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Body of evidence Items kept in meticulous storage in RCMP evidence lockers are not only part of fighting crime, sometimes they’re almost a museum of the bizarre

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Red Deer RCMP Sgt. Rob Marsollier holds a potato launcher that was seized in the city. It’s only one of many weapons, some handmade, some modified, that police keep in strictly managed storage, for possible use in court proceedings. BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Long after the headlines are forgotten and memories fade, the evidence used to help solve Red Deer’s crimes will stand. In some cases, the evidence is preserved indefinitely. Take for example a widely publicized case where a Red Deer woman was reported missing in January 1989. It was alleged that her husband killed and dismembered her in their bathtub before removing her body in a duffle bag. Blood and hair were recovered in the drain. The body was never found and the husband has since died. However, the smashed shower doors and other items from the apartment are wrapped and secured

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in the exhibit hall in the basement of the downtown Red Deer RCMP station. “Every time I think I have seen it all, something else comes in,” said Bonnie Brown. Brown is one of two exhibits custodians who are responsible for cataloguing, tracking and overseeing the evidence in the police storage system in Red Deer. Her colleague did not want her name used to protect her privacy. The shower doors are likely the oldest exhibits among the diverse array of items collected over the decades. Police may have seized the 12,000 exhibits dating back to the 1980s during homicide cases, drug busts, traffic stops and other crimes. Hundreds of larger items, such as trucks, cars and bicycles, are stored off-site. Hazardous goods, including paint thinners and gasoline, are also stored on the police compound.

In some circumstances, the items were recovered from domestic violence situations where weapons were found in the homes. Row after row of exhibits brim with a large number of found property, including cameras, cellphones, tools, jewelry, skateboards, phone chargers and umbrellas. Then there’s the arsenal of weapons, including swords, sawed-off shotguns, replica firearms, bats, modified firearms, bow and arrows, potato guns and much more. There’s not much to see in the drug room — rather it is the smell that gives away the contents. Everything from marijuana, heroin and crystal meth to cocaine is stored in boxes on the shelves. Large quantities of drugs seized in grow ops are stored at off-site locations.

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EVIDENCE: Integrity of exhibits must be provable Everything that comes into the hall via a police officer is meticulously tracked through strict procedures and protocols. Neither the police officers nor the public are allowed to enter where the exhibits are kept. When officers need to access an exhibit, for a court case for example, they must sign it out through the custodians. Red Deer RCMP Sgt. Rob Marsollier said continuity of all the processes is very important to protect the integrity of the evidence. “How do you know that O.J. Simpson did not touch this glove?” said Marsollier. “Because it went from here to here to here.” The custodians have the only two keys to the exhibits hall, including the drug room, main exhibits, DNA dryers and the main area. In the unlikelihood that they have to testify in court, they have to be able to say no one touched or tampered with the evidence. Brown, who has worked in exhibits since 2007, has not been called to testify but there is always the possibility. “The officers are responsible for their exhibits because they are the ones who have to testify in court,” said Brown. “They will take their stuff out and bag it into the evidence bags.” Bloody or wet clothing recovered from homicides or assaults, and other serious crimes, are dried in one of two drying rooms in the exhibits hall before being bagged and filed with the other exhibits. Red Deer is one of the few detachments in Central Alberta that has DNA dryers. Brown said it is not unusual for other police agencies to use them. The police officer dries the evidence and retains the key to the room while it is drying and before it is properly bagged and stored. The items from the victim and the accused are dried separately to avoid cross contamination. Officers may also use the rooms to collect hair or DNA samples from bedding or other materials. A few years ago, Innisfail RCMP used the dryers to dry evidence from a homicide at the Bowden Institution. “Clothing was just sopping wet with blood,” said Brown. In one file alone, there could be 150 exhibits. One time, the two custodians worked out of a trailer at a homicide scene because hundreds of exhibits had to be collected, logged and tracked. Investigators felt it would streamline the system to have them key the information into a laptop as the investigators collected and bagged the evidence. Because Brown and her partner handle every file that comes into the exhibits, they have logged everything from the gruesome to the downright bizarre. In a domestic abuse case that Brown calls “our own Fifty Shades of Grey in Red Deer,” police recovered an explicit signed sex contract between a husband and wife. “It was very specific to what her daily duties would be for him,” said Brown. “It was very interesting. The accessories or toys for evidence were very interesting. That was one of the most bizarre things.” A few years ago, $40,000 was found in a furnace in an unoccupied basement suite. The furnace stopped working so the woman who lived upstairs called the repairman, who discovered blocks of cash in a Blockbuster bag. Brown said the repairman was honest and turned the money in and that led to a fairly big “proceeds of crime” file. There are also items that hit close to home, like toys that accidently strangled a child and the crime scene photos from a gruesome murder or sexual assault. But the women know they have a job to do and they try not to take their work home with them. A good portion of the items are tested for verification and identification at labs in various parts of the country. Usually it’s the exhibits that will be used in a court case or unrecognizable drugs.

Alberta Liberal Laurie Blakeman endorsed by two other parties in Edmonton-Centre EDMONTON — Alberta Liberal Laurie Blakeman will run for re-election in the Edmonton-Centre riding with the help of two other political parties. The Alberta Party and the Green Party have also nominated her as their candidate, but she will be

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Bonnie Brown is one of the exhibits custodians who oversee the evidence exhibits at the Red Deer RCMP police station. Here, Brown looks over material in a drug information kit. Clothing and other evidence from sexual assaults, homicides, national security issues and other severe crimes are always sent for testing. Evidence in a case such as one involving drugs is sent to the lab when the accused enters a not-guilty plea, typically at his first appearance. “It looks like marijuana, it smells like marijuana but you have to provide a scientific certificate basically confirming it is marijuana,” said Brown. A firearm may be sent to the lab to verify it is a gun or for ballistic testing to ensure it was not used in another crime. There are retention periods for the exhibits, based on severity of the crime. Exhibits from unsolved sexual assaults are kept for 70 years. Exhibits from solved cases are retained for 20 years. The evidence is kept indefinitely for homicides, regardless if the case is solved or unsolved. Drugs are stored for a minimum of six months and staff must get authorization from Health Canada to burn the drugs. Firearms are always destroyed after they are no longer needed for court. The one exception is when police do not have an example of the firearm in their collection. Police can use the weapons as part of their investigations, pinpointing firearms from various eras or calibre type. In some cases, items (other than drugs) are returned to the owner, depending on what the court orders. Cash is deposited with the Solicitor General’s office until the court decides on the matter. Some items may end up at police auctions. Key evidence or that of a biological nature from homicides is held indefinitely. In some cases, there could be hundreds of exhibits from a homicide. Police remain optimistic that one day the evidence that is stored for decades will be the key to solving historical crimes because of the advancements in technology. “There’s a lot that will remain in here for long

past our lifespan because you never know what the advancements in science are going to be in 10 years or 20 years from now,” said Marsollier. Marsollier said DNA testing has led to convictions that might not have been possible if the evidence from 20 years ago was thrown away. Several boxes from the unsolved “gentleman rapist” files from the early 1990s may just represent one of those crimes. The accused was given the moniker because he had been “quite apologetic” about his actions. Eight cases remain unsolved. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

listed on the ballot as a Liberal. Blakeman called the move an historic first step toward unifying progressive voters in the province. “I believe the joining of forces by the three parties is essential to provide Alberta voters a centrist alternative to the (Progressive) Conservatives,” she said Friday. Blakeman said she plans to put the logos of all three parties on her campaign literature. Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann said he shares Blakeman’s concerns about the need for pro-

gressive parties to co-operate. He called her move a symbolic gesture that will give all progressive Albertans hope. He noted the looming provincial election expected to be called this spring is too close for the Liberals to do more. “I support Laurie and I thank her for her decision to run under the Liberal banner while uniting with others,” he said. Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark said he was “thrilled” with Blakeman’s decision.

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You can get stolen goods back Police want residents to report crimes and to mark their property. Red Deer RCMP Sgt. Rob Marsollier said this will increase the likelihood that stolen items will one day be returned to the owners. The exhibits hall is brimming with found and stolen property that police have no way of returning to the owners. While some people do not want to bother police about theft from a vehicle, it may help them get back their items and allow police to close files. Recently police were able to return a large amount of tools to an individual who reported them stolen. About a month later, the man got his tools back because he put his name on them. To report a non-urgent crime, call the RCMP Complaint Line at 403-343-5575 or visit a local RCMP office during office hours. Visit www. reddeer.ca and search RCMP to find out more about police services.

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Teens accused of string of armed robberies appear in court BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Red Deer Regional Health Foundation employees celebrate the opening of the new 2015 Hospitals’ Lottery House in Red Deer with a toast in the home on Friday afternoon. The house locate in Laredo in East Red Deer is at 86 Lazaro Close.

Hospitals’ Lottery to benefit cardiac, stroke care At the heart of this year’s Hospitals’ Lottery will be cardiac enhancements for four departments at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. The Emergency, Cardiac Intensive Care, Inpatient Cardiology and Telemetry, and Inpatient Acute Stroke Units will benefit from 2015 lottery and Mega Bucks 50, launched on Friday at the grand prize home located at the new Loredo neighbourhood on the city’s southeast side. For Colleen and Devin Cabelka and their family, who are from Bentley, the hospital’s cardiac and stroke care became extremely important. In 2011, Devin ended up at the Red Deer hospital after becoming very ill and in a lot of pain. He was in full body life-threatening sepsis. He had emergency surgery to aspirate his hip, which is where his pain was centred. He then went to ICU and recovered. It turned out that his infection had originated with a mouth-borne bacterium that they believe was related to an abscessed tooth that had never been extracted. After his illness, which took nine months to recover from, he did have the tooth removed. Then, in 2012, Devin, at the age of 46, suffered another medical crisis, a stroke, and found himself back at the hospital in the excellent care of the many health-care professionals. He recovered again, and now at age 49, he has only a slight limp. In January 2014, when the family was in the Cayman Islands on vacation, they received word from home that Colleen’s mother had stopped breathing and was in Red Deer hospital. Prior to that, her mother had received extensive care at the hospital for a variety of medical issues and complications. When the Cabelkas learned she had suffered an massive heart attack and was brain dead, they quickly decided to return home, hoping to get there to say goodbye before she died. Doctors tried hard — they even administered chest compressions — to keep her alive until the

family got there. Sadly, she passed away about half an hour before they arrived. The family is very grateful for all the resources and professional staff at the hospital that helped both Devin and Colleen’s mother. “We have had the best of care, in one of the best facilities, from some of the best medical professionals available. We are willing to advocate on behalf of this project in order to bring additional funds to further improve the facilities for Red Deer and surrounding areas,” said 46-year-old Colleen. No other hospital in the Central Zone is as equipped to deal with cardiac emergencies. The enhancements will cost $2 million and will be done in two phases, with 2015 being phase one. Some of the improvements include cardiac monitors, hardwire monitor beds, and monitors that have heart rate and rhythm displays. The $799,000 grand prize home is located at 86 Lazaro Close. It was built by Sorento Custom Homes and is the grandest dream home ever offered in the lottery’s 17-year history. The show home hours are 1 to 5 p.m. daily from now until April 30. From May 1 to June 21, it will be open Wednesday to Sunday, from 1 to 5 p.m. There are a total of 450 prizes, including vehicles, vacations and electronics. The prize value is $1,174,160. The early bird draw prize is a 2015 Mazda 3GT, $500 Fas Gas card plus $50,000 cash, with the cutoff being June 7 at 11 p.m., and draw on June 23. This is the second year for the Mega Bucks 50 raffle with a minimum jackpot of $90,000 (or 50 per cent of ticket sales, whichever is greater) available to one winner. Last year’s raffle paid out over $212,000. Both the regular lottery and the raffle sold out last year. Single lottery tickets are $25, five for $100, or 15 for $250. Mega Bucks 50 raffle tickets are one for $10, 10 for $25 and 25 for $50. Tickets are available at hospitalslottery.com or by calling 403-340-1878 or 1-888-808-9005 toll free. The overall cutoff date for tickets is 11 p.m. on June 21 and the draw will take place on July 6. For more information, go to hospitalslottery.com.

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RCMP appear to have cracked a ring of teenaged armed robbers accused of waging a four-month long crime spree in Red Deer and Blackfalds. The male youths, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, faced armed robbery and weapons-related charges, including using an imitation firearm in a robbery and wearing a face mask while committing a crime. Red Deer RCMP arrested the four on Thursday in connection with armed robberies dating back to Nov. 17, 2014, in Blackfalds, when three businesses were hit within minutes of each other. The teens from Blackfalds and Red Deer also face charges in relation to the Feb. 13 armed robbery at a Blackfalds Esso station and robberies at FasGas, Corral Foods and Express 24 in Red Deer between Feb. 21 and Feb. 27. Each of the accused appeared one-by-one in the prisoner’s dock in Red Deer provincial youth court on Friday morning and afternoon. They are 16 and 17 years old. All were released from custody after agreeing to post $250 bail, although no cash deposit is required. Their fathers also had to agree to $1,100 no-cash sureties in each case. Several of the parents who appeared before Judge Gordon Yake appeared to be in shock to be finding themselves standing in a courtroom. One rattled father stumbled over his son’s birth date when asked by the judge to confirm it, and had to be corrected on the year by his sullen youngster standing in the prisoner’s dock. Two of the youths face nine charges each, and the others face three and two charges respectively. All will return to court on April 9. The Priority Crimes Task Force arrested the four “building on the arrest of one male youth earlier this week by Blackfalds RCMP,” said Red Deer RCMP Const. Lee Knelsen in a Friday news release. “These criminal activities crossed police jurisdictions, and our shared intelligence allowed the task force to piece together all the elements needed to make these arrests,” says Knelsen. “The task force continues to investigate and further charges may be laid in relation to other armed robberies.” Blackfalds RCMP announced on Wednesday they had laid 28 charges against a youth in connection with five armed robberies in Blackfalds and three in Red Deer. He appeared in Red Deer youth court on Thursday and is due back on April 2. The regional Priority Crimes Task Force is made up of police officers from Red Deer RCMP general investigative section (GIS), Sylvan Lake, Innisfail and Blackfalds RCMP detachments and is supported by Lacombe Police Service. Anyone with information that will assist RCMP in investigating these or other armed robberies in the region is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-3435575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www. tipsubmit.com. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Man accused of attempted abduction may request psychological assessment A psychological assessment may be requested for a Red Deer man accused of attempting to abduct a 13-year-old girl near G.H. Dawe School in December. Alexander Beaulieu, 29, appeared in Red Deer provincial court via a closed-circuit TV link with the Edmonton Remand Centre, where he is in custody. Beaulieu allegedly stopped his truck near the school around 1 p.m. on Dec. 22 and asked a teen if he could use her cellphone. He tried to pull her into his vehicle, hitting and choking her, but she fought back and he let her go. A passerby came to her aid and the girl was treated in hospital for non-critical injuries. Her attacker stole her cellphone and drove off. A suspect was arrested a few hours later in north Red Deer. Beaulieu is charged with attempted kidnapping, choking with intent, aggravated assault, robbery, uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, possession of stolen property under $5,000 and theft under $5,000. Defence lawyer Michael Scrase, who took on the case recently from another lawyer, said he was looking into whether a psychiatric assessment should be requested to determine if the accused could be held criminally responsible for the alleged crimes. Judge Gordon Yake said he could not order an assessment without more information. The case was put over until April 7. Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Bob Petrash, shop merchandiser, left, and Todd Fiske, director of golf at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area sort through some of the new stock received Friday. The pro shop at the golf course is undergoing a renovation this spring and will now be a Nike Elite Partner Pro Shop with Nike picking up the cost of the renovations in the proshop. The driving range is still currently under snow but with above freezing temperatures in the forecast Fiske says there is a chance the driving range will be open for business by next weekend. River Bend will post notices on their website and facebook page to alert golfers of their plans to open.

Unemployment rate rises to 6.8% in February BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

“We’ve been through swings in commodity cycles before and we will get through this one.” The natural resources industry in neighbouring British Columbia also failed to emerge unscathed in February, losing 7,200 net jobs. B.C.’s unemployment rate rose to 6.0 per cent from 5.6 per cent. Across the country in another oil-producing province — Newfoundland and Labrador — the natural resources industry gained 700 net jobs last month. But the province lost 3,000 net jobs overall and its unemployment rate climbed to 12.6 per cent from 11.4 per cent. Many economists had been expecting to see the negative effects of the oil-price plunge surface in the February data. “The issue going forward is will sectors like manufacturing be more effective in terms of tempering this weakness in natural resources?” RBC assistant chief economist Paul Ferley said after the release of the labour force survey. The February reading, however, for the manufacturing sector was worse than expected, Ferley said. The report registered a net loss of 19,900 jobs in manufacturing, with most of those losses concentrated in Alberta and Ontario. Ferley predicts the industry will add jobs in the coming months thanks to expected benefits from lower oil prices, which have helped weaken the Canadian dollar and strengthen the U.S. economy. He said the survey suggested the shift could already be underway in manufacturing-heavy provinces like Ontario and Quebec, where the unemployment rates held steady last month at 6.9 per cent and 7.4 per cent respectively.

WETASKIWIN — A guilty plea has been entered by a man charged in a series of arsons in Westaskiwin, that resulted in $5 million in damage. Peter Terrence Jones, who is 28, entered the plea Thursday to 25 of 26 charges. One of the counts had previously been withdrawn by the Crown. Court heard that fires were set at several locations last year, including the airport, a rail yard, a welding shop, a cabinet shop, a park, an RV business and a fertilizer company. Jones was initially arrested in November in relation to some of the fires, then arrested again last month following a search of his home and investigations into other blazes. Jones remains in custody and will be sentenced April 14.

Associate minister to step aside during nomination investigation EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says one of his associate ministers has agreed to step out of cabinet while allegations of bribery and tampering with nomination papers are investigated. Media reports allege that Naresh Bhardwaj, associate minister for persons with disabilities, offered a bribe to undermine the nomination papers of a rival. Balraj Manhas was to run against Bhardwaj for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the Edmonton-Ellerslie constituency. The reports detail the claims of a Manhas supporter, Balbir Sidhu, who says he was offered $10,000 to say that his name had improperly appeared on the nomination papers of Manhas. Another Manhas supporter, Bilal Ali, says he was misled by Bhardwaj to sign a document making similar claims. Bhardwaj vehemently denies the allegations and says he has hired a lawyer to challenge them. “I intend to completely clear my name,” he said in a written statement released to the media Friday. “Out of my respect for the premier and my cabinet colleagues who must be able to focus on the very important matters in front of them, I have offered to step away from the cabinet table both so there is no inappropriate reflection of this matter on my cabinet colleagues, and so that I have maximum time to work on these matters with my legal counsel.”

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OTTAWA — The consequences of the global oil slump have started to seep into the country’s labour market, washing away jobs in crude-rich provinces and pushing up the national unemployment rate. The jobless rate hit 6.8 per cent last month as oil-producing provinces like Alberta showed their first significant loss of jobs since crude prices began to plummet late last year, revealed labour data released Friday by Statistics Canada. The agency said the unemployment rate crept up from its 6.6 per cent mark in January, even though the report only registered a small, month-to-month net loss of 1,000 jobs. The workforce grew by 49,200 people last month, but so did the number of unemployed — by 50,200. The data was released at a time of added scrutiny on the economic impact of low oil prices, which is expected to chew billions from provincial and federal coffers. The fall in crude prices also led the Bank of Canada to cut its trend-setting interest rate in January and forced Ottawa to delay its budget until at least April to give it time to assess the extent of the fallout. Alberta, the heart of Canada’s oil sector, suffered the biggest blow of any province on the job front. The province lost 14,000 net jobs last month and saw its unemployment rate surge by 0.8 percentage points to 5.3 per cent — its highest level since September 2011. The agency said Alberta’s natural resources sector alone shed 7,000 net positions — most of them in support activities for mining, oil and gas. The Due to circumstances beyond our control, the industry shed 16,900 posi- following items may not be available in all stores: tions overall from coast to Junior Sports N Slide Bouncer (sku 627879), coast. “We are very concerned Frontenac Play Centre (sku 723738), Wagon for Two about individual Alber- Plus – Denim Blue (sku 019682) and Polaris RZR 900 tans who have lost their Red 12V (sku 078110). jobs and we will continue to try to respond,” Alberta We apologize for any inconvenience this may have Premier Jim Prentice said caused. Friday when asked about Toys “R” Us Flyer March 13th-19th, 2015 the labour data.

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Intelligence Service. In the House of Commons, NDP deputy leader Megan Leslie led off question period with the issue for the second consecutive day. “Can the government confirm that someone linked to Canadian intelligence, either an employee, an agent or an asset, is being detained in Turkey?� she asked. Roxanne James, parliamentary secretary to the public safety minister, said while the government was aware of the reports, she could not comment on operational matters of national security. Leslie noted Bruno Saccomani, the former head of the prime minister’s security detail, is now Canada’s ambassador to Jordan. CSIS has referred questions about the matter to the Public Safety Department. Neither Public Safety nor Foreign Affairs would comment Friday. NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar urged the government to figure out what took place, saying it would be a “big problem� if Canada had been involved with someone “working for the enemy.� In the video shown by Turkish broadcaster A Haber, a man speaking in English appears to tell the British girls that they will be in Syria within an hour. The three girls — identified by British authorities as Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-yearold Amira Abase — travelled from the U.K. to Turkey last month. Earlier this month, Turkish TV obtained video showing the teenagers in Istanbul before they boarded a bus.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — More questions emerged Friday in Ottawa and Istanbul amid further indications — including a mysterious video — that a Syrian man said to be working for Canada’s intelligence service may have helped three British teenagers join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. A Turkish news channel says a video that appears to show the man assisting the three girls was filmed in Gaziantep, on Turkey’s border with Syria. A Turkish government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment, confirms the video came from the police. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says the suspect — who is in custody — helped the teenagers even though he worked for the intelligence agency of a country that is part of the coalition fighting ISIL. Cavusoglu didn’t identify the country, but says it wasn’t the U.S. or a European Union member. CBC News reported from Istanbul that Mohammad Al Rashed, a Syrian who purportedly went by the alias Dr. Mehmet Resit, allegedly helped the girls cross from Turkey into Syria shortly after they arrived from London on Feb. 17. Citing a witness statement in a Turkish intelligence report, CBC said the man claims he worked for Canadian intelligence and travelled occasionally to the Canadian Embassy in Jordan to share information he had gathered. Earlier this week, a European security source familiar with the case told Reuters the person in question had a connection with the Canadian Security

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A Canadian Forces member who is locked in a legal battle with the federal government to recover $88,000 he lost on the sale of his home when he was forced to move says it’s “unjust� that Ottawa has spent almost $65,000 fighting the case. Maj. Marcus Brauer expressed his dismay Friday that the Treasury Board Secretariat has spent almost as much fighting the matter as he lost on the sale of his home when he was posted to Halifax from Bon Accord, Alta., in 2010. “That they’re paying any money to fight this is an injustice and it has had such traumatic effects on so many families,� Brauer said in Halifax. “All this to get the Treasury Board to follow their own policy, which is that soldiers don’t have to pay out of pocket for relocation costs. It’s unjustifiable.� The secretariat said Thursday that it has so far spent about $58,646 on the case, which includes $25,376 for Brauer’s legal fees and disbursements, and $33,270 for the federal government’s legal fees. It also spent almost $6,000 for a third-party review of the housing market in Alberta that’s at the centre of the dispute, making the total expenditure to just over $64,500. The Treasury Board said in an email Friday that it was continuing its review and could not comment further. Treasury Board President Tony Clement said months ago that a decision would be coming “soon.� New Democrat MP Robert Chisholm, who represents the Halifax-area riding where Brauer lives, says the

board should compensate him rather than fight it in the courts, even if it sets a precedent for other members. “They haven’t hesitated to spend money that should have been going to pay these amounts that Maj. Brauer and his family are entitled to,� he said. Brauer, a 43-year-old father of five, took the government to court last April to seek compensation for the $88,000 he lost on the sale of his home in Bon Accord. As a result, the Federal Court ordered Ottawa to review its decision to grant him only $15,000 to cover his losses. Brauer’s lawyer Daniel Wallace argued his client’s losses should have been covered because there is a policy offering financial protection for military members forced to move from depressed housing markets. Wallace argued that housing prices in Bon Accord dropped 23 per cent during the three years his client lived there, which is three percentage points above the 20 per cent threshold for a depressed market in the military’s policy. However, the Treasury Board Secretariat argued the municipality was part of the Edmonton market where housing prices dropped just 2.9 per cent. The judge found the board failed to consider Brauer’s contention that Bon Accord was a separate community of 1,500 with its own mayor and boundaries. Brauer paid $405,000 in 2007 for the home in Bon Accord and sold it three years later for $317,000. “We’re just asking for what was just withheld from us so we can go back to where we were in 2010,� he said. “This doesn’t increase our wealth by any.� Wallace has also launched a proposed class-action lawsuit, which is still at a preliminary stage before the Federal Court.

Alpine Canada says it contacted RCMP about ski coach BERTAND CHAREST FACES 47 CRIMINAL CHARGES provided full co-operation to the RCMP in their investigation of the complaint. ACA is not aware of the results of the RCMP’s investigation.� A request for information from the Mounties about whether they actually did look into the complaints against Charest was answered with a one-line statement. “Only in the event that an investigation results in the laying of criminal charges would the RCMP confirm its investigation, the nature of any charges laid and the identity of the individual(s) involved,� Sgt. Harold Pfleiderer said in an email. Alpine Canada also stated “more than 15 years have passed since Mr.

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MONTREAL — Alpine Canada says it contacted the RCMP in 1998 about sexual-abuse complaints against a ski coach who now faces 47 criminal charges. The organization said Friday it is not aware of the results of any RCMP investigation into Bertrand Charest. Charest was arraigned in Quebec on Wednesday on 47 charges, including sexual assault and breach of trust involving eight females between the ages of 12 and 19. The alleged crimes occurred between 1991 and 1998. A ninth alleged victim came forward Thursday. In a statement, Alpine Canada wrote that Charest, 50, was a coach with its women’s development team between 1996 and 1998. It said it launched its own probe early in 1998 and then told Charest he was being removed as a coach. “A few days later, while the matter was still under investigation, Mr. Charest resigned from his position,� the statement read. “ACA (Alpine Canada Alpin) was also in contact with the RCMP in 1998 regarding this matter and

Charest was employed by Alpine Canada and all of the organization’s management and board have since changed.� A receptionist who answered a call directed to Alpine Canada president Mark Rubinstein said the group does not have a list of names of those who were on the board in 1998. She said ACA is required to keep documents going back only 10 years and said, “to my knowledge,� the records of who was on the organization’s 1998 board of directors do not exist. Charest was expected back in court in Saint-Jerome on Friday but the case was put off until Monday when a bail hearing is scheduled.

