Parking lots surrounding the malls and electronic stores were packed, and traffic was slow going.
Some Canadians spending less: others more While many Canadians seem to be spending like Scrooge over the Christmas holidays this year, the wealthy seem to be spending more and giving more to charity. A holiday outlook by BMO Bank of Montreal says slower job growth and volatile stock markets are contributing to the average Canadian taking a more frugal approach to the holidays, spending $1,517, down from $1,810 in 2013, and marking the lowest spending in three years. The report shows that the plans for spending on travel are virtually unchanged at $700 for trips over the holiday. TALBOT However, spending on gifts BOGGS is expected to drop by 19 per cent, compared to a year ago, while spending on entertainment is expected to fall by 25 per cent as consumers cut costs and pull back. “With slower job growth this year and many new jobs being part time, Canadians are facing weaker income growth heading into the holiday season,” said Sal Guatieri, senior economist with BMO Capital Markets. “Recent stock market volatility and elevated household debt could also dampen sales.” The report noted that only 11 per cent of shoppers
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planned to go into debt to do their holiday shopping. However, while 14 per cent anticipated taking on holiday debt last year, 28 per cent actually did, with an average of $963. “It’s encouraging to see that Canadians are planning to avoid taking on holiday spending debt, however, to do so means having a detailed spending plan in place well in advance,” said Christine Canning, head of everyday banking with BMO. Another BMO report shows a different trend among high net worth Canadians — those with investable assets of $1 million or more. Members of this group plan to spend on average $6,463 this holiday — $2,230 on travel, $2,133 on gifts, $1,202 on entertainment and $898 on other items and activities. It also shows that high net worth Canadians plan to donate an average of $2,037 to charitable causes. Two-thirds will be donating the same amount as they did last year, while 15 per cent plan to donate more. More than half (57 per cent) will donate cash, 53 per cent clothing, 47 per cent canned food or baskets, and 32 per cent will do some form of volunteer work. The Investor Education Fund has a few tips for keeping spending under control and avoiding debt during the holidays. ● Set a budget for your holiday spending that you can afford, include all things you’ll spend money on over the holidays, and stick to it. ● Make a list and you will be far less likely to spend on impulse. Before you shop, list the people
you plan to buy gifts for, estimate the cost of each item on your list, do comparative shopping and check that the cost fits your budget. ● Where possible, pay with cash and pay off your credit card in full. ● Shop early. If you wait till the last minute, stores may not have what you want and you might be more likely to buy on impulse. ● Look for sales and discounts throughout the year to spread out the cost of gift-giving throughout the year and look for ways to reduce your travel costs. This can be achieved by purchasing your tickets early — at least by October — or waiting until the last minute. Some travel companies offer huge lastminute discounts. “Regardless of your income level it’s important to give some thought to how much you’re planning on spending before the holiday season starts and budget accordingly,” said Myra Cridland, head of BMO Harris Private Banking. “This should include the amount you’re planning to spend on gifts, entertaining, food, travel and supporting charitable causes. “Having a plan can help control costs and will lead to a less stressful January when the bills start coming in.” Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.
Oil price drop ‘No conspiracy’: Saudi minister BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s oil chief on Sunday dismissed allegations that his kingdom conspired to bring down oil prices in order to harm other countries and told a summit of Arab energy leaders that he was confident the market would stabilize. The kingdom, which is dependent on oil revenues, is able to weather lower oil prices due to large reserves built up over the years. Non-OPEC member Russia and other nations like Iraq, Iran and Venezuela need prices substantially above present levels to meet budget goals and want to drive prices up. Saudi Arabia maintains it is opposed to cutting production because of fears its market share could
erode. “The best thing for everybody is to let the most efficient produce,” Saudi Petroleum Minister Ali Naimi said in the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi. He was addressing the Arab Energy Conference, a gathering held every four years. The price of U.S. crude has dipped below $60 a barrel, its lowest in five years. Naimi said he was certain that the oil market would recover with the improvement of the global economy. An OPEC meeting last month failed to agree on production cuts, mainly because of Saudi opposition to curb its own exports. OPEC controls about 40 per cent of the world oil market and Saudi Arabia is the
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cartel’s largest producer. Naimi said that “a lack of co-operation by nonOPEC production nations, along with the spread of misinformation and speculator’s greed” have contributed to the drop in prices. Some market speculators have suggested the kingdom is forcing lower prices to damage the economies of nations such as Russia and the Shiite powerhouse Iran, staunch backers of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Saudi Arabia backs the mainly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Assad. Earlier this month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the sharp fall in global oil prices was the result of “treachery,” a remark interpreted as a reference to Saudi Arabia. “I want to say from this podium that talk about a Saudi conspiracy has no basis of accuracy at all and points to a misunderstanding,” Naimi said.
