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14-strong detachment, plus six officers for the surrounding rural area.

“I would say right off the get go that we ignore the percentages,” said Rhodes.

By way of example, he points to reports of criminal harassment, which jumped 140 per cent to 48 to the end of October compared with 20 over the same period a year earlier. That’s an additional 28 reports of criminal harassment (not necessarily resulting in charges) in a town of 12,000.

“If you look at it that way, is that significant?

Those are very small numbers considering the population.”

The RCMP officer in charge of Red Deer’s major crimes unit has lost his court bid to derail a pending disciplinary hearing against him.

Sgt. Steve Black, a veteran Mountie, is accused of sexual harassment, drinking in the office and operating a police car under the influence of alcohol.

A federal judge says it would be premature to rule on Black’s argument that a delay of more than 10 months means the disciplinary hearing must be scrapped.

In his decision, Federal Court Justice James Russell said Black’s first avenue of appeal is to the RCMP commissioner.

Details of the case have surfaced amid concerns about harassment within the RCMP and the ability of the national police force to expeditiously deal with serious allegations against its members.

According to documents filed in Federal Court, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team began an investigation in December 2009 into a complaint about Black. The response team’s mandate is to carry out independent probes of serious or sensitive matters arising from the alleged actions of the province’s police officers.

In November 2010, following the investigation, a senior RCMP officer was told that Crown counsel had decided no criminal charges would be laid against Black, a Mountie since 1990.

That same month, the RCMP initiated formal discipline proceedings against Black, and directed an adjudication board to hear the matter.

Black stands accused of acting “in a disgraceful manner that brings discredit on the force” during the first eight months of 2009, contrary to RCMP regulations.

It is alleged that Black engaged in “inappropriate, unprofessional and unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature” with a female subordinate both within and outside of the workplace.

It’s also alleged that Black drank alcohol in the workplace and permitted subordinates to do so, and operated an unmarked police vehicle under the influence of alcohol.

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Crime spike nothing to be alarmed about: Sylvan Lake RCMP

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The alarm isn’t being raised in Sylvan Lake despite a spike in some key crime statistics.

In a recent report from RCMP to town council, significant jumps were seen in the number of crimes reported in some key categories.

Break and enters were up nearly 26 per cent over the first 10 months of the year compared to 2011; thefts of motor vehicles were up 171 per cent; thefts over $5,000 were up 46 per cent; and fraud was up 37 per cent.

Those numbers don’t tell the whole story, though, said Staff Sgt. Gary Rhodes, who heads the town’s

Town rallies around injured father KEN WRIGHT, 32, SERIOUSLY HURT IN SERVICE RIG ACCIDENT

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF People in Innisfail are pitching in to help a father of four who lost one leg and seriously injured his other leg after a service rig accident northwest of Edson.

On Oct. 18 at about 10:30 a.m., a high pressure hose became disconnected, injuring three men, most seriously Ken Wright, 32, a rig manager for Roll’n Oilfield Industries Ltd. of Red Deer.

Wright, of Innisfail, and Roll’n Oilfield worker Kevin Bednard, of the Innisfail area, were airlifted to Edmonton. Bednard received lacerations and bruises on his face and body.

The other worker, employed by the prime contractor Peyto Exploration and Development Corp. of Calgary, was taken by land ambulance to Edson Healthcare Centre.

Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is still investigating.

Wright was airlifted by STARS air ambulance to an Edmonton hospital where he eventually had his

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right leg amputated below the knee.

“They tried for two weeks to save his leg but they couldn’t. His left leg has multiple bone fractures.

They’re not sure what kind of use he’s going to have with it,” said his wife Tammy Wright on Thursday.

He also suffered a broken and dislocated elbow, and acute post-traumatic stress disorder.

Wright was transferred to Innisfail Hospital about a week ago for recovery.

“Our kids leave school at lunch and go spend lunch with their dad so it’s really nice,” said Tammy about their sons age 14, 11, nine and eight.

In January, her husband will go to Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital in Edmonton to learn how to walk again.

Coincidently, Tammy, who operates a light oilfield hauling business, was scheduled to visit her husband’s worksite the day of the accident but didn’t actually go.

Working on rigs is a dangerous occupation and her husband probably prevented others from getting hurt, or worse, that day, she said.

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ALLEGATIONS: Denied The 24-page notice of the disciplinary hearing cites the allegations against Black as well as potential witnesses and evidence including interview transcripts, expert opinions, photos, notebooks and lab reports, according to court records.

Black denied all of the allegations last April at an initial two-day proceeding before the adjudication board.

At that time, Black presented a preliminary motion questioning whether the board had jurisdiction to take the case given that more than 10 months had elapsed by the time he was served with the notice of a disciplinary hearing.

At issue is whether the delay violated a requirement under the RCMP Act that such notices be served “forthwith.”

The board ruled that there was no violation of the requirement, noting the delay was owing to administrative issues — namely that the officer assigned to oversee the matter went on a planned special leave and a subsequent extended medical leave during the period in question.

Black then took his case to Federal Court, arguing the board erred in its decision and that it should be prohibited from proceeding with the disciplinary hearing.

He also said he was appealing directly to the court — rather than asking the RCMP commissioner to review the board’s ruling — because it would mean first waiting through a lengthy, costly and potentially embarrassing disciplinary hearing.

This month, Russell dismissed Black’s application, saying in his ruling that the commissioner — not the courts — should have first say on the correctness of the board’s decision to proceed with a hearing.

There was no immediate word from Black’s lawyers as to whether he would appeal the court ruling.

Several female RCMP officers have come forward with complaints of harassment in the last year, and

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Derick Colin Anderson had earlier pleaded guilty to “wilfully causing pain or suffering to an animal.”

Court heard that in September 2010, Anderson threw the Pomeranian puppy named Cujo from the second-storey of the couple’s home,

then kicked it to death and put it in a garbage bin.

The Crown had asked for a six- to eight-month jail sentence.

The judge instead gave Anderson a ten-month conditional sentence to be served in the community, as well as a year of probation.

a class-action lawsuit is in the works. Male Mounties have also complained of abusive behaviour and intimidation.

Currently, any serious disciplinary cases within the RCMP — those requiring more than a reprimand — must be referred to an adjudication board. It often means matters can take up to five years to resolve.

Under proposed new federal legislation, managers would be given more responsibility to deal with day-to-day disciplinary issues.

Total property crimes were 20 per cent over the same period, and all Criminal Code offences were down about 17 per cent, although they will be up over last year by the end of 2012.

Rhodes likens crime statistics to an ocean wave.

“It goes up and it goes down, and there are a lot of factors that come into play,” he said. The economy, demographics, police resources, which criminals are on the loose, all come into play.

Overall, Sylvan Lake’s crime rate falls below the provincial average.

Mayor Susan Samson agreed that statistics can’t be taken at face value. “When you look at statistics, they can be interpreted in so many different ways.”

As part of this year’s budget review, council decided against putting in a request to RCMP for an additional police officer. It will be revisited in the 2014 budget. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

CRIME: Statistics prompt look at vehicle thefts Rhodes said where statistics prove most useful is when trying to identify crime trends.

“If we see a rash of something going on we zero in on that.”

For instance, the latest numbers prompted a closer look at vehicle thefts.

What police found is enlightening. Of the 38 thefts reported this year (compared with 14 over the same 10 months in 2011), 15 vehicles were not stolen, but were towed by the bylaw department. Twelve were vehicles left unlocked with keys in the ignition and taken for joy rides, dumped and later recovered.

Only four were stolen and taken away.

Police checked to see if there were any trends among those stolen, such as time and location, make and whether there were suspects. There were no common factors to suggest an organized group at work.

Trends also paint a different picture when taken over a long period.

Between 2006 and 2011, total reports crimes against people increased 18 per cent — to 211 from 179.

That’s not much of an increase when population growth is taken into account, Rhodes said.

Break and enters actually decreased by 21 per cent over the same period, and motor vehicles went from 55 in 2006, soared to 83 in 2007, and plummeted to 18 last year.

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“You hear the stories and see the videos on YouTube but you never think it’s going to affect your family directly.”

Friends of the family created the Facebook page Do What’s Wright and set up a trust fund for Wright at ATB in Innisfail.

On Nov. 10, a supper and poker event at Aberdeen Hall raised $1,500 for the family.

Another event at Fox and Hound Sports Pub in Innisfail will also raise money for the family on Dec. 14.

Tammy said her husband grew up in Innisfail so people know him, but even those who don’t know their family have been dropping off donations.

“Complete strangers have shown up at the house with baking for the kids and stuff. It just amazes us.

We are so humbled and it brings us to tears when we think about what the community is trying to do for us.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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EDMONTON — Justice officials reviewing the work of a former forensic pathologist in Alberta have found mistakes in 13 of 14 cases.

A review by an independent medical panel was announced early this year to look into the files of Dr. Evan Matshes. He worked at the Calgary medical examiner’s office for one year before he left in 2011.

Matshes worked on 426 death investigations, including 262 autopsies, during that time.

“The panel found the conclusions reached by Dr. Matshes to be unreasonable regarding either the cause of death, manner of death and/or other opinions,” the Alberta government said in a news release Thursday. Of the 14 cases examined by the panel, three resulted in criminal prosecutions.

Two are currently before the courts and one has concluded. A dedicated Crown prosecutor is doing a separate review of Matshes’s files to see if any mistakes interfered with the court process.

Justice spokeswoman Michelle Davio said 24 people have been accused of crimes in deaths the doctor investigated. She could not say whether anyone is currently behind bars because of the doctor’s mistakes.

“No criminal prosecutions have been reopened, nor have any of the cases been lost to date solely as a result of the doctor’s evidence,” Davio said.

Defence lawyers handling the cases have been notified, she added.

Ian Savage, co-president of the Calgary Defence Lawyers Association, said the matter is concerning.

“If there’s even a small chance that testimony he gave in court, or reports that he prepared that were used in court, were incorrect in any way and led to the wrongful conviction of an innocent person, that’s obviously something that needs to be rectified.”

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NDP call for Redford’s head over scandal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Alison Redford — fending off accusations she had been caught redhanded in a patronage scandal involving her exhusband — faced calls Thursday to step down and be cited for contempt of the legislature.

“There is overwhelming evidence that the premier lied,” claimed NDP Leader Brian Mason, speaking to reporters.

“This is one of the most serious situations that I have ever seen affecting a premier. I’m today calling on Premier Redford to step aside until this matter is properly investigated.

“It will be very difficult to for this premier to continue to lead the province if she is not prepared to tell us the truth,” Mason maintained.

Redford insisted for a second day that she told the truth about not picking her ex-husband’s law firm to handle the Alberta government’s lawsuit against big tobacco while she was justice minister in 2010.

The deal with International Tobacco Recovery Lawyers — which includes her ex-husband Robert Hawkes’ firm — was finalized in June 2011 by another justice minister and the government says that’s what is important.

However, newly released department memos and documents indicate that Redford made the decision and that the winner and losers were formally notified while she was still in the job.

The opposition Wildrose party asked Speaker Gene Zwozdesky to find Redford in contempt of the legislature because it says she misled the house about her involvement. Zwozdesky delayed his ruling until next week.

Hawkes has remained close to Redford professionally and led the transition team when she became premier more than a year ago.

“This is the biggest scandal in the premier’s office in my lifetime,” Wildrose house leader Rob Anderson told reporters.

“We’re not talking about millions of dollars being sent to this law firm. We’re talking about contingency fees that would result in billions of dollars going to a 12-person law firm including some of her closest donors, personal friends, (and) ex-husband.

“This is brutal. There’s no other way to describe it.”

The Wildrose and Mason hammered away at Redford on the topic in question period.

Redford didn’t move in her chair in the front bench and stared straight ahead while the Wildrose asked nine consecutive questions that were answered by either Justice Minister Jonathan Denis or Deputy Premier Thomas Lukaszuk.

Redford did stand to answer Mason’s questions.

“I did tell the truth,” she said. “I stand by what I said yesterday in this house. I told the truth.”

Mason said those answers aren’t good enough.

“How can Albertans ever again trust (her)?” he asked.

It was a day of conflicting statements from the premier’s office.

A scheduled 3 p.m. news conference with Redford was cancelled 15 minutes before it was to begin. A spokesman for the premier said it was because the lawsuit issue had been addressed by Redford and other ministers in the house.

However, 90 minutes later, as Mason’s challenge for Redford to step down grew on social media, Redford’s team hastily called the media for a briefing outside her office.

Redford said they had simply delayed the earlier news conference until the Wildrose contempt motion was handled by Zwozdesky.

In the scrum, Redford dismissed calls from the opposition that she had lost credibility to lead and challenged a reporter who prefaced his question by referring to Redford making a decision on the exhusband’s firm.

“I will not let you characterize it to be that. I did not select any law firm,” she said.

“It was not a decision, and I stand by what I’ve said.”

The issue first made headlines Wednesday morning in a report by CBC-TV using documents obtained under freedom of information rules.

On Dec. 14, 2010, Redford — who was justice minister — sent a memo to her top department bureaucrat on three competitors vying to handle a lawsuit on behalf of the province against tobacco companies.

Sylvan Lake proposes licensing rules for escorts

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Escort agencies would be licensed, but rickshaws are out under bylaw changes being considered by Sylvan Lake town council.

It’s not that the town is anxious to see escort agencies set up shop in town, said Mayor Susan Samson.

However, without licence requirements in place, the town has no control over the businesses should they show up.

“The municipality doesn’t have the authority to exclude them because they are considered a legal business entity,” she said. “So the only thing we can do is put restrictions around it . . . so if it did ever occur it could be controlled so that we’re comfortable with it.”

Under proposed licensing rules, escort agencies would have to pay a $5,000 yearly fee and escorts $300. A record of escorts and information on each “introduction” and transaction that can be reviewed by peace officers may be required, as well as criminal background checks.

Escort agencies are among a number of “unique” businesses the town

is considering regulating and bringing under the umbrella of its licensing bylaw. Regulations are also being crafted for tourist homes, mobile vendors, buskers, smoke shops, pawn shops and secondhand dealers.

To be left out of the bylaw are rickshaws or pedicabs.

Coun. Dale Plante made a proposal earlier this year to bring the humanpowered taxis to town to cater to summer tourists.

Local RCMP and the town’s municipal enforcement department are not in favour, citing traffic hassles and safety concerns.

Samson said the only reasonable route for the rickshaws would be Lakeshore Drive, which has a speed limit of 30 km/h and few areas for rickshaws to pull over to pick up passengers.

“If they’re going down that road and they’re doing 10 km/h, they’re going to impede traffic.

“So we’re at this time not going to allow the operation of rickshaws in Sylvan Lake.”

Council earlier defeated changing the bylaw for rickshaws on a tie 3-3 vote, but decided to revisit it as part of the latest licence review. Plante has excused himself from all debate and

votes on the issue because of his business interest.

Samson said town staff will come back with a draft of a licence bylaw

early next year and the public will have an opportunity to comment. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Justice delayed is justice denied FROM CRIMINAL LAW TO FAMILY COURT TO CIVIL MATTERS, CENTRAL ALBERTANS ARE DENIED TIMELY JUSTICE

BY BRENT HANDEL SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE I am writing as president and on behalf of the Central Alberta Bar Association, which is a professional, voluntary organization whose membership comprises 162 lawyers, judges and law students in the Central Alberta region.

It has become painfully obvious to the members of the Central Alberta Bar Association that access to justice in Central Alberta is being denied on every type of matter that comes before the courts, including criminal law, family/divorce law, civil matters and surrogate court or estate matters. This systemic delay of justice is due to a deficit in infrastructure funding for the justice system both with respect to a new court house in Red Deer for Central Alberta and with respect to funding of an adequate number of judges and their required support staff.

The Red Deer Courthouse was built in 1982. There have been three independent reports in the last 20 years recommending expansion of the courthouse, none of which have resulted in an expansion. Furthermore, several of the provincial courthouses in surrounding towns were closed in the 1990s, resulting in the caseloads from those provincial courthouses shifting to the Red Deer Courthouse. The most recent independent report from 2009 recommended a doubling in size of the Red Deer Courthouse from 9,000 square metres to 18,000 square metres.

Since 2009, a new document called Standards for Regional Courts has increased courthouse standards, which means Central Alberta actually needs 23,000 to 25,000 square metres, rather than the current 9,000 square metres the Red Deer Courthouse is operating with.

In addition to an inadequate courthouse facility in Central Alberta, Alberta is in last place in Canada with respect to the number of Court of Queen’s Bench justices (Superior Court justices in other provinces) per population. Alberta has one sitting justice for every 59,990 people. This is the worst ratio in the country. By comparison, New Brunswick has one sitting Superior Court justice for every 30,220 people. The Northwest Territories has one sitting Superior Court justice for every 10,925 people.

The process to add Court of Queen’s Bench justices is a combination of consent of the province (more courthouse space will be needed) and funding by the federal government. The most recent increase to the Court of Queen’s Bench justices in Alberta were in 1991 (three positions), 1994 (two positions) and 1996 (one position).

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Statistics Canada figures indicate that the population of Alberta has increased 36 per cent since the last addition to the judicial complement in 1996. For example, the Alberta population in 1996 was 2,775,133 people. In 2011, it was 3,779,353 people. Despite this huge population increase of one million people, Alberta has the exact same number of sitting Court of Queen’s Bench justices it had in 1996.

In addition to the rapid population growth, there are other reasons additional judges are needed in Alberta and in particular Central Alberta.

These include: longer trials, expanded judicial duties including Judicial Dispute Resolution and case management, increasing complexity in the matters coming before the court with increased use of expert witnesses, and the requirement for written reasons.

With respect to the expanded judicial duties involving Judicial Dispute Resolution, on Nov. 1, 2010, the province enacted a new rule making it mandatory that litigants participate in “alternative dispute resolution” before they will be able to receive a trial date. One way to satisfy this requirement is to participate in a Judicial Dispute Resolution, which is a form of mediation utilizing a justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench. This program has been very successful in bringing about amicable resolutions of civil disputes; however, it has come at a cost of greatly increased workloads for the same number of justices. For example, in 2003-2004 the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench heard 503 Judicial Dispute Resolution matters. In 2011-2012, it heard 975 Judicial Dispute Resolution matters.

You might be wondering what this means practically, or what it may mean to you. Let me give you three examples from three different areas of law: criminal law, family/divorce law and civil law.

In criminal law, there is a Supreme Court of Canada decision that says an accused has a right to have a trial within a timely manner. The court stated that what is a timely manner may vary from case to case but an accused may be released to the public without a trial if the matter is delayed by the Crown for over one year. Last month in Red Deer, a justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench from Calgary, Mr. Justice Earl Wilson, told the open court that a Central Alberta man’s right to a speedy trial is in doubt because of the crushing lack of courtroom space and therefore he may have to be released without a trial. Obviously this will impact the citizens of Red Deer directly if accused individuals of dangerous offences are released onto the streets of Red Deer because they have not been

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‘IN ADDITION TO AN INADEQUATE COURTHOUSE FACILITY IN CENTRAL ALBERTA, ALBERTA IS IN LAST PLACE IN CANADA WITH RESPECT TO THE NUMBER OF COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH JUSTICES PER POPULATION. THE ALBERTA POPULATION IN 1996 WAS 2,775,133 PEOPLE. IN 2011, IT WAS 3,779,353 PEOPLE. DESPITE THIS HUGE POPULATION INCREASE OF ONE MILLION PEOPLE, ALBERTA HAS THE EXACT SAME NUMBER OF SITTING COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH JUSTICES IT HAD IN 1996.’

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able to have a trial within a reasonable time as mandated by the Supreme Court of Canada.

With respect to family law and divorce matters, on marriage breakdown it is important that a court order be obtained quickly if the parents cannot agree with respect to interim custody of the children and child maintenance.

There is a mechanism for this expedited need: it is called a chambers application where an interim order is made based upon affidavit evidence only, rather than witnesses testifying.

Lawyers are able to get the parents before a justice for a regular chambers application within a few days and an interim order is made ordering which parent will have interim custody of the children and how much child maintenance must be paid by the non-custodial parent. Thereafter, a special chambers application is scheduled where there is a full hearing and a half day or full day is set aside to determine who really should have custody of the children and precisely what the child maintenance should be.

A few years ago, this special chambers application could happen in Red Deer within a few weeks. Now it takes eight months to schedule a special chambers application. The practical result of this delay is whoever is awarded interim custody will likely retain custody since eight months later a justice is not likely to overturn what is then the status quo, as that would not be in the best interest of the children.

The problem is that the initial application, heard with limited evidence and argument, may have awarded interim custody to the wrong parent. This is not in the best interests of our children to have the determination of which parent they should live with based on a short seven-minute argument by each lawyer in regular chambers and to then have a full and proper hearing in special chambers application delayed for eight months.

In civil matters, you must now proceed with Alternative Dispute Resolution before obtaining a trial date.

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A lawyer was in a Judicial Dispute Resolution just last week at the courthouse (after his client waited eight months to get the appointment) where a small conference room was set aside for the parties to meet but, contrary to standard practice in any mediation, a separate room for the parties to meet individually and discuss offers in confidence was not available. Instead, the lawyer and his client were meeting in the courthouse main hallway trying to discuss confidential matters while members of the public and other lawyers were walking back and forth.

Would you want to have to make a lifetime decision about an offer from a defendant/insurance company dealing with your permanent and serious injuries under that kind of duress and lack of confidentiality?

If you come into contact with the justice system in Central Alberta, you will feel these and many other shortcomings.

Currently there is an opportunity for the Province of Alberta to negotiate acquiring some downtown lands from the City of Red Deer and the city would then utilize the current courthouse for additional office space. A new courthouse could then be built on the land immediately south of the library beside the old RCMP headquarters and beside a large parkade. This courthouse could serve the justice needs of Central Albertans for many generations to come.

Action must be taken immediately as the problems outlined in this article are only going to get worse as it takes many years to have a courthouse actually designed, engineered, built and finally put into service. Fair and equitable justice in a timely manner in Central Alberta several years from now, by the time a new courthouse is completed, will be non-existent unless immediate action is taken.

Brent L. Handel, QC, is president of the Central Alberta Bar Association.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Conservative government is refuting opposition claims that Canada has a “twotiered” food inspection system that puts the quality of beef exports ahead of meat consumed at home.

A memo from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to its employees at the XL Foods processing plant in Brooks, instructed some inspectors to ignore contamination on cattle carcasses unless they were destined for Japan.

The agency responded Thursday by saying the same safety standards apply to meat for domestic consumption and for overseas exports, and reports to the contrary are “categorically false.”

“As the CFIA has confirmed, the meat sold in Canada is just as safe as meat exported to other countries,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the House of Commons.

“There are strict food safety standards in this country. That is the law.”

XL Foods became the epicentre of one of the largest beef recalls in Canadian history earlier this year after meat contaminated with E. coli was stopped at the Canada-U.S. border in September.

People in at least four provinces were found to have been made ill by the E. coli strain; it wasn’t until October that the XL plant was allowed to resume production.

Agency officials said Thursday they recommended last week to the U.S. Department of Agriculture that XL Foods be relisted, and provided the USDA with an “in-depth assessment” of the plant in an effort to reopen the American market to XL products.

Reports on the CFIA inspection memo won’t help.

The issue dominated the opening salvos of ques-

tion period Thursday, with the NDP’s Nycole Turmel asking provocatively, “What rate of fecal contamination are the Conservatives prepared to accept?”

Turmel demanded to know whether Harper would “apologize for having given the priority to export markets to the detriment of Canadians’ health.”

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz called the allegations “absolutely unfounded and untrue.”

As is often the case, reality is more nuanced than the rhetoric.

The XL plant does indeed have a Japan-specific inspection station, Paul Mayers, the CFIA’s vicepresident of programs, explained in a conference call.

Japan only allows the import of beef from cattle younger than 20 months.

Those export carcasses for Japan must be free of elements such as spinal columns, fecal and intestinal materials — conditions that also apply to all Canada’s domestic and export beef.

“Japan ... requires that a specific station be present on the line in order to confirm those conditions,” said Mayers.

“Is it necessary in the context of market access?

Yes. Is it a requirement from a food safety perspective? No, because that assurance is provided already in terms of the system.”

And that’s where the real debate begins.

Malcolm Allen, the NDP agriculture critic, said the Japan station is the last point of inspection.

“In that slaughterhouse there is one station left before it exits the plant and it’s a shower. It gets showered,” fumed the MP. “The shower will not wash off fecal material. In fact, we have it on authority from one of the chief veterinarians that it actually may just spread it around the meat, in which case the carcass would be even

more contaminated than if you just simply cut it off.”

Doug O’Halloran, the president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401, framed the CFIA’s explanation this way: “If it’s the same standard, it’s not a good standard.”

A CFIA memo to inspectors, dated September 2008 and repeated yearly since, instructed them to ensure “100 per cent verification” that all Japaneligible beef was free from contaminants.

As for non-Japanese-eligible carcasses older than 20 months, the memo stated, “ignore them.”

A new memo, issued in mid-November after the matter was brought to the CFIA’s attention by the XL plant’s union, makes clear that the station should focus only on Japan-eligible beef, while offering more specific instructions on dealing with other problems.

Both the old memo and the new one end with the line: “Your first action should be to have the issue dealt with without (production) line stoppage.”

O’Halloran, who worked at XL in the 1980s and lauds the plant’s new ownership, JBS USA, said in an interview the CFIA system doesn’t work.

“They can have all the bells and whistles they want, and hope it gets caught, but why would you not deal with it when you see it?” he asked.

“Let’s look the other way on this contamination, somebody will catch it down the line.”

Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae also zeroed in on the CFIA’s apparent focus on keeping the production running.

“That is a message that clearly states that the production line is more important than health and safety,” Rae said outside the Commons.

“And I don’t think that’s a message that any inspection agency should be sending to any of its inspectors.”

Security company makes no policy changes in wake of shooting

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Security company G4S hasn’t made any policy changes since one of its armoured car guards in Edmonton was charged with killing three colleagues during a heist.

Company president Jean Taillon said Thursday a review was done after the shooting at the University of Alberta in June. But nothing has changed.

“We continue to follow the same policies,” he said.

“We have done a full end-to-end review of our screening and training policies and we continue to look for better ways to improve that. But all in all, we’ve actually maintained the process and procedures that we’re doing today.”

The issue of the company screening its employees was highlighted following the shooting as details were uncovered about the accused shooter, Travis Baumgartner.

The Facebook page of a Travis Baumgartner posted quotes by the anarchist Joker from the movie “Dark Knight.” The movie included a violent bank heist. The profile picture on the page showed a person wearing sun glasses and a mask.

Two weeks before the shooting, the page also had a post that mused: “I wonder if I’d make the six o’clock news if I just starting popping people off.”

A former co-worker who trained with Baumgartner a few months before the shooting said Baumgartner acted odd on the job and his moods sometimes

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Police named Baumgartner, a fifth guard on the crew, as a suspect and a massive manhunt ensued.

The 21-year-old was arrested the next day B.C. at the Canada-US border. Police said they found $334,000 in his backpack.

Search warrants revealed that his mother told officers she woke up the morning of the shooting to find $64,000 in cash in her home. The documents suggested that the night before, she and her son had argued over rent money he had failed to pay her.

Baumgartner is scheduled to have a jury trial in September on charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder.

“This was a senseless tragedy that took three young lives and irreparably altered so many others,” Edmonton police Chief Rod Knect said after meeting with Taillon Thursday. “Nothing but perhaps the passage of time will ease the pain of the families.

Taillon presented the police force and the head of the city’s emergency medical services department with a plaque for their dedicated service in the aftermath of the shooting. He also praised them for helping with fundraisers for the families of the dead

guards and the one who is still recovering.

“I’ve never seen a community come together so strongly and I feel this is part of our home,” said Taillon, sporting one of the black wrist bands for sale that is etched with the first names of the guards who died. “I want to thank you again for everything that you’ve done.”

Robert Murray, a G4S manager in Edmonton, choked back tears as he talked about having dinner with some family members of the dead guards five weeks after the shooting. Schuman showed up as a surprise guest.

He was able to walk and speak with them. Everyone at the table was amazed, Murray said.

“Basically we had three grown men crying at the table to see how well Matt was doing,” he said. “It was very inspiring for us.”

He later saw Schuman at a summer fundraiser and the man was finally able to hold his two-year-old son. Murray said Schuman is doing remarkably well, but is still undergoing rehabilitation.

Working for G4S was Schuman’s civilian job. He also is a corporal and Air Force firefighter stationed at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton.

Murray said Schuman is still a military member and will have a job with G4S if he ever wants to return to the company.