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Wolves have become scapegoats Frantically struggling to stay alive, a wolf tries to break free from the unforgiving stranglehold applied by a wire snare around its neck. The more it struggles, the more the deadly noose tightens, eventually cutting through major arteries at the upper portion of its spinal cord. A painful, agonizing death finally brings it comfort in blood-spattered snow where the corpse lies. This is not overstating death by strangulation in the West Country today, where such snares are RICK routinely set. ZEMANEK The wolf today is a scapegoat, wrongfully convicted as a ruthless killer by a jury that refuses to accept evidence that this predator is not guilty of crimes committed against the endangered woodland caribou in northwestern Alberta. In fact, studies show that habitat destruction at the hands of man is to blame. Never mind that bounties of up to $500 per wolf offered by interest groups can now make this activity quite profitable. Local and international groups protest that the devices are illegal and inhumane under standards established by the Canadian Council on Animal Care. Dr. Jose Diaz, professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary, says death to snared animals “can take hours through an extremely painful and slow process.” He notes he cannot comprehend the government’s decision “to elicit this kind of suffering and pain” to a living creature. Wolf Murder Canadian Style Continues As If It’s Conservation reads a recent headline in Psychology Today. In the article, Chris Genovali, executive director of B.C.’s Raincoast Conservation Foundation, shoots holes in the contention that the massive wolf kills will save the caribou. “This unscientific and unethical wolf cull is a consequence of oil and gas development, and industrial logging,” said Genovali, whose group has launched a petition urging the Alberta government to stop the wolf cull. “The Alberta government and resource industries have transformed the caribou’s boreal habitat into a landscape that can no longer provide the food, cover, and security these animals need to survive,” said Genovali. “Rather than address the real problem, Alberta has chosen to scapegoat the wolves.” Backing up that claim, a government study posted on the Internet in November states that habitat degradation at the hands of industry is key to the decline of caribou. In the recreational areas west of

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Wolves are not blame for endangered status of caribou. Rocky Mountain House, snares are also being set. But the snares, some springloaded, don’t choose what or who triggers them. They’re strong enough to hold a grizzly bear or moose until the animals die. Family dogs accompanying hikers have been known to fall victim to these deadly contraptions. Wire snares are also used in the rural areas around Red Deer to trap coyotes. Those setting these devices are not required to post warning signs that wire snares are in the woods they’re enjoying. The same concern is expressed in the West Country, where warning signs are also not required. Among the groups lobbying the government to ban wire snares is Wolf Matters, a local group established a couple of years ago. It’s founding members are area biologist Myrna Pearman; Dwight Rodtka, a former fieldman for Alberta Agriculture, living in the Rocky area; and internationally acclaimed artist and author Anna-Marie Ferguson, now living in Red Deer. They established a website (www.wolfmatters.ca). Since then, many experts and conservationists have joined the group. Rodtka says that under “ideal” laboratory conditions, it takes at least eight minutes to strangle a wolf, coyote or dog. The Canadian Council on Animal Care says a snare must kill the intended target within five minutes to be deemed humane. But in the wilds, the snares are set in an uncontrolled environment that could impair their mechanical operation and increase suffering much longer than eight minutes. “Wolves tend to suffer more than

other animals in snares because they have extremely well-muscled necks and reinforced trachea,” said Rodtka. “Snared wolves that are very lucky may only live for hours; the unlucky ones take days to die.” People setting snares are not obligated by the provincial government to check their sets within a certain time. It could be several months. Rodtka is also critical of what’s called “saturation snaring.” That means hauling a road-killed ungulate to an area in the bush for bait, then setting upwards of 50 to 100 snares to catch an entire wolf pack. Another major concern for Wolf Matters is unintended targets caught in the snares, called “bycatch“ or “nontarget.” Rodtka said that recently a rancher in the Rocky area set 12 to 15 snares meant for wolves. In one week, the snares “caused the death of a wolf pup, one or two white-tailed deer, one black bear and one grizzly bear.” He said if this sampling represented the potential of the “thousands of snares blanketing the West Country, the magnitude of bycatch could be staggering.” The Raincoast Conservation Foundation agrees. It obtained internal government documents that show that up until 2012, neck snares were the primary cause of death for 676 non-target animals in the Little Smoky wolf cull. Ironically, among the dead were two endangered caribou. Also dying in the snares were 40 bald and golden eagles, 163 cougars, 62 deer, 70 lynx, three grizzly bears, 173 fisher, 12 moose ... and the list goes on. Killing more than 1,000 wolves in the last 10 years in the Little Smoky re-

gion calls for high-tech strategic planning. Helicopters are used as gunships as they hover over the packs and passengers open fire. There’s bait on the ground laced with strychnine. There are snares in the woods. And the most infamous is using what’s called the “Judas wolves.” They are live-trapped and fitted with a VHF radio collar that leads shooters who are monitoring the radio signals to the packs. When the Judas wolf completes its duties, it too is shot. Methods of wolf management in Alberta’s Little Smoky region caught the eye of the Raincoast Conservation Group. Its petition to stop the cull states “Only with immense international pressure can we convince Alberta to put an immediate stop to the killing and commit to effective caribou recovery by limiting habitat destruction. ...” A study by Alberta Environment says a wolf cull is merely “buying time” for the caribou, while habitat disruption carries the lion’s share of the problem. “The short-term efficacy of predator reduction, when combined with long-term habitat conservation, restoration and management, may be the only path forward for recovering many woodland caribou populations,” the study concludes. In a layperson’s terms, things don’t look good for the future of the endangered caribou — snares, or no snares. The damage has been done and recovery is a long shot. But the killing of wolves continues, as if wiping out a second species some how validates the loss of caribou. Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

The importance of personal pride I don’t think I need to give the definition of pride; everybody knows or has a sense of what it means. In speaking with a young person this past week, I began to realize how important a role pride plays in our lives, both personal and societal. As I reflected on this one CHRIS little word, I SALOMONS was surprised to find that it covers such an amazingly large portion of who and what we are, both good, bad and several shades inbetween. Although there are many, many descriptive words that define an excessive amount of pride, there are few single words to describe the lack of or not enough pride. So often we are confronted in conversation with people who have so

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much pride that conceit is the only nice thing we can say about them. Sometimes these blowhards just don’t know when to quit; their opinions are the only ones worth listening to and their achievements make all others pale by comparison. Sometimes though, that type of behaviour can signal a lack or deficiency of pride in themselves. Whenever we meet with this type of person, however, in our minds we call them conceited, arrogant, boastful, haughty and disdainful, and so on. Then we are faced with folks who seem very shy, never seemingly having an opinion on anything. They can be just as frustrating. We often call them modest, humble or something like that. But this does not always describe the one who is without pride. For various reasons, they often are ignored and society won’t take the time to draw them out of their shells. Pride can motivate us to achieve things that otherwise we might not; it allows us to hold our heads up in a group, it can give us a sense of accomplishment or achievement. It can give us a sense of self-worth, which I feel is

needed if we are to function in society. Gurus will use the term self-esteem, but I don’t care for that word. I feel it places us too close to arrogance and conceit. For me there is only one who is worthy of esteem. For the average person, though, I prefer the word self-worth; I don’t need to be esteemed to have self-worth. Semantics, I know, but hopefully you can humor me in this. Suffice to say, we need a certain amount of pride to function properly in society, but at the kitchen I see a different aspect of pride or the lack of it and also how it can be improperly used. Pride on the streets is often used as an arrogant cover to hide the absolute lack of self-worth. For men, it manifests itself as a stronger-than-you attitude and in women that same false pride covers up a host of emotional deficiencies and/or past hurts. You see, a lot of these people for a variety of reasons have set pride aside in order to function as they do because of addictions, prostitution and so on. Without a functioning pride, they soon

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lose all self-worth and slowly they dig a pit for themselves that is one of the most difficult things to overcome if they were to go into recovery. In many instances, a mental disorder or a physical problem or defect leaves a person rejected by the very society that they need pride to function in. It doesn’t take too much rejection for these individuals to find a place to hide, and the street is a very accepting place in our community. Much too easy! I believe that almost all front-line workers on the street would agree that re-instilling pride or self-worth in a beaten down individual is one of the greatest challenges in life. Having said that, it is also the most rewarding as well when it is successful. Watching a person overcome any and all obstacles; gain a sense of selfworth, and then take pride in their achievement, is in all likelihood the greatest single boost to our own pride, because in my opinion lifting someone else up is what pride is really all about. Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

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Oil assumptions reckless Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau are strong advocates for major development of Alberta’s oilsands and Canada’s future as an energy superpower. Trudeau declares “there’s not a country in DAVID the world that CRANE would find 170 billion barrels of oil under the ground and leave them there.” NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is a more cautious supporter. Yet there’s a good chance that much of that oil could be left under the ground, which is why it is reckless to assume that oilsands development will be a great driver of future economic growth and government revenues. In their latest report on climate change, analysts at HSBC, one of the world’s biggest global banks, highlight the importance of the world’s carbon budget — a measure of how much carbon that can yet be released into the

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atmosphere if we are to have a better than 50 per cent chance of limiting the global average temperature increase to no more than 2C. It’s a concept our politicians don’t think much about. But based on present trends, the world would use up its carbon budget by 2040, the analysts warn. The gross carbon budget is estimated at 1,000 gigatonnes, with 515 gigatonnes already emitted by 2011. Assuming the 2C target, the remaining carbon budget is only 305 gigatonnes after adjusting for other non-CO2 sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The world cannot afford to burn a large share of fossil fuels remaining in the ground if it wants to avoid catastrophic climate change. This means “certain fossil fuel assets would be left in the ground, effectively ‘stranded’.” Moreover, the HSBC analysts warn, “lower prices add an economic dimension to the policy drivers, meaning that assets are now at risk of being stranded, both due to policy curbs and unprofitable production curbs.” This has important implications for Canada. Looming carbon constraints and lower prices will favour oil that is lower in carbon intensity and cheaper to produce. As the analysts point out, the carbon intensity of oil can vary

widely, with the carbon intensity of Alberta oil sands oil about three times as high as Saudi Arabian oil, while Saudi Arabian oil is far cheaper to produce than oilsands oil. “In our view,” the HSBC analysts write, “future oil supply growth from high-cost areas such as Canadian oilsands is likely to be curtailed at sustained lower prices because the economics are no longer as compelling, a view validated by company capex cut announcements and by the widespread deferral of new project sanctions.” In a U.S. speech in January, Bank of Canada deputy governor Timothy Lane noted that the total cost per barrel of oil over the lifetime of a new oilsands project — the full-cycle break-even costs in 2013 — was about US$100, compared to just over US$60 for existing oilsands projects. Current projections for higher oil prices in the future could put new oilsands projects below the break-even level. Yet the Canadian Energy Research Institute is forecasting production of 3.7 million barrels a day by 2020 and 5.2 million barrels a day by 2030, compared to just over two million barrels a day now. This would mean a much bigger hit on the world’s remaining carbon budget and would seem to assume that the CERI is betting that global efforts to agree on climate change will

fail. At the same time, the HSBC analysts expect that a combination of regulation, technology and innovation in the natural gas industry will combine as three “global disrupters” that could significantly change the energy economy by displacing oil and constraining future demand. The analysts expect that the global climate change summit in December will advance the low-carbon economy even if commitments are not sufficient to meet the 2C target. Advances in technology, including renewable energy, batteries, carbon capture and storage and energy efficiency will drive the shift. And innovation in the natural gas industry could displace oil in petrochemicals and transportation (such as natural gas for trucking, shipping and rail). At a time when the energy world is changing for economic and environmental reasons, it is foolhardy for Canada to assume otherwise. Rather than clinging to false expectations, we need to do a serious rethink of the current track we are on and how we can sustain a high standard of living in a low-carbon world. Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

How long will oil stay cheap? I’m in Alberta, the province that produces most of Canada’s oil, and there’s only one question on everybody’s lips. How long will the oil price stay down? It has fallen by more than half in the past nine months — West Texas Intermediate is $48 per barrel today — and further falls are predicted for the coming weeks. This hits jobs and govGWYNNE ernment revenues hard in DYER big oil-producing centres like Alberta, Texas and the British North Sea, but its effects reach farther than that. ‘Clean’ energy producers are seeing demand for their solar panels and windmills drop as oil gets more competitive. Electric cars, which were expected to make a major market breakthrough this year, are losing out to traditional gas-guzzlers that are now cheap to run again. Countries that have become too dependent on oil revenues are in deep trouble, like Russia (where the ruble has lost half its value in six months) and Venezuela. Countries like India, which imports most of its oil, are getting a big economic boost from the lower oil price. So how long this goes on matters to a great many people. The answer may lie in two key numbers. Saudi Arabia has $900 billion in cash reserves, so it can afford to keep the oil price low for at least a couple of years. The ‘frackers’ who have added four million barrels/day to U.S. oil production in the past five years (and effectively flooded the market) already owe an estimated $160 billion to the banks. They will have to borrow a lot more to stay in business while the oil price is low, because almost none of them can make a profit at the current price. Production costs in the oil world are deep, dark secrets, but nobody believes that oil produced by hydraulic fracturing (fracking comes in at less than $60 to $70 per barrel. The real struggle is between the frackers and Saudi Arabia, because

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the latter is the ‘swing producer’ in OPEC (the Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries), the cartel that has dominated the global oil market for the past 50 years. All oil exporters want to keep the price high, but Saudi Arabia was the one OPEC member that could and would cut its production sharply for a while when an oversupply of oil in the market was driving prices down. It could afford to do that because it has a relatively small population, very large savings — and a cost of production so low that it can make some profit on its oil at almost any price. But even the Saudis cannot work miracles. They can aim for maximum production or maximum price; they cannot do both at the same time. Normally they would cut production temporarily to get the price back up. This time, they refused to cut production and let the price collapse, despite the anguished pleas of some other OPEC members that need money now. The Saudis are thinking strategically. OPEC only controls about 30 per

cent of world oil production, which is a very low share for a cartel that seeks to control the price. If fracking continues to expand in the United States, then OPEC’s market share will fall even further. So it has to drive the frackers out of business now. At first glance, the Saudis look like sure winners, because they can live with low prices a lot longer than the deeply indebted frackers can. The banks that have lent the frackers so much money already won’t get it back if the industry implodes in a wave of bankruptcies, but they don’t want to throw good money after bad. The real wild card here is the U.S. government, which wants the energy independence that only more domestic oil production through fracking can provide. Will it let the American fracking industry go under, or will it give it the loan guarantees and direct subsidies that would let it wait the Saudis out? Stupid question. Of course it will do what is necessary to save the fracking industry. Ideology goes out the window in a case like this: you can get

bipartisan support in Washington for protecting a key American industry from ‘unfair’ foreign competition. That will certainly be enough to keep the frackers in the game for another two or three years. Meanwhile, the OPEC members that depend on oil income to keep large populations well fed and at least marginally content (e.g. Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela) will be facing massive public protest, and possibly even the threat of revolution. Their governments will be putting huge pressure on Saudi Arabia to save them by cutting production and driving the price back up. It’s impossible to say how this game will end, but it’s pretty easy to say when. Two years ought to do it. Once the outcome is clear, the price of oil will start going back up no matter which side wins, but it will go up relatively slowly. We are unlikely to see $100-abarrel oil again before 2020 at the earliest. Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London.

Gunny sack boy slides again OK, so last week some of you with memories better than your average sieve (unlike Yours Truly) might recall that I was yammering away about the humongous spiral slide fire escape tube on the outside of the old Central School “Castle,” and what a “privilege” it was to be a Gunny Sack Boy chosen to slide down the Tube of Probable Demise. This was part of the regular maintenance of said TPD and my inaugural act of sliding didn’t actually turn out the way I personally imagined HARLEY it would, seeing HAY that the first time through the twisting darkness was more about cobwebs and rust than it was about actually sliding. But when our principal Mr. Mallet said I could go again after my first underwhelming attempt, I scampered off into the school before he could change his mind, running full tilt against the rules of no running in the school. Up the six floors of steps two at a time, gunny sack flying out behind me — a

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Gunny Sack Boy on a mission — and only tripping and skinning my skinny knees a couple of times along the way. Finally at the top of the slide, there was no way I was going to grind to a grunting halt this time, so I took a mighty lunge, hurling myself into the black tubular abyss, flopping onto the metal slide and hanging onto my gunny carpet for dear life. Let me just say that the second time down the slide on my maintenance run, cleaning and shining and “inspecting” the fire escape was a tad quicker than the first time. As in a dizzying, hang-onto-yoursack wild ride that seemed to be over before it started. Round and round and down and down in the stuffy tube, as dark as the inside of a cow, somebody’s girly screams echoing deafeningly inside that Serpentine Silo of Swirls — screams that I reluctantly realized were somehow coming from own self. Bursting out the green metal double doors at the bottom, ejected like a giant Heimlich Manoeuvre, very nearly taking the legs out from under Mr. Mallet. “Now that’s more like it,” I thought to myself, basking in the glory of skinned knees, slide-stained clothes and massive G force wind-blown hair. The tell-tale signs that you had successfully survived the rare honour of Gunny Sack Boy. Ironically, the vital importance

of such an appointment was brought home to all of us soon after my stunning debut as a GSB. About three weeks later, as I recall, it so happened that we had an actual fire drill at Central. This was one of those once-a-year surprise fire drills, an exercise in unbridled mayhem that was intended to catch even the teachers snoozing at their desks during free reading time. I believe it was Eugene Beuttner or possibly Bill Cameron who was first in line at the top of the slide — the designated GSB to lead the way, the ear-piercing fire bell drilling into our exploding ear drums, a whole single file line of nervous and excited junior high boys and girls shuffling across the gang plank and throwing themselves into the spiral slide tube with wild abandon or unyielding trepidation, depending. If I recall correctly, there was also a second entrance to the slide from another floor about a third of the way down, and so the entire narrow cylinder of darkness was full of kids sliding and stopping and slithering downwards toward possible fresh air and freedom. Crashing and banging into and onto each other — you would think it was a junior high prom dance floor. But when Eugene or possibly Bill led the way finally to the very bottom, BANG! — feet slammed against the door, sending a chain reaction of rear

end collisions of us kids swirling all the way up to the very top of the tube. The doors at the bottom hadn’t actually been unlocked yet, in the technical sense of being able to be actually opened. You can well imagine a cylinder the size of an Alpha smoke stack filled with kids, packed top to bottom in a spiral configuration, the fire bell ringing at 300 decibels, most of the boys and many of the girls screaming like a Gunny Sack Boy on his second slide. But before you shudder too long with that visual, I must say it was only seconds before one of the teachers cranked open the big doors and, like a dam bursting, a mass of junior high humanity came spilling out, safe and sound. Each of us armed with yet another tall tale to tell. And I have told the tale to my own Rotten Kids pretty much every time we went anywhere near a water slide or playground slide or, say, a school. So it wasn’t all that surprising I suppose that the West Edmonton Mall very nearly had to call the emergency response team to rescue me that time. But that’s a story for next week: Part 3: Gunny Sack Boy discovers the meaning of the word ‘claustrophobia.’ Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

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BRIEFS Judge reserves bail decision in chemicals case

HALIFAX — A judge has reserved a decision on bail until Tuesday for a Halifax man who has been accused of possessing dangerous chemicals and threatening police. Earlier today, an RCMP officer testified at the bail hearing for Christopher Phillips, saying the investigation began when his wife went to police on Jan. 19 and told them her husband’s mental health was deteriorating and he was behaving strangely. RCMP Sgt. Lisa Stuart told provincial court that Gosia Phillips felt her family’s safety was at risk because of the materials he was storing. Stuart said Phillips told investigators her husband had osmium tetroxide in eight vials and possibly possessed uranium. Defence lawyers routinely request publication bans on bail hearings, which judges must grant. But the defence for Phillips told the court today it wasn’t seeking a publication ban in his application for bail nor would he seek one for any preliminary hearing. Judge Alanna Murphy told the court there would be no publication on the proceedings. Phillips is charged with uttering threats and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

Measles cases jump in region northeast of Montreal JOLIETTE, Que. — The number of confirmed measles cases in Quebec is up to 136 from 119 earlier in the week and health officials are bracing for even more. They said in an update Friday all of them are people from northeast of Montreal who have not been vaccinated against the disease. The cases are centred on one religious group from the region, La Mission de L’Esprit-Saint. Authorities have said the outbreak is part of one chain of transmission that started when a person with the order became infected at Disneyland in California and returned to the province. A vaccination program began Thursday at a school in Joliette that had been visited by a child who had measles. Health officials said Friday that 10 pupils are still forbidden from attending the school — three because their parents didn’t want them to be vaccinated and seven because they were absent or didn’t have the proper documentation. This year, there have also been 18 cases of measles confirmed in Ontario, all in the Toronto and Niagara regions, and one in Manitoba.

Controversy over face-covering niqab exposes rift in federal NDP Controversy over the face-covering niqab worn by some Muslim women is exposing a rift among New Democrat MPs. Alexandre Boulerice, one of the party’s most prominent Quebec MPs, says he doesn’t believe public servants should be allowed to cover their faces. And he wants to create a national commission, along the lines of Quebec’s Bouchard-Taylor commission, to seek consensus on how far the country should go to accommodate religious and cultural practices. But Winnipeg NDP MP Pat Martin says he doesn’t care if public servants wear a paper bag on their head. Paul Dewar, says Boulerice seems to be trying to resolve a problem that doesn’t exist.

Cpl. Cirillo’s death spurred benefit changes for injured reservists: Kenney BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — The killing of a soldier as he stood guard at the National War Memorial spurred Ottawa to fill a gap in the benefit program for reservists who are injured during military service, putting the part-timers on equal financial terms with regular members of the Canadian Forces, the defence minister said Friday. The change means the minimum benefit to cover lost earnings for reservists almost doubles from $24,300 to more than $42,000 a year. The military estimates about 200 parttime reservists will benefit when the change goes into effect next month and will cost about $24 million over the next five years. Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O’Toole, who announced the change in Halifax, said benefits are being extended to give reservist veterans equal and fair treatment. “These men and women serve alongside our regular force members and they do so with distinction,” he said. “They are critical to Canada’s own defence and critical to Canada’s interests abroad, and they bear the same price.” O’Toole said Canada sent 27,000 reserv-

ists to Afghanistan and 14 of them were killed during the mission. Defence Minister Jason Kenney also announced the change in Calgary, saying Cpl. Nathan Cirillo’s death in Ottawa last October pushed the government into action. Kenney said a special exemption was made for Cirillo’s family after he was shot dead while serving as an honour guard at the National War Memorial, but under the old rules they would not have qualified for the benefits. “I think that really brought to our attention the gap that existed and has always existed in the benefits for vets so when that happened I think it sent us a message that we had to fix this right away,” said Kenney. “We shouldn’t have to make an exception. That support should have been automatic, it should have been part of the policy and it will now and forever (be) when people like him make that sacrifice.” A veterans’ advocate expressed his shock at the idea that it took Cirillo’s death in Ottawa, and not the combat deaths of parttime soldiers in Afghanistan, to move the broader issue of equality to the political forefront. “Were the sacrifices of those who came before (Cpl. Cirillo) somehow not worthy?” asked Mike Blais, president of Canadian

Veterans Advocacy. He said the issue of unequal treatment has been a long-standing and has been the subject of numerous reports both in Parliament and at Veterans Affairs. The new benefit regime includes reserve force veterans who are enrolled in the vocational rehabilitation program, including those who are getting benefits from the Defence Department’s service income insurance plan, O’Toole said. It also extends to survivors of reservists who died as a result of their military service. The benefit will increase according to pay with each rank above corporal. The change fills a gap first identified by Veterans Affairs in 2006. Scott Maxwell, executive director of Wounded Warriors Canada, said the change is about recognizing all veterans even though the government is sometimes slow to act. “We’re OK with that so long as they are listening and they are willing to act,” said Maxwell. Veterans ombudsman Guy Parent said the increased payment is about the debt owed by Canadians to those who serve in uniform. “It doesn’t matter whether you are a reserve, regular force, where you serve or how you serve,” said Parent.

Man who assaulted mom with toddler present declared dangerous offender BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PENTICTON, B.C. — A Penticton, B.C., man who admitted to sexually assaulting and confining a woman for 15 hours while her toddler was nearby has been declared a dangerous offender. David Bobbitt, 39, pleaded guilty to seven offences after the July 2011 attack inside his second-hand store. “I find that Mr. Bobbitt is the very definition of a psychopath,” B.C. Supreme Court Justice Peter Rogers said Friday as he delivered his ruling. “If he were released into the community, he would pose a significant risk of causing profound harm to random victims, and b& there is no reasonable expectation that the danger that he presents to the community could be reduced through treatment or supervision.” Bobbitt, who has a shaved head and full beard, looked down throughout most of the 80-minute sentencing hearing.

The victim, who was 22 when he assaulted her, was not in the courtroom, but her father said the family is pleased with the result. “I’m glad it’s done after three years of waiting,” said the man, who can’t be named because of a publication ban to protect his daughter’s identity. I’m glad that boy is going away and no other people are going to get hurt.“ Rogers said dangerous-offender designations, which carry an indeterminate sentence, are reserved as the “only practical method to shield society” from the behaviour of such a criminal. The judge found Bobbitt to be a “careless liar” who took no responsibility for his actions. Court heard the woman was shopping for a bed at Bobbitt’s store on July 30, 2011, when he struck her over the head with a rubber mallet and dragged her to a bed at the back, where he tied her up and raped her repeatedly while her toddler son was present.

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David Wesley Bobbitt, 39, is led away from the Penticton courthouse Friday. A Penticton, B.C., man who admitted to sexually assaulting and confining a woman for 15 hours while her toddler was nearby has been declared a dangerous offender.

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Canada’s Da Vinci Code capital MANITOBA’S LEGISLATIVE BUILDING WAS DESIGNED MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO, YET ONLY RECENTLY HAS ITS FREEMASON HERITAGE AND SYMBOLISM BEEN DISCOVERED The Manitoba legislature is one of the last places you would expect to find hieroglyphics, Egyptian sphinxes, a bust of Medusa, Greek gods, hidden symbols and other elements of the occult. But all of those things were hidden in plain sight by the original architect and the builders, who were all freemasons. British architect Frank Worthington Simon believed that architecture has the capacity to reform the soul and he designed the Manitoba legislature to be a replica of King Solomon’s temple. He placed ideas and symbols in the building hoping the public would figure it out, but it took a century for that to happen. About 10 years ago, a research fellow in the DeDEBBIE partment of Anthropology at the University of WinniOLSEN peg was walking past the Manitoba legislature when he noticed that the beloved golden statue on top of the building bears a strong resemblance to the Greek god Hermes. Holding up a torch and carrying a sheaf of grain, Manitoba’s Golden Boy was said to “be the embodiment of enterprise and youth, facing north to where the province’s natural resources lie.” As it turns out, the Golden Boy was also a symbol of freemasonry and Hermeticism. The philosophic power of freemasonry lies in its symbols. Frank Albo, the student who first discovered hidden symbolism in the Manitoba legislature building, has spent many years since researching it. While writing a thesis on the building, Albo discovered that the numbers 5, 8 and 13 can be found in virtually every room of the building. The number 666 is also found throughout the building whose length and width are both exactly 666 feet. The room that houses the grand staircase is 66.6 feet in length and there are three sets of 13 steps leading to the second floor. The hidden symbolism goes on and on. At the time the legislature was built, Winnipeg was booming. The city had more millionaires per capita than any other city in Canada and perhaps even all of North America. Some experts were predicting that Winnipeg would be the next New York City. Simon designed the legislature to be his crowning achievement in one of North America’s top cities and left hidden symbols for visitors to discover. Unfortunately, things did not turn out quite as he planned. Winnipeg did not become the next New York City and it took a century for someone to discover the mysticism in the monument. “It’s the Da Vinci Code of Winnipeg,” said Michelle Gervais, owner of Ô Tours in Winnipeg on a recent visit. “It’s been here for 100 years and not one politician figured it out. The head architect was a freemason, the man who created the Golden Boy was a freemason, many of the builders were freemasons and the mayor at the time was a freemason, so no one pointed out the hidden symbolism.” If you visit Winnipeg, a tour of the legislature is an absolute must. Few buildings in Canada can claim to have this level of mysticism secretly woven into their design. The Manitoba legislature is much more than meets the eye.

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Manitoba’s Golden Boy was said to “be the embodiment of enterprise and youth, facing north to where the province’s natural resources lie.” As it turns out, the Golden Boy was also a symbol of freemasonry and Hermeticism.

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The numbers 666 and 13 are significant in the Manitoba legislature building. The room that houses the grand staircase is 66.6 feet in length and there are three sets of 13 steps leading to the second floor.

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Clockwise, from above: The Peace Tower in Ottawa was designed by architect John A. Pearson as an architectural feature and landmark, and as a memorial for the 66,000 Canadians who gave their lives during the Great War. This statue of Princess Alberta sits inside the Alberta legislature. The province is named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of the Marquis of Lorne, Canada’s Governor General from 1878 to 1883. The marble interior of the Alberta legislature is stunning. Alberta’s first mace was made from a lead pipe decorated with pieces of a handsaw, a shaving mug, buttons and the float from a toilet tank on the bottom. The Alberta legislature has endured for more than 100 years as the undisputed historical and architectural jewel of the province.