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TORONTO — North American stock markets are facing the last few trading sessions of 2014 in better shape than they have been in weeks after suffering steep declines amid a collapse in oil prices, concerns about U.S. interest rate hikes and the after-effects of the end of the Federal Reserve’s third round of quantitative easing at the end of October. “I think we will see things kind of stabilize — it’s been a pretty wild first half of December,” observed Colin Cieszynski, chief strategist at CMC Markets. “But from here on, I suspect it is going to be pretty quiet. Maybe we’ll get some action at the beginning of next week, but after a day or so that will be about it.” Traders are facing a much-shortened trading week with Toronto and New York closing at 1 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Toronto stays shuttered for the rest of the week while New York reopens Friday. But there is still some top-drawer economic data to consider this week, including the latest readings on Canadian and U.S. gross domestic product along with American reports on durable goods orders, consumer sentiment and new home sales. Toronto and New York soared last week, with the TSX gaining 736 points or 5.36 per cent while the Dow industrials bounded ahead 524 points or three per cent. Key to performance was last week’s interest rate meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Short-term rates near zero have been a huge aid in the recovery of stock markets since the 2008 financial collapse. Investors have come around to accepting that the Fed will move to start hiking rates next year, likely around the middle of 2015. But there have been concerns that the Fed could move a lot earlier and the central bank sought to allay those fears last week, saying it would be “patient” in deciding when to hike rates and Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen said that she foresaw no rate hike in the first quarter of 2015. But analysts suggest that maybe markets are reading too much into the Fed announcement. “I thought (Yellen) was hinting that they might start to move as early as April and I think the U.S. dollar picked up on that and stocks didn’t — very odd,” said Cieszynski.
“In the long run, usually you go with the bond market and currency markets are usually right.” The energy sector was a huge winner on the TSX last week, up about 15 per cent. The sector is still down about 18 per cent year to date, having been positive by about the same amount mid-summer before oil prices started to collapse by about 50 per cent amid demand worries and, especially, a glut in supply. Crude prices seemed to find support around the US$54 a barrel level this week. On Friday, oil in New York climbed $2.41 to US$56.52 a barrel but analysts said it was too early to call a bottom. “There is a supply overhang that we have to deal with,” said Doug Porter, chief economist at BMO Capital Markets. “Until we actually see some supply curtailments or a miraculous rebound in demand, I think the price might be on the defensive. It`s almost a matter of who is forced to blink first in the oil market.” On the economic front, the major report is the latest revision to thirdquarter economic growth in the United States. The latest reading showed gross domestic product up 3.9 per cent, following a solid 4.6 per cent advance in the second quarter. “It looks as if the momentum was largely maintained in Q4,” added Porter, who thinks that previous Q3 reading will be revised upward. “There is obviously underlying strength in the U.S. economy, which we think will continue through 2015, but it looks like there is a good chance it gets revised up and it could mark the second quarter in a row of better than four per cent growth.” On Tuesday, Statistics Canada will release its October GDP reading. Economists generally expect a rise of 0.1 per cent. Oil prices fell 11 per cent in October alone but Porter said the slide in prices won’t be reflected very much in the GDP data. “I think there is a big effect, it just won’t necessarily show up in real GDP,” he said. “Just as during the commodity boom, during the last decade, we didn’t have overly strong real GDP growth, that’s really not where it showed up. It really shows up more in such things as corporate profits and government revenues and incomes, not so much in real output.”
