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Making a difference RCMP OFFICER SEEING BIG STRIDES IN THIRD YEAR OF MENTORSHIP PROGRAM BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF One student caught Red Deer RCMP Const. Derek Turner’s attention. Three years ago Turner, who works in Community Policing, was dealing with some students who threatened another over Social Media at a local high school. “This was the first time he got into trouble,” remembered Turner, who works in schools. “His mother said this past year he just wasn’t himself. He was angry.” Turner knew there had to be consequences for the student instead of going the court system route. He saw an opportunity. “I felt I could give him an opportunity to turn things around and do something positive for someone else,” said Turner. “To lift another kid up and build him up.” Turner connected the high school student with a student in middle school who showed signs of heading down a bad path as part of a new peer mentoring program. Now in its third year, the program matches high school with middle school students. The students spend about an hour together each week talking, playing games or just hanging out. Turner said it is making a difference in the lives of the students. Currently there are four mentors working with students at Eastview

Middle School. “Every kid is different and has different needs,” said Turner. “I don’t want to overwhelm the high school kid with a kid with lot of behaviour problems and that sort of thing. Those kids have lots of other supports. It is some of the kids that might be a little piece or a role model.” Alyeah Plante, 13, a Grade 8 student at Eastview Middle School said having a mentor takes off the pressure of school. “I have a long week and I finally get to talk to someone,” she said. “If I have a test she can give me some tips. “It’s easier to talk to someone who is a little bit older than me.” Her mentor Payton Watts, a Hunting Hills Grade 12 student, said mentoring has helped with her communication skills, something she will need when she gets into social work. “I love helping people out and being someone’s person,” said Watts. Mentor Donté Nowell, a Grade 12 student at Hunting Hills, admits he wasn’t the greatest student in middle school. He mentors a student at Eastview Middle School once a week for 45 minutes. He said it is a great program for both the mentor and the middle school student. “I spent some time in the office,” he laughed. “I definitely cleaned up in high school … I want to be a police officer so I couldn’t get into the wrong crowd.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Payton Watts, a Grade 12 Hunting Hills student, sits with Alyeah Plante, a grade 8 student at Eastview Middle School. The two meet weekly as part of the RCMP Peer Youth Mentorship program.

Local brothers taking rivalry to television show SOK BROTHERS CHOSEN FOR NEW SEASON OF CHOPPED CANADA BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF It’s no secret that great chefs run in the Sok family. Food lovers have been flocking to the Sok family-owned Blue Dragon Restaurant and Sophear Bar and Restaurant in Red Deer, and Bamboo Hut in Sylvan Lake to taste the culinary delights whipped up by Peter, Sue, Dany or Pon for several years. And a real life sibling rivalry will play out on television for the whole world to see when Peter, 36, and Dany, 30, compete on the Food Network’s Chopped Canada on March 26. The brothers will put their kitchen skills to the test in an episode called Bro-Down Showdown with two other chefs. The brothers applied individually without telling one another. When the family found out they both had applied, it brought up a little friendly competition. The odds were low that they would be both picked, said Dany. Pete, on the other hand, was much more worried that his younger and less experienced brother would make the cut instead of him. The 36-year-old owner of Sophear has a chef de cuisine diploma from Le Cordon Bleu Ottawa. Dany operates Bamboo Hut. “What if Dany gets in and I don’t,” laughed Pete. “I am such a failure if Dany get’s in. That’s actually how I felt. Because after our video interview, Dany calls about an email. I was like, “what email?” I didn’t get the email.”

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Siblings Dany, 30, and Pete, 36, Sok compete against eachother and another set of brothers in Chopped Canada airing on March 26 on the Food Network. The good news was actually in Pete’s junk mail. The brothers taped the show in the summer. They are not allowed to release any information on the outcome. It was only recently that they were permitted to let people know they were in the competition. Pete, who has loved cooking all his life, said taping the show was a wonderful experience. He said the Red Deer community has been very supportive. “We don’t even get to see any of

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the footage,” said Dany. “We are really excited.” “I just enjoy cooking for people,” said Dany, who is mostly a self-taught chef. “I get to see the customers come in the door. I get to see them walk out the door while I am cooking. When they leave, the majority of the time they are happy because they got their fix. That’s what I enjoy about it.” The episode airs on the Food Network at 7 p.m. on March 26. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

OTTAWA — The number of missing and murdered indigenous women across the country is “way bigger” than 1,200, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said Monday. Her comments came as the government marked the end of a consultation process with the families of victims as it prepares to establish a public inquiry into these losses. The real breadth and depth of the tragedy is greater than was thought, Bennett said at a downtown Ottawa hotel as families met behind closed doors. “It is bigger than 1,200,” she said. “Way bigger than 1,200.” The minister’s comments suggest that an RCMP report in 2014, which put the tally at 1,181 murdered and missing women between 1980 and 2012, did not paint a complete picture of the magnitude of the problem. The force added another 32 deaths and 11 disappearances in a 2015 update. Bennett, who has been travelling the country to talk to grieving loved ones, hopes the government will be able to develop the inquiry’s mandate by summer. A key step in this process will involve naming a commissioner or commissioners to lead the examination, which is intended to be arm’s length from government once it is up and running. The inquiry leadership will have to consider a number of questions, including whether cold cases need to be revisited, Bennett noted. “That will be the job of the commissioners — to sort out what they feel they can do about these,” she said. The process also needs to consider the survivors, she added. “When we talk about families, we haven’t been focused on the people who know it could have been them, it was almost them, people who ran away from the (Robert) Pickton farm, people who woke up after being strangled,” she said.

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Company to look into gay slur on Valentine BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A company that sells party supplies says it is investigating after an employee at one of its Edmonton stores posted a photo of a Valentine for him that was defaced with a homophobic slur. Degas Sikorski, 20, posted the photo to Facebook late Saturday night, but it was his mother’s sharing of the post along with an explanation that caused a storm online. Shelley Bramhoff Sikorski stated on Facebook that a supervisor at the Party City store made Valentines for all the staff, but when her son picked his up, it had a hate message on it. The photo shows a homemade Valentine that has been marked with a homophobic name and as well as the statement, “You are not getting any shifts for a reason.” The company says in an emailed statement that it “is committed to creating a fair and inclusive working environment” and is looking into the matter. A supervisor at the store who identified herself as Karlina says staff at the store are awaiting guidance from head office about how to proceed with the investigation and any other steps. “As a company and a store, this kind of behaviour isn’t tolerated,” the supervisor said. However Sikorski posted on Facebook on Sunday that he is enthralled with the love an support people have shown, but wanted to be clear that the incident does not reflect Party City. “This was one person of many. And all the other people I work with are wonderful people,” he said in the post. Reached on Sunday evening, Shelley Bramhoff Sikorski said her son, who told her he was gay at 14, has been a loyal employee at the store while putting himself through university. She said she and her son tried contacting the store manager Saturday night and even emailed him the photo, but didn’t get a reply until Sunday. “He’s always felt safe there. Yes, people knew he was gay. He’s not flamboyant, he doesn’t throw it in people’s faces,” Bramhoff Sikorski said.

PM says anti-refugee graffiti on school not what Canada all about CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says anti-refugee graffiti that also calls him a traitor is not indicative of what Canada is all about. A photo that Global ran of graffiti spray-painted on the side of Wilma Hansen junior high school in Calgary shows the words: “Syrians go home and die.” It also says “Kill the traitor Trudeau.” Global Calgary reported that a viewer had spotted the messages on the weekend. A tweet from Trudeau on Monday afternoon says: “Canadians have shown the best of our country in welcoming refugees. That spirit won’t be diminished by fear & hate.” Police have said they are investigating, but have provided no further details. The walls have been cleaned up.

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Crash, Hack and Burn (Sara Fowlow, Stuart Old, and Tanner Chubb) return a set of black lungs to Joey (Theovaughn Grandejambe) during a scene from Butt Ugly’s Alice-in-Wonderland-inspired anti-tobacco comedy at the RDC Arts Centre Saturday afternoon. The Butt Ugly cast and crew spent the last week touring middle schools throughout Central Alberta, presenting the show to 1200 grade six students. Butt Ugly has been touring, spreading anti-tobacco messages to teenagers for the last 21 years.

Ottawa says independent panel to review proposed hydro project in Alberta EDMONTON — The federal government has ordered a review of a proposed hydroelectric project in northwestern Alberta. The AHP Development Corp. says it wants to build a power plant and dam on the Peace River upstream from the community of Dunvegan. Environment Canada says it is referring the company’s environmental assessment of the Amisk proposal to an independent review panel. “The decision to refer the environmental assessment of the project to a review panel was made after considering its potential to cause significant adverse environmental effects and concerns expressed by the public and indigenous groups in relation to these effects,” Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says in a re-

stories, having worked in Thunder Bay, Ont., where she ran a shelter for men, women and youth. “Daily, I heard stories like this and witnessed personally, violence,” she said. She said the pre-inquiry process was also emotional. “I think that if you are truly doing this job well, you need to be able to bear witness to that pain and you need to be able to empathize without losing yourself in the grief. “It is a very delicate balance actually … It is our shared

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lease. McKenna says the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency will make funding available to help the public, including aboriginal groups, take part in the review. AHP Development says the 330-megawatt project would generate enough electricity to power 250,000 Alberta homes, while producing minimal greenhouse gas emissions in comparison to fossil fuels. The company’s website says the hydro project would be a cost-effective way to help replace coal as a source of electric power in the province. AHP says its partners include Concord Green Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Concord Pacific, a Vancouver-based real estate development firm. Company officials were not immediately available for comment. AHP estimates the dam would

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responsibility to hear these stories as Canadians.” One of the most challenging aspects of the pre-inquiry phases has been hearing how hopeful people are about the process, Bennett added. “In some ways, the hardest part is the hope that a lot of these participants are expressing, that they’re actually talking to people who can make a difference in their lives and the responsibility that we feel,” she said. “That we have to put the concrete actions in place that will stop this tragedy.”

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raise water levels as far away as 50 kilometres upstream and flood about eight square kilometres of land. The company acknowledges it would affect wildlife and habitat, including part of Dunvegan West Wildland Provincial Park. The Alberta Wilderness Association has said it is concerned the project would cause significant harm to the Peace River valley, including to fish, birds, deer, elk, plants and trees. Environment Canada says the review panel will be formed within three months and is to submit its final report within 16 months. TransAlta Corp. (TSX:TAA) pulled an application for a smaller hydro project in the area last year after its proposal was approved in 2009. The company cited uncertain market conditions for its decision to not go ahead.

Claudette Commanda from Ontario’s Kitigan Zibi First Nations reserve attended Monday’s discussions. Canada must be accountable for racism against aboriginal people, she said. “That’s the common theme that is coming out of this,” Commanda said. “The families want justice and the families want healing. But importantly, the families want their voices to be heard for their loved ones because their loved ones are not here to speak.”

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Quebec police officer killed on duty remembered as a stand-up guy BY SIDHARTHA BANERJEE THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — A Quebec police constable who died in the line of duty has been remembered by friends as a go-to guy who was always ready to lend an ear. “In my heart, I lost a brother,� Simon Villeneuve said of his friend, Thierry Leroux, who was shot Saturday night as he and another officer responded to a domestic call. Leroux, 26, was a relative rookie — he had just six months service under his belt for the police force in Lac-Simon, a small Algonquin reserve in northwestern Quebec. Villeneuve says their friendship blossomed while they lived together at school. They became fast friends — study and gym partners. Villeneuve would seek out Leroux when he was feeling down and said the latter was always there to listen. “Today, you’ve left us without me being able to do anything for you,� he said. “I love you, friend. Watch over us from above.� Many of the young man’s friends expressed their grief by switching their online profile photos to a black ribbon with the Lac-Simon police force’s logo. Leroux’s brother, Steffan, also shared an outpouring of grief online. “A pain so intense that there are no words to describe it,� he wrote. “A friend, an accomplice, but especially a brother who will never be replaced.� Investigators said officers did not return fire and that Leroux’s partner was taken to hospital in shock. Provincial police identified the

shooter as Anthony Raymond Papatie, 22, of Lac-Simon. He was found dead inside the home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. On the alleged shooter’s Facebook page, under the name Anthony Raymond Michel, a post on Saturday night offered a glimpse of what had transpired. “Dsl tout le monde menvo asteur jai tuer un police,� he wrote, shorthand French that translates to “Sorry, everyone, I gotta go, I just killed a cop.� At the province’s police academy in Nicolet, a moment of silence will be held for Leroux this week during a graduation ceremony. After completing a police technology degree in Alma, Leroux graduated from the academy in November 2013 — excelling in sports and physical conditioning. Academy spokesman Pierre St-Antoine says such tragedies always bring the dangers of the job to the forefront and force cadets to talk about security and training. “The tragic death of a colleague brings about this discussion,� St-Antoine said. “As we know, these are events that, sadly, can happen. They are part of the job of being a police officer.� Asked if better training could help, Premier Philippe Couillard told reporters in St-Felicien, Que., that such events are sometimes inevitable. “You know, we can always do better,� Couillard said. “But there are human tragedies that happen regardless of the precautions we take.� Couillard said his heart goes out to both families implicated in the shooting and he suggested the incident re-

flects that work with native communities needs to go deeper. Also on Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ghislain Picard, chief of the assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador, offered their condolences. “Police officers risk their lives to keep us safe,� Trudeau wrote on Twitter. “My deepest condolences to the family of young Thierry Leroux.� Picard expressed his support for the community of about 1,700, which is about 500 kilometres from Montreal. “This tragedy reminds us once again how much distress can lead to irreparable acts,� Picard said in a statement. “We are wholeheartedly thinking about the families, police officers and the grieving communities.�

Officer Thierry Leroux killed in the line of duty Saturday was on the police force only six months.

UBC board of governors votes against divestment from fossil fuel industry BY LAURA KANE THE CANADIAN PRESS

ed in unison, “You are failing us.� Hemingway said after the vote that he was extremely disappointed. He said there are indications the sustainable future fund will continue to invest in coal companies. “We need strong, dramatic action on climate change now, not a drop-in-the-bucket fund.� In 2014, UBC students voted 77 per cent in support of divestment. Last year, faculty voted 62 per cent in favour of selling off the school’s fossil fuel holdings within five years.

VANCOUVER — The University of British Columbia has rejected calls from students and faculty to dump its holdings in the fossil fuel industry, instead promising to create a low-carbon investment fund. The board of governors voted Monday in favour of a motion from its finance committee not to divest and instead establish a so-called sustainable future fund. The fund would include a mandate for low-carbon emissions and be seeded with an initial allocation of $10 million. Getting rid of certain investments is permissible, said finance committee chairman Greg Peet shortly before the vote, but “the universal exclusion of a legally-operating industry that provides irreplaceable goods and services is not.â€? Peet said aggressive screening criteria for the new fund will result in the divestment of numerous fossil fuel companies. Investments tied to oil, gas and coal companies make up about 10 per cent of the university’s $1.4-billion endowment. Divestment has been an ongoing issue for several years, with students and staff voting separately in favour of pushing fossil fuels out of UBC’s portfolio. Peet told the board Monday that the proposal from staff and students did not make a “compelling caseâ€? that divestment would have a meaningful impact on climate change through a moral or political message. He said UBC’s sustainable future fund would have a similar effect to a recommendation made by an advisory committee at the University of Toronto, which called for divestment from fossil fuel companies that “blatantly disregardâ€? efforts to combat climate change. Of the three student representatives on the board, two opposed the motion not to divest and one abstained. The remainder of the board voted in favour. Campus-based environmental advocacy group Divest UBC had circulated a letter calling for a transparent, open and evidence-based consideration of divestment. Spokesman Alex HemLinda P. ingway told the board that I came to your the committee considering the issue refused to RIÂż FH ZLWK JUHDW meet with his group and reluctance, not only invited it to the final ZDQWLQJ WR ZHDU D meeting last week. KHDULQJ DSSOLDQFH His statements prompted an apology from fi1RZ , ZRXOGQÂśW ZDQW nance committee member WR OLYH ZLWKRXW WKHP Richard Johnston, who 0\ OLIH ZLOO QHYHU EH promised the consultation process would be fixed. WKH VDPH DJDLQ After the vote, several members of Divest UBC, who were wearing black and carrying anti-fossil fuel signs, stood and chant-

Concordia University in Montreal became the first Canadian university to adopt a partial divestment policy in December 2014, though that measure only applies to a $5-million fund — a fraction of the school’s $130-million endowment. The University of Calgary, McGill University in Montreal and Dalhousie University in Halifax have all decided against divestment. The University of Toronto’s president is expected to make a final decision by April.

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Wrestling with life-and-death decisions “How do we live and how do we die Meet the most important MP you may not have heard of, the co-chair are the same set of questions we need of the most important Parliamentary to explore as human beings.” Yet, he wrestles with those issues committee no one seems to be noticing. late into the night, he says, Don Valley West Liberal both the individual cases Rob Oliphant, a soft-spoken in which he has been inUnited Church minister, volved, and the overarching has less than two weeks to issue of physician-assisted present to Parliament and dying, which is brand new Justice Minister Jody Wilterritory for us all. son-Raybould a framework Canadians are ready for for a federal law governing this law, he believes, yet physician-assisted suicide, he adds they are “holding a process now routinely their breath,” waiting to see bathed in the softer, more what it will look like. The euphemistic name of physimedia, so trained in searchcian-assisted dying. ing for conflict, is having The Commons-Senate ASDFSD difficulty dealing with the committee, the first joint intricacies of a story that committee in two decades, ADFADF cuts to the core of what it heard from 62 witnesses, exLKASDJFLKJ means to be human, he says. pects to receive up to 120 Between now and the tabriefs and has done four bling of his report Feb. 25, months of committee work in three weeks, mostly in the quiet of Oliphant and the committee must reconcile the shared jurisdiction of any the Ottawa winter evening. Oliphant, his co-chair, Conserva- new law. Two sections of the federal Crimtive Sen. Kelvin Ogilvie, and 13 other MPs and senators have absorbed the inal Code were struck down by the findings of a federal panel and pro- court in February 2015, but health devincial-territorial task force as they livery is a provincial responsibility. But, Oliphant says, the Canada race toward a Supreme Court-imposed deadline that will mean a law en- Health Act is federal responsibility and he believes we will see a federal shrined by June. As a minister, Oliphant believes dy- regime for physician-assisted dying ing is part of life. He has officiated with provincial regimes at least equivat hundreds of funerals, he has coun- alent to the federal law. There are other important issues selled families who are grappling with the thought of removing life-support- to be hammered out next week. There ing care of a loved one after a doctor are the competing rights of patients to die with the help of a doctor and the has told them the time may have come.

right of doctors to conscientiously refuse to provide the service. Does that mean, as the Canadian Medical Association says, doctors should also be allowed to refuse to refer a patient to a doctor who will help him or her end their life? Oliphant knows doctors struggle with this and he understands. We trust our physicians with our life — we now will have to learn to trust them with our death, he says. He also knows physicians have never been trained on this. Behind closed doors, there are other questions. At what age can a minor give free and informed consent? There is the question of those with mental illness requesting death. Who should be involved before such consent is given? Tarek Rajji, chief of geriatric psychiatry at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, told the committee: “Within a clinical recovery-based environment, there is always the potential for mental illness to be remediable.” A study of doctor-assisted dying for patients with mental illness in the Netherlands released this week, found more than half had declined treatment that could have helped them and many simply cited loneliness as a reason to die. The committee is also expected to call for national standards on palliative care, backed with funding so all Canadians can have access to a prescribed standard of care as they face death. Oliphant believes assisted

death and palliative care go hand-inhand as part of a “holistic” policy of end-of-life issues. Oliphant would like to deliver a report forged in consensus, but there could be a dissenting report. Conservative MP Mark Warawa has often stated improved palliative care was preferable to legalized suicide. Oliphant, however, has always considered death as a part of life and he comes to his theological decision-making guided by something known as the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, which consists of scripture, reason, experience and tradition. There are contradictions — scripture, Oliphant acknowledges, says thou shall not kill but there are many passages which teach that death is part of life. In reaching decisions, the four pillars must be in conversation with each other, he says. Any decision that rests on a single pillar will be a weak position. He says he probably wouldn’t access physician-assisted death, but he realizes none of us can really say until we are faced with the end of life. “I’m not fighting for my right to get this,” he says. But he believes Canadians are ready for this legislation. People don’t like to see people suffering and they want to help them, he believes. “That is a good human instinct.” Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

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Trudeau already wrecking Canada Hi Justin. So now you and the Liberal party of Canada are projecting a $90 Billion Dollar deficit from your dastardly election promise of $30 billion over the four years that you will be in power? I believe you stated that the “Budget will balance itself.” Really, how is that working out? Three times the extraordinary deficit that you projected in your election promises. How many of those election promises are you actually meeting? Oh, I guess it does not matter because you have the left wing media on your side and they will not say a word against you. Keep up the selfies while you can, because it will be harder and harder for you to smile as you take us down this road of destruction. But then nothing matters to you entered the public life as self-professed “Selfie Drama Queen” and I suspect you will leave the same way. Thanks for wrecking Canada.