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OLSEN: Alberta’s legislature building has its own history More information ● Manitoba legislature: www.gov.mb.ca/mit/legtour/index.html ● Tourism Winnipeg: www.tourismwinnipeg.com ● Frank Albo: www.frankalbo.com ● Hermetic Code Tours of the Manitoba legislature: http://heartlandtravel.ca/tour/hermetic-codetours-of-mb-legislative-building/

As it turns out, Alberta’s legislature has some secrets of its own. If you’ve ever wondered where Alberta’s redneck image came from, you should check out Alberta’s first mace, which is on display at the legislative building. The mace is the symbol and emblem of the authority of the Crown in government, and every provincial and territorial assembly in Canada has one. When Alberta politicians met for the first time, they realized that no one had thought to order a mace, so a makeshift one was fashioned from household items and painted gold. Alberta’s first mace was made

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from a lead pipe decorated with pieces of a handsaw, a shaving mug, buttons and the float from a toilet tank. The make-shift mace was meant to be used temporarily, but it worked so well it was used for 50 years. Tours of the legislature are fascinating and they are free. Besides the original mace, make sure to look at the pictures of past premiers — one of the paintings has six fingers on the right hand. There’s a tribute to the Famous Five Alberta women who challenged the notion that women are not persons. And there’s also a magic spot where you can stand and hear the sounds of a fountain mysteriously emanating above your head. More info: www.assembly.ab.ca/visitor/tours_info. html

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HIKING THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA, THE WILD AND FREE WAY

The great hike up the Great Wall

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Members of the Freedom Team, a group of middleaged Chinese hikers, pause at a Jiankou guard tower on the Great Wall of China, looking east toward the higher section, in 2007. A misconception is that the wall is a single continuous structure, but it is interrupted by many “wild” untouched sections of loose and unsteady rocks. Photos by WILL FORD/Advocate News Services

The Freedom Team hikers near the Ox Horn bend on the Jiankou section of the Great Wall in 2010. Recreational hiking is far from a mainstream sport in China. We cross a dry riverbed. Ahead of us, a path winds its way through terraced fields of walnut trees, leading up to a ridge where the wall clings to exposed rock. A longtime member of the Freedom Team looks at me and frowns. “How come you don’t have gloves?” she asks. “I didn’t know we needed them to hike here.” “They’re very useful,” she says. “When I first hiked with you, no one ever brought gloves.” “Yes, but now we’re more experienced.” She has a point. As we begin to climb, my blue jeans seem clumsy compared to their light hiking pants. When I reach the wall, my blond hair draws the attention of a group of Manchurian tourists, who surround me for a photo. We hike east for another half hour or so until we reach the split of Beijing Link, where we stop at a guard tower — one of many spaced out along the wall — and break for lunch. Everyone shares everything. Three people offer me cucumbers. A lonely pine grows out of top of the wall in front of us, the sole shelter on the windswept ridge. Gusts scour the mountainside and rustle the shrubs below. Lower down, pink blossoms faintly coat the valleys. The wall slithers over ridges like a snake, clinging to exposed rock, until it fades away in the distance. The air seems drier than on other Great Wall hikes I’ve taken in years past, and my clothes are covered with a thin layer of dust. The sandstorms are getting worse in Beijing, scouring the city each March as the Gobi Desert expands. My hair feels like straw, and when I shower that night, the water that rinses off my scalp is a light brown hue. Except for the few weeks of sandstorms, springtime is generally a good time to hike the Great Wall: not too hot or cold, with the mountainside beginning to blossom. In the summer, Old Sun often turns to hiking at night to catch sunrises, escape the heat and avoid paying entrance fees. On a trip four years ago to Shandong’s Mount Tai, three American friends and I trekked with the Freedom Team from 11 p.m. until noon the next day. The team used flashlights, and we used our cellphones, to find our way through pitch-black fog. We slept at the summit, and we made a scene: Our rest was

interrupted by Chinese tourists taking our picture. Old Sun is used to hiking with young Americans. His son attended a high school that ran a small American-immersion program, and his family has hosted 11 American students, including me. We all hiked, and Freedom Team members still mix us up. They remember us as “the fat one,” “the tall one,” “the Indian one,” “the Jewish one.” There was one with red hair, another with blond. One had a big nose. Or was it red hair and a medium-size nose? One loved to sleep, which is why he never went hiking. On a hike a few years ago, the Freedom Team greeted me as Huoshan. Huoshan was 6-foot-10 — the tallest student the exchange program had ever hosted — and he was a dark-haired Indian. I am 6-1, blonde and blue-eyed. The Freedom Team asked me, when they mistook me for him, whether I wanted be a doctor like many other Indians they’d heard about in the United States. This led to discussing China’s brain drain, as many Chinese students interested in medicine have also left for America. Political discussions have always been a feature of Freedom Team hikes. My presence as a Chinese-speaking American inspires debates about SinoU.S. relations, and people point at me when they refer to the United States.

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Once, after hearing I taught history, a friend of Old Sun’s brought up the Korean War. Although the war ended in a stalemate, Douglas MacArthur’s troops were beaten back by Chineseled forces, and most Chinese consider it an American defeat. The U.S. military could still learn a lot from China, the friend said. On the same hike in 2013, others discussed whether Xi Jinping, who had recently assumed China’s leadership, would be better than his predecessors. No one thought there would be much difference. In Chinese, “Chairman Xi” sounds the same read backward and forward, and the Freedom Team agreed this described his vague politics as well. The massive anti-corruption campaign that Xi later launched wouldn’t have anything to do with average Chinese people like the Freedom Team. From the top of the Great Wall, which had seen more than one dynasty, China’s leaders of the moment seemed far away, almost insignificant. Today I teach Chinese history and contemporary politics in Beijing in the same program I once attended as a student. I try to impress upon my students that China’s authoritarianism is complicated — the government dominates society in some places but is ignored in others. Academics like to call this “fragmented authoritarianism,” and the Great Wall backcountry always reminds me of it. Signs that prohibit hiking are everywhere, placed next to worn paths and entrances to the wall: No one ever obeys them. Villagers construct ladders over steep inclines and drop-offs with no safety regulations or approval to do so. They sell entrance tickets without certification. Some hikers pay and others refuse. Where the wall crumbles is where there’s the most freedom to maneuver. But in the reconstructed tourist areas, polished for the outside world to see, it’s harder to find a way in without buying a formal ticket. I’ve always found the crumbling remnants — like China — to be the most compelling: fighting against time while holding on to a withering kind of beauty. That’s where you’ll find the Freedom Team, its members coming and going as they please, calling out to each other as they roam the backcountry ridges.

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BEIJING — On the outskirts of Beijing, it’s easy to find a ride to the Great Wall. The drivers of black cabs — unregistered taxis and vans — call out to me in broken English. Some pull at my clothes. “Sir! Great Wall! Great Wall! I take you!” “Where you go?” “Great Wall! One hundred kuai!” “Fast car! You come!” But I defer to companions on the Freedom Team, a group of 25 middle-aged Chinese hikers. “Don’t talk to me,” I say, switching to Mandarin. “Talk to the man with the green walking stick. He’s in charge.” I point to Sun Zhenguang. He’s in his late 50s, with a dark, saggy face and huge lips. The other hikers call him Old Sun. He wears knockoff aviators and a fitted Red Sox cap, an upgrade from the adjustable one I gave him years ago as an exchange student. The drivers converge on Old Sun and the Freedom Team. It’s like a standoff between rival gangs, although they’re just negotiating a price. Once they settle, we hop into a few small vans — “bread vans,” the Chinese call them — and set off. We’re in Huairou, a rural district in the mountainous outlying regions of Beijing. It’s here, a two- or three-hour drive from downtown, that you’ll find some of the most spectacular sections of the Great Wall. (UNESCO cites its length as more than 12,000 miles, but the topic is debated by scholars.) My fellow hikers are largely outliers in China. Old Sun once told me that Chinese tend to find hiking as sport bizarre — a kind of countryside hardship that people in the modern world were supposed to have escaped. But as China’s economy has grown, recreational hiking has attracted some urban professionals looking for an outdoor pastime. Several years ago, Old Sun and some friends began hiking on weekends with a tour group that charged a fee. After a year or so, they quit paying the fee and started hiking themselves — freely. The Freedom Team was born. “Some teams have requirements of their members,” Old Sun explained. “Maybe if you go hiking somewhere with another group, they’ll remove you from their team. But here we’re really free — you can join in our outings, or you can choose not to. If you don’t like our contingent, you can leave, and if you decide later that other teams aren’t that good but that we’re still okay, you can still come back. Coming and going is just very free. So freedom is the special characteristic of our group.” I’ve been hiking with them since 2006, when I was an exchange student and Old Sun was my host father. Much of the slang I learned that year came from the hikers, and Chinese friends my age sometimes made fun of me for using colloquialisms of the older generation. I couldn’t help it, though. The Freedom Team was chatty. It still is. For hikers across Beijing, the Great Wall is as functional as it is legendary. Thick, dry shrub covers the mountains here, and a trail with a view is a rare find. In contrast, the Great Wall is an elevated highway, although sometimes a disintegrating one. When the Freedom Team comes to the occasional cliff or eroded section, the hikers start bickering over whether to go up or maneuver around it. At some point, an impatient member inevitably breaks the impasse and starts climbing. From below, the rest of the hikers turn into a judgmental peanut gallery. I first watched such an ascent in 2007 at Jiankou, a common first “wild” wall for hikers. Unlike heavily trafficked tourist sections that construction crews have refinished to resemble Disney World, wild walls remain basically untouched — some of them since the Ming Dynasty (14th to 17th centuries). They also don’t have entrance fees; the Freedom Team doesn’t do entrance fees. Today we are hiking a wild section just east of Jiankou known as Beijing Jie, or Beijing Link, where the wall divides into two sections, running parallel west toward the Gobi Desert. There’s a common misconception that the Great Wall is a single continuous structure, but this split is one of many. We arrive at a small village and get out of the vans, and the Freedom Team members take off their jackets. They’re a better-equipped group than they were when I first knew them. Over the years, when one member bought some bit of hiking gear, the others followed. Now the entire team is outfitted in ultra-light backpacks, adjustable hiking poles, kneepads, gloves and — although it rarely rains in Beijing — quick-drying outerwear. Before most outings, Old Sun posts a list of suggested equipment on their blog.

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Rebels rope up win over Hitmen BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 3 Hitmen 2 Any resemblance between the Red Deer Rebels who played the first period Friday and the edition that cranked it up over the final 40 minutes was purely coincidental. Down 2-0 after an opening 20 minutes in which they were outshot 15-3, the Rebels rang up a trio of second-period goals and then hung on for a 3-2 Western Hockey League victory over the Calgary Hitmen in front of a lively gathering of 7,058 at the Enmax Centrium. “We just knew that we had to stick to it. We haven’t had a lot of confidence against the Calgary team and it’s been a good rivalry for years,” said Rebels forward Riley Sheen, the game’s first star. “ We just thought that if we came out in the second period and regrouped and started strong, we could get a couple on them and that’s exactly what we did. “It’s never easy coming in with a 2-0 (deficit) especially when you play such a sloppy period like that. But we have a resilient group and it was good to come out on top.” The Hitmen struck twice within a 44-second span of the first period, with Taylor Sanheim scoring from the edge of the crease at 15:12 and defenceman Ben Thomas beating a screened Rebels netminder Rylan Toth with a point shot at 15:56. While Toth looked at plenty of rubber in the opening frame, the vast majority of the shots were low quality. Still, the Rebels managed only a trio of volleys at Hitmen goaltender Brendan Burke and looked all but beaten with 40 minutes still to go. However, the Rebels found

their legs in the middle stanza and, with Calgary rearguard Michael Zipp serving a roughing penalty, finally broke through when Sheen connected with a wrist shot from the high slot a mere 77 seconds in. Presten Kopeck banged home a rebound off the end glass near the midway point of the period to pull the Rebels even, and defenceman Brett Cote notched the winner at 14:15 — again on the power play — with a shot from the top of the faceoff circle. “We had to respond after the way we played the first period,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “We did a lot of chasing and they dictated a lot of the play. We were on our heels, we weren’t playing the way we’re capable of playing. “We had a little talk after the first period about what are we as a team. We picked up our work ethic, got more engaged in the game and were skating and moving pucks better. We drew some penalties and scored some goals. The third period was a battle, like playoff hockey.” Toth was also a factor while stopping 28 shots overall. He made a pair of excellent saves in the final frame, getting in front of shots by Kenton Helgesen and Adam Tambellini. Burke denied Evan Polei on a second-period breakaway and seconds later took a goal away from Sheen, who let fly with a one-timer from the low slot. After making a total of nine saves, Burke was replaced at the start of the third period by Mack Shields, who stopped all seven shots he faced over the final 20 minutes. The Rebels’ special teams were splendid, with the power play striking twice and the penalty kill going three-forthree.

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Red Deer Rebel Josh Mahura makes a play as Calgary Hitmen Beck Malenstyn shadows during action at the Centrium Mar 13. “Our penalty killers did a great job,” said Sutter. “They (Hitmen) have some fairly dynamic players and you have to be able to do a good job against them. You need good awareness and you have to be strong on pucks. “Our penalty kill was very good tonight and our power play got a couple of goals. Special teams were massive.” The Rebels’ power play has come alive in recent games and Sheen credited that to the

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players’ ability to move the puck and get it to the net. “Tonight we just stuck to what we’ve been doing” he said. “We’ve been moving and running some plays. Really, movement is the key to a good power play and when you have a big guy like Pols (Polei) in front he takes a lot of the vision from the goalie. “If you can get it upstairs there’s a good chance it’s going in.” The Rebels, who host the

Queens beat rivals to move on to national championship final

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Flames 6 Maple Leafs 3 CALGARY — Sean Monahan’s line is red hot and so are the Calgary Flames, who racked up another win Friday night in their improbable push to make the Stanley Cup playoffs. Monahan scored his 26th and 27th goals in his first career three-point game as Calgary rode a four-goal first period to a 6-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. The 20-year-old forward has 10 goals on 24 shots in his last 13 games to move into a tie with Patrick Kane and Zach Parise for 11th in the NHL in goals. Linemates Jiri Hudler and Johnny Gaudreau each pitched in with one goal and two assists. The Flames top line has been scorching hot lately with each player on a six-game point streak— combining for 16 goals and 30 points over that span. “It’s quite the chemistry they have between the three of them. Jiri’s leading the pack and the two kids are following,” said Flames coach Bob Hartley. “They’re unbelievable. They’re fun to coach and they’re fun to watch. They’re moving so well, they’re creative and they’re responsible.” Gaudreau has 19 goals and 53 points, moving him into a tie for the rookie scoring lead with Nashville’s Filip Forsberg. “For me, it’s the chemistry,” said Gaudreau, 21. “When you get to play with a player or a few players throughout the whole season, you just feel really comfortable with them on and off the ice. You learn more and more about them and where they’re going to be at on the ice.” A 5-0-1 record in their last six games— all without captain Mark Giordano, who is lost for the season with a torn biceps tendon— moves the surging Flames into second place in the Pacific Division, one point up on Vancouver. The Canucks have one game in hand. Calgary (38-25-5) also got goals from Drew Shore and

Queens 3 Wolves 1 LONGUEUIL, Que. – The RDC Queens know a thing or two about playing the Grande Prairie Wolves, who they faced four times in championship settings over the last two years. The Queens needed all that knowledge to pull out an entertaining 25-27, 25-9, 25-23, 25-15 victory over the Wolves in the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association women’s volleyball semifinals Friday. The RDC squad has also defeated the Wolves in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference finals the last two seasons and in the CCAA gold medal game last year. “It’s nice to play a game against a team we’ve seen before in a setting we’re not used to,” said Queens middle Alex Donaghy. “It gives us more comfort when we know what to expect.” “They always play their best against us, but we were also comfortable having played them four times in the last two years,” said Queens power hitter Leah Koot, who was named the RDC player of the match with 13 kills, an ace and 12 digs. “We didn’t think of the pressure. We knew if we played our game and our best, success would come.” The Queens showed that in the first set. They trailed 24-21 before fighting back to even the count at 24. They didn’t pull out the victory, but seemed to have the momentum. “We tried to get a better jump than we did in the provincials, but there were two sequences in the middle of that first set that changed things in their favour,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “We got ahead of ourselves a bit and were slightly unlucky not to win that set. “We knew what they were trying to do and once we settled down it was a matter of making a couple little adjustments.” The Queens jumped into a 6-0 lead in the second set and coasted to the victory, before

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Calgary Flames Jiri Hudler, right, celebrates his goal with teammate Johnny Gaudreau during second period NHL action against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Calgary, Friday. Mikael Backlund. Richard Panik and David Booth, with a pair, scored for Toronto (27-36-6). The Leafs fall to 1-16-2 on the road in the calendar year. “I’m not going to sit here and make excuses. Bottom line is we made more mistakes than them and they capitalized,” said Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf. “There’s no sugarcoating it or beating around it. It’s pretty evident what happened.” With the Flames leading 2-1 halfway through the first period, a potential momentumchanging moment in the game came in the form of a five-minute major to Lance Bouma for a knee-on-knee hit on rookie Brandon Kozun. It did turn out to be key moment, but not as one might expect. In a three minute span, Backlund and Monahan scored short-handed breakaway goals to make it 4-1 and fire up the raucous sell-out crowd of 19,289. “It was an awful start,” said Leafs coach Peter Horachek. “We had two scoring chances the whole first period, we had seven minutes in power plays and they got two short-handed

goals. They outworked us the whole period. Everything that happened to us, we did it to ourselves.” The Flames opened up a four-goal cushion 1:29 into the second when Monahan scored again. Booth got one back for Toronto at 4:56 but Hudler’s power play goal at 8:16 restored the four-goal lead. “Everyone’s contributing offensively right now,” said Gaudreau. “Each game is crucial, we need every single point if you look at the playoff race and we came out flying.” In the Flames net, Jonas Hiller had 25 stops to improve to 21-17-4. Reimer has 22 saves for Toronto. His record falls to 7-15-0. Notes: Backlund extended his point streak to a careerbest seven games (3-4-7)... The Flames are 13 games above .500 for the first time since January 5, 2010... During this 19-game road stretch for the Leafs dating back to the start of January, Toronto has only led for 25:43 out of 1,145 minutes... Nazem Kadri did not play for Toronto. It was the third game he’s missed after being suspended by the team for disciplinary reasons.

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Kootenay Ice tonight, moved to within a point of the Central Division co-leading Hitmen and Medicine Hat Tigers, who were 7-1 losers to the Ice Friday at Cranbrook. ● Polei and six-foot-six, 242- pound Hitmen blueliner Keegan Kanzig tangled in the second period. Polei appeared to land the only punch of the fight and also got the takedown. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

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VOLLEYBALL once again struggling early in the third set. They fell behind 4-12, before middle blockers Donaghy and Megan Schmidt and Koot started to take over. As well libero Maddi Quinn decided she wouldn’t allow the ball to hit the floor anywhere near her. “It was tough to stop their big middle (six-foot-one Sarah Loedel), but we did a good job of getting to their other middle and stopped their right side hitters. We also won the battle against their power hitters and scored better. “Megan (Schmidt) isn’t the biggest blocker but she was touching everything and scoring in transition. We were also patient and not rushing and on defence Maddi took over and decided to dig everything.” Schmidt finished with 13 kills, three stuff blocks and eight digs while Donaghy had 13 kills, five blocks and two aces. She also put the finishing touches on both the third and fourth sets with a block and a kill respectively. Quinn finished with 14 digs, although that may have been a few less than she deserved. Walton couldn’t have been happier with the way Donaghy performed in a key match. “Alex needed find groove again,” he said. “She was missing in action for a while, but we told her we needed her and she responded. She served tough and was big around the net.” Walton also got a solid effort out of his bench when needed. He inserted Marissa Neufeld in for Miranda Dawe in the third set and while she didn’t accumulate any points, she was solid on defence and served extremely well. “This is a group effort,” said Walton. “It’s just not the seven on the floor. We push each other in practice which carries over.” Donaghy believes the experience the Queens gained while winning last year’s CCAA title was evident Friday.

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Oilers can’t hold off Jackets’ rally BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bluejackets 5 Oilers 4 (SO) COLUMBUS, Ohio — At 32, Scott Hartnell is a dozen years older than Alexander Wennberg and Marko Dano. Since they have been put on the same line, the rookies have learned a lot, and the veteran has been rejuvenated. They combined for two goals and three assists, and Wennberg scored the winner in the fifth round of the shootout to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Friday night. “It’s fun playing with that youth,” Hartnell said after scoring a goal with 3:37 left in regulation to tie the game. “Those young legs, they get me going. It’s exciting.” Wennberg, who scored his first NHL shootout goal on his third try, also had two assists for the Blue Jackets, who ended a five-game losing streak at home. It had been a month since the club last won a home game. Their 13-19-2 mark is 28th in the 30-team league. “It’s good to battle through it and come back to win,” said Wennberg, the No. 14 pick in the 2013 draft. “It’s fun playing out there, especially in a tough game and coming up with a big W.” Dano, a third-round pick in the same draft, had a goal and an assist. Cam Atkinson and Artem Anisimov also scored for Columbus, which has won its last three games. Nick Foligno had two assists, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 saves. The Blue Jackets blew leads of 2-0 and 3-2 before coming back for the win against another team near the bottom in the NHL.

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Edmonton Oilers’ Matt Hendricks, top, and Columbus Blue Jackets’ Dalton Prout fight for the puck during the third period of an NHL game Friday, in Columbus, Ohio. The Blue Jackets beat the Oilers 5-4 in a shootout. “We finished the game well,” coach Todd Richards said. “It was exciting, in the overtime and scoring a goal late in the third.” After the first eight skaters came up empty in the shootout, Wennberg’s low shot slipped into the net off Scrivens’ glove. Bobrovsky then reached back to stop Teddy Purcell. With the score tied 3-3, the Oilers grabbed their first lead while on a 5-on-3 power play. Nail Yakupov unloaded a shot from the left circle after receiving Jordan Eberle’s blind, behind-the-back pass. It was Yakupov’s

11th goal. The Blue Jackets tied it late. Wennberg’s shot from the left wing squirted into and between Dano and a defender at the goal mouth. While Scrivens scrambled to dive on the loose puck, which was sitting in the crease, Hartnell jammed it in for his 20th. Eberle had a goal to go with his assist, and Derek Roy and Andrew Ference also scored for the Oilers, who have lost seven in a row (0-6-1). Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Justin Schultz each had two assists, and Ben Scrivens stopped 27 shots.

“It’s tough. It’s frustrating,” Oilers coach Todd Nelson said. “Our guys played well tonight. In the third we couldn’t lock it down. But I thought we played well enough to get two points tonight.” Dano scored the fastest goal by a Blue Jacket this season just 43 seconds in and Atkins added a one-timer with just 2.7 seconds left in the first period for a quick 2-0 lead. Eberle and Roy scored power-play goals in the second to tie it, Eberle notched his 18th by tucking a shot inside the near post over Bobrovsky’s right shoulder.

Wranglers lose first playoff game this season LOSE IN OPENER OF HERITAGE LEAGUE FINAL BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Copperheads 4 Wranglers 0 BLACKFALDS — The Blackfalds Wranglers rolled to the Heritage Junior B Hockey League final without hardly breaking a sweat, but they have a worthy opponent now. Unfortunately for the Wranglers, with as easy a path as they’ve had, suddenly flipping the switch is a little easier said than done. The Coaldale Copperheads thrashed the Wranglers 4-0 in Game 1 of the best-of-five final at the Blackfalds Multiplex on Friday. “We didn’t look good at all, it’s tough to really evaluate that,” said Blackfalds coach Sean Neumeier. “We need more from our top two lines, they were average and that can’t happen. We gout outplayed, we got outeverything

tonight.” The Wranglers knew they were getting a skilled opponent that competed hard, after all the Copperheads won both games the two teams played this season. But even Coaldale’s coaches did not quite expect to hand the reigning provincial champions their first shutout loss since March 3, 2013 when they lost 5-0 to the Red Deer Vipers in the North final. “We’re on a bit of a hot streak now and we just want to keep it going,” said Coaldale head coach Derek Wiest. “We got some lucky bounces in the third period, but other than that it was a tight checking game all game. To come out with a 4-0 lead I don’t think (shows) how close the game was.” Holden Lamb, James Price, Colby Murray and Craig Lyon scored for the Copperheads while Dillan Kelly stopped all 28 shots he faced for the clean sheet. Thomas Isaman stopped

26 shots in the loss. The game was actually pretty close through 40 minutes with the Copperheads carrying a one-goal lead through two periods, but the wheels came off for the Wranglers early in the final frame. First Price scored off a rush at 4:57, then 43 seconds later Martin came late on the cycle and buried a one-timer from the top of the slot. The Copperheads iced it with 3:23 remaining in the game as Lyon chipped home hard centering pass. Both teams were coming off of sweeps in the division finals over chippy opponents — Blackfalds knocked off the Mountainview Colts 4-0 and Coaldale did the same to the Okotoks Bisons — but this series already has a much different feel to it. The Wranglers (34-2-2) were by far the best team in the North while the Copperheads (31-6-1) convincingly won the South. The Copperheads won their first meeting 6-5 in overtime in on Oct. 19 in Blackfalds and then won 5-3 on

Kings fall in to top seed at nationals BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Chargers 3 Kings 2 CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Tim Finnigan was the unquestioned leader of the Red Deer College Kings men’s volleyball team this year. He fought through a quad injury all season that hampered his play but was still able to produce at a first team all-conference level. But that quad finally wore out at the worst possible time and the reigning Canadian Colleges Athletic Association champs will be playing for a medal of a different colour this year. The No. 4 seeded Kings fell 3-2 (14-25, 25-22, 30-28, 1325, 15-13) to the No. 1 seeded Camosun Chargers out of Victoria, B.C., after Finnigan re-injured his quad in the first set. “We knew that we were playing with fire a little bit and he was going to do everything he could to give himself a chance to be a big part of what we were doing,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha. “As soon as he came down and started limping, he gave me a look that ‘you’re better off with me off the floor,’ which is pretty telling for a guy who wants it so bad.” The Kings still managed to hang in with the Pacific Western Athletic Association champions, running away with the first set before losing two hard-fought sets on poor serving and cruising to a win in the fourth. They even held an 8-6 lead in the fifth and deciding set, but much like in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference

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final, their opponents chipped away and stole the game. It was a crushing defeat for the 2014 national champions who had visions of repeating that title. Their opponent in the gold medal game would have been the No. 7 Titans de Limoilou. Other players stepped up in the absence of Finnigan, who’s stat line in his final game as a King will be an uncharacteristically undistinguished one kill, one ace and one dig. Nic Dubinsky was a machine with a game-high 32 kills and seven digs, Adam Turlejski had seven kills, four digs, four solo blocks, seven block assists and two service aces. CCAA player of the year Luke Brisbane had 54 assists, 11 digs, two aces, five block assists and one kill for the Kings. “The guys are obviously very heart-broken,” said Schulha. “But to be able to play at that level against a very good team that was very deserving of their No. 1 ranking ... without their leader on the floor, I thought a lot of those guys stepped up in ways that haven’t we seen them do this year.” Cameron Fennema led the Chargers with 23 kills and 10 digs. The best the Kings can do now is finish with a bronze medal, but that’s a difficult road ahead with a semifinal game at 9 a.m. MST against the Niagara College Knights. The winner will then advance to the third place game at 3 p.m. “A lot of these guys will never play a tougher match then they do tomorrow, just character-wise,” said Schulha. “I think the character they showed tonight will transfer over to tomorrow.”

