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Jablonski moves on RED DEER NORTH MLA WON’T SEEK SIXTH TERM BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski has called it a career. Surrounded by family and friends, an emotional Jablonski told her supporters on Monday that it was with sadness and mixed emotions that she decided not to seek a sixth term. “There comes a PC CANDIDATES START t i m e w h e n STEPPING FORWARD C1 you need to spend more time with your family,” said Jablonski. “I want to be home at night with my husband and I want to be here in Red Deer with my grandkids. ... It’s just time for me to move on.” The five-term MLA will serve until the next provincial election is called. Jablonski predicted that will happen in April. But she said she leaves knowing that Alberta is “in good hands” under the leadership of Premier Jim Prentice. “I have no doubt in my mind that history will see Jim Prentice as one of Alberta’s greatest premiers,” said Jablonski. Jablonski said it was a privilege to serve Red Deerians and Albertans for nearly 15 years. She thanked her family, staff and supporters, who have been at her side from Day 1. She was elected in a 2000 byelection to fill a spot left vacant by Stockwell Day, who left to run federally for the Canadian Alliance Party. Over the years, Jablonski served on numerous committees and task forces. She was also the minister of Seniors and Community Supports under former premier Ed Stelmach. On Monday, Jablonski said one highlight was when she was granted unanimous consent of the legislature to set aside the orders of the day and proceed with early consideration of her private member’s bill, Protection of Children Abusing Drugs Act. The legislation gives parents the right to seek treatment for their children who have drug and alcohol addictions.
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Son of RCMP Constable David Wynn, Matthew Wynn is consoled by his mother Shelly MacInnis-Wynn during the funeral for slain RCMP Constable David Wynn, in St. Albert on Monday.
Thousands attend funeral for Mountie slain during struggle BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. ALBERT — The sister of an Alberta Mountie told mourners at his funeral Monday that he would want them to live life the way he did — with joy, with passion and with every effort to make the world a better place. “Over the past 10 days, there has been such an outpouring of stories about Dave and obvious love for him from the people that he has touched that I have realized he was far more than I ever imagined,” Mona Wynn said in her eulogy before thousands at a recreation centre in St. Albert. “Dave was an ordinary man with an extraordinary capacity to make the world a better place for everyone around him.” Const. David Wynn, 42, died last Wednesday, four days after he and auxiliary Const. Derek Bond were shot during a struggle with a suspected car thief at a casino in St. Albert. He was shot in the head and never regained consciousness before he died. The shooter, career criminal Shawn Rehn, killed himself hours later. Wynn’s sister asked everyone to take
up the example her brother set. “He would want us to throw ourselves into the things that bring us joy and to do it for him. He would want us to follow our hearts ... he certainly did that,” she said. “David would want us to forgive. He was a peaceful man. He didn’t have the time to even notice a grudge much less hold one.” Wynn’s sister remembered him as a person who brought enthusiasm to everything he did be it scuba diving, swimming, fly fishing, spending time with his family or serving his community and country. She noted that Wynn’s organs and tissue were donated and the family has been told they will help as many as 35 people. RCMP Insp. Kevin Murray called him “the finest example of a front-line police officer.” Deputy Commissioner Marianne Ryan, responsible for the Alberta RCMP, addressed Wynn directly: “Constable David Matthew Wynn, you have served this province and your country well. It is soon time for you to grab your fishing rod and head for the Miramichi, where I know your father
will be waiting for you once more. We wish you Godspeed and tight lines.” It was standing room only as more than 7,000 people came to pay their respects. The mourners included more than 2,100 Mounties, police officers, military members and first responders from communities across Canada. Their uniforms of scarlet, green and different shades of blue brought colour to the hushed arena where friends, family, guests and dignitaries gathered in a solemn show of support for Wynn’s widow, Shelly, and three teenage sons. The eldest, dressed in his cadet corps uniform, had marched in the procession for his father before the funeral. Duncan MacInnis, Wynn’s uncle and a retired Mountie, choked up as he spoke to the crowd about their grief. “The sudden and violent death of David has left everyone in the policing community and the general public suffering a profound loss,” MacInnis said. “As a family, as a police force and as a community, we mourn and grieve our fallen hero.”
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High-risk takedown at Schlumberger site ends peacefully BY MARY-ANN BARR RED DEER ADVOCATE A man caught up in a police incident just south of Red Deer on Monday afternoon said it began for him when he was told to stay indoors. “I says, ‘What’s going on?’ and I looked out in the front lot there was a half dozen RCMP vehicles, the officers were vesting up, they were getting out their high-powered rifles.” The incident occurred outside at Schlumberger Ltd.’s pressure pumping base in McKenzie Industrial Park, located on McKenzie Road between 30th and 40th Avenues. Blackfalds RCMP responded to a call of an attempted truck theft and firearm complaint. It ultimately ended peacefully with the arrest of one 17-year-old male suspect. Blackfalds and Innisfail RCMP, ALERT, Police Dog Services and the RCMP helicopter were involved. RCMP said the firearm turned out to be a replica pistol. The man who was there when it happened, and whom the Advocate is
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With weapons drawn RCMP members attend a high-risk takedown in the parking lot at Schlumberger south of the City of Red Deer in the McKenzie Industrial subdivision Monday afternoon. The Schlumberger building was in lockdown while the RCMP apprehended a suspect on the site. not identifying, said a lockdown for safety purposes quickly began at about 2 p.m., when about 75 people who were working outside in the yard were told through company loudspeaker to come
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inside. A suspect was sitting in a large black crewcab truck in the parking lot on the east side of the Schlumberger facility.
The man who spoke to the Advocate said that the whole time police officers were putting on their vests and preparing, another police officer was on his knees with a high-powered rifle on the hood of the (police) car, trained on the vehicle and suspect about 75 yards away. The man said he did not see the suspect because the back windows of the truck were blacked out. He did not know how the suspect got in the parking lot. It was about an hour and a quarter later that police informed everyone they being moving further away from the incident, eventually to the very west side of the site. The suspect was on the east side of the site. Buses were going to be brought in so workers could be removed to safety from the site. As they were lining for the buses, which hadn’t arrived, “an RCMP officer came in and said the individual surrendered to police and the situation was under control.”
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Visitors spent about $27M in Sylvan Lake last year: study BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Sylvan Lake’s 760,000 summer visitors spent about $27 million last year, says a new study. Edmonton-based Banister Research and Consulting Inc. presented its Visitor Onsite Survey and Economic Impact Assessment of Tourism to town council on Monday night. Based on 766 onsite surveys done over last July and August, as well as other research and economic impact modelling, the results were good news to the community, says Mayor Sean McIntyre. “Our whole goal was to quantify our visitor impact in Sylvan Lake,” said McIntyre. “There’s been an ongoing question of what is the real benefit of tourism and I think tonight it is well outlined that the benefit is significant.” McIntyre said the town can use the results of the assessment for future planning. “One thing we will definitely be doing is working with our local chamber of commerce and business owners to make sure that those people coming into our community know about their business and local business owners have an opportunity to take advantage of the massive amount of visitors coming to Sylvan Lake.
“There will definitely be follow-up reports that come out of this to articulate the importance of capital investment and programs that are ongoing.” Tourism has created the equivalent of about 600 person years of employment, said Banister vice-president Tracy With. The overall provincial impact of Sylvan Lake’s tourism is close to $75 million, which business-tobusiness spending and money spent elsewhere that is connected to Sylvan Lake. Among visitors, 81 per cent were vacationing, followed by 11 per cent who were visiting friends and family. Average spending among visitors was about $35 per person. The average party size was 4.2 people and the average visitor stayed 1.5 nights. Almost six out of 10 visitors were aged 25 to 44. Among the questions asked was what visitors would like to see more of in the town. Forty-three per cent suggested they’d like to see more attractions and 18 per cent wanted more sand and beach, which has been an ongoing issue in the last few years. Of those visiting, 73 per cent were from elsewhere in Alberta. Edmontonians led the pack with 30 per cent of visitors from there, with 28 per cent coming from Calgary and 13 per cent from Red Deer. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
Town council weighing bylaw change to allow boat storage facility BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Sylvan Lake town council wants more time to consider bylaw changes that would allow for the construction of a boat storage warehouse near the lakeshore. A developer is considering building a storage place for boats next to Wild Rapids Waterslide. Boats would be stored inside, and when needed, a forklift would hoist the boats and place them in the water. The facility would complement a marina that is in the works in front of Chateau Suites. Local firms Bear Development Corp. and Lakeview Contracting have partnered to build the proposed floating marina for a site in front of the Bearowned Chateau Suites. Both the boat storage facility and the marina are in the planning stages and formal development applications have not come before council. What was before council on Monday was a bylaw amendment that would allow for storage/warehouse facilities in the zoning that applies to the site.
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ARREST: No shots fired “There was no shots fired. From where I was I could hear them, they were hailing him over loudspeakers so if there was any shots fired I would have definitely heard them.” The man said police were speaking over a loudspeaker to the suspect: “‘Come on, you got nowhere to go, surrender,’ words to that effect. It was all very well controlled, I would say done to textbook.” “I was concerned. When you see guns drawn and that, I was concerned for the welfare of the individuals involved. ... not to sound callous but it was a major convenience.” “Everybody was very calm. I would say all in all it was handled very professionally.” He said he was irked with police when they came and said they didn’t want anyone to contact media or social media. “I’m not on Facebook or Twitter, I don’t know how people work those things, but at one point they were quite concerned. They said they had the names of individuals who were posting to Facebook ... and they didn’t want anybody else posting to Facebook.” Police shut down McKenzie Road for a short time. The incident was over by about 4 p.m. RCMP said there would be no further information provided until this afternoon. barr@reddeeradvocate.com
JABLONSKI: Made history “Ministers told me that I would not able to get (the bill) passed and it would never be proclaimed,” said Jablonski. “But with the help of desperate parents and others who cared about kids, we did what couldn’t be done.” She is still greeted by parents who thank her for helping their children to be free of their addictions. Another milestone in her career was her advocacy work alongside the families or residents and others to keep Michener Centre open. “Although I believe it was important for people to live in our communities,” she said, “I don’t think it was right to send our Michener Centre residents out in the community at the ages they were at. I know it would help our budget to shut all Michener down but I think it is just too important to the lives of those people. I was tremendously grateful when Premier Prentice made the decision to keep Michener open.” Jablonski also counts keeping the doors open to Kentwood Place, supportive housing for people with schizophrenia, among her career highlights. “At one point someone wanted to shut it down,” she recalled. “I think it was one of the only times as minister I put my foot down and said ‘No way.’ Kentwood goes on to be a very successful place.” Jablonski served under five Alberta premiers —
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Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski poses with her family after a news conference where she announced she would not seek a sixth term. Pictured from left to right are Amy Corrigan, Bob, Mary Anne, Krystin, Amber and Jeremy Jablonski. Ralph Klein, Stelmach, Alison Redford, Dave Hancock and Prentice. She said people either loved or hated Klein but the more she knew him, the more she realized what a gift he was to Alberta. “Premier Stelmach had the biggest heart of any premier in Canada,” said Jablonski. “Premier Redford provided challenges as we all know. Premier Hancock was an extremely wise man. ... Serving with Jim Prentice is extremely remarkable.” In March 2013, Jablonski made history by becoming the first female Speaker of the house to preside over Question Period, in Alberta’s 28th legislature. Speaker of the House Gene Zwozdesky was away for the day. While she said there were some serious moments of maintaining order and decorum in the house, there were some exciting and fun times. Jablonski said the rule is when the Speaker stands, you sit — but sometimes the official Opposition did not respect the rules. “I had to be very assertive and say to one of the (official Opposition) when I stand, you sit. He sat,” she laughed. She helped develop and launch Alberta Supports, a one-stop program that eliminates duplication and streamlines social-based provincial programs and services.
Three or four people are expected to put their names on the Red Deer North Progressive Conservative nomination ballot. Jablonski said she will not endorse any candidates but will be there as a resource for the hopefuls. Mayor Tara Veer, among other dignitaries, was on hand for the news conference. Veer called Jablonski a longtime close, personal friend. “She has served not only Red Deer North well, but the community well and Albertans well,” said Veer. “We certainly wish her the best in her future endeavours. We are just proud to call her our own.” Addressing rumours that she may seek the PC nomination, Veer said she was given a four-year mandate as mayor and she will keep her election promises. Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas has not said whether he will seek another term. He is expected to make an announcement next week. Dallas said Jablonski will be a tough act to follow and the new MLA will have big shoes to fill. Jablonski said she will volunteer in the community and perhaps work in the family business. She said she will continue to be a strong supporter of the PC Party and Prentice. She predicted another PC victory in the next provincial election. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
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Sherman steps down as Liberal leader BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The last of the four party leaders who ran in Alberta’s 2012 election is calling it quits. Raj Sherman of the Alberta Liberals announced Monday he was stepping down from the party’s top job immediately and will not run in the next election in his riding of Edmonton-Meadowlark. He joins three other former leaders who have already stepped down — Progressive Conservative premier Alison Redford, Danielle Smith of the Wildrose and Brian Mason of the NDP. Sherman, 48, said that after two terms and three years as party leader, it was time to go. “It’s a personal decision for me,� Sherman told a legislature news conference, alongside Liberal Party president Shelley Wark-Martyn. “It’s time for me to move on to new challenges, and to turn the page on the next chapter of my life.� Wark-Martyn said the party’s board of directors will name an interim leader and map out the leadership race at a meeting in Calgary on Sunday. She said it’s up to the executive to decide if the party will have a permanent or interim leader should an election be called for this spring. Under Sherman, the Liberals continued their decline in both fundraising and in popularity, dropping from 16 seats in 2004 to nine seats in 2008 to just five in the 2012 campaign. Nevertheless, Sherman said he was proud of his accomplishments, saying he took the party out of
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FUNERAL: Minimemorials held across the country The Rankin Family from Nova Scotia, in recognition of Wynn’s Maritime roots, performed two songs in his memory, including their well-known Fair Thee Well, Love. Alberta country singer Paul Brandt sang Amazing Grace and two friends and colleagues from Wynn’s paramedic days in Bridgewater, N.S., also sang an emotional song about the life of a first responder. Earlier in the day, the skirl of bagpipes filled the air as a procession of
debt and has all the riding associations registered and ready to take candidates. “We offered the platform that would fix many of the problems Albertans faced,� said Sherman. He noted they fought for progressive taxation on income, something now being considered by Premier Jim Prentice. Sherman said he will now spend time visiting his mother and his two college-age children and continue to work as an emergency room doctor. During his career, Sherman cut a colourful and confrontational swath. He was drafted by the Tories and won the Edmonton-Meadowlark seat under their banner in 2008. He was named junior health minister but soon became estranged from his caucus, criticizing thenpremier Ed Stelmach for failing to deliver on promises to fix health care and assailing health officials for “knucklehead� decisions. Kicked out of caucus, he sat as an Independent before joining the Liberals and winning the leadership in 2011. Sherman’s decision puts the Liberals in flux at a time of electoral uncertainty. Conservative Premier Jim Prentice has not ruled out a spring election, even though the next contest is not scheduled by law until 2016. The Tories, and other parties, are now fast-tracking candidate nominations. Of the current five Liberal MLAs only two — Laurie Blakeman and David Swann — will run again. Calgary Liberals Kent Hehr and Darshan Kang
are running for the federal party. Wark-Martyn said the Liberals will begin nominating candidates in February. The Wildrose party is also holding a leadership race to replace Smith, who led a massive Wildrose floor-cross to the PCs before Christmas. Heather Forsyth of Calgary-Fish Creek is the interim leader. The NDP’s Rachel Notley replaced Mason, who stepped down last fall but stayed in caucus. As the vote looms, resignations are adding up. Last week, former Tory cabinet ministers Doug Horner and Fred Horne announced their political retirements. On Monday, former municipal affairs minister Doug Griffiths announced he was resigning from his Battle River-Wainwright riding immediately, saying it was time for fresh faces in the legislature. Longtime Red Deer-North Tory Mary Anne Jablonski announced she will not run in the next election. Rookie PC backbencher Donna KennedyGlans said she will not stand for re-election in Calgary-Varsity. Former Wildrose MLA Joe Anglin, who quit the party in November to sit as an Independent, said he will run for the PC nomination in his riding of Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre. Derek Fildebrandt, the former head of the Alberta chapter of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, announced he will run for the Wildrose in the riding of Strathmore-Brooks.
previously been outlined in planning documents — was to be added. Coun. Christine Lust was concerned about adding storage and warehousing as a potential use in the area. “I don’t think that’s an appropriate use of lakefront property,� she said. The proposal would do nothing to improve public access, which has been a goal of council’s, she said. Coun. Dale Plante was concerned that council was trying to change its land use bylaw for a project that had not even reached the development application stage. While there has been almost no comment on the
proposed land use bylaw changes, he suggested if the public were aware of all of the background and what has been proposed they would have commented. Coun. Megan Chernoff also questioned whether allowing dryland boat storage as a use was the right way to go. “I don’t feel like we have the information to see if that’s the best move.� Chernoff proposed tabling second reading of the bylaw amendment to give planning staff time to explore other alternatives. The bylaw amendment will come back to council on Feb. 23. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
police officers, military members and first responders wound its way through the streets of St. Albert. A riderless horse, a pair of brown boots turned backward in the stirrups, led a black hearse carrying Wynn’s coffin to the funeral service. Mounties in the procession came from across Canada and from as far away as Newfoundland and Nunavut. A handful made the trip from Bridgewater. Hundreds of spectators, who were encouraged to wear red, lined the procession route under sunny skies and unseasonably warm temperatures. Many were holding Canadian flags and one giant flag was strung from the erected ladder of a fire truck. Thousands of white ribbons were tied to trees and poles along the route. “We lost an important person in our society and we just wanted to be here to pay our respects,� said Beverly White, who lives about five minutes from the shooting scene and attended
the procession with her grandson. “It’s going to be an emotional day.� Laredo Nault, 14, travelled from Legal, Alta., with a quilt emblazoned with the quote: No greater love than to give one’s life for another. “It kind of popped up in our minds — an officer gave his life away to protect our country and I think that quote represents it good,� he said. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Alberta Premier Jim Prentice and RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson all attended the service. Bond, who was shot in the arm and torso, survived the attack, but faces a long recovery. In Ottawa, the House of Commons held a moment of silence as the pro-
cession began. The flags at the Alberta legislature flew at half-mast from sunrise to sunset. Mounties were also remembering Wynn at mini-memorials at detachments across the country. Near the end of the service, RCMP senior officers gave each of Wynn’s sons an article to remember their father by, including his belt and his Stetson. Commissioner Paulson presented Wynn’s widow with the crisply folded Canadian flag that had been draped across her husband’s coffin. She took the flag and held it tightly across her heart.
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Starting from scratch FOR ALBERTA, AND FOR MARY ANNE JABLONSKI, THE FUTURE IS A CLEAN SLATE Last August, when he was still an outsider wanting to get inside, Jim Prentice proposed a three-term limit for provincial MLAs. Now that he’s premier, that hasn’t been so much on the radar, much less the agenda. But MLAs in all three major parties in our province have been doing a lot of that work for him. In the next provincial election, not one of the current party leaders will have fought a provincial campaign before, GREG not as leader. NEIMAN Rachel Notley, leader of the NDP, will be the senior statesperson in the next election — and she has only been leading the NDP since last Oct. 18. “Officially,” Prentice has had premier-like status since winning the party leadership last Sept. 15, but he gained fully-elected status in a byelection on Oct. 27, nine days after Notley. That’s if you’re in the mood to split hairs. Wildrose has an interim leader, Heather Forsyth, in office since just
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before Christmas. That Christmas horribilus saw the mass defection of Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith, along with eight other Wildrose representatives, to the Tories. And now the Liberal Party of Alberta is also officially leaderless. Sherman could have held senior status in the next election, coming to the leadership wa-a-y back on Sept. 12, 2011. But he announced on Monday that he was stepping down, following a decision he made “walking a beach.” The usual reasons — a new direction, spending time with family, etc. — were given. The cumulative result is as clean a slate as this province has ever had electorally. There are fewer incumbents in high office known to be running today than I can remember in all my years of watching politics. Last August, while Prentice was promising things that only $100 oil could provide, the Calgary Herald ran a list of 23 Alberta MLAs who would have been in their last term of office, had the three-term rule been in force then. (For the record, in case you need to know, there is no three-term limit now.) That list included Forsyth, who was then serving her sixth term as an MLA, albeit her first term as a member of the Wildrose. That list also included Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski, who
is in her fifth term. Jablonski has also announced she would not be running in the next election — a decision that will not come as a surprise to the people who know her well. I did not like the tone of the Herald column last August in one major regard. The headline referenced people who have passed their “best before date.” One paragraph metaphorically suggested a “severance-free ice floe.” I’m no fan at all of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, but I am a fan of Mary Anne Jablonski. That might have caused me some major stress at the ballot box on a few occasions, but for a miracle of geography that put my home just south of the border of her riding. I was free to vote both my heart and my principles. For all the effect that it would have. As it is, Jablonski is nowhere near her best-before date. For her, I sincerely hope (and expect) the best is yet to come. Five terms is a long time. So we will need some reminding that Jablonski replaced the Red Deer MLA who bequeathed Alberta its asinine flat income tax: Stockwell Day. Jablonski won in a byelection to replace Day — who had definitely passed his best-before date in provincial politics, though not before saddling taxpayers with the legal expenses required to defend a defamation lawsuit for comments he made in a letter to the Red Deer Advocate.