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Benalto School continues to serve important role Benalto School houses the FCSS playgroup, playschool, and grades K-6. It is a small school with split classes, but a good school for the kids to start their education in. It seems that for whatever reasons some parents are choosing to send their children into a larger centre for their schooling. This may lead to the closing of the Benalto School which has been a great school since opening in 1938. This will also be detrimental to the future growth of the hamlet of Benalto. Most young families that have moved into the area have done so because there is a school for their children. Students get a good start before being bussed into Sylvan Lake for Grades 7-12. A count has been taken and there are many pre-school age kids

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living in the area now who may miss the opportunity to attend the Benalto School if this is its last year of operation. Benalto is a great school (I had four kids attend and presently have two grandchildren attending). It is small but has all the teaching equipment — computers etc. and has a large play area with a basketball court, a baseball diamond, a play structure, and down the street is an outdoor rink and an indoor gym at the church, used depending on the weather. The school parent group has a wish list that the community service clubs regularly donate to and this helps offset expenses. So fundraising is at a minimal here. This is my plea for the Chinooks Edge School Division to save our school and to the parents to support our school because if it closes, there will be no turning back. Thank you, Lynne Lawrence Sylvan Lake

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UN calls on U.A.E. to release Canadian man detained for year and a half BY DIANA MEHTA THE CANADIAN PRESS U.N. human rights experts are calling on the United Arab Emirates to release a Canadian man and four others who they allege have been tortured while being detained over the last year and a half. The call comes as Salim Alaradi’s case proceeds at the U.A.E. Federal Supreme Court, where the Canadian businessman of Libyan origin has pleaded not guilty to three terrorrelated charges. In a public statement issued

Monday, U.N. experts say they have “credible information” indicating Alaradi and other detainees were tortured and forced to sign confessions. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Mendez, says the detainees have also been allegedly held in secret detention locations and in solitary confinement for prolonged periods of time. The U.N. experts say a reply from Emirati authorities about the detainees cases was “unpersuasive.” Alaradi’s case was in court in the U.A.E. on Monday, where his family says a judge agreed to allow a forensic

medical exam for the 46-year-old before adjourning proceedings to Feb. 29. Alaradi learned only last month that he was charged with funding terrorist organizations, supporting terrorist organizations, and cooperating with terrorist organizations. His Canadian lawyer has said that two specific groups — the February 17 Brigades and the Libyan Dawn — were named in connection with his charges. Alaradi’s family and lawyers had previously received no explanation from U.A.E. authorities for his continued detention. Alaradi was running a business in

Dubai when he was abruptly arrested in August 2014. He was born in Libya and immigrated to Canada from the U.A.E. in 1998, settling down in Vancouver with his family. He decided to return to the U.A.E. in 2007 to run a home appliance business with his brother. He and his family were on vacation within the U.A.E. when he was arrested. Alaradi’s lawyer has noted that Alaradi has not lived in Libya in over 25 years and “is not politically involved in his former country.”

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BY JIM BRONSKILL THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Air carriers should be allowed to share information about unruly passengers to help keep the skies safer, Canada’s largest airline says. A carrier can ban people with a history of disruptive behaviour from taking further flights with that airline, Air Canada notes in a submission to the federal government. But legislation does not permit airlines to exchange information about passengers, even when they believe them to be a safety risk to others. In the submission to a federal review of the Canada Transportation Act, Air Canada says safety “should always be first and foremost.” A report flowing from the review — likely to include some recommendations about air safety — is expected to be made public in coming weeks. An Alberta man was charged in late December after a flight attendant was injured on an Air Canada flight to India. The plane had to turn around and head back to Toronto, where it was met by police. World airlines reported 9,316 cases of unruly behaviour in the skies in 2014 — or one incident for every 1,289 flights, according to the International Air Transport Association, an industry group. That same year, more than 100 members of the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency, adopted a new protocol that would extend juris-

diction over an offence involving an unruly passenger to the destination country, not just the country of aircraft registration. If the protocol is ratified, this measure would close a loophole that has allowed many serious offences to escape legal action, the air transport association says. The civil aviation organization has provided airlines with a four-tiered scheme of threat levels to help gauge the seriousness of a disruptive passenger: — Level One — Disruptive behaviour (verbal) — Level Two — Physically abusive behaviour — Level Three — Life-threatening behaviour (or display of a weapon) — Level Four — Attempted or actual breach of the flight crew compartment. Air Canada says carriers should be allowed to share information with other carriers about travellers involved in Level Three or Four incidents. “This practice would help to ensure the safety of other passengers and the safe operation of the flight, as well as reduce costs associated with returning passengers with a history of disruptive behaviour,” the airline’s submission says. Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said Monday the airline had no additional comment. The federal privacy commissioner’s office said it was unaware of Air Canada’s sharing proposal, had not studied the issue and could provide no comment at this time.

VANCOUVER — University of British Columbia staff who handled sexual assault allegations made against a PhD candidate acted in “good faith,” but human error and a lack of clarity led to a delayed response, an investigation has found. Interim UBC president Martha Piper outlined the key findings of a report at a board of governors meeting Monday. The university hired lawyer Paula Butler to investigate complaints raised by several current and former history graduate students that it took far too long to act on multiple allegations against the PhD candidate. Butler said in her report that there was no breach of the university’s policies, including the general harassment and discrimination policy that the school currently uses to handle sexual assault reports. She found the assertion that it took 18 months to act “misleading,” but said there was a delay because of a lack of clarity around the process for reporting and responding to assaults. At least six groups were involving in handling complaints, including the history department, the Sexual Assault Support Centre and campus security, making the process unclear for the women and some staff, Butler said. “Sporadic communication amongst these groups at times resulted in ineffective or little action being taken,” she wrote in her report. “It is not optimal for one

complainant to have to tell her/his story to four or five different people, and to have to be asked on numerous occasions if she/he wants to go through a resolution process, all of which happened in this case.” The better option is for complainants to deal with one or two people who are consistently assigned to a case, Butler said. The situation was exacerbated because several UBC staff members and complainants didn’t have enough knowledge of the harassment and discrimination policy, which does not include a time requirement for dealing with cases, she said. The policy also doesn’t explain the difference between a formal and informal complaint and there is nothing in writing for complainants to know which type of document they should file. That, combined with unclear explanations from a staff member, caused “much confusion” for complainants, Butler said, calling the system “flawed.” “The system of handling such sexual assault complaints needs to change,” she said. The university is launching a review led by an expert panel to establish a stand-alone sexual assault policy, and a faculty-led conference held Monday and Tuesday was to form recommendations. In January, more than 80 faculty members from a wide range of disciplines signed a letter to the UBC community apologizing for not doing more to ensure the institution protects students from sexual assaults.

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Ban Ki-Moon hoped flattery of Trudeau would lead to new UN funding, Tories say BY MIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — To hear Ban Ki-Moon tell it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s rapprochement with the United Nations was nothing short of the return of the prodigal son. But the Conservative opposition says the UN secretary general’s flattery of Canada’s new Liberal prime minister may have had a political motive — getting more support for some UN agencies and programs that the Harper government defunded. During his visit last week, Ban displayed an unabashed fondness for both the style and substance of Trudeau’s performance as an emerging international statesman. Ban made it clear on numerous occasions during his two-day trip to Ottawa and Montreal that he was wholeheartedly embracing Trudeau’s call to bring the country “back” to the United Nations. Conservative deputy foreign affairs critic Peter Kent said Ban’s effusive praise may have been a play for more UN funding for the environment and peacekeeping, as well as for the United Nations Relief and Works

Agency, which helps Palestinians. The Conservatives cut UNRWA funding because they alleged it had ties to Hamas, which Canada lists as a terrorist organization. UNRWA has denied the charges. “It does seem clear he was trolling for new UNRWA funding,” Kent said Monday. “He may have asked that Canada re-engage with some of the UN committees and agencies that our government left because they were unworthy of time or money.” International Co-operation Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said Canada may indeed consider refunding UNRWA. “The channel of communication is opened,” she told CTV’s Question Period on Sunday. “We’re evaluating the situation. And the decision will be taken shortly.” Kent said the opposition will be looking for more specifics from the Liberals in the coming days. Roy Rempel, an ex-defence adviser in former prime minister Stephen Harper’s office, said he believes Ban intentionally used Trudeau’s “we’re back” slogan as a way of “positioning himself to be able to ask for more from Canada going forward.” “Last I checked, our mission in New

York was still there and we were still one of the top 10 contributors to the UN budget,” he said. “That was the case under the Harper government, and I presume it will remain so under the new government.” Trudeau’s spokesman Cameron Ahmad said Ban was legitimately highlighting Canada’s “invaluable contributions to the UN, in particular in spearheading real action on climate change, and sustainable development, and in bringing global attention to humanitarian crises.” Ban declined an interview while he was in Ottawa. But during his visit, he suggested that his admiration for Canada’s new leader was rooted in his own childhood experiences in war-torn Korea. In addition to praising Canada for taking a leadership role at the Paris climate change talks late last year, Ban repeatedly thanked Trudeau for his decision to admit 25,000 Syrian refugees. Ban recalled fleeing his own burning village in South Korea when he was six years old in 1950. It was the start of the Korean War. “Many brave Canadian soldiers came to Korea, and there were a lot

of sacrifices, but on the basis of these sacrifices of Canadians and United Nations peacekeepers, Korea was saved from aggression,” Ban told high school students at Ottawa’s Glebe Collegiate. “That’s why I’m standing before you as the secretary general.” Ban said when he travels the world meeting refugees and displaced people he feels a personal connection to them. “I will tell them the same story: I was you. Do not despair.” Ban also gave hearty endorsements to Trudeau’s policies on refugees, the environment and something else — his decision to make himself his own minister of youth, something no other world leader had done, Ban said. Ban told the high school crowd that half the world is under age 25, and that they were among its largest and most influential demographic. “Raise your voice. You may challenge your prime minister, your minister, your principal, your teachers,” Ban said, seated next to Trudeau. “Tell them … this is my world make this world better for us. This is your prerogative right.”

George W. Bush offers tough Trump takedown in campaign debut CHARLESTON, S.C. — George W. Bush never mentioned Donald Trump. But with his folksy touch, the former president unleashed a tough takedown Monday of the billionaire businessman who has upended a Republican Party his family has long led. “I understand Americans are angry and frustrated,” Bush said during his first campaign rally for his brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. “But we do not need somebody in the Oval Office who mirrors and inflames our anger and frustration.” Trump’s rise has confounded the Bush family and its allies. But despite months of predicting the brash billionaire would fade, it’s Jeb Bush whose White House hopes are in peril, particularly if he’s unable to pull out a strong showing in Saturday’s South Carolina primary. The race has entered an increasingly nasty phase in South Carolina, with numerous negative ads airing on local television following an unusually caustic debate this past weekend in which Trump confronted Jeb Bush about his brother’s record as president. Trump has led polls in South Carolina, but is trying to fend off attacks from his chief rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who describes himself as “a consistent conservative” who can be trusted. Bush is trying to pull ahead of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich to emerge as the more mainstream alternative to Trump and Cruz, both of whom the party establishment considers unelectable. George W. Bush emerged from his self-imposed political hibernation to try to give Bush a boost. He layered each validation of his younger brother with an implicit critique of Trump. He urged voters to back a candidate who will be “measured and thoughtful” on the world stage. A candidate whose “humility” helps him understand what he doesn’t know. A candidate who can win in November’s general election. “All the sloganeering and all the talk doesn’t matter if we don’t win,” Bush said. “We need somebody who can take a positive message across the country.” With his brother as a strong warmup act, Jeb Bush delivered an impassioned version of his campaign speech, touting his experience as Florida governor and vowing he could put Republicans back in the White House for the first time in eight years. “I can beat Hillary Clinton,” he said of the Democratic front-runner. “I can promise you that.” The former president’s return to presidential politics has been met with

blistering attacks from Trump about the unpopular Iraq war and the economic recession that began at the end of his administration. Trump has also repeatedly reminded voters that the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks happened on Bush’s watch. “If the ex-president is campaigning for his brother, I think he’s probably open to great scrutiny, maybe things that haven’t been thought of in the past,” Trump told reporters Monday. Rather than gloss over 9-11, Bush leaned in. As the crowd fell into a hushed silence, he recounted in detail his whereabouts on the morning of the attacks and praised the troops that served in the two wars he started in response. “Your most solemn job as voters is to elect a president who understands the reality of the threats we face,” he said. As he praised South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, the daughter of Indian-born parents, Bush pointedly said, “Thank goodness our country welcomed her parents when they immigrated here in 1969.” It was a reminder of how much the Republican Party has changed since he was president. While Bush championed failed legislation that would have provided a pathway to citizenship for millions of people in the U.S. illegally, many current Republican presidential candidates have fought to outdo each other with tough enforcement policies, even mass deportations. Jeb Bush spent months trying to figure out what role, if any, his brother might play in his campaign. The 43rd president left office deeply unpopular with a nation fatigued by the Iraq War and angry over his botched response to Hurricane Katrina. He’s also a reminder to voters eager to break with the political establishment that Jeb Bush would be the third man from his family to serve as president. But South Carolina is a state that has long been friendly to the Bush family. Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush each won two Republican primaries in the state, and their family retains deep social and political ties here. George W. Bush has kept a low profile since leaving the White House in early 2009. He retreated to his home state of Texas, where he picked up painting and delved into work on his presidential library, public health projects in Africa, and events for wounded military service members. The former president is the latest member of the prominent political family to hit the campaign trail to help

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Traditional Canadian lumberjack sport axe throwing enjoying popularity in Canada BY ALY THOMSON THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A growing number of people have started living up to the Canadian stereotype of a plaid-wearing lumberjack. Axe throwing is gaining in popularity, with clubs, leagues and lounges opening everywhere from Alberta to Nova Scotia. Darren Hudson, co-owner of a new axe-throwing lounge opening soon in Halifax, said the traditional lumberjack sport is captivating Canadians because it’s simple and has an immediate payoff. “It’s a very rewarding, enjoyable sport in which people have the opportunity to cast away their cares,” said the 38-year-old man, a world champion lumberjack who has been throwing axes for more than three decades. “Axe throwing for a first-timer is a moment they won’t forget for the rest of their lives.” The smell of lumber tickles your noise inside the Timber Lounge, where circular targets are attached to a wood-panelled wall. Hudson staggers his feet one in front of the other and begins to rock back and forth, his hands firmly gripping the base of the axe’s handle with his arms stretching straight behind his head. He fixes his eyes on the red, blue, green and white target several metres ahead. When it feels right, Hudson releases the three and a half pound double bitted axe and watches intently as it spirals through the air and sticks to the

bullseye with a satisfying thump. “It is a sport that anybody can do,” said Hudson, wearing thick blackrimmed glasses, a red plaid ball cap and a wiry brown beard. “It’s great to watch people achieve what they thought would be so difficult and yet, it is so attainable.” The Ontario-based Bad Axe Throwing recently announced it is opening three new locations in Halifax, Winnipeg and Montreal, and Jack Axes Inc. is preparing to launch soon in St. John’s, N.L. Jesse Gutzman of Bad Axe Throwing, which hosts private events like birthday and bachelor parties, said Canadians are latching onto their lumberjack stereotype. “It’s a real Canadian thing. We don’t actually go out into the woods and throw axes around but it is this identity we have, the lumberjack identity. So we’re just bringing it indoors and making it really accessible,” said Gutzman. Hudson said lumberjack sports in Nova Scotia date back to the late 1800s, when woodsmen would pit their skills against one another, usually at the end of a river drive when logs were being brought to the sawmill. At the time, Nova Scotia woodsmen were the best in the industry and were often invited to places like New York and Boston to show off their craft, said Hudson. “(Axes) have been around for 10,000 years. If technology was to fail and we could only have one thing, this would be the thing that would sustain humanity. It keeps you warm by chopping wood for fire, it can help make shelter, and it can even procure game.”

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Darren Hudson, a fifth-generation lumberjack, stands in his new business operation, the Timber Lounge, in Halifax on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. The business will feature an axe throwing area, a music stage and a bar.

Rebirth of razed Mi’kmaq village part of ambitious plan for aboriginal band BY MICHAEL MACDONALD THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia aboriginal band is drafting ambitious plans to rebuild a community on the site of a Mi’kmaq village that was obliterated by the Halifax Explosion nearly a century ago. Black-and-white photos taken at the turn of the last century show a collection of wigwams close to the shoreline at the narrowest part of Halifax harbour. The Mi’kmaq called it Turtle Grove. Some of the descendants of those who lived there, members of the Millbrook First Nation, want to develop the site to include a mix of residential and commercial properties. The band, which is no stranger to commercial success, has tentative plans to build a boardwalk, marina, ferry terminal and residential units with office and retail space, some of which would be made available to band members. About 900 members live on the existing reserve in the Truro area, an hour’s drive north of Halifax. Another 900 live off the reserve, many of them in the Halifax area. “That would be reserve land (and) that would create a desire (for band members) to be there,” says chief Bob Gloade. “We’re also looking at some cultural components and marking the history of the residents … There could be a monument.” At least six families were living at Turtle Grove in December 1917 when a Belgian relief ship and a French vessel carrying munitions collided only a few hundred metres from the village, Gloade says. The resulting blast

and tidal wave razed Turtle Grove, killing many of its residents and almost 2,000 others in the surrounding area, making it the worst disaster in Canadian history. To this day, a section of what was once Turtle Grove remains empty. The small tree-lined cove sits idle and overgrown in the shadow of a large, gas-fired generating station known as Tuft’s Cove. The humble site will soon be declared reserve land as part of an outstanding Mi’kmaq claim - though Gloade says there’s a problem. “The biggest hurdle that we’re running into is firming up how much land we can develop so we can plan it out properly.” The 3.9-hectare site is stretched so thinly along the shoreline that it would be impossible to develop properly, he says. The band wants to buy more land, but that could take a long time. The site is adjacent to Shannon Park, a 33-hectare former military community built by the Department of National Defence after the Second World War. Abandoned by 2003, it includes more than 400 empty apartment units, a store, two schools, two churches, an arena, swimming pool and community centre. In March 2014, the Canada Lands Company — the federal government’s real estate arm — bought 33 hectares of Shannon Park for $4 million. The Crown corporation presented three development proposals to the public last November and a preferred concept is expected to be submitted for municipal approval this spring. Demolition at the site started earlier this month. The Millbrook

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Story and Photos by ASHLI BARRETT/ Advocate staff The weather might’ve been warm over the Family Day weekend, but it didn’t dampen Sylvan Lake’s annual celebration of ice and snow, nor the town’s community spirit. Winterfest 2016, one of the most anticipated winter festivals in the region, drew Central Albertans of all ages onto the lake to take part in a variety of activities, all in support of non-profits, groups within the community, and local charities. Friday saw a few lucky ladies indulge in a night of pampering at the Ladies Only XOX Valentine’s Party, while couples could take a cake decorating class. On Saturday, the main festivities kicked off at noon. Snow colouring, snow

bowling, a hockey shootout and human “dog-sleds” were available for children, while families waited in long lineups to go for a scenic sleigh ride on the lake. The Sylvan Lake Ice Marathon returned, with skaters hitting the ice for 5-, 25-, and 100- kilometre races, as well as special “tours” in support of Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta. The Polar Bear Dip attracted large crowds as 44 people made the plunge into lake’s frigid waters for local charities, including Jump Start and the Serenity Pet Shelter. Official totals of money raised will not be known until Tuesday. Fireworks launched from the pier wrapped up Saturday’s festivities. On Sunday, the ice marathon continued and couples were invited to treat each other to a “Lady and the Tramp” themed spaghetti dinner at the Sylvan Lake Legion. Winterfest has been running annually since it replaced Sylvan Lake’s Family Fun Day (1990-2002) in 2003.

ABOVE; Sylvan Lakers go for a sleigh ride on the lake during the annual Winterfest celebrations. Sleigh rides were amongst the more popular activities, with long lineups throughout the afternoon. TOP RIGHT; Julie Saby takes the plunge into Sylvan Lake’s frigid waters during the annual Polar Bear Dip on Saturday afternoon. Over 40 people jumped into the waters after raising money for local charities. The Polar Bear Dip was part of the annual Winterfest celebrations. RIGHT; Corrie Brown, dressed as Thing 1 from Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat”, reacts as she plunges into Sylvan Lake’s frigid waters during the Polar Bear Dip. BELOW; Brothers Riley, left, and Jacob Harty take a break from games and other Winterfest activities to roast marshmallows for s’mores. Hot chocolate and coffee were also provided for Winterfest patrons.

Stilt-walker Allara Gooliaff poses for a picture with Callie Tomlin, left, and Jaylen Waldo during Sylvan Lake’s annual Winterfest celebrations on Saturday afternoon.

A group of speed skaters make their way down the stretch during the 25k ice marathon on Saturday afternoon. The event was held as part of both Alberta International Speed Skating Week and Sylvan Lake’s annual Winterfest celebrations.