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Feb. 7 in Coaldale. For the Wranglers, it is a rare opportunity to play a team that is quite similar to themselves, and they were not prepared for it. “Everybody had a good first shift and then they scored and it seemed like we couldn’t generate anything,” said Neumeier. Both teams have already qualified for the provincial championships just by getting to the league final — the HJHL gets a wild card berth — and Neumeier believes that may be a mental barrier his team needs to get over. “I think that’s half the battle, we win that series against Mountainview and everybody’s happy,” he said. “Last year we lost to Okotoks in the final too then we went on to win provincials. It’s one of those things where mentally they don’t get up enough because they think they’re already there. It’s tough to handle that.” Game 2 goes Sunday in Coaldale at 6 p.m. with Game 3 back in Blackfalds next Friday at 7:30 p.m. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

RDC: Comfortable “Because a lot of us have been through it before we know what to expect and are more comfortable,” Donaghy said. “We know we have to go all out and give everything we have.” The Queens face FX Garneau Elans of Quebec City in the final tonight at 6 p.m. (MDT). Garneau advanced which a 17-25, 25-16, 25-19, 25-21 win over Vancouver Island University of Nanaimo. “We don’t know a lot about them, except they’re young and not as big as the teams we’ve faced so far,” said Walton. “They play a ball control game and have a good power hitter and one quick middle. It’s going to be fun playing a Quebec team in Quebec.” Grande Prairie will now face the Humber Hawks of Toronto in the bronze medal semifinal while VIU takes on Camosun of Victoria. Humber downed the Mount St. Vincent Mystics of Halifax 25-11, 25-10, 25014 while Camrose stopped the host Lynx d’EdouardMontpetit 9-25, 26-28, 27-35, 25-19, 15-12. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate. com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/ athleticsblog.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF y-Brandon 68 50 11 4 3 318 x-Regina 68 37 22 5 4 254 Swift Current 68 31 32 1 4 201 Moose Jaw 68 29 34 4 1 202 Prince Albert 67 28 35 2 2 196 Saskatoon 69 19 46 2 2 191

GA 208 220 231 246 236 296

Pt 107 83 67 63 60 42

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF x-Medicine Hat67 41 23 1 2 244 x-Calgary 67 40 22 1 4 273 x-Red Deer 68 37 21 4 6 228 x-Kootenay 68 35 29 1 3 232 x-Edmonton 69 33 29 4 3 209 Lethbridge 67 20 39 5 3 191

GA 201 195 215 238 190 279

Pt 85 85 84 74 73 48

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF y-Kelowna 68 50 13 4 1 292 x-Victoria 68 37 27 3 1 233 Prince George 68 28 35 2 3 207 Kamloops 68 27 34 4 3 205 Vancouver 68 26 39 1 2 180

GA 174 208 282 247 238

Pt 105 78 61 61 55

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA x-Everett 67 40 20 3 4 225 184 x-Portland 66 40 21 2 3 257 208 x-Seattle 66 33 24 4 5 191 186 x-Spokane 66 33 29 3 1 197 198 Tri-City 67 29 35 0 3 176 222 z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth.

Pt 87 85 75 70 61

Friday’s results Brandon 4 Saskatoon 1 Kootenay 7 Medicine Hat 1 Edmonton 5 Lethbridge 2 Red Deer 3 Calgary 2 Regina 4 Moose Jaw 3 Swift Current 2 Prince Albert 1 (SO) Kamloops 5 Kelowna 1 Tri-City 7 Prince George 4 Portland at Spokane, late Victoria 2 Vancouver 0 Everett at Seattle, late

Calgary 15 7 8 — 30 Red Deer 3 9 7 — 19 Goal — Calgary: Burke (L, 0-3-0); Red Deer: Toth (W, 28-16-0). Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 0-3; Red Deer: 2-5. National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 68 42 19 7 91 Tampa Bay 69 42 20 7 91 Detroit 66 37 18 11 85 Boston 67 35 22 10 80 Ottawa 67 32 24 11 75 Florida 67 30 23 14 74 Toronto 69 27 36 6 60 Buffalo 67 19 42 6 44

GF 179 225 193 182 192 167 186 129

GA 152 180 175 173 179 190 218 228

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 66 42 17 7 91 70 43 23 4 90 67 39 18 10 88 69 36 23 10 82 69 28 27 14 70 68 28 29 11 67 68 30 34 4 64 66 25 33 8 58

GF 203 220 195 203 178 154 178 158

GA 157 196 166 172 198 178 215 183

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts St. Louis 67 43 19 5 91 Nashville 69 42 20 7 91 Chicago 67 40 21 6 86 Minnesota 68 37 24 7 81 Winnipeg 68 33 23 12 78 Dallas 69 32 27 10 74 Colorado 68 31 26 11 73

GF 210 199 192 193 189 218 181

GA 167 168 155 172 185 226 191

N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders Pittsburgh Washington Philadelphia New Jersey Columbus Carolina

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 70 43 20 7 93 204 193 Calgary 68 38 25 5 81 203 178 Vancouver 67 38 25 4 80 189 183 Los Angeles 67 33 21 13 79 184 170 San Jose 68 34 26 8 76 191 187 Arizona 68 21 39 8 50 144 226 Edmonton 69 18 39 12 48 160 238 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s games Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m. Brandon at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m. Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Prince George at Portland, 8 p.m. Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Vancouver at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Tri-City at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Boston 3, Tampa Bay 2, SO St. Louis 1, Philadelphia 0, SO Colorado 2, New Jersey 1, SO Pittsburgh 6, Edmonton 4 Dallas 5, Carolina 3 Ottawa 5, Montreal 2 Columbus 3, Detroit 1 Florida 4, Winnipeg 2 Los Angeles 4, Vancouver 0 Chicago 2, Arizona 1 San Jose 2, Nashville 0

Sunday’s games Vancouver at Victoria, 2:05 p.m. Lethbridge at Calgary, 4 p.m. Prince Albert at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m. Spokane at Portland, 6 p.m.

Friday’s Games Columbus 5, Edmonton 4, SO Ottawa 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 Dallas 4, Washington 2 Anaheim 2, Minnesota 1 Toronto 3, Calgary 6

Friday’s summary Rebels 3, Hitmen 2 First Period 1. Calgary, Sanheim 13 (Rankin) 15:12. 2. Calgary, Thomas 7 (Sanheim, Twarynski) 15:56. Penalties — Lang CAL (roughing) 13:03, Fleury RD (roughing) 13:03, Karnaukhov CAL (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 18:56, Sheen RD (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 18:56. Second Period 3. Red Deer, Sheen 21 (Maxwell, Cote) 1:17 (pp). 4. Red Deer, Kopeck 20 (Johnson, Mahura) 9:08. 5. Red Deer, Cote 9 (Sheen, Feser) 14:15 (pp). Penalties — Zipp CAL (roughing) 0:14, Tambellini CAL (high-sticking) 6:19, Tambellini CAL (highsticking) 14:05, Kanzig CAL (fighting) 14:22, Johnson RD (cross-checking) 14:22, Polei RD (fighting) 14:22, Peterson CAL (tripping) 16:20, Peterson CAL (roughing) 19:25, Musil RD (cross-checking) 19:25, Musil RD (roughing) 19:25. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties — Strand RD (holding) 9:27, Fazleev CAL (high-sticking) 19:26. Shots on goal

Friday’s summaries Flames 6, Maple Leafs 3 First Period 1. Calgary, Gaudreau 19 (Hudler, Monahan) 5:06. 2. Calgary, Shore 1 (Brodie, Raymond) 7:07. 3. Toronto, Panik 11 (Rielly, Gardiner) 8:47 (pp). 4. Calgary, Backlund 9 (unassisted) 11:40 (sh). 5. Calgary, Monahan 26 (Brodie, Engelland) 14:38 (sh). Penalties — Bollig Cgy (interference) 7:59, Bouma Cgy (fighting) 10:05, Sill Tor (fighting) 10:05, Bouma Cgy (Kneeing Major) 10:05, Bouma Cgy (game misconduct) 10:05. Second Period 6. Calgary, Monahan 27 (Hudler, Gaudreau) 1:29. 7. Toronto, Booth 5 (Komarov, Brewer) 4:56. 8. Calgary, Hudler 25 (Wideman, Gaudreau) 8:16 (pp). Penalties — Rielly Tor (holding) 7:09, Kozun Tor (hooking) 14:46, Colborne Cgy (Illegal Check to Head Minor) 16:27. Third Period 9. Toronto, Booth 6 (Gardiner, Phaneuf) :29. Penalties — Ferland Cgy (roughing) 2:46, Brennan Tor (roughing) 2:46, Hudler Cgy (boarding) 7:21. Shots on goal Toronto 6 15 7 — 28 Calgary 14 6 8 — 28 Goal — Toronto: Reimer (L, 7-15-0); Calgary: Hiller (W, 21-17-4). Power plays (goal-chances) — Toronto: 1-4; Calgary: 1-2. Blue Jackets 5, Oilers 4 (SO) First Period 1. Columbus, Dano 5 (Wennberg) :43. 2. Columbus, Atkinson 15 (Foligno, Johnson) 19:57 (pp). Penalties — Boll Clb (fighting) 6:10, Gazdic Edm (fighting) 6:10, Yakupov Edm (high-sticking) 7:24, Aulie Edm (cross-checking) 12:55, Tropp Clb (hooking) 15:43, Roy Edm (high-sticking) 17:56. Second Period 3. Edmonton, Eberle 18 (Nugent-Hopkins, Schultz) 6:18 (pp). 4. Edmonton, Roy 9 (Klefbom, Scrivens) 12:56 (pp). 5. Columbus, Anisimov 5 (Foligno, Tropp) 16:51. 6. Edmonton, Ference 3 (Schultz, Pouliot) 19:11. Penalties — Anisimov Clb (hooking) 6:01, Johansen Clb (tripping) 11:48. Third Period 7. Edmonton, Yakupov 11 (Eberle, Nugent-Hopkins) 3:26 (pp). 8. Columbus, Hartnell 20 (Dano, Wennberg) 16:23. Penalties — Connauton Clb (tripping) 1:57, Wennberg Clb (hooking) 2:31. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — None. Shootout — Columbus wins 1-0 Edmonton : Nugent-Hopkins miss, Yakupov miss, Roy miss, Eberle miss, Purcell miss. Columbus : Letestu miss, Johansen miss, Anisimov miss, Johnson miss, Wennberg goal. Shots on goal Edmonton 9 14 9 3 — 35 Columbus 11 7 9 4 — 31 Goal — Edmonton: Scrivens (LO, 12-22-9); Columbus: Bobrovsky (W, 20-16-2). Power plays (goal-chances) — Edmonton: 3-5; Columbus: 1-4. NHL Scoring Leaders

Saturday’s Games Detroit at Philadelphia, 11 a.m. Boston at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m. Chicago at San Jose, 2 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. Montreal at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m. Florida at Carolina, 5 p.m. Toronto at Vancouver, 5 p.m. Minnesota at St. Louis, 6 p.m. New Jersey at Arizona, 7 p.m. Calgary at Colorado, 8 p.m. Nashville at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

John Tavares, NYI Alex Ovechkin, Wash Sidney Crosby, Pgh Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Jakub Voracek, Pha Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Tyler Johnson, TB Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Rick Nash, NYR Steven Stamkos, TB Joe Pavelski, SJ Tyler Seguin, Dal Claude Giroux, Pha Henrik Sedin, Vcr Max Pacioretty, Mtl Nick Foligno, Clb Daniel Sedin, Vcr Jiri Hudler, Cgy Ryan Johansen, Clb

Sunday’s Games Detroit at Pittsburgh, 10:30 a.m. Florida at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m. Carolina at Columbus, 3 p.m. St. Louis at Dallas, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at Ottawa, 5 p.m. Boston at Washington, 5:30 p.m. Nashville at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

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A 39 25 47 51 40 47 33 40 37 40 41 23 25 29 30 43 45 26 35 44 33 35

Pts 72 70 70 69 68 67 66 65 64 63 63 62 62 61 61 61 60 59 59 58 57 57

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Saturday

● Minor hockey provincials: Bantam A at Stettler, Bantam B girls at Lacombe, Atom D at Caroline. ● Minor soccer: U18 girls and boys Tier 2 provincials at Collicutt Centre. ● Volleyball: Volleyball Alberta 15U and 16U boys Premier tournament at Collicutt Centre. ● Peewee AA hockey: Cranbrook at Olds, second game of best-of-five South Central League final, 1 p.m. ● Major midget girls hockey playoffs: Red Deer at Rocky Mountain, fourth game of best-of-five, if necessary, 2 p.m., DeWinton. ● College women’s hockey: NAIT at RDC, fourth game of best-of-five ACAC final, 3 p.m., Red Deer Arena. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, second game of best-of-three division semifinal, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● WHL: Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Senior AAA hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, first game of best-of-seven provincial/Chinook League final, 8 p.m., Red Deer Arena.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 39 26 .600 — Boston 28 36 .438 10 1/2 Brooklyn 25 38 .397 13 Philadelphia 15 50 .231 24 New York 13 51 .203 25 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB x-Atlanta 51 14 .785 — Washington 37 28 .569 14 Charlotte 29 35 .453 21 1/2 Miami 29 36 .446 22 Orlando 21 46 .313 31 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 42 25 .627 — Chicago 40 27 .597 2 Milwaukee 34 31 .523 7 Indiana 30 34 .469 10 1/2 Detroit 23 42 .354 18

L.A. Clippers 42 Phoenix 34 Sacramento 22 L.A. Lakers 17 x-clinched playoff spot

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 45 20 .692 — Houston 43 22 .662 2 Dallas 42 25 .627 4 San Antonio 40 24 .625 4 1/2 New Orleans 36 29 .554 9 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 43 20 .683 — Oklahoma City 36 29 .554 8 Utah 28 36 .438 15 1/2 Denver 25 41 .379 19 1/2 Minnesota 14 50 .219 29 1/2 Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 51 13 .797 —

Saturday’s Games Sacramento at Washington, 5 p.m. Boston at Indiana, 5 p.m. Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Memphis, 6 p.m. Detroit at Utah, 7 p.m. New York at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Billy Hurley III Nick Taylor Patrick Reed Ken Duke Brendon Todd Charles Howell III Shawn Stefani Russell Knox Greg Chalmers Brian Davis Nicholas Thompson Jason Kokrak Nick Watney Harris English Kenny Perry Martin Laird Will MacKenzie Troy Merritt Lee Westwood John Huh John Peterson Kevin Na Jason Dufner Luke Guthrie Danny Lee

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Will Wilcox Spencer Levin Jim Furyk Stewart Cink Daniel Summerhays S.J. Park Chad Campbell Carlos Ortiz Sam Saunders Francesco Molinari Robert Garrigus D.A. Points Chesson Hadley Carl Pettersson Brandt Snedeker Retief Goosen Mark Wilson Scott Langley Kevin Kisner David Hearn Adam Hadwin Rafael Cabrera Bello Freddie Jacobson Sangmoon Bae Andres Romero

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NFL TRADE

Friday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with INF Yoan Moncada on a minor league contract. HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned LHP Luis Cruz and OF Domingo Santana to their minor league camp. Assigned C Luis Flores to their minor league camp. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Reassigned LHP Scott Alexander, RHP Miguel Almonte, RHP Christian Binford, LHP Chris Dwyer, LHP Sean Manaea, C Zane Evans and C Cameron Gallagher to their minor league camp. Optioned LHP John Lamb to Omaha (PCL). National League MIAMI MARLINS — Reassigned RHPs Brian Ellington and Ryan Reid, C Sharif Othman, and INFs Justin Bohn and Viosergy Rosa to their minor league camp. Optioned LHP Grant Dayton to New Orleans (PCL). MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Announced the retirement of LHP Dontrelle Willis. NEW YORK METS — Assigned OF Brandon Nimmo, SS Gavin Cecchini and C Xorge Carrillo to their minor league camp. American Association AMARILLO THUNDERHEADS — Traded LHP Ryan DeJesus to Gateway to complete an earlier trade. GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS — Signed OF Chris Elder. WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed OF Luis Montanez and RHP Andy Moye. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Golden State C Marreese Speights one game for pleading no contest to reckless driving, in violation of the law of the state of Florida. DALLAS MAVERICKS — Recalled C-F Dwight Powell from Texas (NBADL). PHOENIX SUNS — Signed C Earl Barron for the remainder of the season. FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed DT Kyle Williams to a contract extension. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Re-signed DL John Hughes to a contract extension. DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed RB Darren McFadden to a two-year contract. DENVER BRONCOS — Agreed to terms with S Darian Stewart and G Shelley Smith to two-year contracts. DETROIT LIONS — Re-signed S Isa Abdul-Quddus to a one-year contract. Signed LB Josh Bynes to a two-year contract and DT Tyrunn Walker to a one-year contract. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed WR-KR Bryan Walters. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Acquired OL Ben Grubbs from New Orleans for an undisclosed draft pick. Signed LS James Winchester to a two-year contract and WR Jason Avant, TE Richard Gordon and SKelcie McCray. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Acquired WR Kenny Stills from New Orleans for LB Dannell Ellerbe and a 2015 third-round draft pick. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Re-signed LB Chris White. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Agreed to terms RB C.J. Spiller on a four-year contract. Released DB Corey White. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed CB James Dockery and QB Christian Ponder. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Agreed to terms with QB Ben Roethlisberger on a contract extension. Signed RB DeAngelo

Williams to a two-year contract. ST. LOUIS RAMS — Signed LB Akeem Ayers to a two-year contract. Agreed to terms with DT Nick Fairley on a one-year contract. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with LB Brian Orakpo, LB Derrick Morgan, K Ryan Succop, TE Anthony Fasano and DT Karl Klug. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed CB Chris Culliver and DT Terrance Knighton. Re-signed CB Justin Rogers. Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Released SB Patrick Robertson and RB Tyler Thomas. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Chicago F Joakim Nordstrom two games for boarding Arizona D Oliver EkmanLarsson during a March 12 game. ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned F Brendan Shinnimin to Portland (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned G Jared Coreau from Toledo (ECHL) to Grand Rapids (AHL). MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled D Greg Pateryn from Hamilton (AHL). WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled C Andre Burakovsky from Hershey (AHL). Reassigned D Cameron Schilling to Hershey. WINNIPEG JETS — Recalled D Keaton Ellerby from St. John’s (AHL). American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Signed F Matt Lorito to an amateur tryout agreement. LACROSSE National Lacrosse League COLORADO MAMMOTH — Acquired M Jeremy Noble from Rochester for future draft picks.

A person with direct knowledge of the deal tells The Associated Press the Minnesota Vikings have acquired wide receiver Mike Wallace from the Miami Dolphins. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Friday because the teams had not yet announced the trade. The Vikings will send a fifth-round draft pick to the Dolphins for their seventhround selection in the swap, two years after the Vikings tried to sign Wallace. Dolphins coach Joe Philbin benched Wallace in the second half of their final game last season after an argument between the 28-year-old and the coaching staff. Wallace led Miami with 10 touchdowns in his second season with the team.

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Thursday’s Games Washington 107, Memphis 87 Indiana 109, Milwaukee 103, OT Utah 109, Houston 91 Cleveland 128, San Antonio 125, OT New York 101, L.A. Lakers 94 Friday’s Games Philadelphia 114, Sacramento 107 Charlotte 101, Chicago 91 Toronto 102, Miami 92 Boston 95, Orlando 88 Oklahoma City 113, Minnesota 99 Dallas 129, L.A. Clippers 99 Denver 114, Golden State 103 Atlanta 96, Phoenix 87 Portland 118, Detroit 99

Sunday’s Games Chicago at Oklahoma City, 11 a.m. Houston at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m. Denver at New Orleans, 4 p.m. Cleveland at Orlando, 4 p.m. Minnesota at San Antonio, 5 p.m. Portland at Toronto, 5 p.m. New York at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Atlanta at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

Baseball Major League Baseball Spring Training

Valspar Championship Friday At Innisbrook Resort, Copperhead Course Palm Harbor, Fla. Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 7,340; Par 71 Second Round Brendon de Jonge 67-69 — 136 Jordan Spieth 70-67 — 137 Henrik Stenson 67-70 — 137 Ryan Moore 69-68 — 137 Derek Ernst 67-70 — 137 Kevin Streelman 68-69 — 137 Ricky Barnes 66-72 — 138 Ian Poulter 68-70 — 138 Sean O’Hair 66-72 — 138 Lucas Glover 69-69 — 138 Michael Putnam 70-69 — 139 Jason Bohn 70-69 — 139 Justin Thomas 67-72 — 139 Vijay Singh 69-70 — 139 Matt Kuchar 70-70 — 140 Luke Donald 72-68 — 140 Alex Cejka 67-73 — 140 Cameron Tringale 71-69 — 140

Sunday

● Minor hockey provincials: Bantam A at Stettler, Bantam B girls at Lacombe, Atom D at Caroline. ● Minor soccer: U18 girls and boys Tier 2 provincials at Collicutt Centre. ● Volleyball: Volleyball Alberta 15U and 16U boys Premier tournament at Collicutt Centre. ● Major midget girls hockey playoffs: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, fifth game of best-of-five, if necessary, 12:15 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview vs. Orangemen, Henry’s Eavestroughing vs. Rusty Chuckers, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. NWS, 5:30 p.m., all games at Lindsay Thurber. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Red Deer at Rocky Mountain, third game of bestof-three division semifinal, if necessary, 4:30 p.m., Cochrane. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy Graphics at Wheatland, second game of best-of-five South Central League final, 5 p.m., Strathmore. ● Senior AAA hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, second game of best-of-seven provincial/Chinook League final, 6 p.m., Red Deer Arena

AMERICAN LEAGUE W Kansas City 10 Houston 5 Boston 7 New York 7 Oakland 7 Minnesota 5 Texas 6 Detroit 6 Cleveland 5 Seattle 5 Los Angeles 4 Toronto 5 Chicago 3 Tampa Bay 3 Baltimore 3

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NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct Los Angeles 5 2 .714 Miami 6 3 .667 Arizona 6 4 .600 Philadelphia 6 4 .600 Colorado 5 4 .556 St. Louis 5 4 .556 Cincinnati 5 5 .500 San Diego 5 5 .500 Washington 4 4 .500 New York 5 6 .455 Pittsburgh 4 5 .444 Milwaukee 3 6 .333 Atlanta 3 8 .273 San Francisco 3 8 .273 Chicago 2 8 .200 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not. Thursday’s Games Tampa Bay 10, Toronto 3 St. Louis 8, Baltimore 2 Philadelphia 6, Detroit (ss) 5 Houston 4, Detroit (ss) 3, 10 innings Boston 5, Pittsburgh 1 Friday’s Games Washington 6, Houston 6, tie Miami 6, St. Louis 3 Philadelphia 2, Tampa Bay 1 Minnesota 8, Pittsburgh 3

Detroit 12, Atlanta (ss) 2 Toronto 5, Baltimore 3 N.Y. Mets 13, Atlanta (ss) 2 Seattle 10, Milwaukee 5 Cleveland 6, Arizona 2 Texas 3, San Francisco 0 Kansas City 8, Oakland 4 Cleveland 7, Chicago Cubs 4 San Diego 7, L.A. Angels 3 Colorado 5, Chicago White Sox 2 N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 3 Chicago Cubs 5, Oakland 3 Cincinnati vs. L.A. Dodgers, late Saturday’s Games Miami vs. Washington (ss), 11:05 a.m. Tampa Bay vs. Baltimore, 11:05 a.m. Philadelphia vs. Detroit (ss), 11:05 a.m. Minnesota vs. St. Louis, 11:05 a.m. Detroit (ss) vs. N.Y. Yankees (ss), 11:05 a.m. Pittsburgh vs. Boston, 11:05 a.m. N.Y. Yankees (ss) vs. Toronto, 11:07 a.m. Washington (ss) vs. N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m. Oakland (ss) vs. Chicago Cubs (ss), 1:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs (ss) vs. Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m. Cleveland vs. L.A. Dodgers, 2:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (ss) vs. Kansas City, 2:05 p.m. Colorado vs. Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m. San Francisco vs. Oakland (ss), 2:05 p.m. Texas vs. San Diego, 2:05 p.m. Seattle vs. Arizona, 2:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox vs. L.A. Angels (ss), 2:10 p.m. Houston vs. Atlanta, 4:05 p.m. San Francisco vs. Arizona, 8:10 p.m. Sunday’s Games St. Louis vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m. Philadelphia (ss) vs. N.Y. Yankees., 11:05 a.m. Toronto vs. Atlanta, 11:05 a.m. Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh, 11:05 a.m. Detroit vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m. Boston vs. Philadelphia (ss), 11:05 a.m. N.Y. Mets vs. Tampa Bay, 11:05 a.m. Washington vs. Houston, 11:05 a.m. Milwaukee (ss) vs. Texas, 2:05 p.m. Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m. San Diego vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m. L.A. Angels vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers vs. Seattle, 2:05 p.m. Oakland vs. Milwaukee (ss), 2:05 p.m. Kansas City vs. Colorado, 2:10 p.m. Arizona vs. San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

BANTAM GIRLS HOCKEY The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs will be battling for their playoff lives today when they host the Rocky Mountain Raiders in the second game of a best-of-three Alberta Major Bantam Female Hockey League South Division semifinal. The game goes at 4:30 p.m.

at Kinsmen Arena B. The Chiefs dropped the first contest 3-1 Thursday at Cochrane, getting their lone goal from Sydney Norrie. Sutter Fund also got a 32-save performance from Mandi Fitzsimons as the visitors were outshot 35-28.

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Raptors finally best the Heat END 16-GAME LOSING STREAK AGAINST MIAMI BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 102 Heat 92 TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors emerged from their extended slump Friday night, ending a five-year-plus stretch of futility against the Miami Heat at the same time. “Now I’m going to be able to sleep good tonight,” said Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan, who had 18 points in the 102-92 Toronto win before a sellout of 19,800. The Raptors (39-26) came into the game having lost four straight and nine of their last 10 on a road-heavy stretch. “They say when it rains, it pours,” DeRozan added. “And we were in a shower for a while.” Kyle Lowry had 19 points, eight assists, eight rebounds and a career-high seven steals for Toronto — the first player in the NBA this season to record eight rebounds, eight assists and seven steals in a game. “I thought he was back to old Kyle,” said Toronto coach Dwane Casey. “Moving the ball. He made his shots, made his threes. That was huge, that opens up the floor when you do that. But I was just as impressed with our defence as much as anything else.” Miami (29-36) had won the last 16 straight meetings with the Raptors. Toronto’s last victory came Jan. 27, 2010, when injured Heat star Chris Bosh played for the Raptors and DeRozan, now a five-year veteran, was a rookie.

Dwyane Wade, who has scored at least 25 points in his last five games, led a sputtering Miami offence with 25. The Heat, who were 5-of-23 from three point-range, closed the gap with a late 15-4 run. Miami had 20 turnovers, contributing to 21 Toronto points. “We just didn’t play well,” said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra. “Turnovers were especially crippling and (we) could never get into a very good rhythm.” Twelve of DeRozan’s points came from the free-throw line. Lowry had the crowd on its feet with a moonshot three-pointer that extended the lead to 20 points midway through the final quarter. “We played with a good sense of urgency tonight,” said Lowry, who had shown his emotion at the club’s sinking fortunes in a loss to San Antonio earlier in the week. The win was a welcome tonic for Toronto, which went into the all-star break on a 10-3 run but is just 3-9 since. Six of Toronto’s next nine games are at home. “I think we got a false sense of security after the Atlanta game, beating them by whatever we beat them by,” said Casey, referring to a 105-80 victory coming out of the all-star break. “But again every night’s a hard night and we’re not good enough to play a half or three quarters. We’ve got to play as many of the 48 (minutes) as we can to be successful on both ends of the floor.”