LOS ANGELES — California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will miss a year-end deadline to adopt new rules for cars of the future because regulators first have to figure out how they’ll know whether “driverless” vehicles are safe. It’s a rare case of the law getting ahead of an emerging technology and reflects regulators’ struggle to balance consumer protection with innovation. Safety is a chief selling point, since self-driving cars — thanks to an array of sensors — promise to have much greater road awareness and quicker reaction time than people. Plus, they won’t text, drink or doze off. Though the cars are at least a few years away from showrooms, seven companies are testing prototypes on California’s roads, and regulators have questions: Do they obey all traffic laws? What if their computers freeze? Can they smoothly hand control back to human drivers? DMV officials say they won’t let the public get self-driving cars until someone can certify that they don’t pose an undue risk. The problem is that the technology remains so new there are no accepted standards to verify its safety. Absent standards, certifying safety would be like grading a test without an answer key. Broadly, the department has three options: It could follow the current U.S. system, in which manufacturers self-certify their vehicles; it could opt for a European system, in which independent companies verify safety; or the state could (implausibly) get into the testing business. “It’s a huge undertaking,” said Bernard Soriano, who oversees the DMV’s regulatory process. “There are all of these issues that need to be adequately answered.” Manufacturers generally would
prefer self-certification. That may be where California ends up, but for now the DMV is exploring independent certification - something that doesn’t exist for driverless cars. In July, the DMV asked third-party testers whether they’d be interested in getting into the game. The department doesn’t have the expertise to create a safety standard and testing framework, so “the department wanted to get a very good sense of what is out there in the market,” according to Russia Chavis, a deputy secretary at the California State Transportation Agency, which oversees the DMV and requested a deeper exploration of third-party alternatives to self-certification. Two large European testers and two businesses in Ohio responded to the DMV’s request. None was ready to implement a program immediately. So the department is asking industry, consumer groups and other interested parties to gather in January for a public workshop on safety standards. Whatever course California officials take could influence how other states — and perhaps even the federal government — approach the issue. California is such a large consumer market that in many cases its rules become de facto national standards. Federal transportation officials have said they don’t plan to write driverless car safety standards any time soon, and they don’t want states writing their own. SAE International, an association of engineers, has been developing a set of safety guidelines - but those are for vehicle testing and don’t get into specific performance levels that would be needed for commercially available cars. California’s Jan. 1 deadline was set by a 2012 state law that regulated testing on public roads and required the DMV to publish rules guiding what carmakers need to do before they can bring the vehicles to market.
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Woman saved by pig liver reunites with medical team MONTREAL - Mavis McArdle says she doesn’t feel weird at all that a pig’s liver helped save her life. “No! It helped me live, I am alive because of that!” exclaims the 76-year-old Montreal native, who went through a pioneering medical procedure 20 years ago. McArdle reunited Friday with her old medical team to celebrate two decades of health since the breakthrough procedure in 1994 at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. She is described by her doctors as the only person in Canada to have been kept alive using a pig’s liver as life support. In 1994, the hospital’s medical team harvested a pig’s organ, placed it on a pan and connected McArdle’s veins to the pig liver. They pumped her blood through the pig’s liver and back into her, cleaning the fluid the way a human liver would. The Montreal procedure catalyzed research into organ transplants across North America. The pig-liver dialysis kept McArdle alive just long enough for a new human liver to be ready. “The doctor told me that when I got the human liver I had about 30 minutes to live,” she said. “Nobody can ever know the feeling that you have when you get that organ. Somebody out there saved my life.” In 1994, McArdle fell into a coma that lasted almost eight full days after she had waited a year for a liver transplant. Her body shut down because her liver couldn’t filter blood
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Later, though, the show played with the idea that maybe it’s all a little soon. Comic Bobby Moynihan appeared as Kim Jong Un on Weekend Update, declaring he wasn’t afraid. But then red target marks appeared on his torso, and he reversed course: “I’m Seth Rogen, everybody!” he said, trying to quickly mimic Rogen, a star and director of the film, before skedaddling off the set. All in jest, but there probably IS a sense of “Is it too soon?” out there, says Janice Min, a veteran entertainment industry observer who oversees The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard. “I would say we’re in an unprecedented era of fear right now,” she says, referring to the chilling cyberattack that saw thousands of Sony emails — some deeply embarrassing — and other materials posted online. Things escalated dramatically when hackers then threatened violence against moviegoers, leading theatre chains to pull out and Sony to cancel the Christmas opening. “There’s often a sense of schadenfreude in Hollywood, if something happens to a movie or an executive,” Min says. “But in this case the fear is so palpable, people are thinking, what if this were me?” Even in campaigns for the upcoming awards season in Hollywood, Min notes, “every publicist in town will be coaching their stars on what to say and what not to say, or what to post on Twitter everything will be very measured.” And so naturally, she adds, there may be a chilling effect on comedy —one that might affect the sharpness of the jokes, for example, at the Golden Globes or the Oscars.
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Elton John, David Furnish marry in England LONDON — Entertainer Elton John and longtime mate David Furnish have officially converted their civil partnership into a marriage. The ceremony took place exactly nine years after they entered into a civil partnership. The couple was able to marry under new laws that took effect in England earlier this year. John had earlier tweeted about their plans and Sunday posted a photo on Instagram showing them getting ready to sign official papers. “That’s the legal bit done. Now on to the ceremony!” the couple wrote on their posting. They planned a celebration at their estate near Windsor Castle west of London. An A-list crowd is expected. The singer has praised England for changing its laws to allow same-sex marriage. He said the wedding would be a joyous occasion shared with their children.