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Valentine’s Day brings mixed messages tant to go to battle while having wives and As the kids made their way home from children at home. Which doesn’t make school, bellies filled with candy hearts much sense to me…But who am I to argue and suckers made from red dye No. 5, I with ol’ Clauds? To rectify this problem began to wonder about the inevitable. he placed a ban on all marriages and enThis being when they would finally realgagements in Rome. ize that their father and I abstain from the A holy priest named (you guessed it) remarkably popular holiday which falls Valentine, thought this was downright on February the fourteenth. despicable and secretly continued to perI know what you are thinking; we’ve form matrimonies for the people. Howevbeen getting the same accusatory stateer it didn’t end happily my friends, spoilments for as long as our relationship has er alert — dude got caught. On Feb. 14, existed. 278 AD Valentine, later named a saint, “Well he is just too cheap to do anyLINDSAY was executed by order of Claudius the thing for you obviously.” Or “That’s just SAWYER Cruel. It is said that while awaiting his an excuse to be lazy.” Because apparexecution he wrote one last note to the ently, the only people who are allowed ME PLUS THREE jailer’s daughter, as they had become fast to veto this day of cherub arrows and pafriends in the slammer, and signed it, per hearts are the singles that are loud “From Your Valentine.” and proud or the hipsters who tend to go Just like the ones that we hand out in elementary against anything that falls into the realm of standard. But the couples, oh the couples must celebrate—it school! It’s all coming together now. Now please, if you still can’t get enough of this nais THE “Day of Love” after all. Are you aware who Saint Valentine was? Because tional card giving and chocolate bingeing day, please I wasn’t until this evening when I decided to write an don’t let my catty and sarcastic remarks stop you. I’m sure that at one point in history Valentine’s article on Valentines Day and actually look into the man himself. It turns out he was not some horrific Day was a commendable idea. But now, here, I feel beast of a man that ripped out the hearts of the inno- that the presentation of love should be more than cent to later feast on, like I had hoped—that would that. What is so commendable about showering your have obviously made for a much more attractive an- spouse in red roses and special words because a date on the calendar told you to? ecdote. Love is about the deep sanctity of togetherness. The year was somewhere around 270 AD, the place- Rome, and under the rule of Claudius the It is finding yourself once again standing in a pit of Cruel. During this time the emperor believed that obstacles and knowing you will make it through as there was a lack of soldiers because men were hesi- long as it brings you closer to your person. Love is

not thinking twice about taking a chance on all of the things you hate about someone. Love is mundane and terrifying and exciting and usually pretty damn random too. I simply cannot believe in allocating one single day to celebrating all of that. Shouldn’t that celebration exist each time you open your eyes to see that person you love sleeping next to you? (Drool and morning breath included!) This feeling or celebration or whatever you want to call it should be present in each waking moment you know that there is another person out there who feels the exact same adoration for you as you do for them. Devotion is not made in a one-day-a-year offer so why should it be celebrated as such? It is the everyday splendours that reaffirm our love and keep a relationship strong and healthy. If you celebrate Valentine’s Day for its true meaning and pay homage to the man that once sacrificed his life for young men and women to marry then I commend you! If you are using this day as a reminder to stop by the closest gas bar off your evening commute to purchase some cheap tulips and a card engraved with an even cheaper poem then please re-evaluate yourself before you de-valuate yourself. Yep- that just happened. For me, no amount of fancy dinners or cheesefilled cards can trump the spark that Jamie and I share each and every day. And if that is an odd way to celebrate our lives together … Well then, I guess we are just a couple of weirdo’s. Lindsay Sawyer is a freelance writer from Alberta.

Celtic band and symphony spoke to my soul and my fingers would not tremble. With Alberta in an economic slump One day I would play Christmas carols that has even caught the attention of by memory. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it seemed One day I would play lots of songs by rather unfair of me to have had such a memory. good time this weekend. One day I would be very good on the Of course, my good time had a lot to do piano. with the music! Of course, that one day has never hapMusic, it seems can soften the harshest pened. But still, my own lack of musical day, make bad times seem less so and litability has not deterred me from apprecierally speak to one’s soul in a way words ating musical talent whenever I hear it. In simply cannot. fact it seems such music has the power to This weekend, The Barra MacNeils, a elevate me to a higher, better level than Celtic band from Cape Breton spoke to my usual everyday, mediocre self . my soul, as did the Edmonton Symphony TREENA The Celtic band I heard on the weekOrchestra. Both were playing at the WinMIELKE end had that power! spear Centre in Edmonton. LIFE But even though their musical ability For me at least, the experience was a was incredible, the fact that they were all natural high, leading me to places within siblings is what struck a tender chord in the heart of great joy. My entire life, it seems, I have struggled with mak- my heart, stirring up bittersweet memories of long, ing my own music, of course being interrupted here long ago. For most of my growing up years my family had and there by children, marriage, work and, someno television and a radio that played only static and times it seemed, complete exhaustion. However, somehow, always in the back of mind I sometimes CKRD. But we had a piano and a violin and at least one of my three brothers, bless his heart, knew one day I would. One day I would learn to play the piano really always had a guitar. My brother worked on the oil rigs. He was a derwell! One day I would play Minuet In G as well as my rick man. And when he came home on a long change dear departed mother, who apparently could make or a short change or during spring breakup, he the keyboard sing with a touch so gentle and sweet it would bring his guitar and teach me the latest song that he had learned. made the angels weep. Of course, he would never teach me the song all One day I would sit down and play for company

the way through, mostly because he never knew it all the way through. But it didn’t matter. My brother and I and sometimes our other siblings sang our own rendition of old spiritual songs such as It is no Secret What God Can Do and I’ve Got a Mansion and country favourites such as Down in the Valley, Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley and Streets of Laredo and we felt all happy. Sometimes my dad would play his violin as we sang. The music made us completely happy and we never did understand why everyone didn’t want to stop what they were doing and sing with us so they could be completely happy, too. I thought of us, my siblings and me, singing and playing and laughing together in that little old house with linoleum floors and a coal and wood stove when I listened to The Barra MacNeils. And I felt a bittersweet twinge of envy, not because they were so incredibly talented, but because they were lucky enough to be all there together singing and playing and just having fun. And I wondered if the one girl in the band knew how lucky she was to be playing and singing with her brothers. I certainly thought she was. Very lucky! Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is the editor of the Rimbey Rivew. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

Change happens for “inspiration or desperation” some deep-level changes.” When I thought of the desire I had to improve my self-esteem it seemed I was motivated by a little of both – inspired by the possibility of a better life and driven by a desperate need for change. I hadn’t hit rock Years ago, I was speakbottom but my lack of selfing to an older friend and worth had taken me frightmentor about making some fully close. significant life changes. I Unconscious incompeMURRAY had been working on buildtency, as my dear mentor FUHRER ing my self-esteem by readwent on to explain, is a freing books, attending workEXTREME ESTEEM quent state of being. We’re shops and listening to guest speakers. I was learning living an unfulfilling life a lot yet still I found myand we really don’t know why we’re self living out many of the same old unhappy. Essentially, we lack awarepatterns. I could espouse great ideas ness and the understanding or tools yet couldn’t seem to carry through on necessary to initiate change. We’re them. stuck in a series of disempowering “How come change comes so easily ways of thinking and being. We’re livto some people and not to me?” ing on autopilot, disengaged. “It only seems easy,” he replied We arrive at a place of conscious inwith a chuckle. “Change “Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.” – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and ethicist

requires tenacity.” “Was it easy for you?” I asked. “Did you have to be tenacious?” “More than tenacious,” he said. “I had to be patient and persistent.” My dear mentor explained that change is best understood when broken down into four distinct stages: unconscious incompetency, conscious incompetency, conscious competency and unconscious competency. I sat back knowing a vital life lesson was about to unfold. “Change happens for two reasons,” he began, “inspiration or desperation.” Inspiration is recognizing the benefit of change and striving to be a better person today than you were yesterday. Desperation is change that is forced upon you by an external event or situation and is usually accompanied by a great deal of fear, self-resentment and even resignation. “It may help to think of it this way,” he explained. “It’s when you’ve hit rock bottom and there’s no way to go but up you may decide – at last – to make

competency when the drive to change becomes so great that we have no other option. We are inspired to change or desperate for change. This is where the search begins and this – as my mentor pointed out – was the place I was at currently. I had recognized the need for change and even collected a few tools but still had little understanding with regard to the purpose of each new tool or how to put it to practical use. “With patience and persistence, you will eventually arrive at the third stage.” Conscious competency is reached when we have the right tools or strategies and we know how to use them. However, we still find ourselves occasionally slipping back into old patterns. We backslide then catch ourselves and have to restart the process. As long as we think about it and remain vigilant, we can stay on purpose. Think of breaking an old, well worn habit.

“This stage can be challenging and even exhausting but is absolutely essential.” The final stage is unconscious competency. Our efforts have paid off and the new skill has been fully integrated and become second nature. We don’t have to think about it any longer. “It’s the same process with anything in life,” he explained, “from reading to riding a bike.” Becoming aware of the four stages of change helped to clarify the processes for me and shine a little light on some of the challenges I’d been facing. It didn’t make it easier but it did make it more trackable and easier to move through in a systematic, goal focused manner. Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreem Esteem: the four factors. For more information on self esteem, check the Extreem Esteem website at www.extreemesteem.ca

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Blood-boosters may give tiny preemies a developmental edge BY LINDSEY TANNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Two blood-building drugs injected soon after birth may give tiny preemies a lasting long-term edge, boosting brain development and IQ by age 4, a first-of-its-kind study found. The study was small but the implications are big if larger, longer studies prove the drugs help even the playing field for these at-risk children, the researchers and other experts say. Babies who got the medicine scored much better by age 4 on measures of intelligence, language and memory than preemies who didn’t get it. The medicine group’s scores on an important behaviour measure were just as good as a control group of 4-yearolds born on time at a normal weight. The results are “super exciting,” said Dr. Robin Ohls, the lead author and a pediatrics professor at the University of New Mexico. She said it’s the first evidence of long-term benefits of the drugs when compared to no blood-boosting treatment. Even though the treated youngsters didn’t do as well as the normal-weight group on most measures, their scores were impressive and suggest greater brain development than the other preemies, Ohls said. They scored about 12 points higher on average on IQ tests than the untreated kids but about 10 points lower than the normal-weight group. On tests measuring memory and impulsive behaviour, the treated kids fared as well as those born at normal weight. Here’s how those differences would show up in a preschool setting: The untreated group would be the kids who struggle a little in class, while the those who got the medicines would do OK but not as well as those born at a normal weight, said Dr. Michael Schreiber, a prematurity expert at the University of Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital. Survival of extremely tiny preemies has improved

dramatically in the past 50 years, but treatment for medical problems and developmental delays linked with prematurity has not kept pace, Schreiber said. He was not involved in the study. He said larger studies including more diverse patient populations are needed to determine if the drugs can help a broader range of preemies. The study involved 53 children, most white or Hispanic, born more than a month premature and weighing less than 3 pounds at hospitals in New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. Two dozen normal-weight children were also included. Results were published Monday in Pediatrics. Shortly after birth the preemies were randomly assigned to receive injections of either erythropoeitin (EPO), three times weekly darbepoetin once a week for several weeks or no treatment. The drugs build red blood cells and are approved to treat anemia caused by cancer treatment or resulting from

other conditions. Preemies lack the ability to make new red blood cells and often need frequent blood transfusions to replace blood taken for lab tests. The drugs are now sometimes used to try to reduce their need for transfusions, in doses similar to the ones studied. The drugs can increase endurance by boosting oxygen levels in the blood, and have been implicated in some sports doping scandals. Dr. Sandra Juul, a University of Washington pediatrics professor, is leading a larger multi-centre study of both drugs in preemies and said it’s too soon to recommend the medicines for treating developmental delays. Still, since almost half of infants born extremely early have significant developmental problems, any treatment that could improve their lives “is incredibly important,” Juul said.

New research finds noise harder on children BY LAURAN NEERGAARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — From the cacophony of day care to the buzz of TV and electronic toys, noise is more distracting to a child’s brain than an adult’s, and new research shows it can hinder how youngsters learn. In fact, one of the worst offenders when a tot’s trying to listen is other voices babbling in the background, researchers said Saturday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “What a child hears in a noisy environment is not what an adult hears,” said Dr. Lori Leibold of Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. That’s a Catch-22 in our increasingly noisy lives because “young children learn language from hearing it,” said Dr. Rochelle Newman of the University of Maryland. “They have a greater need for understanding speech around them but at the same time they’re less equipped to deal with it.” It’s not their ability to hear. For healthy children, the auditory system is pretty well developed by a few months of age. Consider how hard it is to carry on a conversation in a noisy restaurant. Researchers simulated that background in a series of experiments by playing recordings of people reading and talking while testing how easily children detected words they knew, such as “playground,” when a new voice broke through the hubbub, or how easily they learned new words. The youngest children could recognize one per-

son’s speech amid multiple talkers, but only at relatively soft noise levels, Newman said. Even the background noise during relatively quiet day care story time can be enough for tots to miss parts of what’s read, she said. It’s not just a concern for toddlers and preschoolers. The ability to understand and process speech against competing background noise doesn’t mature until adolescence, Leibold said. Nor is the challenge just to tune out the background buzz. Brief sudden noises — someone coughs, a car horn blares — can drown out part of a word or sentence. An adult’s experienced brain automatically substitutes a logical choice, often well enough that the person doesn’t notice, Newman said. “Young children don’t do this. Their brain doesn’t fill in the gaps,” she said. Children who were born prematurely may have an additional risk. When preemies spend a long time in an incubator, their brains get used to the constant “white noise” of the machine’s fan — different from a full-term baby who develops hearing mom’s voice in the womb and thus is wired to pay more attention to voices, said Dr. Amir Lahav of Harvard Medical School. He had mothers of preemies record themselves singing lullabies or reading stories, and filtered them along with the sound of mom’s heartbeat into the incubator three times a day when she wasn’t otherwise visiting. The brain’s auditory cortex became more developed in babies given that extra womblike exposure compared with preemies with typical incubator care, Lahav found. Moreover, when those babies were big enough to leave the hospital, they paid more attention to speech, he said.

“Exposure to noises and sounds very early in life will spill over to affect how our brain is going to function,” Lahav said. Noise also is a special challenge for children with hearing loss, who may need technology beyond standard hearing aids to cope, Leibold said, describing special receivers that can transmit a teacher’s voice directly to the ear so it’s not lost in classmates’ chatter. The research has implications for classroom design, too, Leibold added, as the type of flooring or ceiling height can either soften kids’ natural noise or bounce it around. But learning starts at home, and University of Maryland child language specialist Nan Bernstein Ratner often has parents ask if they should stimulate a tot’s environment with interactive toys and educational TV. “We tend to think bustling environments and creating background noise is stimulating for kids,” she said. But, she said, “what’s stimulating on the part of the parent may not be for the child.” Among the tips: • Don’t leave the TV, radio and other electronics on in the background. It’s not clear whether soft music is distracting, but lyrics might be, Ratner said. • Speak clearly and make eye contact. • Especially in noise, make sure tots see your face. They can pick up on mouth movements, Newman said. • If the child doesn’t understand, try again with simpler words. • If a child’s having school behaviour problems, make sure being unable to hear in class isn’t the problem.

Mystery brain disorder robs patients of their words BY LAURAN NEERGAARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A mysterious brain disorder can be confused with early Alzheimer’s disease although it isn’t robbing patients of their memories but of the words to talk about them. It’s called primary progressive aphasia, and researchers said Sunday they’re finding better ways to diagnose the little-known syndrome. That will help people whose thoughts are lucid but who are verbally locked in to get the right kind of care. “I’m using a speech device to talk to you,” Robert Voogt of Virginia Beach, Virginia, said by playing a recording from a phone-sized assistive device at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “I have trouble speaking, but I can understand you.” Even many doctors know little about this rare kind of aphasia, abbreviated PPA, but raising awareness is key to improve care — and because a new study is underway to try to slow the disease by electrically stimulating the affected brain region. PPA wasn’t identified as a separate disorder until the 1980s, and while specialists estimate thousands of Americans may have it, there’s no good count. Families may not even seek care because they assume a loved one’s increasingly garbled attempts to communicate are because of agerelated dementia, said Dr. Argye Elizabeth Hillis of Johns Hopkins University. Often, it’s when those people reach neurologists who realize they aren’t repeating questions or forgetting instructions that the diagnosis emerges. “Nobody’s talking to them, nobody’s involving them. It’s very sad,” said Dr. Margaret Rogers of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Yet for many, “they can handle their own finances, they can drive, they can appreciate music. There’s a lot that still works for them.” Speech and language are hugely complex. Just to speak requires activating 100 muscles between the lungs and lips to produce at least 14 distinct sounds per second, said Dr. Joseph Duffy of the Mayo Clinic. Stroke or brain injury patients often have trouble making sounds or retrieving words. PPA occurs for a different reason, because the brain regions that control language become diseased and degenerate, resulting in communication difficulties that may mimic broader dementia. Special MRI scans can tell the difference, Hillis

said. They also can help identify whose aphasia will or calling up verbal phrases he’d pre-programmed worsen faster, and who has a subtype that can morph into it. Asked to say “dog,” Voogt forced out only a to become Alzheimer’s-like, where they eventually garble. But asked what cowboys ride, he typed horsdo lose memory and the ability to understand lan- es and the device “said” the word. guage. His form of PPA also impacts grammar so that Standard language therapy has patients match he has difficulty forming full sentences, Hillis said. pictures to the correct word, to keep the wiring Asked to write that’s “it’s a cold day in Washington,” involved as active as possible. Now, Hillis’ team is Voogt typed a minute or two and the device’s recordtesting if a kind of brain stimulation that sends elec- er emitted “cold Washington D.C.” Voogt typed that he started relying on the device trical signals through the skull can rev up the effects in 2012, but lives independently and travels internaof that treatment. In the first 19 patients tested, people did better tionally. But asked how difficult the loss of language retrieving the right words for about two months is to live with, he typed out a pretty bad rating — 70 after receiving the electrical stimulation than when per cent. they received sham zaps with their regular therapy, Hillis reported Sunday. They were more able to name objects they hadn’t practiced, and brain scans showed better connectivity in the affected region. But it will take far more study to prove if the treatment produces lasting effects, she cautioned. Until there’s better medical treatment, Voogt, the Virginia patient, illusis proud to support the trates how assistive communication devices can Advocate “Newspapers help patients’ quality of in Education” program by life. Now 66, Voogt was diproviding newspapers for agnosed 10 years ago, with classroom use at a form of PPA that makes him unable to say words even though he can understand and type them via email, text or his assistive device. He owns a Helping students gain brain-injury rehabilitation centre, and knew how skills for tomorrow. to track down a specialist for diagnosis when he first had trouble retrieving words. Joe’s Roofing Sunday, Voogt patiently answered Hillis’ ques403-350-7602 tions by typing into a device called the MiniTalk,

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New mortgage rules kick in OTTAWA LOOKS TO COOL TORONTO, VANCOUVER MARKETS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canadians looking to buy homes between $500,000 and $1 million will have to put down larger down payments as new federal rules took effect Monday. Under the changes, homebuyers must now put at least 10 per cent down on the portion of a home that costs more than $500,000. Buyers can still put down five per cent on the first $500,000 of a home purchase. Homes that cost more than $1 million still require a 20 per cent down payment. Phil Soper, president and CEO of Royal LePage, says the new rules aim to slow the breakneck pace of price growth in the red-hot markets of Toronto and Vancouver without affecting markets that are lagging, such as those in oil-dependent provinces. “The problem with monetary policy is that it impacts the struggling Calgary market or the just fine Winnipeg market and the overheated Vancouver market in equal amounts,” Soper said. “If you lower interest rates, you lower interest rates for all. And that’s not what the country needed. This change … is the first attempt to recognize the fact that some parts of the country are in need of a mild tap on the break, while other parts of the country really need to continue to receive stimulus.” When the new rules were announced in December, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said he estimated they would affect about one per cent of the

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT NEW MORTGAGE RULES TORONTO — Homebuyers in Canada now face larger down payment requirements for properties over $500,000. The changes are intended to temper some of Canada’s heated real estate markets. Here are five things to know about the new rules: Cough up the cash: Homebuyers now have to put at least a down payment of 10 per cent on the portion of the price of a home over $500,000. For anyone buying a home for $700,000 — a common list price in Vancouver and Toronto — that means the minimum down payment will rise to $45,000 from $35,000. Any home under $500,000 still requires only a down payment of five per cent. Who’s affected: Primarily those shopping for a home in Toronto and Vancouver. First-time buyers in those cities will feel the pinch since they’ll be required to put down bigger down payments to get into the market. Those selling their homes in order to size up, especially in cities with hot housing markets, likely won’t feel the pain since they’ve built up equity in those properties. overall real estate market. Some industry observers predicted a surge in sales activity as homebuyers would look to pre-empt bigger down payment requirements. Soper says real estate markets in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec have been “boisterous” in the first five weeks of the year — but he says it’s unlikely that the new mortgage rules are responsible. “I think it has much more to do with clean sidewalks from a mild winter and low mortgage rates

Impact: The influence the new rules will have over house prices is expected to be small, experts say, given their narrow reach. When he announced the changes in December, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said they are expected to affect one per cent or less of the real estate market. Sales activity: Some analysts expected a surge in sales leading up to Monday’s changes, saying they would lure homebuyers who wanted to avoid making the bigger down payments. Royal LePage CEO Phil Soper says sales activity has been “boisterous” in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec in the first five weeks of this year, but he credits a relatively mild winter and low mortgage rates. Past measures: Four rounds of changes were made to tighten eligibility rules for new insurable loans between 2008 and 2012. Among them: the minimum down payment was increased to five per cent, the maximum amortization period was reduced in stages to 25 years from 40 years and the maximum insurable house price was limited to below $1 million. than it does with impending changes that tweak mortgage insurance regulations,” Soper said. “It’s just not a big enough change to have materially impacted home sales volumes in the country.” Ottawa tightened rules for new insurable loans four times between 2008 and 2012, including upping the minimum down payment to five per cent and reducing the maximum amortization period in stages to 25 years from 40 years.

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In this 2014 photo, truck drivers stop at a gas station in Emerson, Ga., north of metro Atlanta, to fill up their tractor trailer rigs. After a decade of study, the federal government says it will implement new safety regulations in two years that are aligned with U.S. efforts to tackle fatigue among truck and bus drivers. Drivers will be required to electronically record their hours on the road, says Transport Canada, marking a change from the mandatory paper logs that have been in use since the 1930s.