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Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry and Miami Heat forward Henry Walker battle for the ball during first half NBA action in Toronto on Friday. Battling for a playoff spot, the Heat were in their own funk Friday. Starters Henry Walker and Hassan Whiteside missed all seven shots they attempted in the first quarter. Miami made just seven of 19 shots while Toronto was good on seven of 22 in a first quarter that ended in a 21-18 Raptors lead. A 16-4 run in the second quarter helped Toronto stretch its lead to 4127. The Heat missed their first nine three-point attempts while the Raps

made six from distance to lead 50-41 at the half. Toronto’s Greivis Vasquez was assessed a flagrant foul early in the fourth on a play that sent Tyler Johnson crashing to the floor. But Vasquez was showing his dance moves later in the quarter after a long three-pointer. Raptors big man Jonas Valanciunas was given the night off after his wife gave birth to a baby boy.

AHL experiment shows What’s wrong with Crosby? Penguins star says stats NHL that 3-on-3 overtime sometimes get overanalyzed works to reduce shootouts 11.8 per cent when it was first implemented in 2005-06. A majority of games that go to overtime also go to a shootThe American Hockey League is out (56.3 per cent). AHL overtime begins four-on-four providing a sneak peek of what overtime could soon look like in the NHL, and switches to three-on-three at the first whistle following the three-minand it appears to be a blockbuster hit. Experimenting with three-on-three ute mark. “It actually feels more like when play in overtime has dramatically increased the amount of AHL games de- you’re playing outside hockey with cided in overtime. Total shootouts are your friends,” former Chicago Wolves down 12 per cent from last year, and defenceman Petteri Lindbohm of the of those games that get to overtime, St. Louis Blues said. “You get chances all the time, you get so much space that they’re down more than 40 per cent. That’s strong evidence for NHL gen- you can try some other moves.” With so much open ice, the pond eral managers, who will debate adding three-on-three next season at their hockey that results is full of odd-man annual meeting that begins Monday rushes and scoring chances. Rocco in Boca Raton, Fla. If recommended, Grimaldi of the San Antonio Rampage, it would go to the joint NHL/NHLPA who leads the AHL in overtime goals, said that with “run-and-gun hockey, competition committee to consider. someone’s bound to “We always went score eventually.” to the three-on-three ‘IT ACTUALLY FEELS “Anything can and for the fans it MORE LIKE WHEN happen, that’s for was really exciting: sure,” Charlotte breakaways, twoYOU’RE PLAYING goaltender on-ones all over the OUTSIDE HOCKEY WITH Checkers Drew MacIntyre said. place,” Anaheim “Three-on-three’s a YOUR FRIENDS.’ Ducks defenceman beast. Four-on-four Korbinian Holzer — PETTERI LINDBOHM whatever, nothing said of his experiCHICAGO WOLVES DEFENCEMAN really changes. But ence with the AHL’s three-on-three it’s Toronto Marlies. “All the games I played, they were de- just a different animal.” The most common argument against cided by the three-on-three.” It’s clearly working. Last season un- three-on-three is that it’s almost as der the NHL’s current four-on-four, much a departure from actual hockey five-minute overtime format, 64.7 per as the shootout. “The pros of it: The game gets done cent of AHL games that went to overearlier because for the most part you time also ended up in a shootout. Through March 2 this season, with see a goal scored,” said Todd Nelson, three minutes of four-on-four followed the former Oklahoma City Barons by as many as four minutes of three- coach who is now behind the Edmonon-three, just 23.2 per cent of overtime ton Oilers bench. “The cons, for me, is games went to a shootout compared to just maybe I’m old school with hockey, an incredible 76.8 per cent decided by so it might be a bit gimmicky.” Richardson argues that it is real actual goals. Some goalies don’t like being under hockey because it can happen with the gun more in overtime, but most in enough penalties in the course of any game. The Tampa Bay Lightning and the AHL are big fans of the change. “For me, I like to end a game play- Boston Bruins played four-on-three in ing hockey, not a stationary shootout,” regulation Thursday night, and that Binghamton Senators coach Luke was enough to cause back-and-forth, Richardson said. “The whole sport is high-paced excitement. The other problem is making games built about teamwork and that’s where longer, something Arizona Coyotes GM it should end.” Many NHL general managers don’t Don Maloney expressed trepidation like too many points being awarded about. Players also could argue against based on a skills competition and have tacking on two extra minutes a game said they would like to reduce the during what’s already the grind of a number of games decided in the shoo- long season. “It is pretty taxing,” former Marlies tout. A total of 13.8 per cent of NHL and current Maple Leafs winger Brangames through March 2 this season don Kozun said. “If you get stuck out went to a shootout, an increase from there it’s hard to change if you don’t have the puck.”

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PITTSBURGH — It’s a question that has been raised repeatedly by hockey columnists and commentators recently: What’s wrong with Sidney Crosby? The question seems to be rooted in statistical analyses that show a dip in his numbers from years past, along with expectations of unrelenting greatness heaped upon the Pittsburgh Penguins centre. While theories have ranged from Crosby being slowed by a history of injuries to his age catching up with him, the Penguins captain had been quiet on the subject until now. He partly bristled, partly shrugged when asked about the chatter after the Penguins practice Friday. “I wouldn’t change anything I’m doing, to be honest with you,” the 27-year-old superstar said. “I’m working hard. I’m doing my best. If people’s expectations are higher than mine, then I can’t change that.” Crosby is the defending Art Ross and Hart trophy winner, and he has a shot at repeating with one or both. Going into Friday’s games, Crosby was tied with Washington’s Alex Ovechkin for second in league scoring with 70 points (23 goals and 47 assists), two points behind John Tavares of the New York Islanders. While that might not seem like it leaves Crosby open for a lot of criticism, those on the side of doubt are pointing out that, at an average of 1.11 points per game this season, he is off of his career pace of 1.37, and the pace has certainly slowed since he recorded 24 points over the first month of the season.

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Sidney Crosby says he is playing well despite what the statistics say. Some have stretched that to find a reduction in his situational productivity such as points per 20 or 60 minutes or five-onfive points per specified segment of time. “Advanced stats weren’t there as much years ago,” Crosby said. “I think you can overanalyze stuff sometimes. Every year is different, every game is different, your division is different year to year. There are so many factors. “To try to make it a clear-cut picture when it’s not, I don’t think is right. It doesn’t really justify everything. We’re always going to look at stats and all that stuff. As a player, whether it’s going really good or really bad, you can’t get caught up in stats in general.” If there is something ailing Crosby, it might be contagious. It seems likely that the 2014-15 scoring champion will be the first with less than 100 points in a non-lockout season since Martin St. Louis, then with Tampa Bay, won the Art Ross with 94 points in 2003-04. That was the last season before a lockout led to sweeping changes to the game designed to open things up offensively. In Crosby’s estimation, the NHL has backslid in that area. “There’s not a lot of

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room. You’re seeing that,” he said. “The game is different. The game is not the same as it was five years ago. There’s less room. There are less power plays. To try to compare what you were able to do five years ago is just ... you can’t do it.” Crosby flashed an expression of disbelief when asked if he has made or needs to make concessions in his game based on age. When asked whether he still has a higher gear when he needs to call upon one, whether his hand-eye co-ordination is as sharp as in years past and whether he is healthy he smiled and said “Yeah.” Consistency is another area of concern for some. Among his 19 multi-point games this season, 11 have included at least three points. But he has been held without a point in a career-worst 26 of his 63 games.

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Tight race going into weekend at Valspar PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Brendon de Jonge rolled in a pair of long putts on his way to a 2-under 69 and the 36-hole lead Friday in the Valspar Championship. Based on the holes remaining, he is halfway home to his first PGA Tour title. Considering how many players are still in the mix — essentially everyone who made the cut — the weekend might feel even longer. Only seven shots separated de Jonge from the players who made the cut on the number, the first time the first-to-worst gap has been that small since the 2011 British Open at Royal St. George’s. “Obviously, gives you a good chance for the weekend,” de Jonge said. He was at 6-under 136, the highest score to lead after 36 holes at Innisbrook in six years. De Jonge said that after he finished his round in the morning, uncertain how hard the wind would blow and who might get hot with the putter. The wind died, no one could sustain a great round without a few mistakes and he had the 36-hole lead for the fourth time in his career. But not by much. Jordan Spieth made a birdie putt from the fringe on the 18th for a 4-under 67 to match the best score of the round. Henrik Stenson, playing the Copperhead course for the first time and apparently enjoying it, made eagle on his first hole and wound up with a 70. They were one shot behind, along with Ryan Moore (68), Kevin Streelman (69) and Derek Ernst (70). Ernst, who had only one round in the 60s this year, ran off five straight birdies around the turn to reach 8-under par until he started missing greens, missing putts and making bogeys to fall one shot behind de Jonge. “Starting the day if you told me I would have shot 1 under I would have

been very happy with it,” Ernst said. Lucas Glover had a 69 and joined Moore and Streelman as the only players to break 70s for both rounds. He was two shots behind, along with Sean O’Hair (72), Ricky Barnes (72) and Ian Poulter (70). Poulter hasn’t been to Innisbrook since 2010, and he was asked what had kept him away. “Because I’m a buffoon,” Poulter said. “I mean, stupid. This golf course I can compete on because it’s fiddly, it’s position off the tee, small greens, need to chip it well, good pace putting when you’re above the hole. All those things I do well.” Poulter recalls the greens being sloppy the last time he played, and so he instructed his caddie to never allow him to return. Seven holes into his pro-am round, he said he told his caddie, “What the ... was I doing not being here?” Justin Thomas (72) and Vijay Singh (70) were in the group at 3-under 139, with Luke Donald (68), Matt Kuchar (70) and Patrick Reed (68) among those four behind. Adam Scott is about the only guy who doesn’t have a chance because he didn’t make the cut. Scott missed four putts from inside 5 feet on his way to a 75 and missed the cut by three shots. It’s the first time he had the weekend off at a golf tournament since the 2012 Byron Nelson Championship. What makes Innisbrook so mysterious is that players are irritated by the shots they left out on the course, only to realize they’re not in bad shape. Such was the case of Stenson, who made a 25-foot eagle on his opening hole, a 20-foot birdie putt on his final hole and nothing but pars and two bogeys in between. “I didn’t get it close enough to give myself too many birdies,” Stenson said. “All in all, pretty pleased.” Spieth rammed in a 20-foot birdie on the third hole that he said left a ball mark on the back of the cup. So that was a good break. He made a 30-foot birdie on No. 6 and rolled it in from 18 feet on the final hole.

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Harvick continues dominance in the desert with pole win at Phoenix BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AVONDALE, Ariz. — The statistics show that Kevin Harvick is the driver to beat at Phoenix International Raceway. His speed, coupled with the unbelievable momentum he’s had since late last season, shows he may not be beatable at all in the desert. Harvick won the pole Friday at Phoenix, where he’s won four of the last five races and six for his career. His lap of 140.751 mph in his Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet gave him his first ever Sprint Cup pole at the track he loves. It was yet another milestone for the defending NASCAR champion and his No. 4 team, coming off Harvick’s first career victory at Las Vegas. “To get that first pole with these guys and celebrate anything that we hadn’t done ... every week is just a new adventure,” Harvick said. “It’s pretty special to be a part of a group of guys like this.” Asked what it will take to beat him Sunday, Harvick smirked. From the back of the room, secondplace qualifier and Daytona 500 winner Joey Logano waited, “Tell us the secret!” he yelled to Harvick. Harvick didn’t sound as if there is a surefire way to keep the No. 4 out of victory lane. “There’s just so many circumstances that you can’t control, so many things that can go wrong, mistakes that you can make,” Harvick said. “We can make some bad decisions as we go through practice and miss the balance when we start the race. There’s just a lot of things that can go wrong.” Logano heard what Harvick was saying loud and clear. “I don’t know if you noticed his answer — the only was he can get beat is him screwing up. I don’t know if you heard that,” Logano said. “Sounds like it will take a mistake or crash or strategy call.” But Logano, who has a win among his three top-10 finishes this season, isn’t giving up. His Team Penske Ford has been just as consistent as Harvick so far this year, and if he can hang with Harvick over a long run Sunday, he believes he has a chance. “We work hard to make our cars faster than his, and we have been getting closer,” Logano said. “I feel like the last three times we have been here we have been a second-place car. That next step is a pretty big step to try to find more speed. “We can do it. We are not that far off. We are just a little off. We are in the ballpark.” But Harvick is on a roll that’s not been seen in some time. He opened the season with a secondplace finish to Logano in the Daytona 500, was second at Atlanta, then finally won last week at Las Vegas. Dating back to last season, has six consecutive top-two finishes, has won three of the last six races dating to last season, and used his win at Phoenix last year to catapult his championship run. “Kevin Harvick is in one of the strongest sequences that I’ve ever seen in our sport,” said SHR teammate Kurt Busch. Jamie McMurray qualified third and thought he might have had a shot at the pole, only to be outdone by Harvick. “The No. 4 car is just on a roll,” McMurray said. “It stinks to be a part of it and have to finish behind him, but it’s pretty awesome to see the results that team is having.” Matt Kenseth was fourth and followed by Ryan Newman, Brad Keselowski and Carl Edwards. Busch, back from a NASCAR suspension that spanned the first three races of the season, qualified eighth. He’ll be making his season debut on Sunday, and is grateful it comes at the first short track on the NASCAR schedule. Busch has yet to compete in the 2015 rules package, but thinks he’s not at a huge disadvantage to his competitors because no one has raced it on a short track yet. He also has more experience at Phoenix than he does anywhere else on the circuit.

That was enough to put him in the final group, even if he’s not sure how he got there. “This is one of those random places where you feel like you should have shot better than you did, but you’re not out of it,” he said. “You can make birdies. The problem is there is trouble around every corner.” There was even trouble in the fairway. Early in the round, Charley Hoffman stopped when he saw a 10-foot alligator walking across the third fairway. “We weren’t going anywhere fast,” Hoffman said. “And neither were we.” DIVOTS: Jonathan Byrd made a hole-in-one on the par-3 15th hole, but he ended up missing the cut for the time in 12 trips to Innisbrook. ... Ernie Els snapped an iron across a pine tree trying to play a shot on the 16th hole. He recovered fine, except for a threeputt from 6 feet for double bogey. He Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Ian Poulter chips to the seventh green during the second round of the Valspar Championship golf tournament Friday, at Innisbrook in Palm Harbor, Fla.

Steelers Extend Big Ben through 2019 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers spent the first frenzied days of free agency doing what they always do: watching other teams reach deep into their wallets to gamble on talented players they hope will put them over the top. That’s not how things work in Pittsburgh. The defending AFC North champions have won more Super Bowl trophies than any other franchise by focusing on keeping their own. When the fit is right, the price tag is never too high. No wonder Ben Roethlisberger couldn’t keep the smile off his face. The Steelers and their franchise quarterback agreed on a new 5-year contract on Friday that could keep him in black-and-gold for the rest of the decade and almost certainly the remainder of his already remarkable career. “It’s home,” Roethlisberger said. “It’s family. As much as my wife and kids are family, so is the Rooney family. It just means a lot. I just love this place.” One Roethlisberger insists he never intended on leaving despite speculation in the middle of a disappointing 2013 that he may have wanted out. The two-

time Super Bowl winner bristled at what he called a rumour and has responded by playing the best football of his life. The 33-year-old passed for a career-high 4,952 yards last season, breaking his own team record and tying Drew Brees for NFL lead. Roethlisberger also had 32 touchdowns and nine interceptions while taking every snap during the regular season. He hasn’t missed a start since 2012 while developing a rhythm in Todd Haley’s dynamic offence. It’s why team president Art Rooney II made locking down Roethlisberger to a long-term deal was at the top of the list when the new league year began on Tuesday. “Certainly a lot of things happened around the league,” Rooney said. “For us there was nothing more important than getting this done. We’re really happy with the way the first week of free agency ended.” Financial details were not immediately available, though Roethlisberger is now almost certainly one of the highest-paid quarterbacks in the league. The new contract replaces the eight-year, $102 million deal he signed in 2008. Roethlisberger originally had a base salary of $11.6 million with a cap hit of $18.35 million for 2015.

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Warm weather conditions made for a slick and swift hill resulting in a ton of smiles.

Warm weather, the promise of free s’mores and an afternoon’s worth of free family fun brought out over 350 people to the annual Crimson Lake Family Day event. On Monday, Feb. 16, from noon to 4 p.m., families from across Central Alberta made the trip to Crimson Lake Provincial Park to enjoy a blend of traditional and unique winter activities. With deep snow covering much of the park, eventgoers explored the beauty of the park on snowshoes. Those looking for a thrill screamed as they flew down the slick sledding hill on oversized tubes. Kids got creative with snow graffiti, spraying coloured water and making designs on a snow-brick wall. The most popular activity was creating snow forts out of large snow mounds that had been piled up. Over a dozen snow forts were created and lovingly worked on for hours. The deep snow didn’t stop some from trying out snow versions of volleyball and soccer with hilarious results. Throughout the day, families could warm up by the fire and enjoy hot chocolate and coffee. The s’more making station was busy all day with eventgoers roasting their marshmallows to perfection, melting their chocolate with precision and enjoying the gooey mess between Graham wafers. Families left the event with smiles on their faces, chocolate in their bellies and many new special memories. A big thank-you goes out to all the sponsors and volunteers who made the event possible. And thanks to all the families for getting out into nature and enjoying their Alberta parks on Family Day. Free family events and interpretive programs occur year-round at Crimson Lake Provincial Park. For more information, check out www.albertaparks.ca or call 403-845-8349.

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A world of surrealism DOUG WILLIAMSON SHADOWS HIS ART WITH MYSTERY IN A NEW EXHIBIT BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF A doll’s head suspended in space, a cocktail umbrella garnishing a grenade, a magpie walking off a ledge. ... The mysterious, surrealist world of Doug Williamson is on view at Red Deer’s white gallery. Roots is the Red Deer-raised artist’s first local exhibit since leaving the city in 1999, after getting a visual arts diploma at Red Deer College. He went on to train at the University of Calgary and at various “old masters” art workshops in the U.S., developing a style that falls somewhere between hyperrealism and magical realism. Williamson unapologetically calls it “kitsch.” It’s a description used by Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum to describe his own Caravaggio and Rembrandt-inspired paintings, which he considers the opposite of clinical, cerebral modern art. Rather than striking out to convey new images or ideas, Williamson’s art, like Nerdrum’s, falls back on old-world techniques and sentiment to elicit emotions from viewers. The Calgary-based artist often depicts nostalgic subject matter, such as the plastic toy cowboy and Indian (with tomahawk raised) in his painting White Lies. A 1960s-era red wagon and tricycle — bereft of rider — take on a ghostly aspect in the large work Circle the

Top: God Keep Our Land, an oil on linen painting by Douglas Williamson. Bottom: Circle the Wagons. The exhibit Roots paintings by Red Deer College alumni artist Doug Williamson of Calgary are on Eexhibit in the space called simply white in Sunworks in Red Deer until March 24. Wagons, while red ball and scattered jacks make a striking pattern on a dark background in the painting Jacks and

A Round. Williamson’s art can also be symbolic. Religious allusions are sometimes featured in some paintings, but more

often, he portrays weighted subject matter, such as images of magpies and ravens — birds that are considered mystical in many cultures.

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The Take It Off! program is managed by the committee, five summer villages, Sylvan Lake RCMP, Alberta Environment, the local fish and game association, Lacombe and Red Deer Counties and the Town of Sylvan Lake.

BRIEF City activity registration begins on Tuesday Need something to do this spring or summer? Personal development? Family fun? Cultural pursuits? There’s plenty of outdoor and indoor options in the 2015 edition of the Spring and Summer Activity Guide. Starting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, the City of Red Deer will begin taking registrations for programs, courses, lessons and rentals. Register online, in person or on the phone. Sarah Cockerill, Community Services director, said the guide offers a wide variety of programs for the whole family. She said the guide will appeal to most audiences including seniors, families, individuals, and sports and culture groups. Printed guides are available at City Hall, the Collicutt Centre, the Culture Services Centre, G.H. Dawe Community Centre and Recreation Centre. Check out the guide and registration information online at www.reddeer.ca/ activityguide or call 403-309-8411.

Sex assault support centre open house on Wednesday Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre is hosting a public open house on Wednesday, from 1 to 4 p.m.

Warming trend escalates Sylvan ice huts deadline Ice huts need to be removed from Sylvan Lake earlier this year because of the warming trend and deteriorating ice conditions. The Sylvan Lake Management Committee is asking the public to remove their huts as soon as possible, before the March 31 deadline set by the Take It Off! program. Water quality will be impacted if huts are left out too long and sink to the bottom of the lake. Debris, including wood, gasoline, furniture and plastic, can degrade habitat and create a safety hazard for fish, waterfowl and other lake users. Any huts left on the lake after April 1 will be taken down, delivered to the Sylvan Lake waste transfer station, and destroyed if not claimed.

Arena replacement plans to be discussed with public Plans to replace the Red Deer Arena are taking shape. On Tuesday the city hosted an initial information session with user groups that typically book dry space or ice at city facilities. Deb Comfort, Neighbourhood Facilities supervisor, said the meeting was a starting point to connect with users about the $21-million project. City council approved the project in November’s capital budget. “It was really a first opportunity to talk to those user groups who are in the facilities all the time,” said Comfort. Seven people attended from figure skating, minor hockey, lacrosse, curling and other groups. Throughout the process, there will be opportunities for residents to have their say on the replacement arena, said Comfort. A consultant is expected to be named sometime in late April or early May. Once the consultant is hired, there will opportunities is for public feedback. At the meeting, users shared information about the elements they would like to retain and innovations they would like included in the new ice

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Two magpies, for instance, perch on both sides of a Christian cross in the painting Between Two Thieves, while a haloed doll’s head hovers ominously in space above an open suitcase in Travelling Light. While the artist remains mum about the arresting subject matter of the latter painting, saying only that he composed it from found antique objects supplied by his mother, Williamson admits he likes painting birds because their shapes and plumage are beautiful. By virtue of their anatomy, birds also become “pointers” in his paintings. Whatever a raven or magpie is looking at, the viewer’s eye is also drawn to because the beak is directing their gaze. The 41-year-old son of a quilter mother and stained-glass-artist father likes putting symbols in paintings of otherwise simple, everyday subjects to arrest viewers, so they don’t pass by his artwork so readily. The inherent mystery is something observers are “forced to deal with,” said Williamson. Anyone wondering what it all means won’t get any easy answers from the artist, who credits Red Deer College’s visual arts program for unleashing his creativity and giving him a great foundation for his art career. Williamson prefers that viewers come up with their own narratives or interpretations of his works. Since artwork is not text, he believes it’s enough for the “mute details” of paintings to offer clues that viewers can assemble in their own minds. “Sometimes, I’ll hear what people think and I’ll say, ‘I never saw that. ... It’s fascinating to me.’ I’m happy when people bring their own voice to my paintings.” His carefully wrought still-lifes are made up of images that are important to him, and Williamson hopes are also intriguing to others. His Roots exhibit continues until May 24 at the white gallery, within Sunworks on Ross Street. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com facility. The city heard that keeping a piece of the history was vital and introducing new elements such as water access on the bench, dry warm-up spaces and multi-purpose areas. The roof is failing on the existing arena and significant upgrades would be required to fix it. The replacement project is expected to take about two years. The existing facility is expected to be taken down next year.

Man accused of assaulting teacher appears in court A man accused of drunkenly assaulting a Central Middle School teacher is expected to resolve his case next week. Tristan Palmer Krahn, 27, is facing two charges of assault, two counts of disturbing the peace, break and enter and unlawful possession of liquor. Krahn was arrested after police got a call that an intoxicated man had punched a teacher after being confronted at the downtown school around 2 p.m. on March 5. The man pushed another teacher and wandered into a band room, where staff locked him in. He damaged a screen while making his escape through a window. Police arrested a suspect nearby. Krahn appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Friday. Duty counsel Amna Qureshi told provincial court Judge Gordon Yake that Krahn hopes to resolve his charges at his next court appearance on Tuesday.

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Powerful and poignant THERE ARE NO FALSE NOTES IN THE RIVETING CO-PRODUCTION OF THE GLASS MENAGERIE From the moment middle-aged And one reason this classic 1940s belle Amanda Wingfield appeared on play endures is because we all recogstage in a ruffled cotillion dress from nize controlling moms like her, who her youth, speaking obsessively of jontruly want the best for their children, quil flowers, it was clear that a Southbut who alienate their sons and daughern Gothic treat was in store at Thursters by not accepting nor understandday’s opening of The Glass Menagerie. ing who they really are. Boy, was it ever. This Amanda doesn’t see her incredible professional daughter Laura (Kirstie co-production between IgGallant) the way Tom sees nition Theatre and Prime her — as a debilitatingly shy Stock Theatre is a must-see young woman who’s probat Red Deer’s Scott Block. ably too emotionally fragile It contains a deliciously to sustain a romantic relagrotesque Tennessee Wiltionship. liams female character Gallant puts on abso(Amanda became a protolutely no affectation for her type for A Streetcar Named portrayal of the troubled Desire’s Blanche DuBois), and nervous Laura. and enough stultifying faAlthough Gallant needs milial closeness to leave to speak up to be heard at LANA any individualist gasping moments, her character MICHELIN for air. is clearly teetering on an The protagonist strugemotional abyss. As somegling to free himself from one incapable of affecting his claustrophobic family is guile or artifice, Laura has Tom Wingfield, excellently played by nowhere to hide from life’s hurts and Vancouver actor and former Red Deer disappointments. College student Sebastian Kroon. When Tom invites a Gentleman There are no false notes in Kroon’s Caller home for dinner at Amanda’s powerful and poignant portrayal of insistence, it’s in the vain hope that Tom, a would-be writer labouring in providing a potential husband for his a warehouse job to support his sister sister will help free him of his familial Laura and their mother Amanda some responsibilities. 16 years after being abandoned by the The play’s highlight is the touching family patriarch. candlelit scene between Laura and Kroon plays every moment as if he’s the Gentleman Caller. When dinner living the role — which is important guest Jim, played as a sunny optimist because the haunted character of Tom by Evan Hall, gets caught up in the is the backbone of this story. All the moment, we understand why he finds action unfolds as a series of memories Laura beautiful. of his past. The play’s ending is appropriately “Yes, I have tricks in my pocket,” devastating. But the drama’s surprisTom tells the audience. “But I’m the ing humour is equally memorable. opposite of a stage magician. He gives Kroon really knows how to play a you illusion that has the appearance of frustrated son chomping at the bit for truth. I give you truth in the pleasant freedom. His portrayal of Tom — in disguise of illusion.” particular his sarcastic delivery of a Tom snaps his fingers, stage lights tabletop monologue about Tom’s supflick on, and the first scene begins. posed debauchery — reminds us why Josephine Christensen plays the grown children need to leave the nest. excitable Amanda as an aging Queen Director Matt Grue does a fantastic Bee, who’s still fluttering around as job of pacing the action and establishthe story’s heroine — at least in her ing the surrealistic nature of memory own mind. through interesting staging tricks, such Like Tom, Amanda lives in the past, as Tom’s control of the lights and sets. but for her it was a glorious time. She Considering that he’s wanted to distill waxes nostalgically about the rect this play since his college years, day she had 17 gentlemen callers as a the long wait was worth it. Grue truly young debutante. does justice to Williams’ semi-autobioWhile Christensen would do well to graphical script. slow her southern-accented speech for Actually, everybody involved in this clarity, she otherwise plays a wonderproduction, which received a standing fully deluded mother. ovation from the audience, deserves

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Sebastian Kroon as Tom Wingfield, left, and Evan Hall as the Gentleman Caller. praise — including set and lighting designer Patrick Beagan, who helped create an appropriately wonky, dysfunctional atmosphere, sound designer Dustin Clark and costumer Jesslyn Miller. You will help support excellence in local theatre by seeing The Glass Me-

nagerie, or you can simply go because it offers a diverting, electrifying evening’s entertainment. Either way, it’s a worthy investment. The play runs to March 21. (Tickets from ignitiontheatre.ca, Sunworks, or at the door.) lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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From the left, Glorene Ellis playing Rachel, Deb O’Brien as Sadie Flynn, Jim Claggett as Orson, Michael Sutherland as Tom and Andrea Hughes as Bev rehears at the Quality Inn this week. The Central Alberta Theatre production of Sadie Flynn Comes to Big Oak is a CAT dinner theatre production.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF In a sleepy town where nothing ever happens, it’s big news when husbandkiller Sadie Flynn gets off the bus with her suitcases. Norm Foster’s comedy Sadie Flynn Comes to Big Oak is Central Alberta Theatre’s last dinner theatre production of the season. It opens on Thursday at Red Deer’s Quality Inn North Hill. The play is about the stir a newcomer causes when she moves to a small burg after spending six years in prison. Director Erna Soderberg said life in Big Oak is so uneventful that any novelty is appreciated — even the presence of a notorious ex-con. The mindset of male locals seems to

be, sure, Sadie plugged her cheating husband (her defence lawyer argued the gun accidentally went off — twice), but she’s also a looker. “And there’s not much to choose from” in Big Oak, said Soderberg. Cafe owner Tom becomes one of Sadie’s admirers. He feels he can overlook her killer past if she’ll go out with him. Although Tom’s no Casanova, he’s what passes for a ladies man in Big Oak, said Soderberg, with a chuckle. She believes one of the funniest scenes in the play is when the cafe owner instructs his employee, Orson, on how to ask out his longtime crush, Bev. The loud-mouth hairdresser is brash, while Orson is shy and unassuming. Tom tries teaching Orson how to

be “suave with women,” to little avail. “Tom really is no better than Orson is, but he thinks he is,” said Soderberg. Since the director grew up in the farming community of Great Bend, near Delburne, she knows all about tiny places, where everybody knows your business and newcomers ignite curiosity. “I like (Canadian playwright) Norm Foster and I like small towns,” so tackling the script for Sadie Flynn Comes to Big Oak was a natural choice for Soderberg. “It made me laugh out loud when I read it online.” She believes the audience will appreciate the comedy, too — especially when mysterious goings-on start happening in the community after Sadie’s arrival. “There’s a bit of a mystery there,”

said Soderberg, and speculation is further whipped up by town gossip, Rachel. The five-actor cast includes a few newbies to CAT, as well as veterans, including Debra O’Brien as Sadie. Soderberg feels Foster’s play will be relatable, not only to those familiar with life in small communities (she believes “Red Deer is a small town disguised as a bigger city. Everyone knows your stuff here”), but to people looking for significant others. “Everyone wants to have love, marriage or a partnership,” said Soderberg, no matter what their age. The play runs to April 19. Dinner is at 6 p.m., show is at 7:30. Sunday brunch is at 12:30 p.m., show is at 2. Tickets are $65 from the Quality Inn, North Hill. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Acclaimed bands Language Arts, Chic Gamine to play at Fratters Speakeasy next week Two acclaimed Canadian bands are rolling into Red Deer next week to perform at Fratters Speakeasy. The jazzy Language Arts performs at the venue on Wednesday, while the award-winning R&B/soul group Chic Gamine plays on Thursday. Language Arts started out as a musical marriage between Toronto-based Nova Scotia native Kristen Cudmore, (a crack guitarist and singer) and drummer Neil MacIntosh. Keyboardist Joel Visentin and bassist Soren Nissen also signed on to help create the band’s unique pop sound that borrows from jazz and classical music. Language Arts’ second album, Wunderkind, has promoted comparisons to the U.S. singer/songwriter St. Vincent and Canadian artist Grimes for its raw emotion and dizzying array of musical styles. Chic Gamine, from Winnipeg, won a 2009 Juno Award for Roots Album of the Year. The five-musician group has since performed at Ottawa’s Canada Day celebrations, as well as the Vancouver Olympics, and opened for legendary singers Smokey Robinson and Mavis Staples. Harmonies remain the heart of the band, but Chic Gamine’s latest album also explores some interesting instrumental terrain through fluid and melancholy guitar lines, fuzzy bass and electronic textures. For more information about the two shows, call Fratters at 403-356-0033.