NEW YORK — In a surprise preview of her new album, Madonna released six songs Saturday on iTunes and various streaming services. The songs were released because several in-progress demos were leaked earlier this week, publicist Liz Rosenberg said. Madonna said in a statement that she had wanted to wait until a different holiday season. “I was hoping to release my new single Living For Love on Valentine’s Day with the rest of the album coming in the spring,” she said. “I would prefer my fans to hear completed versions of some of the songs instead of the incomplete tracks that are circulating. Please consider these six songs as an early Christmas gift.” Songs available Saturday also include the plaintive, anti-drug Devil Pray; the secretive, name-checking dance track Illuminati; and a duet with Nicki Minaj, B---h I’m Madonna. Additional music will be released on Feb. 9, Rosenberg said. The full album, Rebel Heart, is Madonna’s 13th and is set for release in March. Producers include Madonna, Diplo and Kanye West.
Ashanti ‘shocked’ by idea of enduring stalker retrial NEW YORK — R&B star Ashanti says she’s “shocked and horrified” at the possibility of being questioned again by a stalking suspect after a New York mistrial. But the Grammy-winning singer tells The Associated Press she’ll “do whatever it takes” to make sure her family is safe. A juror’s illness prompted the mistrial Thursday, two days after Ashanti told jurors she was scared and “disgusted” by Devar Hurd’s behaviour. Hurd represented himself and cross-examined her. He’d been convicted in 2009 of stalking Ashanti’s mother by sending her crude text messages about her multiplatinum-selling daughter. He served about two years in jail and was ordered not to contact the family. Then the family realized in 2013 Hurd had been tweeting Ashanti Xrated messages and posed for a photo with her sister.
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GENT in 60’s closer to Ponoka looking for lady in 60’s to go out to shows & meal. Please leave phone number. Reply to Box 1100, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9
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LOOKING for dedicated RDA with receptionist skills for family dental practice. Fax resume to 403-343-3465.
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F/T PEN CHECKER for general feedlot duties for large expanding feedlot in Sundre. Experience necessary. Fax resume to 403-638-3908, or call 403-638-4165, or email dthengs@hotmail.com Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!
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BUSY established multi physician medical practice in Red Deer, seeking an experienced Business Manager on a permanent basis to start immediately. Submit resume and salary expectations to officerecruitment@ albertadoctors.org before December 31, 2014. F/T & P/T Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician positions req’d. Apply w/resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer
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Prowler Energy Services is currently looking for a full time N2 Operator in the Red Deer area. Class 1 Drivers License for more information please contact Rocky at 403-239-7596 or by email at Rocky@ prowlertubing.com
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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 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 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY
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TREELINE WELL SERVICES Has Opening for all positions! Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement,and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers. Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. www.treelinewell.com
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F/T Food Service Supervisor and Store Manager. $13-$19.50/hr. Must be able to work nights/days and weekends. Call Little Ceasars Red Deer at 403-346-1671 or email to allan_barker25@yahoo.ca Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS
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RED DEER ADVOCATE Publication dates: FRIDAY DEC. 26 SATURDAY DEC. 27 MONDAY DEC. 29 Deadline is: Wed. Dec. 24 at 11:00 a.m. CENTRAL AB LIFE Publication date: THURSDAY DEC. 25 Deadline is: Fri. Dec. 19 @ 5 p.m. Publication Date: THURSDAY JAN. 1 Deadline is: Wed. Dec. 24 @ 11:00 a.m. PONOKA Publication date: WEDNESDAY DEC. 24 Deadline is: Wed. Dec. 17 @ 5 p.m. Publication date: WEDNESDAY DEC. 31 Deadline is: Mon. Dec. 22 @ 5 p.m. RIMBEY Publication date; TUESDAY DEC. 23 Wed. Dec. 17 @5 p.m. Publication date: TUESDAY DEC. 30 Deadline is: Mon. Dec. 22 @ 5 p.m. STETTLER & WEEKENDER
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WALUSHKA Alexander Nicholas Walushka passed away in Palliative Care in the Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre on Friday, December 19th, 2014 at the age of 89 years. Dad (Al) was surrounded in his final week by his family and loved ones. Al was born in Wayne, Alberta on November 1st, 1925 and lived there until 1940 until his family moved to Drumheller. In 1944, at the age of 17, he served 2 years during WWII attached to Regina Rifles Regiment. He served with Canadian Occupational Forces in Belgium, Holland and Germany. After WWII he attended SAIT and over his working life, achieved 4 journeyman certifications in 4 trades as an Electrician, Refrigeration, Power Electrician and Appliance Technician. He married Mary Kurczaba on February 23, 1952 and they moved to Lacombe in 1953. In 1954, he embarked and operated his own electrical contracting business as Al’s Electric for 16 years of successful operation before Al joined Calgary Power Ltd. He was a very active community member and served many years and positions in the United Church, Kinsmen Club, Lacombe Scouting Association, Lacombe Minor Hockey, Lacombe Minor Baseball, Lacombe Chamber