New rules coming for bus and truck drivers BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — After years of study, the federal government says it’s working to implement new safety regulations that are aligned with U.S. efforts to tackle fatigue among truck and bus drivers. Drivers would be required to electronically record their hours on the road, says Transport Canada, marking a change from the mandatory paper logs that have been in use since the 1930s. “Transport Canada believes that any compliance date should be operationally feasible and aligned, to the fullest extent possible, with the date that the U.S. rules will come into force,” spokeswoman Natasha Gauthier said in an email, but she added there’s been no commitment on timing. Those American regulations are due to come into force in late 2017. The regulations would cover cross-border and interprovincial travel, Gauthier added. “The technical specifications and standards for electronic logging device (ELD) technology may differ slightly between the U.S. and Canada, but should not be necessarily inconsistent,” she said. Industry players have been frustrated by how long it has taken Ottawa to change the regulations. “We have been talking about this for 10 years,”

said Motor Coach Canada CEO Doug Switzer. “Ironically, the industry would like to see regulations on these kinds of things and it’s the government that is dragging their feet on it.” If implemented, commercial truck and bus drivers would be required to record their hours behind the wheel with devices that automatically record driving time by monitoring engine hours, vehicle movement, kilometres driven and location information. The devices are estimated by the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to annually save US$1 billion in administrative costs, about 26 lives and prevent 562 injuries. Similar Canadian figures weren’t available. The units also make it easier for provincial officials monitoring compliance and would address concerns that handwritten forms could be doctored. The Canadian Trucking Alliance says the move towards electronic logs will bring the industry into the 21st century. “Our industry shares its workplace with the public more than any of the other mode of transportation, yet the enforcement community is relying upon an archaic, outdated way of monitoring and enforcing what is arguably the most important safety rule,” said president David Bradley. The devices, which cost an average of a couple of thousand dollars depending on type of unit, track

hours on the road and rest periods to help companies to better manage their fleet. Truckers and bus drivers are currently allowed to be behind the wheel for up to 13 hours in a day but must be off-duty for 10 hours, eight of which must be consecutive. Bradley said about half of Canadian trucks have or are in the process of installing electronic devices. TransForce, one of North America’s largest trucking companies, said the devices are already installed in all of its big fleets in the U.S. “It’s just the small guys that are not ready yet but they will have to get ready for the end of 2017,” CEO Alain Bedard told analysts during a conference call. There is general acceptance among drivers, even though privacy concerns have been raised because the electronic devices allow companies to track their every move, says Leo Laliberte, assistant director of the freight division of Teamsters Canada, which represents about 25,000 truckers in the country. In addition to reducing fatigue, the devices and anti-harassment provisions in the U.S. regulations protect workers from being forced by companies facing driver shortages to work longer hours, he said. Laliberte said any new regulations in Canada should take into account the country’s unique challenges, including longer travel distances and fewer rest stops compared to the U.S.

Time your biggest asset when rates are low With interest rates continuing at record low levels, how can investors realistically expect to grow their Registered Retirement Plans (RRSPs) and their retirement savings? That answer will ultimately depend on the circumstances of the individual involved, how much time they have to invest and grow their savings and how much risk they are prepared to take. “Each individual’s circumTALBOT stances are unique, but a fiBOGGS nancial adviser will be able MONEYWISE to help you define your goals and develop a plan that will determine what kind of investments you ultimately choose for your portfolio,” says Christopher Stewart, an adviser with Edward Jones in Halifax. In a low-interest rate environment, your greatest friend is time. The more time you have to invest the greater risk you can take and the more time there is for your investments to grow. “Generally, for a younger person at 30 their RRSP is long-term money and as such they are willing and able to take on more risk,” says Stewart. “Risk tolerance ultimately will determine what investments you make, but the most important thing is to start saving as soon as you can because your biggest asset

is time.” For example if you invest $300 a month at age 30 and get an annual rate of return of seven per cent you will have $497,000 by the time you’re 65. If you only invest $100 a month at the same rate and for the same amount of time your savings would only be worth about $165,000. “Although the rate of return in this example might be high in today’s environment it clearly shows the cost of waiting to invest,” Stewart says. “You don’t have to start with thousands – you can start with less but the key is to start as soon as you can and to continue over time.” Stewart says a conservative portfolio today made up of 50 per cent equities of 50 per cent fixed income can expect to achieve growth of three to four per cent while a more aggressive one with greater risk can expect returns of between five or six per cent. Another way to determine rate of growth is to use the rule of 72 — it takes 72 years to double your money at one per cent, 10 years to double your money at 7.2 per cent or 20 years at 3.5 per cent. If all of your investments are in your RRSP you may want to consider a traditional balanced income or growth fund consisting of short- and long-term bonds and some equities. If, like most Canadians, you have money in both registered accounts such as RRSPs and Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs), and in non-registered accounts, tax efficiency and the structure of your accounts comes more into play. Because interest income is fully taxed, it is often recommended to keep interest income products such

as bonds, cash, and Guaranteed Investment Certificates in your RRSP. As well, keep any U.S. and foreign investments in your RRSP because they are not subject to withholding tax, unlike a TFSA or a Registered Education Savings Plan where they are subject to withholding taxes. One common financial decision Canadians frequently have to make is what to do with lump sums of money such as tax refunds — should I pay down my debt, including my mortgage, or contribute to my retirement savings account? There’s no easy or definitive answer to that question. A lump sum of money can be used for both purposes and people ultimately have to decide on the balance that is right for them. How much time you have on your side might affect your decision. “For a young person putting money into an RRSP and getting the immediate tax benefit up front may be a good thing, particularly if they use it to reinvest or drawn down debt,” says Stewart. “But RRSPs are taxable in the future, so in other cases it may make more sense to contribute to a TFSA where you can withdraw the money tax free. The decision must be based on individual circumstances but the important thing is to save something – the earlier the better to get the asset of time on your side and working for you.” Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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World stocks rally after Japan’s Nikkei jumps BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONG KONG — World stocks rallied on Monday, led by a jump in Japan’s main index, amid hopes for more stimulus from central banks in Europe and Japan. Will Wall Street closed for Presidents’ Day, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 soared 7.2 per cent to close at 16,022.58, rebounding from last week’s slump to post its second biggest one-day gain in three years. That led to big gains in Europe, where Britain’s FTSE 100 closed 2 per cent higher at 5,824.28 and Germany’s DAX gained 2.7 per cent to 9,206.84. France’s CAC 40 rose 3 per cent to close at 4,115.25. Stocks began rallying after government data showed Japan’s economy shrank 1.4 per cent on an annualized basis last quarter because of weak consumer demand and slower exports. It’s a setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic revival program, which aims to stoke inflation through massive monetary easing. However, the report also gives the government more reason to open the stimulus taps wider to restore growth, economists said. “Together with the recent slump in the Nikkei

and the appreciation of the yen, the case for additional easing remains compelling,” said Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics. He predicted the Bank of Japan will step up bond purchases and push interest rates that are already in negative territory even lower. Investor sentiment was also bolstered by comments from China’s central bank chief playing down the likelihood of a one-off devaluation of the yuan. People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan signalled in a Caixin magazine interview published over the weekend that there was no basis for further depreciation of China’s currency, providing relief for the country’s exporting neighbours worried that a weakening yuan would hurt their competitiveness. Later in the day, stocks were nudged higher and the euro fell sharply after the European Central Bank reiterated that more stimulus would be considered at the next policy meeting in March. The euro was down 1 per cent at $1.1138 after ECB chief Mario Draghi said Monday there were “a variety of instruments” the ECB could employ if it decided more stimulus is needed. It could pump more money into the economy or cuts rates further, something that would weigh on the value of the euro.

U.S. futures, meanwhile, rose. Dow futures up 1.2 per cent and those for the S&P 500 up 1.3 per cent. Elsewhere, South Korea’s Kospi climbed 1.5 per cent to 1,862.20 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was up 3.3 per cent to 18,918.14. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 1.6 per cent to 4,843.50. Taiwan’s benchmark was flat while markets in Southeast Asia gained. The Shanghai Composite Index in mainland China, though, lost 0.6 per cent to finish at 2,746.20 after reopening following the Lunar New Year holiday. Chinese shares were also weighed down by the latest monthly trade figures. Exports fell 11 per cent while imports slid by nearly a fifth, according to customs data, highlighting persistent weakness in the world’s second biggest economy. Economists, however, were reserving final analysis until figures for February are out because the timing of the Lunar New Year holiday distorts China’s economic data at the beginning of the year. In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude oil futures rose 29 cents to $29.73 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract climbed $3.23 on Friday. Brent crude, a benchmark for international oils, gained 5 cents to $34.04 a barrel in London.

Oil, gas sites ‘like walking in ghost town’: survey BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN PRESS An environmental group is raising concerns about pipes, wellheads, pumpjacks and even entire buildings left abandoned in the British Columbia backcountry from oil and gas developments. “We found that very, very few of all the wells we looked at had been what we consider properly restored,” said John Werring, science adviser for the David Suzuki Foundation. “Wellheads had been removed but all the casings were there. The ponds to collect process water were still on site. There were pumpjacks — entire pumpjacks — left in the field and had been there for 30 or 40 years.” Last August, Werring headed out to northeastern British Columbia in the Fort St. John region to assess how industry was cleaning up after itself. The team covered 4,000 kilometres of back roads in 10 days and assessed 35 sites, both well pads and facilities such as compressor stations. According to information from the British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission, the sites had been dormant for an average of 14 years — although their ages varied from months to 41 years. The commission has listed all the sites as either

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Provincial regulations require operators to reclaim sites before they are designated abandoned or suspended. But Werring notes the regulator may waive those requirements if they are judged not “reasonably practicable.” There are about 10,000 wells in British Columbia that are considered either abandoned or suspended. But unremediated well sites are a problem throughout the energy-producing provinces. In Alberta, the provincial regulator estimated in October there are nearly 21,000 inactive wells that don’t meet cleanup guidelines. In Saskatchewan, Premier Brad Wall recently asked for $156 million from the federal government to clean up old wells in the province, as well as put unemployed energy industry workers back on a payroll. The B.C. commission has also clarified up its own rules. Last September, it broadened the definition of what equipment must be removed from dormant well sites.

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“abandoned” or “suspended” — designations that normally require significant cleanup. Werring said only two of the sites — less than six per cent — appeared to have been cleaned up at all. In six of the sites, investigators discovered releases of poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas, either through its characteristic rotten-egg smell or by readings on gas monitors. One gas plant seemed to have been left almost entirely intact. “All the buildings, all the compressors, flare stacks, first aid shacks,” Werring said. “It was essentially like walking into a ghost town, like somebody had turned off the switch and walked away and had done nothing to do any kind of site rehabilitation.” One investigator walked through an open gate into a building on a compressor station site that had been suspended since 2000. “There was a coffee pot sitting there on a timer. The coffee pot was warm.” The oil and gas commission took issue with some of the report. Spokesman Alan Clay responded in an email that some of the wells the group visited weren’t dormant, but were actually still producing. Clay also said the commission took action in November 2013 on one of the wells referenced in the report. “Remediation is ongoing and the responsible party is working to address the residual environmental concerns,” Clay said in the email.

Embattled aircraft builder Bombardier Inc. releases its fourth-quarter and year-end results on Wednesday. The company is waiting to hear if it’s getting an aid package from Ottawa. Quebec’s trade minister said recently the province will consider a further investment in Bombardier if federal aid doesn’t materialize.

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Quebec’s home renovation retailer will release its fourth-quarter results on Tuesday. Earlier this month, Rona announced that U.S. home improvement chain Lowe’s is buying the company in a friendly takeover valued at $3.2 billion Cdn.

On Friday, Statistics Canada releases the consumer price index for the first month of the year. The annual inflation rate for December grew to 1.6 per cent, fuelled by soaring prices for numerous products including fruits and vegetables.

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MONTREAL — The president and CEO of energy company Petrolia Inc. demanded Monday that the Quebec government clarify whether it will respect contracts it signed regarding oil and gas exploration on Anticosti Island. Alexandre Gagnon said Premier Philippe Couillard has been making statements in the media against drilling on the island but has refused to communicate with his company. Since the United Nations climate change conference in Paris in December, the Quebec government has “cut off all communication,” he said. “Never did the government think it would be a good idea to talk to its partners to discuss its stance or to address concerns,” Gagnon told a news conference in Quebec City. In April 2014, the previous Parti Quebecois government took a 35 per cent share in a limited partnership — one in which Petrolia has a 27 per cent stake — to drill several exploratory

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Rebels lose Toth in loss to Ams NETMINDER WILL BE OUT LENGTHLY PERIOD WITH HIGH ANKLE SPRAIN BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Americans 5 Rebels 2 Call it a double whammy. The Red Deer Rebels not only suffered a 5-2 WHL loss to the Tri-City Americans in front of 6,641 fans Saturday at the Centrium, they lost the services of their No. 1 netminder, possibly for a lengthy period. The Rebels coughed up four goals in a second-period span of just under nine minutes, and Rylan Toth went down with a high ankle sprain during that stretch and never returned. Ouch. “Those six or eight minutes cost us the game and unfortunately during that time we lost our No. 1 goalie, too,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, who has summoned Dawson Weatherill from the midget AAA Red Deer Optimist Chiefs to serve as Trevor Martin’s back-up during a four-game road trip starting tonight in Kelowna. Toth was injured when former teammate Tyler Sandhu came down the wing, crashed the net and slipped the puck past the Red Deer goalie for a 3-1 Tri-City lead at 17:24 of the middle frame. Just 12 seconds earlier Jordan Topping connected while alone at the side of the crease, and his goal followed a marker by Michael Rasmussen at 9:45 that pulled the visitors even. Americans forward Beau McCue closed out the period with a goal at 18:27, deflecting a point shot by that glanced off him and then the glove of Rebels rearguard Colton Bobyk and past Martin. “For that stretch tonight we played like we did last night for 60 minutes,” said Sutter, in reference also to Friday’s 4-1 loss at Calgary. “We were awful in our own zone, there was a lack of communication, we didn’t finish any checks and we were terrible around the front of our net. “Outside of the span where they scored those four goals, our compete level and work ethic was where we like it to be, and to be quite honest, it was probably 50 per cent better than it was last night when we had no compete. “But again, you can’t give up four and five goals in games and think you’re going to win. You have to shut it down, you have to defend better. You have to take more pride in that.” The Rebels were at least the Americans’ equals during a scoreless first period and opened the scoring with a power-play goal from Adam Musil at 8:50 of the second stanza. Luke Philp drew the assist, his slapshot from the high point tipped home by Musil. But then the home side crashed and burned, and even their urgent push in the third period — in which they outshot their guests 16-3 — wasn’t enough to overcome the large deficit. “We generated enough offence, we just didn’t capitalize on our opportunities,” said Sutter. “That was the difference, but then you have to have the mind-

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Adam Helewka of the Red Deer Rebels puts the pressure on Parker Wotherspoon of the Tri-City Americans during Saturday night WHL action at the Centrium. The Rebels fell to the Americans 5-2. set that we have to win games 2-1 or 3-2. That gets you into the mindset that you can defend the right way, then you can rely on the other aspects that make up your team to make sure you get that one extra goal.” Evan Polei cut down the left wing and beat TriCity netminder Nicholas Sanders with a high shot to the short side to cut the visitors’ lead to 4-2 just 44 seconds into the final frame, but Sanders held the fort the rest of the way and Parker Bowles was credited with an empty-net goal at 19:34 when he was hauled down by a Red Deer defender with Martin on the bench. “The little things that need to be done and executed every night we let slip in the second period and it cost us,” said Rebels defenceman Haydn Fleury. How the loss of Toth will affect the Rebels might become more clear during the road trip into B.C. Martin will get the start tonight and Sutter isn’t concerned about a lack of focus on his part. “Unfortunately it’s just the way it’s gone for us

this year with all the injuries we’ve had to battle through. But Trevor is a battler and a competitor,” said Sutter. “There’s nothing we can do about the injury, we just have to get through it and that’s where defending will help us too. I thought in the third period tonight we didn’t give up much and we generated some offence. But again, we have to make a bigger and a stronger commitment to shutting teams down.” Toth stopped 15 of 18 shots before being replaced by Martin, who blocked four of the five shots he faced. Sanders made 35 saves for the Americans. The Rebels continue their trip with a Wednesday stop in Kamloops, then take on the Prince George Cougars Saturday and Sunday. “This wasn’t the way to build momentum before going on the road, but we’re going to go out and play some good teams,” said Fleury. “We have to have our A game ready and have a good road trip.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Flames doused by Ducks in matinée BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Ducks 6 Flames 4 CALGARY — The Anaheim Ducks’ machine is perfectly tuned right now. Mike Santorelli scored twice, Corey Perry had a goal and an assist, and the streaking Ducks went three-for-three with the extra man in a 6-4 victory over the Calgary Flames on Monday afternoon. “We’re having fun,” said Perry. “Everybody knows their role, everybody’s playing their role and everyone’s doing the right things. It’s working out right now.” Thanks to a 9-1-1 record in their last 11, Anaheim has passed San Jose and climbed into second place in the Pacific Division. Perry tied the game 3-3 at 2:15 of the second when he banged a Cam Fowler rebound past Jonas Hiller on the power play. The Ducks went right back to the man advantage and needed only 11 seconds to take the lead for good with the puck going in off the skate of Sami Vatanen. “All of us, we’ve got to get down, we’ve got to block some shots and not let them get to our net,” said Flames captain Mark Giordano. “There’s way too many pucks around our crease. You’re going to get burnt if you keep allowing that.” Hamphus Lindholm and Rickard

Rakell also scored for Anaheim (28-198). The Ducks are 3-1-1 with two games to go on a seven-game road trip. Jiri Hudler had two goals and an assist to lead Calgary (25-27-3). Johnny Gaudreau had a goal and two assists and Sean Monahan had three assists as the Flames’ top line combined for nine points. Dougie Hamilton also scored. “They made it tough. They’re a big team so they keep you on the outside and they push you back but I felt that scoring four goals at home should be plenty enough to leave the building with two points,” said Flames coach Bob Hartley. Hiller was pulled after Vatanen’s goal, leaving with 13 saves on 17 shots. Joni Ortio, in his first NHL action since October, didn’t fare much better. He was beaten on the second shot he faced, as Rakell’s goal at 12:18 of the second period put Anaheim ahead 5-3. Ortio finished with nine saves. Calgary got back to within one on Hudler’s goal with seven seconds left in the second but the Ducks regained their two-goal cushion 51 seconds into the third on Santorelli’s second of the game. “It’s always nice when you have a couple goal lead on a team. It takes off a little bit of the pressure off,” Santorelli said.

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Anaheim Ducks’ Patrick Maroon, left, provides a screen in front of Calgary Flames’ goalie Jonas Hiller, as a shot by Ducks’ Hampus Lindholm scores during first period NHL action in Calgary, Monday.

Kings even second-half record with sweep over Lightning RDC BASKETBALL BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Kings 106 Lightning 63 CALGARY – The RDC Kings have been inconsistent during the second half of the Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League season. After losing high-scoring Ian Tevis during the Christmas break the Kings won only two of six starts before heading into this weekend’s doubleheader against the St. Mary’s University Lightning. The Kings evened their second-half record at 4-4 by sweeping the twin bill from SMU, including an impressive 106-63 victory at St. Mary’s Saturday. “It appears as if we are getting back on a roll,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger. “The previous years it was about this time when we started to hit our stride. For most of the second

half we were wondering when it was going to happen, if at all. This weekend we seemed to get some of that swagger back.” The Kings beat the Lightning 9973 Friday but Pottinger felt the team could do a better job defensively for 40 minutes. They did Saturday. “We played overall pretty good,” said Pottinger. “We made a couple of adjustments from Friday and we made them work harder for what they got.” One move was to put more pressure on guard Matt Guinto, who had 24 points Friday. He had seven Saturday. Pottinger was also able to use everyone off the bench with Khurram Sultan taking the player of the game with 15 points on five-of-six shooting from three-point range, as well as playing solid defence. Anthony Ottley had 23 points and four rebounds, Matt Matear 22 points and five boards, Shayne Stumpf eight points, 17 rebounds and six assists, Rodney Teal 11 points, Matt Johnson eight points and 10 assists, JP LeBlanc seven points and seven assists

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and Jabin Binnendyk six points and five rebounds in 15 minutes of playing time. The Kings shot a blistering 55.8 per cent from the field, including 12 of 25 from the three-point line. The Kings and Olds sit with a 134 record and meet Thursday at RDC and Saturday at Olds. They finish their schedule at home, Feb. 27 and 28 against Briercrest. Medicine Hat is at 12-5 with Lethbridge at 11-6. “We have a big weekend coming up … it’s like the playoffs have begun,” said Pottinger. Lightning 85 Queens 62 The Queens started Saturday’s meeting with the Lightning in similar fashion to how Friday’s contest – a 6952 loss – ended. “We started exactly how we finished, with little defence,” said Queens head coach Ken King. The Queens were tied 44-44 with the Lightning Friday before letting down defensively. On Saturday they were down 22-8 in the first quarter before picking up the pace.