“There’ll always be an opportunity, depending on what his skill level is,” said Murray. “There’ll always be a place for him at G4S. We’ll find something for him.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A new report from Canada’s budget watchdog suggests the Harper government might be in position to spring a good news deficit surprise before the next federal election.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page’s analysis on the government’s economic update budget projections suggests Finance Minister Jim Flaherty may be painting a bleaker picture than the current slowdown in the economy warrants.

On average, Page’s analysis shows the government may be overestimating the hit to its annual revenues and impact on expenses from a weaker economy by $4.7 billion a year over five years.

That’s a big enough difference to put the government solidly in a surplus position when the finance minister of the day delivers the pre-election budget in the spring of 2015.

Instead, the official update anticipates the deficit will be balanced a year later, after the October 2015 election mandated by law.

The report does not say the government is purposely cooking the books to make itself look good when it beats expectations.

The report leaves the issue unanswered, aside from asking Finance officials for more information on how they arrived at their bottom line numbers.

But Page said in an email response to a media inquiry that is one interpretation.

“Finance may have made some technical adjustments to the projections, or there could be political fiscal management considerations,” he wrote.

“The latter could reflect a desire to beat deficit targets, or presenting a fiscal track that encourages more restraint efforts over the medium term to get back to balance.”

A backgrounder from Finance shows at least half the gap stems from a $3 billion carry forward decline in revenues based on a set-back in the 2011-12 budget year.

Finance is anticipating the loss will carry on in subsequent years, which the PBO says suggests Ottawa has reduced the “revenue yield assumptions” from the one-year result.

Flaherty’s director of communications, Chisholm Pothier, said Page appears to be all over the map.

“One day he’s saying our deficit is higher, the next day he’s saying it’s lower,” said Pothier.

“The economic update was transparent and provided clear explanations . . . including that revenues were revised down due to lower nominal gross domestic product, lower projected interest rates and lower than expected tax revenues from lower commodity prices, and program expenses increased due to the impact of lower interest rates on pension and benefits obligations.”

Baird chastises UN for vote CANADA JOINS MINORITY IN SAYING NO TO PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD

BY MIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird used the podium at the United Nations General Assembly to blast the world body Thursday for its “regrettable decision” to allow a historic vote on Palestinian statehood.

Baird also suggested Canada will take retaliatory measures against the Palestinians for forcing the statehood issue onto the world stage.

The minister didn’t say what Canada was contemplating, but the obvious option would appear to be suspending aid spending to the Palestinians.

U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the political divide threatened Thursday to cut off aid if the Palestinians used their newfound status against Israel.

A senior Canadian official, who would speak only on condition they not be quoted by name, said the government would take “thoughtful and deliberate” action in the coming days.

In a detailed speech, Baird recapped the UN’s 65-year efforts to find a peaceful two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians.

The enduring theme, he argued, was that neither side would take unilateral action as the Palestinians have.

And he appeared the blame to UN for indulging them.

“As a result of this body’s utterly regrettable decision to abandon policy and principle, we will be considering all available next steps,” Baird told the assembly in a prepared text, after flying to New York to personally register Canada’s No vote.

Baird said Canada was voting against the initiative because “we are firmly convinced (it) will undermine the objective of reaching a comprehensive, lasting and just settlement for both sides.”

The Palestinians were certain to win UN recognition, leaving Canada in small minority with Israel and the United States, which lobbied hard to block the move as unhelpful to the building of peace in the Middle East.

Canada joined those two countries in a vocal, but unsuccessful minority.

Baird was among a handful of foreign ministers who addressed the general assembly Thursday, winning a prime speaking slot among a roster of orators that included Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel UN ambassador, Ron Prosor.

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman also jetted to New York for the meeting.

“The path to peace has historically rested in direct negotiations between the two parties to resolve all outstanding issues and it remains the same today.

Solutions can only come through the two sides working together,” Baird said.

“This resolution will not advance the cause of peace or spur a return to negotiations. Will the Palestinian people be better off as a result? No. On the contrary, this unilateral step will harden positions and raise unrealistic expectations while doing noth-

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ing to improve the lives of the Palestinian people.”

Baird said Canada was calling on both sides to return to the negotiating table without preconditions.

Most of the General Assembly’s 193 countries were expected to support the motion.

Several major countries, including France, have recently said they would support elevating Palestinians from the status of UN observer to non-member observer state.

The Palestinians are calling for UN recognition of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the lands Israel captured in 1967.

They want to be able to resume negotiations with Israel, and say recognition of the 1967 borders of Palestine is meant to salvage a peace deal, not sabotage it, as Israel has charged.

The non-member observer state status could also open the way for possible war crimes charges against the Jewish state at the International Criminal Court.

However, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators warned Thursday they would amend legislation to cut off U.S. aid if the Palestinians used their new status to pursue legal action against Israel in the International Criminal Court.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said earlier this week that the UN vote would not fulfil the goal of independent Palestinian and Israeli states living next to each other in peace, which the U.S. strongly supports because it requires direct negotiations.

“We need an environment conducive to that,” she said in Washington. “And we’ve urged both parties to refrain from actions that might in any way make a return to meaningful negotiations that focus on getting to a resolution more difficult.”

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HALIFAX — Search warrants used in the case of a Halifax navy intelligence officer who has pleaded guilty to espionage say the RCMP began investigating Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle after the FBI alerted them of a possible security breach.

Redacted versions of three search warrants were made public today after the federal Crown consented to their release. The warrants were used to obtain evidence against Delisle, who pleaded guilty last month to passing information to a foreign entity and breach of trust.

One of the documents says the RCMP opened an investigation into Delisle’s activities after it received a letter from FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi alerting them of a possible security breach involving a Canadian military officer.

That letter was sent Dec. 2, 2011 — about six weeks before Delisle was arrested.

OTTAWA — The Liberals want the country’s top civil servant to investigate the Conservative government’s use of media monitoring during the 2011 election.

They say the monitoring program used the public service for partisan ends. “The issue is not that it is inappropriate for the government to monitor mainstream and ethno-cultural media,� said Liberal Treasury Board critic John McCallum. “Rather, it is that the Conservatives crossed the line when they used Canadians’ tax dollars to measure their performance at partisan events during an election campaign.�

McCallum has written to Privy Council Clerk Wayne Wouters, essentially the country’s senior public servant, to look into the program.

Documents obtained by The Canadian Press under access to information laws reveal that the Citizenship and Immigration Department spent nearly $750,000 over three years monitoring and analyzing

Children living in cult arrive back MONTREAL, Que. — A group of young children who allegedly were living in Arizona with the followers of a selfstyled guru have been returned to Quebec.

The 10 children, who range in age from two to seven years, have been put under the custody of the province’s youth protection branch.

They were part of a group of 12 children who were intercepted by Canadian border services officials near Vancouver earlier this week.

The group, accompanied by two adults, were apparently headed into Canada from the United States.

Two of the children stayed behind with their father in British Columbia.

The self-styled guru, Marcel Pontbriand, took refuge in a small town in Arizona with dozens of Quebecers and some children since 2009.

The former businessman from Beloeil, Que., was the head of a cult that allegedly separated children from their parents.

Two of the 14 children connected with the cult are still missing.

Last-minute PM’s trip to Labrador will finalize Muskrat Falls loan: sources ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Sources indicate Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s trip to a military base in Labrador today will finalize the longawaited federal loan guarantee for the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project.

The visit appeared to take Premier Kathy Dunderdale by surprise.

She said she’d received no courtesy call and had no plans to attend.

Dunderdale told reporters that provincial negotiators were still in Ottawa working on final terms of a loan that could save millions of dollars in borrowing costs for the $7.4 billion project. Her government

Burning yule log video prompts calls about Regina stadium on fire REGINA — Stand down, Regina, Mosaic Stadium isn’t on fire.

People have called 911 over the last few days to report a fire at Mosaic Stadium, where the CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders play. Deputy fire Chief Gerard Kay says callers have been insistent, describing bright flames and the smell of smoke.

But when firefighters arrived, there was no fire.

Kay says it took them three or four trips before they realized that people were seeing large video screens inside the stadium broadcasting the perennially popular holiday fireplace video.

The fire department has called the Roughriders asking them to change the video, and a spokesperson for the Roughriders confirms it has been taken off.

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Claude Letourneau had already pleaded guilty to 32 counts of theft, assault with a weapon causing harm, and assault with a weapon.

Crown prosecutor Emile Baril-Cote says Quebec court Judge Conrad Chapdelaine took into consideration the joint recommendation of lawyers as well as Letourneau’s past criminal file.

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Rebels add low-risk insurance ACQUIRE SLOVAKIAN FILIP VASKO FROM KELOWNA FOR CONDITIONAL SIXTH-ROUND PICK MITCH EVANECZ

EVANECZ REBOUNDS LA QUINTA, Calif.

— Red Deer’s Mitch Evanecz took a step in the right direction during the second round of the final stage of the PGA Q School Thursday. Evanecz shot a three-under par 69 for a 143 total and is tied for 94th in the field of 172 heading into the third of six rounds. He managed six birdies and three bogeys on the Jack Nicklaus Course, shooting 35-34. He sits just two strokes back of the top 71. Ryan Yip of Calgary, shot a one-under par 71 and is also tied at 143.

Meen Whee Kim is the overall leader at 131 after shooting a nineunder par 63 Thursday.

The top 25 and ties will receive their PGA card for next season and the next 50 and ties will receive full exemption on the Web.com Tour.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Call him an low-risk insurance policy with the potential to produce a nifty return.

Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brett Sutter acquired Slovak forward Filip Vasko from the Kelowna Rockets on Thursday in exchange for a conditional sixth-round selection in the 2013 WHL bantam draft. The Rockets will receive the pick only if Vasko is still with the Rebels on Jan. 10.

“We were down to 12 forwards with the injury to Jesse Miller (upper body, indefinite),” said Sutter. “We had a chance to acquire a forward who has 10 points in 19 games this season and was playing on Kelowna’s third line.

“He’s a kid who has some skill and the trade was made on a conditional basis. It was a no-brainer to go through with it and see what happens.”

Vasko played 51 games with the Rockets last season with no goals and 12 assists.

While he hasn’t been a big-time offence producer, he has three goals and seven helpers to his credit this season and is an

effective penalty killer.

“With Miller out we were missing a guy in that area,” said Sutter. “We just felt that he (Vasko) gives us something in our lineup that we were missing. We’re down in numbers and we’re missing a penalty killer.”

The fact that he Filip Vasko has put up 10 points this season in a limited role indicated to Sutter that Vasko, who will celebrate his 19th birthday on Dec. 10, might be capable of producing better numbers in a more prominent role.

At the very least . . .

“He has the potential to play in our top nine forwards and his presence keeps the competition level where it should be,” said Sutter.

Vasko, who practised with his new teammates on Thursday, admitted that he wasn’t

Brees picked five times in loss to Falcons ATLANTA CLOSING IN ON DIVISION TITLE AFTER WIN OVER SAINTS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Today

● College basketball: King’s at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Stettler, 7:45 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Maple Leafs at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Major bantam hockey: Grande Prairie at Red Deer White, 8 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Midget AA hockey: Innisfail at Red Deer Pro Stitch, 8 p.m., Kin City A. ● Chinook senior hockey: Sylvan Lake at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings at Red Deer Ramada, 12:30 p.m., Kin City A; Badlands at Innisfail, 5:50 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer TBS, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Northstar, 2 p.m., Arena; Airdrie/ Cochrane at Red Deer IROC, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Banff at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Airdrie at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Innisfail, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● Major bantam hockey: Grande Prairie at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Major bantam female hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kin City B. ● Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer Ramada, 1:45 p.m., Kin City A. ● Chinook senior hockey: Sylvan Lake at Bentley, 2 p.m. ● AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds, 2 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS at Innisfail, 2:10 p.m.

overly surprised when informed of the trade.

“Maybe a little bit, but I was kind of expecting it,” he said. “We had a lot of guys over there, I think seven extra guys. So, yeah, I was kind of expecting that.

“But I’m happy, I think it’s a great opportunity for me to be here. I just want some ice time, which I didn’t get the last few games in Kelowna. That’s most important for me right now.”

Vasko agreed with the assessment that he’s a more-than-capable penalty killer.

“But I’m also a pretty fast guy. I can maybe bring some speed and quick hands (to the Rebels). Those are my assets,” he said.

He’s also of the opinion that extra ice time will result in more points.

“I hope it’s going to be good that way for me here,” he said. “Fore sure, I would like to be good offensively and get some points.”

Vasko is expected to be in the Red Deer lineup for tonight’s 7:30 p.m. meeting with the visiting Medicine Hat Tigers and a home-ice engagement with the Saskatoon Blades 24 hours later. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is hit by Atlanta Falcons’ Kroy Biermann (71) and Stephen Nicholas (54) during the first half of an NFL football game, Thursday in Atlanta. Brees was picked off five times, the most of his career, and had his touchdown streak come to an end in the Saints 23-13 loss to the Falcons.

Falcons 23 Saints 13 ATLANTA — The Atlanta Falcons raced to a 17-0 lead and the defence made it stand up, picking off five of Drew Brees’ passes and ending his NFL-record touchdown streak with a 23-13 victory Thursday night.

The Falcons moved to the brink of clinching the NFC South and dealt a big blow to the Saints (5-7) and their fading playoff hopes. William Moore had two of the five interceptions, which were the most of Brees’ career and came four days after he had two passes picked off and returned for touchdowns in a loss to San Francisco. Brees had thrown a touchdown pass in 54 consecutive games. He had an apparent scoring pass to Darren Sproles late in the first half, but it was nullified by a penalty.

Michael Turner scored on Atlanta’s opening possession, Tony Gonzalez hauled in a touchdown pass from Matt Ryan, and Matt Bryant booted three field goals, including a 55-yarder. The Falcons defence did the rest.

Thomas DeCoud, Sean Weatherspoon and Jonathan Babineaux also had interceptions for Atlanta, which will clinch the NFC South with a month to go in the regular season if Tampa Bay loses to Denver on Sunday.

Brees had a couple of games with four picks, but nothing like this. He finished 28 of 50 for 341 yards.

The defending NFC South champion Saints lost their second in a row and will likely have to win out to have even a faint hope of making the postseason.

After winning so many close games, the Falcons started this one as if they were intent on a rout. Ryan completed a pass on the first play from scrimmage, then turned it over to a running game that has struggled most of the season. Turner burst around right end for a 35-yard gain. Jacquizz Rodgers broke off two

straight 14-yard gains. Finally, it was Turner going in standing from 3 yards out, giving Atlanta a quick 7-0 lead. That was Turner’s 58th touchdown in five seasons with the Falcons, breaking the team record he had shared with Terance Mathis.

Atlanta struck again in the opening minute of the second period. Julio Jones hauled in an 18-yard throw from Ryan, setting up a 17-yard touchdown pass to Gonzalez in the back of the end zone.

Brees’ second interception, this one a sloppy pass behind running Chris Ivory that deflected into the arms of Sean Weatherspoon, set up Bryant’s 45-yard field goal for a 17-0 lead.

Then, suddenly, the game completely changed. For the rest of the second quarter and most of the third, the Saints totally dominated. Mark Ingram scored on a 1-yard run, capping an 11-play, 80-yard drive, and New Orleans should have tacked on more points at the end of the half. But Brees made a rookie-like mistake with 12 seconds remaining, dumping a pass over the middle to Sproles with no timeouts. He was wrapped up at the Atlanta 3 and the clock ran out before the Saints could spike the ball.

But New Orleans got the ball to start the second half, and Brees went back to work. This time, he made a couple of nifty moves to avoid sacks, completing six passes on an 83-yard drive consuming 15 plays and more than 6 1-2 minutes. But the Falcons defence held again, forcing Garrett Hartley to boot a 21-yard field goal that cut it to 17-10. Hartley connected again from much farther out on the Saints’ next possession, a 52-yarder that brought New Orleans even closer.

The Falcons, meanwhile, couldn’t do anything offensively. They failed to pick up a first down on five straight possessions, a stretch in which the Saints had a 289-30 lead in total yards and a staggering 18 first downs. Finally, it was the Atlanta defence that turned things around late in the third.

Addition of Ray big move for Argos, Glenn shows he can’t do it The 100th Grey Cup championship re- to jail. turned to the city and franchise that has Times are different in 2012 because the held both of them the most number of times Toronto Argonauts brought only one new when the Toronto Argonauts won the game star to the team in the off season, but the last Sunday. team brought exactly the right There was a discernible ripstar with quarterback Ricky ple effect in the GTA because Ray. more Torontonians were actuA championship CFL team is ally aware of the game than we definitely the sum of its parts, have seen in a long time. The but no part is more important Grey Cup broadcast set a record than the quarterback position. when it averaged 5.5 million For more information on this viewers in English Canada, peakconcept, please contact the Eding at around 13 million, with 3.6 monton Eskimos, a team that fell million viewers in the Toronto from 11-7 in 2011 to 7-11 in 2012 region tuning into the broadcast after Ray’s trade to Grey Cup during the game. champion Toronto Argonauts.

Toronto is Hamburger Hill The Grey Cup game was actuJIM for the CFL because many ambially a disappointment from an SUTHERLAND tious Argonaut plans to gain a entertainment perspective befoothold in the city’s sports marcause the red hot Calgary Stamket have died a horrible death peders were lassoed early and along the way in recent decades. often in the game. The game was There was a brief flirtation with the a golden opportunity for Stamp quarterteam in the early ‘90s when John Candy and back Kevin Glenn to exorcise the demons his decidedly less committed investment from his past, including his exclusion by partners brought Rocket Ismail and tempo- injury from the 2007 Grey Cup game. rary flare to the Argos, but those fireworks However this Grey Cup did not enhance quickly flamed out when Gretzky speed- his reputation because Glenn looked very skated away from the concept and the very nervous during the game and added some well-liked John Candy passed away. Bruce fuel to the fire about his inability to win the McNall, the other principal partner in this big game. ill-fated Argo ownership team, simply went Glenn was unable to dial in the kind of

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accuracy he showed during his regular season and playoff run in 2012 that got him to the Cup. Glenn’s grip on the first string quarterback job was weakened by his performance in the big game and it is now obvious why Drew Tate was the designated starter until his injury.

The truth is that the entire Calgary offence was shut down by the Argonaut defence in the Grey Cup, largely because current Toronto defensive coordinator and former Stampeder coach Chris Jones recognized the Calgary offensive scheme and blew it out of the water.

Maybe now it is easier to understand why Calgary head coach and GM John Hufnagel was so upset when Jones bolted the Stamps and headed to Toronto.

So now we head into a long off-season before the dawn of CFL football in June 2013. The CFL will play its last season as an eight-team league in 2013 because they will add Ottawa back into the fold in 2014 with solid new ownership led by respected Ottawa businessman Jeff Hunt.

My guess is that the league will add either Quebec City or a Maritime franchise by 2020 because these are heady times for the CFL and the league has stepped up its game in the Canadian sports scene.

Jim Sutherland is a Red Deer freelance writer

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Doetzel hoping to shake early injuries REBELS’ DEFENCEMAN HAS HAD BAD LUCK WITH INJURIES BUT IS HOPING TO TURN THINGS AROUND AS HE IS SET TO GET BACK ON THE ICE THIS WEEKEND

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE

GREG LEEB

SPORTS EDITOR

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

If Kayle Doetzel was a cartoon character, he’d be Joe Btfspik, the jinxed, hard-luck individual from the old cartoon strip L’il Abner.

The Red Deer Rebels defenceman has had a dark cloud looming over his head for some time now. He was limited to 14 games during his final season of midget AAA hockey in Saskatoon due to injuries and appeared in only 43 games last winter — his first in the WHL — for the same reason.

After playing with victorious Team Canada in the Memorial of Ivan Hlinka tournament in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in August, a healthy Doetzel was primed to elevate his game to a new level in 2012-13. But he endured a broken jaw during an Oct. 3 game at Saskatoon and will finally return to the Red Deer lineup tonight against the visiting Medicine Hat Tigers.

“When the season started I thought I was playing pretty well. But the season kind of got cut short when I was hurt after just six games,” said the Rosetown, Sask., product. “It’s tough when you’re sitting out. It’s not fun watching your team play and having to stay back when the team goes on the road. You’d rather be with the guys.

“I’ve had a lot of bad

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Kayle Doetzel has had a rough start to his WHL career with some unlucky injuries but the Rebels’ defenceman is looking to stay healthy as he returns to the ice this weekend.

Doetzel was the Rebels’ first-round pick — 12th overall — in the 2010 WHL bantam draft and remains a work in progress, which is not a knock on the youngster considering his age (17) and the fact he’s missed large chunks of the past and current season.

“He’s a young guy who’s still learning the game,” said Rebels general manager/head coach Brent Sutter.

“He’s definitely very dependable defensively and we still need to work with him on the offensive side of his game and on his overall sense of the

Rebels vs. Medicine Hat Tigers Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Centrium

Victoria Royals LW Alex Gogolev is riding a 10-points point streak dating back to Nov. 3.

Gogolev, a 20-year-old from Moscow who was acquired from the Calgary Hitmen earlier this season, has four goals and 11 points during his extended run.

THEY SAID IT

“I’m just realizing how much you’re playing.

Back in junior (A) you’re playing two (games) out of three (nights), three out of three, instead of five in six, four in five, so it’s a bit of a change.

You can’t really make excuses, it’s the schedule, you’ve got to come out and perform to the best of your ability every night.” — Medicine Hat Tigers defenceman Kyle Becker, who spent most of last season in the BCHL, to the Medicine Hat News, following the Tigers’ recent sixgame, 4,200 km road trip during which the club was 0-6.

Scouting report

The Tigers enter tonight’s game without a win in their last seven (0-6-1-0) and are 2-7-1-0 in their last 10 outings. Medicine Hat, at 11-15-2-0, sits fifth in the Central Division and 10th in the Eastern Conference, eight points back of the Rebels. Red Deer leads the season series 2-1 . . . C Curtis Valk leads the Medicine Hat points parade with 37 (16g,21a). LW Hunter Shinkaruk, who has been named an assistant captain for Team Orr in the 2013 CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game Jan. 16 at Halifax and is currently out with an injury, has 35 points (17-18) in 24 games. Next in line are C Elgin Pearce (9-19-

game.

“He’s a young guy still learning that and he has to learn it playing at a high pace. But he’s a good kid. He’s willing to learn and we’re certainly pleased to have him back in our lineup.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

28) and D Dylan Busenius (2-17-19) . . . Red Deer native Derek Ryckman and fellow D Tyler Lewington are the Tigers’ co-leaders in penalty minutes with 47.

Injuries: Medicine Hat — LW Hunter Shinkaruk (lower body, one week), C Jayden Hart (upper body, day-to-day). Red Deer — D Kayle Doetzel (upper body, day-to-day), LW Jesse Miller (upper body, indefinite).

Special teams: Medicine Hat — Power play 23.5 per cent, sixth overall; penalty kill 78.6 per cent, 14th. Red Deer — Power play 17.5 per cent, 16th overall; penalty kill, 86.4 per cent, third.

Not much sympathy for Winterhawks from Sutter The Portland Winterhawks, players’ families, paying for who were hammered by the summer training programs and Western Hockey League this providing cell phones for team week for violating a series of re- captains. cruiting regulations, “You have to have have an extraordieveryone on the narily large number same page,” said Sutof sympathizers. ter. “You can’t have Red Deer Rebels teams doing things owner/president/GM/ that the league head coach Brent doesn’t allow. At the Sutter is not among end of the day, even them. with players getting “There’s not too cell phones, you’re much too say on it. paying the players.

What the league We’re amateur hockhas handed down ey, still.” are sanctions put The Winterhawks GREG in place for violawere more than MEACHEM tions of our WHL somewhat taken regulations,” said aback by the leagueSutter. “By the sancimposed penalties. tions that were put Team president in place, I think it’s very clear Doug Piper said the club was what our league is about.” “dumbfounded” by the WHL’s For the record, the Winter- decision. hawks were fined $200,000 and Portland is exploring the suspended from the first five possibility of appealing the penrounds of the 2013 bantam draft. alties, but an appeal might lead In addition, the club will forfeit to even more severe sanctions. its first-round bantam draft se- Who’s to say that some league lections from 2014 to 2017 in- governors felt the Winterhawks clusive and will lose GM/head got off too easily and would be coach Mike Johnston to suspen- only too happy to impose even sion for the remainder of the more punishment on the francurrent campaign. chise?

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“Obviously every assistant coach wants to be a head coach,” Green told the Oregonian. “In a perfect world, though, this is not the way I want to be a head coach. I’m excited, but I’m disappointed about what happened.”

Green said he doesn’t expect any changes in the mindset of the team.

“I’m not coming in here trying to say, ‘how do we fix this?’

The style of hockey we play has been the same since the first day we got here. Fast skating, hard playing, a team that competes and that’s what I’ll demand.

“Our expectations are high here. It’s not about making the playoffs, it’s not about winning a round in the playoffs, it’s about winning the WHL championship.”

Meanwhile, the WHL head office released a statement on Thursday that further clarified its position on the sanctions imposed on the Portland franchise.

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Red Deer minor hockey product Greg Leeb graduated to the WHL in 1994 and played four seasons with the Spokane Chiefs. He appeared in 276 regular-season games, scoring 127 goals and adding 164 assists for 291 points.

He also put up 49 points (19-30) in 56 playoff outings. Following his final WHL campaign, in which he fired 46 goals and added 50 assists during the regular season and had 10 goals and 30 points in 18 playoff appearances, Leeb played four seasons in the AHL and also suited up for two games with the NHL’s Dallas Stars. He’s played in Europe since 2002 and the 35-year-old is now with the Coventry Blaze of the Elite Ice Hockey League based in the United Kingdom.

His younger brother — former Red Deer Rebels forward Brad — is also with the Blaze.

luck and hopefully it’s over now. I’m getting sick of the injuries.”

Speaking of hardships, Doetzel wasn’t particularly fond of having his jaw wired shut, which was the case for roughly six weeks.

“It seemed like forever,” he said. “My diet was all liquids, a lot of blended stuff like protein shakes.

And a lot of soup too.”

As a result, Doetzel lost about 10 pounds, most of which he has since regained since the wire was removed on Nov. 14.

“I’m almost back up to my normal weight,” said the six-foot-three, 190-pound rearguard.

Central Scouting has Doetzel as the 14thranked WHL skater for the 2013 NHL entry draft.

The second-year Rebel, of course, can improve that ranking with his performance in the coming weeks and months and particularly if he is one of the 40 players selected to compete in the CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game on Jan. 16 in Halifax.

“Hopefully I can impress the scouts when I get back in there,” he said.

“I’ll try to make the best of it and we’ll see what happens.”

Despite his history of injuries, Doetzel insisted he won’t alter his style when he returns to action tonight.

“I’ll just play my normal physical game, be a hard guy to play against,” he said.

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Queens dominate Ooks, move back into first RDC HOCKEY

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF

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Red Deer College Queen Ashley Graf watches as a shot that is deflected by NAIT Ooks goaltender Emma Cooley during first period action at the Arena in Red Deer on Thursday. The Queens went on to win the game 6-1.

Salomons notched the winning goal at 14:01 of the second period with Jessica Anderson making it 3-1 at 17:38 on the nicest goal of the evening.

Anderson tipped in a perfect feed from Henley on a two-on-one for her first league goal.

Salomons connected at 9:25 and at 11:38 of the third period with Jana Kitchen finishing the scoring at 12:33.

The Ooks loss came following a weekend sweep of SAIT that saw them record an 11-4 win in the second game.

“We knew they had some offence, but the biggest thing for us was to pressure the puck and not let

Mediation fails, looking at new direction for labour talks After arriving at another dead end in negotiations, the NHL and NHL Players’ Association emerged from two days of mediation with a new direction to consider.

Commissioner Gary Bettman proposed Thursday that the leadership from both sides step aside for the next bargaining session, leaving a group of owners and players to try and break the stalemate.

The specific parameters of the meeting weren’t set out and the NHLPA said it would take the offer to its executive board and negotiating committee for consideration.

Bettman’s proposal came with the sides unable to bridge a gap in collective bargaining negotiations despite sitting through a series of sessions with U.S. federal mediators Scot L. Beckenbaugh and John Sweeney in Woodbridge, N.J., this week.

“After spending several hours with both sides over two days, the presiding mediators concluded that the parties remained far apart, and that no progress toward a resolution could be made through further mediation at this point in time,” deputy commissioner Bill Daly said Thursday in a statement.

“We are disappointed that the mediation process was not successful.”