of Commerce, Lacombe Rotary Club, Royal Canadian Legion and the Lacombe Housing Authority. He was a long term blood donor supporting the Canadian Red Cross. He took pleasure in assisting elderly neighbors with shopping, snow clearing and other odd jobs. He volunteered at Camp Alexo with the installation of power for low income family children. In addition to his many achievements over his life, he was recently most proud of being recognized in 2013 as Lacombe Big Brother of the Year as an active Big Brother. He always put family first. He loved music, hiking, travelling, wood working, computer activities, community service and camping. He was predeceased by Mary and will be lovingly remembered and missed by his children Glen, Trish, Lynda and Anne and his 10 grandchildren and 6 greatgrandchildren. Al also leaves to mourn his partner and friend of many years, Doris Ahlquist, her large family and their friends. The family wishes to thank Dr. McKibbin, Dr. K. Unger and all of the staff of the Lacombe Hospital for the excellent care Dad (Al) received during his final days there. The Walushka Family and Ahlquist Family invite relatives and friends to a celebration of Al’s life at a memorial service at St. Andrews United Church in Lacombe on Tuesday December 23rd, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. and following after the interment, a time for fellowship and refreshments in the St. Andrews Auditorium. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Salvation Army. 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”
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GEEHAN Grace 1919 - 2014 Grace Geehan (Laing) was born in Fenner, Alberta on June 15, 1919. Grace passed away in the early morning on Sunday, December 14, 2014 at the age of 95 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Oswald and sons; Randy and Tom, sister, Elsie and brothers; Edgar, Glen, and Bob. Grace is survived by her daughter, Valerie (George) from Red Deer, sister, Alberta, sistersin-law; Jean and Nell, seven grandchildren, five greatgrandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, donations in Grace’s memory may be made to any children’s charity of your choice. 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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CLUTTON 1936 - 2014 Marjorie Florence Clutton (nee Boyden) of Red Deer County, passed away at the Lacombe Hospital on Thursday, December 18, 2014 at the age of 78 years. Marjorie was born in 1936 in Trochu, Alberta. She grew up on a farm south east of Lousana, Alberta. Marjorie met her husband Dave in 1953 and they were married in Delburne, Alberta in 1955. She worked as a bank teller in the early years of their marriage but her life “work” became raising their five children, Marilyn, Garry, John, Susan and Dennis. Marjorie also became Dave’s secretary, treasurer and manager in 1968 when he started his own plumbing company. She was a very generous and hard working lady who volunteered her time to Sunnybrook Farms and who or whom needed her help. Marjorie will be lovingly remembered by her husband of 59 years, Dave; sons Gary (Sharon), John (Leroa), Dennis (Debbie); daughters Marilyn (Darrel) McLeod and Susan (Ray) Corkey. Also to cherish Majories memory are 15 grandchildren; 3 great grandchildren; 4 sisters; 1 brother as well as numerous other family members and friends. Marjorie will be truly missed by her family and friends. A Memorial Service to celebrate Marjorie’s life will be held at the Balmoral Bible Chapel, located at the intersection of Highway 11 (55 Street) and Rutherford Drive, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta, 10531 - Kingsway Ave, Edmonton AB T5H 4K1. Condolences to Marjorie’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944
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FULL TIME Administrative Assistant The Administrative Assistant we are looking for is cheerful, motivated, well-organized individual to fulfill the role of a this FULL TIME position. The successful candidate must enjoy working with the public. This position is a key component in maintaining our administrative operations. The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications: • Exceptional communication & teamwork skills. • Exceptional telephone & customer service abilities. • Strong computer knowledge (Word, Excel, Windows, E-mailing, etc.) • Some accounting skills. • Ability to conform to general office performance expectations. • Other computer programs used in position include WasteWorks. Prior knowledge of this program is not required. Please submit a complete resume with references to: The Rocky Mountain Regional Solid Waste Authority, Attention Curran Chrunik, Box 428 (5313-44 Street) Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, T4T 1A3 or Fax to (403) 845-6350 We thank in advance all interested applicants for applying and advise that only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. This competition will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S THE RUSTY PELICAN is 37543 HWY 2N now accepting resumes for 700 3020 22 St. F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at FOOD ATTENDANT all stations. MUST HAVE: Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening • 2 yrs. min. on-the-job both full and part time. exp., must have com16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + pleted High School be benefits. Start ASAP. reliable, self motivated Job description work well under limited www.timhortons.com supervision. Education and experience not req’d. Rate is $13.25 - $15./hr. Apply in person or fax No benefits. resume to: 403-314-1303