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The Queens outscored the Lightning 22-21 in the second quarter and lost the third 20-17 and the fourth 22-15. ‘Overall their press killed us,” said King. “We’d break it three or four times easily then turn the ball over three times in a row for layups. We know how to run the press break, but weren’t consistent.” Emily White turned in a brilliant performance for the Queens, finishing with 19 points, 21 rebounds and five assists. Dedra Janvier added 15 points and Kennedy Burgess eight points and five assists. The Queens couldn’t handle Montana Romeril, who had 31 points. The Queens, 7-10, still have an outside shot at a playoff berth as they are tied with Olds and trail SAIT, 10-8, with four games remaining. SAIT has three games left two against undefeated Lethbridge and one against the second-place Lightning, 15-3. 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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Queens creep closer to second place SWEEP OF OLDS COLLEGE SETS UP BIG STAKES FOR SERIES AGAINST SAIT BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

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Hanna Delemont of the RDC Queens tips the ball over the net and past Olds College Broncos middle, Brooklynn Gathercole during a Saturday evening game at the RDC gym. Despite winning 3-0 on Friday Kings head coach Aaron Schulha wasn’t overly pleased. He felt the team let down after jumping into an early lead. That wasn’t the case Saturday as the Kings rolled to a 25-15, 25-13, 25-17 victory. “We came out of the gates a bit slow, but they do have some good athletes, although they made some errors which we were able to capitalize on,” said Schulha. “Then again we forced them into making some of those errors.” One area Schulha would have liked to have seen a better effort was in blocking. “I thought we left five or six blocks out there,” he said. “We need to get better in terms of eye sequences and making good reads and forcing them into mistakes.” Still the Kings were never pressed as they finished with 10 blocks, 35 kills and three aces. Olds had one block, four aces and 24 kills. Schulha also rested outside hitter Riley Friesen who was their player of the game Friday, inserting Regan Fathers in at power. Fathers had a solid game with 10 kills, seven digs, two blocks and an ace. “Regan did a good job,” said Schulha. “The last few times out he was down on himself and it snow-

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The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs split their final two Alberta Midget Hockey League regular season games, losing 3-0 to Lloydminster Saturday and defeating the Edmonton K of C Pats 6-1 Sunday. Dawson Weatherill made 46 saves against Lloydminster, then stopped 39 shots against the Pats. He then joined the WHL’s Red Deer Rebels as their backup goaltender for a four-game road trip. Tyrees Goodrunning scored twice against the Pats with single goals added by Levi Glasman, Regan Doig, Landon Siegle and Adam Sandstrom. The Chiefs had 54 shots on goal after getting only 14 against Lloydminster. The Chiefs open their best-of-three league quarter-final series against the Calgary Buffaloes tonight at 7:15 p.m. at the Red Deer Arena. The second game is Saturday in Calgary with the third, if necessary, Sunday in Red Deer.

The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs split a pair of weekend games, defeating Lloydminster 4-0 Sunday at the Collicutt Centre after losing 5-1 to the Rocky Mountain Raiders on the road Saturday. Shae Demale had the Chiefs lone goal against the Raiders while Emma Thomas, Breanna Martin, Cassidy Hollman and Skylar Colonna connected against Lloydminster. Bailey Knapp made 11 saves for the shutout.

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continued. Calgary has surrendered three power-play goals in three consecutive games and the Flames are now last in the NHL at 73.4 per cent. At home, they’ve yielded 20 goals on 68 opportunities. “It’s really frustrating,” said Flames centre Mikael Backlund. “We were doing so much better after Christmas and we were trying to build on it. It’s tough to have so many penalties the last two games and today and not be able to kill them.” Andersen finished with 33 saves to improve to 13-8-6. Notes: Calgary scratched were Kris Russell (lower body), David Jones (lower body) and Matt Stajan (maintenance)… Anton Khudobin dressed as the Ducks back-up with John Gibson (upper body) unable to play… Flames goaltender Karri Ramo, who was placed on IR after hurting his leg on Thursday, will undergo an MRI on Tuesday to determine the severity of the injury. He was spotted entering the arena on Monday with a walking cane.

From that point forward with momentum gone for the Flames, the Ducks didn’t give Calgary very many chances. “I said in between periods, the only way I think we can lose is if we get into a track meet with these guys and you go chance for chance or take dumb penalties,” said Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau. “In the first period we took four and the last period we took none. It’s a big difference between winning and losing, doing the right little things.” The Flames’ short-handed struggles

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The Red Deer North Star Chiefs earned three of a possible four points during the weekend. The Chiefs downed the Calgary Rangers 4-2 on Saturday in Calgary then tied the Calgary Gold at home Sunday. Ethan Schlag, Tanner Smith, Zachary Zapariuk and Lyndon Kidd scored against the Gold while Justin Vereda

balled into making some errors. Today he did a good job of keeping in it. That’s important as we need everyone going forward.” Schulha also used his bench for part of the second set and the entire third. “It was good to give everyone some playing time, so they are rewarded for their hard work in practice and are sharp going ahead,” said Schulha. The Kings, 21-1, are ranked No. 1 in Canada and will go into the provincials, Feb. 25-27 at NAIT, seeded No. 1. ‘We have to concentrate on SAIT first as they’re playing well,” said Schulha. “But the main thing is for us to focus on our side and continue to hold ourselves to a certain standard. If so we will be OK.” Middle Ty Moorman was the RDC player of the match with eight kills and one block. Kashtin De Souza had five kills and four digs, Luke Brisbane 16 assists, two blocks and two digs and backup setter Ryan Beaton 11 assists. Dylan White had nine kills for Olds. 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.

made 24 saves. His teammates had 35 shots on goal. Addition information on the win over the Rangers was unavailable. Meanwhile, the Red Deer Strata Engery Chiefs dropped a 4-3 decision to the Calgary Blazers Saturday. Elijah Johanson, Ryan McBeath and Rylan Burns scored for the Chiefs. Duncan Hughes made 24 saves in goal.

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The Red Deer Rebels finished their regular season by splitting a doubleheader, beating Airdrie 6-2 Saturday and losing 4-2 to the Calgary Bisons

Sunday at home. Kyle Gerrits had two goals and Josh Zinger, Noah Danielson, Caileb Berge and Payton Wright one each against Airdrie. Danielson and Deegan Moffard scored against the Bisons while Bretton Park made 38 saves. The Rebels finished third in the Ram South Division and meet the Rocky Mountain Raiders in the playoffs, which they open tonight on the road. The second game is Friday at 7:15 p.m. at the Red Deer Arena with the third game, if needed, Saturday.

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Queens 3 Broncos 0 Earlier in the season when it appeared as if first place in the South Division of the Alberta Colleges Women’s Volleyball League was in the hands of the Briercrest Bible College Clippers and out of reach the RDC Queens set their sights on finishing second. The two-time defending national champions gave themselves a chance to do just that with a 25-22, 2225, 25-17, 25-15 victory over the Olds College Broncos at RDC Saturday and a sweep of their weekend doubleheader. They won 3-0 at Olds, Friday. The third-place Queens, 15-7, are two points back of the SAIT Trojans, 16-6, with the teams meeting next weekend in a home-and-home series - Friday at RDC and Saturday in Calgary. “It came down to us winning against Olds and setting up the weekend against SAIT,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “We put ourselves in the right spot with an opportunity to move into second. The nice thing is we’re playing well in our gym which is a bonus with the provincials here.” The only negative Saturday came midway through the second set when the Queens blew a 17-10 lead. “Our serve receive was a little off,” explained Walton. “We could have done a better job on first touch. When we don’t do a good job with that it puts more pressure on our outside hitters. When we pass the ball well we can run more through the middle.” When setter Ashley Fehr was able to run the offence through the middle as well as the outside the Broncos had little to stop them. In the end power hitters Kelsey Tymkow and Miranda Dawe finished with 13 and 12 kills respectively, right side McKenna Barthel had nine kills and middles Whitney Zylstra and Hanna Delemont had nine and seven kills respectively. “That’s what we want to see from our middles,” said Walton, who was impressed with Zylstra’s steparound attack. “She has a very good first step and ranks right up with the best we’ve had here over the years,” he said. “She’s lightning fast.” Zylstra, who transferred from Briercrest this season, also had 12 digs, three blocks and an ace. Delemont had five digs, a block and two aces. “We’ve left Whitney in the back row after she served and it’s picked up her play in the front row as well,” said Walton. Tymkow was the player of the match, adding 23 digs, three aces and a block to her stats. Dawe added 18 digs while Barthel had three blocks and two digs, Fehr 45 assists, four digs, an ace and a block and Olivia Barnes 14 digs. Lacombe native Naomi Jardine led Olds with 17 kills, 14 digs and an ace. Tara Yuha had 10 kills and 12 digs. Kings 3 Broncos 0

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Westbrook earns MVP honours in leading West to 196-173 all-star win BY LORI EWING THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — On a night that saw LeBron James throw down monstrous dunks, Steph Curry toss up buzzer-beating threes, and Kobe Bryant make his final all-star appearance, Toronto played perhaps the starring role of the 65th NBA all-star game. With the city providing a spectacular — although chilly — backdrop for the first NBA all-star game played outside the United States, the Western Conference roared past the East 196173, setting a record for points. And when Drake addressed the crowd pre-game, he summed up the fuzzy feel-good mood in the Air Canada Centre on Sunday. “This is the best game with the best players — finally in the best city in the world,” the rapper and Raptors’ global ambassador told the giddy Air Canada Centre crowd. Russell Westbrook poured in 31 points, grabbed eight rebounds and had five steals and five assists to become the first player to win back-toback MVP awards outright. (Bob Pettit won the 1958 MVP and shared the honour with Elgin Baylor in 1959.) “Any time you can be able to be in the history books, it always means something to me, man,” said the Oklahoma City guard. “I’m just thankful to be able to play the game of basketball and be in a game like this is something that I never take for granted.” Curry added 26 points, and with the clock ticking down and the Air Canada Centre crowd cheering him on, the reigning league MVP and Golden State guard drilled a dramatic threepoint shot that dropped through the net, drawing a massive roar of delight. “Just thankful to finally make one from pretty deep out,” Curry said. “I tried it like two or three times in the game and saved the best for last, so that’s fun.” Paul George, who’s made a spectacular comeback after breaking his leg in 2014, had 41 points to lead the East — one point shy of Wilt Chamberlain’s scoring record set in 1962. His nine three-pointers were an all-star record. Bryant, playing his 18th consecutive and final all-star game — the future Hall of Famer will retire after this season — was feted in a touching pre-game video montage introduced by NBA legend Magic Johnson. He finished with 10 points, and received a standing ovation, and chants of “Kobe! Ko-be!” when he left the floor with just over a minute to play. “It was fun,” said Bryant, who had his children sitting behind the bench for the game. “I had a blast playing with those guys, laughing and joking with them on the bench. And, you

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Western Conference’s Russell Westbrook, of the Oklahoma City Thunder, (0) slam dunks past Eastern Conference’s Paul George, of the Indiana Pacers, (13) during second half NBA All-Star Game basketball action in Toronto on Sunday, February 14, 2016. know, I got a chance to stop Pau (Gasol) in a post, redeem myself from what he did to me when Chicago came to town. “But all those things are just fun. I had a great time. I had a great, great time.” Bryant added to his long list of records when he grabbed his 38th career all-star steal to pass Michael Jordan — one of dozens of retired NBA stars in the crowd — for most all-time. Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan made history of their own for the Raptors, becoming the first two Toronto players voted onto the team. Lowry started and finished with 14 points, while DeRozan had 18. “I think tonight it capped a great weekend,” Lowry said. “Toronto, I think we put ourselves on the map a little bit around the world.” The game, as always, was a dazzling offensive showcase, with huge alley-oop dunks drawing “ooohs” from a star-studded front row that included Spike Lee — in bright orange hat and glasses to match, and shiny gold sneakers. Among the other celebrities that

came out: Super Bowl MVP Von Miller, Toronto Blue Jays legend Joe Carter, former host of “The Daily Show” Jon Stewart, actors Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde, comedian Kevin Hart and supermodel Kate Upton and her boyfriend Justin Verlander. Defence? Non-existent, and game officials must have been sweating the scoring over the final minutes, as the ACC scoreboard doesn’t go beyond “199.” It was clear virtually from the opening tip-off it was going to be a high-scoring affair, and the West took a 92-90 lead into halftime, breaking the record for points in a half (89 set in 2014). In between the fast-paced action on the court, there was plenty of Canadian content, including a tribute to Dr. James Naismith, the Canadian who invented the game. Naismith’s grandson Jim Naismith was presented with a ball signed by the all-stars, and two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash told the crowd “I’m proud (the all-stars) will be showcasing their skills here in Canada.”

Canadian women’s star Natalie Achonwa introduced a celebration of the WNBA’s 20th anniversary. Drake, dressed in a garish multi-coloured “Farewell Mamba” leather jacket in a tribute to Bryant, took the stage for the player introductions, with Bryant, Lowry and DeRozan receiving the loudest cheers. The crowd booed East coach Tyronn Lue — Raptors fans argued Dwane Casey should have earned coaching honours — and cheered West coach Gregg Popovich. Sting, the former frontman of the Police sang at halftime, while Cirque du Soleil, the acrobatic group founded in Montreal, performed a pre-game act that was part basketball, part parkour. Nelly Furtado sang “O Canada,” while Ne-Yo performed the American anthem. The night capped a glitzy three days of festivities in Toronto. The only negative was the deep freeze that enveloped the city, as temperatures on Saturday plummetted to minus-23 Celsius.

Argos, Eskimos and Ticats hit hard by CFL free agency BY DAN RALPH THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Chase Elliott, far left, poses for photos with his crew after qualified for the pole position in the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Rookie Chase Elliott becomes youngest on Daytona 500 pole BY DAN GELSTON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Chase Elliott was too young to really remember celebrating in victory lane with his father, dressed in a shirt that matched Bill Elliott’s firesuit and a little finger pointed toward the sky because daddy was No. 1. But here’s a father-son snapshot Chase can savour forever: “Awesome Bill” waiting with a big embrace Sunday at Daytona International Speedway for the son who proved he’s capable of following in some Hall of Fame footsteps. Elliott kept the No. 24 Chevrolet on the pole for the second straight Daytona 500, with the rookie becoming the youngest driver to land the top spot in NASCAR’s biggest race. “I don’t know if this opportunity has sunk in yet, much less sitting on the pole for the Daytona 500,” Elliott said. The 20-year-old has the ride of a lifetime, taking the seat from retired four-time champion Jeff Gordon at Hendrick Motorsports. Gordon was in the broadcast booth at Daytona, calling the shots as the No. 24 went around the track without him for the first time since 1992. Elliott has some practice following the great ones: His father, Bill, is a two-time Daytona 500 champion. “The manner which (he) went about his business, I think is really special,” Chase said.

Without showing the pressure on the track that comes with the ride, Elliott’s top speed was 196.314 mph and he outran 43 others in front-row qualifying Sunday. He also showed that Hendrick cars could be contenders again after taking a backseat to Joe Gibbs Racing and Team Penske in 2015. Nonetheless, the Gibbs cars continued their strong opening to Speedweeks by putting Matt Kenseth on the front row for the Daytona 500. It came on the heels of Denny Hamlin’s victory in Saturday night’s exhibition race and showed that the team hasn’t lost a step since Kyle Busch claimed the Sprint Cup title in November. Busch was fourth fastest in Sunday’s time trials, with Carl Edwards ninth and Hamlin 10th. JGR was the only multicar team to put all of its cars in the top 10. But Gibbs cares little about the buildup to the Feb. 21 season opener. Year after year, his drivers prove to be the best of the bunch during Speedweeks but come up empty in the main event. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: The Elliotts became the fourth father-son combination to earn the Daytona 500 pole, joining Richard Petty (1966) and Kyle Petty (1993), Bobby Allison (1981) and Davey Allison (1991), and Dale Earnhardt (1996) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2011). Bill Elliott, a two-time Daytona 500 champion, landed the pole in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 2001.

CFL free agency has offered few surprises for Jim Barker. When over 120 players hit the open market Tuesday, the Toronto Argonauts GM’s priority was bolstering his Canadian content knowing it could cost him some American starters. So while Barker made seven moves last week, including the signing of tackle Josh Bourke and defensive lineman Brian Bulcke — both Canadians — the Argos lost nine free agents, the most notable being quarterback Trevor Harris (Ottawa), linebacker Greg Jones and running back Curtis Steele (Saskatchewan) and slotback Chad Owens (Hamilton). Last year Toronto lost SirVincent Rogers, the CFL’s top lineman in 2015, to Ottawa as a free agent. Barker’s emphasis was also on Canadians prior to free agency, signing defensive lineman Ricky Foley, defensive back Jermaine Gabriel, linebackers Cory Greenwood and Thomas Miles and offensive lineman Wayne Smith to extensions. Harris started 16 games last year, but Toronto still has veteran Ricky Ray, who played the club’s final three games before signing a two-year extension in December. Still, Harris’s departure creates questions given Ray, 36, needed most of last season to recover from off-season shoulder surgery. Sophomore Logan Kilgore and journeyman Adrian McPherson are Toronto’s other quarterbacks. It’s a situation similar to 2012 when the Argos had unheralded rookies Harris and Zach Collaros — now Hamilton’s starter — behind Ray. “Scott (Argos head coach Scott Milanovich) has a lot of confidence in Logan Kilgore,” Barker said. “The fact those two guys (Collaros and Harris) are going to be starting quarterbacks in our division is just the way it happened to play out. “When you get Ricky Ray, that’s what he gives you the opportunity to do: Develop these guys.” Hamilton has lost the most free agents (10), including receiver Terrell Sinkfield Jr. and defensive back Erik Harris to the NFL. Also gone is American Justin Medlock (Winnipeg), leaving the Ticats without a kicker or punter on their roster. But Hamilton made a huge splash by re-signing Canadian defensive tackle Ted Laurent, one of the most coveted free agents, and adding Owens

while re-signing defensive lineman Michael Atkinson, receiver Andy Fantuz and defensive back Courtney Stephen — all Canadians — and quarterback Jeremiah Masoli. The Grey Cup-champion Edmonton Eskimos have also been hit hard this off-season. Shortly after their championship win, head coach Chris Jones left to become the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ head coach/GM, taking a number of his assistant coaches with him. Once free agency began, receiver Shamawd Chambers, the top Canadian in last year’s Grey Cup game, offensive lineman Andrew Jones, running back Kendial Lawrence and defensive back Otha Foster all followed their former coach to Saskatchewan. Edmonton re-signed linebacker JC Sherritt and running back John White after achieving extensions for receiver Adarius Bowman, defensive lineman Almondo Sewell and kicker Sean Whyte. “I don’t feel we lost anyone we didn’t expect to go,” Eskimos GM Ed Hervey said. “My objective wasn’t to go out there and spend the most money and make that kind of news. Signing Harris diminished some of the sting for the East Division-champion Redblacks, who lost Canadian defensive linemen Justin Capiccotti (Saskatchewan) and Keith Shologan (Winnipeg), defensive back Jovon Johnson (Montreal) and running back Jeremiah Johnson (B.C.) in free agency. Predictably, last year’s two non-playoff squads were the most active. Winnipeg (5-13) opened free agency signing seven players, the biggest being running back Andrew Harris (B.C.), a Manitoba native who’s also a ratio changer. General manager Kyle Walters, in the final year of his contract, also added Medlock —the most accurate kicker in CFL history — Canadian centre Jeff Keeping (Toronto) and American receiver Ryan Smith (Saskatchewan). The following day Saskatchewan (3-15) reached an agreement with Capiccotti while signing Greg Jones, densive backs Foster and Ed Gainey, running backs Lawrence and Steele while obtaining American offensive lineman Bruce Campbell from Toronto for a 2016 fourth-round draft pick. Chris Jones opened free agency by re-signing Canadian defensive lineman Dylan Ainsworth, then adding Chambers, Andrew Jones and American receiver John Chiles, a former Argo.

SCOREBOARD Local Sports • Senior high basketball: Lacombe at Rocky Mountain House, Camrose at Ponoka, Notre Dame at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. • Men’s basketball: Lacombe All Sports Cresting vs. Monstars, Johns Manville vs. Rusty Chuckers, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. • Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Airdrie, first game of best-of-five Northern Division semifinal, 8 p.m. • WHL: Red Deer at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. (The Drive).

Wednesday • Junior varsity basketball: Camrose at Notre Dame, Hunting Hills at Ponoka, Rocky Mountain House at Stettler, Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, Lindsay Thurber at Camrose; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. • WHL: Red Deer at Kamloops, 8 p.m. (The Drive). • Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, second game of best-of-five Northern Division semifinal, 8:15 p.m., Arena.

Thursday • College basketball: Olds at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. • College women’s hockey: Olds at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. • Men’s basketball: Alken Basin vs. Triple A Batteries, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday • Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills senior girls/boys tournament. • College volleyball: SAIT at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. • Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy Graphics at Central Alberta, 6 p.m., Lacombe. • Bantam AA hockey: Bow Valley at West Central, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake. • WHL: Red Deer at Prince George, 8 p.m. (The Drive). • Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Airdrie, third game of best-of-five Northern Division semifinal, 8 p.m. • Senior hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, third

game of best-of-seven Chinook League and provincial AAA semifinal, 8:30 p.m., Lacombe.

Saturday • Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills senior girls/boys tournament. • Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena. • Peewee AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A; Red Deer TBS at Olds, 2:15 p.m. • Major bantam girls hockey: Calgary Outlaws at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. • Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Central Alberta at Olds, 4:45 p.m. • Midget AA hockey: Central Alberta at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Eckville; Red Deer Indy Graphics at Olds, 7:30 p.m. • College men’s hockey: Portage at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. • Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, fourth game of best-of-five Northern Division semifinal, if necessary, 8 p.m., Arena. • WHL: Red Deer at Prince George, 8 p.m. (The Drive).