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Liam Neeson in a scene from Run All Night: lapses in the story and bad dialogue.

Run All Night just doesn’t know where it’s going Run All Night Two stars (out of four) Rated: 14A Another month, another Liam Neeson action movie. Which is usually not a bad thing, for a great actor whose late-career momentum is entirely deserved. But in the case of Run All Night, he’s barely scraping by the finish line. In this abundantly acted yet underachieving film by Jaume Collet-Serra, who previously directed the redoubtable Irish star in last PETER year’s Non-Stop and 2011’s HOWELL Unknown, Neeson is Jimmy “The Gravedigger” Conlon, a Brooklyn mob hit man with a history of violence. Chronically broke and bottled, Jimmy is indulged by his career partner Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris), a former drug lord who is trying to go straight — or at least a little bit straighter than he used to be. Both men have adult sons, and here the late Paul Newman’s observation from Road to Perdition comes to mind: “Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.” Jimmy’s offspring Mike, an ex-boxer played by Joel Kinnaman, is a family man trying to make ends meet as a chauffeur. He wants nothing to do with his ne’er-do-well dad.

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Shawn’s son Danny, played by Boyd Holbrook, is a mouthy badass who simply wants to pick up where his papa left off in the drug trade. It’s a situation ripe for trouble, and the two families tragically collide. Jimmy and Mike must reluctantly join forces if they’re going to survive a long night of guns. The Maguire family, meanwhile, have a bloody score to settle. This all sounds good, and it sometimes is, especially whenever Neeson and Harris are together on the screen. They’re able to act their way through the inane dialogue of screenwriter Brad Ingelsby (Out of the Furnace), who’s never heard a crime cliché he didn’t love. Collet-Serra has an interesting approach with a camera — he makes New York look both shiny and dirty at the same time — and he’s assembled an A1 cast. The lineup also include Common as a rival hit man, Vincent D’Onofrio as a cop with an agenda (and conscience), and an unbilled Nick Nolte as a Conlon family relation. And hey — isn’t that Oscar-winning J.K. Simmons in the background, as the hockey announcer on TV? Yet these actors are ill-served by a film that doesn’t know which way it’s going. Collet-Serra seems untroubled by storytelling lapses, going in more for a graphic novel approach where the logic leaps from panel to panel. You can almost imagine white rectangles around each frame. He can’t even bother to maintain consistency with the title. For a film called Run All Night, there are an awful lot of detours and dead ends. Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Theatre and music students at Red Deer College are showcasing their talents in two shows next week. Prepare for takeoff when theatre students launch their own original plays — Solo Flight runs Thursday and Friday, March 19 and 20, in Studio A of the RDC Arts Centre. Second-year graduating actors will soar without a safety net in their own short, self-created one-actor plays. Everyone is invited to attend the 7:30 p.m. performances. Admission to Solo Flight, sponsored by the RDC Student Theatre Society, is by donation. Meanwhile, RDC music students get their chance to shine in That’s Entertainment, a melange of classical, jazz, and contemporary music, on Saturday and Sunday, March 21 and 22, at the RDC Arts Centre’s Mainstage. The “anything goes” showcase of the year’s best student musical performances features solos, ensembles “and everything in between.” Admission to the That’s Entertainment shows that run at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday is $21.80 ($17.80 students/seniors) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

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Girl upset over boyfriend posting pics to web Dear Harlan: I have been in a re- cool and interesting. lationship with my boyfriend for five Regardless of why he did it, he years now. I lost my virginity to him needs to understand what this means and I was the third girl he has had sex to you. See if he can respect you and with. your feelings. He might be devastated. For the first four years of our re- Either way, stop sending him photos or lationship, we lived in the same town videos. I’d also ask him to delete anyand were very close. We are currently thing you’ve sent. living over three hours away from each Make sure you put this in writing. other. I have been sending him provoc- Make sure he shows you. Should you ative pictures to keep things break up with this guy and interesting, and he is sendhe decides to violate your ing some back to me. trust again, you may be able Obviously, I trusted him to take legal action (several completely. However, he states have laws against resent one of the pictures of venge porn). Revenge porn me (face not included) to is the act of posting identithis website where people fiable images without the send pictures of themselves consent of the participant. anonymously. Dear Harlan: I’m reI feel very strongly about sponding to your advice resex and sexual things — I garding how to make a relathink they should only haptionship better. pen between someone you You discussed several love. things to do, and gave an exI feel completely beample from your own marHARLAN trayed by him posting a riage. You said: “Be better, COHEN picture of me without my and expect your relationpermission, and I feel disship to continue to get betgusted. I want to stay with ter. And if for any reason him, but I don’t know how this doesn’t work, you can to trust him again. I feel broken, and upgrade and find someone better.” it’s his fault. I need an opinion from If you’re talking about dating relasomeone who is outside of the situa- tionships, this probably is OK, but if tion. — Broken you’re talking about marriage, as you Dear Broken: I can’t imagine the un- were before you said this, it is horrible believable betrayal of trust that you advice. I read you regularly and often must be feeling. don’t agree with your moral standards, To share something so intimate and but this is truly extreme. personal and then having that person Did you really mean that relationviolate your trust is a massive blow. ships, particularly marriage, can be There’s no question that this is wrong. upgraded when they’re not working? I The only question is why he didn’t un- certainly hope not. — Vicki derstand this was such a betrayal. Hi Vicki; If a marriage is abusive, Maybe in his world, viewing graph- harmful or dangerous, a partner ic images is like watching a sporting should absolutely leave and upgrade. event (years of watching porn can do If a partner degrades, disrespects or this). He could be so desensitized that demeans you, you should absolutely sharing graphic images of you might upgrade. be less about violating your trust and I also believe a marriage that isn’t more about sharing something that is working needs work. If both partners

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don’t want to do the work, that’s not going to work. Marriage is intended to be forever, but if a marriage is broken and it can’t be fixed with the help of professional intervention, time and counselling, a person shouldn’t be forced to stay. That’s what I mean by “upgrade.” Dear Harlan: A guy approached me last semester and asked if I’d like to get coffee sometime. Since I wasn’t attracted to him right away, I declined immediately because I told myself I didn’t want to lead him on. I now regret it because he’s in a class of mine this semester and it turns out he’s a pretty great guy. How do I re-initiate hanging out with him after rejecting him so prematurely? — Back Again Dear Back Again: First, I’d like to talk to all the men and women who have expressed their unrequited love. This is exactly what I’ve been talking about. When you invite someone to participate in your life and that person doesn’t accept the invitation, there’s no reason to hate or hide. You just need to give that person permission and time to see what you’ve always known. And this can happen. As for you, the letter writer, let this guy know that you would be interested in getting some coffee if he’s still interested. You can tell him it was the wrong time, but now you’re in the right place and it’s the right time. Dear Harlan; I know I am a really good-looking girl, but I feel like every guy thinks I’m out of his league, and guys don’t talk to me. I’m tired of people telling me that I’m too intimidating to talk to. What should I do? — Too Hot Dear Too Hot: I never had this problem. People could always approach me. Make it easy without being easy. This means making it clear that you’re single, available and interest-

ing but without throwing yourself on someone. Get set up, put yourself online (dating sites or apps), talk to men you find interesting and make it clear you’re interested. When you meet these men, set boundaries, but remove the fear of rejection. I know you don’t want to do any work, but this is why you’re single. Eventually you’ll be in a room with someone who will approach you, but until then, give guys room to be intimidated by you and your best qualities. Dear Harlan: Throughout my life I’ve seen guys who are jerks and are disrespectful to women get girls — not just hooking up, but relationships, too. Why do nice guys finish last? — Nice Guy Dear Nice Guy: Nice guys don’t always finish last — things get better as you get older. The secret is patience. Nice guys who are patient end up being the most sought-after men. Why does it take time? Women think being treated like dirt is no longer cute once they hit their mid-20s. It seems like 25 is the magic number. If you can just remain a nice guy and be patient, you will win. The problem with nice guys is that they get rejected and get bitter. They think women owe them relationships and become jaded. Your problem isn’t that you’re not good enough — you’re too good, too respectful and too kind. Not everyone wants this type of attention because not everyone feels good enough to accept it. And that’s why you need to hold out. In the meantime, invite people into your life and see if you can find a good one who wants to be treated well by a good man. Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

Microsoft outlines plan to bridge Xbox and PC video gaming BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is attempting to break down the walls surrounding console gaming. Phil Spencer, head of the company’s video game division, detailed Microsoft’s plan for game makers to create universal apps that can run on both Xbox One consoles and PCs with Windows 10, as well as smartphones, tablets and other devices running the forthcoming version of Windows. That includes HoloLens, Microsoft’s wearable headset that gives wearers the ability to interact with three-dimensional images.

“Our goal with gaming at Microsoft is to allow people to play games wherever they are,” Spencer told game makers Wednesday at the Game Developers Conference. “We know for developers that it’s critically important for you to reach those gamers wherever they are.” Spencer said the marriage of Xbox One and Windows 10 would allow creators to make their games easily accessible to consumers, regardless of whether they switch between devices or where they buy apps. “We know there are billions of people that play games across all devices,” Spencer said. “Today, the world is segmented. You don’t have linkage really

between the places that your customers are playing your games.” Microsoft Corp. first revealed its plans to bring Xbox and Windows closer together at the Jan. 21 unveiling of HoloLens and Windows 10, when Spencer demonstrated the upcoming Xbox One game “Fable Legends” running on a PC. At the annual gathering of game developers on Wednesday, Spencer demonstrated the cross-play functionality on stage with a pair of players on Xbox One seamlessly facing off against another duo on PC in a match of the competitive multiplayer indie game “IDARB.” Spencer also teased that Microsoft

will release an adapter later this year that will allow PCs to use wireless Xbox One controllers. No price was announced. In a private demo after Spencer’s talk, Xbox director of program management Michael Ybarra showed off other functionality, including the abilities to record and edit game clips in Windows, find Xbox Live friends across multiple platforms and stream the Xbox One title “Sunset Overdrive” on a Microsoft Surface tablet. Ybarra said game streaming will initially only be available on devices connected to the same network, but the company was looking into making it available across the Internet.

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Is the honeymoon over? POPE ENTERS YEAR 3 AMID POPULAR PRAISE AND INTERNAL DISSENT BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis marks his second anniversary Friday riding a wave of popularity that has reinvigorated the Catholic Church in ways not seen since the days of St. John Paul II. He’s also entering a challenging third year, facing dissent from within on everything from financial reform to family issues. Is the honeymoon over? According to the Pew Research Center, not by a long shot, at least as far as ordinary faithful are concerned: Nine out of 10 U.S. Catholics have a favourable view of Francis, including six in 10 who have a “very favourable” view. Those are rankings not seen since John Paul’s rock star days. And they trump the favourability ratings for Pope Benedict XVI even among more orthodox, church-going Catholics. “Two years after his election, Francis has made the face of the papacy irreversible,” Italian Vatican analyst Marco Politi wrote recently. “Returning to a doctrinaire, absolute monarch, icon-pope will never be possible, without a dramatic loss in contact with contemporary society, believers and nonbelievers alike.” Yet opposition abounds, most vocally among commentators but also some cardinals and bishops: Traditionalist Catholics have been joined by more mainstream conservatives who cringe at his mercyover-morals priorities and apparent will-

ingness to entertain pastoral approaches that might not follow Rome’s rulebook. And two years on, he’s still an impossible-to-label pontiff, a social justice-minded Jesuit who firmly upholds church doctrine on abortion, but willingly counsels transgender couples. He calls himself a faithful son of the church but dismisses theologians as obstacles to evangelization. Here are some things to look for in Francis’ third year, one that will take him to Ecuador, Paraguay and Bolivia in July, the United States in September, and a planned visit to the Central African Republic and Uganda at the end of the year. VATICAN REFORM Francis was elected on a mandate to bring order and financial transparency to the Vatican administration after years of mismanagement and scandal. Tangible results have been achieved and more are on the horizon. Francis gave Australian Cardinal George Pell, head of the new Secretariat for the Economy, broad powers to exercise “economic control and vigilance” over all Vatican departments, which have long operated as individual fiefdoms in both operations and budget. Pell took that mandate and ran with it, reportedly seeking to bring management of some Vatican assets — including its vast real estate holdings — under his belt. That dismayed the Vatican old guard and legal office, which expressed concern about checks and balances. By all indications, Francis has clipped his wings somewhat: The statutes of the Secretariat which Francis approved last month make clear that it oversees, but does not manage, Vatican assets. As with any reform plan, there has been

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opposition — from prelates resisting full disclosure and fearful of losing power. Francis didn’t engender much good will (or holiday cheer) with his Christmas dressing down of the Vatican Curia, when he ticked off 15 ailments they suffered, including “spiritual Alzheimer’s.” While no heads are expected to roll, there will be some reshuffling once Francis’ first administrative reforms take shape, with the creation of two new congregations — one for laity, another for justice and charity — that will absorb a half-dozen smaller pontifical councils. ENVIRONMENT Perhaps no unpublished papal document in recent history has generated more controversy, anticipation and anxiety than Francis’ upcoming encyclical on the environment. The first Latin American pope has said global warming is “mostly” manmade, and that he hopes his document will encourage climate change negotiators meeting in Paris later this year to take “courageous” decisions. That has thrilled environmentalists but alarmed religious conservatives, some of whom are global warming deniers and are cringing at the idea that the pope is taking a theological approach to climate change. The Vatican official who helped draft the encyclical, Cardinal Peter Turkson, recently offered what was widely seen as a preview of the encyclical in a speech in Ireland. Turkson acknowledged disagreement over the causes of global warming but said “what is not contested is that our planet is getting warmer” and that Christians have a duty rooted in “ancient biblical teaching” to address the problem. The document is expected in June or July.

All Things Sweet, Spring Tea and Bake Sale at St. Leonard’s Church Hall will be offered on March 14, 9 a.m. to noon. Suggested donation of $4. Phone 403-347-8064.

Sunday Living Faith Lutheran Church invites everyone to Sunday Worship at Bethany CollegeSide at 10 a.m. Contact Ralph at 403-347-9852. Coffee and fellowship follow service. Living Faith is a North American Lutheran Church Congregation.

Monday A missionary of Jews for Jesus will recreate the traditional Jewish Passover service on Monday at First Baptist Church in Red Deer. Tzachi Danor will explain how Jesus’s last supper foreshadowed his death and resurrection in a presentation called Christ in the Passover. The service starts at 7 p.m. Jews for Jesus has presented the service at more than 38,000 churches. It teaches the Jewish background to Christian faith. Danor will answer any questions after the presentation. The church is located at 4310 39th St. For more information, call 403-346-4281 or visit www.firstbaptistrd.ca/ for more information.

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UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Gaetz Memorial United Church “Sharing Faith, Serving Community” 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer 403-347-2244 www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Children’s Programs weekly

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10:30 a.m. Worship Service

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Fourth Sunday in Lent 10:00 am Sunday Worship

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Bahá’í Faith “ These are the days whereon Thou hast bidden all men to observe the fast, that through it they may purify their souls and rid themselves of all attachment to anyone but Thee, and that out of their hearts may ascend that which will be worthy … of the revelation of Thy oneness.” Baha’u’llah Bahá’is in Red Deer and around the world are fasting from sunrise to sunset until Naw-Ruz, the Bahá’i New Year, March 21st. See www.ca.bahai.org 403-343-0091 This Sunday: 9:00am, 11:00am & 6:30pm No Other Name - Healing the Blind Man Sundays at 9:30 am and 11:15 am

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goals, after Maurice Richard. 1946 — Labor-Progressive MP Fred Rose is arrested for conspiracy to transmit wartime secrets to the Soviet Union. He is sentenced to six years in prison for spying. 1923 — Pete Parker, of CKCK Radio Regina, does the world’s first play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional hockey game, as Edmonton beats Regina 1-0. 1916 — Saskatchewan gives women the provincial vote. 1892 — Government appoints Royal Commission to investigate the sale of liquor.

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Olds has been dubbed “Canada’s capital of broadband Internet download speeds” by the Huffington Post. A March 10 posting in the online news aggregator’s Canadian edition noted that the Central Alberta town has the fastest broadband download speed in Canada, based on data compiled by Ookla, a Seattle-based broadband connection testing company. Olds was measured at 106.22 megabits per second (Mbps), or about one gigabit a minute — which was tops out of more than 500 communities included in Ookla’s list. The community with the secondfastest broadband internet download speed was Quispamsis, N.B., which

lagged more than 40 Mbps behind Olds, at 65.78. No other Alberta towns or cities were among the top 10 on Ookla’s list. That list was not available in its entirety, but information on an Ookla website indicated that the download speed in Red Deer was 19.97 Mbps, while Lacombe came in at 18.79, Sylvan Lake at 18.63, Rocky Mountain House at 14.88, Innisfail at 13.93, Stettler at 11.85 and Ponoka at 9.61. The Alberta average was 24.7 Mbps and for Canada it was 27.0. Ookla’s figures are based on speed tests conducted by Internet users, so reflects the average speed of only those using the test. They do not rep-

resent a measurement of all Internet connections. Internet service in Olds has been bolstered in recent years by the development of a fibre-optic network known as O-NET. It’s owned by Olds Fibre Ltd., which in turn is controlled by the Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development. In addition to high-speed Internet, O-NET subscribers receive TV and telephone service. Mitch Thomson, executive director of the Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development, praised the residents and leaders of Olds for backing the fibre-optic venture. “We stand out in Canada having the fastest upload and download speeds because we chose to become competitive in the world marketplace.

“As a result of a decade of learning and perseverance, our volunteers have created a company in O-NET and a fibre network that connects every home and business, future-proofing our community. Robin Harder, O-NET’s director of network operations, said a gigabit-perminute Internet speed might seem excessive. But in households with multiple Internet users, it can be needed, he added. “For example, say all five people in your home want to watch separate ultra-high-definition videos on YouTube. With gigabit service, all five of you can watch to your heart’s content and still have enough bandwidth left over for anything else you can imagine.”

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BRIEF Gamehost sees increase in profits last year Gamehost Inc. (TSX: GH) enjoyed an 11 per cent increase in profits in 2014, thanks to a strong finish to the year. The company, which is based in Red Deer County southwest of Red Deer, earned $23.9 million during the 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2014. That was up from $21.5 million. Its operating revenue for the year was $83.7 million, an eight per cent improvement over the 2013 figure of $77.6 million. Earnings per share were 95 cent, up from 87 cents. In the final quarter of 2014, Gamehost recorded a profit of $7.6 million, a 41 per cent jump over the $5.4 million earned during the same period in 2013. Its fourth quarter revenue was $22 million, up 11 per cent from $19.8 million; and its earnings per basic share were 30 cents, as compared with 22 cents for the same quarter in 2013. Gamehost said in a release that high limit table revenues made the most significant contribution to its strong fourth quarter results. A mild winter was also cited as a factor in the yearover-year improvement during the final three months of 2014. Gamehost’s operations include the Boomtown Casino in Fort McMurray; the Great Northern Casino, Service Plus Inns & Suites hotel and a strip mall in Grande Prairie; and a 91 per cent ownership position in the Deerfoot Inn & Casino Inc. in Calgary.

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Mike Sapara of Spruce Grove shines the chrome on his fathers 1948 Chrysler New Yorker at Westerner Park on Friday. The 9th Annual Red Deer Speed Show and Collector Car Auction got under way Friday and will run through the weekend in the Parkland and Prairie Pavilions. Show hours are today (Saturday) from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are available at the door for $12 for single day admission and $20 for weekend passes.

Unemployment unchanged in Red Deer region BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer region appears to have avoided the brunt of a provincewide wave of job losses last month — at least on the face of the latest Statistics Canada figures. Alberta’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate jumped to 5.3 per cent last month, up from 4.5 per cent in January and 4.4 per cent a year earlier. Unemployment was higher in all of the province’s seven regions, except Red Deer, where it was unchanged from the January figure of 4.9 per cent. The biggest increase in the number of people seeking work was in the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region, where unemployment spiked by 1.4 percentage points from January to February, to 5.1 per cent from 3.7 per cent. The rate in Camrose-Drumheller was 1.3 percentage points higher, going to 5.4 per cent from 4.1 per cent; and Wood Buffalo-

Cold Lake saw a 1.2 percentage point change, to 6.6 per cent from 5.4 per cent. For the Calgary region, there was a 0.5 percentage point increase to 4.9 per cent from 4.4 per cent, with a similar change in the Banff-Jasper-Rocky Mountain House area and the Athabasca-Grande Prairie-Peace River region, which both went to 4.2 per cent from 3.7 per cent. Edmonton’s jobless rate ticked up 0.4 percentage points, to 4.9 per cent from 4.5 per cent. The provincial unemployment rate was its highest level since September 2011, but was still the second lowest among the Canadian provinces, trailing only Saskatchewan’s 5.0 per cent. The national rate was 6.8 per cent, up 0.2 percentage points from January. During the month, Alberta’s labour force increased by 5,700 people, while employment decreased by 14,000 positions. Full-time employment dropped by 6,900 jobs and part-time positions fell by 7,100.

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Todd Hirsch, ATB Financial’s chief economist, said in his daily economic comment on Friday that a swelling of the ranks of Alberta’s unemployed was expected in light of the current low energy prices. “While many employers appeared to be keeping workers as long as they could, by February the cost pressures finally forced some layoffs,” he wrote. “With oil prices remaining low in March, we can anticipate a few more unpleasant job reports in the short term.” Hirsch noted that job losses were particularly acute in the resource extraction sectors, where occupations like engineers, geologists and the like were hit hard. But the retail sector also shed more than 10,000 jobs. Meanwhile, the construction industry enjoyed strong gains, as did the health care and social assistance sectors.

Red Deer’s Darcy Mykytyshyn has been returned to Servus Credit Union’s board of directors for another three-year term. Mykytyshyn, who is Dean of Red Deer College’s Donald School of Business, received 1,543 votes — the most of the eight candidates in the running for four available positions on the credit union board. The other successful candidates were Doug Hastings of Calgary, Iris Evans of Sherwood Park and Ken Cameron of Drayton Valley. Mykytyshyn is seeking the Progressive Conservative Party nomination to run in Red Deer South in the next provincial election. He confirmed on Friday that Servus’s bylaws do not allow an MLA to also serve as A director, so would have to resign if he is elected to the provincial legislature. The other members of Servus’s 2015-16 board are Dianne Brown, Amy Corrigan, Perry Dooley, Jonathon Holt, John Lamb, Simon Neigum, Penny Reeves and Alison Starke. Hastings will continue as chair and John Lamb as vice-chair.

Lots for companies to consider when laying off staff Dear Working Wise: I think I’m going to have to lay off some of my staff due to falling oil prices, but I’m concerned that when business picks up again, I’ll have trouble finding the experienced workers I need. Do I have any other options? — Worried Dear Worried: It’s been said that difficult times require difficult choices. CHARLES However, STRACHEY there are a few things compaWORKING nies can consider to avoid or WISE minimize staff layoffs. You can try increasing efficiency. GO Productivity offers free on-site as-

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sessments, workshops and a self-assessment tool. To learn more, visit goproductivity.ca or call 1-844-245-8278 toll-free. You could ask your staff to brainstorm ideas for saving money or finding new customers for your products/ services. You might discover an exciting new market, learn that your staff are willing to accept salary or benefit concessions, or that senior staff are willing to accept early retirement. Before you make any decisions though, you should give some serious thought to how much money your layoffs are actually going to save. Layoffs can be expensive — costs can include severance pay, banked vacation entitlements and outplacement services. Layoffs can be time-consuming — your management team will be focused on paperwork and training the rest of the staff to tackle the remaining work instead of making your company money.