Field Service Mechanic Needed Gas Pro Compression Corp, located in Three Hills, AB, is a manufacturing & fabrication shop, which produces & services single well gas compressors ranging from 10 to 80HP. Currently we are looking to fill a position for Field Service Mechanic. Successful candidate must possess strong work ethics. Experience with natural gas compression is an asset but not essential. Trade Certification is required and preference will be given to those having experience. Please fax resumes to 403-443-5288, SUBWAY 733644 Ab Ltd. apply in person at 227, O/A The Rusty Pelican 17th Ave N, Three Hills All Red Deer & AB, or email to Peter. Ponoka Locations Location of employment: Pattison@gaspro.ca. Hiring Immediately 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. MILLARD TRUCKING LTD. Food Counter Attendants Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 is looking for a 2 Licenced Are you looking for a career email: Journeyman Heavy opportunity with excellent bennett.bkkp@xplornet.com Duty Mechanics. benefits, a mature working or Call 403-347-1414 The successful applicant environment and opportunity or Fax to: 403-347-1161 must be able to work well to advance? If so, Subway Only candidates selected in a high paced environhas a position for you! for an interview will be ment. We offer a great Some of our locations are contacted. working environment, very 24 Hours. Starting wage competitive wages and $12/hr. Please apply online performance bonuses. @mysubwaycareer.com or All interested person are Drop resume off in person Trades invited to apply to: at 180, 6900 Taylor Drive Millard Trucking Ltd. Or email to Ellis Fabrications Inc. is a Box 960, Sundre, AB careers@rdsubway.com growing business that T0M1X0 or Call us at 403-342-0203 designs and manufactures Fax: 403-638-4987 construction equipment Buying or Selling email: attachments. We are your home? mbrodie@enerchem.com looking for Full Time Check out Homes for Sale NOW HIRING for Welders to join our team. in Classifieds following Positions Email resumes to jobs@ Tile setters $28.25/hr efiattachments.com or fax Floor Covering Installer to: 403-227-0055. $ 28.25 / hr SHUNDA Full time and Permanent CONSTRUCTION 40hrs/week requires a Min 3 year experience THE RUSTY PELICAN is Labourer $20/hr Safety Coordinator now accepting resumes for 40hrs/week to implement, manage & a well experienced No experience required enhance our existing F/T HOSTESS Full time and permanent safety program. Fax & SERVERS position resume and references Must have Ref’s & Exp. Valid Driver’s Licence to 403-343-1248 or Apply within: 2079-50 preferred email admin@shunda.ca. Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. email resume at: Fax 403-347-1161 Phone LICENSED MECHANIC & cat1employment calls WILL NOT be accepted. AUTO BODY TECH. @gmail.com Reasonable rate. or drop off resume at Celebrate your life A.J. Auto Repair & Body Central Alberta Tile One with a Classified 11, 7836 49 Ave. 7619 50 Ave Suite 9 ANNOUNCEMENT Call 403-506-6258 Red Deer
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1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Custom T’s Hire Sales Supervisor - retail Location at Parkland Mall, 4747 67th St, Red Deer, AB T4N 6 F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends Salary - $22.00 hourly Experience min. 2 years, good English. Education: Some high school. Main duties: Greet customers. Supervise and co-ordinate sales staff, Hire and train of new sales staff, Resolve customer complaints, Control sales report and order merchandise, Authorize payments and the return of merchandise, Keep with Malls’ laws and regulations. Company’s business address: 45 Boyce Street, Red Deer AB T4R 1P2 Please apply by E-mail: Reachiesales@gmail.com 1699960AbLtd is looking for 2 F/T permanent shift supervisors for days, evenings, wknds. 120 - 47 Clearview Market Red Deer, AB. must have exc. customer service, cash handling, and supervisory related. wage $13.75 w/at least 1 year exp. email: restuarantbusiness@ hotmail.ca Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds
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PARKVALE AREA $586./mo. DEERPARK AREA Dixon Cres, Donnelly Cres, Duston St. area $482.00/mo. Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo. Dempsey St., Dodge Ave, Donlevy Ave area $327.00/mo. Dowler St., Daniel Cres. Dawe Cl., Dunham Close and area $412.00/mo. For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306 CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS
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NY cop killer had long criminal history BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The gunman who fatally ambushed two police officers in their squad car had a long criminal record, a hatred for police and the government, and an apparent history of mental instability that included an attempt to hang himself a year ago, authorities said Sunday. Moments before opening fire, Ismaaiyl Brinsley approached people on the street in Brooklyn and asked them to follow him on Instagram, then told them, “Watch what I’m going to do,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said. A portrait of the Brooklyn-born gunman emerged as big-city police departments and union leaders around the U.S. warned officers to change their routines and insist on extra backup a day after Brinsley carried out what he portrayed online as retaliation for the slayings of black men at the hands of white police officers. Brinsley was black; the slain officers were Asian and Hispanic. The slayings come at a tense time. Police nationwide have been criticized for months for their tactics, following Eric Garner’s death in a New York officer’s chokehold and Michael Brown’s fatal shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Protests erupted in recent weeks after grand juries declined to charge the white officers involved. Investigators were trying to determine if Brinsley had taken part in any protests over the deaths of Brown and Garner, whose names he invoked in his online threat, or simply latched on to the cause for the final act in a violent rampage. They said he travelled frequently between the South and New York, where he fathered a child in Brooklyn, and had been in the city earlier in the week. Brinsley, 28, had at least 19 arrests in Georgia and Ohio, spent two years in prison for gun possession and had a troubled childhood so violent that his mother was afraid of him, police said. He ranted online about police and the government and expressed “self-despair and anger at himself and where