Sunday • Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Strata Energy, noon, Arena. • Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Steel Kings, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Okotoks at West Central, 3:15 p.m., Rocky Mountain House; Medicine Hat at Olds, 5:30 p.m. • Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Olds, 3 p.m. • Men’s basketball: Grandview vs. Washed Up Warriors, Lacombe All Sports Cresting vs. Sheraton Red Deer, Silver Spurs vs. Alken Basin, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. Chillibongs, The D Leaguers vs. Wells Furniture, Triple A Batteries vs. Rusty Chuckers, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber. • Major midget girls hockey: St. Albert at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. • Senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, fourth game of best-of-seven Chinook League and provincial AAA semifinal, 5 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 35 17 .673 — Boston 32 23 .582 4 1/2 New York 23 32 .418 13 1/2 Brooklyn 14 40 .259 22 Philadelphia 8 45 .151 27 1/2

Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit Milwaukee

Southeast Division W L Pct 31 24 .564 29 24 .547 27 26 .509 23 28 .451 23 29 .442

GB — 1 3 6 6 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 38 14 .731 28 25 .528 27 25 .519 27 27 .500 22 32 .407

GB — 10 1/2 11 12 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 45 8 .849 — Memphis 31 22 .585 14 Dallas 29 26 .527 17 Houston 27 28 .491 19 New Orleans 20 33 .377 25

NBA Leaders THROUGH FEB. 14 Scoring Curry, GOL Harden, HOU Durant, OKC Cousins, SAC James, CLE Lillard, POR Westbrook, OKC DeRozan, TOR Davis, NOR George, IND Butler, CHI Thomas, BOS Anthony, NYK K. Thompson, GOL Lowry, TOR Wiggins, MIN

G 50 55 47 44 51 47 54 52 47 53 48 55 48 50 52 53

FG 498 449 445 401 484 387 459 412 422 391 357 383 360 386 344 392

FT 248 489 297 325 253 230 319 362 231 307 307 312 242 131 257 285

PTS 1489 1542 1302 1179 1275 1142 1301 1219 1098 1236 1074 1185 1026 1064 1090 1100

AVG 29.8 28.0 27.7 26.8 25.0 24.3 24.1 23.4 23.4 23.3 22.4 21.5 21.4 21.3 21.0 20.8

FGA 317 371 387 457 443 699 475 383 411 675

PCT .703 .617 .612 .560 .555 .544 .541 .533 .530 .521

Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers

Pacific Division W L Pct 48 4 .923 35 18 .660 22 31 .415 14 40 .259 11 44 .200

GB — 13 13 18 23 GB — 13 1/2 26 1/2 35 38 1/2

Sunday’s Games West 196, East 173 Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled

FG 223 229 237 256 246 380 257 204 218 352

Jordan, LAC Whiteside, MIA Howard, HOU Kanter, OKC Faried, DEN Towns, MIN Gortat, WAS Noel, PHL Lopez, NYK Monroe, MIL

Drummond, DET Jordan, LAC Howard, HOU Cousins, SAC Whiteside, MIA Gasol, CHI Pachulia, DAL Love, CLE Towns, MIN Randle, LAL

G 54 51 44 44 45 49 50 51 54 54

OFF 272 189 157 102 136 110 182 109 150 118

DEF 535 527 371 387 358 423 353 418 397 420

TOT 807 716 528 489 494 533 535 527 547 538

AVG 14.9 14.0 12.0 11.1 11.0 10.9 10.7 10.3 10.1 10.0

Assists Rondo, SAC Westbrook, OKC Wall, WAS Paul, LAC Rubio, MIN Lillard, POR Green, GOL Harden, HOU Smith, PHL Thomas, BOS

G 51 54 51 48 48 47 51 55 48 55

AST 608 540 507 450 414 344 369 387 319 365

AVG 11.9 10.0 9.9 9.4 8.6 7.3 7.2 7.0 6.6 6.6

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF New England 6 4 2 .667 78 Buffalo 6 4 2 .667 80 Rochester 5 3 2 .600 63 Georgia 6 3 4 .429 91 Toronto 6 0 6 .000 58 GP Colorado 8 Saskatchewan 5 Calgary 7 Vancouver 6

West Division W L Pct. GF 6 2 .750 100 3 2 .600 59 3 4 .429 68 2 4 .333 68

GA GB 61 — 69 — 56 .5 93 1.5 85 4 GA GB 90 — 52 1.5 75 2.5 80 3

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF Brandon 56 35 17 2 2 220 Prince Albert 56 31 19 5 1 177 Moose Jaw 58 29 21 7 1 203 Regina 55 25 23 3 4 178 Swift Current 55 20 28 4 3 142 Saskatoon 56 19 33 4 0 164 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF Lethbridge 57 40 16 1 0 235 Red Deer 56 35 18 1 2 207 Calgary 56 32 21 1 2 184 Edmonton 57 24 26 6 1 156 Medicine Hat 57 20 33 3 1 171 Kootenay 56 10 41 5 0 117

GA 162 174 188 192 179 238 GA 160 160 174 176 234 238

Pt 74 68 66 57 47 42 Pt 81 73 67 55 44 25

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF Kelowna 57 39 15 3 0 205 Victoria 59 37 16 3 3 211 Prince George 57 31 22 3 1 206 Kamloops 56 26 22 5 3 183 Vancouver 57 21 29 5 2 160

GA 167 139 182 180 203

Pt 81 80 66 60 49

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF 56 33 19 2 2 148 56 31 22 3 0 176 56 27 22 4 3 188 57 29 25 3 0 181 57 27 26 2 1 187

GA 126 160 191 177 199

Pt 70 65 61 61 57

Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City

Monday’s results Regina 4 Swift Current 3 (SO) Tri-City 3 Edmonton 1 Moose Jaw 5 Prince Albert 0 Portland 2 Victoria 1 (OT) Sunday’s results Lethbridge 4 Calgary 2 Seattle 4 Victoria 2 Everett 3 Spokane 2 Saturday’s results Edmonton 4 Lethbridge 3 (OT) Moose Jaw 7 Saskatoon 4 Regina 5 Brandon 2 Swift Current 4 Medicine Hat 1 Tri-City 5 Red Deer 2 Kamloops 4 Vancouver 3 (OT) Kelowna 6 Prince George 4 Victoria 3 Everett 0 Spokane 4 Kootenay 3 (OT) Seattle 6 Portland 5 (OT)

Sunday’s results Buffalo 21 Georgia 14 New England 17 Toronto 16 (OT) Saturday’s results Rochester 16 Vancouver 15 (OT) Colorado 13 Calgary 8 Thursday’s result Colorado 9 Saskatchewan 7 WEEK EIGHT Friday, Feb. 19 Buffalo at Toronto, 6 p.m. Rochester at Saskatchewan, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20 Georgia at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. Calgary at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

WEEK SEVEN

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Wranglers sweep Thrashers to move on to division semis, to face Colts THREE HILLS — Makenzie Russell and Layne McLean each scored twice as the Blackfalds Wranglers dumped the Three Hills Thrashers 8-2 Friday to advance to the Heritage Junior Hockey League Northern Division semifinals. The Wranglers, who face the Mountainview Colts in the next round, swept the best-of-three quarter-final 2-0. Jaye Sutherland, Wally Samson, Bryce Boguski and Robin Carlson also tallied for Blackfalds. Michael Lougheed and Riley Griffith replied for Three Hills. Klay Munro made 26 saves as the winning goaltender. Greg Pols and Aiden Doel combined to stop 33 shots for the Thrashers. • The Red Deer Vipers will open their best-of-five semifinal series tonight in Airdrie versus the host Thunder. The clubs meet again Wednesday at 8:15 p.m. at the Arena and the third game will go Friday at Airdrie. A fourth game, if necessary, will be played Saturday at the Arena with the puck dropping at 8 p.m.

WHL Scoring Leaders Dryden Hunt MJ Brayden Burke Let Adam Brooks Reg Tyson Baillie Kel Reid Gardiner PA Parker Bowles TC Nolan Patrick Bra Ivan Nikolishin RD Alex Forsberg Vic Jesse Gabrielle PG Tyler Wong Let Mathew Barzal Sea Jayce Hawryluk Bra Kailer Yamamoto Spo Brayden Point MJ Giorgio Estephan Let Chase Witala PG Collin Shirley Kam Matthew Phillips Vic Jon Martin SC

G 41 20 28 32 35 31 28 27 23 35 32 18 28 19 27 27 34 31 31 35

A 47 66 56 47 41 43 43 43 46 32 35 49 36 45 36 36 28 31 31 25

Wednesday’s games Victoria at Vancouver, 1 p.m. Kootenay at Brandon, 6 p.m. Regina at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Swift Current at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Red Deer at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled. Saturday’s summary Americans 5, Rebels 2 First Period No Scoring. Penalties-Nikolishin RD (hooking), 13:46. Second Period 1, Red Deer, Musil 18 (Philp), 8:50 (PP). 2, Tri-City, Rasmussen 12 (Coghlan, Wotherspoon), 9:45. 3, Tri-City, Topping 23 (Bowles, Sandhu), 17:12. 4, TriCity, Sandhu 16 (Bowles, Wotherspoon), 17:24. 5, Tri-City, McCue 21 (Rayman, Lukin), 18:27. Penalties-Wotherspoon TC (tripping), 2:52 Rasmussen TC (hooking), 7:17. Third Period 6, Red Deer, Polei 14 0:44. 7, Tri-City, Bowles 31 19:34 (EN). Penalties-McCue TC (interference), 12:18.

Pts 88 86 84 79 76 74 71 70 69 67 67 67 64 64 63 63 62 62 62 60

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 57 33 18 6 72 Detroit 57 29 19 9 67 Boston 56 30 20 6 66 Tampa Bay 55 30 21 4 64 Montreal 57 27 26 4 58 Ottawa 57 25 26 6 56 Buffalo 57 23 28 6 52 Toronto 55 20 26 9 49

GF 160 146 172 147 157 163 136 134

GA 134 147 157 135 158 181 160 163

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 54 40 10 4 84 56 32 18 6 70 55 30 19 6 66 57 29 21 7 65 55 28 19 8 64 56 25 21 10 60 55 24 21 10 58 57 23 28 6 52

GF 181 163 161 127 142 137 131 148

GA 125 143 141 130 141 149 148 178

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Dallas 57 37 15 5 79 Chicago 60 37 18 5 79 St. Louis 58 32 17 9 73 Nashville 57 26 21 10 62 Colorado 59 29 26 4 62 Minnesota 55 23 22 10 56 Winnipeg 55 25 27 3 53

Tuesday’s game Red Deer at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Chicago 7, Toronto 2 Arizona 6, Montreal 2 Minnesota at Vancouver, late

Shots on Goal Tri-City 11 103—24 Red Deer 11 1016—37 Goalies-Tri-City, Sanders 4-3-0-1 (37 shots-35 saves). Red Deer, Toth 26-15-0-1 (18 shots-15 saves) Martin 9-3-1-1 (5 shots-4 saves). Power Play-Tri-City 0 of 1 Red Deer 1 of 3.

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

GF 187 170 143 151 158 135 142

GA 154 139 138 152 164 140 160

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 55 33 19 3 69 153 131 Anaheim 55 28 19 8 64 131 134 San Jose 54 29 20 5 63 160 146 Arizona 56 26 24 6 58 151 171 Vancouver 55 22 21 12 56 131 152 Calgary 55 25 27 3 53 150 168 Edmonton 57 22 29 6 50 143 171 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Sunday’s Games Buffalo 4, Colorado 1 New Jersey 1, Los Angeles 0 Detroit 6, Boston 5 St. Louis 2, Tampa Bay 1 N.Y. Rangers 3, Philadelphia 1 Monday’s Games Florida 2, Pittsburgh 1, SO N.Y. Islanders 4, Detroit 1 Anaheim 6, Calgary 4 Dallas 3, Nashville 2, OT

Tuesday’s Games Philadelphia at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Los Angeles at Washington, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at Carolina, 5 p.m. Boston at Columbus, 5 p.m. Buffalo at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m. San Jose at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m. Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Anaheim at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Chicago at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m. Montreal at Colorado, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Calgary, 8 p.m. Monday’s summary Ducks 6, Flames 4 First Period 1, Calgary, Gaudreau 22 (Monahan, Hudler), 5:56 (pp). 2, Anaheim, Lindholm 7, 9:59 (pp). 3, Calgary, D.Hamilton 9 (Monahan), 11:22 (pp). 4, Anaheim, Santorelli 8 (Fowler, Bieksa), 13:48. 5, Calgary, Hudler 8 (Gaudreau, D.Hamilton), 17:05. Penalties—Anaheim bench, served by Maroon (too many men), 2:48 Getzlaf, Ana (tripping), 5:09 Ferland, Cal (tripping), 8:43 Perron, Ana (holding stick), 11:19 Kesler, Ana (cross-checking), 19:13 Hudler, Cal (cross-checking), 19:13 Perry, Ana (tripping), 20:00. Second Period 6, Anaheim, Perry 22 (Fowler, Getzlaf), 2:15 (pp). 7, Anaheim, Vatanen 7 (Perron, Fowler), 3:20 (pp). 8, Anaheim, Rakell 14 (Perry, Despres), 12:18. 9, Calgary, Hudler 9 (Gaudreau, Monahan), 19:53. Penalties—Gaudreau, Cal (tripping), 1:21 Nakladal, Cal (holding), 3:09 Bieksa, Ana (hooking), 7:52. Third Period 10, Anaheim, Santorelli 9 (Manson, Despres), :51. Penalties—None. Shots on Goal Anaheim 14 95—28 Calgary 11 1313—37 Goalies—Anaheim, Andersen 13-8-6 (37 shots-33 saves). Calgary, Hiller 8-7-1 (17-13), Ortio (3:20 second, 11-9). Power-play—Anaheim 3 of 3 Calgary 2 of 5. NHL scoring leaders following Sunday’s games: Patrick Kane Chi Jamie Benn Dal Erik Karlsson Ott Tyler Seguin Dal Evgeny Kuznetsov Was Sidney Crosby Pit Nicklas Backstrom Was Joe Pavelski SJ Artemi Panarin Chi Blake Wheeler Wpg Johnny Gaudreau Cgy Taylor Hall Edm Anze Kopitar LA Alex Ovechkin Was Vladimir Tarasenko StL Evgeni Malkin Pit Ryan O’Reilly Buf Nikita Kucherov TB Brent Burns SJ Joe Thornton SJ Patrice Bergeron Bos John Klingberg Dal Bobby Ryan Ott Claude Giroux Phi Daniel Sedin Van John Tavares NYI Matt Duchene Col Nathanm MacKinnon Col Loui Eriksson Bos Alexander Steen StL Kyle Okposo NYI David Krejci Bos Jakub Voracek Phi P.K. Subban Mon Brad Marchand Bos Mike Hoffman Ott

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A 45 34 52 32 41 29 36 27 34 37 30 32 34 14 22 26 32 25 30 36 26 37 26 30 23 24 19 25 25 28 29 31 36 39 15 19

Pts 78 63 63 62 56 53 53 52 52 52 51 50 50 49 49 49 49 48 48 48 47 47 46 46 45 45 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 43 43

Kings crush Griffins to snap seven-game winless streak BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

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Kings 5 Griffins 1 PENHOLD – RDC Kings head coach Trevor Keeper decided to spend a little extra time with his team Saturday afternoon prior to facing the Grant MacEwan University Griffins in Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League action at the Penhold Regional Multiplex. The Kings were coming off a 5-1 loss at GMU on Friday and were trying to snap a seven-game winless streak, which saw them fall into sixth place in the conference. “We called the guys in 30 minutes early and talked about the slide and what we needed to do to get out of it,” explained Keeper. “We watched a little video from Friday and focused on the positives and briefly went over the negatives and talked about what we needed to do to turn things around. “And the guys really stepped up.” The Kings snapped their winless streak with a solid 5-1

RDC HOCKEY victory, which moved them into fifth place, one point up on SAIT and one behind GMU, with two games in hand. “It was an important game or us to show how we can play and to get back to playing a solid 60 minutes,” said Keeper. “The guys did that and were rewarded for it.” Then Kings also broke out with five goals, led by Pat Martens, who scored the first two at 6:28 of the first period and 2:16 of the second. “By getting some offence it gives everyone a little confidence and everyone breaths a little easier once we broke the bubble,” said Keeper. Marten’s second goal broke a 1-1 tie with Doug Jones connecting at 16:03 of the middle stanza and Riley Simpson at 9:13 and Ben Williams at 18:39 of the third. Jones and Williams scored on the power play as the Kings were two-forfive. The Kings killed off all three shorthanded situations. Kraymer Barnstable picked up the win in goal, finishing with 29 saves, including 12 in

CHINOOK LEAGUE HOCKEY Eagles 3 Generals 2 (OT) LACOMBE — Darren Robak’s goal at 6:21 of the first overtime period gave the Innisfail Eagles a 3-2 victory over the Bentley Generals and evened their best-of-five Chinook Hockey League semifinal 1-1. The Generals led 2-1 after the first period on goals by Ian Schultz and Tyler Brenner with Tyler Beechey tying the game for the Eagles at 18:28 of the second period. Robbie Smith

the first period. Only Ryan Benn was able to beat him at 19:27 of the first period. “He was solid,” said Keeper. “There was about a three minute stretch in the first period where we let down a bit and he came up big. Other than that the guys did a good job of controlling the play.” The Kings finished with 29 shots on Chris Wray. RDC has four games remaining on their schedule as they face seventh-place Portage next Friday in Lac La Biche and Saturday in Penhold and finish off against second-place Augustana – Feb. 26 in Penhold and Feb. 27 in Camrose. The Kings will play in a best-of-three quarter-final. The top two teams in the standings receive a bye with the next four meeting in the first round of playoffs. 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.

scored for Innisfail in the first period. Dan Dunn finished with 29 saves for the Eagles including five in overtime. Dustin Butler made 21 saves for the Generals, who took seven of 13 minor penalties and the game’s only major for kneeing and game misconduct, The third game is set for Friday at 8:30 p.m. in Lacombe with the fourth game Feb. 21 at 5 p.m. in Innisfail. If a fifth game is necessary it goes Feb. 28 at 5 p.m. in Lacombe. The other series sees the Stony Plain Eagles up 1-0 on Fort Saskatchewan following a 5-3 victory.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL OKOTOKS — The Lindsay Thurber Raiders posted a 1-2 record in the Foothills high school boys’ basketball tournament during the weekend. The Raiders opened against the host team, losing 82-55. Jonny Goulet had 13 points, TK Kunaka 12 and Grade 10 Vince Barbuco 11 for the Raiders, who then lost 92-79 to the George McDougall of Airdrie, the fifth-ranked 3A team in the province. Ben Pasiuk was named the team’s MVP for the game, finishing with 17 points. Barbuco had 18 and Kanaka 15. The Raiders finished the tournament with a 64-42 win over the Springbank Phoenix as Kade Bast was the team’s MVP, finishing with seven points. Goulet had 13 and Kanaka 11. The Raiders will compete in the Hunting Hills tournament, beginning Friday. • EDMONTON — The Notre Dame Cougars finished fourth in the Strathcona senior boys’

high school basketball tournament during the weekend. It was the first time in two years the Cougars didn’t make the top three in a tournament. The Cougars opened with a 74-58 victory over Charles Spencer of Grande Prairie before losing 95-22 to Strathcona as the host team hit 22 three-point shots. The bronze medal game saw the Cougars against a bigger Bev Facey squad from Sherwood Park and as a result they lost 88-56. “We learned a lot about defensive effort and cohesion, I hope, while also getting to evenly distribute minutes among all players to keep starters fresh and provide opportunity for reserve players to prove themselves and grow their game a little bit in live action,” said Cougars head coach Stephen Merredew. The Cougars face Wetaskiwin on the road in league play tonight. They will compete in the Hunting Hills tournament, beginning Friday.

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Richards not holding a grudge ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR BREAKUP WITH KINGS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARLINGTON, Va. — Mike Richards was supposed to be the Los Angeles Kings’ Derek Jeter and represent the pivotal piece to winning championships. He won two Stanley Cups, yet was shown the door last summer. Richards hit two highs and many more lows in four seasons with the Kings, who terminated his contract last summer. He had been sent to the minor leagues after his play and production dropped off and was arrested at the Canadian border in June for possession of a controlled substance. The 31-year-old eventually settled a grievance with Los Angeles but was out of the NHL until the Washington Capitals signed him in January. Richards faces the Kings on Tuesday for the first time since his departure and insists there are no hard feelings toward the organization or Los Angeles general manager Dean Lombardi. “He had to do things that he probably didn’t want to do at the end of the day, but I didn’t make it easy on him, either, to keep me around,” Richards said. “I want to say fault on both parts, but it’s probably more so on me, and he had to do what he had to do (for) what he thought benefited the L.A. Kings.” Lombardi could have bought out Richards with no salary-cap ramifications in the summer of 2014 after the Kings’ second Cup but let the twoway forward and former Philadelphia Flyers captain convince him to keep him around. The GM adored Richards and still praises him for setting the tempo in the first playoff series in 2012 against Vancouver, the first sign Los Angeles was title-bound. Acquired from Philadelphia at the 2011 draft, Richards had 15 points in

the 20 games during 2012 Cup run and was his usual penalty-killing, defensive-minded self for the first two seasons before he became a fourth-liner and was a bit part of the 2014 championship. The Kings waived him and sent him to the American Hockey League for a stint a year ago with the hope Richards would get his game together, but that didn’t happen and his 16 points were a career low. Richards’ off-ice problems publicly came to light when he was arrested for possession of a controlled substance at a North Dakota-Manitoba border crossing June 17. The Kings terminated his contract June 29 “for a material breach of the requirements of his standard player contract,” and in October they settled on paying him a portion of the $22 million left on the deal. Looking back on his time with the Kings, Richards remembers the Stanley Cups fondly and doesn’t want to harp on the bad times. “I don’t hold grudges,” the Kenora, Ontario, native said after a recent Capitals practice. “I’m happy to be here now and I’m a true believer that everything happens for a reason. We’ll see how this plays out.” Richards has yet to register a point in 11 games with Washington, where he’s able to play with former Kings teammate and 2014 playoff MVP Justin Williams. After Richards signed a pro-rated $1 million deal for the rest of the season, Williams said the Capitals are “not going to put a ceiling on what he can do because we’ve seen what he can do.” Coach Barry Trotz and general manager Brian MacLellan didn’t expect Richards to be an offensive juggernaut, believing instead he was a good fit as a gritty complementary piece. Trotz said he was honest about what he wanted from Richards and didn’t

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In this 2012 photo, Los Angeles Kings’ Mike Richards, top left, Andrei Loktionov, Jonathan Quick and Drew Doughty celebrate with the Stanley Cup in the locker room after the Kings defeated the New Jersey Devils 6-1 in Game Six of the NHL Stanley Cup finals at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Kings general manager Dean Lombardi thought he found his “Derek Jeter” in Mike Richards. The center won two Stanley Cups for the Kings, but his game went downhill and the team bought him out last summer after an arrest for possession of a controlled substance. Richards, now with the Washington Capitals, faces his former team tonight, holding no particular grudge. come in with preconceived notions. “I think he was a player that, it’s probably no different than (Alex Ovechkin), a lot of people make assumptions, a lot of people have perceptions and it’s not necessarily reality,” Trotz said. “It’s the outside world. Unless you’re in that locker room or you’re playing every night and competing with or against Mike Richards, that’s the only way you find out about

the person. He’s been as advertised coming in for us.” The day the Capitals signed Richards, Lombardi said: “Now that everything’s out in the open and the team can work with him without things being hidden, I think he’s got a great shot.” Richards said signing with the Capitals was all about winning — not proving the Kings wrong.