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Layoffs may only save you money if you don’t have to hire staff back — recruiting and training new employees can cost up to 50 per cent of an employee’s annual salary. For more insight into layoffs, read Thinking About layoffs? What You Need to Know Before Letting People Go on the ALIS website at http://alis. alberta.ca. One promising option for you may be the federal government’s Work-sharing program. Work-sharing helps employers retain their skilled workers and avoid the costly process of recruiting and training new staff when business returns to normal. The program also helps workers maintain their skills and jobs by supplementing their wages with employment insurance benefits on the days they are not working. The program is open to private, publicly-held and not-for-profit organizations, which have been in business for more than two years. Worksharing agreements can be as short as six weeks and as long as 26 weeks. For more information visit www.service-

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canada.gc.ca/eng/work_sharing. If you still believe that you must lay off your staff, please note that employers who intend to lay off 50 or more staff from a single location are required to provide the employment standards minister a minimum of four weeks notice. For more information on the notice of group layoffs requirement, visit http://bit.ly/1ABOiR9. For more information on available assistance for employers considering layoffs, contact a workforce consultant through the employer helpline at 1-800661-3753 or email ABWorkforce@gov. ab.ca. Workforce consultants can help you navigate the various employer services available to help you tackle your labour and workforce challenges. Help for Albertans affected by layoffs is available at http://humanservices.alberta.ca/employees-facing-layoff. Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta Human Services, for general information. He can be contacted at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The energy sector helped pull the Toronto stock market lower amid worries that oil prices will further deteriorate. The S&P/TSX composite index fell 39.22 points to 14,731.50 as the TSX energy sector dropped 0.55 per cent and oil prices declined for a fourth day with the April contract down $2.21 to US$44.84. Oil prices dropped Friday after the International Energy Agency said U.S. oil production was up 115,000 barrels a day in February. The IEA warned that “behind the facade of stability, the rebalancing triggered by the price collapse has yet to run its course, and it might be overly optimistic to expect it to proceed smoothly.” “The stats have been pretty disappointing in terms of the builds in inventory, people are speculating now that the U.S. can’t continue to build inventories because there’s no place to put the inventories,” said John Stephenson, president and CEO of Stephenson & Co. Capital Management. “So I think we’re heading towards the low 40s, maybe even high 30s before this is all said and done.” The drop in oil came as the Canadian dollar fell 0.53 of a U.S. cent to 78.19 cents after falling below the 78-cent level during the morning for the first time since March 2009. The move followed a report by Statistics Canada that the economy shed 1,000 jobs during the month and the national unemployment rate rose 0.2 of a point to 6.8 per cent. New York markets also tumbled as traders also looked to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s meeting on interest rates next week. The Dow Jones industrials dropped 145.91 points to 17,749.31, the Nasdaq was down 21.53 points to 4,871.76 and the S&P 500 index shed

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.56 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.93 First Quantum Minerals . 13.86 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 24.12 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.43 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.97 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.69 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 41.56 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.16 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 17.56 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 21.36 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.25 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 58.87 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.98 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 36.33 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 36.48 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.48 Canyon Services Group. . 6.05 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 21.28 CWC Well Services . . . 0.2850 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 13.78 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.09 12.55 points to 2,053.4. There has been much talk about when the Fed will start to hike interest rates from near zero, where they have been since the 2008 financial collapse. A strong U.S. jobs report a week ago raised speculation the Fed could move earlier than expected to raise rates, perhaps as early as June. But a weak retail sales report Thursday raised doubts about that timetable. Elsewhere on the TSX, the base metals sector retreated one per cent while May copper was unchanged at US$2.66 a pound. The TSX closed well off the worst levels of the session as the gold sector turned positive, rising almost one per cent as April bullion was ahead 50 cents to US$1,152.40 an ounce. The consumer staples sector dropped 0.45 per cent. But shares in convenience store chain Alimentation CoucheTard Inc. (TSX:ATD.B) added 47 cents to $46.99 as the company said its proposed acquisition of The Pantry has passed the required waiting period under U.S. competition law, without changes. The US$1.7-billion deal which will add 1,500 locations in 13 states to Couche-Tard’s North American network is expected to close Monday. The Toronto market fell 221 points or 1.5 per cent this week, pressured by a drop of about 5.5 per cent in the energy sector. Crude prices fell almost 10 per cent this past week. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,731.50, down 39.22 points Dow — 17,749.31, down 145.91 points S&P 500 — 2,053.40, down 12.55 points Nasdaq — 4,871.76, down 21.53 points

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Loonie tumbles over half a cent U.S. on worries about falling oil prices TORONTO — The Canadian dollar hit its lowest point in six years Friday as oil prices continued to fall and the unemployment rate went up in February. The loonie ended the day down 0.53 of a U.S. cent to 78.19 cents after falling below the 78-cent level for the first time since March 2009. Earlier, Statistics Canada reported that the economy shed 1,000 jobs during the month. The unemployment rate also rose by 0.2 of a percentage point to 6.8 per cent as more people looked for work. Oil prices continued to decline for a fourth day with the April contract down $2.21 to US$44.84. Oil prices have

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 83.87 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.18 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.62 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 25.02 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 46.57 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.52 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 1.81 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.005 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.41 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.34 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.83 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.74 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.00 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 53.94 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.00 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.85 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.69 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.55 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.51 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 43.76 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.81 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.46 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.71 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.25 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.69 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.81 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.57

Currencies: Cdn — 78.19 cents US, down 0.53 of a cent Pound — C$1.8855, down 0.49 of a cent Euro — C$1.3401, down 0.88 of a cent Euro — US$1.0478, down 1.41 cents Oil futures: US$44.84 per barrel, down $2.21 (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,152.40 per oz., up 50 cents (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.608 oz., up 13.8 cents $662.55 kg., up $4.44 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’15 $6.20 lower $452.50; May ’15 $4.40 lower $459.30; July ’15 $3.80 lower $455.30; Nov ’15 $2.20 lower $444.90; Jan. ’16 $2.80 lower $446.00; March ’16 $2.80 lower $448.60; May ’16 $2.60 lower $451.30; July ’16 $2.40 lower $454.20; Nov. ’16 $2.20 lower $450.40; Jan. ’17 $2.20 lower $450.40; March ’17 $2.20 lower $450.40. Barley (Western): March ’15 unchanged 182.00; May ’15 unchanged $184.00; July ’15 unchanged $186.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $177.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $177.00; March ’16 unchanged $177.00; May ’16 unchanged $177.00; July ’16 unchanged $177.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $177.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $177.00; March ’17 unchanged $177.00. Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 510,060 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 510,060.

collapsed since mid-summer, falling by more than 50 per cent amid a global glut of oversupply. On Friday, the International Energy Agency said U.S. oil production was actually up by 115,000 barrels a day in February. Until recently, crude futures had traded at about US$50 a barrel level. But the IEA warned that “behind the facade of stability, the rebalancing triggered by the price collapse has yet to run its course, and it might be overly optimistic to expect it to proceed smoothly.” Meanwhile, traders looked ahead to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s meeting on interest rates last week. There has been much talk about when the Fed will start to hike interest rates from near zero, where they have been since the 2008 financial collapse. A strong U.S. jobs report a week ago raised speculation the Fed could raise rates sooner than expected, perhaps as early as June. But a weak retail sales report Thursday raised doubts about that timetable.

Alberta releases new plan for managing oilsands tailings ponds BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta government has released a new plan for managing oilsands tailings ponds that it says will encourage companies to generate less of the toxic waste water and clean it up sooner. Environment Minister Kyle Fawcett says operators will have clear guidelines on how large tailings ponds will be allowed to grow. The rules will be backed up by possible financial penalties, he said. The combination of oversight and enforcement will force companies to keep pushing for a technological breakthrough on tailings cleanup that has so far remained elusive, Fawcett suggested. “Technology unlocked the oilsands,” he said. “It will be key to finding the long-term, effective solutions to tailings ponds management.” About 220 square kilometres of tailings — a toxic mix of water, silt, leftover bitumen and solvents — have long been one of the industry’s toughest environmental challenges. Separating water from the contaminants on a big enough scale remains difficult. Friday’s framework replaces an attempt in 2009 to force industry to clean up the ponds, but operators were unable to meet deadlines. Fawcett said the new regulations won’t meet the same fate. “I sat down with all of the CEOs on minable oilsands companies and looked them eyeball to eyeball and asked them if they are comfortable with this framework. They told me yes.” The allowable size of waste-water ponds will be determined for each project by the Alberta Energy Regulator, although all will be required to have no more than five years of accumulated tailings at the end of a mine’s life. The regulator will also be responsible for developing details on enforcement and penalties.

That’s a huge hole in Friday’s announcement, especially since tailings cleanup is expensive, said Erin Flanagan of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think-tank. “We know companies will choose the lowest-cost form of compliance, whether that’s paying a fee or whether that’s adopting a new form of technology,” she said. “We have to make sure that it’s more expensive to break the rules than it is to comply with the rules, and we have no clarity on whether or not that’s going to be true.” Meanwhile, said Flanagan, industry is operating in a vacuum, since previous tailings pond rules were suspended with Friday’s announcement. Cara Tobin of the Alberta Energy Regulator said the agency has no timeline yet for developing details. “We need to review the (framework) to determine what the implications are and what we need to do to implement the policy,” she said in an email. The government also released new rules for oilsands operators on the use of water from the Athabasca River. The average total allowable amount is to be cut nearly in half. No withdrawals will be allowed during lowflow periods, except for older mines. The government says the guidelines will preserve the river’s ecosystem and still allow for aboriginal water use. The province has previously been harshly criticized for relying too much on computer modelling of river levels and not enough on in-the-field science of what is actually needed for a healthy river. Flanagan said all water withdrawals should be stopped when the river is too low — with no exceptions. The tailings pond and Athabasca River guidelines are part of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan, which is being challenged in court by area First Nations. Fawcett would not comment on what might happen to the plan if the challenge is successful.

Oil price to push down home sales 1.1 per cent in 2015 CANADIAN REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Canadian Real Estate Association is predicting that the impact of declining oil prices on consumer confidence in some provinces will push down Canadian home sales by 1.1 per cent this year, to 475,700 units countrywide. CREA also estimates the national average home price will grow by two per cent to $416,200 this year, a smaller increase than last year, as Alberta’s average home prices slip by an estimated 3.4 per cent this year to $387,600. The association had earlier predicted home sales would be 0.8 per cent above 2014, rising to 485,200 units, but revised its outlook lower to reflect the falling price of oil. Provinces with significant oil production will see lower home sales. Alberta is expected to see sales fall by 19.3 per cent in 2015, Saskatchewan by 11.2 per cent, Manitoba by 2.2 per cent and Newfoundland by one per cent. However, RBC Economist Robert Hogue said the oil price-related turbulence in Western Canada looks like it may subside soon. “It is encouraging to see possible signs that the worst may soon be over

in Calgary and Saskatchewan,” Hogue said in a note. “In particular, we point to the drop in new listings in these markets as a positive development that, if sustained, would suggest to us that panic is not setting in and that activity may be close to reaching a floor.” Canada’s other provinces will continue to see higher sales and relatively stable or higher average sales prices, according to CREA. British Columbia is projected to see the number of home sales increase by 4.9 per cent, Nova Scotia by 3.7 per cent and Quebec and New Brunswick by 2.5 per cent. Ontario is expected to see a 1.9 per cent boost in sales levels from 2014, while Prince Edward Island is projected to see sales activity rise by 1.4 per cent. The B.C. average home price is expected to rise 3.4 per cent this year over 2014 to $587,600 and Ontario’s average price will grow 2.5 per cent to $441,900. Apart from those two provinces and Alberta, prices elsewhere are expected to be within one per cent of last year. TD Economist Diana Petramala said although rock-bottom interest rates will fuel housing demand over the short term, “the impact is likely to fade as 2015 unfolds.”

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On the set of Game of Homes, a new W Network TV series that saves houses from demolition.

Game of Homes One world. Yup, that’s all we have, sadly, until space travel finds another planet to occupy when this world’s natural resources have been thoroughly squeezed. But it needn’t be like this. Together, we can endure. We like to shop local, COLIN & for instance, to JUSTIN help reduce the carbon footprint left by our work. And we always encourage clients to select materials that can be recycled, in some shape or form, further down the line. Anything to help ‘future proof’ and safeguard the environment. And of course we live to ‘repurpose.’ Whenever possible (in private commission or during our TV shows), we adore the magic art of reinvention. We enjoy saving run down furniture and ‘correcting’ dilapidated rooms. It’s our stock in trade, if you will, our joyous raison d’etre. Which is why we’re excited to tell you about Game of Homes, a new W Network TV series that saves houses from demolition. Sounds interesting? Well hey: it gets even better. The houses, themselves, are savable — but the ground upon which they sit is due for redevelopment. Hence the reason they need to be moved. To cut a long story short, the TV show takes four houses that have been jacked off from their foundations, then ‘monster moved’ by flat bed truck and boat to central Vancouver. Where they’re positioned together on ‘the playing field,’ a vacant downtown lot. Exciting! At this point the competition begins. Enter resident judge, Canadian designer Cheryl Torrenueva (TV credits include Rooms That Rock and Restaurant Impossible) and her judging partner Jeremy MacPherson. Presiding over the show is Emmy-nominated Cameron Mathison, who you’ll remember from

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Barbie doll legacy We all come at designing and decorating our homes from different perspectives. For some, it is an opportunity to let our imaginations take flight, and be daring enough to choose colours and furnishings that might not suit everyone, but make our days and nights happy and comfortDEBBIE ing. TRAVIS Others love the attraction of staying true to the architecture and age of the space, and make every effort to keep history alive. Still others decide that a full-on renovation is the only path to creating the home of their dreams. Star designer Nicole Sassaman manages to encompass all of these viewpoints. She has renovated, decorated and furnished more than 100 homes in California, including the Greta Garbo estate, homes in the Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills and Malibu. Her ability to celebrate the historical meaning of a place with fresh ideas, and honour past and present excellence in workmanship are stunningly displayed in her recent project. Sassaman bought the Century City penthouse formerly owned by Ruth and Elliot Handler. The Handlers, founders of Mattel toys, introduced their Barbie Doll at the American International Toy Fair in New York on March 9, 1959. Today

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over a billion dolls have been sold around the world. Barbie has become a cultural icon. Sassaman spent two years renovating the Handler’s property. As one of Barbie’s most enthusiastic young collectors, she has fittingly nicknamed her new home Barbie’s Penthouse. In her book Barbie Penthouse, we are given a tour of the fabulous space resplendent with a classiness and style that honours Ruth Handler’s ideal of Barbie, and all she can and should strive to accomplish. In preparing the book, Sassaman has shown how many talented people it takes to make a dream come true. “It was designed to teach and inspire people about the possibilities in design and construction,” says Nicole. Walls came down, oversized windows and doors were added, space reconfigured to open up the home’s magnificent views, top quality materials and magnificent art and objects fill the rooms. For anyone who is or has been a Barbie fan, this is a coffee table tome that you will love. The living room shown here demonstrates the designer/author’s whimsy. The fireplace surround is illuminated, retro shaggy pillows and poufs and a nubbly carpet are casually inviting, a masterful rendition of Bill Murray by artist Gregory Auerbach, a bespoke photographic image of a topless Barbie by artist Cecile Plaisance, and floor to ceiling glass wine storage represent various ages and styles. A Barbie Doll perched on a clear plastic suitcase in the corner is delighted to be part of the festivities. The guest bathroom glows with ambient light and special treatments such as the niche in the shower that holds a sculpted hand Sassaman brought back from Bali. Glass shower doors make the small space feel roomier. Juxtaposing old and new, the Calacutta wave pattern mosaics along the vanity wall

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The living room in Barbie’s Penthouse is a delightful showcase for retro meets modern. are timeless and classic, while the vanity mirror is also a TV when turned on. The Barbie Penthouse is beyond gorgeous and while we can’t all live in such opulence, there are tips through-

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Anchoring to concrete block Question: How can I anchor metal shelves to a concrete basement block wall? The shelves will hold jars and small items. Answer: It sounds like your shelves aren’t heavy, and that’s why I recommend one-and-ahalf-inch-long metal anchors set into predrilled holes in the blocks, followed by No. 10 screws long enough to STEVE reach almost to MAXWELL the ends of the anchors. Another approach uses a different kind of screws made to thread right into holes drilled in masonry, but you’ll find it easier to get a solid hold in a hollow setting using anchors and screws. Regardless of the fastening hardware, you’ll need to bore holes in your walls. Concrete blocks, like all masonry, requires a special bit made for the job. Masonry bits are available at all hardware stores and have a carbide insert in the tip. Although you could use an ordinary drill to power the bit, something called a hammer drill is best. Many cordless drills have hammer drill capabilities these days. Turn an adjustment ring on the end of the tool to line up with the hammer

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Buying a $500 house in Detroit

THE HOUSE MAY BE OCCUPIED Are you prepared to evict former owners, longtime tenants or even squatters? Loveland Technologies, a mapping company that has surveyed every property in Detroit, estimates that half the properties facing foreclosure are occupied, housing about 100,000 Detroiters. Critics question the morality of buying occupied homes and fear the program may increase Detroit’s homeless population. They say many owners stopped paying taxes because they weren’t getting city services in return. Others say those who failed to pay taxes contributed to Detroit’s troubles. Darin McLeskey, who moved from an engineering career to buy, sell and develop real estate in Detroit, says sometimes “people want out. They can’t afford the home or are tired of the city. Mentally they may have moved on, and sometimes physically they have moved on.” In one case, he made a “cash for keys” deal with a squatter in an uninhabitable home: “I gave him $300, he signed a document. It was cheaper, easier and more amicable than an eviction.” THE MOST EXPENSIVE $500 YOU’LL EVER SPEND Demolishing dilapidated properties and building from the ground up can be cheaper than rehabbing. But some buyers choose renovation to save historic architectural details found in much of Detroit’s early 20th century housing stock: turrets, gingerbread trim, pillars and antique woodwork amid broken windows and sagging rooftops.

ABSENTEE LANDLORDS NOT WELCOME If you buy a home through the Detroit Land Bank, you have six months to bring it up to code — nine months for historic properties. The policy discourages speculators from buying and leaving property unattended. Duong got a call before one of his projects was complete, but he said “if you are a legitimate landowner, they are easy to work with. They want people to either renovate or sell to someone else who can do it. That goes a long way to removing blight.” Looting and vandalism are also major problems. Homes under renovation risk having fixtures ripped out and tools stolen if the property is not lived in and secured. McLeskey moved tools into a townhouse and returned the next morning to find the door knocked down with a battering ram. It helps to buy in populated areas. The more neighbours you have, the more secure it is. Combatting blight also means maintaining vacant lots. McLeskey mows nearly all of his 40 vacant lots in the summer.

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This December photo shows an abandoned house in Detroit, one of thousands of dilapidated buildings in the city. Many abandoned homes and vacant lots are being foreclosed upon this spring and thousands of them will eventually be auctioned for $500 apiece.

CITY SERVICES HAVE IMPROVED, BUT... Garbage pickup, snow removal, water service, and police and fire department responses have improved in the last 18 months, but may still be less reliable than what you’d expect elsewhere. FORECLOSURE SALES ARE CONTROVERSIAL Are you willing to wade into controversy? Supporters say foreclosure sales help the city recover by forcing homeowners to pay up or move on. Auction buyers then decide what’s salvageable. Detroit sprawls over 140 square miles, and officials would like to concentrate the population of 690,000 (down from 1.85 million in 1950) into a sustainable area by demolishing abandoned buildings in far-flung neighbourhoods.

StatsCan says household debt ratio hits new high BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The ratio of household debt to disposable income hit a new high in the fourth quarter, as rock-bottom interest rates continued to lure more Canadians into the real estate market. Statistics Canada said Thursday leverage, as measured by household credit market debt to disposable income, reached 163.3 per cent in the quarter. That means households owed about $1.63 in consumer credit, mortgage, and non-mortgage loans for every dollar of disposable income. “Some of this is just the natural byproduct of a prolonged period of exceptionally low interest rates,” said Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter, noting that long-term interest rates have been hovering near historic lows for some time. That has made borrowing money — both via mortgages and other types of loans — more attractive for Canadians. “What we’ve had is a number of younger people trading in rent payments for mortgage payments,” Porter said. “That’s one of the factors that’s driven up debt over time.” The Bank of Canada’s move to chop its overnight interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point in January is likely to add more fuel to the fire in the coming quarters, Porter said, as homebuyers take advantage of reduced mortgage rates. The highly leveraged Canadian consumer has become a point of concern for policy-makers and analysts. The Bank of Canada said in January, while announcing its rate cut, that high household debt levels and the overheated real estate market leave Canadians vulnerable to economic shocks such as rising interest rates. And in a commentary posted online Monday, the International Monetary Fund noted that Canada’s debt to disposable income ratio is one of the highest among countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. However, economists say the picture is not as bleak as it looks. Although debt levels have been steadily rising, financial assets have risen too, as stock markets have rebounded and Canadians have been putting more away in their savings accounts. “The debt-to-income measure is not our preferred metric for examining the financial position of Canadian households, most notably as it accounts for only one side of household balance sheets,” RBC economist Laura Cooper said in a note. Economists say the debt-to-income measure fails to take into account the growth in household net worth, which rose 0.9 per cent in the fourth quarter. On a per capita basis, household net worth was $233,000 in the fourth quarter. That represents the slowest rate of growth in six quarters, but was faster than the rate at which debt grew. Porter said low interest rates, which have made it more affordable for Canadians to borrow, have also lifted the value of home prices and stocks, contributing to asset growth.

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DETROIT — Sixty-two thousand properties have faced foreclosure in Detroit this year over unpaid taxes. About half will likely be auctioned for $500 apiece this fall. Buying homes or vacant lots for $500 might sound inviting, even in a city as troubled as Detroit. After all, look at New York: Decades of crime and decay gave way to a real estate boom that has gentrified even outlying working-class neighbourhoods. Properties that sold for thousands in the bad old days are now worth millions. But there are no guarantees. “The opportunities are there but there are huge challenges,” said Dang Duong, a law and business student at the University of Michigan who has bought and renovated several dilapidated homes in Detroit. “If you’re under the impression you can buy a property for $500 and wait a few years until Detroit has recovered, that’s going to be difficult.” Here are five things to consider before buying property in Detroit.

Duong bought a house in Detroit for $1,100 and spent $100,000 on roofing, wiring, plumbing, appliances, drywall, flooring, and new bathrooms and kitchens. He speaks reverently of preserving the 100-year-old maple floors, and wanted a quality renovation to attract good tenants. It’s located in a privately patrolled neighbourhood near a hospital, so he sees it as a good investment. But beware of hidden costs and scams. Properties may come with liens, water bills and back taxes totalling thousands of dollars, in addition to renovation costs. It’s also not unusual to hear of homes sold to buyers in other states and countries, with purchase prices rising with every flip.

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Poly tunnels can boost yields for your home garden BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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In this photo, these low poly tunnels at the Good Cheer Food Bank & Thrift Store vegetable garden near Langley, Wash., are recommended for cold season crops like greens and certain herbs. this option is that the industry is starting to make small kits that can withstand high wind conditions, and there are some homemade options available,” Rivard said. “They also would make great cold frames or greenhouses for growing transplants in the spring,” he said. Keep in mind that the smaller the tunnel, the less thermal mass it contains, Rivard said. That means it will heat up and cool down more rapidly.

“So if they are building very small tunnels, they are going to need to be able to ventilate them really well in the summer using tall sidewalls and well-ventilated end walls,” he said. “Similarly, during the wintertime, a small tunnel will cool off very quickly.” Hoop houses vary in type and size, but sidewalls often are 4 to 6 feet high topped by rounded rooflines. The hoops are spaced more closely together for strength in areas that get heavy snow.

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ACHTYMICHUK Donna Marie Feb. 23, 1960 - Mar. 10, 2014 Donna lived life on her own terms, and seemed unstoppable to the very end. Along the way, she earned the caring, generous and loyal friendships of some very special people, who are appreciated. She had the unwavering love of her mother Alyce. Her sisters Patricia, Doreen and Annette, her brother Tom, and her nieces and nephews, all will miss her greatly. So too will her loved companion Peanut. We have all seen her gifts for connecting with people immediately, and for bringing her dry, quick wit to whatever life brings. And towards the end, we cannot thank enough the remarkable staff at Lacombe Hospital for their care and compassion. A private funeral service will take place. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the SPCA. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

DUMONT Deloris Dumont, our dearest mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, aunt and friend passed away March 3, 2015. She will be forever missed and forever loved. delorismemorial@gmail.com

MCKERNAN Gerald 1937 - 2015 Mr. Gerald Thomas ‘Tommy’ McKernan of Red Deer, passed away peacefully at his home, on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, at the age of 77 years. Tommy will be lovingly remembered by his siblings; Arthur of California, Leo of Edmonton, Austin of Kelowna, Shirley LeClear of Edmonton, Sheila Murphy of Victoria and Charles Brian of Kelowna. Tommy was predeceased by his parents, Francis and Kathryn; siblings; James, Jean, Theresa and a twin sister, Geraldine. A Committal Service will be held at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Edmonton, Alberta at a later date. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Sonya Henderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040 or 1.800.481.7421.

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MISLAN Dawna Dawna Mislan passed away peacefully in the embrace of her children, grandchildren and family on Saturday, March 7, 2015 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital. Dawna will be missed by her son, Ryan Mislan of Calgary; her daughter Briana Mislan (Joe D’Arcey) and their children, Bristol and Arlington of Revelstoke, BC as well as by her extended family. She was predeceased by her soulmate, Bud Kaughman in 2012. Dawna was born in Calgary where she grew into a passionate and motivated woman. She graduated as an RN in 1974 from Misericordia Hospital in Edmonton. Dawna pursued nursing and quickly evolved her career to focus on Occupational Health and Safety. She worked tirelessly on the development of health, safety, education and environmental programs. Dawna was incredibly dedicated to her work and over the years her devotion was recognized with many awards and citations. Dawna said that her vocation provided the opportunity to make a difference by using her education, experience; skills and abilities to contribute to the community. In 1986 Dawna and Bud moved to Red Deer, where they immediately began working to make their dreams a reality. They built a home in the country, raised horses, traveled and experienced every moment they could in the mountains. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5508 - 48A Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta. The family wish to extend their deepest gratitude to the nurses and staff Unit 32, for their excellent care and attention. In Dawna’s memory a tree will be planted in the mountains that she and Bud loved so much. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Dawna’s honor may be made directly to the Canadian Red Cross, the Salvation Army or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com. Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319.