We like to elect people who can deliver, people who can get things done. Jablonski had shown that political ability long before being elected. She successfully lobbied the federal government for dental care for members of the armed forces and the RCMP. As well, she advocated for greater rights for military spouses. Her husband Bob Jablonski had been a member of the military and was transferred to Penhold in 1980 — to our benefit. Successful private members bills are like hen’s teeth. Jablonski has championed two of them. One would give the parents of drug-addicted youth the right to force them into rehab. Another would increase attention for screening into Irlen Syndrome in school children, to give those children a better chance at making the most of their educations. And that’s overlooking a lot of the rest of her accomplishments. I don’t know about the value of any severance package for Jablonski, but I do know any reference to an ice floe is supremely disrespectful. My line is open to suggest any number of local agencies for her attention, that could benefit from having a person on board like her. A person who can get things done. 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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The limits of freedom: rights at the expense of responsibility Much discussion about freedom has arisen from the recent murders in Paris of Charlie Hebdo staff who had published provocative cartoons. Many demonstrators, even world leaders, have shown their solidarity with the Charlie Hebdo philosophy of total freedom, with numerous references to the French Revolution ideals of liberty, fraternity and equality. How realistic was this? Greg Neiman, in his excellent editorial Publish and be damned?, which appeared in the Red Deer Advocate on Jan. 13, wondered whether we should “blast those cartoons all over the world.” Then he asked the right question concerning our freedom to do so: “But what, exactly, would we be proving? That we are all capable of gratuitous religious insult? That we will all provoke anger, just because we can?” While on vacation in Aix-en-Provence, France, in 2012, I came across a very interesting monument in this regard. It was the cenotaph of a well-to-do carpenter and developer named Joseph Sec, who died in 1794, at the height of the French Revolution, when the heads of aristocrats were rolling, society was being reshaped, and ancient customs were being abandoned. This monument declares rather poignantly the limits of freedom. Loosely translated, it states: “Having left a cruel slavery, I have no master but myself. But I will use my liberty only to obey the law. Faithful observer of these laws which God himself has graciously given us, I admire them more each day and would rather die than abandon them.” Joseph Sec understood that freedom is not licence. He knew that the proper exercise of freedom means restraint and alignment with the law of God, expressed in the Golden Rule. Perhaps the greatest problem unleashed by the French Revolution was its disassociation of liberty, fraternity and equality from this biblical context expressed by Joseph Sec. Freedom is neither independent nor an end in itself, but an opportunity to benefit oneself and others. Unfortunately, the Revolution emphasized rights at the expense of responsibilities. I hope and pray that Christians, Jews, Muslims, and all religious groups, including agnostics and atheists, will be able to exercise their mutual responsibilities in respect and peace, because without that, the ideal of a multicultural society is unsustainable. Jacob M. Van Vliet Red Deer County
We won’t get rid of sales tax once it is introduced Re: Deficient provincial funds: As the price of oil goes down, we are starting to hear all kinds of rumours about a sales tax, return of health-care premiums, toll roads and hiking income tax, etc. The average price of a barrel of oil over the past 10 years is approximately US$73 a barrel. Indications are that the oil prices may remain low. A year from now, the price of oil may have stabilized, and we should not be burdened with some form of sales tax that will never go away. If it is essential to raise more funds to operate our province, I believe the majority of taxpayers would
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prefer the graduated income tax if given a choice at the ballot box. Another option is perhaps the time has arrived to use the rainy-day fund, namely the Heritage Trust Fund, that was created for hiccups like this. I think we all realize that we all have to pay and nothing is free, but it would be satisfying to know that all our hard-earned money is being spent wisely. Leo Leonard Red Deer
Have you been forced to leave Alberta to have surgery? Once again I am writing about our Alberta health care system. For many it works but for the people who need surgery, it’s a disaster and nothing gets done for years. Years ago, pregnant women were sent to the U.S. to give birth to their babies. Those babies born in the U.S. are American citizens and are subject to military draft and filing income taxes when they reach adulthood. I wrote about this to an MP and he checked it out. He was very surprised to find that this is true. I don’t know the status of these regulations today. My son is in Thailand right now recovering after his back surgery. While there, the doctors informed him that there was another Canadian just a few doors down from him, also with back surgery. Our son and this man met up and our son found out that the man was from Sylvan Lake. The man who made connections for our son is from the Grande Prairie area, as was our son. He went through the same nonsense about 10 years ago and he went to Thailand to get fixed up, successfully. Our son is the 13th person that he has made arrangements for in Thailand and he has another Albertan
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arriving this month to also get back surgery. How many more Canadians will be forced to go out of country to get surgery? Today I read a long story on a doctor of Dentistry in Okotoks who also went out of Canadian territory to get his back fixed as he was looking at three years to get it done in Alberta. It seems that once our politicians get elected, they enter the plastic bubble where the sky is the limit and the money supply for them is a bottomless pit of our gold, but they are oblivious to the working people who elected them. In reality, I feel, they don’t give a damn about them either. These politicians have blown up hospitals, sold hospitals and closed hospitals and seniors care facilities. How many millions and billions of dollars have our politicians wasted? They seem to have an insatiable lust for power and someone else’s money. Any time they need more money, they just up our taxes. An individual person doesn’t stand a chance against government. We must band together to get anything done, so for that reason I am asking, in this open letter, for all the people who went out of the country to get surgery and want to get something done by government, to send me an email and I will compile all the information and stories. I will then get back to each of you personally so we can try to accomplish mega improvement in our health care system. If you are willing to take part in this, send me an email and whatever information you are willing to share so I can get started. I am retired and have the time required. So I don’t get overloaded, please send your info on the date (day only of your birthday) to spread the emails out for a month. I am going to foreword this letter to all the major newspapers I can get to so the word will cover the province. My email is tomsk@telusplanet.net E.T. (Tom) Skoreyko Red Deer
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OTTAWA — There have been two more firefights between Canadian special forces troops and militants in the Middle East — clashes sure to fan the flames of a raging political debate about Canada’s evolving combat mission in Iraq. The elite troops were helping Kurdish commanders plan for an upcoming operation and twice came under direct fire while visiting the largely static front lines near Irbil, the military disclosed Monday. In both cases the Canadian troops returned fire and “neutralized” the threats, navy Capt. Paul Forget told a weekly technical briefing at National Defence headquarters. “They were acting in self defence,” Forget said. As the House of Commons resumed Monday, New Democrats launched a political volley of their own, calling on Speaker Andrew Scheer to convene an emergency debate on the “growing expansion of this mission.” During question period, both Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair accused the government of having misled the public when it promised there would be no ground combat for
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troops. “How many gun battles, how many airstrikes, how many targets painted by our troops on the ground before the prime minister and this minister admit that our troops are in a combat mission?” Mulcair asked. “Stop playing with words. Our troops deserve better.” The latest gun battles follow on the heels of an incident described last week by the commander of special forces, Brig.-Gen. Michael Rouleau, whose news conference helped to jump-start the dormant political debate in Ottawa. Operations involving the highly trained soldiers, who were deployed to advise and assist Iraqi forces last September, are usually covered by a blanket of secrecy. Rouleau acknowledged that his troops had on 13 occasions helped direct U.S-led coalition airstrikes to targets near the front line in what opposition parties are calling an escalation of Canada’s combat involvement in Iraq. Canadians have not directed any further bombing missions since the last update, the military said. Forget, like Rouleau the week before him, insisted Monday that the nature of the operation was “evolving,” and that special forces trainers were at
the front to supervise Iraqis as they put their instruction to the test. Defence Minister Rob Nicholson took a similar tack in question period Monday, saying Canadian troops can’t do the job without “accompanying” Iraqi forces. That contradicts Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who told the Commons last fall that the special forces role was to “advise and to assist. It is not to accompany.” During the Kandahar combat mission, Canadian troops would accompany Afghan soldiers, whom they were mentoring, into combat. It was a dangerous exercise that sometimes led to casualties. Both the Conservative government and the military ruled out a similar scheme when it deployed the special forces into Iraq. Despite the firefights, the risk assessment for trainers remains low, Forget said. But he was unable to say whether they are spending more time at the front as Iraqi forces prepare for an offensive to retake territory from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Airstrikes, meant to soften up the ground for that offensive, have continued and they included 12 bombing missions by Canadian CF-18s during the last week, Forget said.
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Thangaraj, the director general of financial planning and management for Foreign Affairs, said the report does not present the full picture. He said the 23-per-cent figure was accurate, but said the percentage would become lower in the next six months as more funds are spent. Mostafa Askari, the deputy parliamentary budget officer, said his office took that factor into consideration in its report, when it cited “timing differences of disbursements” as a factor for spending decline. “In their (Foreign Affairs) press release, they have not actually disagreed with our numbers,” he said. Askari said his office reached out to Foreign Affairs with its findings several weeks before issuing its report, but got no response. A senior Foreign Affairs official confirmed that was the case. “We can acknowledge that PBO did reach into the department, but we never connected with them on it before the report was published,” Ken MacKillop, the department’s assistant deputy minister for public affairs, said in an interview. The office of Development Minister Christian Paradis declined comment.
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BRIEF Legislation to bump veterans to front of federal job line is flawed: ombudsman OTTAWA — Canada’s military watchdog is worried about what it says are flaws in a bill intended to give veterans first crack at federal civil service jobs. Bill C-27, which is currently before the Senate after passing in the House of Commons last June, gives Veterans Affairs the power to determine whether a military member’s medical release is a result of service in the Canadian Forces. Canadian Forces ombudsman Gary Walbourne says that’s a determination that should be made by the Department of National Defence. The ombudsman’s office conducted an extensive analysis of the proposal, which was pushed last year as the government faced criticism for the summary dismissal of ill and injured soldiers, many of them with post-traumatic stress. The legislation is supposed to bump wounded soldiers to the front of the line for federal jobs, as long as they are qualified for the position. It may, however, have the opposite effect, said Walbourne. National Defence, which has access to medical records and service history information, is in a better position to justify an ex-soldier’s medical condition and the reason for the release, he argued. The way the bill is written, “it could be counterproductive,” Walbourne said in an interview. “There is the potential for certain releasing members to not have the right priority status — or be delayed getting
OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget office is defending itself from a government attack on its latest report on Canada’s plunging overseas development spending. The Foreign Affairs Department accused the parliamentary budget watchdog of relying on “inaccurate financial information” in a report that said spending on poverty reduction shrank 23 per cent in the first six months of the last fiscal year. “Moreover, the report suggests that the level of expenditures by the end of the second quarter is an accurate reflection of Canada’s disbursement plans for the full fiscal year, which is not the case,” the department said in a Monday news release. This is the latest public scrap between the Harper government and Parliament’s budget office. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Arun
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A6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 ing a copy of our policy to all other my colleagues across the country.” The policy builds on interim guidelines that were put in place last April, Naqvi said. The case of a trans woman from England who was detained by the Canada Border Services Agency last February pushed the issue to the forefront as she tweeted her experiences before being detained in a men’s facility, despite travelling on a passport identifying her as female. Avery Edison was eventually transferred to a women’s facility, but filed a human rights complaint about her treatment. She said Monday she couldn’t comment on Ontario’s new policy because her human rights case is ongoing.
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Canada finds case of H7N9 bird flu in traveller; first in North America TORONTO — A woman from British Columbia is the first person in North America to be diagnosed with H7N9 bird flu, after apparently contracting the virus while travelling in China earlier this month, Canadian health officials said Monday. A man travelling with the woman was also sick with an influenza-like illness around the same time and it’s believed he too was infected, but test results are still pending, said Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s deputy provincial health officer. “We think it’s very likely that the other person also had the same influenza,” Henry said during a teleconference organized by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The couple, who are in their 50s, were not sick enough to require hospitalization. They were treated with the flu drug oseltamivir — sold under the brand name Tamiflu — and were self-isolating in their home, said Dr. Reka Gustafson, medical health officer for Vancouver Coastal Health. Their names were not released and officials would only say that they were residents of B.C.’s Lower Mainland region. They have recovered, the officials said. H7N9 is a subtype of flu that infects poultry. But in March 2013, authorities in China reported several cases of human infections. Since then, nearly 500 human infections have been diagnosed, all either in China or in people who had travelled to China. Roughly a third of the known infected patients died. The death rate is lower than that of the other main bird flu virus that sometimes infects people, H5N1, which kills roughly 60 per cent of the people who become infected.
OTTAWA — The Conservative government is continuing to violate a Federal Court ruling that affirmed the right of refugee claimants in Canada to access health care services, lawyers are set to argue Tuesday. The Federal Court hearing in Toronto opens just the latest chapter in the ongoing legal debate over whether those awaiting a decision on their refugee claim ought to have all of their health care costs paid by the Canadian government. The regime that’s being challenged was put in place in November, after the court ruled that a massive overhaul of the program undertaken by the Conservatives in 2012 was unconstitutional and demanded a fix. What was put in place as a result of that decision doesn’t comply with the original ruling by Federal Court Justice Anne Mactavish, said Lorne Waldman, the lead lawyer for the refugee claimants and doctors behind the case. “The minister reintroduced health care for some refugees but not for all,” Waldman said. “And we’re saying that the changes didn’t comply with Justice Mactavish’s order because there are lots of people who aren’t getting coverage.”
Gender identity to determine where transgender inmates are placed TORONTO — Transgender inmates in Ontario will now be dealt with based on their own gender identity, not their physical sexual traits, a policy Ontario’s corrections minister is calling the most progressive of its kind in North America. Previously, inmates were put in institutions based on a person’s “primary sexual characteristics.” Now, they will be housed according to their self-identified gender and referred to by their chosen name rather than their legal name and their preferred pronoun. “This is the most progressive policy on the treatment of trans inmates in North America,” Correctional Services Minister Yasir Naqvi said Monday. “No other jurisdiction in Canada has such policy. In fact one of the things that I’ll be doing is send-
HALIFAX — A dentistry student at Dalhousie University has agreed to return to a disciplinary hearing investigating his role in a Facebook page that contained sexually violent content aimed at his classmates, his lawyer said Monday. In a letter to the university’s senate, Bruce MacIntosh said student Ryan Millet is willing to continue with the hearing before the school’s academic standards committee on Wednesday even though MacIntosh believes the process is flawed.
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“We are of the opinion that the process followed to date has been irreparably harmed as a consequence of lack of due process,” the letter says. MacIntosh has said that even though Millet helped expose the Facebook page, he was nonetheless stripped of clinical privileges and is facing disciplinary measures for alleged unprofessional conduct. He is one of 13 male students accused of being part of a private Facebook group where sexist and misogynistic comments about female classmates were posted. His disciplinary hearing started last Tuesday but was adjourned after MacIntosh complained about unfairness. In the letter to the senate, MacIntosh says he is hoping the committee will reinstate Millet’s clinical privileges and allow him to return to his fourth-year classes. But if the committee decides to impose disciplinary measures and maintain the suspension, he will ask the senate to “explore other options,” MacIntosh says. As well, MacIntosh has left open the option of seeking a judicial review if his client is not satisfied with the outcome of the hearings. The secretariat for the senate referred calls to university spokesman Brian Leadbetter. Leadbetter couldn’t be reached for comment.
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Rebels looking to prove they are a contender BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR
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Eugenie Bouchard reaches out for a shot to Maria Sharapova of Russia during their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday.
Bouchard falls short of Aussie Open semis BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — A bad start led to the end of Eugenie Bouchard’s run at the Australian Open. Bouchard, from Westmount, Que., was eliminated from the Grand Slam tournament on Tuesday after a 6-3, 6-2 loss to Russia’s Maria Sharapova in the quarter-finals. It was especially disappointing for Bouchard, who hoped to better her semifinal loss a year ago at Melbourne Park. Bouchard finished with 13 winners and 30 unforced errors on Tuesday, missing on both of her break point chances while dropping serve four times. “I felt under pressure the whole time, a bit on my back foot,” said Bouchard. “That’s not how I want to play. I feel like I didn’t start well, and it kind of all went downhill from there. “It’s definitely easier when you have a good start to the match.” Seventh-seeded Bouchard’s defeat in 78 minutes was her eighth at a Grand Slam and first of the season after four victories in 2015. Bouchard dropped serve in the opening game of the high-profile quarter-final, but regained her composure, holding for 1-2 with a winning backhand return. But Bouchard was never able to close the gap despite forcing Sharapova to save break points in the sixth game. Three games later, Bouchard saved a set point with a winner but lost the set a point later after sending a backhand wide. “She definitely played well today and she didn’t give me many chances. I know I could have done better for sure,” said Bouchard. “I’m disappointed with not taking the few chances I got here and there. Against great players, you have to take every little chance
you can get.” Sharapova took a 3-1 lead in the second set after another misplaced backhand by Bouchard. Sharapova earned a match point from a Bouchard forehand error and landed a winner of her own in the corner to seal the victory and advance to the tournament’s semifinal. “I had to produce a really good performance against Genie,” said Sharapova. “She’s been playing so confidently and aggressively.” Three of the four matches played between Bouchard and Sharapova have come at majors, with the Russian beating Bouchard at the French Open the past two years. Bouchard is the first Canadian — female or male — to play a Grand Slam singles final, losing to Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic at Wimbledon last year. She will now return home and decide if she will play for Canada in the Fed Cup in early February against the visiting Czech Republic. “I’m going to go visit the family, that’s for sure. Take some time off, rest the body a bit,” said Bouchard. “(Fed Cup) is something I was going to decide after the tournament. My tournament ended like half an hour ago, so I’m still going to talk to my team and make the best decision for me if I can play or not.” In play Monday, Milos Raonic tied a Canadian tennis record by reaching his third career Grand Slam quarterfinal with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-3 win over Spain’s Feliciano Lopez on Monday at the Australian Open. Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., joins Robert Powell as the only other Canadian man to reach the quarter-finals at three major events (1908, 1910 and 1912 Wimbledon).
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The Red Deer Rebels have been rocketing up the Western Hockey League charts in recent weeks. The Kelowna Rockets have been near or at the top of the league all season, thus setting up a genuine measuring-gauge game for the Rebels tonight at the Centrium. While the Rebels have been hot, currently enjoying a 7-0-0-1 run in their last eight games and with just one regulation-time loss in their last 10, they are still 15 points back of the leagueleading Rockets. Red Deer is looking more and more like a genuine contender, while Kelowna has been in that category from Day 1. The size of the gap between the two clubs will be exposed during tonight’s clash. “We’ve strung together a pretty good stretch and tomorrow night’s game should be really exciting,” Red Deer captain Conner Bleackley said Monday. “Kelowna is one of the top teams in the CHL, but we beat Brandon (the Wheat Kings trail the Rockets by a single point for the overall league lead) a couple of weeks ago and I know everyone is really looking forward to the match-up tomorrow night. It’s going to be a real good game.” The Rockets downed the Rebels 6-3 in their first meeting of the season — Dec. 17 at the Centrium — by taking advantage of Red Deer defensive miscues. The Rebels weren’t necessarily outplayed that night, outshooting their guests 28-24, but were repeatedly denied by Rockets netminder Jackson Whistle. However, the visitors were minus the services of top-flight defencemen Madison Bowey and Josh Morrissey — both with Team Canada at the world junior championship — during their last stop at the Centrium, as well as Leon Draisaitl, who was reassigned by the Edmonton Oilers to the Prince Albert Raiders earlier this month and ultimately traded to Kelowna. “We got down 3-0 that night and then came back (to knot the game at 3-3),” said Bleackley. “It was a bit of a different game being right before Christmas and with some world junior guys gone. “I’m expecting a bit different game
tomorrow with them having Morrissey, Bowey, Draisaitl and a lot of good players. But I think we’re right there with them as far as depth. In fact, I think that’s where we kind of have the advantage.” To experience success against the high-octane Rockets, the Rebels will have to be disciplined defensively and opportunistic while skating in the other direction. An all-out, start-to-finish effort will be required, as Bleackley noted. “In the last game with Kelowna, any time we had a turnover or made a mistake they capitalized on it, so playing a full 60 minutes, getting pucks to the net and limiting our mistakes is going to be huge because they have that highpowered offence that will make you pay,” he said. Bleackley agreed that the Rebels will be better served by paying attention to their own details than wondering what the Rockets will bring. “That’s kind of what we’ve been doing lately, we really haven’t changed our approach from game to game,” he said. “To us it’s just a matter of doing things over and over for 60 minutes. “There’s been a few games where we haven’t quite played a full 60, but it’s been more than good enough to win. But playing a full 60 minutes tomorrow night is going to be the biggest key.” The Rebels will close out a sixgame homestand Friday and Saturday against the Edmonton Oil Kings and Prince Albert Raiders, then will head west next week for games in Kamloops, Vancouver and Victoria. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
A tale of two conferences as teams reach halfway point NHL BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS, Ohio — Alex Ovechkin’s familiar gap-toothed grin has returned with the Washington Capitals in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff hunt. Hardly anyone’s smiling in the West, where the standings are far more convoluted heading into the post-All-Star break of the NHL schedule, which opens with 11 games Tuesday. “It’s hard,” St. Louis Blues defenceman Kevin Shattenkirk said during the All-Star festivities in Columbus, Ohio, over the weekend. “If you lose three, four games in a row, it’s scary because you find yourself in eighth place when you were in first a week ago.” It’s a tale of two conferences. In the West, seven points separate the fourth-place San Jose Sharks from the 11th-place Dallas Stars. Don’t count out the 12th-place Minnesota Wild, who rode a 23-10-7 second-half surge to clinch a playoff spot last year. And then there’s the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings who are a single point out of the post-season picture at the moment. “We’ve had some spurts where we played pretty good,” Kings forward Anze Kopitar said. “But we also had some
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Surprising Jets aiming to land in playoffs BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Winnipeg Jets have taken off and are on course to land in the playoffs, an experience their passionate fans haven’t enjoyed in nearly 20 years. “At this point in the season, obviously it becomes a little bit more realistic,” left wing Evander Kane said. “But we don’t pay too much attention to that. We’re just focused on the 20-some-odd guys we have in the room and the job we need to do ourselves.” They’ve been doing that job well. The Jets went 6-0-1 in their last seven games before the All-Star break to take a firm grip on the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference into the final stretch. They’re in fourth place in the daunting Central Division, five points behind leader Nashville. “I love our room. We’ve stuck together all year. We had a tough start to the season,” right wing Blake Wheeler said. “We’ve made a commitment to each other to just do the right things and stick with what works. I think we’ve put a lot of individual stuff behind us and just rallied around our team and our group and what we’re good at. I think that makes playing this game with these guys a lot of fun.” The old Jets went one-and-done in the 1996 playoffs, their last year in Winnipeg before moving to Arizona to become the Coyotes. The NHL returned to Manitoba in 2011, but the franchise that floun-
dered in Atlanta as the Thrashers has qualified for the post-season only once in 15 years (in 2007). The new Jets have been competitive most of the time, but this season the breakthrough has been obvious. “They’ve been unbelievable this year. They’re a big, fast strong team. They play a good team game,” Chicago Blackhawks defenceman Brent Seabrook said. “We played them three times now and lost to them all three times. They’re tough games every time we play them. They’re going to be a team to beat.” The professorial conductor of the success this season is coach Paul Maurice, who was hired a little over a year ago after the firing of Claude Noel. He has injected some liveliness into his relatively young team, pushing a punishing style with back-checking forwards yet enough speed and skill to play a puckpossession game. All-Star Dustin Byfuglien, now a permanent presence on the first blue line pairing where he’s most comfortable after spending some time on the wing, is 10th in the league with 144 hits. The Jets lead the NHL in penalty minutes. They’re in the middle of the pack in scoring, with well-balanced production along the top two lines. “They have a lot of meat on that team. They play hard. They play fast, and they come after you. It reminds me a lot of our team,” said centre Anze Kopitar of the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings. Maurice reflected last week on the progress from
those pressure-filled early days of his tenure. Even this season, the Jets have overcome a rash of injuries on defence and a four-game October losing streak when they were outscored 13-2 after winning their opener. “There was a lot of frustration. They were playing hard. They wanted to play better,” Maurice said. “And now, I think the general feel in there is that we’ve been pretty good. We’re on the right path. When you stand behind the bench, the players call the game, too. They know what’s going on.” Goaltending has been perhaps the biggest strength, with rookie Michael Hutchinson taking more and more turns from Ondrej Pavelec, who has been vastly improved himself from a year ago. Hutchinson is second in the NHL with a 1.90 goalsagainst average. Jets fans chanted his name as their last game before the break wound down, a 4-0 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. Though a limited amount of tickets are still made available for each home date at the MTS Centre, a base of 13,000 season tickets for the 15,000-seat arena has made the full house a nightly occurrence. “We’ve definitely turned a corner up there,” Byfuglien said. “Our game has come a long way. Our locker room is better. We’ve handled things a lot better. ... It’s definitely changed. It’s a good thing, and it’s fun to be a part of.”
