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An outpouring of generosity CHARITY CHECK STOP, STUFF A BUS CAMPAIGNS BRING IN TENS OF THOUSANDS IN CHRISTMAS DONATIONS

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Christmas charities saw a huge outpouring of generosity in Red Deer during the weekend — continuing with what appears to be a great season overall.

Organizations including Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Central Alberta Women’s Outreach, the Christmas Bureau and the Red Deer Food Bank rely heavily on their Christmas drives to help fill their bins and finance their activities.

The RCMP’s annual Charity Check Stop and the Stuff A Bus campaign,

both held at the beginning of December, are among the key fundraisers those groups use at the start of the Christmas season to raise their profiles and beef up their bank accounts.

Teresa Kutynec, in her first year as president of the Christmas Bureau, said the two drives brought in outstanding results, including a total of

$46,000 in cash from the Stuff a Bus and another $23,000 from the Charity Check Stop.

That is a significant increase from last year, when the Charity Check Stop pulled in between $17,000 and $18,000, said Kutynec.

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Sylvan Lake Mayor Susan Samson mugs with the Red Deer Rebels mascot Wolly Bully during the town’s first Yuletide Festival, a fundraiser for an urgent care centre the town is encouraging Alberta Health Services to build. Organizers were so pleased with the response, which saw about $10,000 raised, they are already planning to make the event an annual occasion. See story on Page C1.

Lawyers, judges join push for courthouse expansion in Red Deer Building code

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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Local MLAs from both sides of Alberta’s Legislature are being asked to join the push for a bigger courthouse in Red Deer.

Alberta Justice has a time-limited opportunity for a land swap that would create an ideal location for a bigger courthouse while creating new office space for city staff, says Brent Handel, president of the Central Alberta Bar Association.

Red Deer’s courthouse, built in 1982, needs twice the courtrooms and twice the administrative space now available, Handel said in a recent interview with the Advocate.

Thirty years after it was first built, the courthouse serves a city whose population has more than doubled while a number of district courts have been closed and their case loads moved to Red Deer.

They include courtrooms in Lacombe, Innisfail and Sylvan Lake.

Handel’s group, representing

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THIRTY YEARS AFTER IT WAS FIRST BUILT, THE COURTHOUSE SERVES A CITY WHOSE POPULATION HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED WHILE A NUMBER OF DISTRICT COURTS HAVE BEEN CLOSED AND THEIR CASE LOADS MOVED TO RED DEER. 162 lawyers and judges working in the Red Deer judicial district, is working with Red Deer Mayor Morris Flewwelling and retired Justice Jim Foster to arrange a trade which would provide the former RCMP property for a new courthouse and convert the existing building into office space for the city.

An appropriate exchange of cash would make up for any difference in market value between the two properties.

But Handel’s most recent reply from Justice Minister Johnathan Denis continues little encouragement, stating that there are similar needs in other jurisdictions.

Handel is worried that the opportunity will close before the

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government takes action, leaving citizens in the district with the most backlogged court system in Canada — a situation that he finds difficult to fathom in the country’s richest province.

“The City can’t wait forever.

They have to make some decisions,” said Handel.

He, Flewwelling and Foster hope to gain ground in a meeting with MLAs from throughout the judicial district, set for Dec. 14.

Flewwelling said the meeting will have some interesting dynamics, because it will be the first time in more than 40 years that the region has had a mix of MLAs from both the government and the opposition.

EDMONTON — A federal commission has rejected proposals to change Canada’s national construction codes to better protect communities from destructive wildfires.

The changes would have required builders in areas prone to forest fires to use less flammable building materials, to space buildings farther apart and to keep them clear of trees and vegetation.

“There was no consensus to go forward and put this in the codes.

“The majority of the provinces said, ‘No, you can’t put this in the building codes because we couldn’t enforce it,”’ Philip Rizcallah, acting manager of the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes, said from Ottawa.

“They felt it would be very difficult to go in there and mandate or dictate the type of siding somebody put on their house or the type of tree or shrub that they planted next to their house. They said it would be an absolute nightmare.”

The proposal for changes came from the National Fire Protection Association and an Alberta-based non-profit group called Partners in Protection.

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Marois believes she was target Photo by BRENDA KOSSOWAN/Advocate staff

Volunteer Linda Washuk chats with donor Rick Hutchins at the Red Deer City RCMP Charity Check Stop. The annual event raised about $23,000 for local charities on Saturday.

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CHARITY: ‘Awesome’ drive’ One of the Check Stop volunteer’s eyes danced with delight as she reported getting a number of $100 bills in her bucket.

Whether the cold weather brought out the warmth in people’s hearts or whether they simply felt sorry for the volunteers lined up along Taylor Drive, the outpouring was “awesome,” said Kutynec.

Volunteers were able to take breaks in a mobile unit provided by the Red Deer City RCMP, downing hot drinks and munching on doughnuts while a team of Mounties tallied the cash.

Money and gifts from the Charity Check Stop are split between the four participating charities while the Food Bank and Christmas Bureau share proceeds from the Stuff A Bus program, run at the Parkland Mall.

At the end of the day, however, all of the donations are distributed in a way that ensures a fair share for everyone, said Darcy Ouellet, executive director of the Women’s Outreach.

Sgt. Bob Bell, one of the Mounties at the Red Deer Charity Check Stop site on Saturday, expressed amazement at the way the program has grown.

Bell said the program was first started a number of years ago in Innisfail by a member who was later transferred to Red Deer and brought the idea along.

It has spread since then, with similar drives held in outside areas including Sylvan Lake.

MADD Canada volunteers who helped at the Red Deer site said it was their way to help the organization’s continuing effort to put an end to impaired driving.

Among them were the family of Colton Keeler, one of two Red Deer teenagers killed late in March after being struck from behind by a drunk driver.

Keeler was killed at the scene while his friend, Tyson Vanderzwaag, died in hospital a few days later.

Colton’s parents, Darren and Brandee and his brothers, Gordon and Chandler all took their turns at the side of the road on Saturday, braving the icy cold to collect cash for their cause.

For the Keeler family, it was a labour of love, said Darren. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

WILDFIRES: $1-billion fire damage at Slave Lake The proposals were submitted to the commission before wildfires in May 2011 destroyed hundreds of homes in Slave Lake and forced thousands of people to flee. The disaster cost more than $1 billion in damage, firefighting and relief costs.

The commission’s members, appointed by the Na-

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tional Research Council, update national building codes every five years. The next round of changes are to go into effect in 2015. The deadline for submissions was Nov. 16.

Rizcallah said the proposed changes fell outside the commission’s mandate. He said national codes are meant to prevent a fire on one person’s property from damaging another person’s property, not to protect property from wildfires.

“We feel that there are other mechanisms that could address this — zoning bylaws in place at the municipal level,” he said.

But Sean Tracey, former Canadian regional director of the National Fire Protection Agency, said leaving such decisions to communities isn’t a viable solution.

Some provinces, such as Alberta, Ontario and British Columbia, don’t allow municipalities to make and enforce their own building regulations, he said.

They base their building rules on the national codes.

The end result is a Catch-22 in which municipalities in wildfire-prone areas in some provinces can’t bring in tougher rules for builders.

“Should we not have higher building standards to prevent places like Slave Lake from occurring?”

Tracey asked.

“Have we learned anything from these incidents, and to be frank, has there been any public policy changes as a result of that?

“No.” The agency told the commission that requiring simple design changes could make the difference between a home or building surviving a wildfire or being destroyed.

Alberta says its policy is all about ensuring that there is one set of rules for builders and communities across the province. The standards are no different for homes built in downtown Calgary or in a community in the middle of a forest.

Heather Kaszuba, a spokeswoman for Alberta Municipal Affairs, said individuals who want to build in wildfire-prone areas are free to use less flammable materials and keep their buildings away from trees, but the decisions are up to them.

“This is about providing a level playing field, not only for the municipalities, but also for trades, the building industry and the manufacturing industry in Alberta,” she said. “It is about ensuring uniformity in Alberta.”

Partners in Protection said in its submission to the federal commission that there is an urgent need for better design standards for buildings in forested areas.

The group said wildfires are a serious growing threat to communities and noted, among other disasters, the fires near Kelowna, B.C., in 2003 that destroyed 334 homes, temporarily displaced more than 50,000 people and caused $700 million in damage.

Partners warned that more people living in forested and rural areas, climate change, an increase in severe weather and increasing amounts of combustible brush and old forest mean more wildfire losses in the future.

“For all of these reasons, the importance of supportive building codes is mounting.”

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SAYS ELECTION NIGHT SHOOTING WAS AN ATTEMPTED POLITICAL ASSASSINATION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Quebec’s premier says she believes a gunman was trying to kill her on the night she was elected.

Pauline Marois told a television talk show that she initially didn’t realize what was happening in the chaos of the Sept. 4 shooting outside the Parti Quebecois victory rally.

She said it was only after she got home at the end of the night, while talking to her family, that she realized the shooter might have been aiming for her.

She said she now believes she was the target of a political assassination attempt.

“I believe it was an assassination attempt,” she Pauline Marois said, using the French word, “attentat,” during an appearance on the Radio-Canada talk show Tout le monde en parle.

“I believe there was a political element to it.”

She referred to TV images of the suspected shooter, Richard Henry Bain, who shouted, “The English are waking up,” as he was arrested.

He is accused of shooting two people, and killing sound technician Denis Blanchette.

The shootings took place in back of the building, behind the stage where Marois was delivering her victory speech. A fire was also set outside the building.

Marois said on the talk show, which aired Sunday, that she left the stage, but came back because she wanted to calm the crowd.

She said she was afraid the crowd might panic, causing a stampede.

Marois had been whisked away by her security guards. She said the guards “weren’t very happy” with her decision to return to the stage to finish her speech.

She said that, at the event, she thought the shooter might have been randomly targeting people at the event.

Marois explained that she later realized she might have been the intended target.

The Radio-Canada segment featured a wide-ranging discussion that touched on energy policy, tax hikes, and language.

In response to a question from the moderator, who asked whether Marois’ support for striking students earlier this year cost her a majority government she said, “Maybe.”