his life was,” Boyce said. Boyce said Brinsley’s mother believed he had undiagnosed mental problems and may have been on medication at some point, but detectives were still trying to determine if he had a mental illness. On Saturday afternoon, Brinsley approached a squad car from behind in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood and fired four shots, killing Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. He then ran into a subway station and committed suicide. Hours earlier, Brinsley had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend at her home outside Baltimore, then made threatening posts online, including a vow to put “wings on pigs” and references to the Brown and Garner cases. Baltimore-area police warned the New York department that Brinsley was in the city and bent on violence. But New York police were still getting the word out when Brinsley struck. The slayings dramatically escalated tensions that have simmered for months over police killings of blacks. The siege mentality was evident in several memos circulating among the rank and file at the 35,000-officer New York Police Department, the largest in the U.S. A union-generated message warned police officers that they should respond to every radio call with two cars - “no matter what the opinion of the patrol supervisor” - and not make arrests “unless absolutely necessary.” The president of the detectives union told members in a letter to work in threes when out on the street, wear bulletproof vests and keep aware of their surroundings. “Cowards such as yesterday’s killer strike when you are distracted and vulnerable,” the letter read. Another directive warned officers in Newark, New Jersey, not to patrol alone and to avoid people looking for confrontations. At the same time, a memo from an NYPD chief asked officers to avoid fanning rage by limiting comments “via all venues, including social media, to expressions of sorrow and condolence.” New York City Police Commission-
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Prayers are said at a memorial, Sunday, honoring two New York Police Department officers who were shot while sitting inside a patrol car nearby the previous day. The armed man shot into the patrol car, killing them both. The assailant then went into a nearby subway station and committed suicide. er William Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio attended Sunday Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where Cardinal Timothy Dolan called for calm. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams visited a makeshift memorial at the site of the slayings, calling on protest organizers to “hold off on any type of protest until these officers are laid to rest in a peaceful manner.” At an appearance with the Rev. Al Sharpton, a prominent civil rights activist, Garner’s mother expressed her
dismay over the killings of the officers. “I’m standing here in sorrow about losing those two police officers. That was definitely not our agenda,” Gwen Garner said. “We are going in peace, and anyone who’s standing with us, we want you to not use Eric Garner’s name for violence because we are not about that,” she added. “These two police officers lost their lives senselessly and our condolence to the family and we stand with the families.”
Driver goes on rampage in France Pakistan makes arrests in Taliban school carnage that killed 148 amid fears of extremist attacks THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — A driver deliberately slammed his car into crowds around the city of Lyon in southeastern France on Sunday, raising concerns at a time when Islamic extremists are calling for attacks in France. The Sunday night rampage came a day after a knife attack on police in another French town that counterterrorist police are investigating. The government said the motive for Sunday’s attack was unclear. The government stepped up security measures for police and other authorities. In Sunday’s incident, police arrested the out-of-control driver after he injured at least 11 people, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. . The Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations have repeatedly called for attacks against France, notably because of the French military’s participation in U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq. Some extremists have specifically suggested that anyone angry at the French government could use weapons
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easily at hand -- such as cars or knives — to stage “lone wolf” attacks. The Interior Ministry said the driver in Sunday’s car attack, a 40-year-old driving a Renault Clio, was known to police for minor offences in the 1990s. Police union official Michel Bonnet said on BFM television that some witnesses apparently heard the driver say “Allahu Akbar,” or “God Is Great,” and refer to the “children of Palestine.” But the Interior Ministry would not confirm that. In an indication of how seriously the government is taking the incident, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was to head to Lyon on Monday. Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said it was too early to say whether there was any connection between the Sunday car attack and the knife attack in Joue-les-Tours in central France on Saturday. In the Saturday incident, two police officers were seriously injured and the attacker was killed, according to the ministry. While the motive remains uncertain, anti-terrorism police are involved in the investigation.