Richards waived by Kings after years of declining production EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Los Angeles Kings decided they could wait no longer for Mike Richards to regain his championship form. The Kings put Richards on waivers Monday when they returned from the all-star break, finally acknowledging the veteran centre’s declining play. Richards has been a key part of the Kings’ two Stanley Cup championship teams in the past three seasons, playing a responsible two-way role and providing leadership. But his plummeting offensive production hasn’t matched his exorbitant contract since shortly after he arrived in Los Angeles, which acquired him from Philadelphia in 2011. The Kings stuck by Richards, hoping he would reclaim his formidable offensive game. But when Los Angeles returned from the break in ninth place in
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OPEN: Exciting time Raonic made it to the Wimbledon semifinals last summer and reached the French Open quarter-finals in 2014. But he had never been past the fourth round in Melbourne. “There was some great tennis played today and it’s only going to get better,” said Raonic after the match. “It’s an exciting time for Canadian tennis,” he added. “It’s great to see a lot of red and white at these matches. It’s a pleasure to play.” The eighth seed will next face top-seeded Novak Djokovic of Serbia, who posted a 6-4, 7-5, 7-5 win over Gilles Muller of Luxembourg. Raonic is the first Canadian man to make the quarter-finals in Melbourne since Michael Belkin did it back in 1968. “It’s great to be doing what I’m doing and that it is making a difference,” Raonic said. “It is, I guess, part of some history, if you look really deep. “But at the end of the day, I’m always pushing myself for what I want to achieve. I’m always looking in the mirror and saying, ’That’s who I have to compare myself to — to myself.” In women’s play, seventh seed Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., will play a Tuesday quarterfinal against five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova of Russia. Raonic needed to go five sets and more than three hours to beat Lopez, breaking for 5-3 in the final set and hammering home huge serves — including three aces in the final game — before an errant return from the Spaniard sealed the win. The 24-year-old Raonic finished with three breaks and 30 aces in a victory that also featured a massive 81 winners. “I’m happy with the attitude that got me through. I stayed calm even though things weren’t always panning out how I would have liked,” he said. “I missed a lot of break-point opportunities, but overall I can’t complain too much. I fought my way through.” Raonic improved his career record against Lopez to 2-2. He lost to the 14th-ranked Spaniard last summer in a Rogers Cup quarter-final in Toronto.
NHL: Great year And Ovechkin’s defensive numbers are markedly improved. After finishing third-last in the NHL with a minus-35 rating, he’s currently 40th with a plus-12. Steven Stamkos, captain of the East-leading Tampa Bay Lightning, isn’t exactly rooting for Alex The Great’s return to the playoffs. But, he noted, it would be good for hockey to have such a high-profile player competing well into the spring. “It’s great that he’s having a great year,” Stamkos said. “Any time you have a top player playing well it only adds to building our game.”
the Western Conference standings, general manager Dean Lombardi made the move. “I felt he deserved that chance for all that he had done for us,” Lombardi said during practice at their training complex. “I don’t think there’s any question we don’t win that first Cup without what he did for this team, and obviously you don’t win the second one. But you’ve still got to be at a certain level here that has to get done.” Richards, who turns 30 next month, has only five goals and 10 assists in 47 games with Los Angeles this season. He has a minus-7 rating and has won only 48 per cent of his faceoffs while playing on a depth line with the Kings — not the contributions expected of a player with a 12-year, $69 million contract that has a $5.75 million annual salary cap hit for the next six seasons. If Richards clears waivers and the Kings don’t
work out a trade, he could be headed to their AHL affiliate in Manchester if he accepts the assignment. Lombardi sees “no reason why he can’t come back ... and be what he usually is in the playoffs” if his game improves in the minors. The Kings clearly are in need of a spark after losing four straight and seven of eight heading into the break, falling out of the playoff picture. Los Angeles recalled rookie Nick Shore to take Richards’ roster spot. “We understand it’s a business, but in here, you’re a family,” Kings captain Dustin Brown said. “So that’s why it’s really hard to see (Richards) go on waivers. ... As a group of guys who have won together, it’s even harder.” Lombardi and Los Angeles coach Darryl Sutter have ardently defended Richards in recent years, even declining the chance to do a money-saving buyout of his contract last summer.
What the six Canadian NHL teams in contention must do to make playoffs
cording to all-star winger Radim Vrbata, talking about the Canucks’ 11-8-1 record at Rogers Arena. With 23 home games left the rest of the way, that’ll determine if Ryan Miller and Vancouver can hold on despite some inconsistency.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Four Canadian teams are in playoff positions at the NHL’s all-star break. The Montreal Canadiens are the lone Eastern Conference team, while the Winnipeg Jets, Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames are in the top eight in the West. Here’s what those teams have to do to keep the spots in the second half of the season and what the others in contention, the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs, need to do to make it. The Edmonton Oilers are 20 points out of a playoff spot and are largely considered out of post-season contention. Playoff chances are from Sports Club Stats. MONTREAL CANADIENS Record: 29-13-3, 61 points Place in standings: Third in Atlantic Division Chances of making playoffs: 98.8 per cent What they have to do: Hope Carey Price stays healthy. The all-star goaltender is Montreal’s best player, and as long as he’s on the ice and contributing, the Canadiens will be fine. WINNIPEG JETS Record: 26-14-8, 60 points Place in standings: First Western Conference wild card Chances of making playoffs: 92.4 per cent What they have to do: Don’t let up and the first playoff game in Winnipeg for this version of the Jets awaits. This team “turned a corner,” according to defenceman Dustin Byfuglien, and a 7-2-1 stretch going into the break gave it a nice cushion. VANCOUVER CANUCKS Record: 26-16-3, 55 points Place in standings: Third in Pacific Division Chances of making playoffs: 92.4 per cent What they need to do: Play better at home, acThe East teams outside the playoff hunt have plenty of catching up to do. The youth-laden Florida Panthers — whose roster includes rookie No. 1 pick, defenceman Aaron Ekblad — are ninth. Ottawa and Toronto are next with 47 points, and shown few signs of consistency even after both Ontario rivals changed coaches over the past two months. The West is filled with intrigue, which shouldn’t come as a surprise after many top teams spent last summer stocking up on high-profile free agents. Still, there are three teams — San Jose (fourth place), Winnipeg (seventh) and Calgary (eighth) — that are in the hunt despite not making many off-season splashes. Chicago and St. Louis both find themselves looking up in the Central Division at Nashville. “It’s a tough division to be in, but it’s also a good division to be in,” Blackhawks defenceman Brent Seabrook said. “We’re all playing meaningful games
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CALGARY FLAMES Record: 25-19-3, 53 points Place in standings: Second Western Conference wild card Chances of making playoffs: 72.2 per cent What they need to do: Beat the other teams in the hunt and “you try to avoid the losing streak,” captain Mark Giordano said. Up one point on the defending Stanley Cup-champion Los Angeles Kings and with others not far away, it’ll be a test of Bob Hartley’s young group. OTTAWA SENATORS Record: 19-18-9, 47 points Place in standings: 10 points out of second Eastern Conference wild card Chances of making playoffs: 16.7 per cent What they need to do: Hope one of the current playoff teams falls off its current pace because erasing a 10-point deficit this late is almost impossible. Winger Bobby Ryan said the Senators need to gain a point or two the rest of this month and close the gap in February and March just to put themselves in striking distance in April. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS Record: 22-23-3, 47 points Place in standings: 10 points out of second Eastern Conference wild card Chances of making playoffs: 4.5 per cent What they need to do: Get on a roll fast and figure out how to play interim coach Peter Horachek’s system. Losers of six in a row, the Maple Leafs are in danger of not only a lost season but huge changes on the horizon this off-season. A run to the playoffs now looks improbable but it might affect the organization’s plans. down the stretch, getting ready for the playoffs.” Not all will make it. There is a race to watch at the other end of the standings. Buffalo (14-30-3) and Edmonton (12-26-9) have been locked in a battle for futility and, more important, the right to land the top draft prospects — Erie Otters forward Connor McDavid and U.S.-born, Boston University freshman Jack Eichel. The Sabres are suddenly gaining the “edge” for last place and, with it, a guaranteed top-two selection. They entered the AllStar breaking having lost 11 straight in regulation — the NHL’s worst streak since Pittsburgh lost 13 in a row from January to February 2004, according to STATS.
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Beeston staying with Blue Jays in 2015 BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — After months of speculation, the Toronto Blue Jays announced Monday that longtime president Paul Beeston will be returning for one more year. Beeston signed a contract extension with the club and plans to retire at the end of the 2015 campaign, team owner Rogers Communications said in a release. Beeston’s contract expired in October, and there was uncertainty about whether or not he would be back with several media reports claiming the Blue Jays were looking for his replacement. Jays chairman Edward Rogers said the team had been in discussions about Beeston’s future since his contract ended. “There were many rumours flying about, but it would have been inappropriate to comment on such matters publicly,” Rogers said. “Make no mistake — we are elated to have Paul continue to lead the team for this season.” His successor will start when he retires, the release said. “We will not be commenting on the succession process or timing,” Rogers said. The 69-year-old Beeston was the first Blue Jays employee in 1976 and has been with the ball club for 31 years, winning two World Series titles with the team. “I love this ball club and the fans,” said Beeston. “I wake up every day thinking about the game and bringing another championship north of the border. I’m excited for the season ahead — we’ve got a great group of
guys who are fiercely competitive and hope to be playing ball in October.” Toronto made a splash in the offseason by adding Canadian catcher Russell Martin and third baseman Josh Donaldson to an already potent lineup. However the strength and depth of the bullpen remains the biggest question mark moving forward. The Blue Jays are without a proven closer at the moment after parting ways with Casey Janssen. Beeston, a native of Welland, Ont., was named team president and chief operating officer in 1989 and chief executive officer in 1991. The Blue Jays won World Series titles in 1992 and 1993 but haven’t been to the post-season since. He left the team in 1997 to serve as chief operating officer in Major League Baseball’s commissioner’s office, holding that role until 2002. Beeston later returned to the Blue Jays and was named team president and CEO in October 2009 after taking over the day-to-day operations of the club on an interim basis a year earlier after Paul Godfrey’s departure. General manager J.P. Ricciardi was fired near the end of the 2009 season and Beeston promoted assistant GM Alex Anthopoulos to the position. Together, they presented a long-term vision of a team that would consistently contend. Anthopoulos went to work by trading longtime ace Roy Halladay, overhauling the scouting and player development system and shuffling the coaching staff. However, the franchise’s long run of mediocrity has continued. The Blue Jays have either struggled or finished near the .500 mark since the changes
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Paul Beeston, President and CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays, smokes a cigar as he watches the Blue Jays during baseball spring training in Dunedin, Fla., on Feb. 17, 2013. After months of speculation, the Toronto Blue Jays announced Monday that longtime president Paul Beeston will be returning for one more year. Beeston signed a contract extension with the club and plans to retire at the end of the 2015 campaign, team owner Rogers Communications said in a release. were made. Anthopoulos made his biggest splash after the 2012 season. He acquired Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle and Josh Johnson in a blockbuster trade with the Miami Marlins and added N.L. Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey in a deal with the New York Mets.
With expectations sky-high, the Blue Jays fell flat and finished the 2013 campaign with a 74-88 mark. This past season, Toronto enjoyed a solid first half before fading after the all-star break. The Blue Jays settled for an 83-79 record and third-place finish in the American League East.
Habs prospect Hudon has Brown leads B.C. women back to playoffs at Canadian junior impressive showing at curling championships AHL all-star game BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS UTICA, N.Y. — Montreal Canadiens draft pick Charles Hudon is off to a an impressive start in his first professional season. On Monday night, he put an exclamation point on that performance. Hudon was one of three players to record a hat trick for the Western Conference in a 14-12 victory over the Eastern Conference in the AHL All-Star Classic. He shared MVP honours with goalie Jacob Markstrom of the host Utica Comets, the minor-league affiliate of the Vancouver Canucks. Hudon, a fifth-round pick in the 2012 NHL draft, has 11 goals and 25 assists in 43 games for the Hamilton Bulldogs, the most points of any rookie in the AHL. “I’m surprised,” Hudon said. “Since the start of the season, everything has happened for me. I just have to continue working like I have from the start.” It was the highest-scoring all-star game in league history, breaking the record of 25 combined goals set in 2009, as the AHL followed the lead of their NHL big brothers, who set a record with a 29-goal all-star game the night before. Brendan Leipsic of the Milwaukee Admirals and Mark McNeill of the Rockford IceHogs also had hat tricks for the Western Conference. Ty Rattie of the Chicago Wolves and Rockford’s T.J. Brennan had a goal and three assists each. Emile Poirier, Drew Shore and Teemu Pulkkinen also scored for the West. Shane Prince of the Binghamton Senators, an Ottawa prospect in his third pro season, had a hat trick for the Eastern Conference. Brendan Shinnimin struck twice, while Joe Whitney,
Chris Bourque, Jonathan Marchessault, Jordan Weal, Chris Wagner, Austin Madaisky and Alexander Khokhlachev rounded out the attack. With the Western Conference clinging to a one-goal lead with seven minutes left in the third period, Oklahoma City goalie Richard Bachman stopped Portland’s Shinnimin on a breakaway. Leipsic and McNeill completed their hat tricks in the next 53 seconds as the West pulled away. “The first period was like a game on the lake. It was pretty nice,” Hudon said. “The third period was pretty hard. Our goalie made some saves at the end. That helped a lot.” Markstrom stopped 16-of-18 shots in the first period. The only Eastern Conference player to beat him was Shinnimin, who scored twice. A 6-foot-6 second-round draft pick, the 24-year-old Markstrom is second in the AHL in goals-against average and save percentage. He said the allstar affair was not at all similar to a regular-season game. “There was a puck. It was five-onfive. There were boards and ice and teammates. That’s about it,” he joked. Still, as the shot total mounted in the first period, Markstrom found himself not wanting to surrender any more goals. “You put 40 hockey players out there, you don’t want to lose,” Markstrom said. After falling behind 6-4, the Western Conference reeled off six unanswered goals in a seven-minute span of the second period to go out in front, 10-6. The run ended when Hudon popped a puck up to himself to split two defenders and beat Manchester goalie JeanFrancois Berube with the backhand move Peter Forsberg made famous in the 1994 Olympics.
CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Corryn Brown led her B.C. rink to the championship round of the Canadian junior curling championships on Monday with an 8-3 win over Carina McKay-Saturnino of the Northwest Territories in women’s Pool B play. B.C. improved to 5-0 with the win, and erased the hurt of missing the national championships in 2014, a year after winning the Canadian title. “I really think that was kind of the huge driving factor for us, definitely. That was a crushing defeat, for sure,” said Brown, referring to losing in the provincial final a year ago. “And it really made us want it more, to be honest. The first year we won it, we didn’t really have any past experience, but having won it and then losing it? That was a huge crushing disappointment, especially being defending Canadian champions.” Nova Scotia’s Mary Fay (3-2) im-
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SCOREBOARD Hockey GA 153 154 162 178 166 195
Pt 74 57 47 44 39 31
CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL Medicine Hat 47 33 12 1 1 Red Deer 47 27 14 3 3 Calgary 49 27 17 1 4 Kootenay 49 26 22 0 1 Edmonton 49 22 21 4 2 Lethbridge 45 11 28 3 3
GA 134 148 149 175 141 192
Pt 68 60 59 53 50 28
GF 192 168 204 165 147 123
WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 47 36 8 3 0 206 Victoria 49 26 19 3 1 169 Vancouver 49 20 27 1 1 143 Kamloops 49 18 25 3 3 143 Prince George 51 20 29 1 1 155
Everett Portland Seattle Spokane Tri-City
U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 30 14 3 1 28 19 0 3 23 18 3 3 23 20 3 1 24 23 0 2
GF 167 176 124 135 139
GA 120 154 167 180 218
Pt 75 56 42 42 42
GA 128 164 132 142 147
Pt 64 59 52 50 50
Sunday’s results Saskatoon 3 Prince Albert 0 Calgary 8 Vancouver 0 Medicine Hat 5 Edmonton 2 Kootenay 7 Prince George 4 Portland 7 Tri-City 5 Seattle 2 Spokane 0
Wednesday’s games Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Kelowna at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Seattle at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Victoria at Portland, 8 p.m. Friday, January 30 Saskatoon at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Moose Jaw at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Calgary, 7 p.m. Regina at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m. Kamloops at Portland, 8 p.m. Medicine Hat at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Vancouver at Everett, 8:35 p.m.