But she said she was being responsible by listening to the students and criticized the previous Liberal government for letting the social crisis fester.

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COURT: Criminal cases not only items backlogged He hopes that MLAs from throughout the judicial district, including the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two government MLAs and the five Wildrose Party MLAs from the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rural ridings, will be able to rise above their political differences and support a plan that can be of broad benefit to their constituents.

Handel urges all voters within the region to contact the Justice Minister and their own MLAs to help encourage them to move forward with courthouse expansion in Red Deer.

People accused of crimes are not the only victims of a backlogged court system, said Flewwelling.

In Red Deer especially, where the divorce rate is among the highest in Canada, children suffer the im-

pact when custody battles are drawn out because of backlogs at the courthouse, he said.

Even simple procedures take longer in Red Deer, said Handel.

The time it takes to probate a will in Red Deer is three to four months, compared with three to four weeks in Calgary or Edmonton, he said.

Victims of crime also suffer needlessly because it takes so long to bring the people who have hurt them to trial, said Handel.

While acknowledging that building a new courthouse will take some time, Handel and Flewwelling both expressed their hope that the province will at least make a land deal while the opportunity is still available.

The existing courthouse was designed so additional floors could be added over time, he said. However, budget cuts at the time of construction meant that the heavier footings required to hold additional floors were not installed, so the building cannot be enlarged as planned.

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She also helped found the Blackfalds and Area Historical Society and established the archives where local history is collected, preserved and made available to the public.

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Managing Alberta’s finances A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT GOVERNMENT CAN AND CANNOT DO PROTECTS AGAINST FALSE EXPECTATIONS

BY BOB ASCAH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE As the province engages its citizens about Alberta’s fiscal future, it is important to reflect upon what the provincial government can and cannot do to manage its finances.

A clear understanding of what our elected politicians can actually accomplish to positively advance economic and social well-being, and what is largely beyond their control, can protect against false expectations of government performance. Sometimes what politicians claim to be their handiwork is actually the “invisible hand” of oil markets or other external factors.

The following are outside provincial control.

Commodity prices: First and foremost, Alberta is an open, market-based economy. This means that the Alberta government has absolutely no influence on the price of oil, natural gas or bitumen. Since anywhere from 15 to 50 per cent of provincial revenue comes

directly from land rights sales and royalties, oil and gas prices matter. If one considers the indirect impact of oil and gas prices on investment and employment, the government’s revenue dependency is even greater. This is why experts have called on the Alberta government to treat resource revenue differently than other revenue. For each dollar rise or fall in the oil price, the government’s revenue is impacted by $223 million.

Exchange rate: The provincial government is not able to influence the exchange rate. The U.S.-Canada exchange rate is an important factor since Alberta’s commodities are priced in U.S. dollars. A lower Canadian dollar means higher revenues in Canadian dollars and vice versa. A change of one cent in the exchange rate over a year has a net impact of $247 million.

Interest rates: While the Alberta government’s debt is modest, higher interest rates still affect the government by depressing the price of bonds it holds as investments.

Stock market returns are also outside the province’s control. The return on many investments in the Heritage Fund and other government funds depend on stock market returns. A decline of one per cent in stock markets can mean as much as $74 million less in investment income according to figures in the 2010 budget. Unfortunately, sensitivities to equity markets have not

been published since 2010.

So what levers can the province’s cabinet and Treasury Board wield to address its fiscal challenges?

First of all, the province has wide taxation powers. These powers include setting rates and exemption levels on personal taxes and corporate income taxes.

The province may introduce special levies on gasoline or charge healthcare premiums. A provincial sales tax, long seen as kiss of death for provincial politicians, is another potential revenue source. There are also many other sources of funds, including penalties, user fees, liquor mark-ups and tobacco taxes.

A second, equally powerful set of tools is the power of the public purse.

Safe with a legislative majority, Premier Alison Redford government has a wide range of choices to re-assess programs it offers.

There are two main spending buckets: the operating budget and the capital budget.

Operating budgets are affected by several factors within the control of the government. Programs can be shut down or made less rich. Salaries and employment in the public sector workers can also be modified through the collective bargaining process. However, this process is time-consuming and withdrawal of public services via strikes or walkouts make salary freezes

or cuts difficult to implement without co-operation from labour groups and general support of the public.

Capital budgets help build physical assets such as roads, hospitals, schools and universities. New buildings tend to be very popular — fixing up buildings is less so since repairs are less visible.

However, commitments of hundreds of millions of dollars in new facilities also imply the payment of tens of millions of dollars a year for decades to operate and maintain these facilities.

Failure to adequately maintain and repair this infrastructure will result in greater expenditures down the road.

Two other tools possessed by the provincial government relate to the resource bounty owned by the government on behalf of Albertans. Firstly, the province establishes royalty rates, but royalty rates vary by price. Secondly through regulation, the government may control the pace of energy development, if it so chooses.

Albertans love the high quality of many government programs but they resist taxes to sustain these programs.

As the Treasury Board works through the consultations, it is useful to remember what is controllable and what is not when holding elected officials accountable.

Bob Ascah is director of the Institute for Public Economics at the University of Alberta. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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A major grassroots victory “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.” These words, attributed to anthropologist Margaret Mead, capture the power that we, as citizens, have to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to protect the environment.

It just happened in Ontario, where Highland Companies announced it was withdrawing its plan to build a massive open-pit limestone quarry in the rural countryside north of Toronto. The controversial proposal to blast a billion tonnes of limestone from beneath some of the finest farmland in North America initially drew the ire of a handful of local farmers and residents DAVID who faced overwhelming odds SUZUKI to stop it.

Rules governing aggregate mining in the province are weak, provide little protection against large projects and too often sacrifice prime agricultural land and nature to industry. And it’s easy to understand why cash-strapped, rural-based municipalities would be tempted to accept industrial projects, with their promise of local employment and an improved tax base.

Making the battle against the quarry more challenging was the fact that Highland was backed by a Boston hedge fund, the Baupost Group, with assets of more than $25 billion. It was also represented by Hill and Knowlton, the high-priced PR firm that infamously worked with Big Tobacco to convince smok-

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ers that cigarettes don’t cause cancer.

Citizens rallied, though, and showed that the real issue was the protection of local food lands and drinking water, things of importance well beyond the borders of their community. Opponents of the megaquarry reached out to people who may not have considered how they would be affected if a company succeeded in destroying thousands of acres of fertile fields close to a large urban centre like Toronto.

Groups like the North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Taskforce successfully brought the battle to the city, through tireless outreach at events like farmers markets. Thousands of Stop the Mega Quarry signs sprouted in yards in towns and cities across southern Ontario.

In 2011, renowned chef Michael Stadtlander, from the nearby community of Singhampton, produced Foodstock with the Canadian Chefs Congress and local farmers. The protest event drew 28,000 people to a farm field a few hundred metres from where the quarry would be built.

This October, that celebration of local food and protest was replicated in Toronto, when the David Suzuki Foundation (which had earlier provided scientific research and submissions for the regulatory process) and the Canadian Chefs’ Congress hosted Soupstock. More than 200 top chefs from Canada and the U.S. prepared gourmet soup from donated local ingredients for more than 40,000 supporters. They sent a strong message to the company that urbanites stand in solidarity with the farmers of Melancthon to oppose the mega-quarry.

Soupstock showed the movement was gaining momentum, but no one predicted that Highland would raise the white flag a month later.

People power won!

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And it wasn’t the first time it’s happened in Canada.

In 1984, I heard about a controversial plan to log the pristine Stein Valley, the last untouched watershed in the southern Coast Mountains, northeast of Vancouver. The battle to protect the Stein began with a small group of conservationists and scientists but soon grew to include tens of thousands. In 1988, the B.C. government placed a moratorium on logging.

A few years later the area was protected through the creation of the 1,060-square-km Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux Heritage Park.

Similar grassroots victories have helped stop logging on Haida Gwaii, prevented giant dams from being built in northern Quebec and halted highway projects that, if established, would have wiped out historical neighbourhoods in downtown Toronto and Vancouver.

Canada’s political and corporate leaders should take note. Controversial megaprojects like the Northern Gateway Pipeline are being met with increasing criticism and public opposition.

Although we’ll celebrate this victory over the mega-quarry, the Ontario government must also seize this call to overhaul its policies for aggregate mining that allowed the proposal to be considered in the first place. No community should have to fight so hard to ensure that prime farmland and valuable nature aren’t sacrificed to the interests of big business.

But for now, we can savour success. Together, tens of thousands of people accomplished something that only months ago seemed impossible: stopping the mega-quarry.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Jode Roberts. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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An Ottawa firefighter carries wreaths to place at headstones of fallen soldiers during a Wreaths Across Canada ceremony at Beechwood Military Cemetery in Ottawa, Sunday. The commemorative ceremony has chosen to place a wreath on the headstone of every veteran buried in the National Military Cemetery, the first Sunday of every December at 1:30, Beechwood Cemetary, Ottawa.

Witness program modernization includes allowing gang members THE CANADIAN PRESS

ment has been working for years on revamping the witness protection regime following recommendations from a Commons committee, an inquiry into the 1985 Air India bombing and extensive consultations with the provinces.

Several provinces have their own witness protection programs, but often they provide only short-term assistance. In addition, obtaining new federal identity documents for protectees requires co-operation with the Mounties.

The RCMP paper says whether the provinces opt for their own programs or not, the Mounties must ensure its witness protection services are “better able to respond to current challenges” such as street and youth gang violence.

As a result, the Mounties propose the admission criteria for the federal program be expanded to accommodate

“a broader spectrum of eligible witnesses,” says the paper.

“While this is a shift from our current practice, it is based on sound principles,” says the document.

“This position also demonstrates our willingness to assist our municipal police colleagues who are struggling with ever increasing violence within their communities.”

A review of best practices and consultations with other countries revealed that the use of psychologists would “greatly assist” in determining whether someone was suitable for protection and possible relocation, says the blueprint.

“The creation of a protocol to evaluate the psycho-social personality traits of the protectees is considered an essential element in the admission process.”

It would help the RCMP predict future crimi-

nal or anti-social behaviour and evaluate the capacity of the person and their family members to adapt to the witness program, says the paper.