Mediation was also used on a couple occasions during the NHL’s labour dispute in 2004-05 and didn’t produce any discernable progress.

According to NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr, the sides may sit

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE down with representatives from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service again in the future.

“The mediators informed the parties that they did not think it was productive to continue the discussions further today,” said Fehr.

“The mediators indicated that they would stay in contact with the league and the NHLPA, and would call the parties back together when they thought the time was right.”

Progress has remained elusive for the league and union despite a variety of different negotiation settings over the last several months.

They’ve tried everything from large groups to the Big Four (Bettman, Daly, Donald Fehr and NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr) to a private 1-on-1 session between the deputies without success.

There was a brief hint of optimism last week when the union tabled a new offer that Donald Fehr felt brought the sides within $182 million over five years.

However, a series of player contract issues remain unresolved and the terms of negotiations are bound to change the longer the lockout drags out.

On Thursday evening, Daly confirmed that the league’s Nov. 8 offer remained on the table.

The sides have each proposed a 50-50 split of revenues, but remain separated on payments to be made outside the system to help ease the transition from a deal that saw players receive 57 per cent. The NHL has offered $211 million in deferred compensa-

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The Miami Heat almost could not.

Ray Allen’s 3-pointer with 22.6 seconds left gave Miami the lead, LeBron James finished with 23 points and the Heat rallied late to beat the Spurs 105-100 on Thursday night — digging deep despite San Antonio’s decision to have four top players resting at home in a move that bothered NBA Commissioner David Stern.

The Spurs played without Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Danny Green, all sent back to San Antonio by coach Gregg Popovich, who said the move was in his team’s best interest.

Stern disagreed, calling the decision “unacceptable,” apologizing to fans and saying that sanctions against the Spurs will be forthcoming.

After the game, Popovich said he was unaware of Stern’s statement and declined comment about what it might mean.

“Oh, it would have been great if we won,” Spurs forward Matt Bonner said after hearing about Stern’s statement.

“It goes back to what I was saying, I’m sure everybody else was saying before the game. We have faith in everybody on our roster.

“We think we have one of the deepest teams in the league.”

The Heat weren’t disagreeing afterward.

“We survived,” Chris Bosh said. “And we won.

They have a bunch of tal-

NBA ented guys over there. I know that nobody’s going to really give them credit, but they are a tough bunch.”

How tough? Try this — the Spurs led by seven with 4:48 left, and the margin was still 98-93 when Gary Neal made a 3-pointer with 2:14 remaining.

From there, Miami closed on a 12-2 run.

But all anyone will likely remember from this one is Popovich’s decision — and whatever Stern does as a result.

“I apologize to all NBA fans,” Stern said.

“This was an unacceptable decision by the San Antonio Spurs and substantial sanctions will be forthcoming.”

Allen scored 20 points, Dwyane Wade added 19 and Chris Bosh finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds for Miami, now 7-0 at home.

Neal had 20 points for the Spurs. Tiago Splitter scored 18 points, Nando De Colo added 15, Boris Diaw scored 12 and Bonner had 10 for San Antonio, which finished a six-games-in-nine-nights road trip with a 5-1 record.

Bonner also had 10 rebounds, one more than he had grabbed all season entering the game.

“Pop is the coach of the San Antonio Spurs,” Neal said.

“He did what’s best for us.”

Stern’s statement was released roughly the same time as tip-off in Miami for the nationally televised game.

The Spurs’ five starters came into the game

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averaging a combined 23.6 points, or 1.6 points less than James averaged entering Thursday night.

And when the Heat ran out to a 16-6 lead, it seemed as though a blowout was in the offing.

After all, even the oddsmakers in Las Vegas expected it to be that way — the Heat were favoured by six points in most sports books before the news broke that the Spurs’ regulars were resting, after which the line swelled to 13.

Apparently, no one told the Spurs that the second-string was supposed to play secondfiddle.

San Antonio closed the first quarter on a 216 run, taking a 27-22 lead after the period, and simply did not go away. The Spurs led by as many as seven at one point, and after James Anderson made a pair of free throws with 0.6 seconds left in the third, San Antonio held a 76-73 lead heading into the final 12 minutes.

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With the lockout approaching its 12th week, some veteran NHLers have started drawing parallels between the current work stoppage and the one that wiped out the 2004-05 season.

“It seems bleak for having any sort of season,” Hurricanes defenceman Joe Corvo told the Raleigh News & Observer. “It feels like (2004-05) again. It seems like we’re getting nowhere.”

With no end to the standoff in sight and players set to miss their fourth paycheque on Friday, speculation is expected to grow about the possibility of the union decertifying or disclaiming interest.

Disbanding the union would allow NHL players to challenge the lockout under antitrust laws and eliminate the need for a CBA, potentially making each of them independent contractors.

The strategy was used by NFL and NBA players in recent labour disputes and has been discussed on internal NHLPA conference calls in recent weeks.

Considerable damage has been done to the NHL’s business by the lockout.

The league has cancelled 422 regular-season games through Dec. 14, plus the Jan. 1 Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium and Jan. 27 all-star game in Columbus.

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them wind up and make plays . . . get in their face and frustrate them,” said Keeper.

“We beat them 9-3 the last time we played them so we knew could score on them,” said Salomons. “We really took it to them in the first two periods and wore them down. We kept peppering their goalie and she tired. As well we knew if we worked hard the goals would come.”

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The Queens believe they’re the best team in the conference and they showed it with a strong 6-1 victory over the Ooks before over 200 fans at the Arena Thursday.

“We had a good week of practice and pushed ourselves as we didn’t have the best weekend (a two-game split with Grant MacEwan) and we wanted to come home and play well. We did just that from Camille (goaltender Trautman) on out,” said Queens veteran forward Laura Salomons, who scored three times, her first league hat trick.

“I’m not sure about that last goal, as (Ashley) Graf and I were both whacking at it. But it went in and they gave it to me, so I’ll take it,” she said with a laugh.

“But every line was going tonight. Everyone is starting to jell right before Christmas and it’s good to have that chemistry before we get another long break again.”

The Queens dominated play from the outset Thursday, peppering NAIT netminder Emma Cooley with 42 shots and allowing 22 — 11 of which came in the third period.

The teams were tied 1-1 after 20 minutes as Janelle Henley opened the scoring for RDC at 9:14 with former Queen Chantal Froehler beating Trautman on a rebound at 10:31.

“That didn’t bother us as we’ve faced a bit of adversity before and we have a good mature group,” said Salomons. “We don’t doubt ourselves as we feel we’re the best team in the league.”

Queens head coach Trevor Keeper wasn’t worried when the Ooks managed to get out of the first period tied.

“We put together three solid periods. Outshooting them was a direct result of our forecheck and pressuring them with the puck. We kept telling the girls that if we kept the pressure on it would break open.

To keep our shifts short and maintain our energy and that’s what happened.”

All three of Salomons goals came on short rebounds as she drove to the net.

“She does that all the time,” said Keeper, who had Salomons as an assistant coach last season. “We felt there would be some rebounds available if we kept pressuring their goalie. We noticed that when the puck was out of their zone she would lean over on her pads. We knew if we kept directing the puck on her we’d get our chances.”

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Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Prince Albert 28 18 8 0 2 93 80 Swift Current 28 11 12 3 2 81 78 Moose Jaw 28 10 11 3 4 72 89 Saskatoon 25 12 12 0 1 76 94 Regina 27 11 13 1 2 73 87 Brandon 28 10 15 2 1 81 115

Pt 38 27 27 25 25 23

Central Division GP W LOTLSOL Edmonton 26 17 5 2 2 Calgary 25 17 5 1 2 Red Deer 28 15 11 1 1 Lethbridge 30 14 13 1 2 Medicine Hat 28 11 15 2 0 Kootenay 24 7 15 1 1

Pt 38 37 32 31 24 16

GF 89 82 73 93 91 64

GA 63 71 80 90 94 85

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Kamloops 28 20 6 1 1 105 70 Kelowna 26 16 8 1 1 106 63 Victoria 26 13 12 0 1 77 88 Prince George 25 9 12 1 3 71 94 Vancouver 25 7 18 0 0 70 104

Pt 42 34 27 22 14

U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 25 20 4 1 0 116 53 41 Spokane 25 17 7 1 0 97 71 35 Tri-City 27 16 9 1 1 84 72 34 Seattle 25 12 12 1 0 81 96 25 Everett 29 10 17 0 2 71 109 22 Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL

columns.

Kelowna at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s results Moose Jaw 4 Victoria 3 (SO) Saskatoon 5 Lethbridge 3 Seattle 5 Everett 3 Swift Current 5 Brandon 3

Sunday, Dec. 2 Kootenay at Calgary, 2 p.m.

Lethbridge at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Prince Albert at Regina, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Kamloops at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s results Swift Current 5 Brandon 1 Lethbridge 6 Prince Albert 4 Edmonton 5 Kootenay 4 (SO) Moose Jaw 2 Vancouver 1 Kelowna 3 Tri-City 2

AHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Manchester 18 9 6 2 1 49 St. John’s 20 10 9 0 1 49 Worcester 18 9 7 1 1 50 Portland 18 8 8 1 1 57 Providence 16 7 8 0 1 33

Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Friday’s games Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m.

Tri-City at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Springfield Bridgeport Connecticut Adirondack Albany

Syracuse Binghamton W-B/Scranton Hershey Norfolk

Saturday, Dec. 1 Spokane at Regina, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Tri-City at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Northeast Division GP W LOTLSOL 17 10 3 1 3 17 10 7 0 0 17 9 7 1 0 18 9 9 0 0 16 4 7 0 5 GP 17 16 18 19 18

East Division W LOTLSOL 12 3 1 1 10 4 1 1 11 7 0 0 8 10 1 0 7 11 0 0

GF 59 56 58 46 37 GF 65 45 48 49 50

Lake Erie Rochester Toronto Hamilton

Grand Rapids Rockford Chicago Milwaukee Peoria

GA 43 55 56 61 48

Pt 21 21 20 18 15

GA 36 57 57 50 49

Pt 24 20 19 18 13

GA 42 38 40 55 63

WESTERN CONFERENCE North Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Abbotsford 18 12 2 2 2 51 32

New Orleans Carolina PA 244 226 290 319

Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville

W 10 7 4 2

South L T 1 0 4 0 7 0 9 0

Pct .909 .636 .364 .182

PF 327 230 238 188

PA 211 273 335 308

Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland

W 9 6 6 3

North L T 2 0 5 0 5 0 8 0

Pct .818 .545 .545 .273

PF 283 231 282 209

PA 219 210 247 248

Denver San Diego Oakland Kansas City

West W L 8 3 4 7 3 8 1 10

Pct .727 .364 .273 .091

PF 318 245 218 161

PA 221 237 356 301

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF N.Y. Giants 7 4 0 .636 305 Washington 5 6 0 .455 295 Dallas 5 6 0 .455 242 Philadelphia 3 8 0 .273 184

PA 226 285 262 282

W 11 6

South L T Pct 1 0 .917 5 0 .545

1 1 0 1

1 0 1 1

60 60 58 34

57 52 52 52

22 19 19 14

Midwest Division GP W LOTLSOL 17 10 5 1 1 20 10 9 0 1 18 8 7 2 1 18 8 8 1 1 18 6 9 2 1

GF 62 64 51 51 43

GA 53 64 58 56 66

Pt 22 21 19 18 15

Wednesday’s results St. John’s 3 Adirondack 2 San Antonio 4 Rochester 2 Hershey 5 Norfolk 2 Rockford 4 Chicago 2 Tuesday’s result Texas 5 Rockford 4 Thursday’s result Houston 2 Oklahoma City 1 (SO)

Pt 28

PF 317 310

PA 229 254

5 3

7 8

0 .417 0 .273

321 214

327 265

Chicago Green Bay Minnesota Detroit

W 8 7 6 4

North L T 3 0 4 0 5 0 7 0

Pct .727 .636 .545 .364

PF 277 273 248 267

PA 175 245 249 280

San Francisco Seattle St. Louis Arizona

W 8 6 4 4

West L 2 5 6 7

Pct .773 .545 .409 .364

PF 276 219 205 180

PA 155 185 254 227

T 1 0 1 0

Sunday, Dec. 9 Chicago at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Baltimore at Washington, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Dallas at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Miami at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

New Orleans at N.Y. Giants, 2:25 p.m.

Detroit at Green Bay, 6:20 p.m.

Thursday’s Game Atlanta 23, New Orleans 13

Monday, Dec. 10 Houston at New England, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Seattle at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

San Francisco at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Houston at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Arizona at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

New England at Miami, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Denver, 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 6:20 p.m.

NFL Odds (Favourites in capital letters; odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; NL-No line) Spread O/U Sunday Seattle at CHICAGO NL NL HOUSTON at Tennessee 6.5 47.5 NEW ENGLAND at Miami 8.5 50.5 Jacksonville at BUFFALO 5.5 45.5 Indianapolis at DETROIT 4.5 51.5 Arizona at NY JETS 4.5 36.5 SAN FRANCISCO at St. Louis 7.5 40.5 Minnesota at GREEN BAY 9.5 46.5 Tampa Bay at DENVER 7.5 50.5 Cleveland at OAKLAND NL NL CINCINNATI at San Diego 1.5 46.5 CAROLINA at Kansas City 2.5 40.5 Philadelphia at DALLAS 9.5 43.5 Pittsburgh at Baltimore NL NL Monday NY GIANTS at Washington 2.5 51.5

Monday’s Game N.Y. Giants at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 6 Denver at Oakland, 6:20 p.m.

Transactions

Friday’s games Binghamton at Adirondack, 7 p.m.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Brooklyn 10 4 .714 — New York 10 4 .714 — Philadelphia 9 6 .600 1 1/2 Boston 8 7 .533 2 1/2 Toronto 3 13 .188 8

Miami Atlanta Charlotte Orlando Washington

Milwaukee Chicago Indiana Detroit Cleveland

BASEBALL CLEVELAND INDIANS—Named Tom Wiedenbauer minor league field co-ordinator; Ruben Niebla minor league pitching co-ordinator; Luis Ortiz lower-level hitting co-ordinator/cultural development co-ordinator; Adam Everett minor league infield co-ordinator; Travis Fryman special assistant; Chris Tremie manager and Tony Arnold pitching coach of Columbus (IL); Edwin Rodriguez manager, Jim Rickon hitting coach and Greg Hibbard pitching coach of Akron (EL); David Wallace manager, Rouglas Odor hitting coach and Jeff Harris pitching coach of Carolina (Carolina); Scooter Tucker manager, Tony Mansolino hitting coach and Steve Karsay pitching coach of Lake County (MWL); Shaun Larkin hitting coach of Mahoning Valley (NYP); Scott Erickson pitching coach of the Arizona League Indians; and Joel Mejia field co-ordinator of the Dominican Summer League Indians.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Agreed to terms with RHP Felipe Paulino on a one-year contract.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Claimed SS Tommy Field off waivers from Minnesota.

MINNESOTA TWINS—Traded OF Denard Span to Washington for RHP Alex Meyer.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Agreed to terms with 3B Scott Moore on a minor league contract.

TAMPA BAY RAYS—Agreed to terms with 2B Mike Fontenot, OF Rich Thompson, RHP Matt Buschmann, RHP Will Inman, 1B Nick Weglarz and INF Shawn O’Malley on minor league contracts.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Released RHP Brad Bergesen.

ATLANTA BRAVES—Agreed to terms with OF B.J. Upton on a five-year contract.

CHICAGO CUBS—Named Scott Harris director of baseball operations.

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Agreed to terms with RHP Sam Holland, LHP Jeremy Gould, SS Luis Ugueto and OF Euri Minaya on minor league contracts.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Acquired OF Denard Span from the Minnesota Twins for RHP Alex Meyer.

Texas League CORPUS CHRISTI HOOKS—Named Josh Brewer field superintendent.

American Association LINCOLN SALTDOGS—Named Ken Oberkfell manager.

Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM—Exercised 2013 contract options on RHP Andy Clark, RHP Jose Velazquez, LHP Andres Caceres, RHP Ian Durham, RHP Brennan Flick, RHP Matt Kline, RHP Alec

Lewis, RHP Brandon Mathes, LHP Mike Hanley, RHP Jorge Marban, RHP Brent Choban, RHP Brad Allen, RHP Sean Gregory, C Eddie Rodriguez, C Jim Jacquot, INF Junior Arrojo, INF Edwin Padua, INF Pierre LePage, OF John Malloy, 1B Drew Rundle, OF David Harris, OF Kyle Bluestein, OF Ryan Skellie, OF Peter Fatse, OF Cole Miles, OF Willie Holmes and INF Stephen Cardullo.

FRONTIER GREYS—Signed OF Kenny Gilbert, RHP Jeff Lyons, OF Austin Newell, RHP Jon Shepard, RHP D.J. Stinsman and RHP Clayton VanderLaan.

RIVER CITY RASCALS—Placed 2B Doug Sanders on the retired list.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS—Sold the contract of C Jim Vahalik to the Baltimore Orioles.

Acquired C Pat Trettel from Kansas City (AA) for a player to be named.

practice squad.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Released RB Curtis Brinkley. Placed S Atari Bigby on injured reserve.

Signed LB Bront Bird. Claimed WR Micheal Spurlock off waivers from Jacksonville. Signed DB Sean Cattouse to the practice squad.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Signed WR Phil Bates to the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS—Named Tom Moore as an assistant to offensive co-ordinator Dowell Loggains.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Released LB Mario Addison. Claimed LB Bryan Kehl off waivers from Kansas City.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Named Casey Creehan defensive co-ordinator and linebackers coach.

BASKETBALL NBA—Suspended Boston G Rajon Rondo two games and fined Brooklyn F Gerald Wallace $35,000 and Boston F Kevin Garnett $25,000 for their actions during Wednesday’s game.

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS—Waived F Luke Harangody. Signed F Kevin Jones.

DALLAS MAVERICKS—Signed G Derek Fisher.

Waived F Troy Murphy.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER—Assigned G Jeremy Lamb to Tulsa (NBADL).

PHOENIX SUNS—Assigned G Kendall Marshall to Bakersfield (NBADL).

HOCKEY AHL—Suspended Worcester D Matt Pelech three games for his actions during Sunday’s game.

CHARLOTTE CHECKERS—Assigned F A.J. Jenks to Florida (ECHL).

MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS—Recalled G Zoltan Hetenyi from Cincinnati (ECHL). Reassigned G Magnus Hellberg to Cincinnati.

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE—Loaned G Michael Houser to Cincinnati (ECHL).

ECHL BAKERSFIELD CONDORS—Signed F Liam Huculak.

FOOTBALL NFL—Fined Dallas CB Mike Jenkins $7,875 for pushing Washington WR Pierre Garcon to the ground well after Garcon crossed the goal line on a 59-yard touchdown last week. Reduced the $21,000 fine of Houston DE Antonio Smith to $11,000 for kicking Miami OL Richie Incognito during the season opener.

ARIZONA CARDINALS—Signed C Scott Wedige.

CAROLINA PANTHERS—Signed DT Frank Kearse from the practice squad and CB Nick Hixson to the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS—Signed G Andre Gurode.

Signed WR Dale Moss and G Derek Dennis to the practice squad.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Placed DT D’Anthony Smith on injured reserve.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Claimed G Hayworth Hicks off waivers from the N.Y. Jets. Released PK Matt Szymanski from the practice squad. Signed LB Quan Sturdivant to the practice squad.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS—Released DB Josh Victorian from the practice squad. Signed WR Bert Reed, T Joe Long and OL Justin Cheadle to the

Curling

SOCCER U.S. SOCCER—Named Cheryl Bailey executive director for the women’s soccer league that will begin play in the spring of 2013.

Major League Soccer PHILADELPHIA UNION—Named Jim Curtin assistant coach. Signed assistant coach Brendan Burke to a new contract.

CHICAGO (Nov. 29, 2012)—U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati announced today that Cheryl Bailey has been named the Executive Director for the new U.S. Soccer-led women’s soccer league that will begin play in the spring of 2013.

COLLEGE CONFERENCE USA—Announced Middle Tennessee State and Florida Atlantic will join the conference by July 1, 2014.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA—Announced thr resignation of assistant head football coach Monte Kiffin after the Trojans’ bowl game next month to pursue a return to the NFL. ST. JOHN’S—Named Alfred Caronia strength and conditioning coach.

Canada Cup W 4 4 2 1 1 1 0

L 0 0 2 2 3 3 4

WOMEN Skip Stefanie Lawton Heather Nedohin Sherry Middaugh Jennifer Jones Crystal Webster Chelsea Carey Cathy Overton-Clapham

W 4 3 2 2 2 1 0

L 0 1 2 2 2 3 4

Wednesday’s results First Draw MEN John Epping 7 Kevin Martin 6 Jeff Stoughton 9 Glenn Howard 5 WOMEN Jennifer Jones 9 Crystal Webster 7 Stefanie Lawton 10 Sherry Middaugh 4 Second Draw MEN Mike McEwen 8 Brad Gushue 2 Kevin Koe 5 John Epping 3 WOMEN Crystal Webster 7 Chelsea Carey 4 Stefanie Lawton 8 Heather Nedohin 5 Sherry Middaugh 8 Cathy Overton-Clapham 5 Third Draw MEN Jeff Stoughton 7 Kevin Koe 5 Kevin Martin 10 Brad Gushue 7 Mike McEwen 7 Glenn Howard 6 WOMEN Jennifer Jones 9 Cathy Overton-Clapham 6 Heather Nedohin 9 Chelsea Carey 7

Stefanie Lawton 6 Chelsea Carey 5 Heather Nedohin 8 Sherry Middaugh 6 Crystal Webster 8 Cathy Overton-Clapham 4 Fifth Draw MEN Jeff Stoughton 10 Kevin Martin 4 Glenn Howard 10 John Epping 4 WOMEN Sherry Middaugh 8 Crystal Webster 7 Stefanie Lawton 7 Jennifer Jones 5 Sixth Draw MEN Jeff Stoughton 9 Brad Gushue 5 Glenn Howard 12 Kevin Koe 4 Mike McEwen 8 Kevin Martin 6 WOMEN Heather Nedohin 8 Jennifer Jones 3 Chelsea Carey 7 Cathy Overton-Clapham 4 Friday’s games Seventh Draw, 8 a.m.

MEN John Epping vs. Jeff Stoughton Glenn Howard vs. Kevin Martin WOMEN Sherry Middaugh vs. Jennifer Jones Crystal Webster vs. Stefanie Lawton Eighth Draw, 1 p.m.

MEN Mike McEwen vs. Kevin Koe Brad Gushue vs. John Epping WOMEN Heather Nedohin vs. Crystal Webster Stefanie Lawton vs. Cathy Overton-Clapham Chelsea Carey vs. Sherry Middaugh Ninth Draw, 6 p.m.

MEN Kevin Martin vs. Kevin Koe Glenn Howard vs. Brad Gushue Mike McEwen vs. Jeff Stoughton WOMEN Jennifer Jones vs. Chelsea Carey Cathy Overton-Clapham vs. Heather Nedohin PLAYOFFS Saturday’s games Tiebreakers (if necessary), 7 a.m.

Women’s semifinal, 11:30 a.m.

Men’s semifinal, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Women’s championship, 8:30 a.m.

Men’s championship, 1:30 p.m.

The Bulldogs got 18 points from Robert Swainson and 16 from Chad Aitkin in downing Tagish 80-77 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play.

Sam Leszczma had 15 points for Tagish.

GB — 1 1/2 4 6 9 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 7 6 .538 7 7 .500 7 8 .467 5 11 .313 3 12 .200

GB — 1/2 1 3 1/2 5

Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 12 4 .750 Utah 9 7 .563 Denver 8 7 .533 Minnesota 6 8 .429 Portland 6 9 .400

St. John’s at Albany, 7 p.m.

Texas at Grand Rapids, 7 p.m.

Bridgeport at Hershey, 7 p.m.

Springfield at Manchester, 7 p.m.

Worcester at Portland, 7 p.m.

Connecticut at Providence, 7:05 p.m.

Toronto at Rochester, 7:05 p.m.

Syracuse at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 7:05 p.m.

San Antonio at Lake Erie, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Houston, 8:05 p.m.

Hamilton at Abbotsford, 10 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 1 San Antonio at Lake Erie, 11 a.m.

Rochester at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Albany at Adirondack, 5 p.m.

Worcester at Bridgeport, 5 p.m.

Rockford at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Syracuse at Connecticut, 5 p.m.

Texas at Grand Rapids, 5 p.m.

Norfolk at Hershey, 5 p.m.

Providence at Portland, 5 p.m.

Manchester at Springfield, 5 p.m.

St. John’s at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 5:05 p.m.

Peoria at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Hamilton at Abbotsford, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 2 Rockford at Charlotte, 1 p.m.

Portland at Manchester, 1 p.m.

Lake Erie at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Worcester at Providence, 1:05 p.m.

Norfolk at Bridgeport, 3 p.m.

Springfield at Connecticut, 3 p.m.

Syracuse at Binghamton, 3:05 p.m.

Texas at Peoria, 4:05 p.m.

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Golden State L.A. Lakers Phoenix Sacramento

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6 8 9 10

.571 .467 .438 .286

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Wednesday’s Games San Antonio 110, Orlando 89 Washington 84, Portland 82 Brooklyn 95, Boston 83 Atlanta 94, Charlotte 91 Detroit 117, Phoenix 77 Chicago 101, Dallas 78 Memphis 103, Toronto 82 Utah 96, New Orleans 84 Oklahoma City 120, Houston 98 New York 102, Milwaukee 88 L.A. Clippers 101, Minnesota 95 Thursday’s Games Miami 105, San Antonio 100 Denver at Golden State, Late Friday’s Games Philadelphia at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Phoenix at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Portland at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Portland at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Utah at Houston, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Memphis at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Boston at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Golf PGA Tour Q-School Thursday s-PGA West’s Stadium Course; 7,300 yards; Par: 72 (36-36) n-Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course; 7,204 yards; Par: 72 (36-36) Purse: $1,057,500 La Quinta, Calif Second Round Meen Whee Kim 68n-63s — 131 Vaughn Taylor 68s-64n — 132 Richard H. Lee 66n-67s — 133 Steve LeBrun 64s-69n — 133 Morgan Hoffmann 67n-67s — 134 Daniel Chopra 68s-66n — 134 Adam Crawford 66s-68n — 134 Edward Loar 65s-69n — 134 Robert Karlsson 66n-68s — 134 Jin Park 65s-70n — 135 Kris Blanks 65s-70n — 135 Billy Horschel 70n-65s — 135 Tim Kunick 67n-68s — 135 Heath Slocum 70s-66n — 136 Alexandre Rocha 65s-71n — 136 Joseph Bramlett 68s-68n — 136 Phillip Mollica 68s-68n — 136 Mathew Goggin 70s-66n — 136 Derek Ernst 68s-68n — 136 Aaron Watkins 69n-67s — 136 Eric Meierdierks 70n-66s — 136 Si Woo Kim 67n-69s — 136 Alex Aragon 70s-67n — 137 Kyle Reifers 69s-68n — 137 Donald Constable 67s-70n — 137 Camilo Villegas 70s-67n — 137 Erik Compton 67s-70n — 137 Fabian Gomez 70s-67n — 137 Bryden Macpherson 68n-69s — 137 David Lipsky 71n-66s — 137 Hyung-Sung Kim 71s-67n — 138 Scott Dunlap 69n-69s — 138 Jeff Gove 69n-69s — 138 Ross Fisher 69n-69s — 138 Oliver Fisher 69s-69n — 138 Chez Reavie 72n-66s — 138 Chesson Hadley 68n-70s — 138 Arjun Atwal 74s-64n — 138 Nicholas Thompson 69n-70s — 139 Jim Herman 68n-71s — 139 Marcus Fraser 69s-70n — 139 Billy Mayfair 71s-68n — 139 Brad Fritsch 72n-67s — 139 Bhavik Patel 70n-69s — 139 Scott Sterling 70s-69n — 139 Franklin Corpening 72n-67s — 139

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MEN Skip Mike McEwen Jeff Stoughton Glenn Howard Kevin Koe John Epping Kevin Martin Brad Gushue

Southeast Division W L Pct 11 3 .786 9 4 .692 7 7 .500 5 9 .357 1 12 .077

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 11 2 .846 — San Antonio 13 4 .765 — Houston 7 8 .467 5 Dallas 7 9 .438 5 1/2 New Orleans 4 10 .286 7 1/2

L.A. Clippers

Thursday’s Sports Transactions

Thursday’s results Fourth Draw MEN Mike McEwen 9 John Epping 8 Kevin Koe 8 Brad Gushue 7 WOMEN

7 7 8 8

Basketball

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 8 3 0 .727 407 Miami 5 6 0 .455 211 N.Y. Jets 4 7 0 .364 221 Buffalo 4 7 0 .364 243

Atlanta Tampa Bay

10 9 9 6

South Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Charlotte 19 12 5 0 2 67 52 26 Oklahoma City 19 11 5 1 2 63 55 25 Houston 19 10 6 1 2 63 56 23 Texas 17 8 7 1 1 42 51 18 San Antonio 18 5 10 0 3 43 57 13 Note: A team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Pt 26 22 22 17 14

Football

T 0 0 0 0

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Matt Hill Mark Silvers Shaun Micheel Danny Ellis Brendon Todd Vince Covello Ron Whittaker Sung Kang Scott Gutschewski Shane Bertsch Patrick Sheehan John Chin Michael Letzig Ash Hall Lee Bedford Steven Bowditch Dong-hwan Lee Chad Collins Brett Stegmaier Glen Day Mark Anderson Nick O’Hern Michael Sims Jeremiah Wooding Kyoung-Hoon Lee James Nitties Zack Miller Rod Pampling Ik-Je Jang Bill Lunde Billy Hurley III Henrik Norlander Rafael Echenique Matt Jones Scott Langley Mitch Evanecz Ryan Yip Adam Hadwin

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World Challenge Thursday At Sherwood Country Club Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Purse: $4 million Yardage: 7,023; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Nick Watney 35-32 Keegan Bradley 34-35 Graeme McDowell 36-33 Jim Furyk 37-32 Bo Van Pelt 36-34 Tiger Woods 36-34 Webb Simpson 34-36 Jason Day 35-36 Hunter Mahan 34-37

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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL The Lindsay Thurber Raiders opened their high school girls’ basketball season by dropping a 57-56 decision to Dr. E.P. Scarlett of Calgary during the first day of the SAIT tournament Thursday.