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD — Authorities made several arrests in the case of the Taliban school attack that killed 148 in the northwestern city of Peshawar, on Sunday, officials said. “Quite a few suspects who were facilitators in one way or the other have been taken into custody,” Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said, adding that the interrogations were “moving ahead in a positive manner.” He did not disclose their identities or say how many they were. Seven Taliban gunmen wearing explosives belts stunned the world on Tuesday by storming into the military run school and slaughtering 148 people, including 132 students. Another nearly 121 students were wounded in the ensuing eight-hour siege of the school, located in an area where many military families live. The group claims it fights to establish a ruling system based on its own harsh brand of Islam. It has killed thousands over nearly a decade.
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The Taliban say they attacked the school in revenge for an army operation against them in North Waziristan, launched in mid-June. The army says it has so far killed over 1,200 militants in the operation. The government bombed the militants’ hideouts in country’s tribal area along the Afghan border in response, and also lifted a ban on the execution of convicted terrorists. Over the weekend, it executed six men convicted on terrorism charges. Two of the convicts were hanged Friday, and another four on Sunday, according to two Pakistani government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters. All six belonged to local Pakistani militant groups who had turned against the state, and were convicted for involvement in two attempts to assassinate former President Pervez Musharraf. One was also convicted of leading a militant siege of Pakistani army headquarters in garrison city of Rawalpindi in 2009.
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists pose regional threat there are groups of disgruntled youths who are an easy target for Boko Haram recruitment. Across borders, people often belong to the same tribe and speak the same local languages. Boko Haram offers signing bonuses and monthly pay to those who join, say residents. Boko Haram leader Abubakar
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Thousands of members of Nigeria’s home-grown Islamic extremist Boko Haram group strike across the border in Cameroon, with co-ordinated attacks on border towns, a troop convoy and a major barracks. Farther north, Boko Haram employs recruits from Chad to enforce its control in northeastern Nigerian towns and cities. In Niger, the government has declared a “humanitarian crisis” and appealed for international aid to help tens of thousands of Nigerian refugees driven from their homes by the insurgency. These recent events show how neighbouring countries are increasingly being drawn into Nigeria’s Islamic uprising. Thousands of people have been killed in Nigeria’s 5-year insurgency and some 1.6 million people driven from their homes. “We are concerned about the increasing regionalization of Boko Haram,” said Comfort Ero, Africa director for International Crisis Group. On Sunday, Cameroon’s army announced it had broken up a Boko Haram training camp in the Mayo-Danay district in the country’s Far North region. The army was looking for other hideouts in the area, said Jean-Pierre Mbida, a soldier with the Rapid Intervention Battalion tasked with fighting the insurgents. “We will continue monitoring the area in the hope of uncovering any other Boko Haram hideouts and training grounds,” he added. Ero cautioned that co-operation between the neighbouring countries is weak. “None of the sides is willing to share information with the other,” Ero said. “There’s always been a lack of confidence in terms of shared regional security.” She said there is also distrust of the capabilities of Nigeria’s once-proud military, which has been battered by Boko Haram. A court-martial this week sentenced 54 soldiers to death by firing squad for refusing to fight the extremists. Chad responded this Award Winning week by opening a reCulligan gional “counter-terrorism High Efficiency cell” against Boko Haram Water Softener in N’Djamena, Chad’s capital 40 miles (60 kilometres) from the Nigerian border, said an adviser to French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. Boko Haram’s threat to Deale Dealer De ea r par pa participation rtici icipa icip ic cipation on vvaries. on aries ar ies ees. Limi LLimited Lim itteedd ttime ime me ooffer. ffer. TThe he BEST he B T BUY BES BUY SEAL S L iss a registered SEA regis egisttered trademark eg egis tradem rraadem dem emark arkk of of Consumers Consu onsu nsuumers meers rss Digest Digeest Communications, Diges D Communica Comm Co Commu nica ications oons, LLC, LLC, used LLC ussed under undd lilic unde llicense. icense ense. see. neighbouring countries
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