The RCMP paper says officials rejected the idea of combining the various witness programs across the country under one umbrella.

“There was a concern that such a model would encroach on the provincial responsibility for the administration of justice.”

There would also be a component of the federal program dedicated to “providing an optimum level of service to our provincial partners,” says the paper.

The Conservative government hasn’t yet come forward with changes to the legislation that governs the witness program.

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OTTAWA — Youth gang members — not just mobsters, bikers and other traditional protectees — should be allowed into the federal witness protection program as part of a sweeping modernization, says the RCMP. The Mounties are also embracing intensive psychological examination of potential protectees, a national support centre for the secretive program, and an external advisory board to serve as a watchdog.

The changes are spelled out in a detailed RCMP blueprint for reforming witness protection with assistance from the federal Public Safety Department and the provinces.

Although the paper was completed in May 2010, it was released only now to The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. RCMP spokeswoman Laurence Trottier — while providing few details — confirmed that at least some changes have already been introduced.

She added that the witness protection program “continues to rapidly evolve.”

The program, administered by the Mounties, provides measures ranging from short-term protection to permanent relocation and identity changes. The RCMP spent more than $9 million on the program in 2011-12.

Revelations five years ago that a protectee committed murder while in the program triggered a review and discussion that continues to this day.

The federal govern-

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HALIFAX — The age-old idea of merging the three Maritime provinces has been resurrected despite an overwhelming lack of political will from an array of government levels.

A trio of Conservative senators — John Wallace of New Brunswick, Mike Duffy of Prince Edward Island and Stephen Greene of Nova Scotia — are making a plea to consolidate the Maritime provinces, an idea that has intermittently reappeared over the past century.

But several political figures — including Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter and Robert Ghiz of P.E.I. — have denounced the idea in recent days, saying the provinces are already working co-operatively.

Donald Savoie, Canada research chair in public administration at the University of Moncton, said the fiscal challenges facing the Maritime provinces and an aging population are what have brought the idea to the floor once again.

He said the three provinces are all stomaching immense financial pressures and the concept of the Maritime Union “is in fashion.”

“Whenever there’s an external force that threatens us in the Maritimes, we tend to talk about the Maritime Union,” said Savoie, noting that he has supported the idea for years.

Calls for a Maritime Union date back more than 100 years, when the three provinces — then the Maritime colonies — were slated to meet at the Charlottetown Conference to discuss a union. But the plan was expanded after what is now Ontario and Quebec joined the meeting.

The idea was also studied in the mid-1960s, when a commission report recommended a Maritime Union over time.

Savoie said the topic also came up in the late 1970s, when talks of Quebec leaving Canada sparked discussion about what would happen to the Maritime provinces.

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Reserve declares fuel, housing emergency

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A year after the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat jarred the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conscience with its deplorable housing conditions, the reserve next door has only narrowly averted a similar crisis.

Kashechewan First Nation declared a state of emergency last week because it was running out of fuel and because 21 houses were not fit to face winter.

The federal government stepped in with help, just in the nick of time.

But fuel shortages are becoming more common among remote northern Ontario communities right now, said Alvin Fiddler, deputy grand chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, a regional advocacy network.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because the ice road used to truck in a yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supply of diesel last winter did not last as long Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS as usual.

A snowy owl rests on a dead tree on the shore of Boundary Bay in Delta, B.C., on Saturday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody is running out now. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at a two-month gapâ&#x20AC;? until this winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ice road is solid enough to truck in fresh supplies, Fiddler said in an interview.

In Kashechewan, extra fuel supplies were supposed to come in by barge, but bad weather and demands from other communities meant the Cree community near James Bay didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t receive enough.

Kashechewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief and council were poised late last month to shut down the band office, two schools, residential services for Interior â&#x20AC;&#x153;lying in his own excrement.â&#x20AC;? the power generation centre, the health clinic and

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS He was unresponsive and sufHealth said in a statement. the fire hall because the buildings were not heated â&#x20AC;&#x153;However, in light of recent fering â&#x20AC;&#x153;a serious infection on one and could no longer operate safely.

The Interior health authority â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are without fuel to operate our organizations, has deployed an official to over- concerns brought to us, we believe sideâ&#x20AC;? from having been lying in heat them, and we are obligated to maintain employ- see operations at a private se- additional steps are required and his bed for so long, Inglis said.

He said Bonaldi was rushed ee safety and health standards for our employees,â&#x20AC;? niors home in Summerland where we want to assure residents living the Cree communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief, Derek Stephen, said in a 91-year-old man lay gravely ill at Summerland Seniors Village to Penticton General Hospital, a Nov. 23 declaration of emergency obtained by The and alone in his bed for days be- and their loved ones that we are where he was treated for a kidney Canadian Press. ailment and possibly salmonella. fore he was discovered by a family taking these concerns seriously.â&#x20AC;?

Plus, 21 homes had also become uninhabitable, he member.

Officials have said an investigaAlfredo Bonaldi was absent for said in a second declaration.

Interior Health announced that lunch and dinner at the communal tion was already under way due to The basements of the homes had been flooded last a clinical consultant was placed at cafeteria for at least three days, other concerns raised about the spring and their electric furnaces destroyed.

Summerland Seniors Village this and nobody bothered to check on privately owned facility.

Now, with the onset of winter, families were freezThe Bonaldi children said weekend, and will remain there to him. His son-in-law, Gil Inglis, told ing. work with management and staff the Penticton Herald earlier that there was an investigation only a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Due to lack of proper heating for homes for famiwhen Bonaldi didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t answer tele- few months ago after her mother, to improve care. lies that have elderly, disabled and small children, â&#x20AC;&#x153;An overall review of the resi- phone calls for several days, the a dementia patient, fell and broke we are left with no choice but to declare a state of her femur in an incident in the dential care section of the facil- family became concerned. emergency,â&#x20AC;? the chief stated.

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According to the declarations, the Cree community had asked Ottawa for help beforehand, but to no avail. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During a conference call with (Aboriginal Affairs) we had requested fuel to be flown into the community for our medical facility, administrative buildings and our schools â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all of which were denied, â&#x20AC;? the first declaration said.

Similarly, the second statement on housing said requests for assistance were rejected.

As a result, temporary fixes for the furnaces damaged in last springâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flooding broke down, leaving families without heat.

According to the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NDP MP, Charlie Angus, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until the band declared an emergency and he exchanged words with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan that federal help kicked in.

But a spokesman for Duncan said Aboriginal Affairs had arranged for emergency fuel delivery a week before the declaration, and allowed for extra funding for home building supplies the day after the declaration.

The department freed up funding to cover the cost of flying in fuel and supplying the community with materials to get the furnaces up and running again, said spokesman, Jan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Driscoll. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Given the urgent nature of the situation, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) has released funds to cover the incremental cost of fuel delivery by air to address health and safety needs of the community and has released a $700,000 emergency cheque towards building supplies for renovations to 21 housing units,â&#x20AC;?

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Aboriginal Affairs has released $24,397 so far for the fuel supply, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Driscoll added.

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Rembrandt would be proud REBELS PLAY MASTERPIECE OF A GAME TO WIN SEVENTH IN A ROW REBECCA LEE-BENTHAM

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Q-SCHOOL GRADUATION

Rebels 3 Blades 0 Not to be picky, but the Red Deer Rebels weren’t painting masterpieces during portions of their six-game winning streak leading into Saturday’s WHL match with the Saskatoon Blades.

But their 3-0 win over the Blades before 5,266 spectators at the Centrium was a rightful Rembrandt, a 60-minute work of art.

“I thought right from the start to the finish we played well here tonight,” under-stated Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “We played an up-tempo game, we had pace in our game.

We want to be a team that plays on our toes.”

The Blades were on their heels for much of the evening, directing only 21 shots at Rebels netminder Patrik Bartosak, who nevertheless was razor-sharp in recording his second shutout of the season. On Friday, Bartosak faced 41 shots in a wild 6-5 win over the visiting Medicine Hat Tigers.

‘We were certainly better defensively tonight. We played well on both sides of the puck,” said Sutter.

The Rebels got first-period goals from rookie Conner Bleackley and Tyson Ness and never looked back. Bleackley potted his seventh of the season four minutes into the contest and Ness got his eighth of the campaign with a spinning backhand 45 seconds prior to the intermission.

After a scoreless middle frame, captain Turner Elson toasted the evening with his ninth of the season just 26 sec-

Canada’s Rebecca Lee-Bentham shot a 5-under 67 on Sunday to tie Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn for the top spot in the LPGA Tour qualifying tournament, leading the 20 players who earned full status.

Lee-Bentham and Jutanugarn finished the five-round event at 13-under 347 at LPGA International.

Jutanugarn shot a 74 after taking a six-stroke lead into the day.

Japan’s Ayako Uehara was third at 12 under after a 69. Kathleen Ekey followed at 10 under after a 65, and Lisa McCloskey and Japan’s Chie Arimura were 8 under. Twotime tour winner Laura Diaz improved her status, tying for eighth at 6 under after a 72.

Christina Kim, also a two-time tour winner, failed to improve her status, shooting a 74 to tie for 39th at 1 over.

Today

● Women’s basketball: Hoosier Daddy vs.

Shooting Stars, Funk vs. Spartans, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber; Big Ballers vs.

The Bank, Vertically Challenged vs. Triple Threat, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Central Alberta Christian; Collin Barrows Storm vs.

Rampage, 7:45 p.m., Hunting Hills.

onds into the final period, beating netminder Andrey Makarov on a wrap-around. Makarov, the lone bright spot for the visitors, finished with 37 saves.

The Blades bounced a couple of shots off goal posts, but otherwise were never really in the game. They were second to the puck the entire evening.

“It was a team effort and everyone was going, everyone was rolling,” said Elson. “Patty was strong like he usually is and we got a lot of pucks to the net. It was just a good overall effort.”

The Rebels’ power play continued to struggle at zero-forthree, but their penalty kill was once again potent as the Blades were zero-for-four with a man advantage.

“We just have to outwork the five guys in front of us. That’s the only way you can beat a good power play and that’s what we did tonight,” said Elson.