Mikayla Morneault had 18 points for the Raiders while Amy Whitesell added 16 and Emma Newton 12.

The Raiders face Springbank today.

Lawton stays undefeated with win over Jones

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Stefanie Lawton can now count the defending champions among her victims at the Capital One Canada Cup curling competition.

The Saskatoon skip improved to 4-0 Thursday with a 7-5 win over Team Jones in Draw 5 action. Trailing 3-2 after Kaitlyn Lawes and her Winnipeg rink put up a deuce in the fourth end, Lawton came back with two in the sixth and two in the eighth before capping the victory with a point in the 10th.

“There’s no breathing room,” said Lawton.

“We just keep going. Every win is a big one.”

It was Lawton’s second close win of the day.

Earlier, she needed an extra end to defeat Winnipeg’s Chelsea Carey 6-5.

“We had some missed opportunities, and it was back and forth (against Lawes),” said Lawton.

“We struggled for the first five for sure. The

ice was slightly different from this morning and we were adjusting again. We made a few adjustments after the fifth and things went well from there.”

Lawton’s early success in Moose Jaw is moving her closer to a possible Olympic berth. The winner of both the men’s and women’s tournaments will receive one of the six automatic qualification spots for the 2013 Roar of the Rings — the tournament that will determine who advances to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

Team Jones is being skipped by Lawes in place of Jennifer Jones, who gave birth to a baby girl two weeks ago and is also recovering from knee surgery.

The team took another step back in Draw 6, losing 8-3 to Heather Nedohin of Sherwood Park, Alta., to drop to 2-2. Nedohin meanwhile moved into second place at 3-1.

In the other late match, Carey (1-3) got her first win of the tournament 7-4 against Winnipeg’s Cathy Overton-Clapham (0-4).

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New pitchers looking forward to joining Jays BUEHRLE AND JOHNSON BOTH EXCITED TO HELP TEAM GET INTO PLAYOFFS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — While it took a few days for the news to sink in, newly acquired left-hander Mark Buehrle said he’s looking forward to the next stage of his career as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays.

Buehrle, fellow starting pitcher Josh Johnson and all-star shortstop Jose Reyes were acquired by Toronto in a blockbuster trade with Miami earlier this month. General manager Alex Anthopoulos dramatically reshaped the roster with the 12-player deal along with the free-agent signings of outfielder Melky Cabrera and infielder Maicer Izturis.

Buehrle, who signed a US$58-million, four-year contract with the Marlins a year earlier, said he was not expecting to be dealt.

“I think it was just a shock and I think the next day or two was just a whirlwind,” Buehrle said Thursday on a conference call. “I was just trying to just figure stuff out. Obviously having to do a move again and everything that’s involved in switching teams. I think it was just craziness going on for a couple days.”

The 33-year-old left-hander spent his first 12 big-league seasons with the Chicago White Sox before signing with Miami. He said the trade to Toronto has sunk in now and he has embraced the change with “open arms.”

Buehrle said he’s working with his wife — also an avid dog lover — on exploring options regarding his twoyear-old pit bull, a rescue dog named Slater. Ontario has had a pit bull ban in place since 2005.

“I was joking around with my wife saying that they probably shouldn’t let me in the country before they don’t let my dog (in), because my dog is so loving and so awesome,” he said.

“So we’re working with some people that we know that do a lot of stuff with pit bulls and people up there in Canada. We’re trying to work and do what we can do to try to get things resolved, but as of right now I don’t know exactly what we’re doing.”

The Blue Jays’ recent moves generated tremendous buzz in playoffstarved Toronto and signalled the team is ready to hang with the big boys in the tough American League East

division. Anthopoulos also brought back former manager John Gibbons to succeed the departed John Farrell as skipper.

Johnson said he too was shocked to hear about the deal but is “extremely excited” to be joining the Blue Jays.

He said that he was chatting about the lineup Wednesday night while out at a basketball game.

“I was just like, ‘Wow, it’s even better than when the trade first went through,”’ Johnson said.

The former Marlins join a Toronto team that already has a solid nucleus in place with players like Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion, Brett Lawrie and J.P. Arencibia.

Buehrle said while the teams in the AL East are always challenging, he’s impressed with the club’s direction.

“You look at the team right now, you’ve got to like your chances of getting to the playoffs,” he said.

Buehrle and Johnson should provide a significant upgrade to Toronto’s starting rotation, which has been anchored by Brandon Morrow and Ricky Romero. Buehrle exceeded 200 innings for the 12th consecutive season this past year and went 13-13 with a 3.74 ERA. He said he’s always enjoyed his previous visits to Toronto, calling it one of his favourite baseball cities.

The Blue Jays also acquired catcher John Buck and infielder/outfielder Emilio Bonifacio and received cash in the Miami trade.

In return, the Marlins got infielders Yunel Escobar and Adeiny Hechavarria, pitchers Henderson Alvarez, Anthony DeSclafani and Justin Nicolino, catcher Jeff Mathis and outfielder Jake Marisnick.

Toronto’s payroll increased significantly with the deal. Buehrle has $52 million remaining on his deal, Johnson is owed $13.75 million in 2013 and Reyes has $96 million left on a contract that expires in 2018.

A six-foot-seven right-hander, Johnson led the National League with a 2.30 ERA in 2010.

He was limited to nine starts in 2011 because of right shoulder inflammation.

The 28-year-old Johnson was 8-14 last season with a 3.81 ERA in 31 starts.

The two-time all-star recorded 165 strikeouts with 65 walks in 191 1/3 in-

Fiel photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Miami Marlins starting pitcher Mark Buehrle throws to the plate during the fifth inning of their baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Aug. 26 in Los Angeles. Newly acquired left-hander Buehrle says he’s looking forward to moving on with his career as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays. nings.

“I’d say maybe the last 15 starts, I felt so much better than before,” Johnson said. “I was kind of fighting myself, fighting my body, trying to do this or that, maybe trying to find a little bit more velocity. But once I relaxed and just trusted myself, it just kind of came out.

“I don’t know if I was throwing any harder or anything like that. But you could tell with the depth that I had on my slider and my curve ball, and the location of my fastball got much, much better.”

Johnson also said he talked with Buck — who played for the Blue Jays in 2010 — about what to expect in Toronto.

“Bucky said that it’s an amazing place to play,” Johnson said. “The fans are amazing, the coaching staff, all the way up to the front office. Everybody was amazing while he was there.

“And he said it shouldn’t be any different.”

Johnson said it “would be great” if Anthopoulos were to ask him about a contract extension. But he said his focus now is on preparation for the 2013 season.

“That’s the last thing on my mind is worrying about getting an extension or how long I’m going to be there, it’s more about winning,” he said. “That’s all I’ve been about since I started playing baseball. I’m all about winning, that’s all I want to do. It makes everything better.

“It makes food taste better, it makes your wife happier, it makes your family happier. Everything is better when you’re winning.”

Toronto is coming off a disappointing campaign in 2012. The Blue Jays finished with a 73-89 record, good for a fourth-place finish in AL East.

Notes: The annual winter meetings will be held next week in Nashville.

The Dec. 3-6 gathering is set for Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.

Canada prepares to defend home ice Rivera coming back season at World Sledge Hockey Challenge for another NEW YORK YANKEES Greg Westlake would like Brad Bowden to score for himself occasionally.

He really would.

“I try to pass him the puck to get him some goals back but I don’t think he’s going to shoot it. He’s just going to come back to me every time. He’s probably the least selfish guy in the world,” Westlake said this week as he prepares for the four-team World Sledge Hockey Challenge in Calgary.

“I try to put myself in a position to score goals, he enjoys playmaking and neither of us, at the end of the day, really cares who gets the shot.”

Westlake and Bowden pack a potent one-two punch for Canada that earned top spot at the same event last year, when they downed the powerful U.S. team 4-1.

“I think Brad is probably one of the easiest and obviously one of the best guys to play with in the world.”

Every now and then Bowden does put a few in the net himself, such as the two that earned Canada gold at last year’s Four Nations event in Nagano, Japan.

But he seems to prefer feeding the puck rather than putting it in. At last year’s challenge, Bowden led all scorers with his six goals and nine assists, with Westlake right on his heels at eight and six.

The Canadian team that opens against Japan on Sunday is pretty much the same squad that did so well last year, a marked improvement after Canada failed to win a medal at the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics.

Westlake is looking for a different result at the 2014 Games in Sochi.

“The turnover from Vancouver till now, it’s almost half the team, probably more than half the team,” said the native of Oakville, Ont.“When we get to Russia, I think this group is going to be real good.”

One promising new addition is forward Tyler McGregor from Forest, Ont., at 18 the youngest player on the team.

“Growing up, I always dreamed of playing for Team Canada, so to have an opportunity like this is huge for me,” he said of the tournament.

McGregor came out of the triple-A system in Ontario and was playing midget when he broke a leg, then learned he had cancer. He lost his left leg and made the transition to sledge, It hasn’t been easy.

“It was definitely a big adjustment,” he said. “I found the speed was different, just the technical things, the balance, even the shooting. . . I’m still

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learning right now. I’ve got a long way to go.”

This is his first international match.

“I’m nervous but I’m really excited at the same time.”

Coach Mike Mondin likes what he sees, with the team in general and McGregor specifically.

“We just had a training camp in Trail (B.C.) and it was a tremendous success,” he said.

“The players came in excellent shape and they worked hard all week and we got a lot accomplished.”

He suggests McGregor could increase the Canadian team’s already considerable firepower. Other returning veterans include forward Billy Bridges and defenceman Adam Dixon.

“We’re pretty excited about what he (McGregor) brings to the team,” he said. “He’s got some real good instincts from the blue-line in. He’s got a nose for the net for sure.”

Play at the top level of sledge hockey is very competitive with teams so evenly matched it’s hard to say who will come out on top, says Mondin.

Games are close, often decided by a late goal, and the 15-minute periods in sledge hockey mean it can be hard to build momentum.

Canada hasn’t won a world championship since 2008 but took a bronze in 2009 and again this year.

The United States has become the team to beat with two straight golds at the most recent world championships.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Mariano Rivera and the New York Yankees agreed Thursday to a $10 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal had not yet been announced. The person said the deal includes additional bonus opportunities, as did the team’s agreement with Andy Pettitte earlier in the week.

After missing most of the season because of a knee injury, Rivera accepted a cut in guaranteed money from his $30 million, two-year deal that had covered the last two years.

Rivera, who turned 43 on Thursday, was limited to nine games this year after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee while tracking down a fly ball during batting practice in Kansas City on May 3.

He is baseball’s career leader with 608 saves.

With deals for Pettitte, Rivera and Hiroki Kuroda in place, the Yankees will turn their attention to position players.

Steady catcher Russell Martin departed Thursday, agreeing to a $17 million, two-year contract with Pittsburgh, a person familiar with those talks said.

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B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Nov. 30, 2012

BY SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The occurrence of brain-rattling concussions among both elite male and female hockey players appears to be much higher than reported, suggests a study in which sports medicine doctors were behind the bench observing a season’s worth of games.

The study, which followed players on two Canadian university teams during the 2011-2012 season, found the incidence of concussions was three times higher in males and more than five times greater in females than most previous research had found.

Surprisingly, perhaps, the rate of concussion among women playing university-level hockey was roughly twice that of their male counterparts.

Five of the 25 male players and six of the 20 females sustained concussions during the season, and one of them experienced a second brain trauma in a subsequent game.

“Those are all significant (findings) to say, ’Look, it’s important to understand that we’re not reporting this correctly,”’ said Dr. Paul Echlin, a sports medicine specialist who oversaw the series of linked studies.

Almost 70 per cent of the hits that caused a concussion were to a player’s head and more than 80 per cent of those knocks were deliberate versus incidental, the observers found.

Concussion is a traumatic brain injury that typically results from a blow to the head. Symptoms include headache, confusion, memory loss, dizziness and nausea or vomiting.

Depending on the severity of the concussion, symptoms can last for days, weeks or months. Concentration and the ability to remember may be impaired; the person can be irritable, depressed and experience marked personality changes; sensitivity to light and noise, along with disturbed sleep, are also common.

With repeated concussions, the brain can be permanently damaged.

But getting coaches and team trainers to recognize when a player may have suffered a concussion and needs to be pulled from the ice for assessment — and possibly from further play for a time — continues to be a huge challenge, said Echlin, who works with injured athletes at the Elliott Sports Medicine Clinic in Burlington, Ont. “Once you start removing players and testing them, then it becomes oppositional,” he said, noting there was “huge pushback” during the study, in which physicians observed 55 regular- and post-season games played by the varsity squads.

As one physician-observer reported: “I had negative feedback from the coach who thought that the study was a waste of money ... he didn’t want his players to get assessed in fear that they would be declared as concussed and advised not to play ... the players didn’t want to be declared as concussed since it would limit their playing time.”

In another incident, a player diagnosed with a minor concussion in the second period was sent back on the ice for the third. At the end of the game, the player said she was still feeling “iffy” and “off” and slightly dizzy.

The study doctor advised that she be excluded from upcoming games to give her brain time to heal, Echlin writes in an editorial overview of three linked studies published in the journal Neurosurgical Focus.

While the coach acknowledged the symptoms were concerning and the player “had the rest of her life ahead of her,” she challenged the doctor’s authority to make the call — even though her own career playing hockey had been ended due to multiple concussions.

“I find that the players and coaches often downplay the symptoms in an effort to get the athlete back into action,” said one physician-observer. “I think it relates to the culture of hockey.

“Players are scared to be seen as weak and almost always want to play. Coaches expect their players to ’shake it off’ and ’take it for the team’ and get back on the ice. I think coaches fail to admit the significance of the symptoms.”

Echlin agreed, saying the sports culture — whether around hockey, soccer or football — encourages the idea that “if you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. And it’s win at all costs.”

The linked studies, which involved Canadian and U.S. researchers, used standard neuropsychological tests to assess players for memory and other cognitive deficits indicating concussion. But they also added advanced MRI scanning to determine any changes in players’ brains after the hockey season.

As part of the research, players on both teams had pre- and post-season MRI scans. One study that involved researchers at the University of Montreal found metabolic changes in both those with concussions — as well as those without the diagnosed brain trauma.

The finding suggests that instances of sub-concussive damage can add up over a season and lead to alterations in brain function.

In another study using advanced MRI data from just the male players (a study of female players is planned), researchers at Harvard University found changes in the white matter of the brain.

White matter consists of nerve tissues that are the “wires” of the brain, transporting neural messages, or impulses, between different regions.

“All of the subjects ... had changes in their white matter,” said Dr. Inga Koerte, a senior research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who led the study with Martha Shenton, director of the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory at Harvard.

Players with a diagnosed concussion had the most pronounced changes in their white matter, which included a thinning of the myelin sheath around nerve fibres.

“We expected that the concussed subjects would have this change,” Koerte said Thursday from Boston.

But seeing alterations in players without a diagnosed concussion was surprising and concerning, because it suggests athletes playing contact sports are piling up traumatic brain injuries bit by bit over the season.

“So you don’t need a concussion to develop white matter changes,” she said.

“Right now, we can’t really say what it means ... (but) it’s important to let the athletes know that they might put themselves at risk of developing brain changes, even though they don’t have a concussion.”

Tensions still thick between Bowyer and Gordon NASCAR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Not even the party atmosphere in Las Vegas can cut the tension between Jeff Gordon and Clint Bowyer.

The two drivers haven’t spoken since Gordon intentionally wrecked Bowyer at Phoenix on Nov. 11, an incident that triggered a garage-area melee between the drivers’ crews and earned Gordon a $100,000 fine from NASCAR. Gordon said Thursday that the season-ending activities this week in Las Vegas have been “awkward” because he and Bowyer haven’t socialized. Bowyer is popular among the other drivers and considered the life of the party.

“It’s been awkward because I’ve always had a good relationship with him, we’ve always talked and had fun,” Gordon said. “That’s obviously not the case. I thought he might have gotten over it at least enough to look at me, but he won’t even look at me, and when you are in this type of environment, that’s going to be odd.”

Bowyer, meanwhile, still doesn’t want to discuss the inci-

dent. He and Gordon spoke in the NASCAR hauler at Phoenix, but haven’t talked since.

Bowyer would not talk about it with reporters during the season finale at Homestead and on Thursday indicated he’s not ready to resolve the issue with Gordon.

He three times tried to change the subject, even once attempting to instead talk about nightclubs before finally growing exasperated.

“Good God,” he said. “Is that my story I have to talk about?”

When told it was the story until it’s resolved, Bowyer indicated he’s not ready to resolve the issue with Gordon.

“I ain’t resolving it,” he said.

“It probably ain’t going to happen.

It probably ain’t going to get resolved this year. No more races.”

Bowyer abruptly ended his media availability a few moments later, saying he was ready to go get changed out of his suit.

Bowyer still wasn’t biting during a fan event at Planet Hollywood when he and Gordon’s faces were superimposed on a pair of broken hearts as Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” played.

“Oh it ain’t mended,” he said.

“Let’s make fun of someone else.”

But Bowyer was able to make

fun of his now infamous run from pit road to the Phoenix garage, where his crew was fighting after the accident.

Gordon said earlier Thursday he was unsure if he and Bowyer would get past this issue.

“Listen, I’m not here to make friends,” he said. “I like his friendship. It can stay this way. But we have to race each other, I know what this all came about from and he might not agree and I’m sure we’re going to disagree about a lot of things and we’ll go race on next year and see what happens.”

Gordon, a four-time champion, said he retaliated at Phoenix in a heat of the moment reaction to a grudge he’d been carrying for at least seven months. He’d been angry with Bowyer since Martinsville in April, when Bowyer played a role in costing Hendrick Motorsports its 200th victory.

The race had been dominated that day by Gordon and teammate Jimmie Johnson, and a late caution had set up a restart with the teammates lined up side-by-side at the front. Bowyer restarted in the second row, on new tires, and got a shove from behind from Ryan Newman. He dove to the inside of Gordon and Johnson, made contact, and all three wrecked.

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Coach calls Sinclair snub ‘travesty’ CANADIAN SOCCER STAR AXED FROM RUNNING FOR FIFA WOMEN’S PLAYER OF THE YEAR

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS John Herdman says it’s a “travesty� that Canada’s soccer captain Christine Sinclair has been snubbed for FIFA’s women’s player of the year award.

But the coach of the Canadian team that captured bronze at the London Olympics said a lack of knowledge about the women’s game is more to blame than any malicious intent.

And besides, the coach added, international recognition isn’t what his star striker plays for. “It’s a travesty,� Herdman said in from Vancouver. “A player who can score a hat trick in a semifinal and lead her country to the first (Olympic team) medal since 1936, the first time Canada’s ever been on a (soccer) podium at one of these events, and still be one of the leading scorers in the world. . . and she can’t get in the top three. “There’s something wrong somewhere. But at the end of the day, you don’t want to be pointing fingers at people. It is what it is.�

The 29-year-old from Burnaby, B.C., led Canada to bronze in London in spectacular fashion, scoring an Olympic-record six goals to win the Golden Boot. She recorded a hat trick in a 4-3 extra-time semifinal loss to the U.S. Americans Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan and Brazil’s Marta make up the final three, after a vote by national team coaches, captains and reporters.

The winner will be announced in Switzerland on Jan. 7.

As part of its partnership with the world governing body of soccer, France Football organizes the FIFA Ballon D’Or vote.

The finalists were picked from a list of 10 candidates, compiled by the editors of France Football and the Committee for Women’s Football and the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Herdman voted for Sinclair, Wambach and Camille Abily of France.

Just one journalist votes per FIFA country. Neil Davidson of The Canadian Press cast the lone Canadian vote, listing Sinclair first, Wambach second, and American Carli Lloyd third.

Herdman was on the shortlist for coach of the year, but wasn’t among the final three announced Thursday.

France’s Bruno Bini, Japan’s Norio Sasaki and the United States’ Pia Sundhage made the final ballot.

Davidson voted for 1. Sundhage, 2.

Herdman and 3. Sasaki.

FIFA’s criteria for the award was “sporting performance and general conduct both on and off the pitch.�

Sinclair, Canada’s flag-bearer at

the closing ceremonies in London, was suspended four matches by the sport’s governing body for comments she made after Canada’s semifinal loss to the U.S. Sinclair has been on the shortlist six times in her career, but she has had an outstanding 2012 making this year her best shot at the Ballon d’Or. But it wasn’t to be, and her supporters quickly took to Twitter to voice their outrage, some accusing FIFA of blackballing the Canadian.

Canadian forward Melissa Tancredi posted: “(at)sincy12 we’ll work on gettin u a hat trick against evry top 5 team 4 the nxt yr. Oh & aim 4 50 cuz 23 goals ain’t cuttin it! OpenUrEyes�

Midfielder Rhian Wilkinson wrote “I am shocked by Sincy not making the final three, crazy.�

Herdman said what she’s done for the women’s game in Canada far outweighs any international recognition. “She’s recognized in Canada, she’s inspired a nation of young players to come through,� he said. “And I think for Christine, to be honest, the type of person she is, this sort of recognition would just be water off a duck’s back. She’s more focused on just letting her football do the talking and I guess her recognition is being in what she’s achieved her in Canada, and I think that’s pretty much what she cares about. “I’m not sure whether this would be a big deal to her, I think she’s a type of player that will probably just shrug her shoulders and say, ’Oh well, when’s my next game?�’ Her 143 career international goals rank third all-time, second among active players behind Wambach (148).

According to the Canadian Soccer Association, Sinclair — with 23 goals and six assists — contributed to 65.9 per cent of her team’s scoring in 2012.

Morgan was involved in 41.7 per cent of the U.S. team’s goals, with 27 goals and 18 assists in 27 games. Wambach was involved in 28.7 of the Americans’ goals, while Marta scored just two international goals in seven games for Brazil, but had a strong pro season in Sweden. “For any voters, it’s always going to be difficult to decide who you want on that list,� Herdman said. “But the bottom line is Christine’s just had one of those years, its just been an unbelievable year and when players have years like that, you would expect them to be recognized in some way and if they’re not, they’re not. “That might tell you a little bit about the global awareness of women’s football.�

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Canada forward Christine Sinclair celebrates with coach John Herdman after winning the Bronze medal football game at the Olympic Games in Coventry, Great Britain, on August 9. Herdman says it’s a “travesty� that captain Christine Sinclair wasn’t in the final three for FIFA women’s player of the year.

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King also defended his player, who was not penalized on Thursday. “I really could care less of what the Celtics say about Kris,� King said. “I just know what he does for us.�

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Celtics centre Kevin Garnett was fined $25,000 for his role in the scuffle, and Nets forward Gerald Wallace was fined $35,000.

Rondo was thrown out of Wednesday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 95-83 loss to the Nets in the second quarter when he shoved Nets forward Kris Humphries off the parquet to retaliate for a hard foul on Garnett.

A shoving match ensued; Rondo, Humphries and Wallace were all ejected.

Rondo spoke with the league on the telephone on Thursday and made his case. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told them the truth,â&#x20AC;? he said after practice at the Celticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; workout facility in suburban Boston. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I did anything dirty. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to start a riot. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it was more than just a pushing war.â&#x20AC;?

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More child care space needed DEMANDS OF GROWING POPULATION ARE PUTTING PRESSURE ON PROVIDERS, GOVERNMENT

TREES 4 TREASURES Buy a Christmas tree from a real estate firm’s program and deserving families get help to have a better holiday season.

The fifth annual Trees 4 Treasures by Trilliant Real Estate Group of Sylvan Lake invites people to pre-order trees with their donations being matched by the company. All proceeds go to Central Alberta Women’s Outreach’s Adopt-A-Family program. Trees can be ordered by calling 403864-7785 or online at www.trees4treasures. com. Enjoy a hot chocolate and take part in Christmas carolling when you pick up your tree and make a donation between 4 and 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the company’s office located at No. 6 40 Hewlett Park Landing in Sylvan Lake.

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF With a little more than 7,000 child care spaces in Central Alberta, the demands of a growing population are putting pressure on providers and the government to do more.

“There is a need for child care spaces, there’s no doubt about that,” Rob Elliot, Red Deer Child Care executive director, said this week.

“We do have wait lists.”

Red Deer Child Care is a non-profit organization that aims to meet the child care needs of local families.

“In some programs, we have significant wait lists,” said Elliot, pointing specifically to the school-age program that provides care for children before and after school.

According to Alberta Human Services there are 133 licensed and approved child care operations in Central Alberta, which have 7,128 spaces.

Of those spaces, 1,828 were created by the Creating Childcare Choices subsidy in 2008.

In Red Deer, there are 16,000 children

ages 14 years and younger, according to the 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile.

Another factor in the availability of child care is it’s affordability, which can be a hindrance to some families.

“It is expensive, even though there is a subsidy available to some people,” said Elliot, adding the threshold for the subsidy, which was $56,808 for single parents of a child helped reach more people. The subsidy amount parents receive is based on income.

“That does help people, but it could always be better.”

The maximum subsidy for eligible children, which was a single parent income of $35,100 in 2010, or $39,600 for two parents, was $628 per month per child, for infants in child care centres, and $546 for other ages.

Public Interest Alberta, a non-profit education and advocacy group, launched a campaign on Wednesday asking the Alberta government to invest in a quality public early childhood education and care system.

The advocacy campaign said five steps should be taken to address the issue: ● Develop a provincial framework for early childhood learning and care in Al-

berta. ● Recognize and support children’s mentors and caregivers as professionals. ● Make early learning and care affordable for all. ● Support families with different needs. ● Keep child care public and non-profit.

According to a release from Public Interest Alberta, the per capita funding in 2010 on regulated child care spaces for each child up to 12 years old was $341, which puts Alberta in the middle of the pack among other provinces, but only half of the federal average of $732. Quebec has the highest per capita funding at $1,969.

Alberta’s funding is comparable to its neighbours with Saskatchewan ranking at $356 and B.C. providing $399.

“It is time the Alberta government invested properly in building a quality public early childhood education and care system that will actually reduce the costs of quality care and address the critical needs of our growing population,” said Bill MooreKilgannon, Public Interest Alberta executive director, in a release. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Recognition of employers and groups working with the disabled will be handed out on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Monday.

The ceremony takes place from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at The Hub at 4936 Ross St. Awards from the Premier’s Council on the Status of Persons with Disabilities are among the honours given out. The day’s activities also include Grade 8 students at Normandeau School experiencing disabilities with guidance from organizations who work with the disabled.

INDEPENDENT LIVING Technical Assistance to Promote Independent Living will be the topic for discussion at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre on Tuesday. Admission is $3. For more information, contact Shirley Thomas at 403343-0767 or Ron Rose at 403-346-8115.