Scoring
Toth Burman
G 22 13 22 19 7 15 14 10 11 16 8 3 7 1 4 2 2 2 3 0 0 0 0
MP 2261 588
GA 110 29
A 28 31 21 19 29 20 20 20 17 5 13 14 7 13 9 10 9 6 4 4 2 1 1
Pts PIM 50 8 44 47 43 45 38 30 36 28 35 27 34 19 30 49 28 43 21 67 21 15 17 43 14 18 14 41 13 25 12 48 11 17 8 31 7 6 4 4 2 26 1 0 1 12
+/25 -12 9 17 20 4 7 2 -3 -10 0 0 -18 7 0 -24 1 7 -16 — -2 — -6
SO GAA Svs Sv% 1 2.92 968 .898 0 2.96 265 .891
WHL Scoring Leaders Trevor Cox, MH Cole Sanford, MH Nick Merkley, Kel Rourke Chartier, Kel Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Cole Ully, Kam Tim McGauley, Bra Connor Rankin, CAL Jack Rodewald, MJ Nikita Scherbak, Eve Austin Carroll, Vic Jaedon Descheneau, Koo Jansen Harkins, PG Adam Helewka, Spo Adam Tambellini, CAL Luke Philp, Koo Chase De Leo, Por Brayden Point, MJ Tyson Baillie, Kel Colby Cave, SC Matt Needham, Kam Jake Debrusk, SC Chase Witala, PG Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Carson Stadnyk, Eve Travis Brown, Vic Nicolas Petan, Por Brett Pollock, Edm Chase Lang, CAL Rihards Bukarts, Bra Ivan Nikolishin, Eve Ivan Provorov, Bra Joe Hicketts, Vic Kohl Bauml, Eve Conner Bleackley, RD Adam Brooks, Reg Parker Bowles, TC Peter Quenneville, Bra Travis Sanheim, CAL Reid Duke, Bra
G 20 40 16 40 31 22 29 25 22 21 28 24 17 26 33 22 21 20 29 20 15 27 26 19 18 16 8 22 20 18 12 11 9 24 22 20 13 12 10 15
A 60 32 52 24 30 39 31 34 37 38 30 34 41 31 23 34 33 32 21 29 34 21 22 28 29 31 37 22 24 26 32 33 35 19 21 23 30 31 33 27
25 19 17 15 15 11 8 21 20 20 18 16 10 9 21 21 20 19 18 16
16 22 24 26 25 29 32 18 19 19 21 23 29 30 17 17 18 19 20 22
National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 48 30 14 4 64 N.Y. Islanders 46 31 14 1 63 Detroit 47 27 11 9 63 Pittsburgh 46 26 12 8 60 Montreal 45 29 13 3 61 N.Y. Rangers 44 27 13 4 58 Washington 46 24 13 9 57 Boston 48 25 16 7 57 Florida 44 20 14 10 50 Ottawa 46 19 18 9 47 Toronto 48 22 23 3 47 Philadelphia 48 19 22 7 45 Columbus 45 20 22 3 43 New Jersey 47 17 22 8 42 Carolina 46 16 25 5 37 Buffalo 47 14 30 3 31
41 41 41 41 40 40 40 39 39 39 39 39 39 39 38 38 38 38 38 38
GF 156 151 139 138 123 134 137 126 107 126 142 130 113 107 98 89
GA 127 129 119 117 106 106 120 121 122 128 150 146 142 134 120 167
Monday’s Games No games scheduled
Red Deer Rebels GP 46 46 45 47 47 47 47 47 41 47 47 38 47 47 38 45 43 18 38 30 19 14 29
Tanner Eberle, MJ Tim Bozon, Koo Coda Gordon, SC Brandon Magee, Vic Tyler Soy, Vic Madison Bowey, Kel Jason Fram, Spo Paul Bittner, Por Carter Popoff, Van Nolan Patrick, Bra Brad Morrison, PG Kailer Yamamoto, Spo Sam Reinhart, Koo Ryan Pilon, Bra Reid Gardiner, P.A. Jayden Hart, P.A. Miles Koules, Por Wyatt Johnson, RD Beau McCue, TC Justin Kirkland, Kel
WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 47 31 10 6 68 139 124 Nashville 45 30 10 5 65 137 104 St. Louis 46 29 13 4 62 148 111 San Jose 48 25 17 6 56 131 132 Chicago 47 30 15 2 62 148 108 Vancouver 45 26 16 3 55 124 114 Winnipeg 48 26 14 8 60 135 117 Calgary 47 25 19 3 53 136 125 Los Angeles 47 20 15 12 52 129 126 Colorado 48 20 18 10 50 125 137 Dallas 46 21 18 7 49 144 151 Minnesota 46 20 20 6 46 128 137 Arizona 46 16 25 5 37 105 156 Edmonton 47 12 26 9 33 109 158 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Tuesday’s games Swift Current at Brandon, 6 p.m. Kelowna at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Gay Sheen Bleackley Johnson Cote Maxwell Kopeck Feser Musil Polei Pawlenchuk Fleury Nell Doetzel Strand Nogier de Wit Bobyk Adamson Toth Grman Burman Mahura Goaltenders
TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 2015
Basketball
WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 48 35 9 3 1 217 Regina 48 26 17 3 2 176 Swift Current 48 21 22 1 4 142 Moose Jaw 49 20 25 3 1 142 Prince Albert 47 19 27 1 0 133 Saskatoon 46 14 29 2 1 133
GP 48 50 47 47 49
B4
Pts 80 72 68 64 61 61 60 59 59 59 58 58 58 57 56 56 54 52 50 49 49 48 48 47 47 47 45 44 44 44 44 44 44 43 43 43 43 43 43 42
Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Rangers at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m. Arizona at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Washington at Columbus, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay at Carolina, 5:30 p.m. Dallas at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Detroit at Florida, 5:30 p.m. Colorado at Nashville, 6 p.m. Buffalo at Calgary, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim at Vancouver, 8 p.m.
A 39 24 29 32 35 36 35 31 23 32 19 24
PTS 56 52 51 51 51 51 50 48 47 47 45 45
GA 99 131 139 143 151 156 147 184
Pt 83 60 56 50 49 42 38 34
South Division GP W L OTLSOL GF 47 37 7 1 2 174 47 35 11 0 1 185 47 28 14 3 2 132 48 26 15 4 3 151 47 21 20 3 3 157 47 22 24 0 1 158 47 15 26 3 3 127 48 13 32 2 1 132
GA 105 125 123 140 169 177 177 189
Pt 77 71 61 59 48 45 36 29
Saturday’s results Olds 3 Canmore 2 Sherwood Park 5 Brooks 4 Bonnyville 7 Okotoks 0 Lloydminster 7 Calgary Canucks 2 Grand Prairie 3 Drayton Valley 1 Drumheller 3 Fort McMurray 2 Sunday’s results Drumheller 3 Bonnyville 2 (SO) Camrose 5 Calgary Canucks 2 Wednesday’s games Sherwood Park at Bonnyville, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, January 29 Calgary Canucks at Calgary Mustangs, 8 p.m. Friday, January 30 Camrose at Brooks, 7 p.m. Fort McMurray at Spruce Grove, 7 p.m. Grand Prairie at Sherwood Park, 7 p.m. Canmore at Okotoks, 7 p.m. Whitecourt at Lloydminster, 7:30 p.m. Olds at Drumheller, 7:30 p.m.
Scouting report
S h a e Baxter and B r e n n a Parent also scored for the Sting, who will compete in the Guelph, Ont., U19AA tournament later this week. Grace Romansky made 22 saves against the Elite.
RINGETTE
GB — 7 16 1/2 18 23 1/2
Central Division W L Pct 29 17 .630 25 20 .556 22 22 .500 17 28 .378 16 30 .348
GB — 3 1/2 6 11 1/2 13
WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 32 12 .727 — Houston 31 14 .689 1 1/2 Dallas 30 15 .667 2 1/2 San Antonio 29 17 .630 4 New Orleans 24 21 .533 8 1/2
Portland Oklahoma City Denver Utah Minnesota
Golden State L.A. Clippers Phoenix Sacramento L.A. Lakers
Northwest Division W L Pct 32 13 .711 23 22 .511 18 26 .409 16 29 .356 7 37 .159 Pacific Division W L Pct 36 6 .857 30 14 .682 26 20 .565 16 27 .372 12 33 .267
GB — 9 13 1/2 16 24 1/2
Tuesday
● WHL: Kelowna at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Indiana, 5 p.m. Milwaukee at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Cleveland at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Memphis at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Chicago at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Washington at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday
● College women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, 7:15 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games Detroit at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Portland at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Sacramento at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Denver at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Dallas at Houston, 6 p.m. Boston at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Brooklyn at Atlanta, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at New York, 6 p.m. Charlotte at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Utah, 7 p.m. Washington at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m.
Friday
NBA Leaders through Jan. 25 Scoring Harden, HOU James, CLE Davis, NOR Cousins, SAC Anthony, NYK Aldridge, POR Griffin, LAC Thompson, GOL Curry, GOL Bryant, LAL Lillard, POR Wade, MIA Bosh, MIA
G 45 36 40 31 34 39 44 41 42 35 45 34 36
FG 375 330 376 263 302 360 394 332 336 266 333 286 279
FT PTS 368 1240 221 943 220 972 222 749 163 818 166 907 217 1013 140 936 162 958 196 782 204 990 151 738 154 763
AVG 27.6 26.2 24.3 24.2 24.1 23.3 23.0 22.8 22.8 22.3 22.0 21.7 21.2
Rebounds GB — 7 12 20 1/2 25 1/2
Sunday’s Games Miami 96, Chicago 84 Cleveland 108, Oklahoma City 98 L.A. Clippers 120, Phoenix 100 New Orleans 109, Dallas 106 Atlanta 112, Minnesota 100 Indiana 106, Orlando 99 San Antonio 101, Milwaukee 95 Toronto 114, Detroit 110 Golden State 114, Boston 111 Washington 117, Denver 115, OT Houston 99, L.A. Lakers 87
Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 3 Carolina 27, Arizona 16 Baltimore 30, Pittsburgh 17 Sunday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 26, Cincinnati 10 Dallas 24, Detroit 20 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 10 New England 35, Baltimore 31 Seattle 31, Carolina 17 Sunday, Jan. 11 Green Bay 26, Dallas 21 Indianapolis 24, Denver 13 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 18
Rebels vs. Kelowna Rockets Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium Kelowna is the overall WHL leader with a 36-8-3-0 record for 75 points, one more than the Brandon Wheat Kings. The Rockets have won their last two games and are 7-3-0-0 in their last 10 . . . The Rockets are explosive, with C Nick Merkley (1552-68) and C Rourke Chartier (40-24-64) sitting third and fourth in league scoring and C Tyson Baillie (29-21-50) occupying 20th spot. Madison Bowey is the league’s sixth-highest scoring D with 40 points (11-29), while recently-acquired D Josh Morrissey (8-18-26 in 32 games) — who along with Bowey won gold with Team Canada at this year’s world junior championship — and C Leon Draisaitl (4-7-11 in seven games) being other offensive threats of note . . . Kelowna is the league’s stingiest team with 120 goals allowed. Accordingly, Jackson Whistle sports a 2.49 goals-against average — second only to Seattle’s Taran Kozun — and a .914 save percentage with four shutouts. Whistle has also recorded 28 victories. Injuries: Kelowna — D Mitch Wheaton (upper body, indefinite), LW Tanner Wishnowski (upper body, indefinite). Red Deer — None to report. Special teams: Kelowna — Power play 27.4 per cent, first overall; penalty kill 79.5 per cent, 12th. Red Deer — Power play 18.4 per cent, 17th overall; penalty kill 86.5 per cent, second.
The Central Alberta U19AA S t i n g got two goals and an assist from Gillian Dreger in a 4-3 win over the host Edmonton U19AA Elite in weekend ringette action.
Chicago Cleveland Milwaukee Detroit Indiana
Southeast Division W L Pct 37 8 .822 30 15 .667 20 24 .455 19 26 .422 15 33 .313
NFL Playoffs
AJHL North Division GP W L OTLSOL GF Spruce Grove 49 40 6 2 1 204 Lloydminster 49 27 16 1 5 153 Fort McMurray 48 26 18 3 1 148 Sherwood Park 49 22 21 3 3 140 Bonnyville 47 21 19 5 2 150 Whitecourt 46 18 22 2 4 138 Drayton Valley 46 14 22 5 5 104 Grand Prairie 48 15 29 2 2 102
Camrose Brooks Okotoks Drumheller Olds Canmore Cal. Canucks Cal. Mustangs
Atlanta Washington Miami Charlotte Orlando
Memphis 103, Orlando 94 Boston 99, Utah 90 Denver at L.A. Clippers, late
Jordan, LAC Drummond, DET Cousins, SAC Chandler, DAL Randolph, MEM Gasol, CHI Vucevic, ORL Howard, HOU Davis, NOR Love, CLE
G 44 45 31 43 34 43 41 32 40 43
OFF 189 218 96 173 131 122 127 90 104 96
DEF 400 360 295 345 277 384 331 261 312 348
TOT 589 578 391 518 408 506 458 351 416 444
AVG 13.4 12.8 12.6 12.0 12.0 11.8 11.2 11.0 10.4 10.3
G 45 42 44 39 42 41 44 36 36 37
AST 457 418 433 359 344 306 327 265 257 263
AVG 10.2 10.0 9.8 9.2 8.2 7.5 7.4 7.4 7.1 7.1
Assists Wall, WAS Lawson, DEN Paul, LAC Rondo, DAL Curry, GOL Teague, ATL Lowry, TOR James, CLE Carter-Williams, PHL Holiday, NOR
Football
NHL Scoring Leaders G 17 28 22 19 16 15 15 17 24 15 26 21
National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 29 15 .659 — Brooklyn 18 26 .409 11 Boston 16 27 .372 12 1/2 New York 8 37 .178 21 1/2 Philadelphia 8 37 .178 21 1/2
Monday’s Games Portland at Brooklyn, ppd., snow Sacramento at New York, ppd., snow New Orleans 99, Philadelphia 74 Oklahoma City 92, Minnesota 84
Wednesday’s Games Toronto at New Jersey, 5:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m. Chicago at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. GP Jakub Voracek, Phi 48 Tyler Seguin, Dal 46 Patrick Kane, Chi 47 Evgeni Malkin, Pit 45 Claude Giroux, Phi 47 Sidney Crosby, Pit 43 Ryan Getzlaf, Anh 46 Tyler Johnson, TB 46 Vladimir Tarasenko, StL 46 Nicklas Backstrom, Was 46 Steven Stamkos, TB 48 John Tavares, NYI 46
Local Sports
Seattle 28, Green Bay 22, OT New England 45, Indianapolis 7 Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 25 At Glendale, Ariz. Team Irvin 32, Team Carter 28 Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1 At Glendale, Ariz. New England vs. Seattle, 4:30 p.m. NFL Odds (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Super Bowl, Feb. 1 Spread O/U NEW ENGLAND vs. Seattle 0.5 48.5
Tennis Australian Open MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Results Tuesday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses): Women’s Singles Quarterfinals Maria Sharapova (2), Russia, def. Eugenie Bouchard (7), Canada, 6-3, 6-2. Ekaterina Makarova (10), Russia, def. Simona Halep (3), Romania, 6-4, 6-0. Results Monday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses):
Men’s Singles Fourth Round Stan Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, def. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, 7-6 (2), 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (8). Kei Nishikori (5), Japan, def. David Ferrer (9), Spain, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3. Women’s Singles Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Garbine Muguruza (24), Spain, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2. Dominika Cibulkova (11), Slovakia, def. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Madison Keys, United States, def. Madison Brengle, United States, 6-2, 6-4.
Bowling Heritage Lanes High scores Jan. 19-25 Monday 55+: Don Knowler 241 high single; Bill Dunlop 663 high triple. Monday mixed: Doug Hoskins 260; Mitche Reglin 728. Tuesday mixed: Harvey Von Hollen 284; Von Hollen 772. Wednesday 55+: Don Knowler 284; Knowler 778. Wednesday mixed: Dave Kilbourn 271; Norm Bota 683. Thursday morning ladies: Betty Stoupe 236; Bev Mundle 616.
Thursday afternoon Special Olympics mixed: Ryan Baker 245; June Rolfson 394. Thursday mixed: Mike Sabbe 322; Sabbe 709. Monday scratch: Harvey Von Hollen 343; Eric Kjos 1,132 (4 games). Sunday fun: Ken Bement 251; Ray Clark 596. Youth Bowling of Canada Bumpers: Caiden Hort 86. Bowlassaurus: Heather Hort 102. Peewees: Sylis Gray 121; Gray 234. Bantams: Kexton Streit 221; Streit 543. Juniors: Austin Arnault 240; Brody Kopec 575. Seniors: Cody Pratt 306; Jason Smith 733.
Curling 2015 Canadian Junior Curling Championships MEN Pool A Team (Skip) W L Quebec (F.Asselin) 5 0 Manitoba (Calvert) 3 1 B.C. (Henderson) 3 1 N.L. (G.Smith) 2 3 Ontario (Ma.Calwell) 2 3 Nova Scotia (Manuel) 1 4 Nunavut (K.Komaksiutiksak) 0 4 Pool B Team (Skip) W L Alberta (Sturmay) 5 0 New Brunswick (R.Comeau) 4 1 Saskatchewan (Hersikorn) 4 1 Yukon (Wallingham) 2 4 P.E.I. (T.Smith) 1 3 Northern Ont. (T.Horgan) 1 3 N.W.T. (Mat.Miller) 0 5 Monday’s results Seventh Draw B.C. 8. N.L. 6 Alberta 4 P.E.I. 2 Manitoba 21 Nunavut 3 Ontario 11 Nova Scotia 6 Eighth Draw Saskatchewan 13 N.W.T. 6 Yukon 6 Northern Ontario 5 Ninth Draw Quebec 6 Nova Scotia 2 New Brunswick 10 N.W.T. 5 Alberta 8 Yukon 2 N.L. 8 Nunavut 3 Tuesday’s games Draw 10, 6:30 a.m. P.E.I. vs. N.W.T. New Brunswick vs. Northern Ontario Nunavut vs. Nova Scotia Alberta vs. Saskatchewan Manitoba vs. B.C. Draw 11, 11 a.m. B.C. vs. Nunavut Northern Ontario vs. P.E.I. Manitoba vs. N.L. Ontario vs. Quebec
WOMEN Pool A Team (Skip) Alberta (Rocque) Ontario (C.Brandwood) Quebec (E.Gagne) Manitoba (Peterson) Northern Ont. (Burns) Yukon (Horte) Nunavut (Pinksen) Pool B Team (Skip) B.C. (Brown) Saskatchewan (Streifel) New Brunswick (J.Comeau) Nova Scotia (Fay) P.E.I. (V.Smith) N.W.T. (McKay-Saturnino) N.L. (Hill)
W 5 5 3 2 2 1 0
L 0 1 2 3 3 4 5
W 5 4 3 3 2 1 0
L 0 1 2 2 4 4 5
Monday’s results Seventh Draw Alberta 15 Nunavut 3 Quebec 7 Northern Ontario 3 Nova Scotia 11 N.L. 3 Eighth Draw Northern Ontario 12 Nunavut 3 Saskatchewan 12 N.W.T. 3 New Brunswick 8 P.E.I. 7 Ontario 10 Yukon 7 Alberta 7 Quebec 6 Ninth Draw Nova Scotia 6 P.E.I. 4 B.C. 8 N.W.T. 3 Ontario 8 Manitoba 3 New Brunswick 8 N.L. 6 Tuesday’s games Draw 10, 6:30 a.m. B.C. vs. New Brunswick Manitoba vs. Yukon Draw 11, 11 a.m. Nova Scotia vs. Saskatchewan Alberta vs. Northern Ontario N.L. vs. N.W.T. Quebec vs. Nunavut End of round robin
MIDGET AA HOCKEY The Red Deer Elks earned five of six points in weekend midget AA hockey play, with only the Airdrie Lightning denying them a win. Reid Sterling scored twice as the Elks opened their weekend slate with a 4-1 win over their Red Deer rivals — the Indy Graphics Chiefs — Friday at the Collicutt Centre. Tyler Wall and Landon Siegle, into an empty net, also tallied for the winners, while Carter Gendreau made 21 saves. Kyle Gibson notched
● WHL: Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Midget AA hockey: Lacombe at Olds, 7:30 p.m.; Red Deer Indy Graphics at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Royals at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Major midget girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 8:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Chinook senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday
● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 11 a.m., Caroline; Lethbridge White at Red Deer TBS, 3 p.m., Kinsmen A; ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Lacombe at Red Deer Ramada, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Southwest at Olds, 3:45 p.m.; Taber at Sylvan Lake, 5:45 p.m. ● WHL: Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Drumheller at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Stettler at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at Three Hills, 8 p.m.
Sunday
● Peewee AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Lethbridge White at Olds, 12:15 p.m.; Bow Valley at Lacombe, 3 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Bisons at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Major midget girls hockey: Peace Country at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Bantam AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A; Southwest at Lacombe, 2 p.m.; Taber at Olds, 2:45 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Elks, 2:45 p.m., Arena; Foothills at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m.
Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with INF Ryan Flaherty and RHP Bud Norris on one-year contracts. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with LHP Joe Paterson, RHP Brian Broderick, C J.C. Boscan, OF Moises Sierra and INFs Ryan Jackson and Gabriel Noriega on minor league contracts. SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with OFs Endy Chavez and Franklin Gutierrez on minor league contracts. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Signed team president Paul Beeston to a one-year contract extension and announced Beeston will retire at the end of the season. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with C Devin Mesoraco on a four-year contract. COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms with RHP Adam Ottavino on a one-year contract. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with RHPs Marcos Mateo and Jay Jackson, LHPs Scott Elbert and Jason Lane, C Griff Erickson and INFs Ramiro Pena and Brett Wallace on minor league contracts. FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Named Michael Hamlin special teams quality control coach, Aaron Kromer offensive line coach, Sanjay Lal wide receivers coach, D’Anton Lynn defensive assistant coach, Anthony Lynn assistant head coach and running backs coach and Chris Palmer senior offensive assistant coach. Retained assistant offensive line coach Kurt Anderson, defensive backs coach Donnie Henderson, outside linebackers coach Jason Rebrovich and offensive quality control coach Jason Vrable. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed P Cody Mandell. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed S Charles Woodson to a contract extension. Canadian Football League CALGARY STAMPEDERS — Signed DB Arthur Hobbs Jr. and WR Stephen Burton. SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS — Signed S Tyron Brackenridge to a contract extension. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Philadelphia F Zac Rinaldo eight games, without pay, for charging and boarding Pittsburgh D Kris Letang during a game on Jan. 20. ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled F Lucas Lessio and D Andrew Campbell from Portland (AHL). BUFFALO SABRES — Suspended D Nikita Zadorov for failing to report on time after the All-Star break. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Placed G Sergei Bobrovsky on injured reserve, retroactive to Jan. 21. Recalled F Josh Anderson from Springfield (AHL). Added G Anton Forsberg on an emergency basis from Springfield. DALLAS STARS — Recalled D Jamie Oleksiak and Jyrki Jokipakka from Texas (AHL). MINNESOTA WILD — Assigned G Darcy Kuemper to Iowa (AHL) for a conditioning assignment. NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled G Marek Mazanec from Milwaukee (AHL). American Hockey League BINGHAMTON SENATORS — Returned F David Marshall to Reading (ECHL). BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Returned F Mario Lamoureux to Quad City (ECHL). CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Recalled F Alex Aleardi from Florida (ECHL). SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Released D Patrick Cullity from his professional tryout contract. WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON PENGUINS — Recalled D Alex Boak from Wheeling (ECHL). ECHL ALLEN AMERICANS — Released G Larkin Saalfrank as emergency backup. EVANSVILLE ICEMEN — Signed F Mark Anthoine. FORT WAYNE KOMETS — Released F Phil Bushbacher. MISSOURI MAVERICKS — Sent F Kevin Sullivan to Reading to complete an earlier trade. Released F David Marshall from his professional tryout agreement. Traded G Joe Howe to Rapid City for future considerations. WHEELING NAILERS — Released G John E. McFarland as emergency backup. WICHITA THUNDER — Released F Kyle Gibbons. SOCCER Major League Soccer LA GALAXY — Re-signed MF Rafael Garcia. ORLANDO CITY SC — Acquired F Martin Paterson on loan from Huddersfield (England-League Championship). Signed M Carlos Rivas.
the lone Chiefs goal, with losing netminder Geordan Andrew stopping 29 shots. The Elks also battled host Airdrie to a 3-3 draw and knocked off the visiting Bow Valley Timberwolves 4-1. Sterling, Siegle and Kyle Skogen scored against Airdrie. Elks goaltender Klayton Sandquist made 17 saves as his teammates held a 51-20 advantage in shots. Skogen, Matthew Froehlick, Benjamin Isaac and Kobe Scott connected in the win over the ‘Wolves, who directed 16 shots at Elks goalie Sandquist. Red Deer outshot Bow Valley 37-16.
BUSINESS
B5
TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 2015
New summer themed trade show revealed BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR
THE BRING ON THE SUMMER SHOW
When April 2016 rolls around, local greens and fairways could still be under snow and the temperature too cold to be flipping burgers on your deck. But Dianne Smirl thinks it’ll be the perfect time to talk about summer pursuits like golfing and barbecuing — albeit from within the warm confines of Westerner Park. April is the month that’s been chosen by Westerner Park and the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce to stage The Bring On Summer Show and The Everything & Anything Show. Smirl, who is event manager of the Agri-Trade Equipment Expo — the Westerner and Chamber’s long-running farm-themed show — disclosed earlier this month that the two new events were coming in 2016. But she didn’t elaborate on the summer-themed show — until Monday. Smirl has now confirmed that The Bring On Summer Show will emphasize at least four broad themes: golf, barbecuing, weekend adventures and children’s activities. “There is a possibility of more,” she said, adding, however, that organizers don’t want to encroach on the territory of other events at Westerner Park.
“We were very careful to make sure we were not stealing business from existing shows.” The golf component of The Bring On Summer Show will feature everything from equipment to accessories to courses, said Smirl. A short distance away, attendees will find exhibitors with connections to barbecuing. “If you’ve got a sauce company, if you’ve got a rub company, if you’ve got a barbecue accessories company, that’s where you’re going to fit in.” She added that a “barbecue main stage,” where demonstrations and educational sessions can be held, is also planned. The weekend adventures section will be dedicated to summer activities and other pursuits — from nearby tourism and recreational attractions, to team and individual sports. “What can you do in Central Alberta on a weekend?” summed up Smirl. Closely linked to this theme will be the children’s activities segment of the show, where participants should find information about camps and other things geared to youngsters. The Everything & Anything Show, which will run
46 entrants in this year’s RED Challenge
concurrent with The Bring On Summer Show, will bring online and temporary retailers together under one roof. “We’re looking for those new and unique products; that’s really what we’re trying to get with that,” said Smirl. The two events will be held in the Parkland, Prairie and Stockmens pavilions, with a single admission for both. They’re expected to run over three days in April, said Smirl, likely a Thursday to a Saturday. After their kick-off in 2016, other new shows are a possibility, said Smirl. She pointed to a fall-themed counterpart to The Bring On Summer Show as one option. Regardless, Smirl expects the new 2016 shows to follow the successful formula of Agri-Trade, in letting attendees dictate the direction they should go. “These are consumer-driven shows.” Smirls said previously the appeal of launching new trade shows include giving Chamber members new opportunities to participate in such events, making better use of the Westerner facilities, and generating revenues for both non-profit organizations. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com
APARTMENT CONSTRUCTION
BY ADVOCATE STAFF Forty-six entrants are vying for $35,000 in the 2015 edition of the RED Challenge. The entrepreneurial competition, which is in its fifth year, gives young adults and students the opportunity to earn money and support for their innovative business ideas. Top prize is $20,000, with $10,000 going to the runner-up and $5,000 to the third-place entry. “We received more than double the submissions compared to what we received last year and couldn’t be more excited,” said Eric Kokko, director of applied research and innovation at Red Deer College. “It’s very inspiring to see this level of interest in the program,” added Toby Williams, director of entrepreneurship and international development at Olds College. The RED Challenge is organized by Red Deer College, Olds College, the City of Red Deer, Red Deer Regional Economic Development, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures and Community Futures Central Alberta. It’s open to students who are enrolled in a post-secondary institution, or who graduated within the past year. Eligible entrants will now attend RED Challenge bootcamps and build full-scale business plans with help from Community Futures Central Alberta. Selected finalists will later participate in a Dragon’s Den-style session where they’ll pitch their ideas to prominent business leaders. Last year, Ann Garrett, Sharon Poole and Janet Spafford won the RED Challenge with their fledgling business, Career Catalysts of Central Alberta. It was developed to assist youths and others who are pondering their career options.
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Work is well underway on a 47-suite apartment building on Lake Street, near Liberty Avenue in Red Deer County, continues to take shape. The first residential project in Gasoline Alley, the fourstorey building is being built by MDM Construction of Langley, B.C.
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TD expects the U.S. benchmark price — West Texas Intermediate — will average US$47 this year before climbing back up to US$65 in 2016. Only a OTTAWA — The squeeze of the oil slump is month ago, the bank forecast WTI to average US$68 prompting one of Canada’s biggest banks to slash in 2015 and US$80 next year. The weaker outlook for oil prices has also its 2015 forecast for the country’s economy and warn “dimmed” the bank’s prediction for the Canadian that another interest-rate cut could be on the way. TD Bank said Monday it now expects the Cana- dollar, trading Monday at just over 80 cents US. TD now expects the loonie to continue its fall into dian economy to grow by just two per cent this year, down from its December projection of 2.3 per cent. 2016, hitting a low of 75 cents US early in the year beIt foresees Canadian growth creeping back up to fore starting to move back up. The report also 2.2 per cent in 2016, underlined other said a TD report to ‘THOSE WHO HOPED TO RETURN impacts of low oil clients. prices, which it says The big bank’s TO GREATER MARKET CALM AFTER will save the avereconomists also preTHE HOLIDAYS HAVE BEEN SORELY age Canadian housedicted the Bank of hold nearly $900 at Canada will trim its DISAPPOINTED.’ the gas pumps this trend-setting interest rate in March by —TD REPORT year. Additional conseanother quarter of a quences include job percentage point, to 0.50 per cent. From there, it expects the key rate to losses in the country’s oil-producing regions, where housing markets are also expected to suffer a blow. remain on hold until the second half of 2016. On top of that, TD predicted government revenues Last week, the central bank stunned financial markets and observers when it lowered its overnight- in these energy-rich provinces — Alberta, Saskatchrate target by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 ewan and Newfoundland and Labrador — to feel the per cent. Economists had expected the Bank of Cana- pain of lower crude. TD projected Alberta’s 2015 real gross domestic da to hold the rate at one per cent, where it had been product to grow by 0.5 per cent compared with its since September 2010. But in defending his decision, governor Stephen December forecast of 2.3 per cent, while SaskatchPoloz pointed a finger at the threat of low oil prices, ewan is expected to grow by 1.3 per cent compared which he called “unambiguously negative” for the with an earlier forecast of 1.7 per cent. Newfoundland’s economy is forecast to shrink by 1.2 per cent Canadian economy. Poloz indicated the goal of the central bank’s rate compared with growth of 0.3 per cent. In the span of a month, the bank dropped Alberta drop was to provide “insurance” against the risks cheaper oil poses to Canada’s inflation and financial from its third-place ranking, in terms of expected growth among the provinces, to ninth. stability. On the other hand, the bank increased its projec“Those who hoped to return to greater market calm after the holidays have been sorely disappoint- tions for non-oil-producing regions. For example, Ontario’s 2015 outlook rose from 2.6 per cent to 2.8. ed,” said the TD report. At the federal level, Ottawa has also been bracing “The drop in the prices of oil has gone further and been more protracted than anyone predicted only a itself for lower revenues as a result of lower oil prices. The Harper government recently made the unfew short months ago.” The price of oil, which has been trading in the usual decision of postponing the federal budget until neighbourhood of US$45 per barrel, is less than half at least April, a move it hoped would buy enough of where it was last summer, a change blamed on time for a clearer picture to emerge on the impact of falling crude prices. oversupply and a slowdown in the global economy. BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Oberle to speak in Red Deer next week Dwindling oil prices have been a hot topic of conversation for Central Albertans who work in the energy sector, and outside it. Next Monday, they’ll have the opportunity to hear from Alberta’s energy minister. Frank Oberle will speak at a Feb. 2 Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce luncheon. His presentation will be entitled The Oil Price Decline and the Impact to Alberta. Now in his third term in the Alberta Legislative Assembly, the MLA for Peace River has served as minister of energy since Sept. 15. He’s also deputy government house leader, a member of the treasury board and sits on several government committees. Oberle is a former minister of aboriginal relations, associate minister of services for persons with disabilities, and minister of sustainable resource development. He’s also served as solicitor general and minister of public security. The Chamber luncheon will take place at the Black Knight Inn, beginning at 11:45. To register or for more information, contact the Chamber office at 403-347-4491 or go to the Chamber website at www. reddeerchamber.com.
Bombardier selling military training unit to CAE, including NATO school MONTREAL — Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B) is preparing to sell its Military Aviation Training unit for C$19.8 million to CAE Inc. (TSX:CAE), a Montreal-based company that specializes in training equipment and services. Among other things, CAE will take over as prime contractor for the NATO Flying Training in Canada, or NFTC, a program that Bombardier has been operating out of Canadian Forces Base Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan and CFB Cold Lake in Alberta. Bombardier currently has 200 employees supporting the NATO training program, which was begun in 2000.CAE, which plans to retain all 200 of those employees, says the deal will enhance its core capabilities and provides an opportunity for growth. The company is a global supplier of full flight simulators to train pilots for commercial and military aircraft. It also operates a network of civil aviation schools and military training services.
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Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.49 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.98 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 58.93 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.30 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 41.17 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 36.27 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 8.10 Canyon Services Group. . 7.00 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 24.61 CWC Well Services . . . 0.4050 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.54 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.31 pace in the third quarter. On the TSX, lift came from the industrials sector, up one per cent with Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) rising 96 cents to $85.44 ahead of earnings coming out Tuesday. The gold sector ran up 1.75 per cent per cent, while February bullion faded $13.20 to US$1,279.40 an ounce. However, the sector has surged 36 per cent this month while gold prices have steadily advanced. The base metals sector was ahead 0.8 per cent as March copper rose four cents to US$2.54 a pound. The energy sector advanced, up 0.3 per cent, with oil in New York closing down 44 cents at US$45.15 a barrel. Telcos led decliners, down 1.85 per cent with Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) down $1.98 or 4.2 per cent to $45 after Canaccord Genuity (TSX:CF) cut its rating on the stock to hold from buy. It added it expects Rogers to report a “sluggish” quarter when it posts earnings Thursday. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Monday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,797.83, up 18.48 points Dow — 17,678.70, up 6.10 points S&P 500 — 2,057.09 up 5.27 points Nasdaq — 4,771.76, up 13.88 points Currencies: Cdn — 80.23 cents US, down 0.26 of a cent Pound — C$1.8818, up 1.81 cents Euro — C$1.4038, up 1.13 cents Euro — US$1.1263, up 0.55 of a cent
The shutdown of an underground Yukon mine and layoff of workers is being blamed by its owner on unstable mineral markets. The Yukon Zinc Corp. (TSXV:YZC) has operated an underground mine producing zinc, silvercopper, lead, and gold about 282 kilometres northeast of Whitehorse. Company spokesman
$455.90; July ’15 $0.20 higher $449.10; Nov ’15 $0.80 lower $435.30; Jan. ’16 $0.70 lower $437.30; March ’16 $0.40 lower $441.60; May ’16 unchanged $445.40; July ’16 $2.90 $449.80; Nov. ’16 $2.10 higher $449.00; Jan. ’17 $2.10 higher $449.00; March ’17 $2.10 higher $449.00. Barley (Western): March ’15 unchanged $195.00; May ’15 unchanged $197.00; July ’15 unchanged $199.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $190.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $190.00; March ’16 unchanged $190.00; May ’16 unchanged $190.00; July ’16 unchanged $190.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $190.00; Dec. ’ 16 unchanged $190.00; March ’17 unchanged $190.00. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 528,800 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 528,800.
Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.188 oz., down 42.6 cents $745.49 kg., down $13.70 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’15 $0.80 lower $460.70; May ’15 $0.30 higher
Alex Wu says operations at the Wolverine Mine were terminated on Thursday because of instability in the mineral markets, particularly the price of silver. Wu says he can’t confirm exactly how many employees were affected and calls the shutdown only temporary. Yukon Zinc announced there were 365 people employed by the company and its contractors in April 2013, but by June announced it was laying off 30 per cent of its employees because of economic conditions, although it recalled some of the workers.
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impacts that’s it’s going to have on climate change,” said VanderKloet. But the National Energy Board said it hasn’t ruled out holding public meetings in the future. Spokesman Tom Neufeld said organizing public meetings across the country is costly and time-consuming and the board wasn’t sure at the outset if there was enough public interest. “Quite frankly, we just didn’t know if people would come,” said Neufeld. “We thought the best way to contact Canadians that really are impacted directly by our work was to call them directly and ask for meetings. “But if there’s interest ... we just might have them.” Many groups have asked to be invited to the meetings but Stop Energy East Halifax has not, he said. “Quite honestly, if they contacted us, we would try and fit them in the schedule.” Neufeld said board officials will meet with First Nations groups and property owners along the pipeline’s route will either be met with directly or will be represented by political leaders such as mayors. “We’re willing to meet with Canadians in their kitchens,” he said, adding they have such a meeting in New Brunswick later this week. Neufeld also encouraged the public to provide feedback about the pipeline on the board’s website.
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HALIFAX — A group opposed to the development of the Energy East Pipeline is calling on the National Energy Board to open up meetings about pipeline safety, an idea the federal regulator says it is considering. About a dozen people staged a rally Monday in Halifax as the board met with groups during closed-door meetings to discuss the project. Members of Stop Energy East Halifax held signs and a makeshift pipeline with the words “tar sandsclimate bomb” in front of the Halifax Central Library. Over the next week, National Energy Board officials will meet with groups in the four Atlantic provinces to discuss how it can improve its pipeline safety and environmental protection programs, part of a cross-country tour. Board chairman Peter Watson was in Halifax on Monday to meet with groups including the Maritimes Energy Association, petroleum engineering students at Dalhousie University, Antigonish’s deputy fire chief and the Ecology Action Centre. But Stop Energy East Halifax said the invite-only meetings should be open to the public. Spokeswoman Evelien VanderKloet said other people affected by the project, including First Nations groups and property owners along its route, should be included. “We see this pipeline as a bigger pubic issue because of the extreme
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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed slightly higher Monday as traders played it cautious ahead of a busy week for economic data and earnings news, including the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest word on interest rates. The S&P/TSX composite index gained 18.48 points to 14,797.83. The Canadian dollar moved down 0.26 of a cent to 80.23 cents US. New York’s Dow Jones industrials gained 6.1 points to 17,678.7, the Nasdaq was up 13.88 points to 4,771.76 and the S&P 500 index climbed 5.27 points to 2,057.09. Markets were unaffected by the election victory of Greece’s anti-austerity Syriza party over the weekend. Syriza wants the eurozone to ease the spending cuts and tax increases required under Greece’s financial bailout program and even forgive some of the country’s rescue loan debt. “But so what? At the end of the day, they (Syriza) won but the negotiating room that they will have as a party is pretty much zero,” said John Stephenson, president and CEO of Stephenson & Co. The U.S. Federal Reserve is holding its interest rate meeting on Wednesday. The Fed is expected to start moving rates away from near zero around the middle of this year and traders will be looking for any signs the central bank might move earlier. But Stephenson thinks they will go later than generally thought. “Because of all this uncertainty out there, they will be on hold longer than most people think. Consensus is they move in June but I don’t think they move that soon. They’ll move later.” Other major data points include the latest economic growth figures for Canada and the United States, both out Friday. Economists believe Canadian gross domestic product grew 0.1 per cent in November. TD Bank (TSX:TD) said Monday that it now expects the economy to grow by just two per cent this year, compared with its December estimate of 2.3 per cent, because of falling oil prices. TD also said that is expects oil will average US$47 this year. Oil prices have fallen more than 40 per cent since the end of November when Saudi Arabia rejected calls to cut production in order to support prices. In the U.S., fourth-quarter GDP is expected to come in at an annualized rate of 3.1 per cent, down from a five per cent
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Bomb making detailed EXPERT TELLS MALLEY TRIAL THAT HOUSEHOLD SWITCH TRIGGERED DEADLY DEVICE BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A civilian bomb expert described in court how he believes an Innisfail mother activated the bomb alleged to have killed her. Innisfail financial advisor Brian Malley, 57, is on trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on charges laid after a package exploded in the hands of Vicky Shachtay, 23, at her Innisfail home on the morning of Nov. 25, 2011. Evidence on charges of first-degree murder, causing a fatal explosion and sending a potentially fatal explosive device is being heard before Justice Kirk Sisson and a jury of seven women and five men. Electrical engineering technician
Reg Gulliford, a civilian contracted to the RCMP and an expert in improvised explosive devices, gave his analysis in court on Monday of the bomb that killed Shachtay, the single mother of a seven-year-old girl. Court heard earlier that Malley was hired to manage monies from the settlement for a 2004 collision in which Shachtay suffered disabling injuries. Gulliford presented a model he made up of the type of device he believes was used in the bomb that exploded at her home, based on evidence found there. Gulliford used the model to describe how a household light switch was rigged to the packaging so that it would trip a detonator attached to the side of a piece of pipe filled with smokeless gunpowder.
Evidence included unexploded gunpowder, as well as damaged parts from the device, said Gulliford. Earlier in the day, court saw and heard a recorded interview in which an RCMP investigator from the polygraph section in Calgary questions Malley about various items he purchased in the weeks before Shachtay’s death, including light bulbs, electrical cord, gunpowder and a nine-volt battery. Throughout his interview with Sgt. Daniel McCullum on May 25, 2012, Malley is heard repeatedly stating that he wants to wait for his lawyer before answering any questions. At one point, he is escorted out of the room after asking for a washroom break and offering to call the lawyer himself.
He does converse with the officer at various times during the interview, however, and acknowledges that he is a hunter and had purchased smokeless gunpowder to reload shotgun shells. He tells McCullum that he had planned to borrow reloading equipment from his brother-in-law, but had not yet received it and had not opened the box of gunpowder. Defence counsel Bob Aloneissi of Edmonton challenged portions of police officer’s evidence, stating that there was nothing in any of the receipts to indicate that Malley had purchased the battery. Now in its second week, the trial continues today. It is expected to last for five or six weeks. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com
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Theatre instructor Scott Roberts plays a game of Bitty, Bitty, Bop with Grade one students at Annie L. Gaetz Elementary School on Monday. Roberts, a member of Quest Theatre of Calgary and his teammates are in the school all this week working with students from K-5 as part of an Artist in Residence Program. Through the week the students will learn some of the finer points of theatre production and create a play which will be performed Friday afternoon this week.
Muslims hope to dispel fears The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is reaching out across Canada through open houses, including one in Red Deer. The purpose is to help educate people about the true teachings on Islam, to battle Islamophobia and show people that Islam does not support nor promote terrorism. With the recent terrorist acts of extremist groups, such as ISIL and alQaida, it has become very important to condemn terrorism and dispel misconceptions about Islam, the religious organization said. This follows terrorist killings at France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine, and the shooting death of a Canadian sol-
OPEN HOUSE AT RED DEER PUBLIC LIBRARY dier on Parliament Hill. = As a result, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association has started the campaign to hold the open houses on the teachings of Islam in 33 cities and towns across Canada. The event is Red Deer takes place on Saturday from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library. The open house will allow residents of Red Deer to learn what the Holy Qur’an truly teaches about freedom of speech and blasphemy. Does the Qur’an permit free
speech? If so, then to what extent? What is the Qur’an’s true teachings regarding blasphemy? Does the Qur’an justify any kind of killing for freedom of speech or blasphemy? Does the Qur’an give any kind of justification for the acts carried out in France by terrorists on Charlie Hebdo? These and other questions will be answered during the open house. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a non-profit charitable, religious organization in over 206 countries worldwide with 86 chapters throughout Canada.