And so the Rebels’ run has reached seven and the club’s confidence continues to soar.

“It feels like every time we come here we’re going to win the game,” said Elson. “We have lot of confidence and we have that swagger now which we didn’t have earlier in the year.”

The Rebels will head east on Tuesday — for games in Regina, Moose Jaw and Brandon on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday — with the knowledge that they are coming off their most complete outing of the season.

“No question it was, for all 60 minutes,” said Sutter.

“After last night’s game we talked about needing to get better, about continuing to improve day to day. The message was let’s make sure our focus and preparation is where they need to be. Most importantly, let’s en-

Wednesday

● WHL: Red Deer at Regina, 6 p.m. (The Drive)

joy it, let’s have fun playing the game with emotion, passion and intensity. The kids have really bought into that. I’m not saying they weren’t before, but we’re

a team that wants to play with pace and that’s a fun way to play the game.

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Cowboys hand Eagles another loss

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tuesday

● Senior high basketball: Wetaskiwin at Lindsay Thurber, Notre Dame at Ponoka, Stettler at Sylvan Lake, Hunting Hills at Lacombe, Innisfail at Camrose; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Men’s basketball: Tagish Lakers vs.

Monstars, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Circle T Services, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● AJHL: Drumheller at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.; Red Deer at Stettler, 8:15 p.m.

Photo by ROB WALLATOR

Rebels forward Turner Elson fires a shot towards the Saskatoon net during the game against the Blades at the Centrium on Saturday.

The Rebels won 3-0 to improve their winning streak to seven games.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten is tackled by Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha during an NFL football game, Sunday in Arlington, Texas.

Cowboys 38 Eagles 33 ARLINGTON, Texas — Tony Romo threw for three touchdowns to pass Troy Aikman for Dallas’ franchise record, and the Cowboys beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-33 on Sunday night.

The Cowboys (6-6) trailed 27-24 when Romo led an 86-yard drive that was sparked by a 35-yard pass to Dez Bryant on third down. Bryant gave Dallas the lead when took a screen pass from the 6 and got inside the pylon with 5:40 remaining.

The Eagles (3-9) lost their eighth straight game despite 169 yards rushing and two touchdowns from rookie Bryce Brown a week after he set a team rookie record with 178 yards.

After Romo’s go-ahead touchdown pass, Dallas went up by 11 when Morris Claiborne returned a fumble by Brown 50 yards for a touchdown.

Brown’s fumble snapped a streak of eight straight scoring drives by both teams.

Philadelphia had a chance for an improbable rally when Damaris Johnson returned a punt 98 yards with 31 seconds left.

After a failed 2-point conversion kept the score at 38-33, the Cowboys recovered the onside kick.

Nick Foles, another Philadelphia rookie making his third start in Michael Vick’s place, led the Eagles to a 27-24 lead early in the fourth quarter on a 43-yard field goal by Alex Henery, who now has the longest current field goal streak at 21 after Cleveland’s Phil Dawson had a kick blocked Sunday.

Romo had another response, and ended up completing all 10 passes in the second half and his last 12 overall. He was 22 of 27 for 303 yards with no interceptions and a passer rating of 150.5. Dallas running back DeMarco Murray, who started after missing six games with a sprained right foot, finished with 83 yards and a touchdown.

Brown, who started his first game since high school when he filled in for LeSean McCoy last week, went in untouched on both of his scoring plays in the first half.

He scooted around the left side for a 7-0 lead and trotted through a big hole up the middle to make it 14-3 midway through the second quarter.Vick and McCoy are sidelined by concussions.

Philadelphia, which has lost seven straight games, was in front after the first quarter for the first time all season, but Dan Bailey got the Cowboys on the board with a 39-yard field goal early in the second. DeMarco Murray’s 1-yard touchdown run trimmed the Eagles’ lead to 14-10 with 41 seconds left in the half.

Romo overcame a holding penalty and an 8-yard loss when Kevin Ogletree fumbled a handoff on a reverse by completing third-down passes to Jason Witten, Bryant and Miles Austin. Romo then found Witten all alone in the middle of the field for 28 yards to the 1, setting up Murray’s score.

The Eagles answered by driving 52 yards in 35 seconds to a 43-yard field goal by Henery on the last play of the half. Foles completed a 29-yard pass to Jason Avant to get the Eagles in scoring range.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Romeo Crennel stood in the middle of the Kansas City Chiefs’ locker-room Sunday, the emotion threatening to overcome the good-natured coach.

Chiefs owner Clark Hunt was at his side, offering support.

Members of the team hugged each other, the mud smearing with tears on their cheeks.

And over along the wall stood the empty locker that once belonged to Jovan Belcher, his jersey still hanging from a hook.

Just one day after the linebacker killed his girlfriend and then turned the gun on himself, the Chiefs banded together to play their finest game of the season, an inspired 27-21 victory over the Carolina Panthers that ended an eight-game losing streak suddenly rendered trivial.

“As far as playing the game, I thought that was the best for us to do, because that’s what we do,” Crennel said, tears forming in the corners of his eyes.

“We’re football players and

football coaches and that’s what we do. We play on Sunday.”

According to authorities, Belcher shot his girlfriend multiple times early Saturday at a residence near Arrowhead Stadium, then sped to the team’s practice facility and turned the gun on himself as Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli watched in the parking lot.

Pioli walked through the press box before the game and said he was doing “OK.” “It’s been an incredibly difficult 24 hours for our family and our entire organization,” Hunt said.

“We have so many guys on our team and our coaching staff who are really, really hurting.”

Chiefs players gathered in the tunnel leading to the field for a brief prayer before their pre-game stretching.

A few fans in the half-empty stadium held up signs referencing the shootings, and there was a moment of silence to remember all victims of domestic violence.

Kansas City police have not released a motive for the shootings, claimed the life of Belcher

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Members of the Kansas City Chiefs and Carolina Panthers pray together following a football game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday. and 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, and left a 3-month-old girl, Zoey, an orphan.

“I’m just trying to get through the rest of today,” said the Chiefs’ Brady Quinn, who threw his first two touchdown passes in three years.

“The emotions of what has

taken place will probably hit home for a few guys the next few days, when they realize what’s taken place.”

Cam Newton threw for 232 yards and three touchdowns for the Panthers (3-9).

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Star power against power football NOTRE DAME AND ALABAMA TO LOCK HORNS FOR U.S. COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

NEW YORK — On one side, a blossoming dynasty from the college football capital of the Deep South.

On the other, the sport’s most famous team, trying to reclaim its place among the elite.

Notre Dame and Alabama bring star power and power football to the BCS championship.

The matchup became official Sunday night when the final standings were released and, to no one’s surprise, the Fighting Irish were first and the Crimson Tide was second.

The one bit of drama on college football’s selection Sunday was whether Northern Illinois could be this year’s BCS buster. The Huskies got in, getting a spot in the Orange Bowl against Florida State, taking a bid away from Oklahoma and sparking heated debate about a system that never fails to tick off fans in some way.

The other BCS matchups: ● Oregon and Kansas State will play in the Fiesta Bowl. ● Wisconsin and Stanford will meet in the Rose Bowl. ● Florida and Louisville are set for the Sugar Bowl.

As for the main event in the penultimate Bowl Championship Series, there was little controversy about No. 1 Notre Dame against No. 2 Alabama in Miami.

“The tradition of Alabama and Notre Dame brings special attention to it, but we’re just trying to the best team on Monday, Jan. 7,” Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said Sunday night. “All of that tradition, what’s happened in the past, is not going to help us Jan. 7, but we do respect the traditions.”

The Irish clinched their spot a week ago in Los Angeles by completing a perfect season against rival Southern California.

Alabama earned its spot Saturday, beating Georgia 32-28 in a thrilling Southeastern Conference title game.

The program that coach Paul Bryant turned into an SEC behemoth in the 1960s and 70s, winning five national championships and sharing another during his tenure, is again dominating college football with a modern-day version of the Bear leading the way in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Coach Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide are on

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REBELS: Mistakes “You’re going to make mistakes doing it, but that’s all right because you’re going to be there to support each other. We have to be a positive group and just worry about the process, not the end result. The end result will take care of itself if the process is right, if we’re mentally engaged the way we want to be. There’s nothing like having 20 guys playing together, pulling on the rope together and doing things the right way,” added Sutter.

Just one night after posting a 4-0 road win over the Calgary Hitmen, the 2013 Memorial Cup host Blades were dull.

“We had some posts out there tonight. If they go in (the outcome) could have been different,” said Blades forward and former Rebels captain Adam Kambeitz. “But the Rebels are a hardworking team. They came at us all night and didn’t give up. They worked hard for the win.”

Kambeitz admitted that facing the Rebels for the first time since being deal to Saskatoon in early October felt somewhat strange.

“It’s weird looking across the ice when the opponents are guys you’ve played with for four years,” he said. “It was strange but I had fun out there.”

The Blades opened the season with just two wins in their first nine games but are 6-4 in their last 10. Kambeitz is confident the best is yet to come, and soon.

“We’re trying to find that consistency but I think we’ve come a long way in the last while and I feel like we’re just going to go upward from here,” he said. “Personally, I’m starting to settle in and I feel I’m getting better every game.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

BOYS: Hit the turf Brown got Philadelphia’s first scoring drive going with a 42-yard run up the middle and finished it with a 10-yard run.

Trailing 7-3 early the second quarter, the Cowboys went three and out after a third-down completion from Romo to Witten was overturned on a challenge by Eagles coach Andy Reid.

Replay showed the ball hitting the turf as Witten grabbed it.

Two plays later, Brown went 39 yards down the sideline and later scored from 5 yards out.

The Cowboys welcomed Murray back by running him three straight times to start the game after calling 52 straight pass plays from the second quarter to the end of a Thanksgiving loss to Washington. The first time Murray went to the sideline, Romo was sacked by Brandon Graham on thirdand-3.

After the first Philadelphia touchdown, the Cowboys drove down the field for Bailey’s field goal. Romo found Witten for 11 yards on thirdand-10 and escaped pressure to complete a pass to Cole Beasley for 13 yards to the Eagles 41. Romo also had a 15-yard scramble.