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Dennis Neill watches as Stacey Dawe, a Family Services of Central Alberta home support worker, works in his home on Thursday. Donations to the Gifts for Grandparents this year can help pay for seniors’ home support services.

Donations provide support for seniors The Gifts for Grandparents program offers a new option to aid seniors this year.

Donations to the Family Services of Central Alberta effort can pay for community support workers helping seniors in their homes with light housekeeping, meal preparation and grocery shopping.

“The services are part of our Aging in Place strategy,” said Dawna Morey, the FSCA’s Generations project manager.

She added that some fixed

GIFTS FOR GRANDPARENTS income seniors struggle with the fees.

The agency is in its fifth year promoting Gifts for Grandparents, which provides small gift bags to isolated seniors without families.

Last year, more than 300 were supplied.

Suggested donations for the bags include new slippers, socks, toiletries, crackers, jams,

gift cards, books, coffee, hot chocolate and puzzles. Donations of cash are also accepted with those over $10 eligible for tax receipts. Donation deadline is Dec. 14.

Volunteers are also required to help pack the gift bags.

For more information on the program, contact Morey at (403) 348-6547 or by email at dmorey@fsca.ca.

Mexican worker with cancer helped by community; $6,000 donated

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The federal government may have failed to provide medical coverage to a Mexican worker facing cancer, but people in the Red Deer area did not let him down.

A fundraising event held on Nov. 10 at St. Patrick’s Community School featuring traditional food from El Salvador, Colombia and Mexico, raised about $6,000 for Gabriel Yanez-Zuniga, 33, who is supporting three young children and his wife in Red Deer.

“More than the money, I’m really thankful to the people,” said Yanez-Zuniga on Thursday about the words of support he has received from people.

He was diagnosed with testicular cancer in October and was going to have to use savings to

pay about $3,500 to have his surgery on Nov. 13.

Yanez-Zuniga came to Canada five years ago as a refugee claimant with an open work permit with his wife and daughter. The couple have since had twins.

Since then, the family’s application for refugee status was denied, making them no longer eligible for health care assistance under the Interim Federal Health Program.

Drastic changes to health coverage for rejected refugees in June meant he could only get diagnosis and treatment for diseases that put the public safety at risk.

Yanez-Zuniga said his doctor expects he will need chemotherapy or radiation, but not much treatment will be required.

His doctor is trying to find out if an Alberta Cancer Centre will be able to assist with the cost of treatment. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

A Craigslist scam put Kimberly Miller of Red Deer out her damage deposit by posting a house for rent that wasn’t available at all.

“That’s harsh to have that happen to you at Christmas,” she said.

“You give your notice at a house and then all of a sudden you’re not moving. It kind of sucks.”

After seeing an ad on the Craigslist website offering a house in Red Deer for rent, Miller sent a response and was shown pictures of a house.

She liked what she saw in the pictures so she asked to see the place, which also occurred. But it turned out the scammer didn’t own the place he was offering to rent out.

“I went to meet him and I liked the place and I put down a damage deposit,” said Miller.

“He said I was accepted and he took off with my money.

“I went back to the place and he didn’t even own the house.

“He broke into somebody’s house and showed it to me.”

Red Deer RCMP Cpl. Sarah Knelsen said two years ago these types of scams were more common, but they don’t get as many reports of it as they once did.

“A lot of times people won’t report stuff like this, because perhaps they are embarrassed they fell victim to it,” said Knelsen.

Even though the reported cases of these types of scams have declined, Knelsen said that doesn’t mean they don’t take place.

“Report it to the RCMP,” said Knelsen.

“These scams are prevalent but a lot of times they aren’t reported. If we don’t know about it, there’s nothing we can do about it.”

To report a crime like this, or any other crime, call the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

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After months of being closed to traffic, 55th Street in Red Deer is now open with a roundabout.

The 55th Street realignment project west of Gaetz Avenue and close to Elements @ River’s Edge, a new residential-commercial complex, finished on Thursday morning.

As part of reconfiguring the road to 54th Avenue, a roundabout was built.

These modernized traffic circles see drivers travel counterclockwise around a centre island.

Drivers yield at entry to traffic in the roundabout, then enter the intersection and exit at their desired street.

Roundabouts are said to be safer than traffic circles because vehicles must travel at lower speeds.

This project includes a multi-use trail connection from the Railyards to the CPR pedestrian bridge. And next spring, a pedestrian light will be installed at this location.

The new connection provides a continuous link from the trails on the north and south side of the river to the downtown and Railyards areas.

Railyards, west of Gaetz Avenue and north of Ross Street, is part of a downtown redevelopment plan.

Formerly a light industrial/commercial area, Railyards will become a high-density residential district, with a blend of commercial, public service and retail spaces to support urban living.

Ice fishers are being asked to register their huts again this year.

The Take it Off program was launched last year to encourage registration so ice fishers can be notified when it’s time to remove their huts or alert them in cases of vandalism or theft.

Finding a way to track down owners became an issue because of the numbers of huts being left out on the lake too long to be safely recovered before the ice thawed.

Sunk or floating debris from abandoned huts pose environmental and safety risks.

The voluntary registration and educational programs seemed to work.

Brochures were printed up reminding ice fishers to get their huts dragged off the ice when the season ends or risk seeing them hauled to shore and taken away to be burned.

Only a handful of huts remained last spring, compared to a year earlier when two dozen were left on the ice.

Participants in the free program only have to register once and will be assigned a number to put on their huts.

Forms are available at Sylvan Lake Town Hall, Lacombe County office and the Sylvan Lake RCMP detachment.

The program is managed by the Sylvan Lake Management Committee, with the support of RCMP, five summer villages, Town of Sylvan Lake, the counties of Red Deer and Lacombe, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development and Sylvan Lake Fish and Game Association.

Spray park gets funding

Stache Bash planned

Eckville has lined up more funding help for a proposed spray park.

Lacombe County agreed to a $25,000 Eckville Recreation Board request to go towards the $210,000 cost of the spray park, which is expected to be ready next summer.

The town is also putting in $25,000, plus about $75,000 in in-kind work for site preparation.

The recreation board has contributed $30,000 and local businesses have pitched in with pledges of $40,000.

County council also dipped into its financial reserves to come up with $45,000 to help with renovations to the Eckville Community Centre.

The Town of Eckville is putting in $45,000 towards the $164,000 project and provincial grants will also be tapped.

Upgrades include replacing flooring, lights and heating and cooling systems.

The roof will also be repaired or replaced and work will be done to bring washrooms up to modern building codes.

By Saturday, many Red Deer moustaches will be shaved off, but before that there will be a celebration of the nose neighbour at Chillabongs.

After men across Red Deer and around the world grew moustaches to raise awareness of prostate cancer through the month of November, the pub, at 69 Dunlop St., will hold Stache Bash 2012 tonight. Prizes will be awarded to the Man of Movember, Ultimate Mo and The Lame Mo. There will also be prizes for women at the event, including Miss Movember and Mo Bro and Mo Sista.

So far this year, Canada has raised $30.8 million for prostate cancer research and those looking to donate can visit ca.movember.com or support any of those in the campaign around Red Deer.

Tickets are available at Chillabongs today for $5 and all proceeds go to the cause.

The event starts at 8 p.m.

For more information on Prostate Cancer Canada, visit www.prostate. cancer.ca.

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Red Deer city RCMP arrested three youths after a minivan struck a house on the east end of Red Deer on Thursday afternoon. Police responded to a crash in the new subdivision of Timberlands at about 3 p.m. A minivan struck the two-storey home, causing some damage. No one was injured. The occupants of the vehicle fled on foot. Police patrolled the neighbourhood and three youths matching the description of the suspects were arrested nearby. Charges are pending. The collision remains under investigation.

Charges separated

Trial date to be set on drug, weapons charges

Crown prosecutors have separated the charges laid against two people arrested on drug and weapons charges during a traffic stop in Red Deer on Oct. 23.

Police charged Brian Randall Buxton, 31, of Red Deer and Summer Brook Kreiser, 29, of Sylvan Lake with a variety of offences, including possession of a variety of drugs for trafficking, possession of property obtained by crime and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

Buxton faces additional charges relating to a previous event, including drug offences, weapons offences, aggravated assault and impaired driving.

Released on a recognizance earlier, Kreiser returns to court on Dec. 13 to enter a plea on the charges against her.

She was jointly accused with Buxton on the Oct. 23 charges. However, the two matters were separated in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday.

Buxton, who remains in custody, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to all of the charges.

He has elected to be tried by judge alone in Court of Queen’s Bench on the Oct. 23 charges, with a court date to be determined during his arraignment, set for Feb. 4.

A trial date will be set in early January for a Red Deer man who was among a group of people arrested during a series of police raids in Red Deer and Sylvan Lake in January 2011.

James Willert, 26 at the time of the bust, had pleaded not guilty to all 11 charges laid against him, including trafficking drugs, possession of drugs for trafficking, possessing proceeds of crime and a number of weapons charges.

Willert and five others were arrested in a police investigation that resulted in raids at one home in Sylvan Lake and four in Red Deer.

Investigators seized drugs, cash and weapons.

Willert was to have a preliminary inquiry on the 11 charges in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday.

However, the preliminary inquiry was waived after Willert’s lawyer asked that his client be committed to stand trial on five of the 11 counts against him, including drug charges, possessing proceeds of crime, unauthorized possession of a firearm and unauthorized possession of a restricted or prohibited firearm.

Willert returns to court on Jan. 7 to set a date for his trial, to be heard by judge alone.

First-ever Spirit of Sylvan Yuletide Festival starts today Sylvan Lake is pumping up its Christmas spirit and raising money for its Urgent Care Committee to boot.

The annual Santa Claus Parade, fireworks show and breakfast with Santa have been a mainstay.

But this year they will become part of the firstever Spirit of Sylvan Yuletide Festival starting today and running all day Saturday.

Among the new events taking place at the town’s multiplex and arena is a festival of trees, a fundraiser along the lines of Red Deer Regional Hospital Foundation’s successful event.

The festival begins at 4:30 p.m. today and will include a 7 p.m. parade, followed by fireworks.

Santa Claus arrives at the multiplex at 8:30

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The jolly old elf will be back for breakfast the next morning at 8 a.m. and the day will be filled with events, including gingerbread house making, stage performances, a kids zone, free public skating and a live auction.

Profits from the fes-

tival are going to the town’s Urgent Care Committee, which is campaigning for a facility that’s open seven days a week with extended hours, laboratory and X-ray services, and offers non-life-threatening medical care.

Mayor Susan Samson said will be hand at the

multiplex to answer any questions about the community’s drive for an urgent care centre.

At a recent meeting with Alberta Health Services, committee mem-

bers were told that the area’s gap in medical services will be recognized in a Zone Integrated Plan being prepared to outline the region’s operational require-

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Donations are also being accepted at the festival for the Sylvan Lake Food Bank and Sylvan Lake Christmas Bureau.

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ONTARIO IN FOR STAGNANT GROWTH TORONTO — A new report says Ontario businesses need to start spending the “dead cash” languishing in coffers if the province wants to prevent “slow or stagnant” economic growth. The Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress says Ontario’s economy can no longer afford for companies to hold onto “larger cash balances” instead of investing the money to trigger more productivity.

“Companies need to step up their efforts to grow the economy, and counterbalance risk by producing higher returns,” urged the 74-page report released on Thursday, titled A Push for Growth: The Time is Now.

RIM SHARES SHOOT UP AGAIN ON TSX TORONTO — Shares in Research In Motion have shot up more than six per cent in early trading, marking several days of trading volatility that has also seen analysts upgrade the stock.

RIM shares were up 70 cents, or 6.4 per cent, to $11.70 in trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Another brokerage, this time New York-based Goldman Sachs, upgraded RIM (TSX:RIM) to buy from neutral based on the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 operating system on Jan. 30.

Goldman Sachs says it gives the Waterloo, Ont., smartphone maker a 30 per cent chance of success, given positive early reviews and wireless carrier support of the new operating system.

RIM’s stock also got a boost recently when two Canadian analysts increased their price targets for the shares to $15 and $17, respectively, based on their view that the market had undervalued the company.

— The Canadian Press

CORRECTION A photo accompanying a business story in Tuesday’s Advocate headlined Door opens to the world contained an incorrect caption.

The man appearing in the photo was Giovanni De Maria, honorary consul for the Republic of Guinea.

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Road construction at the corner of 50A Avenue at 50th Street in Sylvan Lake has forced the closure of the roadway. Plans to revitalize the town’s downtown region are in the works.

Businesses must plot direction for Sylvan downtown: official

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Sylvan Lake’s downtown is at a crossroads — and it’s up to the business and property owners there to choose a direction.

The Town of Sylvan Lake and Sylvan Lake Chamber of Commerce have been supporting the development of a revitalization strategy for the downtown. They hired Calgary consulting firm Canadian Ventures Inc. to conduct a survey and organize a local meeting on the issue, and have participated in the process.

But now, said Sylvan Lake economic development officer Matthew Cornall and Chamber executive director Catherine Bais, members of the business community must take hold of the steering wheel.

“The chamber and town will always be on that bus, but we really don’t think we should be the ones driving it,” said Cornall.

Bais agreed.

“What we need now is for individuals to step forward to take the roles on. The chamber, the town — we can’t do that for them.”

Sylvan Lake’s downtown has suffered from the recent loss of several landmark businesses, including Cobbs AG Foods, True Value Hardware and Smuggler’s Inn. And new commercial areas have popped up on the town’s east side.

Cornall said about 15 people attended last week’s meeting, including Mayor Susan Samson and several town councillors.

It was agreed that the downtown businesses and property owners can accomplish more as a group.

“I think the first step will be to come together as kind of a loose-form association,” said Cornall, adding that it’s easier for the town and chamber to help a group than 120 individual entities.

Canadian Ventures will now provide the group with a revitalization guide and an action plan at a follow-up meeting. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

White House, GOP spar over ‘fiscal cliff’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The White House is seeking $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over a decade and an immediate infusion of funds to aid the jobless, help hard-pressed homeowners and perhaps extend the expiring payroll tax cut, officials said Thursday as talks aimed at averting an economy-rattling “’fiscal cliff” turned testy.

In exchange, the officials said, President Barack Obama will support an unspecified amount of spending cuts this year, to be followed by legislation in 2013 producing savings of as much as $400 billion from Medicare and other benefit programs over a decade.

The offer produced a withering response from House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, after a closed-door meeting in the Capitol with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

“Unfortunately, many Democrats continue to rule out sensible spending cuts that must be part of any significant agreement that will reduce our deficit,” he declared.

Boehner added, “No substantive progress has been made between the White House and the House” in the two weeks since Obama welcomed congressional leaders at the White House.

Democrats swiftly countered that any holdup was the fault of Republicans who refuse to accept Obama’s campaign-long call to raise tax rates on upper incomes.

At the White House, presidential press secretary Jay Carney said, “There can be no deal without rates on top earners going up.”

Taking a confrontational, at times sarcastic tone, he said, “This should not be news to anyone on Capitol Hill. It is certainly not news to anyone in America who was not in a coma during the campaign season.”

With barely a month remaining until a year-end deadline, the hardening of positions seemed more likely to mark a transition into hard bargaining rather than signal an end to efforts to achieve a compromise on the first postelection challenge of di-

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BRIEFS North Pole Stroll slated for Saturday in Red Deer Red Deer’s downtown merchants will welcome December with festive entertainment, treats and extended hours.

The Red Deer Downtown Business Association is organizing a North Pole Stroll for this Saturday, with Christmas carolers performing at various locations, and live musicians scheduled for City Roast Coffee, Bistro on Gaetz, Hudson Madison, La Casa Pergola and Redstone Grill. There will be free photos at Century Centre on Little

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday after private talks with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the fiscal cliff negotiations. Boehner said no substantive progress has been made between the White House and the House” in the past two weeks. vided government.

Boehner suggested as much when one reporter asked if his comments meant he was breaking off talks with the White House and congressional Democrats.

“No, no, no. Stop,” he quickly answered.

“I’ve got to tell you, I’m disappointed in where we are, and disappointed in what’s happened over the last couple weeks. But going over the fiscal cliff is serious business.”

Republican aides provided the first description of the White House’s offer, although Democratic officials readily confirmed the outlines.

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Santa Claus will greet children in the Towne Centre Mall between 4 and 6 p.m., and Alberta Art and Drafting Supplies will provide cider, cookies and face-painting throughout the day. There will also be food samples at Ten Thousand Villages and Taste of Europe.

Many shops will offer in-store specials, and a passport promotion will allow members of the public to collect stamps at participating retail and coffee shop locations for a chance to win hourly prizes and a $1,000 grand prize.

Some businesses will remain open until 9 p.m.

CAEP announces award winners Central Alberta Economic Partnership announced the winners of its 2012 Achieve-

Many tourists travel to Alberta to visit the Rockies — not Jasper, Banff or other communities in the mountains.

The Canadian Badlands is working to develop a similar broad appeal, with help from Travel Alberta and Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation. The regional marketing group, whose members include Stettler, Donalda, Halkirk, Three Hills and Trochu, wants to promote the region west of Hwy 2 and from Stettler to the United States border as a single destination.

“Strategically, they’re positioning the Canadian Badlands as a new tourism destination,” said Aubrey Brown, executive director of the Stettler Regional Board of Trade and Community Development.

He anticipates that the region will become the subject of “mega media campaigns” next year.

A prominent feature of the Canadian Badlands is its topography, from the sandstone cliffs of Writing on Stone Provincial Park near Milk River to the hoodoos of Drumheller.

“Some of the geological features are available to see on the highways leading from Stettler,” said Brown, noting that interesting formations even exist to the north in Donalda.

But the Canadian Badlands also has a wealth of community events and attractions, and other visual treats for travellers, he pointed out.

The Royal Tyrrell Museum at Drumheller and Alberta Prairie Railway Excursions in Stettler are huge tourist draws, but visitors often return home without sampling other nearby attractions. The goal is to educate people so they’ll stay longer or plan a return trip to the region, said Brown.

Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation officials recently met with the Stettler Regional Board of Trade to help strike a local committee called Destination Stettler. Consisting of representation from Stettler, Donalda, Big Valley and Rochon Sands, it will work to build tourism in the Stettler area as part of the broader Canadian Badlands initiative.

Erin Larson, a spokesperson with the provincial department, said a workshop conducted in Stettler last month emphasized the importance of “event tourism.”

“The major outcome of this session for participants was recognition of the need for an event tourism strategy for the area — looking at how to tie in similar smaller events, and generating ideas for drawing more people to events from the surrounding area.”

Brown said the Stettler region has lots to offer, including Buffalo Lake, Ol’ MacDonalds Resort and of course, Alberta Prairie Railway.

“In terms of tourist attractions, it is right up there,” he said of the steam train excursions. “It’s definitely in the top five in all of Alberta, and I think that brings a lot of people into this part of Alberta.”

Brown is optimistic Destination Stettler will help raise awareness of what the immediate area has to offer.

“If we have 20 hockey teams that visit us in February for a hockey tournament, what we want to do is give them information on things they can plan on doing when they come back in the summer.”

The committee will also try to get local residents to consider themselves as being part of the Canadian Badlands. That branding should encourage visitors, said Brown.

Destination Stettler and the Canadian Badlands will work closely with Travel Alberta, the province’s tourism marketing agency, to take advantage of shared resources and marketing. Brown pointed out that Alberta Prairie Railway is already receiving prominent play in a new Travel Alberta promotional video. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com ment Awards on Thursday evening.

The Trochu Active Creative Engaged (ACE) Community Committee received the Community Spirit Award, Fiber-Werx International of Sylvan Lake earned the Innovative Business Award and the Town of Three Hills was named Entrepreneurial Community of the Year for its Three Hills General Store project.

Now in their fifth year, the Achievement Awards recognize the innovation, entrepreneurial and community development efforts of CAEP members. Winners are selected by a panel of economic development professionals from outside the region.

This year, there were nine nominees for the awards. The winners were named during CAEP’s annual general meeting.

CAEP is a regional economic development alliance with 42 municipal and First Nation members, and 15 associate members.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Thursday as traders watched American politicians engage in finger-pointing while weighing the progress of negotiations aimed at getting a deal on averting a U.S. fiscal crisis by the end of December.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 62.52 points to 12,202.85 while the TSX Venture Exchange climbed 13.01 points

to 1,218.38 Traders also took in an earnings report from Royal Bank (TSX:RY) that beat expectations.

The bank posted quarterly net earnings of $1.9 billion or $1.25 a share. Adjusted net earnings came in at $1.27 a share, beating estimates by a penny.

RBC also handed in a record full-year profit of $7.5 billion, up 17 per cent from 2011. Its shares were 26 cents higher to $58.61.

The Canadian dollar was

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Economic confidence at 16-month high: report

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A new report based on an online survey this month suggests Canadian consumers are getting more optimistic about the economy, reversing a trend after three quarters of decline.

The survey, which collected 1,500 responses in November, found that nearly two-thirds of the respondents indicated they believe the economy is growing, the highest reading since July 2011.

Results of the survey by the Gandalf Group are contained in the most recent Consumerology Report by Bensimon Byrne.

The report said 55 per cent of the respondents believed they were better off than a year ago while 45 per cent believed they were worse off.

The firm’s research also suggests the higher the income of a Canadian,

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CLIFF: Could trigger a recession Under the proposal, the White House is seeking passage by year’s end of tax increases totalling $1.6 trillion over a decade, including the rate hikes sought by Obama.

Obama also asked for year-end approval for an unspecified amount of new spending to renew expiring jobless benefits, help homeowners hit by the real estate collapse and prevent a looming Jan. 1 cut in fees for doctors who treat Medicare patients.

The White House also wants a new stimulus package to aid the economy, with a price tag for the first year of $50 billion, as well as an extension of the Social Security payroll tax cut that is due to expire on Dec. 31, or some way to offset it.

In political terms, the White House proposal is a near mirror image of what officials have said Republicans

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Following a meeting with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, he said Republicans have put concessions on the table, but President Barack Obama still

the better the current economy is treating them.

Half of those making $50,000 or less per year said they were doing better than last year, and the figure rises to 70 per cent among those making $100,000 or more.

The survey was conducted between Nov. 6 to Nov. 21.

TransCanada wins pipeline court ruling in Texas HOUSTON — A Texas court has rejected an appeal filed by landowners who argued TransCanada Corp.

(TSX:TRP) did not have the right to condemn their land to build a pipeline designed to eventually transport tar sands oil from Canada to Texas refineries.

The 9th Court of Appeals in Beaumont handed down its decision Thursday, rejecting arguments presented by Rhinoceros Ventures Group, Inc. and Batson Corridor, LP. The landowners’ attorney Robert Wade says they plan to appeal to the Texas Supreme Court.

The court battle is one of many in Texas as landowners fight TransCanada’s construction of the oil pipeline across the state. The larger, cross-border project still doesn’t have the necessary approval to proceed from the earlier laid down as their first offer — a permanent extension of income tax cuts at all levels, an increase in the age of Medicare eligibility and steps to curtail future growth in Social Security cost-of-living increases.

In exchange, the GOP has offered to support unspecified increases in revenue as part of tax reform legislation to be written in 2013.

The GOP said the White House was offering unspecified spending cuts this year. Those would be followed next year by legislation producing savings from Medicare and other benefit programs of up to $400 billion over a decade, a companion to an overhaul of the tax code.

For the first time since the Nov., 6 elections, partisan bickering seems to trump productive bargaining as the two sides manoeuvred for position.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters, “We’re still waiting for a serious offer from Republicans,” the Nevada Democrat said at a news conference.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was more emphatic.

Referring to a meeting at the White House more than a week ago, he said

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delays the pending cliff in terms of tax increases and spending cuts for another month or two.”

The tech sector led advances and Research In Motion Ltd. (TSX:RIM) shares ran up 48 cents or 4.36 per cent to $11.48 after Goldman Sachs upgraded the BlackBerry maker to buy from neutral. RIM stock has boosted over the last couple of weeks on upgrades and optimism as it prepares to unveil its new BlackBerry 10 lineup at the end of January.

The base metals sector was ahead about one per cent as March copper on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained seven cents to US$3.61. Inmet Mining (TSX:IMN) rose $3.50 or 5.65 per cent to C$65.50 a day after it rejected an unsolicited takeover offer worth $4.9 billion

by First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX:FM). Thompson Creek Metals (TSX:HBM) gained 10 cents to $2.83.

The energy sector moved ahead 0.5 per cent as January crude rose $1.58 to US$88.07 a barrel. Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) advanced 30 cents to C$28.45 while Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) was 35 cents higher to $33.07.

The financials sector was up almost one per cent in the wake of the Royal Bank results.

Other advancers included TD Bank (TSX:TD), up $1.15 to $82.67 while Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) advanced 21 cents to $12.83.

The gold sector was flat with February bullion ahead $10.70 to US$1,727.20 an ounce. Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) faded 35 cents to C$38.96.

Positive momentum had earlier been maintained in part because of data showing the economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.7 per cent during the third quarter, which was much better than the two per cent rate estimated a month ago.

Still, most economists say growth has slowed since then to below two per cent in the October-December quarter.

One reason is that superstorm Sandy halted business activity along the East Coast in

U.S. State Department. The portion of the pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas is under construction.

Top 5 automakers on track to bring in record profit TORONTO — The world’s fivelargest automakers are on track to post the industry’s most profitable year on record — continuing an upward trend that is likely to continue for some time, according to a report from Scotiabank.

Based on profits recorded over the first nine months of the year, Scotiabank estimates the global auto giants are headed for a combined US$61.4 billion in profit this year.

That’s a huge rebound from the industry downturn sparked four years ago by a credit crisis in the U.S. banking sector. That crisis contributed to the reorganization of General Motors and Chrysler under bankruptcy protection, with bailout assistance from governments in the United States and Canada.

“This represents the third consecutive annual earnings improvement, a trend likely to remain in place for several years as our leading indicators point to ongoing gains in global car sales amid, a slow, but enduring economic expansion,” Scotiabank economist Carlos Gomes writes. both sides agreed to a two-part framework that would include a significant down payment in 2012, along with a plan to expand on the savings in 2013.

“Each side said they’d submit a down payment. We have. Our preference is revenue. What is theirs?” he said, speaking of the Republicans.

The White House also circulated a memo that said closing loopholes and limiting tax deductions — a preferred Republican alternative to Obama’s call to raise high-end tax rates — would be likely to depress charitable donations and wind up leading to a middle class tax increase in the near future.

At issue is a bipartisan desire to prevent the wholesale expiration of Bush-era tax cuts and the simultaneous implementation of across-the-board

late October and November. And many businesses and consumers could end up scaling back on spending in the final weeks of the year, if lawmakers fail to avert the “fiscal cliff.”

Indexes had also softened on news that major U.S. retailers such as Kohl’s, Target and Macy’s reported weak sales in November as a strong Thanksgiving weekend wasn’t enough to fully offset a slow start to the month caused by superstorm Sandy.

In other earnings news, Gildan Activewear Inc. (TSX:GIL) said quarterly net income jumped to US$89 million or 73 cents per share, up from US$48.5 million a year ago. Ex-items, earnings came in at $94.9 million or 78 cents per share, a penny short of estimates. Gildan also said it will increase its quarterly dividend to shareholders by 20 per cent, which will be nine U.S. cents a share and its stock rose 89 cents to C$33.98.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan ’13 $4.30 higher $597.20; March ’13 $4.60 higher $597.20; May ’13 $4.50 higher $595.70; July ’13 $4.30 higher $592.00; Nov. ’13 $2.70 higher $543.10; Jan. ’14 $2.70 higher $545.80; March ’14 $2.70 higher $546.10; May ’14 $2.70 higher $546.10; July ’14 $2.70 higher $546.10; Nov. ’14 $2.70 higher $546.10; Jan ’15 $2.70 higher $546.10.

Barley (Western): Dec. ’12 unchanged $245.00; March ’13 unchanged $248.00; May ’13 unchanged $249.00; July ’13 unchanged $249.50; Oct. ’13 unchanged $249.50; Dec ’13 unchanged $249.50; March ’14 unchanged $249.50; May ’14 unchanged $249.50; July ’14 unchanged $249.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $249.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $249.50.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 277,800 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 277,800.

“Highlighting the industry’s dramatic turnaround, this year’s profit is approaching the massive cumulative loss of US$69 (billion) sustained during the tumultuous years between 2007 and 2009.”

US economy grew at 2.7% rate in last quarter WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at a 2.7 per cent annual rate from July through September, much faster than first thought. The strength is expected to fade in the final months of the year because of the impact of Superstorm Sandy and uncertainty about looming tax increases and government spending cuts.