NHL draft hopeful Chychrun proud of Florida roots world junior squad. “It was tough not to make the team,” he said. “I tried to take all the positives away from that.” Apart from leaning on his dad for advice, Chychrun is also the nephew of former NHL defenceman Luke Richardson, now the head coach of the AHL’s Binghamton Senators. “We have family gatherings in Ottawa all the time,” said Chychrun. “I see my uncle in the summer or over Christmas break at the cottage. It’s great to have him as well. He obviously had a great career. I definitely use him a

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Jakob Chychrun didn’t fall in love with hockey on a frozen pond, or in a town where the game is treated like a religion. He got hooked not far from the beach. The six-foot-two 214-pound defenceman for the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League — expected to be among the top picks at June’s NHL draft — was born and raised about 70 kilometres north of Miami in Boca Raton. “I consider myself very lucky to be able to grow up in Florida and still have the opportunity to play hockey,” said Chychrun. “I knew at a young age this was what I wanted to do.” Coached by his dad, former NHL enforcer Jeff Chychrun, he developed his passion playing in local leagues as a youngster. But the family knew that fulfilling his dreams would mean leaving home, so they devised a plan to keep life normal for as long as possible while maximizing his chances of one day making the NHL. By the time he was 13, Chychrun and his father were making weekly round-trip flights from Florida to Michigan to play with the Little Caesars organization in Detroit, sometimes departing the sun and the sand on Thursday and returning in time for school on Monday. “We definitely racked up the Air Miles those two years,” Chychrun said in a recent interview. “But it taught me a lot about time management and discipline.” Then in the season before his OHL draft year, Chychrun (pronounced CHICK-run) moved north on a full-time basis to play with the Toronto Jr. Canadiens. That standout campaign in minor midget led to Sarnia taking him first overall in the spring of 2014. Chychrun, a dual citizen of Canada and the United States, has impressed observers in his 1 ½ years with the Sting and was rated as the No. 2 North American skater by NHL Central Scouting at the season’s midway point. He captained Team Cherry at last month’s BMO CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game in Vancouver and looks to already have the physical maturity of

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Sarnia Sting defenceman Jakob Chychrun skates during Team Cherry practice ahead of the CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game in Vancouver, B.C., on January 28. The six-foot-two 214pound defenceman for the Sarnia Sting was born and raised about 70 kilometres north of Miami in Boca Raton where he was coached by his dad, former NHL enforcer Jeff Chychrun. a pro despite not turning 18 until the end of March. “When you have a player that has the size, the skating and the strength, he’s the complete package that can play in any situation,” said Dan Marr, the director of NHL Central Scouting. “He’s capable as a defenceman to be a difference maker. “He’s got that NHL pedigree. He’s grown up around the game. He knows what’s ahead of him and I think he’s well prepared for it.” For all the accolades, Chychrun’s career hasn’t been without difficulty. He underwent shoulder surgery last season and was cut from Canada’s

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Another curling broom brouhaha is brewing ahead of Scotties, Brier BY DONNA SPENCER THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Curling’s sweeping saga is heating up again ahead of the men’s and women’s Canadian curling championships. The Frankenbroom controversy of 2015 has sprouted a second head on the eve of curling’s marquee events and could create tension between teams. The World Curling Federation declared a moratorium on broomheads with “directional fabric� in November with Curling Canada following suit. But new issues with currently legal brooms have left curling’s governing bodies with little time to react before the Canadian championships. The Scotties Tournament of Hearts main draw starts Saturday in Grande Prairie, Alta. The Tim Hortons Brier follows March 5-13 in Ottawa. Brooms with brushheads featuring “artificially-textured� fabric and hard inserts were banned after almost 50 of the world’s top teams declared they would not use them. The brooms were used to manipulate the trajectory of a thrown rock in unprecedented ways, and curlers were worried they would affect the integrity of the game. But the brooms also spawned a radical directional sweeping technique, with one sweeper sweeping at a time instead of two simultaneously. One sweeper enhances the rock’s curl, while the other sweeper is responsible for making the stone glide straight. The technique continued after the Frankenbroom ban because sweepers can influence a stone’s movement in the same manner, though to a lesser extent, with “legal� brooms. Directional sweeping is a trending topic heading into the Scotties and Brier, but another broom brouhaha is brewing. Brushes made with natural hog or horse hair were introduced to the sport in the 1980s, but have also undergone a recent transformation. They’re

now produced with synthetic hairs or a combination of synthetic and natural. Hair brushes are legal under the rules and known to be effective in frosty ice conditions. They’re in heavy use again because of directional sweeping. But there is debate raging in the curling community over whether a hair brush scores the ice with the same intensity as the banned directional fabric and thus impacts a rock’s movement the same way. It has created bad feelings at some provincial championships in the form of pointed comments and complaining to officials. “There’s definitely been instances of tension,� Alberta skip Chelsea Carey said. “It’s basically been people disagreeing with hair brooms being legal or kind of taking the stance they already are illegal, which they are not. “It really kind of puts a damper on what used to be a lot of fun and great camaraderie between teams and opponents and things like that, but now has become a bit contentious in some cases.� The WCF was pressed into hurry-up mode to study and address the directional fabric issue. Curling Canada’s high-performance director Gerry Peckham says there isn’t enough time for the world governing body to do the same with hair brushes and come up with a policy for its member federations prior to the Scotties, Brier and the men’s and women’s world curling championships. “How could you ever have anticipated that two different sweeping devices and two different products would both go through a manufacturing transition in such a short period of time, where one wasn’t a viable option for the other?� Peckham asked. “The perfect storm.� Newfoundland skip and Olympic gold medallist Brad Gushue says testing his team has done proves a hair brush straight out of the box scratches the ice as much as the outlawed directional fabric does. Gushue’s team has

Warriors chase history NBA BY BRIAN MAHONEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — The Golden State Warriors are chasing history. Everyone else in the NBA is chasing the Warriors. The defending champions have been so dominant that they could already be a 50-win team this weekend. And unless opponents start figuring out a way to slow Stephen Curry and the league’s most potent offence, they could be the best team ever by the time they’re done. Curry and fellow All-Stars Klay Thompson and Draymond Green took time out for fun in the first All-Star Game held outside the U.S., where Curry tossed in the final points in the highest-scoring game ever with a 42-footer to give the West a 196-173 victory. It won’t be long before they get serious again. “Yeah, obviously, Thursday, Friday, when games start up, put our game face back on and figure out how we’re going to try to finish out the season strong and go after another championship,� Curry said. They are 48-4 and will bring an 11-game winning streak into Portland on Friday when their season resumes. Golden State could reach 50 wins — for many clubs, the mark of a very good regular season — with a victory Saturday against the Los Angeles Clippers in what’s become perhaps the league’s testiest rivalry. The NBA record of 72 wins, set 20 years ago by Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls, could be in reach. “If it’s there for us we want to get it, but at the end of the day we’re trying to win a championship,� Thompson said. There are a couple of teams in the West, and a front-runner in the East that could pose the toughest challeng-

es to the Warriors. LeBron James dismissed a report this week that the Cavaliers were discussing trading Kevin Love, saying they had enough to win after a turbulent first half that included the firing of coach David Blatt not long after Kyrie Irving had returned from knee surgery. “Every piece that we have means a lot to the process,â€? James said. “Obviously with myself, Kyrie and Kev, we spearhead the whole thing. We’re focused on the main thing and knowing what the main thing is every day, we’re going to have a great chance.â€? So will the Spurs, who are just 3 ½ games behind Golden State at 45-8, and like the Warriors are unbeaten at home. They have won six in a row even while Manu Ginobili is recovering from surgery, as star off-season acquisition LaMarcus Aldridge looks more comfortable playing for his new team. “We’ve been winning and we’re putting ourselves in a position to be special,â€? Aldridge said. “So that’s what it’s about.â€? There’s plenty more to watch down the stretch, from Kobe Bryant’s final games before retirement to the rookie of the year race between Minnesota’s Karl-Anthony Towns and New York’s Kristaps Porzingis. But the focus will never be too far from the Warriors and Curry, who seems headed for a second straight MVP award. Their record-setting start to the season brought unusually high attention to the NBA’s pre-Christmas schedule, and a strong finish and a chance at 73 wins would do the same during March Madness. The record would be nice. The Warriors would prefer another ring. “I think we just want more. We’re not satisfied with winning the championship,â€? Green said. “We think we have something special and it only lasts so long, so we want to take advantage of that and not get complacent. Let’s continue to try to get more.â€?

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Manitoba skip Chelsea Carey calls a shot during her semi-final match against Alberta at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts curling action Saturday, February 8, 2014 in Montreal. Curling’s sweeping saga is heating up again ahead of the men’s and women’s Canadian curling championships. posted video of their testing on YouTube. “A new hair brush has the exact same impact,� Gushue said. “I’m hoping it gets banned before the Brier. It shouldn’t be in play. We have too much control over the rock with those brooms.� But Gushue says if Glenn Howard’s Ontario team pulls hair brooms out of their curling bags in Ottawa, his team will too. If that sounds hypocritical, Gushue is not about to give up a competitive advantage to an opponent. The stakes, financial and competitive, are now too

high in curling. There’s $1.5 million to be won in the Grand Slam of Curling, $100,000 in the annual Hot Shots, national and world titles on the line and berths to the Canada Cup, Continental Cup and Olympic trials to be gained. “You can’t play at a disadvantage,� Gushue said. “We work too hard and spend too much time to allow not obviously just Glenn Howard, but any team that’s there to have an advantage on us. “We have all kinds of hair heads ready to go.�

Vaughn Taylor wins Pebble Beach BY DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The celebrity portion of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was supposed to end on Saturday. And then came a script right out of Hollywood, starring Vaughn Taylor as himself. His victory over Phil Mickelson — also playing himself in this drama by the sea — sounds like pure fiction. Taylor is a 39-year-old who had gone just more than 10 years since his last victory and had not held a full PGA Tour card for the last three years. He once played in a Ryder Cup. Now he was trying to find his way back on the Web.com Tour, which included trips to Panama and Colombia the last two weeks, where he packed a golf bag with a kickstand because it was lighter and would spare him excess baggage fees. He ran off four straight birdies starting on the 13th hole, the last one a 30-foot putt on the tough 16th green that sent Taylor running around the green and high-fiving whoever was in his way. It was the first time he had the lead. Taylor closed with a 7-under 65 after missing birdie chances of 12 feet and 10 feet on the final two holes. He had a feeling it would cost him, especially when Mickelson birdied the 17th with a clutch putt and was just short of the green on the par-5 18th in two, 60 feet from the hole. He chipped to 5 feet and needed that birdie putt to force a playoff. Taylor was standing behind the 18th

green next to the ocean, a peaceful setting until one’s career was on the line. He was listening for the cheers of Mickelson’s birdie. He was expecting the cheers. Instead, he heard groans when Mickelson’s short putt spun out on the left edge of the cup. There’s your winner. Go figure. “Just absolutely amazing,� Taylor said of his one-shot victory over Mickelson, a five-time major champion already in the World Golf Hall of Fame. “Didn’t know if it would ever happen again, to be honest. And I can’t believe it actually happened today.� It was a sad ending for Mickelson, the 45-year-old who was poised to tie the record with his fifth victory at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and his first victory since he won the British Open at Muirfield in 2013. But he let his two-shot lead get away after only five holes, and it might have gotten out of hand if Mickelson had not made tough par saves in the 8-foot range on No. 3 and No. 9. Mickelson was on the verge of losing all hope until he made a 10-foot par save on the 16th hole to stay two shots behind, made a 12-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole to pull within one shot and then looked like a shoo-in to birdie the final hole. But he missed and shot 72. As for Taylor, the good life awaits. The victory sends him to the Masters for the first time since 2008, and while it’s a big deal for any golfer, it’s even better for residents of Augusta. “Playing in the Masters is my Super Bowl,� Taylor said.

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Beefy, beany stew is warm, simple meal BY MELISSA D’ARABIAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There are two kinds of people — fans of slow-cookers and those who haven’t tried them. I’m definitely the former. I just love my slow-cooker. I make everything in it, from summertime ribs to baked potatoes to spaghetti squash. But in the winter, there is nothing quite as satisfying as a thick stew or hearty soup that bubbles away gently all day, slowing filling the house with welcoming aromas while I’m off at work, running errands or spending the day at my daughters’ school. My kids’ slow-cooker favourite? Probably Southwestern stew. It has all the flavours they love, plus they are allowed to have (baked) corn chips at dinner, which is exciting stuff around the d’Arabian house. I make a version that is trimmed down and healthier, full of fiber and protein thanks to the combination of black beans and chickpeas. But the star of this soup is the ground beef. I love ground turkey, and I certainly have made this soup with it, but lean ground beef is, calorie-wise, a close peer of most ground turkey. In fact, many of the ground turkey packages offered will have higher fat and calorie count than 95 per cent lean ground beef. For a 4-ounce serving, lean ground beef boasts 24 grams of protein and just 160 calories and 4 grams of fat! And, ground beef just feels more like comfort food (since I grew up in an era before we regularly ground up our Thanksgiving bird to eat it year-round). SLOW COOKER SOUTHWESTERN STEW

To make this dish even easier, you can prep it up to the step of layering all of the ingredients in the slow cooker, then refrigerate it overnight. In the morning, just pop the slow cooker insert into the cooker and walk away. Start to finish: 4 hours on high, 8 hours on low (20 minutes active) Servings: 6 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 ½ pounds lean ground beef (93 per cent or leaner) 1 large yellow onion, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced or pressed 1 tablespoon chili powder 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon smoked or sweet paprika 28-ounce can diced tomatoes 12-ounce bottle light beer 1 cup prepared tomato salsa (mild or hot) 15-ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed 15-ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 cup frozen corn (do not thaw) 1 cup frozen chopped spinach (do not thaw) Juice of ½ lime Kosher salt and ground black pepper To serve: Crushed baked tortilla chips Cubed avocado Low-fat plain Greek yogurt Chopped fresh cilantro Chopped tomatoes Shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese In a large saute pan over medium-high, heat the oil. Add the beef and cook until browned, 6 to 8 minutes. Spoon the beef into a slow cooker, then layer the remaining ingredients (except the lime juice, salt and pepper) over it. Cook on high for 4 hours

or 7 to 8 hours on low. Stir in the lime juice, then season with salt and pepper. Serve with optional toppings. Nutrition information per serving: 540 calories 170 calories from fat (31 per cent of total calories) 19 g fat (6 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 80 mg choles-

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This Feb. 1, 2016, photo, shows slow cooker Southwestern stew in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead) This healthy recipe is full of fiber and protein thanks to the combination of black beans, chickpeas and lean ground beef.

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Transform a dull pork loin with simple ingredients heat. Add the butter, honey, oregano and cayenne. When the mixture starts to bubble (don’t let the honey burn) return the pork loin to the pan, roll the pork in the butter mixture, using tongs, even dipping the ends into the pan sauce. Place the pork in the middle of the pan and add the chicken broth. Transfer to the oven and roast for 1 hour to 1 hour 20 minutes, or until it reaches a 145 F at the thickest part. Turn the roast after the first 30 minutes of cooking. While the pork is cooking, in a small bowl mix together the sour cream, harissa, lime juice and salt and pepper, to taste. Remove the pork from the oven and let sit for 10 minutes before thinly slicing. Serve with the sauce. Nutrition information per serving: 450 calories 260 calories from fat (58 per cent of total calories) 29 g fat (11 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 120 mg cholesterol 360 mg sodium 9 g carbohydrate 0 g fiber 8 g sugar 39 g protein.

This is one of those recipes that makes you feel like a bit of a genius, because it’s so easy, requires so little active time, and tastes like you worked your little fingers to the bone. The sauce is a simple blend of sour cream and harissa with a squeeze of lime juice. Harissa paste is a fragrant, spicy chili paste that’s a widely used ingredient and condiment in North African and Middle Eastern cooking. It varies from place to place but always includes hot chili peppers (usually smoked), garlic, olive oil and spices such as cumin, coriander, caraway and sometimes herbs. It also may contain tomatoes. Look for it in the grocer’s international aisle. HONEY-OREGANO PORK LOIN Start to finish: 1 hour 40 minutes (20 minutes active) Servings: 10 For the pork: Katie Workman has written two cook4-pound centre cut pork loin Kosher salt and ground black pep- books focused on easy, family-friendly cooking, “Dinner Solved!” and “The Mom per 100 Cookbook.” She blogs at http://www. 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 tablespoons unsalted butter themom100.com/about-katie-workman/ ¼ cup honey 3 tablespoon minced fresh oregano ½ teaspoon ground cayenne pepper ½ cup low-sodium chicken broth or stock We would like to extend a huge thank you to all For the sauce: of our Volunteers and donors who helped make ½ cup sour cream 2015 GIFTS FOR 2 tablespoons harissa GRANDPARENTS paste such a huge success and put smiles 1 teaspoon lime juice on 603 seniors as they received their gift bag. Kosher salt and ground We would like to acknowledge black pepper the contributions of the following: Heat the oven to 375 F. • Rotaract Club of Red Deer Use paper towels to pat • The Moore family • Edge Wireline Inc. dry the pork loin, then • Venus Chapter No. 2 Order of the Eastern Star • Red Deer Masonic Lodge season it generously with • Red Deer West 4H beef club, • Scott Builders salt and pepper. • Hunting Hills 2016 Grad Executive. • Marliss McIntyre (15 lap afgans) Heat a heavy, oven-safe • Studon • Preceptor Chapter of Beta Sigma 5 skillet over high. Add the • Baker Family Chiropractor • Alberta Health Services oil and as soon as it is hot • Westerner Park • Alberta 760414 Ltda. • Hucal and Edwards Orthodontics add the pork and sear on • Marlin Travel all sides, turning it four • Deer Park Servus Credit Union • Red Deer Garden Club Members • Quilters Assoc. of Red Deer times, for about 3 minutes • Wawanesa Insurance • Annie L. Gaetz School per side, or until the out- • Johnstone Daycare • Camille School • Jesse Duncan School side is all nicely browned • Gateway Christian School and a bit crusty. • St. Patick’s Community School Transfer the pork to a • Nova Chemicals plate, pour off the remain- • Holy Family School ing oil in the pan, then re- • Fargeys, Paint and Wall covering Ltd. turn the pan to medium For more program info, please call FSCA at 403-343-6400 or visit www.fsca.ca

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1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main floor of house, c/w 5 appls, dble. att. heated garage, Lacombe, July 1st, n/s, $1350/mo. inclds. all utils. 403-782-2007 3 BDRM. main level house, Johnstone Park. $1200 + d.d., 70% utils., avail. now, no pets. 403-971-9640, 923-1119 4 BDRM. house on Kingston Dr. $1400/mo. Ron 403-304-2255 4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1495/mo. in Red Deer. 403-782-7156 403-357-7465 4722 - 56 Street. $1000/mo. See Kijiji ad titled “Quiet Street in Waskasoo”. DUPLEX Michener Hill 3 bdrm., Avail. Immed., $1150/mo./dd same + utils. 403-392-7044

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100 VHS movies, $75. For All 403-885-5020 PS3 with 6 games, $140. 32” SONY TV $20, Addi water cooler $15, 2 table 403-782-3847 lamps $5/ea., to give X-BOX 360 with 8 games, away, older fridge, works $150. 403-782-3847 well 403-346-6303 DELUXE-size jewellery Equipmentbox, made of cherry wood. 13” tall x 16” wide x 10” Heavy deep. Mint condition. $45 firm. Call (403) 342-7908. TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or ELECTRIC heater, $15. storage. Skidded or 403-885-5020 wheeled. Call 347-7721. GREAT Valentine’s gift! Makeup, from New York, red hot crocodile bag, 12 eye shadows, 2 blush, 1 Firewood nail polish, 1 lip gloss. NEW!! Valued at $195. B.C. Birch, Aspen, Asking $75 .587-876-2914 Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. LATERAL filing cabinet, PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 wood grain, exc. cond. Start your career! $60 403-396-4320 See Help Wanted WORK bench with peg LOGS board backing, like new, Semi loads of pine, spruce, $100; 8” work bench vise, tamarack, poplar, birch. $35; 301 piece new Black Price depends on location & Decker drill bit and of delivery. Lil Mule screwdriver set, new in Logging 403-318-4346 box, $35. 403-358-5568

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6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls. Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1100. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

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1 BDRM., no pets, $850 mo. 403-343-6609 3 BDRM. 4 plex, Innisfail, heat included, $795 w/laundry connection. 403-357-7817 3 BDRM., no pets, $1000 mo. 403-343-6609

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2 BDRM. bsmt. suite, $875 + $600. d.d. Westpark area, large windows n/s, no pets, utils. incld. 403-341-0156, 885-2287 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d. 403-346-1458

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EU future not what it once was with 2 big crises at summit BY RAF CASERT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — After decades of often unbridled expansion and increasing prosperity, the once-robust European Union is this week looking at its biggest challenge — crumbling from within, says EU President Donald Tusk. Only days ahead of a crucial summit that opens Thursday, Tusk is crisscrossing his bloc of half a billion people and 28 nations — literally from Paris to Bucharest, on to Athens and Prague to finish in Berlin in little more than 24 hours — in yet another desperate quest to somehow reap unity where division has been sown. “This is a critical moment,” Tusk said in Bucharest as he sought to find a willingness to compromise to make sure that Britain would want to remain in the EU. “The risk of break-up is real,” he said Monday, now publicly saying what had been on his mind for weeks. British Prime Minister David Cameron wants to walk away from the twoday summit in Brussels with the blueprint for a reformed EU that he can sell to his historically halfhearted nation to make sure he can win a British referendum on EU membership that could come as early as June. The stakes are immense, Tusk acknowledges, fearful that if Britain goes it will start an unraveling that no

one knows when and where it might end. A so-called Brexit might turn into a full-blown EUxit. “This process is indeed very fragile. Handle with care. What is broken cannot be mended,” Tusk said, raising the stakes as the summit approaches. The European Union was built on the ashes of World War II, first taking decades to bring economic wealth before taking on the task of bridging the huge ideological divide that cut the continent into a capitalist west and a communist east. As a Pole, Tusk himself was reared under communism before the collapse of the Soviet empire. Barely a dozen years ago, Poland joined the EU at the very height of the bloc’s powers. Now, he does not want to oversee the collapse of what he so dearly believes in. Everyone has always known the British to be argumentative and not easily given to compromise. “I make no apology for that. That is who we are,” Cameron said last week. The problem is that it is this lack of compromise and stubbornness which is now seeping into the cornerstones of the EU ever more. Compounding the predicament caused by a potential British exit, is the migrant crisis affecting just about every single member state, causing more bad blood than Britain’s show of hard love. “The migratory crisis we are witnessing now is testing our Union to its limits,” Tusk said Monday.