Murray, who had 90 yards in the first half when he was injured against Baltimore on Oct. 14, had 31 yards on five carries in the first quarter.

Not only did Dallas get Murray back, but the offensive line was closer to full strength. Center Ryan Cook returned after missing time with a knee injury, which allowed Mackenzy Bernadeau to return to guard after two starts at centre.

the verge of one of the great runs in history. Alabama would become the first team to repeat as champs since the BCS was implemented in 1998, and it would be the 11th time a team has won consecutive AP titles since the poll started in 1936. Alabama is already one of seven programs to repeat. The Tide has done it twice. Notre Dame is another.

Alabama also won the 2009 BCS championship under Saban. The last team to win three major national titles in four seasons was Nebraska, which went back-to-back in 1994 and ’95 and finished No. 1 in the final coaches’ poll in 1997.

In a world full of spread-the-field, hurry-up offences, Alabama is a bastion of traditional football.

The Tide put its no-frills muscle on display Saturday, mashing Georgia with 350 yards rushing.

Eddie Lacy, listed at a conservative 220 pounds, went for 181 against the Bulldogs to up his season total to 1,182 with 17 touchdowns. Freshman T.J. Yeldon has run for 1,000 yards and scored 12 touchdowns.

But this is no 3 yards and a cloud of dust. Both backs average over 6 yards per carry, behind an offensive line anchored by All-American centre Barrett Jones, who is nursing a foot injury.

And quarterback AJ McCarron has thrown for 26 touchdowns with only three interceptions.

The Tide has been more potent offensively this season than last to make up for a defence that has slipped, but only a bit. Alabama leads the nation in total defence (246 yards per game) and is second in points allowed (10.7 per game). Linebackers Adrian Hubbard, Nico Johnson, CJ Mosley and Trey Depriest average 242 pounds.

When Brian Kelly was hired at Notre Dame three years ago, he looked at Alabama and the SEC, which has won six straight BCS titles, and decided the Irish needed to play like that.

Kelly built his reputation and winning teams at previous stops on fast-paced spread offences. In South Bend, Ind., he has put the fight back in the Irish, who have won eight AP national titles — only Alabama has as many — but none since 1988.

Notre Dame has allowed the fewest touchdowns in the country (10) and is sixth overall in total defence (286 yards per game).

“It’s clear that the formation of any great program is going to be on its defence,” Kelly said. “If you play great defence you’ve got a chance. For us to move Notre Dame back into national prominence we had

EMOTION: Carrying the load The Panthers were informed the game would be played as scheduled while they were heading to Kansas City on Saturday.

DeAngelo Williams added 67 yards rushing, carrying the load with Jonathan Stewart out with an injury. Steve Smith, Greg Olsen and Louis Murphy caught Carolina’s TD passes.

“You definitely feel for them. What they are going through is tragic,” Olsen said. “But we have a job to do. Our job is to come here and prepare to win.

They wouldn’t expect any less.”

Peyton Hillis had a touchdown run for Kansas City (2-10), while Tony Moeaki and Jon Baldwin had touchdown catches. Ryan Succop hit a pair of field goals, including a 52-yarder with 4:54 left that forced the Panthers try for a touchdown to steal the win.

Instead, they went three-and-out, and the Chiefs were able to run the clock down to 31 seconds before giving back the ball. Newton completed two quick passes to reach the Carolina 38, but his final heave as time expired was caught by Smith short of the end zone.

Panthers coach Ron Rivera greeted Crennel at midfield and gave him a hug.

“They played an inspired football game,” Rivera said. “They did some really good things, and we have to give them credit, because they suffered through a very difficult time.”

The emotions were raw even after the kickoff.

Kansas City took the opening possession and marched 74 yards in just six plays, including a 21-yard pass to Dwayne Bowe and a 34-yarder to Baldwin that got the Chiefs to the Carolina 2.

Hillis powered in to score the first touchdown for Kansas City on the opening possession of a game since Dec. 26, 2010. It was also the first touchdown drive engineered by Quinn since December 2009, when he helped the Browns beat the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium.

Hillis ran to the sideline after scoring his first touchdown of the season and handed the ball to Crennel, then gave the guy who managed to hold the team together a hug.

The Panthers answered with a long touchdown drive of their own. The big play came when safety Abe Elam watched Olsen haul in a 47-yard pass from Newton for the tying touchdown.

The Chiefs had tacked on a field goal when the Panthers struck again, this time after Newton completed three passes to convert third downs, the last finding Smith in the end zone.

But Kansas City finished off the half with one of its best drives of the year, an 80-yard march that took up the final 7:25.

Hillis was stuffed at the line on third-and-goal, and Crennel allowed the clock to hit 2 seconds before calling timeout. On the final play of the half, Quinn saw Moeaki open in the back of the end zone and delivered a soft toss for a 17-14 lead.

Breathing room came late in the third quarter when the Chiefs used 17 plays to go 87 yards on a drive that lasted another 10 minutes. Quinn finished it with a 3-yard touchdown pass to Baldwin.

Carolina mounted a comeback with the opening drive of the fourth quarter, with Newton hitting Murphy on a quick slant route from the 8 to get the Panthers within a field goal. But the Chiefs added their own field goal, and then burned enough of the clock to ensure the victory.

One that allowed the Chiefs to celebrate in the midst of their mourning.

to develop a defence.”

The face of the Irish isn’t a strong-armed quarterback or speedy ball carrier. It’s middle linebacker Manti Te’o, a 255-pound offence wrecker with a nose for the ball. The senior has seven interceptions and is a likely Heisman finalist.

Te’o, along with 300-pound linemen Stephon Tuitt and Louis Nix, have formed a red-zone wall for the Irish. Late goal-line stands highlighted victories against Stanford and USC. “There’s some pretty physical guys that have some great toughness and some great licks,” Saban said in assessing Notre Dame.

While nurturing redshirt freshman Everett Golson, Kelly has leaned on Notre Dame’s running game, which averages 202 yards.

“This is just a good all-around football team with tremendous balance on offence and a very physical defence,” Saban said.

If Notre Dame, making its first appearance in a BCS championship, is going to break the SEC’s strangle hold on the crystal ball trophy, the Irish will try to beat ’Bama at its own game.

And Kelly will try to uphold a Notre Dame tradition, by winning a national title in his third season as coach. Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, Dan Devine and Lou Holtz all won it all in Year 3 playing in the shadow of the Golden Dome.

Notre Dame will try to become the first team since BYU in 1984 to start the season unranked and win a national title.

Expect plenty of fans to be watching. With the popularity of both programs, the second-to-last BCS title game is expected to be the highest rated ever.

Though it might be hard for many fans to choose.

While there are plenty of fans tired of watching the SEC win championships, Notre Dame has always been the program people love to hate.

“I don’t know if we picked up any more fans along the way,” Kelly said.

In two years, college football switches to a fourteam playoff to determine its champion. No doubt fans of Florida (11-1), Oregon (11-1), Stanford (11-2) and Kansas State (11-1) wish they could push the start date up on that, but for the most part there isn’t much griping about this championship matchup.

Notre Dame is the only undefeated team that is eligible — thanks to Ohio State’s NCAA sanctions — and Alabama is the champion of the league that has produced the last half-dozen national champs.

Fresh faces to get involved in next round of NHL talks GROUP OF OWNERS TO MEET WITH GROUP OF PLAYERS ON TUESDAY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — There will be fresh faces and a new approach when the NHL’s collective bargaining talks resume.

A select group of owners and players are scheduled to meet on Tuesday afternoon in New York after the NHL Players’ Association accepted an invitation from commissioner Gary Bettman to change up the dynamic at the bargaining table.

“The (meeting) should facilitate dialogue between players and owners,” NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr said Sunday. “Neither the commissioner nor I will be present, although each side will have a limited number of staff or counsel present.

There will be owners attending this meeting who have not previously done so, which is encouraging and which we welcome.

“We hope that this meeting will be constructive and lead to a dialogue that will help us find a way to reach an agreement.”

Four of the six owners scheduled to attend the meeting will be taking part in their first CBA session: Mark Chipman (Winnipeg Jets), Larry Tanenbaum (Toronto Maple Leafs), Ron Burkle (Pittsburgh Penguins) and Jeff Vinik (Tampa Bay Lightning). Calgary Flames owner Murray Edwards and Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs — both part of the NHL’s negotiating team — will also be in attendance.

On Sunday night, the NHLPA indicated that it was still finalizing the list of six players who it would send to the session.

The idea for the meeting was suggested last week by Bettman after the sides spent two days with U.S. federal mediators and failed to make any progress in talks. Deputy commissioner Bill

Daly said Thursday that the league felt it might be a good time to change up the dynamic.

It took three days for the terms of the meeting to be ironed out.

The NHLPA requested that the session be attended by representatives from the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, according to a source, but ended up settling for having the group of players joined by a handful of union staff and lawyers.

There will be plenty of experienced businessmen on the league’s side of the table. Burkle in particular is known as a dealmaker who built his fortune with a chain of grocery stores in California, where he won favour with a local union during a tough round of negotiations in the 1980s.

It’s an interesting time for the introduction of new faces to the NHL talks.

All regular season games through Dec. 14 have been cancelled — 422 in total, plus the Winter Classic and all-star game — and the league’s Board of Governors is set to convene in New York on Wednesday.

“I think it’s a good thing that there will be some new voices and perspectives,” Penguins captain Sidney Crosby told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “At this point I don’t think it can hurt.”

With the lockout into its 12th week, the NHL and NHLPA remain at a stalemate.

Even though both sides have proposed a 50-50 split of revenues, they remain separated on payments to be made outside the system to help ease the transition from the previous deal, which saw players receive 57 per cent.

The NHL has offered $211 million in deferred compensation while the union has asked for $393 million.

There are also a number of rules governing player contracts that must be worked out before a new CBA is signed.