The Commerce Department said Thursday that growth in the third quarter was significantly better than the 2 per cent rate estimated a month ago. And it was more than twice the 1.3 per cent rate reported for the AprilJune quarter.

The main reason for the upward revision to the gross domestic product was businesses restocked at a faster pace than previously estimated. That offset weaker consumer spending growth.

GDP measures the nation’s total output of goods and services. spending cuts. The potential spending reductions, to be divided between military and domestic programs, were locked into place more than a year ago in hopes the threat would have forced a compromise on a deficit reduction deal before now.

Economists in and out of government warn that sending the economy over the “cliff” would trigger a recession.

To avoid the danger, Obama and Congress are hoping to devise a plan that can reduce future deficits by as much as $4 trillion in a decade, cancel the tax increases and automatic spending cuts and expand the government’s ability to borrow beyond the current limit of $16.4 trillion.

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has to outline the spending cuts he’s willing to make.

“We have a debt crisis, it’s the spending that is out of control,” he told reporters following the meeting.

Shortly after, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid chimed in, saying President Obama is still waiting for a serious offer from Republicans.

“We need Republicans to come forward with something,” he said.

The Dow Jones industrials was up 36.71 points to 13,021.82.

The Nasdaq was up 20.25 points to 3,012.03, while the S&P 500 index climbed 6.02 points to 1,415.95.

Traders have been focused on negotiations aimed at avoiding the fiscal cliff, the name for sharp tax increases and spending cuts that would occur in January without a deal. There are fears that the combination could deliver a shock to the economy that would result in knocking the U.S. back into recession.

Markets have been whipsawed as every day seems to bring a new assessment of where negotiations stand. Traders were reassured Wednesday and markets advanced after House Speaker John Boehner said he was optimistic that a deal can be reached with the president.

Optimism was further bolstered after Obama said that he believes that members of both parties can reach a “framework” on a debt-cutting deal before Christmas.

Analysts believe that would suit markets just fine since expectations for a full deal covering everything on the table just isn’t realistic.

“Do you get a nice, sweet allagreed-to-sum-up deal together in one great big shot by Dec. 31?

No,” said Gareth Watson, vicepresident Investment Management and Research, Richardson GMP Ltd. “That’s something that is going to take a lot more time to figure out. So you get some type of deal which essentially carries us through to the new Congress,

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‘Synthetic’ trees help capture carbon I admire positive people. Go-getters, entrepreneurs, the pioneering, the inventive, those “get ’er done” type personalities.

It is easy to criticize and complain, especially if it takes no actual physical effort or intellectual energy on the part of the protestor.

The people that I admire most are the ones who don’t give up, they don’t capitulate to negative press or unsuccessful test results.

It is in interesting to note, but anytime I have viewed an organized protest on the nightly newscast against an oil project, it never mentions whether the protestors used hydrocarbon-based transportation or an alternative mode, LORNE like walking. I am pretty sure OJA few, if any of them, sauntered to the protest site.

And I have yet to see an aircraft with a set of pedals in front of each passenger seat.

Don’t get me wrong, dissension is a great part of the democratic society — if no one speaks up, nothing changes.

My point is simple: instead of wasting effort on grousing and grumbling about oil’s side effects, let’s utilize that energy to lobby for new technologies and behaviours.

Let’s face it, oil will never disappear as long as we don’t want to walk to get anywhere, we like heat in our homes, we want things made of modern materials, and we have machinery to lubricate.

Oil is not a completely bad thing — it has moved civilization forward more in the last 100 years than in the last three million. It does, however, have some issues that we now know have to be addressed.

We also know, without a doubt, that hydrocarbons are going to be around for a long time, and we know that we are heavily dependent on the vast array of products made from hydrocarbon.

One approach addressing the side effects of oil use is the “synthetic trees” that have been developed for capturing carbon at Columbia University.

These “trees” pull CO2 out of the air and collect it for storage.

Collaborating with other technologies, use of the CO2 in greenhouses and industrial processes could ultimately bring down the cost of carbon capture to an estimated $30 per ton.

At this price, carbon capture and storage will form a viable and practical technology for reducing greenhouse gases and eventually lowering atmospheric amounts to pre-oil industry levels.

Additionally, there is the possibility of converting the CO2 back into a fuel gas. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is coming into its own and innovators are developing novel technologies to use CCS to mitigate the undesirable side effects of hydrocarbon usage.

In Canada, carbon capture has been utilized since 2000 in Weyburn, Sask., and although it is the first and largest, it is by no means the only carbon capture and storage project.

Canada has sequestered 25 million tons to date and counting, with more projects scheduled to come on line in 2014 and 2015 in Swan Hills, Fort Saskatchewan, Central Alberta, Estevan, Sask., and Fort Nelson, B.C. With human ingenuity, the future looks bright.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

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U.S. twin astronaut, cosmonaut to spend year on space station PRELUDE TO MARS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A former space shuttle commander whose twin brother is married to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will attempt the longest spaceflight ever by an American.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend an entire year aboard the International Space Station beginning in 2015.

Both countries’ space agencies announced the names of the two veteran spacefliers on Monday. The extended mission was approved almost two months ago to provide a medical foundation for future missions around the moon, as well as far-flung trips to asteroids and Mars.

Both men already have lived aboard the space station for six months.

NASA wanted experienced space station astronauts to streamline the amount of training necessary for a one-year stint.

Officials had said the list of candidates was very short. They will begin training next year.

“Their skills and previous experience aboard the space station align with the mission’s requirements,” Bill Gerstenmaier, head of human exploration for NASA, said in a statement.

“The one-year increment will expand the bounds of how we live and work in space and will increase our knowledge regarding the effects of microgravity on humans as we prepare for future missions beyond low-Earth orbit.”

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Development Officer Approvals On November 27, 2012, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Burnt Lake Business Park 1. Starsand Holdings Inc. – a proposed 4831.9 m2 4-bay industrial building, to be located at 1 Burnt Valley Avenue

Red Deer City Council proposes to pass Bylaw 3490/2012 that provides for debenture borrowing of $6,452,756 for the purpose of entering into a 10 year office space lease for property located at 480850 Street, Red Deer. The public may inspect the proposed bylaw at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor of City Hall during regular office hours.

The electors may submit a petition for a vote of the electors to determine whether the proposed bylaw should be passed. The petition must meet the formal requirements of Sections 221-226 of the Municipal Government Act and be filed with the Legislative Services Manager within 15 days after the last date the proposed bylaw is advertised. The last date of advertisement for this bylaw is December 7, 2012.

Any petition will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the petition process or the use of the petition please contact the Legislative Services Department at 403-342-8132.

Queens Industrial Park 2. Tricon Developments Inc. – a proposed 13,198 m2 industrial building for a truck and car wash, to be located at 126 Queens Drive Timberstone 3. Laebon Developments Ltd. – a 0.93 metre relaxation to the maximum width for a proposed rear detached garage, to be located at 119 Timberstone Way.

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Discretionary Use

On November 21, 2012 the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decision for development permit application:

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Discretionary Use Approval

4. Melcor Developments – 5 proposed subdivision signs for the Vanier East parade of homes for a period of 1 year to be located on Vanier Drive, and Viscount Drive, between 30 Avenue and Vermont Avenue.

Timberlands

5.Platinum Homes & Developments Corp. – a proposed secondary suite within an new single family dwelling to be located at 134 Voisin Close.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on December 14, 2012. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403342-8399.

PUBLIC SALE OF LAND

(Municipal Government Act, R.S.A 2000 ch. M-26) Notice is hereby given that under the provisions of the Municipal Government Act, The City of Red Deer will offer for sale, by public auction, in the Crimson Star Meeting Room, City Hall, 4914 48 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, on Friday December 14, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., the following lands: Lot Block 20

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All sales will be subject to a reserve bid. Reserve bid values are available from the City Revenue & Assessment Services department. Purchaser will acquire the title free of encumbrances, subject to those exceptions listed in the Municipal Government Act. The properties will be sold strictly on an “as is, where is” basis.The City of Red Deer makes no representation and gives no warranty as to the adequacy of services, soil conditions, land use districting, building and development conditions, absence or presence of environmental contamination, or the developability of the subject property for any intended use by the Purchaser.

Anthony Vetsch – a new two bedroom secondary suite, to be located within a single family dwelling at 373 Timothy Drive (Lot 42, Block 2, Plan 0920662), zoned R1.

Lancaster Parkland Airshed Management Zone Association – a temporary trailer for Air Quality Monitoring at 11 Lancaster Drive (Lot 48PUL, Block 19, Plan 032-6169), zoned P1.

You may appeal discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative & Governance Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on December 14, 2012. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative & Governance Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

Lancaster Vanier East Neighbourhood Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/R-2012 City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw by proposing to rezone 0.1196 ha (hectares) of land from PS (Public Service Institutional District) to R1G (Residential Small Lot) District within the Lancaster Vanier East Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan. This land was identified as a social care site in the Lancaster Vanier East Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan with an alternate use as R1G residential. The social care site (public service site) was advertised for one year, as per the City of Red Deer’s Neighbourhood Planning Guidelines and Standards and no interest was shown in developing the site. The site is now proposed to be rezoned to R1G (Residential Small Lots).

Proposed Amendment to Land Use Bylaw 3357/2006

All properties in the sale have been viewed externally and an estimate of the market value of each parcel has been made. This estimate of market value is used as the reserve price and it represents the minimum bid that will be accepted during the sale.

Terms: Cash sales or sales subject to interim financing only. Purchase price payable by non-refundable deposit equal to 10% of purchase price due on day of the Auction, with the balance of the purchase price due on closing. Payments by cash, bank draft or certified cheque only. Closing dates for all sales will be February 28, 2013, unless otherwise agreed to by the City. Successful bidder agrees to be bound by the Terms and Conditions of the City’s Sale Agreement, a copy of which will be included in Bidder’s Packages on Auction Date and can be obtained after November 9th, 2012 from Revenue & Assessment Services. If the successful bidder fails to complete the transaction the property will be offered to next highest bidder at the price agreed to by the high bidder. Purchase price includes all taxes, fees and charges accrued to Closing Date. Purchaser responsible for payment of all taxes, rates, charges, and fees for the property after Closing.

The City of Red Deer may, after the public auction, become the owner of any property not sold at the Public Auction.

In the event that payment of the arrears of taxes and costs is received by the City prior to the Public Auction the property in question will not be offered for sale. There is no right to pay tax arrears after the property is declared sold.

Dated at Red Deer, Alberta, November 9, 2012.

Deb Stott, Controller-Property Taxation

Change District from: PS to R1G

Affected District: PS - Public Service District

Proposed Amendment Map: 18 / 2012 Bylaw: 3357 / R-2012 Date: Oct 15, 2012

The proposed bylaws may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaws at the Public Hearings on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall.

If you want your letter or petition included on the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Tuesday, December 4, 2012.

Otherwise you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

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SPACE: Russia holds space endurance record Kelly’s identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, retired from the astronaut corps last year and moved to Tucson, Ariz., his wife’s hometown.

The former congresswoman was critically wounded in an assassination attempt in January 2011, while Scott Kelly was living aboard the space station.

NASA said neither crew member was available Monday to comment and that news conferences would be held next week to outline the mission.

Astronauts normally spend about four to six months aboard the space station.

The longest an American lived there was seven months, several years back.

Russia, though, will continue to hold the world space endurance record.

Four cosmonauts spent at least a year

aboard the old Mir space station.

A Russian physician, Valery Polyakov, logged nearly 15 continuous months there in the mid1990s.

Boris Morukov, head of the Moscow-based Institute for Medical and Biological Problems, Russia’s main space medicine research centre, told the Interfax news agency that communications and food rations for Kelly and Kornienko may be limited during their yearlong mission to better simulate interplanetary travel.

Kelly and Kornienko will launch aboard a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan.

Americans must buy seats on Russian spacecraft now that NASA’s shuttles have retired to museums, until private U.S. companies have vessels capable of carrying human passengers.

That’s still four or five years off.

Kelly is a 48-year-old, divorced Navy captain with two daughters.

Kornienko, 52, a rocket engineer, is married with a daughter.

“We have chosen the most responsible, skilled and enthusiastic crew members to expand space exploration, and we have full confidence

File photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This photo combo provided by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre via NASA, shows NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. Kelly and Kornienko will spend an entire year aboard the International Space Station beginning in 2015, according to reports. The extended mission was approved almost two months ago to provide a medical foundation for future missions around the moon, as well as farflung trips to asteroids and Mars. in them,” Russian Space Agency chief Vladimir Popovkin said in the announcement.

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Yoko Ono’s ‘over the moon’ fashion NEW FASHION LINE INSPIRED BY JOHN LENNON’S ‘HOT BOD’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — You remember that Beatles classic I Wanna Hold Your Hand? Turns out Yoko Ono had other things in mind.

Ono’s new menswear collection inspired by John Lennon includes pants with large handprints on the crotch, tank tops with nipple cutouts and even a flashing LED bra.

The collection of menswear for Opening Ceremony is based on a series of drawings she sketched as a gift for Lennon for their wedding day in 1969.

Ono said she the illustrations were designs for clothing and accessories to celebrate Lennon’s “hot bod.”

Also in the collection are a “butt hoodie” with an outline drawing suggesting its name, pants with cutouts at the behind, a jock strap with an LED light and a transparent chest plaque with bells and a leather neck strap.

“I was inspired to create ‘Fashions for Men,’ amazed at how my man was looking so great.

“I felt it was a pity if we could not make clothes emphasizing his very sexy bod,” Ono said in a statement.

“So, I made this whole series with love for his hot bod, and gave it to him as a wedding present.”

Opening Ceremony hosted a book signing at its SoHo store for Ono for a book that contained the illustrations, and that led to the collaboration to bring them to life.

The limited-edition capsule collection, “Fashions for Men: 1969-2002,” launched on Tuesday.

“As huge, longtime fans of Yoko’s art, we have great respect for her artistic vision, esthetics, and intellect,” said Humberto Leon, co-founder and creative director of Opening Ceremony.

Prices run from $25 for a poster to $200 for a jock strap or $750 for boots with an incense holder or open toes.

File photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Images provided courtesy of Opening Ceremony shows: left, a black mesh Cutout Shirt ($145), and a black wool with contrast coloured white hand Hand Trouser ($335) from Yoko Ono’s new menswear collection.

Right, a black bamboo jersey Eyelet Tank ($150) and white wool and padded mesh Cutout Trouser ($250).

Fashion is rediscovering power of polish trends are coming from, not street trends. We started our fall trend report with the jewelry category, specifically ‘fantasy jewelry.’ Where’s that coming from? The royal family? Downton Abbey?

I’m not sure, but we believe 120 million per cent in fancy and opulent jewelry,” she says.

Buttery, work-appropriate leather pants, equestrian jackets, quilting and gilded baroque embellishments are also on the sophisticated shopping list, says Brandon Holley, editor-inchief of Lucky magazine.

It’s not just fashion experiencing this adultquake, says Tom Morton, North American chief strategy officer for forecasting and advertising company Havas Worldwide.

He prepared a report that dealt with the “pushback against youth obsession.”

“People are going where the money is,” Morton says. A side effect of the economic

downturn is that teenagers and 20-somethings aren’t entering the economy as early as their counterparts did a generation ago, he explains.

Meanwhile, famous faces aren’t leaving the stage as they age: Morton points to the popularity of Paul McCartney at the Olympics and Bruce Springsteen on the presidential campaign trail.

Even James Bond is 50 — and actor Daniel Craig, who portrays him, is 44.

Just passing a newsstand in Manhattan, Morton noted the celebrities on the covers of the glossy magazines — Jessica Alba, Eva Longoria and David Beckham, all in their 30s, and “everyone else was even older.”

And saying something is “modern” or “contemporary” is no longer shorthand for “young.”

“You look at the Apple store. It’s what contemporary life looks like, but there’s not an upper age limit on it. ... There

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was an assumption of people growing out of things, but that’s not happening,” Morton says.

Adam Glassman, creative director of O, The Oprah Magazine, says more people are comfortable in their own skin.

Women aren’t necessarily using fashion and beauty as a tool to look younger, he observes. Instead, they’re using those tools to be the best 40, 50- or 60-year-old they can be.

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NEW YORK — This season’s clothes aren’t taking their cues from club kids, college students or teenage rebels.

There’s something grown-up about some of the most popular looks: They’re a little refined and very wearable, but they’ve avoided being stodgy or, worse, just plain old.

Some of the influence could be coming from pop culture with The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina among the most anticipated movies before year’s end, and the popularity of TV period pieces such as Downton Abbey, Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire. No flannel PJ bottoms or ripped jeans there.

On fall-winter runways, Marlene Dietrich lookalikes appeared at Donna Karan, Charles Dickens-inspired characters at Marc Jacobs and the models at Louis Vuit-

ton seemed poised for a romantic rendezvous on the Orient Express.

Polished sophistication can be tempting after going periods over the past decade that have alternately favoured bohemian, aggressive and blingy looks.

“I’m not a psychologist, I’m just a fashion designer,” says Banana Republic creative director Simon Kneen, “but the air of fashion is a little more elegant right now. ... We’re not in a moment when casual feels like the right mood.”

Some of the trends on retail racks include rich jewel tones of purple, blue and green, lace handiwork and refined accessories including brooches, opera gloves and top-handle bags.

The newness is coming from the feeling of aristocracy with a dash of opulence, says Brooke Jaffe, director of fashion accessories at Bloomingdale’s.

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Thermography Hospital-linked infections reduced not approved for screening breast cancer

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Health Canada is warning Canadians and their healthcare providers that thermography machines are not approved for use in Canada for breast cancer screening.

The department says it is not aware of any scientific evidence that supports use of the thermal imaging machines as a screening tool for early detection of breast cancer.

Health Canada says there could actually be a potential risk to women if they rely on thermography results.

It’s suggested that women who have used thermal imaging for breast screening contact their doctors for appropriate followup and testing.

Health Canada says it is contacting manufacturers of the devices to ensure they know that it is illegal to advertise or sell these types of machines to screen for breast cancer in Canada.

The department is also working with the Canada Border Services Agency to stop any unlicensed devices from entering Canada.

Health Canada says it will be notifying provincial and territorial ministries of health that clinics that fall under their jurisdiction should not be promoting or using thermal imaging machines for breast cancer screening.

Manitoba Health Minister Theresa Oswald has already ordered a thermography clinic in Winnipeg to stop operating.

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation is also joining the information effort, telling Canadians that thermography is not recommended by any medical authority or leading cancer organiza-

tion.

Thermography uses a heat-sensitive infrared camera to take images of the body and detect blood flow pattern. Some breast thermography clinics, which charge consumers for the service, claim the images the machines generate can be used to detect breast cancer.

CHICAGO — Preventing surgery-linked infections is a major concern for hospitals and it turns out some simple measures can make a big difference.

A project at seven big hospitals reduced infections after colorectal surgeries by nearly one-third.

It prevented an estimated 135 infections, saving almost $4 million, the Joint Commission hospital regulating group and the American College of Surgeons announced Wednesday.

The two groups directed the 2 ½-year project.

Solutions included having patients shower with special germfighting soap before surgery, and having surgery teams change gowns, gloves and instruments during operations to prevent spreading germs picked up during

nationwide; more than 90,000 of these are fatal.

Besides wanting to keep patients healthy, hospitals have a monetary incentive to prevent these infections.

Medicare cuts payments to hospitals that have lots of certain health care-related infections, and those cuts are expected to increase under the new health care law.

The project involved surgeries for cancer and other colorectal problems.

Infections linked with colorectal surgery are particularly common because intestinal tract bacteria are so abundant.

To succeed at reducing infection rates requires hospitals to commit to changing habits, “to really look in the mirror and identify these things,” said Dr. Clifford Ko of the American College of Surgeons.

the procedures.

Some hospitals used special wound-protecting devices on surgery openings to keep intestine germs from reaching the skin.

The average rate of infections linked with colorectal operations at the seven hospitals dropped from about 16 per cent of patients during a 10-month phase when hospitals started adopting changes to almost 11 per cent once all the changes had been made.

Hospital stays for patients who got infections dropped from an average of 15 days to 13 days, which helped cut costs.

“The improvements translate into safer patient care,” said Dr. Mark Chassin, president of the Joint Commission.

“Now it’s our job to spread these effective interventions to all hospitals.”

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The British Columbians are making music to be heard, not just consumed

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The British Columbians, named Canada’s Best Undiscovered Band by music industry insiders in 2009, is continuing to fly under most people’s radar.

But achieving cult status with some diehard fans is preferable to gaining commercial success by bowing to somebody else’s rules, say the Vancouverbased band members, who perform on Thursday at The Hideout south of Red Deer.

“It would be nice if we got played more on commercial radio,” said singer/guitarist Girard Knox.

“But when we make a song, we’ve got to follow it right to the end.

“We don’t want to make a conscious decision to cut it down to three minutes just to make it playable to a radio audience.”

As a result of the indie group’s five-minute opuses that don’t stick to a particular genre, switching between hard rock, country, folk and blues, The British Columbians are mostly played on college radio stations and the non-commercial CKUA Radio.

Knox figures, “We’d rather find people who want to listen to our band and the music we make, as opposed to making music — and there’s no offence in-

tended — that’s just intended to be consumed.”

The group’s second CD, Made For Darker Things, has produced two tracks that received a fair amount of airplay on alternative radio — Feel No Better and Fine Mess.

Knox, a Calgary native, said the 2011 release didn’t start out as a concept album. But by the time he had finished writing most of the songs, there was an underlying darkness evident.

Evil in the Trees came out of an attempt to draw on old-time gospel and country influences. Artists like the Louvin Brothers and Blind Willie Johnson had often written about heaven and hell, said Knox, “and I wanted to tap into that . . . American gothic thing. I was fascinated with those gospel themes.”

The Munitionette is a song he wrote about a First World War widow who has to get a job at a munitions factory to eke out a living for herself and her child, while Heart on the Wrong Side started as a jam session between the band’s drummer/vocalist Dave Moran and Knox.

The resulting music “wasn’t super articulated” until lyrics finally emerged about a year later, said Moran. “Things happened, then those lyrics began to tell the story.”

The part true/part fictional tune is about somebody reflecting on a romantic relationship that’s

over. “He’s looking back with regret — and some appreciation — because there was a love there,” said Knox. “It’s like you can put your heart into it, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to come to fruition.”

The British Columbians — also made up of keyboardist/guitarist Owen Connell and bassist JosephLubinsky-Mast — bring various musical influences to the table. But where the tastes of all four band members converge is on epic ’70s rock, such as music produced by Led Zeppelin and The Band.

“It’s funny, but that stuff gets into your DNA,” said Knox, who recalled that a few times the group came up with a great piece of music until somebody realized that “while it’s awesome, we can’t do that because it’s a Led Zeppelin song, like The Crunge or something.”

Although young males make up a lot of the band’s audience, Moran believes it’s as hard to typify its listeners as it is to summarize the group’s sound.

“Sometimes we’ll hear from a 50-year-old woman, who’ll tell us she’s totally struck by a certain song.

She might have a hard time listening to the rest of the album, ’cause it’s loud, but that one song changed her life.”

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Art for blast-proof walls THE STATE DEPARTMENT’S OFFICE OF ART IN EMBASSIES IS GIVING THE PUBLIC A GLIMPSE OF WHAT HANGS IN SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST SECURE BUILDINGS

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — For 50 years, the State Department’s Office of Art in Embassies has selected and displayed American art, mostly behind locked doors in highly secure buildings. The pieces AIE purchases for embassies, and borrows for ambassadors’ residences, are usually seen only by official guests.

“It may not be something specifically that the American citizen can experience,” said Art in Embassies Director Beth Dozoretz. Yet “pretty much anyone from the State Department who goes to our embassies comes back to us and says the exhibitions on loan are a very, very important tool for outreach.”

This week, that outreach comes to Washington, with a series of events that allow the public a glimpse at what AIE does. Most conspicuously, from Wednesday to Friday the video screens outside Verizon Center will display 161 photographs from Serving Abroad . . . Through Their Eyes, an AIE-sponsored show of photographs made by active-duty military and Foreign Service personnel. More than 3,200 images were submitted for the exhibition, which will be shown at the Pentagon, the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

A performance on Wednesday will feature dancer and visual artist Nick Cave in collaboration with students at the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus in Washington. The event is part of an open house at the cultural and community center and will feature participants from the Washington Ballet, the Levine School of Music and the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

Among the more than 20 artists participating in the AIE celebration, five will receive the State Department’s Medal of Arts from Secretary of State

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‘American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines’ is included in a show by the State Department’s Office of Art in Embassies.

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Jeff Koons, Cai Guo-Qiang, Shahzia Sikander, Kiki Smith and Carrie Mae Weems. On Thursday, those artists will discuss their work with Museum of Modern Art Director Glenn Lowry at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. (It was MoMA that started the private predecessor to AIE in 1953; it became a government program a decade later.)

In addition to marking AIE’s 50th anniversary,

the events illustrate the program’s evolving role and philosophy. As the United States builds a new generation of highly fortified embassies, AIE is making its contribution a little more public. Structures from Beijing to Bucharest have been designed with art visible from the street.

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Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, a paper skull, and When The Clock Strikes 12 . . . , a mushroom knitted with felt wool, both by Kathryn Huedepohl, are among the works by Kerry Wood Nature Centre volunteers and employees now on display. The show, oktober, runs in the centre’s Marjorie Wood Gallery until Dec. 12.

● Santa Claus is Coming To Town special Santa Claus collection is now on display at the Mountain View Museum in Olds until Dec. 31. Hours are Tuesday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission by donation. Call 403-556-8464 for more information. ● Indigenous Impressions by Claudine Fleury will be on display at The Hub during the month of December. Fleury is an artist of Metis heritage whose art reflects impressionistic and aboriginal styles and speaks to her vision of sustained recovery and wellness. ● Members Only Show and Sale: A Juried Exhibition will be on display at Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from Nov. 27 to Jan. 1. Artwork is from emerging to professional artists in various media including acrylic, naked raku, hand-painted silk, watercolour, and more. ● Connecting Places by Galia Kwetny of Red Deer will be highlighted at HarrisWarke Gallery from Nov. 19 to Dec. 29. Kwetny, who was born in former Soviet Union, produces large paintings of coded landscapes or imaginary places with the energy and urgency evoked by memory through the use of dramatic colour and gesture. ● Rural Travel by Gail Scheuring will be featured at Gallery on Main in Lacombe from Nov. 17 to Dec. 17. Check out Scheuring’s examination of rural environments and wildlife. Phone 403-782-3402. ● oktober by Staff and Volunteers of Kerry Wood Nature Centre continues in the Marjorie Wood Gallery until Dec. 12. ● Alberta Sampler by Harvey Brink will be featured for the month of November at Café Pichilingue. ● Works by Erin Boake will be featured at the Velvet Olive Lounge for the month of November. ● MarkerTopia by Sheldon Rabbit Wheatley will be featured at The Hub for the month of November and offers print and card sales in addition to the exhibit. ● Profit and Ambition: The Canadian Fur Trade, 1779-1821 continues to Dec. 9 at the Red Deer Museum and Archives. This

travelling exhibition produced by the Canadian Museum of Civilization traces the span of the North West Company from its formation in 1779 to the amalgamation with the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821 through maps, documents and artifacts. Phone 403-309-8405.

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LIVE DATES ● The Hideout welcomes Jimmy Rankin, Dec. 9. ● The Centrium will host The Tragically Hip with special guests the Arkells on Jan. 22. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. All ages show. Tickets go on sale from Livenation.com, Ticketmaster, and Rogers Wireless Box Office, and charge by phone at 1-855-985-5000. ● The Vat will host Rock For Santa — a benefit concert by Night At The Chelsea tonight. All proceeds go to support the Red Deer Food Bank. Wil, with roots/rock sounds, performs on Dec. 6 and Picture the Ocean on Dec. 22. ● Red Deer College presents Bill Bourne on Dec. 20. ● Red Deer Memorial Centre welcomes Ron James Live! on Dec. 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $51 (taxes included plus applicable charges). Visit www.ronjames.ca for info. Tickets for shows are on sale from Black Knight Inn at 403-755-6626 or 1-800-6618793, www.bkticketcentre.ca. Support the homeless and hungry when you take in The Huron Carole — a project of the Christmas and Winter Relief Association — with Tom Jackson and guests Sarah Slean, Matt Dusk and Susan Aglukark on Dec. 17, 8 p.m. Tickets cost $45. To donate or purchase tickets, visit www.HuronCarole.ca To have your establishment’s live bands included in this space, fax a list to Club Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341-6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate.com.