Red Deer city council advisory committees could see more powers after the groups are put under the microscope this year. The city will review its advisory committees — such as the environmental advisory and heritage preservation committees — to ensure they are being used effectively and whether they are the right engagement tool. Mayor Tara Veer said council wants to ensure the committees have a clear purpose and mandate. The citizen-based committees advise and make recommendations to council on various topics. She said in the past, there has been some gaps between the citizen’s expectation of the work of a committee versus the mandated terms of reference. She said the city has tried to move to collaborative and empowered committees from a focus-group approach. Veer points to the Canada Winter Games bid committee as a great example of a citizen committee. “(It) united around a very common purpose,” she said. “They worked for two years to accomplish a task and there will be long-term benefits to Red Deerians because of the time investments that they made.” She said the city needs to empower committees more to capitalize on the community’s potential instead of stalling it because of the limited terms of reference. Director of Corporate Services Elaine Vincent said the city will look at the current committees to determine if they should be continued, discontinued or merged to ensure they are meeting the municipality’s needs. Vincent said they have received feedback that some committee work has not been meaningful. “If you talked to someone on the Canada Games bid committee or the 50-metre pool, they loved that work,” said Vincent. “Short duration. Immediate impact. You can see the results. That’s the work we are putting into the committees. Do we need to restructure them to provide that meaning as well?” The work must be completed by October, when the next round of community members are appointed to committees. The city last reviewed its committees in 2011 and 2006. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
PC candidates start stepping forward BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF It’s getting to be a familiar story in Central Alberta. Peter DeWit said Monday that he decided to seek the Progressive Conservative nomination long before the current MLA for the Lacombe-Ponoka provincial constituency, Rod Fox, crossed the floor from the Wildrose Party to the government side. DeWit, 49, a local businessman, also teaches part time at the Donald School of Business. He has lived in Lacombe County for the past 20 years. He said on Monday there was initial concern after nine Wildrose MLAs crossed the floor together in December — including Fox — that they would receive their constituency PC nominations automatically. But that would have been “undemocratic,” said DeWit, and he is pleased that this did not happen. The nomination for Lacombe-Ponoka has not yet opened, and will be
vetted first through the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta’s nomination committee. That committee has been meeting on Saturdays, and while most Central Alberta PC nomination dates have not been officially announced yet, DeWit said the date for Lacombe-Ponoka is tentatively set for March 7. The PCs aim to have all its candidates nominated by March 15. DeWit, who has been working on obtaining the nomination for about a year and a half, said he has received a lot of support. The Advocate has tried to reach Fox repeatedly recently, and again on Monday morning, with no reply. Red Deer County Mayor Jim Wood announced last week that he will seek the PC nomination for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake. He also had decided to do this long before former Wildrose MLA Kerry Towle crossed the floor with another Wildrose member to join the Jim Prentice government in November. Towle and Wood, the only ones seeking that
constituency’s nomination so far, will square off on Feb. 28 during the nomination vote. As well on Monday, Joe Anglin, currently independent MLA for RimbeyRocky Mountain House- Sundre, confirmed he will seek the PC nomination for the riding. Last week the outspoken MLA, who was once leader of the Green Party, then a Wildrose MLA who left the party in November after a falling out, said he was thinking about running PC, and that he had been encouraged by constituents to do so. Tammy Cote, an ATB branch manager in Rocky, is also seeking the party’s nomination. Cote is the grand-niece of former PC MLA and lieutenant-governor Helen Hunley. The nomination vote is scheduled for Feb. 21. The date of the next a provincial election is unknown. The next election must be held in 2016 at the latest, but can be held before. Speculation is high that Albertans will head to the polls sooner, as early as this spring. The Prentice government is fac-
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ing a multibillion-dollar shortfall in resource revenue, mainly due to the drastic drop in the price of a oil. It is expected the premier will seek a mandate to cut to government spending. On Monday, longtime Red Deer North PC MLA Mary Anne Jablonski announced she will not run again. Doug Griffiths, in his fourth term as MLA for Battle River-Wainwright, also announced his resignation. If the election comes soon, both the Wildrose and Alberta Liberal parties could enter the race without a permanent leader. During a busy day in provincial politics on Monday, Liberal leader Raj Sherman announced he was stepping down effective immediately. Wildrose lost its leader Danielle Smith when she crossed to the PCs in December and the party has set June 6 in Calgary as the date to choose a replacement. MLA Heather Forsyth is interim leader but she announced earlier that she won’t run again for personal reasons. barr@reddeeradvocate.com
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Several commemorative rodeo belt buckles were stolen from a rural home near Elnora, including this one.
Belt buckles, guns, tools stolen from home near Elnora Police are hoping for some help in finding stolen power tools, rifles and unique belt buckles taken from a rural home near Elnora. Three Hills RCMP said on Jan. 5 that they were alerted to a break and enter near Elnora, about 70 km southeast of Red Deer. A number of items were stolen from the residence and police seek public assistance in finding the items and identifying those responsible. According to police, items stolen include: various power and hand tools, photography and video equipment, five rifles of various makes and calibres and 28 belt buckles. The belt buckles vary in description, size and shape, but most are inscribed with award type, location of rodeo and dates. Anyone with information that may assist police is asked to call Three Hills RCMP at 403-443-5539. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or go online to www.tipsubmit.com.
Innisfail-area break-ins probed Innisfail RCMP are asking for public assistance to solve several break-ins and thefts in the rural areas near Innisfail and Spruce View from Jan. 22 to 24. In each case, the culprits kicked in the doors and stole items including jewelry, collector coins and firearms. The incidents all occurred during daylight hours, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Police ask that area residents report any suspicious behaviour or vehicles they noticed in the area during those times. If you have information about these crimes or any other, call Innisfail RCMP at 403-227-3342. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 or go to www.tipsubmit.com.
Indecent act suspect sought Red Deer RCMP have released a composite drawing of a man who exposed himself to four eight-yearold girls on Saturday afternoon. The incident occurred at 2 p.m. on Northey Avenue, where the girls were playing in a front yard. One of the girls walked away to get a drink. A man appeared in the yard and picked the girl up and walked towards a shed. When the three other girls followed, he directed them to the shed and then blocked their exit. The man exposed himself and then began to touch himself and prevented the girls from leaving. He left a short time later and was last seen running Police sketch of down the alley behind indecent act suspect. Northey Avenue. Police say the girls were not physically harmed. RCMP members and police dog services were unable to locate the suspect. Police are seeking witnesses and any surveillance video of the area. The suspect is described as having tanned skin, short dark brown hair to his ears, facial stubble, and a skinny build. He was wearing a black shirt and jeans. Anyone with information is asked to call RCMP at 403-343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.
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With recent daytime temperatures above 0C, area ice rinks are taking a beating and melting — but the Clearview snowbank rink held up pretty well as Dorrian Hargie, 15, in short sleeves and Taven Stele, 14, found out as the two played a little one-on-one shinny. Temperatures are not expected to fall significantly until the weekend, when some snow is also forecast. No one was injured during the robbery. The suspect is believed to be Caucasian, with a thin build and between 1.5 metres (five feet eight inches) and 1.8 metres (six feet) tall. The suspect was wearing a black balaclava, a black hoodie with a light black design on the back, dark/black jeans and black shoes. Several witnesses were in the store when the robbery occurred, including one man who was at the till when the robber walked up beside him and pointed his firearm at the cashier. He and two female witnesses left the store before police arrived. Red Deer RCMP are looking to speak to these witnesses as part of their investigation. Anyone with information that may assist the police in investigating this robbery is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www. tipsubmit.com.
Brush burned at Lacombe golf course Lacombe residents are being alerted of a controlled burn at the local golf course. Lacombe Golf and Country Club staff plan to start burning a large pile of tree branches and brush about 10 a.m. today. The debris is left over from pruning and clearing operations in the fall and will be burned on the driving range. Residents may notice smoke and the smell of burning for up to the next three days. Lacombe Fire Department has been working with the club on the planned burn.
Correction The caption beneath a photograph in Monday’s Advocate on Page C1 had an incorrect name. The photograph of the man and boy riding a sled down the hill at Bower Ponds was of Nathan Cote and his son Ethan Cote.
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Anyone who wants a better understanding of concussions can hear four speakers at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School on Thursday night. The free event starts at 7 p.m. at the school, at 4204 58th St. in Red Deer. Concussions are often invisible injuries that go unreported, undiagnosed and sometimes are untreated. Elena Antoniadis, a psychology instructor at Red Deer College, will present an overview of her research on sport-related concussions. This includes concussion effects, identifying signs and symptoms, and helping injured athletes heal and return to play. Jesse Wallin will share his experience with concussion. He played six seasons of professional hockey before a concussion ended his hockey career. Wallin also played and coached and was general manager with the Red Deer Rebels hockey team. Doug Rowe is a high school counsellor who works with student athletes who are suffering from symptoms of concussion. Rowe has written a series of articles in the Advocate highlighting his experiences with concussion recovery, as well as highlighting the cases of several athletes. Drew Cole will talk about the impact that concussion had on his life. He played for teams in the Central Hockey League and the American Hockey League. Please pre-register at http://goo.gl/ forms/3X3bDY2zyH
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Change is difficult for us fogies Lars has begun bringing three smiling cartoon dinohome schoolwork. Yes, ap- saurs that seem to be pointing parently kindergartners have their prehistoric hooves at our homework and, bewildered mugs as yes, if you were though mocking our curious, it is exstupidity. tremely difficult. What has hapNever have I pened to us? felt so dumb in Eventually, I think my entire life I figure it out but no until I realized I quicker than I do, was reading the Lars begins having instructions to his a meltdown because alphabet matching he doesn’t undergame three times stand what it is I am to try to grasp the trying to explain to concept of it. him. LINDSAY There in the Jamie holds his BROWN desolate ambistandpoint of disance of our dimexasperation ME PLUS THREE creet lit kitchen, Jamie beside us. and I hover over a Why can’t you just photocopied slab of paper. Ja- tell me to go over the letters mie is slamming his fist insis- of the alphabet with my kid tently on the kitchen table out instead of the awkward paper of pure frustration. We can- sent home from kindergarten not comprehend this child’s class? worksheet. This child’s workNo, no — that would be too sheet that happens to house easy.
You see, Jamie and I have nearly come to blows due to our difference of opinions when it comes to the homework thing. I believe we should stay true to the school systems process and use the worksheets that are sent home to our full advantage (that is once we figure out how to do them ourselves). Jamie thinks that his methods of teaching are much simpler and on many an occasion I find him attempting to teach our son his own way. “No you can’t do that!” I say in a desperate sort of tone. “They have this specific way they do things with the kids and if you try teaching him something different, you will only screw him up. And then what if you delay him and he becomes traumatized from the whole experience? What if he ends up being semiliterate? Then he is so ashamed of it
he spends the rest of his days pretending his way through life when it comes to anything written.” At this point, Jamie and Lars are both staring at me with blank looks. But for some reason something compels me to keep going, to really get my point drawn. “His friends, coworkers, random Joes on the street will ask him if he has read the latest and greatest coming-ofage novel that everyone has read and he will have to lie and say yes. That night he will set out on a wild goose chase in search of the audio version and then have to listen to that really boring monotone voice read an entire book! It would be terrible!” I am near hysterics when I think about my own blood unable to enjoy the written word — that is until I remember that this whole scenario is my
own head-fiction. Apparently my rant got the point across, however, because Jamie has stepped back from teaching Lars his own way and continues to struggle right alongside me to understand this new way of schooling. I’m certainly not knocking it — I assume it works and can see the improvement in Lars from the beginning of the year to now. But change is sometimes difficult for us fogies. And maybe it isn’t that different, anyway, maybe Jamie and I have just been out of the game for too long. Once again I find myself pondering another extremely complicated and busy-looking worksheet. It has been sent home with minimal instructions, as though assuming I’m some kind of elementary school guru.
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his knee. He apologized profusely for having to abandon what he considered his crew. “Another example of ‘instead of’ rather than ‘in addition to,’” said the contractor. Some people, like Rick, will spend a tremendous amount of time researching the tools of a particular craft yet little time learning the art. I recall — years ago — developing an interest in photography and buying an expensive (for the time) 35-mm camera. I was dismayed when the pictures didn’t look any better than those taken with my cheap instamatic. Like Rick, “instead of” learning and honing my skills, I invested money into buying
need to succeed. And this truth applies to more than home-building or photography — it applies to self-esteem. Good tools are complementary vehicles to personal growth. But alone, they do not make you an expert. I’ve known people who have taken home armloads of books from the self-help section, spent hundreds of dollars on workshops or counselling, or plastered magnetized self-affirming plaques all over their fridges. But the expense was of no value when no effort was made to learn and practise the available teaching.
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“I’m here,” he announced, climbing out of his truck, “and ready to work!” The three of us were standing next to a skid of lumber when Rick showed up at the job site. He was wearing new coveralls and had around his waist a new tool belt loaded with a new hammer and tape measure. I wasn’t sure but I thought he had a new carpenter’s pencil in his breast pocket. He sauntered over and we all noticed his new steel-toed work boots. “You look ready to do some work,” noted the contractor. “More than ready, chief,” he declared. “Let’s start building a house!” I’d decided to earn some cash over my summer vacation so signed up as a helper on a home building project just outside of town. I knew the contractor — a small operator — and convinced him that I knew enough to be worthy of hiring. To be honest, I was pretty green but decided that if I could stay focused and take direction, I could likely learn something valuable. Rick, on the other hand, seemed to think he was already an expert of sorts — a master carpenter without certification. I’d seen some of Rick’s projects and they’d left much to be desired. The wobbly picnic table, the stooping shed and the poorly supported
deck. I had mentioned to Rick about the job and he immediately wanted to be on the crew. I knew he needed money, so I reluctantly mentioned his name to the contractor. Being desperate for help, he hired Rick on. It seemed that Rick had an opinion on everything: tools, techniques and the trades. On the second day, he showed up with his own mitre saw — an expensive model with a laser guide. Later in the week he brought in his own framing nailer, contractor grade. It seemed that Rick had all the best tools but little if any know-how. We were all grateful when on day five Rick fell off a stepladder and twisted
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Band wins country music awards BOOM CHUCKA BOYS’ SECOND FULL-LENGTH ALBUM, RAMBLE, COMES OUT FEB. 10 BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Winning two Alberta country music awards is a double thrill for The Boom Chucka Boys. The Central Alberta band received both the Rising Star and Group/Duo of the Year awards from the Association of Country Music in Alberta at Sunday’s ceremony in Red Deer, leaving its members on an emotional high. Guitarist Joel Rathjen, of Sylvan Lake, feels it was amazing to be chosen out of so many great Alberta artists. “It’s a privilege we do not take lightly, as (the awards are) voted by our peers in the industry and by fans,” said Rathjen, who believes this province has an “immensely talented pool of top-notch country songwriters, singers and players. ... “Sunday night was proof of that.” He hopes this recognition will help promote the band’s music “and draw folks out to see us play (since) creating a great concert experience for the audience is our ultimate goal.” The win comes at an opportune time: The Boom Chucka Boys’ second full-length album, Ramble, is coming out on Feb. 10. The new record will shift away from an acoustic, retro-roots sound towards radio country, with electric bass replacing the stand-up bass. But that doesn’t mean the Boys — including singer Ryan Langlois, bassist Teddy Roy Michaylow, drummer Ben Shillabeer, and new guitar player and background vocalist Neil Macdonald — are giving up “on what made us unique,” said Rathjen. He sees the change as diversifying and broadening the band’s appeal. At live shows “we’ll still throw in something retro. We want to make memories throughout the night for people ... to get the audience invested in the experience. ... We still have our own sound,” he added. “This is just more electric guitar driven.” The eight-song album, produced by Lacombe country singer Gord Bamford and recorded by Royalty Records, contains five tunes co-written by the band, as well as three from Nashville songwriters. “For the first time, songs were pitched to us,” said Rathjen, who was flattered — but also initially flustered by this. “The songwriter in you finds it hard, at first,” he admitted. “But these songs were so good they were hard to
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The Boom Chucka Boys received both the Rising Star and Group/Duo of the Year awards from the Association of Country Music in Alberta at Sunday’s ceremony in Red Deer. pass up.” The up-tempo Turn This Car Around was written by Ryan Tindell (who co-wrote Eric Church’s Springsteen). The tune about a sexually-charged relationship is fun to perform live, according to Rathjen, who felt one of the goals of recording the new album was to capture the energy of live performance. “We used an edgier approach. Listeners will get more of an emotional ride.” He co-wrote the heart-break song I Won’t Ever Stop Trying with Red Deer country singer Duane Steele. Rathjen and Langlois collaborated on the title track, Ramble, about life’s rough journey. And Rathjen and Nashville songwriter Byron Hill cowrote Runaway Heart, “a song about ‘Don’t fall in love with me, ’cause I’ve got a run-away heart. This
train is leaving. ...’ It’s basically warning that ‘I can’t commit.’” The tune is pure fantasy for Rathjen, a family man, who saw his wife Cristina through a tough year of cancer treatments and surgery in 2013-14. He’s happy to report things are now much better with his wife’s health. This year’s schedule is already starting to fill up for The Boom Chucka Boys, with a spring tour with Bamford and then the summer festival circuit. A select Red Deer audience will also get to see the group perform at a Feb. 11 CD release party at the International Beer Haus, and Stage. The show is hosted by CKGY and only open to winners of their radio contest. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
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Wilmore’s Nightly Show debuts, aiming to #KeepIt100 BY SORAYA NADIA MCDONALD ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Stephen Colbert had “truthiness.” Larry Wilmore’s got “keeping it 100.” The former Daily Show correspondent taking over the spot vacated last month by Colbert’s Report debuted more than
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a week ago, rolling in with a show that’s fast, funny and unapologetically black. Wilmore paused briefly before his “Keep It 100” segment to explain what the heck he was talking about: “For all you people who don’t know what the expression ‘keeping it 100’ means, it means ‘keep it 100 percent real,’” Wilmore said. “I guess the white version is ‘Truth or Dare,’ except here we don’t have the dare.” When Wilmore turned to Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., to keep it 100, he asked Booker, “Do you want to be president?” “Uh, no,” Booker answered. The audience was not impressed — and instead of a “Keep It 100” sticker, Wilmore chucked a teabag at Booker for his weak tea. (Weak tea is basically boring gossip, and nobody wants that.) “Especially in politics, we’re far too concerned with position and not purpose,” Booker elaborated, ever the straight-laced golden boy. “You get all the weak tea,” Wilmore said, dumping the entire bucket on Booker.
The show felt similar to what W. Kamau Bell was trying to achieve with Totally Biased, but with sharper, more focused writing and a slickly-designed set that comes as a result of having the full backing and faith of Comedy Central kingmaker Jon Stewart. Both are left-leaning talk shows helmed by black comedians, but Bell’s was an experiment — even backed by executive producer Chris Rock on FX. Bell had no national profile before his show began in 2012. Totally Biased was preceded by The Orlando Jones Show, which made it all of eight episodes before its cancellation in 2003. Bell’s show made it to 72 episodes, and was moved from FX to FXX before it was canceled last year. Wilmore, like Colbert, is a crowned successor with a reputation and personality crafted on The Daily Show, one of the most successful comedy incubators in the business. See: Colbert, Ed Helms, Olivia Munn, John Oliver and Steve Carell. That’s important when it comes to weighing the likely success of The Nightly Show.
Comedian George Lopez spoke recently to Huffington Post Live about the dearth of black and Latino hosts in late night. Lopez’s late-night show on TBS, Lopez Tonight, was canceled after a twoyear run. “Jimmy (Fallon) was able to be able to get his legs and try things before he got The Tonight Show,” Lopez said. “There has to be kind of a honeymoon period where you’re able to do that. ... I don’t think we’re able to fail like white people fail. Our failures are heavier. ... Somebody’s got to believe in you, whatever color you are.” Wilmore opened with a tight monologue in his trademark deadpan that deftly weaved in Ferguson, climate change and even fair trade Harry Potter chocolate, all tied together by weighing the effectiveness of protests surrounding each. As with The Daily Show, there are no sacred cows. In his debut, Wilmore had words for both Oprah and Al Sharpton, and called out the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences by labeling its “Selma” snub business-as-usual.