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MURPHY VELJI E. Frank Karim Velji passed away on CARL BETTENSON E. Frank Murphy passed March 11, 2015 at his home is 90 Years Young! away in Red Deer on the 9th in Red Deer. He was 66 day of March, 2015, at the years old, and although his Please join us to help Carl age of 95. Frank was born in passing was expected, it celebrate this Milestone Hanna, Alberta, the second came too soon and suddenly, Birthday, Sunday March 15, HAPPY 60th ANNIVERSARY son of Edward and Ruby and we are profoundly from 1:30 - 4:00 at GARY and GRACE Murphy, and attended public saddened by our loss. Karim Symphony Senior Living SOUTHWOOD! and high school in Hanna. was a loving father, Aspen Ridge, He served in the Navy during grandfather, friend, journey 3100 22 St. Red Deer. the War and received his man mechanic and handy No Gifts Please discharge while stationed in man who touched the hearts Halifax. He then attended the of everyone that had the University of Alberta, Faculty pleasure of knowing him. DR. KINASH RETIRING of Law, and upon graduation, Karim was born in Tanzania Card Of Thanks After over 32 years came to Red Deer to article and moved to Canada in practicing medicine in WILSON, BRUCE P. to the late Justice W.J.C. 1975, eventually settling in Lacombe, Alberta; Kirby. Frank never had a Red Deer in 1982. He quickly THANK YOU Dr. Barbara Kinash will be desire to live any place other became an integral part of Thank you my many friends retiring, June 15, 2015. than Red Deer, and was a the local Ismaili community and Bruce’s colleagues for all A new physician has been member of the Law Society and his volunteer work the wonderful kindness recruited to take over care of Alberta for 50 years. He toward the operations and expressed at the time of my of her patients and records. was appointed a Queen’s management of the husband and friend Bruce Counsel in 1962, and his law community center was, in our Wilson’s death; for all the career included a lengthy eyes, the epitome of selfless care, cards and flowers that term as a Bencher of the Law commitment to the you sent to me and my family. Society of Alberta, provincial betterment of others. Equally, A very special thank you to Funeral Directors Court Judge, Chairman for his loyalty and commitment Steve and Terry who took all & Services several years of the Review to hard work set him apart as the load and made this time Panel at Alberta Hospital a valued and respected so much easier; to all their Ponoka, and an Independent employee during his long staff for their hard work and Chairman at the Bowden employment with Truck attention to every detail. Institution. He was a devoted Town, Carnival Cinemas and Your kindness will and active member of the Park Plaza. He is survived by never be forgotten. community, and over a long his loving wife, Shabnam, Mary Lou Wilson period of time served as son Faisal (Jamie), daughter President of the Kinsmen Neelufaur (aka Neela) and Club, the Rotary Club, the grandson Zane. He is also Chamber of Commerce, and survived by three brothers two terms as chairman of the and many nieces and Red Deer General Hospital nephews. Although Karim is Board. He was also a Past- at peace, he has left a major President of the Red Deer void in all our hearts, and all In Memoriam Golf and Country Club. Frank who knew him will miss him was predeceased by his dearly. If desired, donations loving wife, Nonie, and his in his honor may be made to daughter, Jean. He will be the Aga Khan Foundation fondly remembered by his Canada www.akfc.ca or the sons; John and Jim (Laura), Red Deer Cancer Society. three grandchildren; Patti (Curt), Kelly and Jonathan (Amber), and three greatgrandchildren; Eli, Kai and Faris. At Frank’s request, In Memoriam there will be no public funeral service. In lieu of flowers, BIRK SPROXTON anyone wishing to make a MARCH 14, 2007 donation in Frank’s memory Over 2,000,000 may do so by sending same “...Writing is a physical act, hours to the Red Deer Hospice like swimming, and Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, you can do it well or badly. St. John Ambulance Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6. Well is more fun.” volunteers provide Condolences may be (Birk Sproxton) forwarded to the family by visiting BRIAN WAYNE MAJESKI Canadians with more www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. Eternally missed and loved, Aug. 14, 1963 - Mar. 14, 2001 than 2 million hours Arrangements entrusted to Lorraine, children and A special smile, A special face EVENTIDE FUNERAL grandchildren. And in our hearts a special place of community service CHAPEL No words we speak can ever say each year. 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. How much we miss you Phone (403) 347-2222 everyday Lovingly remembered, Your Family

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IN LOVING MEMORY OF ALF AHRENS - 1947 - 2007 LOU AHRENS - 1935 - 2012 Just a thought of sweet remembrance Just a memory sad and true Just the love and sweet devotion Of those who think of you.

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The years may wipe out many things But this they wipe out never The memory of those happy days When we were all together. ~Always loved and sadly missed Lois, Ashley, Beth, Val and family.

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Coming Events

Hard of hearing? Sign up for “Hear Better in Noise” classes. Eight lessons Saturday afternoons. 8 spaces. $210. Pre-register: (403) 356-1598 or desiree@hearinreddeer.ca

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OTIS KEY CHAIN found near the Safety City walking path. Was dropped of at Deer Park Co-op Customer Service to claim. Start your career! See Help Wanted

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Companions

58 YR. old farmer in Sylvan Lake area seeks honest, sincere, romantic, healthy slim lady 47-67 to come live on the farm with him for a lifetime commitment of love. Enclose photo and phone no. to Box 1103, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

EXP’D. DERRICK HAND or DRILLER Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for. Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: payroll@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

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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

Restaurant/ Hotel

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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons 15 vacancies at each location for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS for 3 locations $10.88/hr. + benefits. F/T & P/T positions. Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights, evenings. Start date as soon as possible. No experience or education req’d. Job description avail. at www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer, 6017 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. Fax: 403-782-9685 or Call 403-848-2356

Medical

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F/T & P/T Pharmacist positions req’d. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer

Oilfield

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LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets. Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

Newcart Contracting (1993) Ltd. is looking for a

Certified Safety Trainer

Must have valid H2S, First Aid/CPR, Confined Space Entry /Monitor, WHIMIS, and Fall Protection certification. Safety Contractors will also be considered for this position. Fax, Resume, tickets and current drivers abstract to (403) 729-2396 or E-mail to: resumes@ newcartcontracting.com No phone inquiries please

Restaurant/ Hotel

CENTRAL AB based Math and Science for trucking company requires the Trades Program CONTRACT Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

TAP HOUSE NORTH

(formerly Sam’s Cafe) is now taking applications for Full Time/Part time COOK, Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer between 2-4 pm.

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Women in the Trades Program

SHOP HELP AND/OR APPRENTICE MECHANIC REQ’D IMMED. Truck exp. preferred. 8:30-5. 15 mi. E. of Blackfalds. Fax: 403-784-2330 Phone: 403-784-3811

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GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

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“Manufactured Home Specialists” Red Deer, Alberta

SALES ASSOCIATE

– Required to Sell Manufactured Homes in Red Deer, Alberta We are looking for an energetic individual who is passionate about providing outstanding customer service, has a high level of organizational skills and excels when working in a goal oriented environment to sell Manufactured Homes. You will support customers through the sales process - from greeting them, reviewing specifications, choosing floor plans, selecting options, coordinating delivery and set ups with customers, construction and delivery teams in order to select a manufactured home that is perfect for them. Skills Required: • Strong Sales Background • Basic Computer Skills • Strong Organizational and Time Management Skills • Strong Ability to Interact with People and Co Workers • Self Starter • Strong Ability to Communicate If you are looking for a lucrative career in manufactured home sales, please send your cover letter and resume to craig@craigshomesales.com or fax to 1 403 380 2298. 2298 Regretfully, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. 525654C13,14

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time. 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

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1699960AbLtd is looking ACADEMIC Express for 2 F/T permanent shift ADULT EDUCATION supervisors for days, AND TRAINING evenings, wknds. 120 - 47 Clearview Market Red WAREHOUSE SPRING START Deer, AB. must have exc. Shipper/ Receiver customer service, cash Competitive starting wages handling, and supervisory • GED Preparation plus regular increases. related. wage $13.75 w/at least 1 year exp. email: • Women in the Trades Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Excellent benefits restuarantbusiness@ Program package. Opportunities hotmail.ca to advance. Must be • Math and Science for dependable, hardworking CELEBRATIONS the Trades Program and seeking a long-term HAPPEN EVERY DAY career. Apply in person, Gov’t of Alberta Funding IN CLASSIFIEDS or email to: may be available. hartleytj@eecol.com DISPATCHER REQ’D. 4747 - 61st Street 403-340-1930 Knowledge of Red Deer www.academicexpress.ca Tired of Standing? and area is essential. Find something to sit on Verbal and written Something for Everyone in Classifieds communication skills are Everyday in Classifieds req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 Central Alberta’s Largest Looking for a place to live? Car Lot in Classifieds Take a tour through the Looking for a new pet? CLASSIFIEDS Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet. Celebrate your life You can sell your guitar with a Classified for a song... ANNOUNCEMENT or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you! Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Seasonal work available at garden centre

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

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CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

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PRODUCTION ASSISTANT (SUMMER STUDENT) Strathmore

carbon dioxide for the energy industry. www.ferus.ca The term of this position will be from May 2015 to August 2015.

The term of this position will be from May 2015 to August 2015.

Ferus is looking for a Summer Student to work with will be handling duties that are more labour intensive such as grounds maintenance, office organization, and inventory organization.

Ferus has an immediate opening for a Plant Assistant at our Strathmore liquid nitrogen production facility. All duties will be performed in a safe, environmentally friendly & cost effective manner.

Uncle Ben’s is now hiring for a full time Sales Position. Experience is preferred but not required. Bene½ts & bonus program offered.

You will be require to perform grounds maintenance such as sweep/mop office & shop floors, cut grass, clean up debris around yard site, paint, clean trucks and wash equipment.

If you are a career minded person who wants to thrive in an exciting industry, then please leave your resume to the attention of Sales Manager at Reception Desk or: E-mail: bcummerford@unclebensrv.com Fax: 403-346-1055

Requirements: • Currently enrolled in a two year Diploma program or working towards a Degree. • Ability to understand and follow detailed instructions • Valid Class Five Driver License • Ability to work in a team setting • Knowledge of trucking industry would be considered an asset

Duties • Assist in general maintenance work as required • Wash Equipment • Work independently and as part of a team • General Plant and Yard Maintenance • Ensure correct environmental and safety practices are adhered to and upheld at Ferus facilities

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• Strong communication skills • Experience in operating and maintaining various heavy equipment such as a grader, dozer, backhoe, excavator, and mower would be considered assets. If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, please email your resume by April 15th, 2015 to recruiting@ferus.com or fax 1-888-879-6125 Please reference: Ad #BLCK – 0215 - SSYA

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT (SUMMER STUDENT) Joffre Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry. www.ferus.com

Duties • Assist in general maintenance work as required • Wash Equipment • Work independently and as part of a team • General Plant and Yard Maintenance • Ensure correct environmental and safety practices are adhered to and upheld at Ferus facilities Requirements: • Currently enrolled in a two year Diploma program or working towards a Degree. • Ability to understand and follow detailed instructions • Valid Class Five Driver License • Clean Drivers Abstract • Own transportation • Ability to work in a team setting • Strong communication skills

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Advocate Opportunities

(full time, part time, evenings & weekends) Positions available: • Greenhouse • Outdoor Plants • Garden Shop • Service Must have the following qualifications: • Self starter • Enjoys the outdoors • Energetic • Communicates well with people Some heavy lifting could be involved Please send resumes to: Parkland Nurseries & Garden Centre Ltd. Attention: Laura Fax: (403) 341-5459 E-mail: resumes@parklandgc.ca RR# 2 LCD 1, Red Deer, AB T4N 5E2

We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, Please visit www.ferus.com/careers or fax your resume to 1-888-879-6125 by April 24th, 2015 Please reference: Ad #STR – 0215 - SSPA We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted. 517733C4-19

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Accounting

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

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12 YRS. OIL and gas exp. developing health, safety and environmental (ISO 14001) management systems, including COR audit prep. and corrective action plans. (403)318-3308 or joanne@mckainms.ca

Contractors

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If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment,

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

Please visit www.ferus.com/careers or fax your resume to 1-888-879-6125 by April 24th, 2015

We’ll do it all...Free est. Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197

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COUNTERTOPS & kitchen renovations. Wes 403-302-1648

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We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

Requirements: • Currently enrolled in a two year Diploma program or working towards a Degree. • Ability to understand and follow detailed instructions • Valid Class Five Driver License • Clean Drivers Abstract • Own transportation • Ability to work in a team setting

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Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry. www.ferus.com

Ferus has an immediate opening for a Plant Assistant at our Joffre liquid nitrogen production facility. All duties will be performed in a safe, environmentally friendly & cost effective manner.

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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Blackfalds Base

SALES POSITION

Hampton Inn & Suites 128 Leva Ave. Red Deer AB, CA T4E 1B9 Housekeeping Supervisor $20.00/hour Full Time: M-F 7am to 5pm * Supervise team of cleaners and janitors * Inspect sites to ensure safety and cleanliness * Arrange for services required such as painting, renovations or replacement of furnishings * Hire and train cleaning staff * Prepare work schedule , budget, estimate costs and keep financial records Apply in person 8am-4 pm POSITION FILLED

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Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid

Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave.

FULL and part-time F/T dishwasher, cooks and bus persons needed for varying shifts, including weekends. Exc. wages and benefits. Call 403-346-5448 for appointment.

DRIVERS

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

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SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you! P/T F. caregiver wanted for F. quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle. 403-505-7846

LUCKY’S LOUNGE • located in Jackpot Casino, requires Full Time Waitress’s. Please apply in • person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

Sales & Distributors

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

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Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

for busy dealership req’d. Send resume to Box 1104, c/o Red Deer Advocate, WANTED: Male companion 2950 Bremner Ave., Red to do things: ie: walks, Deer, AB T4R 1M9 movies, short day trips, dinner, etc. Age 50 -66. HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity. Reply: P.O. Box 21019 Training provided. Flexible RPO Bower Place hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Red Deer, AB T4R 2M1 Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email resumes to Dave Personals @homesreddeer.com

Caregivers/ Aides

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking

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Contractors

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DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Escorts

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KAYLA 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

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ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, roof snow removal? Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Massage Therapy

Painters/ Decorators

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MASSAGE ABOVE ALL JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. WALK-INS WELCOME Free Est. 403-872-8888 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 LAUREL TRUDGEON Classifieds...costs so little Residential Painting and Saves you so much! Colour Consultations. 403-342-7801. VII MASSAGE

#7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk of the town.

Misc. Services

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree removal. 403-358-1614 SNOW shoveling/dump runs/ odd jobs 403-885-5333

Moving & Elite Retreat, Finest Storage

in VIP Treatment. DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your 10 - 2am Private back entry 403-341-4445 reno needs. 403-506-4301

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MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. 403-896-4869

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Window Cleaning

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Robust Window Cleaning outside/inside or both. Free quotes. 403-506-4822 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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OILFIELD TICKETS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

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Houses/ Duplexes

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4 BDRM. 2 1/2 bath, 5 appls, garage $1695 mo. 403-782-7156 or 357-7465 278950A5

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R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

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Houses/ Duplexes

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HALF DUPLEX, front/back split, 2 bdrm. 2 car garage, gas incl. $1150/mo., 403-886-5342 357-7817

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FOR LEASE, Executive style 1/2 duplex in Lacombe on large lot. 4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. garage, no pets, N/S. 403-588-2740 INNISFAIL older 3 bdrm. house, lrg. lot. $975/mo. 403-886-5342 or 357-7817

WEST PARK

Just completely reno’d. 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1400 mo. $1000. d.d. Avail. now or Apr. 1. 403-304-5337 Start your career! See Help Wanted

Advocate Opportunities

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EquipmentHeavy

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, ofÀce, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

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AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Household Furnishings

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LOUNGE sofa, $30; 6 drawer dresser, $40; 4 drawer dresser, $30, all good con., del. avail. 403-346-0674 SOFA STYLE hide-a-bed, Like New. $125.; 2 table lamp sets, colored glass stems and metal base, $10. set; 403-346-2192

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

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2 - 10” thump subwoofers in box $25.00 call 403-728-3485 STEREO player LP & cassette, older style, with 2 large quality speakers, $30. 403-346-2192

Misc. for Sale

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FREE bumper stickers, which say, “Don’t blame me! I voted Wildrose!” e-mail: donmacintyre@gmail.com or twitter@wildrose_don LAMPS, (2) electric, 25 yrs. $20. for both; over 100 LP records, all for $100.; Misc. collection of matches, $5. 403-885-5020 MAUI JIM SUNGLASSES Model PC HCL Makaha Tortoise c/w carrying case, brand new $100 403-352-8811 RHINSTONE necklace and earrings, exc. cond, from the 1950’s, $85; approx. 30 peacock feathers for home decorations or for Áy Àsh hooks $1/ea. large fruit bowl, grape design, $5. 403-346-2231 VACUUM, wet/dry Stinger, new in box, 2.5 gal. $25; (2) new plastic saw horses, $20. pr.; 2 new swivel padded, moving dollies, 30”x18”, $35; dble. stainless steel sink, $15; pr. of (NEW in box) Steel toed, lined work boots, sz. 11/12, $30.; 1 pr. new winter, side zip, boots, sz. 11/12, $20; 403-358-5568

Office Supplies

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FILING CABINET, 2 drawer metal $10. 403-885-5020

Cats

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Advice not meant to create more problems Dear Annie: I love your column, but compromise, that would obviously be disagree with the advice you gave to best. Otherwise, instead of stewing “Frustrated Husband,” whose wife vis- over it, he might use the time to take its with her irritating exhis own little vacation. college roommate. Dear Annie: About four You suggested he visit years ago, you printed a wonfamily and friends elsederful letter from Norbert where in order to avoid Tackman. I put it on my fridge the woman. because my husband had died The husband’s feelings the year before. It gives me should take priority over strength when I think of him. the ex-roommate. The Would you reprint it? — Memwife and the annoying exphis, Tenn. roommate should be the Dear Memphis: With pleaones to go elsewhere. — sure. Here it is: J.J. Dear Annie: My wife died Dear J.J.: This type 11 years ago, after 49 wonderMITCHELL of reaction happens offul years together. I am now & SUGAR ten enough that we think 81, and many of my friends your letter is a good time are losing their spouses. to address it: Readers exRecently, a friend’s huspect us to somehow issue band died, and I felt the need commands to a third party who hasn’t to help her. So I wrote the following asked for any help. letter. The husband wrote, not the wife. If you think it might help others, She has no problem with her ex-room- please print it. — Norbert Tackman mate. While we agree that it is unfair Dear Norbert: We think you have put to the husband to make the adjust- some wise thoughts down on paper, ment, advising him to pressure his wife and we know they will bring comfort to into going elsewhere might cause a dif- many. Thank you. ferent, more serious problem. A Time To Grieve If they can talk it out and reach a What could have been is gone. What

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was is still in your memories. You’ll always think there must have been more you could have done, more times you could have said “I love you.” Times you think, “Why didn’t I hold him more? Why didn’t I do this or that?” You did all those things. You just need to remember them. Remember the times when you held hands as you walked, when you held one another and kissed, when you shared a sunset or a walk through a garden. Remember that great vacation you had together. Remember when you made love and shared that special time. Remember how your love never dimmed but got stronger over the years. Remember when you first met and fell in love. Then go through your life remembering the special moments, one after another. When you had children. When you laughed or cried. That trip to get away. Visiting friends. A party. Going to church. When you redecorated the house. Little things only you and he shared. Push out of your mind the memories that make you sad, and replace them immediately with good memories. Something that makes you smile. In the weeks after his passing, the

put your talents to good use. Sport, hobbies, creative pursuits and DIY projects are all favoured. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorns are keen to power ahead with a community venture or professional project but make sure you think things through carefully before you proceed, as some tweaking is required. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your goals and aspirations may seem far away, as Saturn slows things down. Don’t brood about the past though. Look to the future with passion, purpose — and plenty of patience. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): With Saturn in your job zone, the main way you’ll make professional progress is through heaps of hard work. This weekend, intuition gives you the winning edge with family and friends.

Saturday March 14 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Michael Caine 82; Billy Crystal 67; Megan Follows 47 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars encourage energy, enthusiasm and creativity. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Do all you can to turn a dream or creative idea into concrete reality. Your motto for 2015 is from birthday great Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t underestimate the power of the personal touch at work, or within your local community. If you nurture relationships and keep the lines of communication open — then JOANNE your options will expand. MADELEINE Sunday, March 15 TAURUS (April 20-May MOORE’ CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS 20): Do you have a problem DATE: Eva Longoria 40; David that’s bothering you Bulls? Cronenberg 72; Judd Hirsch 80 Listen to the wise words of a THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Totrusted friend — or tune into what your intuition is telling you. It will point day’s stars are intense and unpredictable so pace yourself. you in the right direction. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Happy birthday PiGEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re keen to nurture old friendships — and attract excit- sces. In 2015, May and June are the prime ing new acquaintances into your peer group. months to join an online dating site, fall in Look for people who support and encourage love, propose, get married or renew your wedding vows. your goals and dreams for the future. ARIES (March 21-April 19): This week CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you act on your hunches, then you may be able to help sees Rams pulled in opposing directions. The a friend or family member who’s in a spot of Uranus/Pluto square activates your selfish trouble. Some Cancerian compassion and side and accentuates your “take-no-prisoners” approach, and you’ll feel compelled to guidance may be just what they need. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The more fun you remove the dead wood from your life (in the put into relationships, the better the weekend form of a person, possession, job or outdated will be. Look at extra ways you can add more belief). Then the late week Solar Eclipse enzip to your life, whether through a challenging ergizes your spiritual and humanitarian zone, as you reach out to someone in need (with new hobby or an exciting future trip. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This weekend unusual sensitivity). TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Bulls — are the focus is on family and friends, as you find ways to be extra helpful. You’ve got a lot on you bored to bits? This week’s stars urge you your plate ATM but you don’t necessarily to stretch yourself in dynamic new directions. Keep what’s working in your life but don’t need to work harder — just smarter. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s all about be afraid to discard people, possessions or love this weekend, as Venus and Mars make projects that have passed their used-by date. beautiful music in your partnership zone. Sin- And don’t underestimate the importance of gle Librans — be innovative! Love is waiting networking. Venus vamps into your sign (until April 12) which boosts sociability, as you where you least expect it. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re ob- expand your peer group or extend your social sessed about getting something done, as media influence. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): With the Solar your defences go up and your patience goes down. Try to be more objective this weekend, Eclipse (plus Mercury and Neptune) stirring especially when it comes to a financial matter. up your life-direction zone, are you feeling SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): En- confused about the future? ergy, enthusiasm and creativity are all firing this weekend Sagittarius, so make sure you Please see HOROSCOPE on Page D10

relatives go on with their lives, your friends don’t call as often, and you’re left alone. This is the time to be more involved with your favorite organizations, your church, your friends. In other words, keep busy. Be with other people. Push yourself to do things, no matter how small. Don’t feel sorry for yourself -- you have much to offer to others, and your fellowship will give back twice as much to you. There is nothing wrong with crying. It’s part of the loss. It’s part of the grief. Accept the aching need to have him back, the need to hold him and tell him you love him. But always remember to say, “What a good life we had.” He knew you loved him and cared about him. Just as you know he loved you and cared about you. Remember, he is watching over you. He doesn’t want you to suffer. He wants you to be happy for all the time you had together. God bless you. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Study says cross-Canada vaccination database needed TO PREVENT, HANDLE OUTBREAKS estimates, almost all provinces appear to be below national targets for coverage,” the study says. New Brunswick had 69 per cent covST. JOHN’S, N.L. — As Quebec health officials deal with a measles erage for measles, mumps and rubella, outbreak affecting 119 people, a new just ahead of Nova Scotia at 66 per cent study says Canada needs a national — the lowest rates among provinces. Saskatchewan and P.E.I. had 79 per database to help prevent and deal with cent coverage and Quebec just under future incidents. “A key step forward is to track im- 84 per cent. Ontario had almost 91 per cent communization status from birth,” said Colin Busby, co-author of A Shot in the pared to 85 per cent in Alberta, 86 per Arm: How to Improve Vaccination Policy cent in B.C. and almost 87 per cent in Manitoba. in Canada. Busby stressed that varied proThe research paper released Thursday by the C.D. Howe Institute was vincial reporting methods and major funded by the economic think-tank and tracking gaps for preschool children reviewed by immunization research- restrict information available to public health authorities. ers, Busby said in an interview. “If an outbreak It finds that coverage across the country ‘WE BELIEVE THAT WELL were to occur, there’s ranges from 70 to 95 DESIGNED VACCINATION a limitation on how much they can target per cent of children, POLICIES COULD their response to that,” depending on the vacREACH NATIONAL he said. cine. “You’ve got New Vaccination rates TARGETS WHILE STILL Brunswick and Onof about 95 per cent ACCOMMODATING tario that really only or more are generally CHOICE.’ start entering the considered ideal for a data when kids enter population to develop — COLIN BUSBY so-called protective CO-AUTHOR OF school. It’s extremely ‘A SHOT IN THE ARM: HOW TO IMPROVE problematic, and it’s a “herd immunity.” VACCINATION POLICY IN CANADA’ very, very large hole in Only Newfoundland Canada’s vaccination and Labrador topped 95 per cent for all shots studied, in- framework.” Busby said “anti-vaxxers,” or those cluding measles, mumps, chicken pox, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping opposed to vaccinating children, make up a “tiny” part of the population. The cough. “Importantly, at least by their own study focuses more on the need for a BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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SUNDAY: Gemini It’s time to apply for a promotion; look for employment; take on a second job; start a course of study; accept a volunteer position or completely change vocation. But avoid getting lost in a quagmire of possibilities. Think creatively, make a firm decision, and then follow through with plenty of persistence. CANCER (June 21-July 22): For many exasperated Crabs, a close relationship remains stuck in a time-warp where it’s difficult for both of you to change. Difficult — but not impossible. A complete shift in perspective is required. Are you looking for love, and demoralized by the dating game? Draw on your inner reserves of strength and charge back into the singles battleground. Your Prince or Princess is waiting — but you may have to kiss a few frogs before you find them! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Avoid the temptation to be a drama queen and fly off the handle this week. If you try to control or manipulate others, then you’re in for an intense and tumultuous time. For some attached Lions — your lacklustre love life gets a welcome boost as the Solar Eclipse stimulates your sensuality zone. Single Cats — a sudden attraction promises passion but are you seeing the person clearly? Remove your rose-coloured glasses and take a second look. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re at your fastidious best (and fussy worst) as the planets push your perfectionist button. By all means do things well, but don’t be too obsessive in the process. This week’s stars are intense and unpredictable so pace yourself, and resist the urge to be too regimented. Things are in a state of flux and smart Virgos

will strive to be flexible and versatile. When it comes to a loved one, don’t assume you know how they are feeling. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Problems you had back in December surface again, courtesy of the Uranus/Pluto square. You think you’re dealing with them but are you being diplomatic or just plain indecisive? It’s time to be clear and proactive in your dealings with others, and don’t waste time pussyfooting around. Quit the fence-sitting and make a stand! If you avoid taking action, then you’ll just prolong the situation — and someone else will make the decision for you. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Uranus and Pluto are pushing you to break down old patterns of behavior and forge a fabulous new course. But it won’t happen without practical problems, uncomfortable disruptions and emotional pain. Transformation is the name of the game as you leave the familiar behind, and venture into unchartered territory. So your motto for the moment is from fellow Scorpio, Will Rogers “Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This week’s Uranus/Pluto square compels you to examine your life in forensic detail; keep what’s working, and change what isn’t. The trick is knowing which is which! It particularly fires up your finance zone so don’t let a child, teenager or friend talk you into buying something that you really don’t need. It’s time to get your spending spree tendencies under control, as you replace short-term whims with long-term strategies. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You long to change something in your life — but it never seems to be the “right” time. Stop being stubborn; digging your hooves in; and making ridiculous excuses. Grab the Goat by the horns and initiate overdue changes (especially on the home front) — before Uranus and

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A nurse loads a syringe with vaccine for injection in Victoria. As Quebec health officials deal with a measles outbreak affecting 119 people, a new study says Canada needs a national database to help prevent and deal with future incidents. co-ordinated approach to educating new parents while making immunization as easy and accessible as possible. “We believe that well designed vaccination policies could reach national targets while still accommodating choice.” Nurse-led programs may work better than physician-led ones, especially in areas grappling with doctor shortages, the study concludes. Newfoundland and Labrador has a nurse-led system where information on a child is entered into a database at birth and a follow-up appointment is scheduled soon after. A public health nurse offers vaccine information and requires written consent, or refusal, before the first immunization phase begins. New parents are busy and complacency can affect whether children get

all their shots, said economist Nicholas Chesterley, co-author of the study. “Diseases they may never have seen ... because they grew up post-immunization, can still be very dangerous for their children.” Linking provincial recording systems into a national database is a big task fraught with technological issues, Chesterley said. A national registry proposed in 2003 called the Panorama System is a step in the right direction but is not expected to fully track adults or immunizations as they’re administered, the study says. “Like immunization itself, it’s something that’s easy to put off,” Chesterley said. “But it would be nice to have these defences in place before we need them, rather than afterward.”

Pluto step in and do it for you! Be inspired by fellow Capricorn, Simone de Beauvoir “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Unpredictable Uranus sends disruptions in your direction — and, at the same time, powerful Pluto demands that you let go of old patterns of behaviour and find a totally new template. So the only certainty at the moment is change. Letting finances take their own course seems tempting but you need to keep up to speed with money matters. If you increase your financial literacy, then it will pay off handsomely further down the

track. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Many Pisceans will receive an unwelcome reality check this week, as a cherished goal or financial dream comes crashing to the ground. In order to repair the situation, you need to get the balance right between being practically realistic and creatively optimistic. With the Solar Eclipse in your sign, your motto for the week is from birthday great Dr. Seuss “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living — it enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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