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Central Division GP W LOTLSOL Edmonton 28 19 5 2 2 Calgary 27 18 6 1 2 Red Deer 30 17 11 1 1 Lethbridge 32 14 14 1 3 Medicine Hat 31 13 16 2 0 Kootenay 26 7 17 1 1

Pt 42 39 36 32 28 16

GF GA 95 66 86 76 82 85 97 96 100 102 65 91

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Kamloops 31 21 7 1 2 111 78 Kelowna 28 17 9 1 1 111 67 Victoria 28 15 12 0 1 83 91 Prince George 27 9 14 1 3 74 100 Vancouver 27 7 20 0 0 73 112

Pt 45 36 31 22 14

U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 27 22 4 1 0 125 56 45 Spokane 27 19 7 1 0 110 78 39 Tri-City 29 17 10 1 1 90 78 36 Seattle 28 14 13 1 0 90 104 29 Everett 31 11 18 0 2 76 113 24 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.

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

Wednesday’s games Red Deer at Regina, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday Summary Rebels 3, Blades 0 First Period 1. Red Deer, Bleackley 7 (Doetzel, Millette) 4:01 2. Red Deer, Ness 8 (Hamilton, Bellerive) 19:15 Penalties — Craig Sktn, Maxwell RD (roughing) 13:39.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Siemens Sktn (holding) 1:27, Walker Sktn (slashing) 4:05, Vasko RD (too many men) 6:25, McCoy RD (hooking) 12:31, Sutter Sktn (interference), Millette RD (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 15:33.

Third Period 3. Red Deer, Elson 9 (Maxwell, Dumba) 0:26 Penalties — Underwood RD (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 9:27, Vasko RD (interference) 15:38, Dietz Sktn (hooking) 16:15, Siemens Sktn (fighting, game misconduct), Stransky Sktn (fighting, game misconduct), Sutter Sktn (roughing, fighting), Fleury RD (fighting, game misconduct), McCoy RD (fighting, game misconduct), Stockl RD (fighting, game misconduct), Underwood RD (fighting) 20:00.

Shots on goal Saskatoon 9 5 7 — 21 Red Deer 13 15 12 — 40 Goal — Saskatoon: Makarov (L,13-12-1); Red Deer: Bartosak (W,15-8-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Saskatoon: 0-4; Red Deer: 0-4.

Attendance — 5,226 at Red Deer, Alta.

American Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OL SL Pts Worcester 21 11 8 1 1 24 Manchester 21 10 8 2 1 23 St. John’s 22 11 10 0 1 23 Portland 21 10 9 1 1 22 Providence 19 9 8 0 2 20

Sunday’s results Calgary 4 Kootenay 1 Edmonton 4 Lethbridge 3 Medicine Hat 2 Brandon 1 (SO) Prince Albert 8 Regina 2 Seattle 3 Kamloops 1

Syracuse Binghamton Wilkes-Barre Hershey Norfolk

Monday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Springfield Bridgeport Connecticut Adirondack Albany

Tuesday’s games Spokane at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

GP 20 18 20 21 20

East Division W L OL SL 13 5 1 1 12 4 1 1 13 7 0 0 9 11 1 0 9 11 0 0

Pts 28 26 26 19 18

GF GA 60 65 55 53 53 60 67 69 44 55 GF GA 74 55 57 44 58 46 55 62 59 65

Northeast Division

x-Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville

South W L T 11 1 0 8 4 0 4 8 0 2 10 0 North L T 3 0 5 0 5 0 8 0

Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland

W 9 7 7 4

y-Denver San Diego Oakland Kansas City

West W L 9 3 4 8 3 9 2 10

Pct .917 .667 .333 .167

PF 351 265 248 206

PA 260 296 337 249 PA 221 306 359 342

Pct .750 .583 .583 .333

PF 303 254 302 229

PA 242 230 260 265

Pct .750 .333 .250 .167

PF 349 258 235 188

PA 244 257 376 322

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF N.Y. Giants 7 4 0 .636 305 Dallas 6 6 0 .500 280 Washington 5 6 0 .455 295 Philadelphia 3 9 0 .250 217

PA 226 295 285 320

y-Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans Carolina

W 11 6 5 3

T 0 0 0 0

South L T 1 0 6 0 7 0 9 0

Pct .917 .500 .417 .250

PF 317 333 321 235

PA 229 285 327 292

Green Bay Chicago Minnesota Detroit

W 8 8 6 4

W San Francisco 8 Seattle 7 St. Louis 5 Arizona 4 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

North L T 4 0 4 0 6 0 8 0

Pct .667 .667 .500 .333

PF 296 294 262 300

PA 259 198 272 315

West L 3 5 6 8

Pct .708 .583 .458 .333

PF 289 242 221 186

PA 171 202 267 234

T 1 0 1 0

W 12 10 9 9 5

L OL SL Pts GF GA 4 1 3 28 70 42 9 0 1 21 62 70 9 2 0 20 63 70 11 0 0 18 52 60 8 0 5 15 40 52

WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division GP W L OL SL Pts Rockford 22 12 9 0 1 25 Grand Rapids 19 11 6 1 1 24 Chicago 20 9 8 2 1 21 Milwaukee 19 9 8 1 1 20 Peoria 20 6 10 2 2 16

Abbotsford Toronto Lake Erie Rochester Hamilton

GP 20 21 22 19 18

North Division W L OL SL 13 3 2 2 12 8 0 1 11 9 1 1 9 8 2 0 7 9 1 1

BASEBALL BOSTON RED SOX—Agreed to terms with OF Jonny Gomes on a two-year contract.

National League CINCINNATI REDS—Agreed to terms with INF Kris Negron and OF Denis Phipps on minor league contracts.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Acquired RHP Burke Badenhop from Tampa Bay for OF Raul Mondesi Jr. PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Agreed to terms with LHP Mike Zagurski on a minor league contract.

BASKETBALL ATLANTA HAWKS—Assigned G John Jenkins and F Mike Scott to Bakersfield (NBADL).

FOOTBALL GREEN BAY PACKERS—Signed RB DuJuan Harris and WR Jeremy Ross from the practice squad. Placed TE Andrew Quarless and S Sean Richardson on injured reserve.

TENNESSEE TITANS—Waived OL Kyle DeVan. Signed FB Collin Mooney from the practice squad.

HOCKEY PEORIA RIVERMEN—Assigned F Cody Beach to Evansville (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL—Suspended Evansville W Jim McKenzie, Greenville W Kenndal McArdle and Fort Wayne F Kaleigh Schrock for one game each for their actions in games on Nov. 30. Suspended Ontario F Cameron Burt, pending a review, and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a game on Nov. 30. Fined Orlando W Mike Liambas an undisclosed

GF GA 56 36 70 59 70 70 63 59 38 57

South Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Charlotte 21 12 7 0 2 26 70 61 Houston 20 11 6 1 2 25 67 59 Oklahoma City 20 11 6 1 2 25 66 59 Texas 20 10 8 1 1 22 51 58 San Antonio 20 6 11 0 3 15 51 63 NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Sunday’s Games Toronto 5, Lake Erie 4 Rockford 4, Charlotte 1 Portland 4, Manchester 0 Worcester 3, Providence 2, SO Norfolk 4, Bridgeport 1 Springfield 5, Connecticut 0 Binghamton 5, Syracuse 2 Texas 4, Peoria 3, SO

Thursday’s Game Atlanta 23, New Orleans 13 Sunday’s Games Seattle 23, Chicago 17, OT Green Bay 23, Minnesota 14 St. Louis 16, San Francisco 13, OT Kansas City 27, Carolina 21 Houston 24, Tennessee 10 N.Y. Jets 7, Arizona 6 Indianapolis 35, Detroit 33 Buffalo 34, Jacksonville 18 New England 23, Miami 16 Denver 31, Tampa Bay 23 Cleveland 20, Oakland 17 Cincinnati 20, San Diego 13 Pittsburgh 23, Baltimore 20 Dallas 38, Philadelphia 33 Monday’s Game N.Y. Giants at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

NFL Odds (Favourites in capital letters; odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery) Spread O/U Tonight NY GIANTS at Washington 2.5 51.5

Tuesday’s Games San Antonio at Abbotsford, 8 p.m.

AJHL weekend results Weekend from the Alberta Junior Hockey League: Saturday’s results Drayton Valley 5 Sherwood Park 4 Drumheller 3 Whitecourt 2 Fort McMurray 4 Canmore 2 Okotoks 5 Olds 2 Sunday’s results Brooks 9 Whitecourt 1 Camrose 3 Drumheller 2 Fort McMurray 3 Calgary Mustangs 2 Olds 7 Calgary Canucks 2 Spruce Grove 3 Bonnyville 2 (OT)

Canada trounces Japan

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 12 4 .750 — Brooklyn 11 5 .688 1 Philadelphia 10 7 .588 2 1/2 Boston 9 8 .529 3 1/2 Toronto 4 13 .235 8 1/2