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NCIS David McCallum gets the spotlight in his regular role as Ducky — though he shares the part with guest star Adam Campbell, who plays it in flashbacks — in “So It Goes.” Accompanied by Ellie (Emily Wickersham), the medical examiner goes to London on a case linked to his best friend from childhood (guest stars Alice Krige and Hannah Marshall, also splitting the role between past and present). Ducky mulls how his decisions have affected his life. 7 p.m. on BRAVO; 12:30 a.m. on BRAVO
Cold Justice A new episode called “Burned” takes former crime-scene investigator Yolanda McClary and ex-prosecutor Kelly Siegler to Fairview Park, Ohio to investigate a heartbreaking case from 2007, in which an upbeat, 67-year-old grandmother was found burned to death in her home. Kelly and Yolanda must discover who started the fire and how. 7 p.m. on WUHF, CITY; 10 p.m. on CKEM, KAYU
New Girl In her role as vice principal, Jess isn’t happy when Coach’s (Damon Wayans Jr.) affair with the school nurse (guest star Erinn Hayes) takes a nasty turn in “Landline.” As a result, Jess declares that faculty members can’t get personally involved with one another. When a science teacher (guest star Julian Morris) then attracts her, she wishes she hadn’t made that decree. Angela Kinsey (“The Office”) also guest stars. 7 p.m. on WXYZ; 10 p.m. on CFRN, KXLY, CFCN
Marvel’s Agent Carter The sudden reappearance of Howard Stark (guest star Dominic Cooper) could mean big trouble for Peggy (Hayley Atwell) in the new episode “The Blitzkrieg Button.” The reason he shows up again is mystifying — and also potentially dangerous. Another peril is posed to Peggy by Chief Dooley (Shea Whigham), whose curiosity could result in the end of Peggy’s career. Lyndsy Fonseca and Bridget Regan also guest star. 8 p.m. on SHOW
Royal Pains While Hank (Mark Feuerstein) is away on a dangerous mission for Boris (Campbell Scott) in Monte Carlo, Divya and Jeremiah (Reshma Shetty, Ben Shenkman) treat mysteriously ailing firemen. On the domestic front, Paige and Evan (Brooke D’Orsay, Paulo Costanzo) search for a new place to live as Emma’s (Willa Fitzgerald) constant presence starts to put a strain on their marriage in the new episode “Steaks on a Plane.” 9 p.m. on CBXT, CBRT
Schitt’s Creek After a series of unfortunate events leave Johnny and Moira (Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara) feeling like failures as parents, they make an awkward attempt to get to know their grown children in the new episode “Bad Parents.” Meanwhile, Alexis (Annie Murphy) believes that Mutt (Tim Rozon) is having an affair with the mayor’s wife (Jennifer Robertson).
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Daughter’s lies catching up to her Question: How can I get my has a domestic basis, you may teenage daughter to stop ly- be able to affect a solution ing? I’ve caught her telling without ever moving beyond “tall tales,” and now she’s the home front. complaining that But if this apthe kids at school proach falls flat don’t believe any— if the lies seem thing she says. What designed purely should I do? to get a response Jim: I’d suggest from her peers — you start by trying then you’ll want to to uncover the unpaint a vivid picderlying motive for ture of the negaher lying. tive effect lying Chances are it’s will have on her a play for attention. relationships with She may not feel them: If her friends confident and sefeel she can’t be JIM cure about who she trusted, they won’t DALY is — and may be trywant to spend time ing desperately to with her. This, of gain her peers’ recourse, is exactly spect. the opposite of If this scenario what she’s looking seems plausible, the roots of for. the problem may lie within Help her understand that, the circle of your immediate and you may start seeing some family. real progress. Life’s demands can easRegardless, firm conseily siphon off the attention our quences for lying, such as takkids need, and it may be that ing away privileges, may also your daughter just wants to be be necessary. Don’t get pulled reassured of your love. Con- into a debate with her about sider looking for opportuni- whether or not she told the ties to spend some one-on-one truth. time together. Just deal with the behavAsk her if there’s anything iour in a decisive way — act, she’d like to talk about. don’t yak. Please contact our If her problem with lying counsellors if we can help in
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any way. Question: My wife and I have been married for three years. A year into our marriage she began sleeping in another bedroom because my snoring was keeping her awake. We still get along great, but physical intimacy has diminished significantly, and our relationship feels more like we’re housemates. What can we do? Greg Smalley, vice-president, Family Ministries: Surprisingly, the arrangement you’ve described is becoming less uncommon. A recent survey by Ryerson University in Toronto suggests that between 30 to 40 per cent of couples are now opting for separate sleeping arrangements. While a good night’s sleep is important to both physical and marital health, I personally feel that the benefits of a husband and wife sharing a bed are worth exhausting every effort to find a solution. If you haven’t already, make an appointment with your physician. Causes for snoring can sometimes be minor and easily remedied. Your doctor can assess your situation and, if necessary, re-
fer you to a sleep specialist. If the cause of your snoring is determined to be obstructive sleep apnea, your doctor may prescribe a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machine or may recommend an oral appliance that repositions the jaw or tongue. In the meantime, do whatever is necessary to jumpstart your sex life so you’re enjoying physical intimacy together on a regular basis. Schedule an “appointment” if you need to. It may not sound very romantic, but it’s that important. I’d also recommend that, while you’re working toward getting back to your former sleeping arrangement, you start off in the same bed before one of you moves to the next room for the night. The quiet and uninterrupted time together can encourage emotional and physical intimacy so crucial to a strong and vibrant marriage. Please call us at 855-771-HELP (4357) if we can help in any way. Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.
A Like shouldn’t always be taken literally, say tech experts, who are closely watching the case of 13 Dalhousie University students suspended for their actions on Facebook. The case is interesting for many reasons, including the fact that it exposes how users often don’t appreciate that nothing is truly private online, said Aimee Morrison, an associate chair in the English department at the University of Waterloo. “We’re in this moment with social media where people haven’t quite modulated their behaviour in what is actually a pretty public space,” said Morrison. The 13 fourth-year dentistry students belonged to a school-related private Facebook group, which was set up in 2011. One of the students, Ryan Millet, has gone public to protest his suspension, claiming that he helped expose offensive posts in the group, including misogynistic comments about some female classmates. Lawyer Bruce MacIntosh suggested at a recent press conference that his client, a father of three, didn’t interact much with his fellow students out of class and used the group to stay in touch.
do than buy the tools. When I began my journey of selfesteem building, it was with the admission that I was not an expert nor did I have many (if any) of the answers. I began my quest by speaking with empowered individuals and buying books they recommended, but further, applying what I read to my life. Later, I attended self-esteem workshops and lectures and even spent time with a professional life coach. I was acquiring tools but I was also committed to acquiring information and applying it. That was the real challenge: integrating all of this information into my life and learning to use my expanding collection of tools properly. All of those external tools, systems and strategies matter, but they only make a differ-
ence (to any significant degree) when they exist “in addition to” and not “instead of.” The biggest reason for our failures is assuming we know more than we really do. It’s failing to put forth the effort to learn the basic techniques necessary to put the tools to proper use. We are equally capable of fueling our acceleration or stalling our progress under the weight of our own arrogance. Don’t be like Rick. If you want a life that is rich, rewarding and fulfilling, invest in self-knowledge and personal growth and then put every ounce of energy you have into practising what you have learned. It all starts with you. It always does. Forget the new tool belt or the sharp carpenter’s pencil. If you want
to thrive, start by learning the skills necessary to live a dynamic, successful and empowered life. “Quality is never an accident,” wrote English art critic and patron, John Ruskin. “It is always the result of intelligent effort.” The most successful and fulfilled people among us build themselves through effort and ongoing learning — mastering the skills and knowledge needed to become experts in the art of living and, thus, beacons of hope, compassion, creativity, service and inspiration. Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.
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FULL-TIME IN-HOME caregiver for employer ejabagat at 36 Jamieson Ave., Red Deer for four children: newborn, 20 mo. old, 3 yrs. old and 9 years old. Duties; bathe, dress, feed and meal prep. and some light housekeeping. $10.20/hour; 44 hours per wk, benefits pkg. Compl. of high school, and 1 to 2 yrs. exp. Call (403) 986-4154 or e-mail jabagate@yahoo.com FULL-TIME in-home caregiver for two children, aged 4 months and 3 years, $10.20/hr., 44 hrs./wk., room and board provided, must have at least one year exp. Duties: bathe, dress, feed, meal prep., and light housekeeping duties. e-mail resume to: xyrilq@yahoo.com P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle. 403-505-7846
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FT child caregiver in Red Deer. HS grad w/ First Aid & CPR. Supervise and care for 1 yr old. $10.66/hr, 44hrs/wk. Live-in optional. pret_lady@yahoo.ca FT CHILDCARE help in Penhold HS grad supervise in absence of parents, meal prep., housekeep, $10.66/hr; 44hrs/wk. Exp. an asset genedith2004@yahoo.com
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F/T AND P/T JOB AVAIL. ON DAIRY FARM, WEST OF BLACKFALDS., Email: wildroseholsteins @cciwireless.ca Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298
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Full Time Cleaners required for day’s at Nova Joffre Site. ST $15.00 Per Hr. Must be able to pass drug & alcohol testing & fit test. Excellent spoken & written English communication required. Send resume to aramark6685@gmail.com or fax @ 403-314-7504
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BUSY MEDICAL OFFICE requires a Prescreening Technician. Experience not necessary, job training is provided but qualifications will be considered. Starting wages $14/hr. Please fax resume to 403-342-2024. You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!
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THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for WELL EXPERIENCED
HOSTESS BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are currently accepting applications for a
JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR in our Stettler Field. Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard and learn quickly. Associated industry experience eg. instrumentation or facilities construction experience would be an asset but is not necessarily required. This position offers a diverse and challenging work environment with competitive pay, attractive benefits and the ability to grow within the organization. Applicants must live or be willing to relocate to within a 20 minute commute of the work place location (Stettler). Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1
TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive salary and job bonuses. Resume to terry@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818
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Town of Trochu, Director of Operations:
Mature professional familiar with maitre d’ capabilities. Would be an asset to have a current ProServe Certificate and familiar with wine service. Professional appearance is a definite requirement. Must have Ref’s & Exp. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contact. THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for WELL EXPERIENCED
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this is a working Must hold a current supervisory position and ProServe Certificate and reports to the CAO. be fully exp. in wine RESPONSIBILITIES service. Professional include the management appearance is a definite and supervision of public requirement. works, water treatment/ Must have Ref’s & Exp. distribution, waste water Apply within: 2079-50 collection/ treatment, solid Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. waste collection and Fax 403-347-1161 Phone recreation facilities. calls WILL NOT be QUALIFICATIONS: accepted. Only candidates Minimum grade twelve, selected for an interview valid Class 3 Alberta Motor will be contact. Vehicle Operators License, 3 years’ experience related supervisory role, well -developed record keeping, reporting and planning skills. Level I Water and Wastewater THE RUSTY PELICAN is certificates are an asset. now accepting resumes for Combination 4 F/T Exp’d experience/education may LINE COOKS at be considered. Submit COLTER ENERGY LP all stations. MUST HAVE: resume, including IS NOW HIRING references and salary • 2 yrs. relevant exp., WELL TESTING: expectations. completion of High Supervisors secretary@ School, be reliable, town.trochu.ab.ca Night Operators self motivated, work (403) 442-3085. More Operators well under limited • Have current Safety detailed job description at: supervision in fast www.town.trochu.ab.ca certificates including H2S paced environment. • Be prepared to work in remote locations for Restaurant/ Salary is $14 - $18./hr. 40 extended periods of time hr. wk. dependant on exp. Hotel • Must be physically fit • Competitive wages, benefits 733644 Ab Ltd. and RRSP offered O/A The Rusty Pelican Please email resume with current driver’s abstract to: Location of employment: jbecker@colterenergy.ca 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 Buying or Selling email: your home? bennett2014.bkkp@ Check out Homes for Sale EAST SIDE MARIO’S gmail.com in Classifieds HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS or Call 403-347-1414 Full Time & Part Time. or Fax to: 403-347-1161 LOCAL SERVICE CO. Apply after 2 p.m. Ask for Only candidates selected in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. the manager on duty. for an interview will be VACUUM TRUCK contacted. OPERATOR JJAM Management (1987) Must have Class 3 licence Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s THE RUSTY PELICAN is w/air & all oilfield tickets. Requires to work at these now accepting resumes for Fax resume w/drivers Red Deer, AB locations: Exp. Bartenders, abstract to 403-886-4475 5111 22 St. Full knowledge of all 37444 HWY 2 S cocktails, inventory control, 37543 HWY 2N must be of professional 700 3020 22 St. nature and be capable of FOOD ATTENDANT working all shifts. Req’d permanent shift Apply within: 2079-50 weekend day and evening SERVICE RIG Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.- Fri. both full and part time. Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd Fax 403-347-1161 Phone 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + is seeking a calls WILL NOT be benefits. Start ASAP. FLOORHAND accepted. Only candidates Job description Locally based, home every selected for interview will www.timhortons.com night! Qualified applicants be contacted. Education and experience must have all necessary THE RUSTY PELICAN is not req’d. valid tickets for the position now accepting resumes for Apply in person or fax being applied for. resume to: 403-314-1303 Bearspaw offers a F/T DISHWASHER very competitive salary Must maintain work and benefits package station to sanitary along with a steady measures and be capable work schedule. of working all shifts. Please submit resumes: Apply within: 2079-50 Attn: Human Resources Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Email: Fax 403-347-1161 Phone payroll@bearspawpet.com calls WILL NOT be Fax: (403) 252-9719 or accepted. Only Candidates Mail to: Suite 5309, selected for interview will LUCKY’S LOUNGE 333-96 Ave. NE be contacted. located in Jackpot Casino, Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 requires Waitress’s Celebrate your life Fri. - Sun. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. Trades with a Classified No phone calls please ANNOUNCEMENT SMALL RURAL MEAT RAMADA INN & SUITES SHOP in central AB req’s. looking for F/T meat ROOM ATTENDANTS. cutter. 8-5, no weekends. Exp. preferred. Also Knowledge of cutting BREAKFAST ROOM hanging carcasses ATTENDANTS, needed. Rental house early morning shifts, avail. within walking disflexibility req’d. Only tance of meat shop at a serious inquiries apply. very reasonable rate with Drop off resume at: paid utils. 403-843-4383 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer jkcmeats@hotmail.ca or fax 403-342-4433
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BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301
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KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car
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GARAGE DOOR SERVICE Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614 SNOW blowing/dump/junk runs/odd jobs 403-885-5333
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JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888
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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Start your career! See Help Wanted
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5* JUNK REMOVAL SHOVELLING AND snow Property clean up 340-8666 blowing 403-318-7625
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F/T SHIPPER/ RECEIVER Duties would incl. Shipping & Receiving, Forklift Operation, Picking Orders, and General Warehouse Duties. Opportunity for advancement for the right person.
PARTS PERSON required for rapidly expanding HD Parts Supply Store. Must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment. Have experience in the heavy truck/trailer industry. Must possess strong customer service skills. Above average package.
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Fax resume to 348-5198 or drop off at 7947 Edgar Industrial Drive, Red Deer, T4P 3R2 Phone 348-0999 Email: ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com. 503812A23-27
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LEAPSTER L-MAX, extra game, tv cables, $20. 403-314-9603
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Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472
FIREWOOD, Spruce & Pine. North of Costco 403-346-7178, 392-7754
Owner Operators & Contract Drivers in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558 F/T Permanent Truck Driver Required for Rocky Fast Express (1790810 AB Ltd.) in Red Deer, AB Straight truck: 4600kg+w/2 axles and van Need class 5 DL + 2 yrs exp. $25 per hr/ with OPEN availability Duties: pick up/deliver freight, pre-trip truck inspection, communication with customers. Physically demanding position. Time management skills required. Apply at: 8004 Edgar Industrial Green, Red Deer, T4P3S2 Call: 403.845.2230 Fax: 587.997.7719 HALLCON is seeking qualified drivers to transport rail crews throughout Red Deer area. Drivers are ideally based out of RED DEER. No overnight stays required. This position is an on call position. Employees are responsible for taking trips during the period they have designated themselves available to do so. Transportation is done in Hallcon company vehicles. Vehicles are extensively & consistently maintained ensuring optimal safety for drivers and clients. Drivers must possess valid Class 1, 2, or 4 license, with clean driver abstract. Assisted licensing upgrade to achieve a class 4 is available. Pay is based at a rate of $16.00. Earning potential is based on your availability, as our operation runs on a 24/7 on call basis. Both full time and part time employees are welcome. Semiretired, retired, full time, part time employees are welcome. Forward resumes & current driver abstract: Shane Flack asmabnorth@gmail.com.
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BRADFORD exchange plate, 1995, limited edition, winter solstice, plate no. 3140B, comes with certificate of authenticity, beautifully framed, $40. 403-342-4898
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BEVELED glass mirror, oak frame, 19” x 32”, $35. 403-314-9603
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Is taking resumes for: Accessories Dept. with experience in clothing or power sport industry. F/T positions avail. Please email resume to HR Department brenda@turplebros.ca Start your career! See Help Wanted
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Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE With only 64 papers, approximately: $350.00/mo. For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301
LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303 ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the
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Plant Laborer for our Kuusamo facility. The plant is located 4-5 kilometers west of Sylvan Lake on Hwy 11. This is an entry level position working mainly outdoors that can lead into the Plant Operator positions. Duties will include assistance of Plant Operators in the transfer of chemicals, movement of product within the plant, truck and rail car loading/unloading, and chemical blending as well as housekeeping and light maintenance. We are looking for hard working, flexible, safety conscious people with equipment experience, some basic mechanical abilities, driver’s license, and own transportation. We offer an excellent benefits plan and a company matching RRSP savings plan. Please forward your resume via email to the address attached. Please have ‘Plant Laborer’ in the subject line. Drug and alcohol policy in effect and pre-employee testing. Inquiries regarding careers with CFR should be directed to hr@cfrchemicals.com Fax: 346-2299
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To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307
As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle provided by company! Work 3 to 4 shifts a week. Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.
CALL: CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS
3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:
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TransX has immediate openings for Class 1 Company Drivers and Owner Operators to serve Canadian and U.S. routes. For more information on your lanes and your pay package please call 1-877-787-2679 or apply on line at www.drivetransx.ca today! TransX offers steady runs at competitive rates and a top benefits package. Join our team today! 504549A24-30
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Beatty Close Broughton / Brookes Boyce St. / Byer Close Baile Close / Boyce St. Brown Close / Barrett Dr.
ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in
Dixon Cres. Dunlop St., Dixon Ave. & Close $107.00/mo Durand Cr. & Drummond Ave. $69.00/mo. also Drummond Cl. & Dowd Cl. $59.00/mo. also Dunning Cres. Cl., and Depalme St. $103.00 GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area MOUNTVIEW AREA
WEST PARK 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1550/mo. $1000. d.d. just reno’d, Avail Feb . 1. 403-304-5337
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A lifestyle you have more than earned Stunning new Laebon home in the Timbers-Red Deer 1426 sq.ft. 3 bdrms/2baths, large private master suite $499,900 Call Samantha 403.392.6261
www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates
~ Westpark ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1195 to $1395 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs. N/S, no utils. incl. Avail. immed. & Feb. 1 References required. SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca
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Amazing new Laebon Home 1452 sq.ft. modified bi-level with large private master suite 3 bdrms/2baths $394,599 Call Jocelyn 403.302.9612
Drive a little save a lot Brand new 2135 sq.ft. Laebon home 3 bdrms/2.5 baths $431,599 Call Jocelyn 403.302.9612
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3 BDRM. 4 appls. no pets. $1100/mo. 403-343-6609
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2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d. 403-346-1458 3810 47 ST. TWO spacious 2 bdrm. suites. Stove, fridge, security. Adult only, no pets. Bsmt. $900, main floor with balcony $945. 587-877-5808 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111
Huge pie shaped lot in Red Deer New 2bdrm/2bath Laebon home in Timberstone $347,900 call Aaron 403.396.4016
MOVE IN TODAY 1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550
Condos/ Townhouses
50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area. $209.00/mo. TIMBERSTONE AREA Trimble Cl. Traptow Cl. Tallman Cl. Teasdale Dr. Truant Cres. & area $224.00/mo. also Timberstone Way, 2 blks. of Timothy Drive and Trump Pl. $97.00/mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306
Isbister Close Inkster Close Isaacson Close Inglewood Dr. Isherwood Close Iverson Close
OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550
NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies. Call 403-343-7955
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1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444
Rooms For Rent
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Avail Immed, lrg fully furn bdrm for rent c/w working gas fireplace - $300DD $600/mth. Working / Student Male. Call 403-396-2468
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HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net
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RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519
CLASSIFICATIONS Realtors & Services
2012 DODGE AVENGER, $10,500. 403-896-9942 2003 GRAND AM, SE 4 dr. 194,000 kms., clean, great running order. $3000. 403-620-0695 1999 BUICK Regal, loaded 154,000 km.403-352-6995
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1/2 DUPLEX, Kentwood area, bi-level, 2 bdrm, 1.5 baths, 5 appls, deck, fenced yard, shed, for sale by owner, $247,600. Move in ready 403-505-6742
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On-site work experience Unit Clerk Specialty curriculum Under one-year full Diploma program Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Nationally recognized Medical Assisting First Aid / CPR Training Professional Certificate Hospital Scrubs included Train with Industry experts Perfect graduate job placement rate reported last year
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Ahlstrom Close Andrew Close Asstlee / Ansett Cres. Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres. Anderson Close Anquetel Close
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For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308
DEER PARK AREA DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week)
Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.
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Older 2 bedroom 1 bath home 5820-60A St. $995.00 month plus utilities- to view email steelpper@hotmail.com
Monday through Saturday. Delivery to be done before 6:30 am. Reliable vehicle needed.
Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.