Sundance fest books record slate of female filmmakers LOS ANGELES — The Sundance Film Festival has an apparent record lineup of female directors competing for its top honour this January.

Half the entries — eight of the 16 films — announced Wednesday in the festival’s U.S. dramatic competition were directed by women for the next installment of Robert Redford’s independent-cinema showcase, which runs Jan. 17-27 in Park City, Utah.

Going back to 1992, the best showing previously for female filmmakers was in 2000, when six of the 16 U.S. dramatic contenders were directed by women.

Sundance organizers were still trolling back to the early years of the festival’s 33-year history, but this January’s eight competition films appears to be most ever from women and the first time the entries have been evenly split between female and male directors.

Among the competition films from female filmmakers are Francesca Gregorini’s Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, whose cast includes Jessica Biel and Frances O’Connor in the story of a troubled girl fixated on a mysterious neighbour; Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely, featuring Rosemarie DeWitt, Allison Janney and Ellen Page in a tale of a massage therapist who develops a distaste for bodily contact; and Liz W. Garcia’s The Lifeguard, with Kristen Bell as a reporter who moves home to Connecticut and takes a job as a lifeguard.

The festival’s U.S. dramatic lineup also features

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ART: Hangs in about 200 buildings in 189 countries The office provides art, mostly contemporary, to about 200 buildings in 189 countries. It curates about 60 temporary exhibitions per year and since 2003 has installed 58 permanent collections in diplomatic facilities. The art is purchased with federal money, although some events — including those for the anniversary — draw on private funding.

Among AIE’s cultural exchange programs are lectures and demonstrations by American artists overseas. But the program also mixes American art with indigenous works and encourages U.S. artists to engage local cultures. To make a monumental piece for the new embassy in Dakar, Senegal, visual artist Cave traveled there.

“He and I went to Senegal in January and met with about a dozen Senegalese artists,” said Virginia Shore, AIE’s chief curator. “He’s going to incorporate the work of a handful of those artists in this big bas-relief we’ve commissioned him to do.”

At the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, which opened in 2008, AIE installed a giant Koons sculpture of tulips visible through an opening in the wall. “It’s sort of the iconic statement for this beautiful embassy,” Dozoretz said. “Because of the buzz that comes from people being able to walk by and see it, as well as [Koons’] own reputation as an artist, when he went there to do an exchange program for us, over a thou-

the first Sundance entry for Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, who stars as Allen Ginsberg in director John Krokidas’ Kill Your Darlings.

Male directors still dominate the big-screen, but the low-budget indie world has been narrowing the gender gap. Sundance director John Cooper said some Sundance film categories have had a nearly even split between male and female directors in the past, a sign that more and more women are breaking into filmmaking.

“I think that’s absolutely it,” Cooper said. “Also, what we’ve found is that through our short-film programs, they’ve been coming close to 50-50 in certain years or at least a high level of women directors. So it’s more of a coming-up-through-the-ranks situation” as female directors graduate from short films to feature-length stories.

Sundance has scheduled 113 feature-length films, chosen out of 4,044 titles submitted.

The festival will feature four opening-night films, one each from its U.S. drama and documentary and world-cinema drama and documentary categories.

Among the opening films is director Cherien Dabis’ U.S. drama contender May in the Summer, in which she stars as a woman in conflict with her family after returns home to Jordan as her wedding nears.

Other films in the U.S. dramatic lineup include Napoleon Dynamite co-writer Jerusha Hess’ directing debut, Austenland, starring Keri Russell and Jennifer Coolidge in a romance about a Pride and Prejudiceobsessed woman searching for love at a Jane Austen theme resort; In a World ..., the directing debut of

actress Lake Bell, who stars in the story of a woman trying to follow her father’s footsteps to become a voice-over star; Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight, with Kathryn Hahn and Juno Temple in the tale of a Los Angeles housewife who takes in a stripper as a live-in nanny; and David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, featuring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck in a drama about an escaped prisoner crossing the Texas hills to reunite with his family.

The U.S. documentary competition also has an even gender split, with eight of the 16 films directed or co-directed by women. That’s not a record, though, as women have made stronger in-roads into documentary filmmaking and have accounted for more than half of the entries in Sundance’s non-fiction lineup in the past.

Among films in the U.S. documentary program are Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read and Nina Kristic’s 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film, which examines the 2011 protests over economic inequality; Martha Shane and Lana Wilson’s After Tiller, profiling doctors providing late-term abortions after the murder of a colleague by an abortion opponent; and Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Blackfish, which explores the consequences of captivity for killer whales, one of which was involved in the deaths of three people.

The opening-night film for the U.S. documentary lineup is Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom,” a portrait of pop music’s generally anonymous backup singers.

sand people showed up.”

Art that is visible from outside the embassy, Shore said, “has become a big focus. With every new project that we do, we are making sure to do some sort of an outdoor piece so that the general public can see the work.”

Not all embassy art can be public, though. AIE began the Washington portion of its 50th-birthday bash with an Oct. 25 appearance by artist Antony Gormley at the British Embassy, where he dedicated a sculpture that can’t be seen outside the security perimeter. “That’s a bit of a betrayal of my profound belief that art is for everyone,” Gormley said of the piece’s secluded place in the garden beneath the ambassador’s residence. “For most of mankind’s existence, art has been an expression of collective belief, collective aspiration. And made collectively.”

As shown by Cave’s Dakar bas-relief, as well as other recent projects, collective artmaking is part of

AIE’s mission. However effective the office’s cultural exchange programs are, however, most of the art it furnishes to embassies is likely to remain behind blast-proof walls.

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John Gilchrist, 44, has appeared in a revival of the old ad campaign for Life cereal, and he regularly receives requests to sign memorabilia, which he happily does.

He believes the key to his comfort level was having his real family there. “Those are my brothers, so I probably thought as a 3-½-year-old kid, ‘I’m just sitting at the family kitchen table,’ ” he said.

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To answer some of your most predictable questions right off: Yes, John Gilchrist enjoys Life cereal and keeps it in his home. No, he does not get a free lifetime supply. No, he was not a particularly picky eater as a child. Yes, he really is the guy who played one on TV. Oh, and one more thing: He is most certainly not dead.

“The folklore is that I ate Pop Rocks, the exploding candies, and I drank a soda and my stomach blew up,” he said, recalling a long-ago urban legend.

One day in the late 1970s, his mother summoned him from a playground baseball game to tell him she had received a call from a concerned friend who said, through tears, “I’m so sorry to hear about your son.”

Replied Mrs. Gilchrist: “He just came home from school!”

So it goes at the centre of a pop-culture artifact — a Life cereal spot that lived for more than a decade and starred Gilchrist, known in the ad as “Mikey,” and his two real-life brothers, Tommy and Mike.

You surely remember it if you are over 40, and you surely know of it if you grew up in a family with a fussy eater, meaning a grown-up at some point said, “Mikey likes it!”

That line never actually is uttered in the ad. When little Mikey, who usually “hates everything,” starts to eat the cereal, his older brother says, “He likes it!

Hey Mikey!”

No matter. “Mikey” had no lines at all, and yet 41 years after shooting the commercial in October 1971 — his third in a career that eventually would include about 250 — he found himself still talking about it over lunch recently. (He ordered a salad and iced tea.)

“It’s who I am, but it’s only a part of who I am; I have a lot of great things in my life,” he said of his willingness to discuss something he did when he was 3-½ and doesn’t clearly remember doing.

Since shifting away from acting while at Iona College, Gilchrist, 44, has been in ad sales, first in radio, including a stint at ESPN, and now for MSG Networks, where he is director of media sales, primarily negotiating with advertisers on TV ads.

“It’s been great,” he said, especially given that he is a self-described lifelong “Knicks junkie.’’ (Karma: He was born nine days before the current Madison Square Garden opened in February 1968.)

“I always thought the Garden was a special place.

So without sounding too sappy, I jumped at the opportunity to come over here.”

This all started in the Bronx, where Gilchrist’s father, Tom, a New York City cop, and mother, Pat, were raising a family that eventually would grow to seven children. (John is smack in the middle.)

His parents owned a small bungalow in Long Beach, where one day the Gilchrists ran into children on the beach who had done modelling and thought their “freckly, all-American look” might be marketable. It was.

Soon the oldest brother, Tommy, was working regularly, making “more money in the fee for a day than my father probably made in a week,” and Pat was learning to get work for the others.

All seven acted at some point. It eventually helped the family move to Yonkers, buy real estate in East Hampton and pay for college educations. “But money was never the driving force,” Gilchrist said. “I honestly don’t know the finances, and quite honestly, I don’t care.’’

Five of the siblings still live in Yonkers. John, his wife, Jennifer, and their three children, ages seven to 14, live nearby in Pelham.

Unlike many child actors, Gilchrist has mostly positive memories of working the circuit with an eclectic group of contemporaries that included Rodney Allen Rippy, Mason Reese and Haywood Nelson (“Dwayne” from What’s Happening!!). He also knew Ricky Schroder, who edged him out for a plum role in the 1979 movie The Champ.

At home, though, life was “very normal.”

“We would be watching a show in prime time and it was never a big thing,” he said. “Our spot would come on and someone would yell, ‘Hey, Mom, spot’s on!’ “ Gilchrist said it is an “ongoing joke” among the three brothers in the Life ad that John is best remembered for it even though he said nothing.

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Husband competing with son for wife’s attention

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Dear Annie: My wife and I have a motel reservations and arranged clinic wonderful 3-year-old son. We have a availability. great home and make good money, but Mary kept changing her mind about life stinks. coming and finally admitted that she For the past year, my wife has in- didn’t want the procedure. sisted on allowing our son to sleep in When she cancelled again, Sue our bed. moved up our departure And in case you’re time. Mary then reconabout to ask, the answer sidered and wanted to is yes, we have not been come after all. able to do the one thing I told her the dethat married people norparture time had been mally do in bed. moved up, and she said When my wife puts our she’d drive herself and son in his own bed, she meet us there. unbuttons her shirt and Two days later, Mary lets him nurse until he sent me a letter saying falls asleep. Without fail, she wasn’t coming and he wakes up before midlambasted me because I night and walks into our “didn’t know what it was MITCHELL room. If I tell him to go to be a friend.” I thought & SUGAR back to his room, he starts we’d talk it out, but that crying, and my wife then was a year ago, and we permits him to crawl into have yet to speak. our bed.

I don’t feel I owe Mary I went to a therapist on my own. His an apology. Sometimes I think she was advice was to tell my wife, “You can looking for an excuse to squeeze me sleep in our son’s bed if you want it out of her friendship with Sue. that way.” Guess what. She did.

It seems immature for a middle-aged He’s the clingiest kid I ever saw, and woman to behave in such a fashion. his mom seems to need him a lot more Any suggestions? — Three’s a Crowd than he needs her.

Dear Crowd: You don’t owe her an I feel like I’m competing for her at- apology, although it might help to say tention. Any advice? — N.Y. you are sorry that things became so Dear N.Y.: Your wife is using her complicated and difficult, and you reson as an excuse to avoid intimacy. gret that the friendship suffered as a This does a disservice not only to your result. And you could ask Sue to help. marriage, but to your child.

But frankly, after all this time, we have He is learning that if he cries, he to assume Mary isn’t interested in rewill get whatever he wants, and that he newing your bond. is winning the competition for Mom’s Dear Annie: “Confused in N.C.” affections. And yes, she has made it asked who should pay for birthday and more of a competition than it needs to anniversary dinners at a restaurant. be.

Here’s my solution: Please don’t blame your son for beWhen inviting people to a restauing “clingy,” and try not to focus on rant, I make it clear that I will pay for your sexual frustration. appetizers, wine and dessert.

Instead, try to get your wife to unGuests are welcome to come whenderstand that her behavior is unfair to ever, and some only come for dessert, the boy. Urge her to discuss this with which is fine. her doctor, your child’s pediatrician or That way, those on a budget can para counselor. ticipate, and I don’t break the bank.

Dear Annie: I’ve been friends with Often, guests will buy a bottle of “Sue” and “Mary” for years. Last year, wine for the table as a birthday presI asked Sue to drive me to a cosmetic ent. — Can’t Always Entertain at Home medical procedure in another state.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy She agreed and also wanted the pro- Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edicedure. tors of the Ann Landers column. Please She asked me to include Mary, email your questions to anniesmailbox@ which meant planning the trip around comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, Mary’s work schedule. c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, We set tentative dates, and I made Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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HOROSCOPE Friday, November 30 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Gael Garcia Bernal, 34; Ben Stiller, 47; Ridley Scott, 75 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon is in its own home, in the sign of Cancer. Today’s energy will remind us of our domestic obligations and remaining close to our roots. We will commemorate our traditional values. A wave of nostalgia might hit us while going through a photo album or while hearing childhood stories from our past.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, in the following months you will develop the need to be in your own personal space.

You are lucky indeed as the year ahead holds many opportunities for you. The areas of your life that will benefit you greatly will concern your domestic life, your parents, money you share with your spouse and your private self.

Much energy will be put into these areas of your life, which can bring you much joy. Your intuition is sharp as a knife!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your emotional needs will clash with your professional demands today. You might feel that outside forces work against your personal needs. Yes, you are in a high position right now and it’s okay to be emotional sometimes and ask for help or for some privacy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are well in tune with your affections and you seem warm and welcoming. Your magnetic ability to convince others of what you think works beautifully towards your benefit. A trip overseas can prove very enjoyable.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are getting closer and more present to your everyday surroundings. Today you are assessing your material needs in order to feel

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SUN SIGNS safe and secure. Doing the mundane tasks no longer seems so boring.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Forceful views won’t affect you as you derive too much fun these days that you seem almost blind to other’s opposing opinions. You are also in a very amorous mood nowadays. Indulge yourself in simple pleasures of life.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today you will seek privacy and you will work quietly in your own corner. Others might wonder why they cannot hear you roar, but you find haven’t found your audience yet. Everything comes within its own place and time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): You want to connect, yet you find this blockage built between you and your peers.

Today you feel as if the rest of the world is working against your self-expression and that you are not acting as your usual self.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You can run but you cannot hide. Others notice you and observe you. Joy can be obtained by doing something artistic or creative rather than dealing directly with the public. Buy yourself something pleasing to your senses.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is no doubt that your insightful powers of concentration can be so ac-

tivated. You are not afraid to unleash the inner, stronger side in you. This is a great time to improve something in your look or add a new piece of clothing or accessory to your wardrobe.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Use the current, amazing planetary vibes to benefit from them to its full potential. Your emotional well-being can harness much harmony by tapping into your intuition and by showing compassion towards someone close, but suffering. You have healing powers.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): You ache to be in the presence of a special someone today. You find that your needs are mutually receptive and that you both share common goals towards a solid future. It’s time to have some fun.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): By accomplishing your obligations you also work towards building your dreamy foundation and a name for your vocation. You are seen as a very articulate and accepting individual that others want to relate to. You are their counsellor.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What a positive energy is in store for you! This couldn’t be a better time to travel or just evade the city.

Pleasure can be found far away or while interacting with strangers. Fun can be derived from simply pursuing an education.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer columnist.

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Pete Townshend opens up in biography WHO GUITARIST TALKS ABOUT DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION, CHILD ABUSE AND INFIDELITY

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ries which uses Who Are You as its theme song.

He says he attacked his memoir with a passion last year, barrelling through the writing process more than a decade after first inking a book deal in the mid-’90s. “I felt that time was running out, I just felt that I really had to do it,” he says, noting the book also includes passages that were written during abandoned spurts over the years.

“I’m 67 years old, I don’t really want to be sitting like some old professor writing my life story when I’m 80.”

Townshend touches on all the major events in his life including the origins of his windmill wind-up, being banned from all Holiday Inns, his fascination with mystic Meher Baba, groupies, affairs, wild acid trips, Woodstock, lusting after Mick Jagger, reaching out to a

heroin-addled Eric Clapton, and grappling with the drug-induced deaths of Moon and Entwistle.

Townshend says he found the writing process “cathartic” and even insightful, noting that it forced him to question why he didn’t do more to prevent some of his biggest heartbreaks. That included Moon’s outrageous binges while on tour, which he admits he failed to stop despite their alarming escalation.

TORONTO — Legendary Who guitarist Pete Townshend has weathered drug abuse, alcohol addiction, infidelity, near-deafening rock ’n’ roll assaults to his ears and, of course, those infamous child pornography charges.

Townshend discusses these trials openly in his candid memoir, Who I Am, but admits he may never fully come to terms with what is arguably the book’s most painfully raw revelation: that he believes he was sexually abused as a very young boy.

Although he says childhood trauma has coloured nearly every aspect of his life, the guitar-smashing rocker admits he’s buried the memories so deeply he can’t be certain exactly what transpired.

“If I remembered it in great detail, I think you would be suspicious that I was making it up,” says Townshend in a free-wheeling interview during a recent stop in Toronto.

“From what I know of acting as a counsellor myself ... is that if it happens between the ages of sixand-a-half and 12, we remember it. Prior to that you have to be very, very careful. So I don’t want to insult anybody who remembers specifically by carelessly thinking, ‘Ah, toss a coin, yeah, I’m pretty sure that something weird went on.’ All I can actually say is It’s FREE that I’m pretty sure that something weird went on.”

From 7:00am until 3:00pm Townshend’s suspicions are sketched in broad This Monday to Friday strokes throughout Who I Am, starting with vague boyhood recollections of physical and emotional torCheck out our new look! ment at the hands of his irrational grandmother and moving on to accounts of sudden memory flashes and disturbing dreams as an adult.

Red Deer – Gasoline Alley He writes that at age five, he was sent to live with his grandmother Denny — a time he describes as “the darkest part of my life.” Unstable and moody, Denny was “a perfect wicked witch” who controlled his day with military precision and punished him by withholding food, brutally scrubbing him in the bath, slapping him, and threatening him with gypsy curses.

Adding to his anxiety was a parade of strange men who would visit for tea, including an overnight guest with “a little Hitler moustache” he had to call “uncle.”

Townshend says he’s since spent years of psychotherapy trying to understand it, but any time he’s attempted to delve deep into his past he’s “literally starting to froth at the mouth and shake and go into a kind of a fit.”

“I’m not going to do this to myself. I don’t have to remember at all,” Townshend says now.

“I don’t have to remember because the evidence is in my work.

And the evidence is in the way that I operate as a man.”

That includes a misguided attempt in 1999 to investigate the financial ties of online child pornography, a quest that led him to use his credit card to access a website advertising images of children, he explains in the book.

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LEWIS Mildred 1918 - 2012 Mildred Lewis passed away p e a c e f u l l y o n S a t u r d a y, November 24, 2012 at Lacombe Hospital with her daughter and son-in-law at her side. Mildred was born o n a f a r m i n G u r n s e y, Saskatchewan and lived in Saskatchewan all her life until she moved to Lacombe to be closer to family. She married Art Lewis and had four children, who she loved deeply and we will miss her more than words can express. Mom loved her nine grandchildren and ten greatgrandchildren. She especially loved to receive pictures of them, which could be found all over her apartment. Mom will be fondly remembered by her children; Edith (Carl) of Blackfalds, AB, Bob (Josephine) of St. Anne, MB, Lorne (Marlene) of Rocky Mountain House, AB, and Les (Marilyn) of East St. Paul, MB., sisters; Hilda (Ernie) and May, and her brother Gordon. Mildred will also be lovingly remembered by her nieces and nephews, whom she loved very much.

Mildred was predeceased by her late husband of 54 years, her granddaughter Shantelle and her brother Russell. We all have fond memories of Mom at our family reunions and visits. We would like to take this opportunity to thank her many friends at the Lacombe Senior Lodge for their visits and helping Mildred at times. The family wishes to extend their gratitude to Dr. McKibbin and all the nurses on Unit B for their care and compassion.

Though there will not be an immediate service, a memorial will be held at a later date at Mount Pleasant in Melfort, Saskatchewan. Memorial contributions in honor of Mildred may be made directly to the charity of one’s choice.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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CARROLL Helen May 5, 1912 - Nov. 26, 2012 It is with great sadness that the family of Helen Carroll (Ostroski) announce her passing on Monday, November 26, 2012 at the age of 100 years. Mom will forever be lovingly remembered and greatly missed by her children; Lorna (Leo) Franken of Red Deer, Bernie (Betty) Carroll of Calgary, Brenda (Andy) Robertson of Calgary, and son-in-law, Ernie Wolski of Victoria. Survived by eleven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren, she was pre deceased by her husband, Ambrose (Amby) in 1984 and daughter, Corinne in 2005.

Mom’s greatest passions in life were her family and her Christian faith. She was a kind and gentle lady who touched many with her warm and loving manner. The family would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the caring and compassionate staff at Masterpiece Aspen Ridge where mom lived for the past 12 months. Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 2 pm at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer.

Donations in Helen’s honor may be made directly to a charity of your choice.

Condolences for the late Helen Carroll may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Craig Kanngiesser EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer.

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Landcore Technologies Inc. located in Ponoka is currently seeking energetic, motivated team players for the following positions:

Oilfield

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All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test.

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND and DERRICK HAND. Locally

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Quinn Pumps Canada Ltd. located in Red Deer, Alberta has an opening for an:

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- 1 - 2 years of accounting experience - Must be detail orientated, analytical, and well organized - Ability to meet deadlines and multi task - Excellent customer service and communication skills - Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite

850

Big Horn Electric and Controls Ltd.

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ELECTRICAL and INSTRUMENTATION JOURNEYMAN and APPRENTICES We are currently recruiting for: Central and Northern Alberta.

Required Safety Certificates: H2S Alive / First Aid PST / Fall Protection.

Successful candidates will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Oilfield experience is an asset.

Qualified applicants are invited to fax or email their resumes: Fax: 403-638-3688 Email: careers@bighornelectric.com DRYWALL helper req’d.

Exp. an asset. Must have own transportation.

403-341-7619 ESTABLISHED well known company looking for exp’d. steel stud/drywall person to work F/T hourly.

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Email resume to brad@ comfortecheating.com or fax 403-309-8302

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Trades

CARPET COLOUR CENTRE is currently looking for 2 TILE INSTALLERS. Applicant must have ability to lay out tiles, be familiar EXPERIENCED repair with setting materials and products. This is a F/T person req’d for local truck company.

Work involves position with a wage of all aspects of heavy truck $25/hr. and trailer repair and disSubmit resume att`n: manteling. Must be Andrew @ Carpet Colour Centre 1100, 5001 - 19 St. physically fit. HD Mechanic or equivelant experience Red Deer, AB T4R 3R1 or We offer competitive email : awiebe@ wages, benefits weekends carpetcolourcentre. com off. Fax resume to Classifieds...costs so little 1-855-784-2330 or call 1-877-787-2501 Saves you so much!

Qualifications and Experience:

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

EAGLE OPPORTUNITIES:

810

Key Responsibilities:

Snow Cat Operators

Oilfield

Professionals

BAMSS Contracting Inc.,

Providence Trucking Inc

mmcgeachy@ cathedralenergyservices.com

We are currently seeking the following positions to join our field team.

800

LOCAL SERVICE CO. REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

Drillers and Driller Assistants with a Class 1 driver’s license.

Apprentice or Journeyman Mechanics Pile Drive Operators Pile Drive Assistants Field Supervisor

Oilfield

Employment Opportunities - Caretaking and Maintenance Staff for complete posting.

273845L1

Fluid Experts Ltd.

Fluid Experts of Red Deer is seeking experienced

800

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

COOKS and SERVERS NEEDED

Invites applicants for:

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN

Full and Part Time

Red Deer Public Schools

Send resume to Attention: Linda Robinson gmar@symphonyseniorliving.com or drop off in person at: 3100 - 22nd Street SENIOR LIVING In concert with your life

Please see:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca Employment Opportunities

ASPEN RIDGE & INGLEWOOD

- Caretaking and Maintenance Staff for complete posting.

273845L1

EXP. LINE LOCATOR, H2S PSTS, 1st aid req’d.

Min. 3 yrs. exp. Resume by fax 403-227-1398 or email info@accutechcanada.ca

Oilfield

274379L2

800

274291K29-L5

Oilfield

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

Contractors

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you. Now hiring Canyon Champions for the following positions:

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

Class 1 Driver / Operators: Nitrogen, Coiled Tubing, Cement & Acid, Fracturing Supervisors: Nitrogen, Coiled Tubing, Cement & Acid, Fracturing Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work flexible hours f Safety—focused

f Team oriented f Clean Class 1 license f Oil and Gas experience an asset

Why Canyon? f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New equipment

f f f

COUNTERTOPS

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia Prefering non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 302-9210.

Paid technical and leadership training Career advancement opportunities RRSP Matching Program

Escorts We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

1165

*LEXUS* 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT BEAUTIFUL college girl ROXY 403-848-2300

How to apply:

EDEN

587-877-7399 10am- 2am 274235L2

email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

1100

EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049

Escorts

1165

LEXI, Blonde, Babe, 27. No Agency Fees 403-396-8884 Need a playmate?

403-550-0732 mydiamondgirls.org

Fireplaces

1175

TIM LLOYD. WETT certified.

Inspections, installs, chimney sweeps & service 403-340-0513

Handyman Services

1200

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. Res/Comm.Reno’s, repair and more. Give us a buzz @ 403-598-3857 Free quotes. WCB, insured.

F & J Renovations. We do it all. Good rates and references available so call John at 403-307-3001 jbringleson@shaw.ca GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch.

Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. Mon-Fri 11am-6pm 348-5650 CHINESE MASSAGE new owner, free parking, 4606 48 Ave. Open 7 a.m.9 p.m. 7 days a wk.

Phone 403-986-1691

Massage Therapy

1280

Misc.

Services

1290

Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445 HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinLINDA’S CHINESE MAS- ery, vehicles and industrial.

SAGE Grand Opening #3 Serving central Alberta.

4820-47 Ave. 403-986-1550 403-318-4346 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE

Feeling overwhelmed?

Hard work day? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave.(rear entrance if necessary) www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels 403-986-6686 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal.

No household appliances 403-396-8629

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

PAINTING BY DAVE Interior, Exterior, New Construction. Comm/Indust.

2 Journeyman w/over 50 yrs exp. %15 discount for seniors. Free estimates.

All work guaranteed.

403-307-4798

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small reno’s or jobs, such as, new bathroom sink, toilets or safety bars in bath tubs. Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship in home or in facility.

Call 403-346-7777 Better For Cheaper with a Low Price Guarantee. helpinghandshomesupport.com

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Nov. 30, 2012 E3

Fluid Experts Ltd.

Is looking for experienced Trucking Dispatcher to start immed.

Good Verbal, Writing, Texting and Computer skills. Company Pickup, benefits, above avg. salary and great atmosphere.

Clean Class 1 drivers license c/w abstract.

Completed Basic Training Courses. Will train the right individual.

Fax Resume w/all tickets and Driver`s Abstract to 403-346-3112 or email to roger@fluidexperts.com Start your career!

See Help Wanted

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Trades

Trades

850

Trades

850

860

JOURNEYMAN or 3rd Yr. Apprentice Plumber/Gas Fitter

req’d for small shop in Westaskiwin area.

Competitive wages & health plan. Submit resumes to: willplmb@xplornet.com or fax to: 780-312-2889 or call 780-387-6087

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters Helpers, and Labourers.

Competitive Wages & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

850

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

MACHINIST/ AREA SUPERVISOR EXPERIENCED

The ideal candidate would have knowledge of Oil Country Tubular Products, supplemented with previous pipe manufacturing experience in a unionized industrial environment.

CNC Lathe experience would be an asset.

This position would be of interest to individuals who have 3 - 5 years of previous supervisory experience, possess strong communications skills, be a people-person, possess strong computer skills, be extremely wellorganized and be able to mentor and coach members of a production team.

Vacuum & Water Truck operators req’d. to start immed.

CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q All oilfield safety tickets req’d. Clean drivers abstract. Must comply with drug and alcohol policy.

References Req’d.

Exc. salary & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 hartwell@telus.net Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Business Opportunities

that has a desire, determination, time and effort.

Please phone 403-343-2853 or 403-318-4236 Meeting Sat. Dec. 1, 2 p.m,.

Refreshment ist provided.

Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. continues to grow!

We are currently expanding staff levels in all of our departments to meet the demand of our productions facilities.

Misc.

Help

If you would like to be a part of our growing and dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking: TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s FULL TIME

Send resume to m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

Hwy 2, Westside Gasoline Alley

FULL TIME PARTS PERSON

Wabasca Area 5 month term Camp Job Started mid-Aug, 2012 BIG Horn Electric and Controls Ltd.