PGA Tour Qualifying School Sunday Par—72 Purse—US$1,057,500 La Quinta, Calif Fifth Round Steven Bowditch 73-67-66-67-64 — 337 Kris Blanks 65-70-67-70-66 — 338 Derek Ernst 68-68-70-67-66 — 339 Steve LeBrun 64-69-68-71-67 — 339 Edward Loar 65-69-66-71-68 — 339 Eric Meierdierks 70-66-67-70-67 — 340 Jin Park 65-70-68-69-68 — 340 Dong-hwan Lee 68-72-65-64-71 — 340 Billy Horschel 70-65-66-71-69 — 341 Richard H. Lee 66-67-74-64-70 — 341 Brad Fritsch 72-67-66-71-66 — 342 Robert Karlsson 66-68-65-75-68 — 342 Ross Fisher 69-69-65-72-67 — 342 Matt Jones 71-70-65-68-68 — 342 Erik Compton 67-70-68-71-67 — 343 Nicholas Thompson 69-70-67-68-69 — 343 Kevin Kisner 71-75-66-65-67 — 344 Tom Pernice, Jr. 71-71-70-64-68 — 344 Mathew Goggin 70-66-70-70-68 — 344 Aaron Watkins 69-67-71-68-69 — 344 Jeff Gove 69-69-68-67-71 — 344 Michael Letzig 71-69-67-66-71 — 344 Vaughn Taylor 68-64-69-70-73 — 344 Tag Ridings 73-69-66-70-67 — 345 Fabian Gomez 70-67-69-73-66 — 345 Phillip Mollica 68-68-71-69-69 — 345 Scott Langley 72-69-69-69-66 — 345 Heath Slocum 70-66-67-70-72 — 345 Chez Reavie 72-66-68-67-72 — 345 Alex Aragon 70-67-72-69-68 — 346 Vince Covello 69-70-67-73-67 — 346 Lee Bedford 68-72-70-68-68 — 346 Mark Anderson 72-68-69-70-67 — 346 Danny Lee 72-75-67-65-67 — 346 Si Woo Kim 67-69-71-69-70 — 346 Donald Constable 67-70-67-71-71 — 346 Tim Wilkinson 71-73-69-68-65 — 346 Meen Whee Kim 68-63-67-73-75 — 346 Chesson Hadley 68-70-70-71-68 — 347 Oliver Fisher 69-69-69-72-68 — 347 Danny Ellis 70-69-68-70-70 — 347 Bhavik Patel 70-69-71-67-70 — 347 Rafael Echenique 72-69-68-70-68 — 347 Kyle Reifers 69-68-65-74-71 — 347 Alexandre Rocha 65-71-71-74-66 — 347 Glen Day 72-68-69-69-70 — 348 B.J. Staten 72-72-68-66-70 — 348 Tim Petrovic 73-71-67-68-69 — 348 Andrew Svoboda 70-72-65-69-72 — 348 Bobby Gates 70-72-72-65-69 — 348 Patrick Reed 70-75-68-67-68 — 348 Camilo Villegas 70-67-66-72-73 — 348 Henrik Norlander 67-74-68-71-68 — 348 Chad Collins 73-67-70-71-67 — 348 Bryden Macpherson 68-69-69-71-72 — 349 Brett Stegmaier 67-73-70-69-70 — 349 Paul Stankowski 75-69-69-67-69 — 349 Adam Hadwin 74-71-68-68-68 — 349 Scott Sterling 70-69-71-72-67 — 349 Russell Knox 70-72-66-73-68 — 349 Rod Pampling 71-70-70-67-72 — 350 Adam Crawford 66-68-72-71-73 — 350 David Lipsky 71-66-71-71-71 — 350 Billy Hurley III 70-71-67-71-71 — 350 Tim Kunick 67-68-69-72-74 — 350 Rafael Cabrera Bello 70-75-70-66-69 — 350 Shane Bertsch 69-70-70-72-69 — 350 Patrick Sheehan 71-68-72-70-69 — 350 Scott Dunlap 69-69-69-74-69 — 350 Alexander Noren 70-74-72-66-68 — 350 Derek Lamely 72-71-69-69-69 — 350 Daniel Chopra 68-66-76-71-69 — 350 Byron Smith 71-72-69-69-69 — 350 Richard Scott 73-70-73-68-69 — 353 Roger Sloan 71-72-75-70-66 — 354 Matt Hill 74-65-73-70-72 — 354 Ryan Yip 72-71-74-69-70 — 356 Mitch Evanecz 74-69-73-70-75 — 361 Note: Top 25 and ties will receive 2013 PGA Tour cards; next 50 and ties will earn Web.com Tour cards.

Miami Atlanta Charlotte Orlando Washington

Milwaukee Chicago Indiana Detroit Cleveland

Southeast Division W L Pct 12 3 .800 9 5 .643 7 8 .467 6 10 .375 1 13 .071

GB — 2 1/2 5 6 1/2 10 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 8 7 .533 8 7 .533 8 9 .471 5 13 .278 4 13 .235

GB — — 1 4 1/2 5

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 12 3 .800 1/2 San Antonio 14 4 .778 — Houston 8 8 .500 5 Dallas 8 9 .471 5 1/2 New Orleans 4 11 .267 8 1/2

Oklahoma City Utah Denver Minnesota Portland

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

Northwest Division W L Pct 14 4 .778 9 9 .500 8 9 .471 7 8 .467 7 10 .412

GB — 5 5 1/2 5 1/2 6 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct 10 6 .625 10 6 .625 8 9 .471 7 11 .389 4 12 .250

GB — — 2 1/2 4 6

Saturday’s Games Portland 118, Cleveland 117,2OT Miami 102, Brooklyn 89 Chicago 93, Philadelphia 88 Houston 124, Utah 116 Oklahoma City 100, New Orleans 79 San Antonio 99, Memphis 95, OT Milwaukee 91, Boston 88 Dallas 92, Detroit 77 Golden State 103, Indiana 92 L.A. Clippers 116, Sacramento 81 Sunday’s Games New York 106, Phoenix 99 Orlando 113, L.A. Lakers 103 Monday’s Games Portland at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Denver, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Utah, 7 p.m.

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

Tuesday’s Games Minnesota at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Miami at Washington, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Chicago, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Houston, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Memphis, 6 p.m.

SLEDGE HOCKEY

CALGARY — Marc Dorion isn’t usually known for his goal scoring, but that might change after Sunday. The Bourget, Ont., native had a hat trick and an assist to lead Canada to an 11-0 romp over Japan on the opening day of the 2012 World Sledge Hockey Challenge.

“I really have to thank my teammates for that,” Dorion said.

“I call for the puck when I’m in those positions. I just hope that my teammates are hearing me right and that they’re going to get it to me. Then I just try to get that puck into the net and finish.”

Dorion scored just two goals in the 2011-12 season.

Graeme Murray scored twice, Kieran Block had a goal and two assists, while Billy Bridges chipped in with five assists for Canada.

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

Purse: $4 million Yardage: 7,023; Par: 72 Final Round Gr. McDowell, $1,000,000 69-66-68-68 Keegan Bradley, $500,000 69-69-67-69 Bo Van Pelt, $300,000 70-68-70-70 Jim Furyk, $201,667 69-69-71-70 Tiger Woods, $201,667 70-69-69-71 Rickie Fowler, $201,666 73-67-70-69 Webb Simpson, $160,000 70-73-69-69 Steve Stricker, $150,000 73-71-68-70 Hunter Mahan, $142,500 71-73-71-68 Bubba Watson, $142,500 71-74-67-71 Matt Kuchar, $132,500 73-69-72-70 Nick Watney, $132,500 67-73-71-73 Dustin Johnson, $124,500 74-68-72-71 Brandt Snedeker, $124,500 75-68-73-69 Jason Day, $122,500 71-75-72-69 Jason Dufner, $122,500 73-68-75-71 Ian Poulter, $121,000 73-72-71-72 Zach Johnson, $120,000 74-70-70-79

Admirals get one win out of three games

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions

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Monday’s Games No games scheduled

Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF y-New England 9 3 0 .750 430 N.Y. Jets 5 7 0 .417 228 Buffalo 5 7 0 .417 277 Miami 5 7 0 .417 227

GP 20 20 20 20 18

LPGA Tour Q-School Sunday At LPGA International Daytona Beach, Fla. Purse: $50,000 Champions Course: 6,389 yards, par-72 Legends Course: 6,468 yards; par-72 a-amateur Final Earned Full Status Rebecca Lee-Bentham69-75-67-69-67 — Moriya Jutanugarn 68-66-69-70-74 — Ayako Uehara 70-70-69-70-69 — Kathleen Ekey 68-73-75-69-65 — Chie Arimura 70-71-72-69-70 — Lisa McCloskey 70-73-71-67-71 — Felicity Johnson 75-69-69-70-70 — Karlin Beck 71-72-74-67-70 — Laura Diaz 70-71-73-68-72 — Stephanie Sherlock 71-70-71-69-74 — Kayla Mortellaro 79-69-69-72-67 — Kim Welch 68-72-73-75-68 — Brooke Pancake 70-72-75-69-70 — Austin Ernst 70-71-74-71-70 — Caroline Masson 76-69-70-70-71 — a-Marina Stuetz 74-71-70-70-71 — Lauren Doughtie 74-74-71-69-69 — Nicole Jeray 72-74-72-69-70 — Taylore Karle 72-73-73-69-70 — Irene Cho 73-75-69-68-72 —

CHINOOK LEAGUE amount for his actions in a game on Nov. 30.

Central Hockey League ARIZONA SUNDOGS—Announced D Mario Larocque was activated from league suspension.

DENVER CUTTHROATS—Signed F Jeff Neitenbach.

FORT WORTH BRAHMAS—Signed G Kristofer Westblom. Waived G Larry Sterling.

RAPID CITY RUSH—Waived G Neil Conway.

Signed D Jamie VanderVeeken.

COLLEGE NORTH CAROLINA STATE—Named Dave Doeren football coach.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASKETBALL GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS—Assigned F-C Jeremy Tyler to Santa Cruz (NBADL).

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

Central Hockey League CHL—Suspended Arizona F-D Kyle Hood indefinitely.

ALLEN AMERICANS—Activatated F Nino Musitelli from leave of absence.

COLLEGE SOUTH FLORIDA—Fired football coach Skip Holtz.

VANDERBILT—Signed James Franklin, football coach, to a new contract.

VIRGINIA—Fired defensive co-ordinator and associate head coach Jim Reid, defensive line coach.

Grizz cruise past Canucks

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The Sylvan Lake Admirals engaged in a busy Chinook Hockey League weekend and experienced at least a modicum of success.

The Admirals were 1-2 in a three-in-three run, their lone win coming Saturday at Fort Saskatchewan, 5-4 over the Chiefs.

Brendan Baumgartner scored twice in the Sylvan Lake victory and also picked up an assist. Aaron Boyer, Cody Esposito and Turner Lachance each tallied once for the winners.

Scott Galenza made 38 saves for the Admirals, who fired 57 shots at Chiefs netminder Darren Douglas.

The Admirals fell 7-2 at Innisfail Friday and closed out their weekend Sunday afternoon with a 6-2 loss to the host Bentley Generals, who had former pros Matt Kinch of Red Deer and Earned Partial Status Randall Gelech in their lineup for the first time. a-Breanna Elliott 75-73-69-71-69 — 357 Li 72-70-72-72-71 — 357 Bentley got two goals from Matt Stefanishion and one from Jiayun Kelly Jacques 70-71-71-70-75 — 357 each of Travis Dunstall, Chris Neiszner, Brett Robertson and Frances Bondad 78-68-71-71-70 — 358 Burnett 72-72-76-67-71 — 358 Kyle Sheen. Esposito and Brandon Knelsen replied for Sylvan Katie a-Marita Engzelius 72-71-69-71-75 — 358 Lake.