Employment Training
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HEADBOARD, for queen bed, 60” wide, $35; LOGS Clothing 3 Clean wool accent Semi loads of pine, spruce, matching 3x5 oval carpets tamarack, poplar. LADIES shoes, size Price depends on location. from SEARS, $35 for all 3; and David Winter 9 1/2 - 10, 10 pairs, $30. Lil Mule Logging Collector’s houses in 403-314-9603 403-318-4346 Gov’t of Alberta Funding original boxes, $15/ea. may be available. 403-352-8811 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / CLASSIFICATIONS TWO blankets, electric 403-340-1930 Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 Electronics kettle, 2 Corningware FOR RENT • 3000-3200 www.academicexpress.ca casserole dishes, small WANTED • 3250-3390 GREENHOUSE WORKER DREAM CAST with 4 Household picture, $20. 403-342-4898 wanted at Meadowbrook games, $80; WII with games, $100; and CD Appliances Greenhouses, Penhold. Houses/ stand, $20. 403-782-3847 3 Full Time Seasonal Duplexes LG WHITE over the range Cats Positions. No Exp, training microwave oven, 1000 PANASONIC SC-HC3 provided. Starting Feb watts, Model MV-1510M, BOWER 1/2 DUPLEX, ultra-slim, ipod docking 2015. $10.20/hr, 44 hrs, BEAUTIFUL kittens, F, (3), exc. cond., Feb 1. 403-347-0163 speaker system with CD 5 days per week, 3 month Calico, tabby, spotted, $175 403-352-8811 player, AM/FM radio, period. Fax resume to free to good home MOUNTVIEW clock, alarm, remote, and 403-886-2252. 403-782-3130 3 bdrm. house, main floor, instruction manual. $95. 5 appls., fenced yard, Household Sunterra Meats in Trochu, TOO MUCH STUFF? Call (403) 342-7908. large deck, rent $1500 incl. 45 minutes South East of Furnishings Let Classifieds all utils. $900 s.d. Avail. Red Deer is looking for help you sell it. now or Feb 1. 403-304-5337 enthusiastic, hard working Event NIGHT Tables, (2) Oak, 1 individuals to join their drawer & 2 doors with Tickets team at their processing Advocate glass top to protect from plant. Experience in the scratches. $70 ea. Opportunities TRAGICALLY HIP concert meat industry a definite 403-352-8811 Mon. Feb. 9 in Calgary, asset. Training provided. good seats, pair for Starting wage $14.00 per WANTED $155 403-391-3335 hour, increases based on Antiques, furniture and skill and experience. estates. 342-2514 Looking for a place Benefit package, travel to live? CELEBRATIONS CARRIERS REQUIRED allowance and a signing Take a tour through the HAPPEN EVERY DAY bonus. For more informaCLASSIFIEDS IN CLASSIFIEDS tion, contact Trish at To deliver the 403-442-4202 or CENTRAL AB LIFE trish.hyshka@sunterra.ca Advocate
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STEREO, JVC mini hi-fi am/fm radio, single cassette, single CD player, 4 speakers, remote control, $30. 403-342-4898 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!
Misc. for Homestead Firewood Sale AFFORDABLE
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CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires
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Kurds celebrate ousting IS from Kobani BEIRUT — Jubilant Kurdish fighters ousted Islamic State militants from the key Syrian border town of Kobani on Monday after a four-month battle — a significant victory for both the Kurds and the U.S.-led coalition. The Kurds raised their flag on a hill that once flew the Islamic State group’s black banner. On Kobani’s war-ravaged streets, gunmen fired in the air in celebration, male and female fighters embraced, and troops danced in their baggy uniforms. The failure to capture Kobani was a major blow to the extremists whose hopes for an easy victory dissolved into a costly siege under withering airstrikes by coalition forces and an assault by the Kurdish militia. For the U.S. and its partners, Kobani became a strategic prize, especially after they increased the number of airstrikes against IS fighters there in October. “Daesh gambled on Kobani and lost,” said senior Kurdish official Idriss Nassan, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group. “Their defences have collapsed and its fighters have fled,” he told The Associated Press from Turkey, adding that he would return to Kobani on Tuesday. Kobani-based journalis Farshad Shami said the few civilians who remained had joined in the celebration. Most of the town of about 60,000 people had fled to Turkey to escape the fighting. Several U.S. officials said they couldn’t confirm that Kurdish fighters have gained full control of Kobani, but
stroyed. The group continued to invest in resources, bringing in hundreds of reinforcements. Activists said these included many teenagers and even children, signalling a shortage in its forces. The group made a last stand in the past few weeks, unleashing more than 35 suicide attacks in recent weeks, activists said. But the advancing Kurdish fighters could not be stopped. Nassan said coalition airstrikes intensified in recent days, helping the Kurds in their final push toward IS positions on the southern and eastern edges of Kobani. The U.S. Central Command said Monday it had carried out 17 airstrikes near Kobani in the last 24 hours that struck IS infrastructure and fighting positions. Shami, the Kurdish journalist, said the remaining IS militants in eastern Kobani vacated quickly, leaving behind fresh food and heavy weapons. “Their morale collapsed,” he said by telephone as celebratory gunfire echoed in the background. Gharib Hassou, a representative of Syria’s powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD, based in Southern Kurdistan, said most of the militants fled to the IS-controlled town of Tal Abyad to the east. “There are a lot of dead bodies ... and they left some of the weapons,” he said. Rami Abdurrahman, director of the Observatory, also confirmed Kobani was entirely in Kurdish hands. He said the Kurdish force was led by Mohammed Barkhadan, the Kobani commander of the main Kurdish militia known as the People’s Protection Units, or YPG.
SYRIA added that they have no reason to disbelieve the claims. A senior U.S. official said the Kurds controlled most of the town and have consolidated control particularly in the central and southern areas. The official said Islamic State militants still have a considerable presence in outlying areas around Kobani and are still putting up stiff resistance to the Kurds in those pockets outside it. U.S. Central Central Command estimates that 90 per cent of Kobani is now controlled by Kurdish forces. Kurdish officials and activists said Kobani was entirely in Kurdish hands, with only sporadic fighting on the eastern outer edges where the militants retained some footholds. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighters of the main Kurdish militia known as the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, where searching houses in the eastern suburbs of the town and dismantling and detonating bombs and booby-traps left behind. Capturing Kobani would have given the IS militants control of a border crossing with Turkey and open direct lines for their positions along the frontier. Now, it is a grave psychological loss for the extremist group, which has been dealt a series of military setbacks in both Syria and Iraq, particularly at the hands of the Kurds. Last month, Kurdish fighters in Iraq retook the strategic town of Sinjar that had been home to many of Iraq’s minority Yazidis.
The focus is now expected to shift to several hundred villages around Kobani still held by the militants. Kurdish activists said they expected the fight for those to be easier than for the town itself. In September, Islamic State fighters began capturing about 300 Kurdish villages near Kobani and thrust into the town itself, occupying nearly half of it and sending tens of thousands of residents fleeing into Turkey. But the once-nondescript town with few resources quickly became a centerpiece of the international campaign against the Islamic State group. TV crews flocked to the Turkish side of the border and trained their cameras on the besieged town, plumes of smoke rising from explosions. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declared it would be “morally very difficult” not to help Kobani. The U.S.-led air assault began Sept. 23, with Kobani the target of about a half-dozen daily airstrikes on average. More than 80 per cent of all coalition airstrikes in Syria have been in or around the town. At one point in October, the U.S. air dropped bundles of weapons and medical supplies for Kurdish fighters — a first in the Syrian conflict. Dozens of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces joined their brethren in Kobani, bringing in heavy weapons that neutralized the Islamic State group’s artillery advantage. By early January, more than 1,000 Islamic State fighters had been killed and much of its heavy weaponry de-
U.S. Northeast rushes to shut down ahead of winter storm NEW YORK — More than 35 million people along the Philadelphiato-Boston corridor rushed to get home and settle in Monday as a fearsome storm swirled in with the potential for hurricane-force winds and 1 to 3 feet of snow that could paralyze the Northeast for days. Snow was blowing sideways with ever-increasing intensity in New York City by midafternoon as flurries began in Boston. Forecasters said the storm would build into a blizzard, and the brunt of it would hit late Monday and into Tuesday. As the snow got heavier, much of the region rushed to shut down. More than 6,500 flights in and out of the Northeast were cancelled, and many of them may not take off again until Wednesday. Schools and businesses let out early. Government offices closed. Shoppers stocking up on food jammed supermarkets and elbowed one another for what was left. Broadway stages went dark. “It’s going to be ridiculous out there, frightening,” said postal deliveryman Peter Hovey, standing on a snowy commuter train platform in White Plains, New York. All too aware that big snowstorms can make or break politicians, governors and mayors moved quickly to declare emergencies and order the shutdown of streets and highways to prevent travellers from getting stranded and to enable plows and emergency vehicles to get through. “This will most likely be one of the largest blizzards in the history of New York City,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio warned. He urged New Yorkers to go home and stay there, adding: “People have to make smart decisions from this point on.”
Up to now, this has been a largely snow-free winter in the urban Northeast. But this storm threatened to make up the difference in a single blow. Boston was expected to get 2 to 3 feet of snow, New York 1 ½ to 2 feet and Philadelphia more than a foot. The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for a 250-mile swath of the region, meaning heavy, blowing snow and potential whiteout conditions. Forecasters warned that the wind could gust to 75 mph or more along the Massachusetts coast and up 50 mph farther inland. New York City’s subways and buses planned to shut down by 11 p.m. In Massachusetts, ferry service to Martha’s Vineyard was greatly curtailed and to Nantucket was suspended. Commuter railroads across the Northeast announced plans to stop running overnight, and most flights out of the region’s major airports were cancelled. Authorities banned travel on all streets and highways in New York City and on Long Island and warned that violators could be fined $300. Even food deliveries were off-limits on the streets of takeout-friendly Manhattan. The governors of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island also slapped restrictions on nonessential travel. “We learned the lesson the hard way,” said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, referring to instances in which motorists got stranded in the snow for 24 hours or more. Nicole Coelho, a nanny from Lyndhurst, New Jersey, was preparing to pick up her charges early from school and stocking up on macaroni and cheese, frozen pizzas and milk at a supermarket. “I’m going to make sure to charge up my cellphone, and I have a good book I haven’t gotten around to reading yet,” she said.
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Dear Annie: My wife has a good per- ganization that matches her passions, sonality and makes friends easily. The whether that be at her local food bank, problem is, she does not keep them. animal shelter, daycare, library or anyIf someone rubs her wrong, she flares where she wants, would have been less up in anger. If someone disagrees with ridiculous. — Ventura, Calif. her, she verbally abuses them. She also Dear Ventura: We appreciate your gets involved in everyone else’s per- weighing in, but in your effort to be sonal affairs. gender-neutral, you miss When these negative the writer’s main point. things happen, the friends The woman’s problem isn’t start backing off. Then my a need to be useful and wife complains that we have busy, for which any volunno friends and it’s my fault teer job would be helpful. because I’m not outgoing It’s that she isn’t getting enough. But I am friendly enough physical affection. and participate in group She even signs her letter, gatherings without getting “Need To Be Held.� She involved in conflicts. I make isn’t likely to find that at friends and keep them. her local food bank or liThis has been going on brary. Volunteering at her for 30 years. How can I make local hospital, where she MITCHELL her see that she is the one can hold babies, is a won& SUGAR who is driving people away? derful way for her to get — Need Help Down South the physical affection she Dear Need: Your wife is craves, and it is also good disinclined to blame herself for the babies. for these things. After all, if Dear Annie: “Been she had the capacity for genuine self- There, Done That� lamented the trend examination, she might not be alienat- to give kids unusual names. These ing her friends to begin with. days, complicated names can be an adYou can discuss this honestly, calm- vantage if you are searching for somely telling your wife that she seems one on the Internet. A person with a quick to anger and slow to forgive, and commonly spelled first name can be perhaps she could learn a different ap- impossible to find. proach, either on her own or through Fifty years ago, my kid sister ancounselling. But if you are unwilling nounced that she was going to marry to risk that argument, say neutrally, someone with a simple last name. But “Some folks are very sensitive, and I when she married years later, it was to try to be careful about what I say to a man whose name was even harder to them and always try to forgive them spell and pronounce than hers. for things that annoy me. But it’s hard When I taught elementary school in work.� the 1970s, the principal suggested that That may give her some ideas about it might be easier for students to call how to treat others, while not assessing me something other than my last name, blame. It’s your choice. You have to as long as it started with “Mister.� On live with her. my first day, I wrote my name on the Dear Annie: I was ashamed of your board and told the students what the response to “Need To Be Held,� who principal had said. They voted to call was dissatisfied with her husband’s me “Mister John.� I remember one affection. Telling her to get counsel- open house when a parent addressed ling, focus on the grandchildren, get me by my last name. Their daughter out more, etc., was fine until I came to immediately interrupted to say they your last line: “Please consider doing were incorrect. I was “Mister John.� — volunteer work with babies at your lo- Hard To Spell Last Name cal hospital.� Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy There are probably hundreds of vol- Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ediunteer opportunities in her commu- tors of the Ann Landers column. Please nity. Just because she is a mother, you email your questions to anniesmailbox@ assume holding a baby would make comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, her happy? A simple suggestion that c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, she look into volunteering with an or- Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
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TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 2015 FROM LEFT: Waffled hash browns; caprese salad with waffled eggplant. FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Waffled salmon with miso-maple glaze and asparagus; a waffled omelette; s’moreffles. Photos by ATUL BADONI/freelance
When in doubt, wafflize it! Did you receive a waffle maker for Christmas? Or maybe you have one stored in the cupboard collecting dust. If you are like me, the grill probably gets a monthly pass out for the weekend brunch run. Why else would anyone take out their waffle maker if not for waffles? Well, Daniel Shumski’s cookbook Will it Waffle? tests that statement and shows a whole new potential for the under used waffle maker. Living in Montreal, Shumski owns six waffle irons and MADHU would describe himself has BADONI waffled obsessed. “You know how sometime you go to bed with something on your mind and you think maybe a good night’s sleep will clear your head? For me that was waffles. Well, really it was anything but waffles,” writes Shumski in his cookbook. Shumski wanted to know what else would work in the waffle iron. Looking for answers, Shumski created the blog Waffleizer and discovered that there are many readers who were also hungry for the answer. “Suddenly, the humble waffle iron was capable of more than most people had imagined. Once, it was for making waffles. Now it was for making breakfast, lunch, dinner and everything in between,” writes Shumski. Since the Waffleizer.com blog caught the attention of major newspapers, popular foodies and bloggers, Shumski became motivated to write his Will it Waffle? cookbook. His cookbook illustrates 50 tried-and-tested waffled breakfast and brunch, main courses and dessert recipes. It doesn’t matter what waffle iron you have because all of his recipes were tested using both Belgian and the standard waffle irons. Besides the waffle iron, no other special tools are needed. Through from his trials and tribulations, he does recommends using silicone spatula to prevent scratching the non-stick coating of your waffle iron and also copious amount of cooking spray because things do get sticky inside the griddle. Why waffle it? After going through the cookbook, I have to wonder why not? First there is the ease factor to cooking on the waffle iron. If waffles are ordered for breakfast, why not complete the meal with crisp waffled bacon or a fluffy omelet? There is also the melt factor when using the griddle; with the two hot plates, it almost acts like a Panini press, making it ideal for making pizza, calzones and quesadillas. It is also great for using up leftover macaroni — simply press into the griddle and it comes out like a decadent grilled cheese sandwich — golden, buttery exterior and soft, cheesy insides. Another advantage of waffling food is that you can take advantage of the dimples. Shumski illustrates how to make spaghetti and waffled meatballs — the dimples in the meatballs make them perfect for the sauce to pool instead of rolling off to the side. Finally there is the cool factor of using the waffle iron — who would have thought you could have used a waffle maker to make apple pies, banana bread, and s’mores without heating up the oven and with the added bonus of fun little grid marks on the baked goodies? Shumski ends his cookbook by providing helpful hints to inspire his readers to continue with their “will it waffle” journey. According to him, there are categories of food that cook well in the waffle maker. These include: ● a batter or dough that will rise and cook in the waffle iron (examples: cakes, muffins, breads); ● components that will come together in the pressure and heat of the waffle iron (examples: hash browns, paninis); ● solid food that will stay in one piece in the waffle iron (examples: chicken breast, steak, squid French toast). Would I use my waffler for everyday family meals? Yes, because it is ideal for cooking quick weekday meals for one or two. But since my griddle is small, it would be time consuming to cook for the whole family. It would be great for empty nesters who are adjusting to cook for two or a college student living in dorm room with limited utensils and cooking skills. It was fun perusing through the recipes, learning to cook any meal of the day on my waffle maker with amazing results and with only half of the time of conventional oven. I will definitely see more waffling in my meal repertoires. (Maybe I will get another waffle iron as a gift ... hint, hint to my hubby!)
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Waffle-Iron Hash Browns 2 russet (baking) potatoes, about 10 ounces each, peeled and shredded ½ teaspoon kosher salt ¾ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 2 teaspoons unsalted butter Preheat waffle iron. If it has temperature controls, set it to medium. Squeeze shredded potato with a towel until it’s as dry as possible. In a mixing bowl, combine shredded potato, salt, and pepper. Using a silicone brush or paper towel, carefully grease both sides of waffle iron with butter. Pile shredded potatoes into waffle iron, over-stuffing it a bit, and close lid. (The pressure of the lid will compress the potatoes and help them emerge as a cohesive, waffled unit.) Cook for two minutes, then
from the waffle iron, place the asparagus spears in the waffle iron, and close the lid. Cook the asparagus until just tender, three minutes. Thinner spears will finish cooking first. Remove the spears as they finish. Serve the asparagus alongside the salmon. If you have extra glaze, strain the garlic from it and serve it on the side or drizzle it over the fish.
Caprese Salad with Waffled Eggplant Small eggplant, cut into round slices about ½ inch thick Kosher salt 2 medium tomato, ripe 4 ounces mozzarella cheese ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling Freshly ground black pepper, to taste 1 bunch fresh basil, washed and dried, stems removed Kosher salt, or coarse sea salt, to taste. Place the eggplant slices on a layer of paper towels and generously sprinkle both sides of the slices with salt. Allow the eggplant to sit for 30 minutes Meanwhile, slice the tomatoes into rounds. Do the same with the mozzarella. Preheat the waffle iron on high. Rinse the eggplant slices in cold water to wash off the salt. Pat the slices dry. Brush both sides of each eggplant slice with olive oil. Place the eggplant in the waffle iron, close the lid, and cook until the eggplant is soft and cooked through, four minutes. Remove the eggplant from the waffle iron and set on a serving plate, layering it with slices of tomatoes and cheese. Scatter the basil leaves atop the salad. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and freshly ground pepper.
S’moreffles press down on lid to further compress potatoes (be careful: lid may be hot). Continue cooking potatoes for five minutes longer, then begin checking them: they are ready when potatoes are golden brown all over, about one to two minutes longer. Serve hot with eggs or any other breakfast foods.
Waffled Salmon with Miso-Maple Glaze and Asparagus 1 tablespoon maple syrup 2 teaspoons yellow miso paste 1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar 1 teaspoon pure sesame oil ½ teaspoon grated fresh ginger 1 clove garlic, minced Nonstick cooking spray 2 salmon fillets (4 to 6 ounces each), ½ inch thick, with or without skin 8 ounces asparagus (about 12 spears), washed and with tough bottom ends removed ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste In a small bowl, whisk together the maple syrup, miso, vinegar, sesame oil, ginger, and garlic. Set the mixture aside. Preheat the waffle iron on high. Coat both sides of the waffle iron grid with nonstick spray. Place the salmon (skin-side down, if it has skin) on the waffle iron and close the lid. While the fish is cooking, toss the asparagus with the olive oil and season with salt and pepper in another bowl. After four minutes, check on the fish. The salmon should be close to done. You should see no translucence on the edges. If your fillets are thicker than half an inch or you’re unsure about whether the salmon is done, use a small, sharp knife to cut a small incision in the middle of the salmon. You should see only a trace of translucence in the middle. Use a silicone brush to baste the salmon with the glaze, close the lid, and cook until the glaze becomes sticky, one minute more. Remove the fish
½ cup whole wheat flour ½ cup all-purpose flour ¼ cup dark brown sugar ½ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt Pinch of cinnamon 4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces ¼ cup honey 2 tablespoons whole milk 1 tablespoons vanilla ¾ cup semisweet chocolate chips ¾ cup mini marshmallows Preheat waffle iron. Coat both sides of waffle iron grid with non-stick spray. In a mixing bowl, combine both flours, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. In a separate bowl, whisk together melted butter, milk, honey, and vanilla. Add wet ingredients to flour mixture and stir until a dough forms. Let mixture stand for five minutes. It will be much thicker than ordinary waffle batter, but not as thick as bread dough. Measure out about ¼ cup of batter and place it on one section of waffle iron. Repeat with another ¼ cup of batter, to give you a top and a bottom for your “s’moreffle sandwich.” Close lid and cook until the waffles are still slightly soft but cooked throughout, about three minutes. Carefully remove waffles from waffle iron. They will be quite soft, so use care to keep them intact. Allow them to cool slightly. Repeat step three with remaining batter. Top one waffled graham cracker with a layer of chopped candy, leaving room around the edges for candy to melt and spread outward. Allow waffled graham cracker to sit for a minute and candy to melt slightly, then press candy into waffle with the back of a fork to compress it. Top with a second waffle and place the s’moreffle in the waffle iron on the side furthest from hinge. Close waffle iron and cook until candy melts, about one minute. Remove the s’moreffle. Repeat with remaining waffles and candy. Slice s’moreffles in half and serve. Madhu Badoni is a Red Deer-based freelance food writer. She can be reached at madhubadoni@gmail.com or on Twitter @madhubadoni. Watch for Madhu’s Masala-Mix blog on www.reddeeradvocate.com.