Required Immediately Competitive plus renumeration

ELECTRICAL and INSTRUMENTATION JOURNEYMAN and APPRENTICES Required Safety Certificates: H2S Alive / First Aid PST / Fall Protection.

Successful candidates will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Oilfield experience is an asset.

Qualified applicants are invited to fax or email their resumes: Fax: 403-638-3688 Email: careers@bighornelectric.com

Join our growing company as we have recently expanded and are currently hiring experienced

Service Technicians and

Parts People

Great Benefits Team Atmosphere Please send resume to:

daveturnbull@ garymoe.com Gary Moe Volkswagen

SERVICE ADVISOR

Excellent benefits and wages based upon experience.

Required Immediately

Please respond by email to the following: Parts Department smaxon@peterbiltreddeer.com 273847L1

Service Department rbergen@peterbiltreddeer.com

REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY

Journeyman Technician

Truckers/ Drivers

CLASS 1 driver with oilfield experience, local runs.

403-373-3285 or fax resume and copies of all valid tickets to 403-986-2819 DRIVERS-LONG HAUL. $1500 Sign-on!

Join an industry leader!

US Runs, 5-14 days out.

Heyl Truck Lines 800-973-9161 www.heyl.net

273593K30

403.340.8420

www.southsidereddeer.com

860

Great Benefits We require a process driven person for this position.

F/T. Class 1 drivers to haul NGL butane Super B’s, must be over 25 yrs., EMAIL: dreaddriving@gmail.com Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

daveturnbull@ garymoe.com ACADEMIC Express Adult Education and Training

Winter 2013 •

Community Support Worker program GED classes evening and days

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Red Deer Advocate by 6:30 a.m.

Mon. through Fri. & 8:00. .am. on Saturday in LANCASTER AREA 77 papers $412/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA 72 papers $386/mo.

DEER PARK Dempsey St. area 79 papers $423/mo.

ALSO Davison Dr. area 101 papers $541/mo.

The

Rent Spot

Your Rental Key to Houses, Condos, Suites & More

CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-314-4397 TO ADVERTISE HERE

ALSO Clearview Ridge Timberlands area 59 papers $376/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

Misc.

Help 2 Bdrm. Apt. Lawford

MAIN FLOOR HEWSON AVE.

Balcony. No pets, 5 appl.

NOW $1295 incl UTIL.

3 bdrm. 2 bath, No pets.

NOW $1475 incl UTIL.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Sm. Pet. Deck, 5 appls.

NOW $1295 + UTIL.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Riverside Apts.

2 bdrm., balcony. 3 appl., No pets. Only $995 + Elect.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in DEER PARK Dempsey St. area $45/mo.

ALSO Duston St. Donnelly Crsc., area Densmore Crs. Dale Close $270/mo.

LANCASTER 1/2 of Lampard Crsc $65/mo.

ALSO Lenon Close, Lacey Close, Landry Bend area $76/mo.

ALSO Logan Close Lee St. & Lawrence Crsc. area $158/mo.

MICHENER West of 40th Ave. North of Ross St. area $245.00/mo.

Good for adult w/a small car .

$18.36/hr. + bonuses. Red Deer distribution company beginning 2nd. successful year of growth in the Red Deer area. We are currently seeking energetic individuals looking to get ahead. Positons include: Water quality advisers, customer service and general labor. P/T & F/T positions avail. Rapid advancement avail. Please call Sat. Mon. & Tues.

10-6 403-356-0330

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

GLENDALE Gunn St. & Goodacre Close

Baile Cl. /Boyce St. Beatty Crs./Barrett Dr. Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St INGLEWOOD AREA

Isbister Close Issard Close LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive Lindsay Ave. Lagrange Crsc SUNNYBROOK AREA Scott St./Somerset Close.

Sunnyside Crsc.

VANIER AREA

JOHNSTONE PARK Jacobs Close James, Johns St. & Jewell St.

ORIOLE PK WEST Oberg, Orchid, Oscar Cr & Overand Place RIVERSIDE MEADOWS 59 & 60 St. ********** Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in MOUNTVIEW 83 Advocate $435/mo. $5229/yr 1-1/2 hrs. per day

LOOKING for a dynamic individual with superior organizational skills to fill a position within a fast paced business environment. A person with Simply Accounting, Parts, Shipping & Receiving an asset. Fax resume to: 403-314-9011.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

CIRCULATION Service Runner (Part Time)

Do You: - Want extra income - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hours per week) As part of our customer service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to delivery newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle is provided.

Hours of shifts are Monday through Friday 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. or longer, and/or afternoon shifts Monday to Friday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m..

Saturday and Sunday, 7 a.m.-11 a.m. or longer Submit resume, indicating “Service Runner Position”, along with your drivers abstract immediately to: careers@ reddeeradvocate.com or mail to: Human Resources 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB. T4N 5G3 or fax to: 403-341-4772 We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted.

ALSO

Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317 DISPATCHER req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Good communication, skills both verbal and written. Must have effective time management skills and able to multi task in a fast paced environment.

Experience preferred, but will train suitable applicant.

Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

REMINDER

Special Antique Auction

Sat. Dec. 1 @ 11 am Bay 4, 7429 49 Ave. Red Deer.

PREVIEW 9 am Sale Day Snack Bar Open Collection Ron & the Last Clara Dancer of Calgary Furniture, over 40 telephones, 80 lamps, collectable’s!

Catalogue on the web www.budhaynesauctions.com Ph: 403-347-5855 Eves. 403-343-2929

F/T Cashier/Postal Clerk.

Apply in person w/resume: Highland Green Value Drug Mart.

GREENHOUSE Workers wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold 14 F/T seasonal positions.

Training provided. Start Feb. 2013. $9.75/ hr, 44 hrs./ 5 days per week, 4 month period. Fax resume 403-886-2252

1580

3 PIECE wooden kitchen playset, fridge, stove and sink, $45; an exc. Christmas gift for your child, call 403-347-7489 BOB the Builder sleeping bag and pillow, like new, $20, 403-314-9603

Clothing

1590

C H O C O L AT E b r o w n P/T GRAVEYARD shift suede coat, w/hood, womPerson req’d. immed. Must e n ’ s s i z e M , $ 4 0 , be 18 yrs. old. Please ap- 403-314-9603 ply in person with resume to Express 24 EASTVIEW. Event 140 Erickson Drive RETAIL STORE SUPERVISOR C-store Gas Cwash Apply ABA Investments Inc oa Heritage Esso,FT $14.38/ hr Supervise, train staff, prep schedule, sales reports, merchandising, inventory mgt, HS grad, computer literate, 2 yrs exp. Mail Resume 6020 67St Red Deer, AB T4R2K4.

SUBWAY All Red Deer Locations Hiring Immediately

Food Counter Attendants Are you looking for a career opportunity with excellent benefits, a mature working environment and opportunity to advance? If so, Subway has a position for you!

Please apply online @ mysubwaycareer.com or Drop resume off in person at 180, 6900 Taylor Drive Or email to careers@rdsubway.com or Call us at 403-342-0203

Employment Training

900

OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

offers a variety of

SAFETY COURSES to meet your needs.

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis.

As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses.

For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500.

You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

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

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

920

Career Planning

RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

wegot

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

Tickets

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

1610

PAUL MCCARTNEY in Edmonton Nov 28 & 29.

Dinner, bus and concert packages start at $99.

780-489-7669 or 1-877-678-8282.

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

Farmers' Market

1650

BROWN EGGS AND LAMB now has free range pork : gourmet hams and sausage. Phone 403-782-4095

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD 347-7211 bluegrassnursery.com FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

Health & Beauty

1700

*NEW!* Asian Relaxation Massage Downtown RD 587-377-1298 Open Mon.Fri. daily 11am - 6 pm.

Household Appliances

1710

1 8 C U . F T. , K e n m o r e fridge, glass shelves, fully loaded, like new, $200, 403-307-4223 after 6 p.m.

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 STOVE, black, Frigidaire, self clean oven $200 403-342-6945

Household Furnishings

for all Albertans

F/T Assistant Manager req’d for busy convenience store. Please apply in person with resume to Express 24 EASTVIEW. 140 Erickson Drive

1530

BUD HAYNES & CO. AUCTIONEERS

Children's Items

FREE

SOUTH HILL 83 Advocate $435/mo. $5229/YR. 1 Hr. per day.

Auctions

BOWER AREA

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

ADULT & Youth Carrier Needed For Delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in

880

Misc.

Help

Adams Close/ Adair Ave.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Please send resume to:

BUSY CENTRAL AB company req’s exp’d. Class • 1 drivers to pull decks.

Assigned truck, exc. wages and benefits pkg. Paid 403-340-1930 extras. Family orientated. www.academicexpress.ca Resume and abstract fax to 403-784-2330 or call 1-877-787-2501 Mon,. - Fri,. 8 a m to 6 pm

We Offer: • Possibility for advancement.

• Ongoing professional training.

• Competitive remuneration.

• Excellent medical and dental benefits.

Fax resume in confidence to:

2804 Gaetz Ave., Red Deer

Competitive plus renumeration

WANTED: Autobody Technician - Journeyman preferred, 2nd or 3rd yr. apprentices will be considered. Successful applicant must have team mentality.

Come join our team at Red Deer Collision Centres ~ CSN. Competitive wages and health plan. Submit resumes to scott@ reddeercollision.com or fax to 403-346-1067 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Successful candidate must be: • Customer service oriented.

• Energetic and physically fit.

Kirsch Close 2 Bdrm. Townhouse

880 Gary Moe Volkswagen

APPRENTICE MECHANIC

273865K26-L1

This is a full-time permanent shop position with competitive starting Wages and benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

Please Fax resume to 403-227-7796, or Email to hr@bilton.ca

870

INCOME OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE!!

Interested candidates may submit a resume to: reddeerhr@evrazincna.com

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN

880

Career Opportunity

Salary will be commensurate with education & experience.

Extensive experience with the maintenance and repair of the electrical systems in buildings and general shop equipment is an asset.

880

Misc.

Help

217865

850

Misc.

Help

1720

2 SETS OF IKEA nesting tables, $40 per set or $70/pair.

Call 403-346-1735 3 PC Wall Unit w/9 shelves & centre cubical w/door.

Nice for pictures, books, etc. $60. 403-314-2026

BED ALL NEW,

Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr.

Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325.

302-0582 Free Delivery BED: #1 King. extra thick orthopedic pillowtop, brand new, never used. 15 yr. warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice @ $545. 403-302-0582.

CHINA Cabinet, Teak, glass top, 3 doors, 9 glass shelves, bottom has 4 drawers & 2 doors. Exc. cond. at least 50 yrs. old.

Best Offer. 403-340-2046 KITCHEN table (white) 4 chairs, EXC. COND. $200 403-886-4309 LARGE chesterfield and chair, forest green, good cond. $100 403-346-4049 LIGHT oak color desk w/hutch, matching filing cabinet, and Canon scanner, $200/all, 403-341-3698 403-505-5326 LOVESEAT dark brown, 100% italian leather, have r c p t . $ 1 2 0 0 , l i k e n e w, $600 obo, 403-986-6659.

SWIVEL, rocking occasional chair, very good cond, $95 403-343-3013

WANTED

880

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 Wooden Wall Unit w/6 cubicles. Ideal for TV, radio, speakers, etc. $60.

403-314-2026

Misc. for Sale

is expanding its facility to double production.

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

- Concrete Finishers - Carpenters/Woodworkers Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

272825K19-L30

Trades

Truckers/ Drivers

1760

20 METAL sheet pans and rack with cover for baking products $100.00 call 403-728-3485 21” SNOWTHROWER, 3 HP, $200. 403-348-7619 3 SOUP TO GO VENDING MACHINES, $30, 403-347-7489 BOX of Christmas decorations incl. 2’ pre-lit tree, $20, 403-314-9603 BUFFALO HEAD, BEADED, $195.00 403-347-7405 SQUARE D 50 amp multi breaker complete, $50m BL load crentre 100 amp w/12 15 amp and 2 40 amp breakes, $100, 403-728-3375 GE 1/2 H.P. 110 220 MOTOR $100, 403-728-3375 GE 1/2 H.P. 110 220 MOTOR $100, 403-728-3375

E4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Nov. 30, 2012 Misc. for Sale

1760

Galvanized garbage can, $12. Post maul, 8 lb. $12.

Post hole auger, 6” $30.

Metal wheel barrow, 6 cu.ft. $50. Metal ice fishing pick, $35. Metal cat trap w/handle, $20. 2 yellow tow ropes, 10’ long $12/ea.

1/ 4” tow cable, $12.

Scoop shovel, aluminum, $12. 403-314-2026 NEW tempered glass fish tank and stand $75; brass 5 pce. fireplace set, $50, also grate $20, 403-728-3375

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

3060

Suites

HIGHLAND GREEN

LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

Avail Feb 1, 3 bdrm, 2 bath townhouse, 4 appl, $1050 + util, $1000 SD, Riverside Apts. small pet ok w/fee, N/S, PM 544 88, 5935 2 bdrm., balcony. 3 appl., No pets. Only $995 + Elect.

63 St - Sim Mgmt & Realty 4 0 3 - 3 4 0 - 0 0 6 5 e x t 4 1 2 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 www.simproperties.ca SYLVAN LAKE 2 bdrm. bsmt. suite, private enKITSON CLOSE trance, shared laundry, newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 avail. Jan. 1, $700/mo., sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, $700 s.d., ref’s req’d., blinds, lg. balcony, fenced 403-224-3819 in rear, front/rear parking, Wanted Tenant no dogs, rent $1395 Large 1 bdrm. adult suite.

SD $1000. n/s Avail.

Heat/water/parking incl’d.

Dec. 1 403-304-7576 / 347-7545 Call 403-342-2899

Trucks

wegot

homes

5050

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Houses For Sale

4020

2008 FORD F-350 LARIAT 4x4, turbo diesel, htd. lthr., sunroof, nav., $35,888, 348-8788 Sport & Import

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com Pets & FULL duplex, single title, 31 & 33 McIntosh Ave, Supplies Red Deer, 3 bdrm, 1 main WEST PARK Kyte/Kelloway Cres. bath and 3 appls. per unit, 2007 LINCOLN MARK LT 3 F. WEST Highland TerriDec. 1, 2 bdrm bsmt.

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Mayas hope for better Baktun as they mark end of calendar

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Mayan priests started off ceremonies aimed at marking the end of the current era in the Mayan long-count calendar Thursday, with dancing, incense and rituals designed to thank the gods.

The Mayas performed the “New Fire” ceremony at a park in Mexico City, but complained they have been barred by authorities from performing rituals at their ancestral temples in the Maya region.

The Mayas measure time in 394-year periods known as Baktuns. The 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, and 13 is considered a sacred number for the Maya.

The estimated 800,000 surviving Mayas in Mexico are hoping for a better new Baktun than the one now ending, which began around 1618. It included the painful aftermath of the Spanish conquest in which Mayas and other indigenous groups saw their temples and sacred writings systematically destroyed and their population decimated

by European diseases and forced labour.

“This is the ending of an era for the Maya, an era which has been very intense for us, in which we have had suffering and pain,” said Mayan priest Jose Manrique Esquivel, 52, who wore a feather headdress and body paint for the ceremony. For the new Baktun, he said, “we are praying the wars, the conflicts, the hunger to end.”

The Maya survived all of that suffering with their pride intact.

“We were not conquered, we are still here, we are alive and so is our culture our language, our food, our history,” Manrique Esquivel said.

The priest, who is in agreement with most archaeologists and astronomers, doesn’t believe the ancient Mayas predicted the world would end with the close of the current Baktun. Some bloggers and astronomy enthusiasts have suggested the Mayan calendar would “run out” on Dec. 21.

Despite the generally festive atmosphere at the ceremony, there was some discontent that the government won’t allow Mayan priests and healers to perform their ceremonies inside archaeological sites like Chichen Itza, Coban and Tulum that their ancestors built.

“We would like to do these ceremonies in the archaeological sites, but unfortunately they won’t let us enter,” Manrique Esquivel said. “It makes us angry, but that’s the way it is ... we perform our rituals in patios, in fields, in vacant lots, wherever we can.”

Francisco de Anda, the press director for the government’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, which oversees archaeological sites in Mexico, said there were two reasons for the ban on ceremonies. “In part it is for visitor safety, and also for preservation of the sites, especially on dates when there are massive numbers of visitors.”

For example, he noted, at the spring equinox in 2011, about 35,000 people visited Chichen Itza on a single day.

Throngs of that size create potential hazards on stairways and in other steep or narrow spots, and holding ceremonies with fire or incense might add to that, he said.

“Many of the groups that want to hold ceremonies bring braziers and want to burn incense, and that simply isn’t allowed,” De Anda added.

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Former President George H.W. Bush hospitalized for bronchitis HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush was in a Houston hospital Thursday for continuing treatment of a lingering cough.

Bush, 88, has been in and out of the hospital recently for complications resulting from bronchitis, Methodist Hospital said in a brief statement.

The hospital and Bush’s spokesman in Houston, Jim McGrath, described Bush as in stable condition and said they expected the former president to be released by the weekend. He’s been under hospital care for nearly a week.

“If you asked him today, he would tell you he feels good enough to get out this afternoon,” McGrath said Thursday. “But the doctors have a different view. He’s 88, and they’re being extra careful, and understandably so.”

The former president’s illness was described as not life-threatening.

“This was never a serious or life-threatening situation,” said Dr. Amy Mynderse, an internal medicine specialist in charge of Bush’s care. “We simply wanted to prevent the progression of the disease into pneumonia, which is possible in any patient at this age.”

Bush was treated with antibiotics and steroids, she said in a statement issued by the hospital.

Strauss-Kahn, US hotel maid agree to settle her lawsuit claiming sex assault NEW YORK — Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her have reached an agreement to settle her lawsuit, likely ending a legal saga that forced the onetime French presidential contender’s resignation and opened a floodgate of accusations against him, a person familiar with the case said Thursday.

Details of the deal, which comes after prosecutors dropped related criminal charges last year, weren’t immediately known and likely will be veiled by a confidentiality agreement. That could prevent the two from speaking publicly about a May 2011 encounter that she called a brutally sudden attack and he termed a consensual “moral failing.”

Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn and the housekeeper, Nafissatou Diallo, made the as-yet-unsigned agreement within recent days, with Bronx Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon facilitating that and a separate agreement to end another lawsuit Diallo filed against the New York Post, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private agreement.

A court date is expected next week, though the day wasn’t set, the person said.

Strauss-Kahn lawyer William W. Taylor III declined to comment. Lawyers for the housekeeper didn’t immediately respond to phone and email messages.

Diallo, 33, and Strauss-Kahn, 63, crossed paths when she arrived to clean his luxury Manhattan hotel suite. She told police he chased her down, tried to yank down her pantyhose and forced her to perform oral sex.

The allegation seemed to let loose a spiral of accusations about the sexual conduct of Strauss-Kahn, a married diplomat and economist who had long been dubbed the “great seducer.” He now faces charges linking him to a suspected prostitution ring in his home country.

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Palestinians celebrate historic vote UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RECOGNIZES STATE OF PALESTINE; U.S., ISRAEL OBJECT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a victory decades in the making for the Palestinians after years of occupation and war. It was a sharp rebuke for Israel and the United States.

A Palestinian flag was quickly unfurled on the floor of the General Assembly, behind the Palestinian delegation, as the final vote was cast.

In an extraordinary lineup of international support, more than two-thirds of the world body’s 193 member states approved the resolution upgrading the Palestinians to a nonmember observer state. It passed 138-9, with 41 abstentions.

The historic vote came 65 years to the day after the UN General Assembly voted in 1947 to recognize a state in Palestine, with the jubilant revelers then Jews. The Palestinians rejected that partition plan, and decades of tension and violence have followed.

Real independence, however, remains an elusive dream until the Palestinians negotiate a peace deal with the Israelis, who warned that the General Assembly action will only delay a lasting solution. Israel still controls the West Bank, east Jerusalem and access to Gaza, and it accused the Palestinians of bypassing negotiations with the campaign to upgrade their UN status.

In the West Bank city of Ramallah, jubilant Palestinians crowded into the main square, waving Palestinian flags and chanting “God is great!” Hundreds had watched the vote on outdoor screens and televisions, and they hugged, honked their horns and set off fireworks as the final vote was cast.

The tally came after a speech by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in which he called the moment a “last chance” to save the two-state solution.

“The General Assembly is being asked today to issue the birth certificate of Palestine,” the Palestinian leader declared.

The United States and Israel immediately criticized the vote.

“Today’s unfortunate and counterproductive resolution places further obstacles in the path of peace,” UN Ambassador Susan Rice said. “Today’s grand pronouncements will soon fade and the Palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed save that the prospects of a durable peace have only receded.”

Calling the vote “meaningless,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Abbas of spreading “mendacious propaganda” against Israel in a speech he rejected as “defamatory and venomous.”

“The resolution in the UN today won’t change anything on the ground,” Netanyahu said. “It won’t advance the establishment of a Palestinian state, but rather, put it further off.”

With most UN members sympathetic to the Palestinians, there had been no doubt the resolution would be approved. A state of Palestine has already been recognized by 132 countries, and the Palestin-

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Palestinians celebrate as they watch a screen showing the UN General Assembly votes on a resolution to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority to a nonmember observer state, In the west bank city of Ramallah, Thursday. The UN General Assembly has voted by a more than two-thirds majority to recognize the state of Palestine. The resolution upgrading the Palestinians’ status to a nonmember observer state at the United Nations was approved by the 193-member world body late Thursday by a vote of 138-9 with 41 abstentions. ians have 80 embassies and 40 representative offices around the world, according to the Palestinian Foreign Ministry.

Still, the Palestinians lobbied hard for Western support, winning over key European countries including France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden and Ireland, as well as Japan and New Zealand.

Germany and Britain were among the many Western nations that abstained.

Joining the United States and Israel in voting “no” were Canada, the Czech Republic, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Panama.

Despite Thursday’s triumph, the Palestinians face enormous limitations. They don’t control their borders, airspace or trade, they have separate and competing governments in Gaza and the West Bank and they have no unified army or police.

The vote grants Abbas an overwhelming interna-

Tear gas, smoke bombs used to break up mine protest

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MYANMAR

MONYWA, Myanmar — Security forces used water cannons, tear gas and smoke bombs to clear protesters from a copper mine in northwestern Myanmar, wounding villagers and Buddhist monks in the biggest use of force against demonstrators since the reformist government of President Thein Sein took office last year.

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who arrived in the area hours later on a previously scheduled visit, said she would try to negotiate a solution.

In a statement broadcast on state television, the government initially acknowledged using the riotcontrol measures but denied using excessive force.

In an unusual move, it later retracted the statement without explanation.

Monks and other protesters had serious burns after the crackdown at the Letpadaung mine near the town of Monywa. Protesters who oppose the mine’s impact on villagers and the environment had occupied the area for 11 days.

“I didn’t expect to be treated like this, as we were peacefully protesting,” said Aung Myint Htway, a peanut farmer whose face and body were covered with black patches of burned skin.

The police action risks becoming a public rela-

tions and political fiasco for Thein Sein’s government, which has been touting its transition to democracy after almost five decades of repressive military rule.

“This is unacceptable,” said Ottama Thara, a 25-year-old monk who was at the protest. “This kind of violence should not happen under a government that says it is committed to democratic reforms.”

Police moved early Thursday to disperse protesters after some heeded earlier warnings to leave.

“Around 2:30 a.m. police announced they would give us five minutes to leave,” Aung Myint Htway said. He said police fired water cannons first and then shot what he and others called flare guns.

“They fired black balls that exploded into fire sparks. They shot about six times. People ran away and they followed us,” he said, still writhing hours later from pain. “It’s very hot.”

Photos of the wounded monks showed they had sustained serious burns on parts of their bodies. It was unclear what sort of weapon caused them, or whether the burns were caused by their shelters catching fire from whatever devices police used.

The government had defended its actions in a statement issued Thursday afternoon.

tional endorsement for his key position: establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, the territories captured

by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. With Netanyahu opposed to a pullback to the 1967 lines, this should strengthen Abbas’ hand if peace talks resume.

The UN action also could help Abbas restore some of his standing, which has been eroded by years of standstill in peace efforts. His rival, the Hamas militant group, deeply entrenched in Gaza, has seen its popularity rise after it responded with a barrage of rocket fire to an Israeli offensive earlier this month on targets linked to the militants.

In a departure from its previous opposition, Hamas, which rules Gaza and refuses to recognize Israel, said it wouldn’t interfere with the U.N. bid for statehood, and its supporters joined some of the celebrations Thursday.

African Union asks UN for quick action on Mali

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAKAR, Senegal — In an open letter Thursday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the president of the African Union urged the U.N. to take immediate military action in northern Mali, which was seized by al-Qaida-linked rebels earlier this year.

Yayi Boni, the president of Benin who is also head of the African Union, said any reticence on the part of the U.N. will be interpreted as a sign of weakness by the terrorists now operating in Mali. The AU is waiting for the U.N. to sign off on a military plan to take back the occupied territory, and the Security Council is expected to discuss it in coming days.

In a report to the Security Council late Wednesday, Ban said the AU plan “needs to be developed further” because fundamental questions on how the force will be led, trained and equipped. Ban acknowledged that with each day, al-Qaida-linked fighters were becoming further entrenched in northern Mali, but he cautioned that a botched military operation could result in human rights abuses.

The sprawling African nation of Mali, once an example of a stable democracy, fell apart in March following a coup by junior officers.

In the uncertainty that ensued, rebels including at least three groups with ties to al-Qaida, grabbed control of the nation’s distant north. The Islamists now control an area the size of France or Texas, an enormous triangle of land that includes borders with Mauritania, Algeria and Niger.

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*Spend $250 or more before applicable taxes at any Real Canadian Superstore location and receive a free PC® turkey. Excludes purchase of tobacco, alcohol products, prescriptions, gift cards, phone cards, lottery tickets, all third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners, etc.) and any other products which are provincially regulated. The retail value of $28.80 will be deducted from the total amount of your purchase before sales taxes are applied. Limit one coupon per family and/or customer account. No cash value. No copies. Coupon must be presented to the cashier at time of purchase. Valid from Friday, November 30th until closing Thursday, December 6th, 2012.

Cannot be combined with any other coupons or promotional offers.

No substitutions, refunds or exchanges on free item.

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President’s Choice Back a licensee of the marks. President’s Choice Financial MasterCard is provided by President’s Choice Bank. President’s Choice Financial banking services are provided by the direct banking division of CIBC. PC points loyalty program is provided by President’s Choice Services Inc. ©PC, President’s Choice, President’s Choice Financial and Fresh Financial Thinking are registered trademarks of Loblaws Inc. Trademarks use under licence.

Quantities and/or selection of items may be limited and may not be available in all stores. NO RAINCHECKS OR SUBSTITUTIONS on clearance items or where quantities are advertised as limited.

Advertised pricing and product selection (flavour, colour, patterns, style) may vary by store location. We reserve the right to limit quantities to reasonable family requirements. We are not obligated to sell items based on errors or misprints in typography or photography. Coupons must be presented and redeemed at time of purchase. Applicable taxes, deposits, or environmental surcharges are extra. No sales to retail outlets. Some items may have “plus deposit and environmental charge” where applicable. ®/ TM The trademarks, service marks and logos displayed in this newspaper ad are trademarks of Loblaws Inc. and others. All rights reserved. © 2012 Loblaws Inc. Customer Relations: 1-866-999-9890.

We Match Prices! *Look for the symbol in store. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITES (note that our major supermarket competitors may not). Due to the fact that product is ordered prior to the time of our Ad Match checks, quantities may be limited. We match select items in our major supermarket competitors’ flyers throughout the week. Major supermarket competitors are determined solely by us based on a number of factors which can vary by store location. We match identical items (defined as same brand, size, and attributes) and for fresh produce, meat and bakers, we match a comparable item (as determined solely by us).

Guaranteed Lowest Prices *Applies only to our major supermarket competitors’ print advertisements (i.e. flyer, newspaper).

We will match the competitor’s advertised price only during the effective date of the competitor’s print advertisement. Our major supermarket competitors are determined solely by us and are based on a number of factors which can change from time to time. Identical items are defined as same brand, item type (in the case of produce, meat and bakery), size and attributes and carried at this store location. We will not match competitors’ “multi-buys” (eg. 2 for $4), “spend x get x”, “Free”, “clearance”, discounts obtained through loyalty programs, or offers related to our third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners etc.). We reserve the right to cancel or change the terms of this promise at any time.