And it is turning the members of the EU ever more against each other. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have come, almost unchecked, through EU member Greece and on to Germany and Sweden into the rich heartland. Almost everyone complains Greece isn’t doing enough to stem the influx. The rich member states who are the draw for the migrants complain the eastern Europeans are not doing their part to shelter refugees. Some eastern European nations complain that they lack the resources to handle large numbers of refugees and that the more prosperous nations are too soft-hearted and have allowed the borders to be overrun. And just about every country has said that the European Union has failed miserably to deal with the migrant crisis. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said “If it were up only to us Central Europeans, that region would have been closed off long ago,” referring to the south where the migrants come from. Tusk knows the challenge facing EU members at the upcoming summit. He says he was also driven to despair by last summer’s cliffhanger when Greece was almost pushed out of the euro zone due to its financial crisis. It could be the same soon. “It is high time we started listening to each other’s arguments more than to our own,” he said.

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In this Friday, Jan. 15, 2016 photo, refugees wait their turn at the Tabakika registration center, Chios island, Greece. Despite the bitter winter cold and rough seas, tens of thousands of men, women and children fleeing violence and poverty in their homelands continue to risk their lives to make the relatively short but dangerous journey from the Turkish coast to nearby Greek islands, seeking a better future in Europe.

Suspected tornados touched down in a rural town on Florida’s Panhandle and in Mississippi on Monday, destroying up to 10 homes, damaging a school, and sending fire crews out to investigate reports of residents trapped under rubble. The tornadoes were part of a large winter storm system that was clobbering the eastern U.S. with snow, sleet, strong winds and rain, and which came on the heels of record-breaking low temperatures. Officials in Florida and Mississippi were investigating reports of at least three possible tornadoes. One of the apparent twisters swept through the rural town of Century, in the northwest corner of Florida’s Panhandle, late Monday afternoon, destroying or significantly damaging about 10 homes, said Escambia County spokeswoman Joy Tsubooka. Tsubooka said fire crews were investigating reports that some residents may have been trapped in the rubble of destroyed homes, but she said several of the reports had already proved to be unfounded. She said some people had reported minor cuts from flying debris but that she had not received any reports of serious injuries. Century is located on the Florida-Alabama border about 45 miles north of Pensacola, Florida. Pensacola news station WEAR-TV showed a large, black funnel cloud touching down on a highway near the town, and images submitted by viewers to the news station’s Facebook page showed downed trees and damage to the exteriors of at least two homes. Gulf Power reported on its website that about 800 people in Century were without electricity. Radar had indicated a torna-

do present in the storm system that moved over Century into Brewton, Alabama, said Gene Jacobi with the National Weather Service in Mobile, Alabama. He said the weather service would send crews out Tuesday to survey areas where damage and the funnel cloud had been reported. In Mississippi, windows were blown out of cars and two gymnasiums and a library were damaged at a K-12 school in Wesson where children were in attendance when heavy thunderstorms and a possible tornado walloped at least 19 counties. There were no reports of any students injured, said Mississippi Department of Education spokeswoman Patrice Guilfoyle. Emergency management officials also reported a destroyed mobile home in Lincoln County, Mississippi, while a gas station and some homes were damaged in Sylvarena in Smith County. More than 18,000 power customers were without power. In the eastern U.S. on Monday, a day after record low temperatures plunged several states into a deep freeze, wet weather including snow, freezing rain and sleet were pummeling the region. National Weather Service meteorologist Bruce Sullivan said there could be significant snowfall — 4 to 8 inches — in eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and western New York. Some mountainous areas could get even more snow. With federal offices and many businesses closed for Washington’s Birthday, though, many people were able to hunker down at home. In Virginia, the state police asked motorists to delay any unnecessary travel until weather conditions could improve. By late afternoon, authorities were on the scene of 37 traffic crashes statewide, including a fatal crash in Fauquier County. Troopers also were responding to nine disabled

vehicles across Virginia. They already had responded to 538 traffic crashes and 347 disabled vehicles for the day. In North Carolina, light freezing rain, sleet and snow caused wrecks and closed schools and businesses. The National Weather Service said the precipitation was light Monday morning, but with temperatures in the 20s, it was freezing immediately on bridges, roads and other surfaces. By Tuesday, when temperatures get higher, the rain and some runoff could cause flooding in some areas, Sullivan said. Sunday’s teeth-chattering temperatures were some of the coldest on record. In several Northeastern cities — including New York, Boston and Hartford, Connecticut — temperatures on Sunday morning dipped below zero, falling to minus 40 on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. The National Weather Service said the temperature in New York City’s Central Park fell to minus 1, a record low for the date. The last time it was below zero in Central Park was in January 1994. Boston reached minus 9, breaking the record set in 1934 by 6 degrees. It reached minus 16 in Worcester, Massachusetts, breaking the 1979 record of 11 below zero. Providence, Rhode Island, hit minus 9 and Hartford reached minus 12, also breaking records from 1979. In Montpelier, Vermont, the overnight temperature hit minus 19, tying a record set in 2003. And South Lincoln, Vermont, recorded 27 below zero. Outreach teams brought 105 people into New York shelters, and 288 showed up at hospitals and health facilities, including more than 20 who were brought in for care needed immediately, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

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1984 — Brian Orser wins Silver Medal in Figure Skating at the Sarajevo winter games; highest Olympic skating award ever to a Canadian male. 1970 — Police return Grey Cup trophy to CFL headquarters after it was recovered from a Toronto hotel locker room. It was stolen December 1969 from the Lansdowne Park offices of the Ottawa Rough Riders, who won it that season. 1949 — House of Commons passes the Newfoundland Union Act by a vote of 14047. Newfoundland officially joins Canada March 31, 1949.

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Difficult memory may just be tip of problem Dear Annie: For 10 years, lar basis. I have had an unwritten Lately, Doris has become business partnership with a a liability regarding our rewoman 26 years my senior. al estate business. She forIt has mostly worked well, gets details about contracts, until “Doris” crashed her inspections and disclosure. car into a tree two years I end up doing all of the ago and had her license work and still splitting the suspended. Though no one commission with her. My was hurt, and the tree surbroker, who is Doris’ partvived, the car was totaled, ner of 40 years, won’t interand Doris isn’t allowed to vene. Doris comes to the ofdrive anymore. fice four days a week, and I Since then, her maknow she needs that strucMITCHELL ny friends have provided ture. & SUGAR transportation for her. Her How do I keep her from ANNIE children, two of whom are wrecking the business and within an hour’s drive, still preserve her dignity? — have helped shuttle her Not Her Daughter around, but not as much as the rest Dear Not: We commend you for beof us. Worse, they don’t acknowledge ing kind to Doris, but you aren’t runtheir mother’s shortcomings. They ning a charity. More importantly, you don’t know what her schedule is like, aren’t doing Doris any favors by igand how much her schedule impacts noring her problems. Please talk to those of us who deal with it on a regu- her children and her partner directly.

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Dear Used: Had they treated you at a restaurant, that would have been a fine way to reciprocate, because not everyone is comfortable entertaining in their home. But since they expect you to pay your own way, we suggest you continue with that method. Invite them to join you at a restaurant and split the bill. That way, you can continue to enjoy their company, and no one feels taken advantage of. And it’s perfectly OK to periodically entertain them in your home, should you wish to do so, as long as you expect nothing in return. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creat aors.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: John McEnroe, 56; Valentino Rossi, 36; Ice T, 57 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Try to keep your feet well-planted on the ground today.

BY JENNIFER PELTZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Sidestep in perfect pace with someone who has fewer feet than you. Sit properly in front of a crowd, while your favourite person walks away. Sort through a pile of identical items to find the one that belongs to that person — by smell. Can you do it? Heart can. And she’s a 3-year-old Labrador retriever.Heart won the Westminster Kennel Club dog show’s first-ever obedience competition Monday with a crowd-pleasing, tail-wagging display of canine deportment that included fetching a few heart-print pillows. “She is just amazing,” said owner and handler Linda Brennan, of Columbia, New Jersey. Plus, “we had the cute factor.” Heart bested 33 other dogs in the first obedience event of any kind at the nation’s premier dog show since a non-competitive demonstration in 1956. The contestants ranged from a toy poodle to a powerful Rottweiler (mixed-breeds were eligible, but none competed.) At this level, it’s no simple sit and stay. In fact, it can seem unimaginable to an everyday dog owner. “My dogs would not have even made it in the ring,” spectator Todd Eubanks, who has two hound mixes at home in Redding, Connecticut, said with a chuckle as he watched. The dogs that did get in the ring had to sniff out and fetch a dumbbell their handlers had touched from a pile of otherwise identical dumbbells, for instance. The crowning challenge: sitting in a group while their handlers circled the ring twice without them. The dogs had to do it all in front of hundreds of people. The handlers couldn’t use treats. Points could be deducted for something as subtle as sitting crookedly. And that was just the first round. The 10 finalists did elaborate six-minute routines, sometimes spinning, walking backward and weaving through their handlers’ legs. One dog fetched sections of board its handler pieced together to form a heart. Second-place finisher Smartie, a Belgian Tervuren, stacked water bowls with her mouth. “She really loves figuring out the puzzle of obedience,” said owner and handler Julie Hill, of Mandeville, Louisiana. She also handled Smartie to a

Explain that Doris is having difficulty with her memory, and that there may be other medical issues. It may even be that the car crash caused some of this, or vice versa. Suggest that she get a check-up and ask her doctor to test for executive functioning. Then consider giving Doris a new title so that she still has a job, but is no longer in a position to mess up the contracts. Perhaps you can pay her a salary that is more commensurate with her current contribution to the business. Dear Annie: We have friends whom we’ve hosted for dinner at least a half-dozen times in the past few years. But they have never invited us to their home. They once invited us to dine with them at a restaurant, but they did not offer to pay for our meal. We are reluctant to keep inviting them to dinner at our house, as they make no effort to reciprocate. However, we do enjoy seeing them. What do you suggest? — Feeling Used

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A group of Old English Sheepdogs compete during the first day of the 140th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York, Monday. More than 3,000 dogs from all over the country participate in the annual competition. finalist finish in Westminster’s agility competition Saturday. The third-place obedience ribbon went to Chase, a golden retriever owned and handled by Pauline Hosenfeld, of Columbus, Ohio. Wyatt, a Lab owned and handled by Cat Perry of Mauldin, South Carolina, came in fourth. Obedience exercises are meant to represent good dog manners, safety needs (like stopping on command before running into the road) and certain herding or hunting skills. The sport dates to the 1930s in the U.S., and the number of obedience contests sanctioned by the prominent American Kennel Club has grown in the last five years, from about 2,500 to 2,650 annually. But some other canine sports, such as agility, are growing faster. “It’s maybe not as flashy as agility, but it really cements the relationship between the owner and the dog” as they work out signals and read each other, said Dr. Merry Fitzgerald, a Lake Grove, New York, veterinarian who competed with Margot, a Doberman pinscher. Most competitors train for at least a little bit almost every day. Handlers note that training methods have changed over the decades to emphasize rewards over punishment, and they say they strive to make training fun. And yes, even obedience dogs sometimes can be mischievous. “We often allow our dogs to be a little bit naughty in real life,” Brennan said.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpions can be very cauARIES (March 21-April tious and strategic folk. But Mars 19): Communication is the HOROSCOPE gives you a kick up the backbuzz word, as the Gemini Moon side, and encourages you to piques your curiosity. So make move quickly and resolve issues sure you come up with some stimulating toppromptly. There’s no time for excuses! ics to discuss with others ñ both in person and online. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Lively debate is likely today, as you discuss different TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The power approaches and tricky time-lines. With sensiof the group is on your side, as you tune into ble Saturn in your sign, make sure you’re the the thoughts and feelings of others. So it’s a master — or mistress — of calm self-control. great day for salespeople — but avoid making confusing decisions that you later regret. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Avoid making mountains out of molehills, especially GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Marvellous at home. Joint financial ventures are favoured Moon/Mercury aspects mean that your social and your common-sense attitude will be adskills are at an all-time high today Twins. Elmired and appreciated by those around you. oquence is your middle name, as you charm others with your convivial conversation. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When it comes to children, teenagers, friends and CANCER (June 21-July 22): You have finances, things could become very confusing many unique talents but they won’t truly blosvery quickly today. So try to keep your emosom until you nurture and develop them with tions out of money matters at the moment. the help of a mentor. When will the teacher appear? When the student is ready! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s time to review your old dreams and formulate new LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When it comes ones. Start with realistic goals and, when you to shared resources, joint finances or group reach them, aim higher next time. But don’t projects ñ are you being realistic? Or are you get carried away with unrealistic schemes. promising things that you won’t actually be able to deliver? Food for thought. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mercury ally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her boosts your brain power today as you work column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Trust The Trews to shoot an arrow gus on the mandolin, got a huge reacstraight into the frilly heart of Valen- tion from the Central Alberta crowd — especially the fans who took advantine’s Day. Romance came with a jagged edge tage of the rousing dance beat that’s so comically at odds with the on Sunday night at the Mesong’s heartbreaking lyrics. morial Centre when almost But the thematic misery 700 fans of the Nova Scodidn’t stop there: The Trews tia group gathered for a also delivered Power of Posboisterous, foot-stomping itive Drinking, When You acoustic concert that was Leave, Hope & Ruin, Poor Ol (lyrically, at least) also full Broken Hearted Me (which of emotional turmoil. left listeners clapping “This is one for… the along), So She’s Leaving, and cheating hearts, the conDen of Thieves, described fused and the philanderas a song about a Canadian ers,” said lead singer Colin Bonnie and Clyde, who go MacDonald before launchout on a bender instead of a ing into Man of Two Minds, LANA hail of bullets. a tune about a guy in love MICHELIN All of these melodies with two women. were so upbeat — often “Sometimes you send up REVIEW involving Heisholt’s barwith neither one because rel-house piano playing and you tried to be with both,” Maguire doing triple duty he added. “What were you on the shakers, drum kit and bongos thinking?” The mostly unplugged band —in- —you’d hardly know the tunes were cluding Colin’s brother John-Angus about hurt and despair. The tempo did slow for the most MacDonald on lead guitar, pork-piehatted bassist Jack Syperek, drummer moving song of the evening — Highway Gavin Maguire, and keyboard player of Heroes, written for a female CanaJeff Heisholt — got the crowd swaying dian Forces soldier from Antagonish along in front of the stage to the tune who was killed in Afghanistan. The chorus of “True patriot love/there was about “selfish fear and foolish pride.” If that wasn’t a spiky enough valen- never more” was absolutely spine-tintine, there was also I Can’t Stop Laugh- gling. But music from The Trews generaling (I’m not even happy). It was written from a line provided ly isn’t about moping in your beer. This by late, great Newfoundland songwrit- rock band celebrates the resilience of er Ron Hynes, who once asked Colin ordinary people through songs like Ishto trade a drink for a lyric. “I thought mael & Maggie. When Colin sings “We’re all broit sounded like a fair trade,” Colin recalled — and the result was the most ken hearted here,” he gives universal rollicking tune ever written about a comfort to anyone suffering the pain of guy getting stinking drunk after being being human. The Trews musicians, dressed in dumped by his girlfriend. I Can’t Stop Laughing, with Heisholt suits, were such talented and engaging playing the accordion and John-An- players they held the audience spell-

BRIEF Vancouver Chamber Choir stopping in Red Deer during anniversary tour The internationally acclaimed Vancouver Chamber Choir is bringing its heritage of song to Red Deer as part of a 45th Anniversary Tour. The choir that’s performed everywhere from Whitehorse to Beijing, Moscow to Guanajuato, Mexico, will be singing at the Red Deer College Arts Centre on Friday, Feb. 26. The concert will illuminate the role of European musical traditions in the North American choral repertoire. These traditions were brought over with the tide of immigration. The “varied and invigorating concert of music from two continents” includes works from David Squires (Deep Peace), Ola Gjeilo (Northern Lights) and Artus Aux-Cousteaux (Missa grata sum harmonia). Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert are $22.60 ($18.40 students/seniors) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

Top kids’ shows set for Feb. 27 Characters from four beloved kids’ shows will entertain for the price of one in Red Deer. Cast members from The Backyardigans, Mike the Knight, Max & Ruby and Franklin & Friends will appear on Saturday, Feb. 27, on Red Deer’s Memorial Centre stage in The Great Big Show Live! Inventive musical story lines that showcase over 25 larger-than-life characters, colourful costumes, and 25 original interactive songs are featured in the show The Paquin Enter-

HiStrung Downers bring toetapping show to Bo’s Calgary rockabilly band the HiStrung Downers will put on a toe-tapping show Saturday, Feb. 27, in Red Deer. The group, whose lively sound is can be heard on the new album Here She Lies, will perform at Bo’s Bar and Grill. The bass and guitar strings will be snapping, the snare drums cracking when group members pour their hearts into storytelling songs rooted in rockabilly. Tickets to the 8 p.m. show are $10. For more information, please call 403309-2200.

Cuban quartet to get people moving in Lacombe A Cuban quartet will perform everything from the romantic rumba to the lively samba in Lacombe on Feb. 21. Music from the Luis Mario Ochoa Quartet is next featured in the Sundays at Seven music series at Burman University.

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The Trews perform during a Valentine’s Day concert at the Memorial Centre, Sunday. bound over two sets and more than 2 ½ hours of playing, even though the five sat planted on stools for nearly the whole time. Other favourites were Hollis and Morris, which finished with a fantastic drum solo, as well as John-Angus’s interesting guitar riffs on Yearning. The band also played What’s Fair is Fair, Sing Your Heart Out, and In the MornThe group from the “land of poets and dreamers, cynics and sages” will also play pulsating boleros, waltzes and cha-chas. Traditional songs, such as Canto Siboney and El Carbonero will also be performed at the 7 p.m. concert in the university’s administrative building auditorium. Admission is $25 ($10 students/$15 seniors) at the door.

Folk singer Turner’s show sold out He’s supported Green Day at Wembley Stadium and performed for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. Now U.K. “folk-punk troubadour” Frank Turner will play his rousing and introspective folk tunes at a sold-out concert on Monday, Feb. 29, at Red Deer’s International Beer Haus. The artist who has recorded six albums, including his 2015 chart-topper Positive Songs for Negative People, has played everywhere from house concerts to pubs to a headlining gig at London’s O2 Stadium. Considered one of the hardest-working musicians in the U.K., he’s never turned his back on his roots and continues to support smaller venues with his band The Sleeping Souls. Northcote (Canadian songwriter Matt Goud) is thrilled to be supporting Turner on this Canadian tour.

ing, for which the raspy-voiced Colin capably handled both parts of the duet he recorded with Serena Ryder. As an encore, The Trews performed Tired of Waiting and Not Ready to Go. You could say the last song was most appropriate, since there’s no way the audience was ready to go. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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