Travis Yonkman made 29 saves for RED DEER MINOR HOCKEY COMMISSION Bentley. Admirals goaltender Andrew Williams stopped 44 shots.

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OLDS — The host Olds Grizzlys raced out to an early 3-0 lead and cruised past the Calgary Canucks 7-2 in an AJHL Sunday afternoon contest.

Damien Kulynych, JC Heck and Matt Hanger scored in the first 11 minutes and the Grizzlys went on to get a pair goals from Brandon Clowes and additional markers from Dylan Hubbs and Spencer Dorowicz before 381 fans at the Sportsplex.

Replying for the Canucks were Ben Thomas and Mathew Plesa.

Winning netminder Ethan Jemieff stopped 25 shots. Colin Cooper blocked 44 for the visitors.

The Grizzlys’ triumph helped take the sting out of Saturday’s 5-2 loss to the host Okotoks Oilers.

Heck and Chris Stachiw scored in a losing cause, with Chris Collins, Cody Michelle, Red Deer product Connor Hartley — with the eventual winner — Scott Bolland and Mitch Collett getting the Okotoks goals.

Jared D’Amico made 34 saves for the Oilers. Talor Joseph stopped 27 shots for the Grizzlys, who host the Brooks Bandits at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Olds will also be home to the Bonnyville Pontiacs and Oilers Thursday and Friday.

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Swift Current at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

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Moose Jaw at Prince George, 8 p.m.

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COMEBACK WIN

TARYN BAUMGARDT

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Innisfail native Taryn Baumgardt has been selected to the Canadian national U18 women’s hockey team to compete in the IIHF World Championships, Dec. 29-Jan. 5 in Finland. Baumgardt, who is one of seven defencemen on the roster, was with the Canadian team for a three-game series against the United States in August. The 17-year-old is with the Warner Hockey School this year after spending two seasons with the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs major midget team. She represented Alberta at the Canada Winter Games and the Canadian U18 championships in 2011.

So far this season with Warner she has 14 assists in 19 games and is fifth in team scoring.

THIS WEEK Thursday

● Bantam AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, 7 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Carpet Doctor, Grandview Allstars vs. Investors Group, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic girls tournament. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Sylvan Lake, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. (The Drive) ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Canadians at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Stettler, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Pro Stitch, 8:30 p.m., Kin City A. ● Martial arts: Pure Fighting Championship, 8:30 p.m., Westerner Prairie Pavillion.

Saturday

● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic girls tournament. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer Parkland, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Taber at Sylvan Lake, 3 p.m.

Major bantam hockey: Calgary Bisons at Red Deer Black, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Major bantam female hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Kin City B. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blue at Red Deer Pro Stitch, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Lethbridge at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Ramada, 5:30 p.m., Kin City A; Medicine Hat at Sylvan Lake, 5:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. (The Drive) ● Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 7 p.m.

Photo by GREG MEACHEM/Advocate Sports Editor

Red Deer Minor Midget AAA Chiefs forward Layne Bensmiller fights off a Calgary Royals defenceman as he breaks towrds the net during a league Saturday at the area. The Chiefs scored four times in third period and won the game 5-2.

MINOR HOCKEY Minor midget AAA The Red Deer Northstar Chiefs fired four unanswered third-period goals Saturday en route to a 5-2 home-ice victory over the Calgary Royals.

Chase Olsen led the Chiefs with a goal and two assists at the Arena. Ben Strautman, Nolan Dyck, Shae Reynolds and Toran Corbier also scored for the winners, who got a 24-save effort from Brody Dirk while outshooting the visitors 47-26.

The Chiefs weren’t so fortunate Sunday, losing 6-2 to the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes. Corbier and Chad Gross scored for Northstar — outshot 33-29 — while Brandon Bilodeau made 27 saves.

Meanwhile, the Red Deer IROC Chiefs lost their lone weekend contest, 2-1 Saturday to the Airdrie/Cochrane Avalanche at the Arena. Captain Andrew Perry notched a short-handed goal for IROC, which held a 29-24 advantage in shots while getting a 22-save performance from Carson Franks.

Major midget girls Becky Davidson’s two-goal effort helped the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs defeat the host Highwood Raiders 5-2 Sunday.

Katlynn Kyle, Taylor Hall and Krista Wilson also scored for Sutter Fund in the

game played at High River. Nisa Bartlett made 24 saves for the Chiefs as each team had 26 shots on goal.

On Saturday, the Chiefs earned a 2-2 tie with the host Sherwood Park Fury. Scoring for Red Deer, which battled back from a 2-0 deficit, were Jade Lee and Krista Wilson.

Sutter Fund outshot the Fury 25-20 while getting an 18-save performance from Aly Andersen.

Major bantam The Red Deer Rebels Black posted a pair of weekend wins, while the Rebels White came up short on two occasions.

The Rebels Black cruised past the host Lloydminster Heat 8-2 Saturday and 24 hours later crushed the visiting Grande Prairie Storm 8-0.

TJ Brown, Jeffrey de Wit and Jeremy Klessens each scored twice at Lloydminster, where Luke Coleman and Parker Smyth also tallied for the Rebels Black and winning netminder Graydon Larsen made 21 saves. The visitors held a comfortable 5823 advantage in shots.

Geordan Andrew stopped all 16 shots he faced against Grande Prairie at the Arena, where Klessens and Tyree Goodrunning each scored twice and Coleman, Brown, Ryan Vandervlis and Dayton Playford also connected. Storm goalie Mason Gould made 43 saves.

The Rebels White, meanwhile, tied the

Storm 3-3 Friday at the Collicutt Centre and dropped a 6-2 decision to the host Calgary Bisons Sunday.

Kyle Cornford, Landon Mackenzie and Tyler Steenbergen scored against the Storm. Lane Congdon stopped 33 shots for the Rebels, while Grande Prairie goaltender Tyson Walker made 44 saves.

Reed Engman and Tyler Wall connected in a losing cause at Calgary. Dawson Weatherill made 28 saves for the Rebels White, who fired just 18 shots at Bisons netminder Josh Belisle.

Major bantam girls Mikaela Reay’s third-period goal was the winner as the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs slipped past the host Calgary Outlaws 2-1 Saturday.

Carley Ward notched the other Chiefs marker, while netminder Alexandra Galenzoski made 21 saves.

Bantam A The Red Deer Frontier Chiefs dropped a pair of weekend contests, 5-4 at Maskwacis and 5-3 to visiting Sylvan Lake.

Kale Hartley scored twice against Maskwacis, with Spencer Kelly and Jerome Beaverbones adding singles. Nolan MacGregor was the losing netminder.

Scoring from Frontier in the loss to Sylvan Lake were Stefan Theriault, Tristyn Zarubiak and Curtis Hallman. Brett Martens made 31 saves in a losing cause.

Vipers edged by Bisons in overtime Chase Fallis notched his third goal of the game at 1:26 of overtime Saturday to give the Okotoks Bisons a 7-6 Heritage Junior B Hockey League win over the host Red Deer Vipers.

Red Deer forward Braden Corbett forced the extra time with a goal at 18:11 of the third period. The Vipers led 1-0 after one period and 3-2 after 40 minutes.

Cole DeGraaf scored twice for the Vipers, who got additional markers from Kolton Gillett, Lucas Deibert and Dustin Spearing. Corbett and Gillett each had a pair of assists and Jonathan Finnigan contributed three helpers.

Vipers netminder Jayden

JUNIOR B Adrian made 25 saves. Alex Bilton stopped 28 shots for the Bisons.

Red Deer posted a 7-3 road victory over the High River Flyers Friday, with Spearing scoring twice and DeGraaf, Gillett, Troy Klaus, Adam Ferguson and Colton Weseen each notching a goal.

Brenden Mandrusiak made 29 saves for the Vipers, who led 2-0 after one period and 5-1 heading into the final frame.

Myles Dunne blocked 27 shots for the hosts.

In other Heritage League

weekend play involving Central Alberta teams: ● The Blackfalds Wranglers received a scare Sunday afternoon before emerging with a 5-4 win over the visiting Banff Academy Bears. Details were unavailable. ● Brady Hoover turned aside 43 shots in a losing cause Saturday as the Three Hills Thrashers where thrashed 6-0 by the visiting Airdrie Thunder.

The hosts fired 28 shots at Airdrie goaltender James Fisk. ● The Thunder trampled the visiting Ponoka Stamped-

ers 9-1 Friday while outshooting their guests 53-21. Tyler Jones notched the lone goal for the Stamps, who got a 44-save effort from Aaron Swier.

The Stampeders didn’t fare any better Sunday, losing 12-2 at Okotoks while getting goals from Joshua Critch and Evan Cox. Ponoka was outshot 77-17 as Swier and Eli Falls combined to make 65 saves. ● Kyler O’Connor tallied twice and Simon Thieleman made 46 saves for the host Stettler Lightning in a 3-2 win over the Mountainview Colts Friday.

Steve Blacklock had the other Stettler goal. Michael Byer faced 34 shots in the Colts net.

Evanecz out of running for Raiders finish without full-time status at Q-school win at SAIT tournament LA QUINTA, Calif. — Red Deer’s Mitch Evanecz struggled to a 3-over 75 on Sunday and is tied for 140th heading into today’s final 18 holes of the six-round PGA qualifying tournament.

The top 25 and ties from the field of 172 players will earn their PGA cards for the 2013 season and the next 50 and ties will get their Web.com Tour cards.

The rest of the field will have parttime status on the Web.com Tour for 2013.

Evanecz, who carded a 2-under 70 in Saturday’s fourth round, started fine on Sunday with seven consecutive pars but ended his day with a pair of bogeys and with a five-round total of 1-over 361 is out of the running for full-time status on either tour.

Meanwhile, Calgary’s Ryan Yip turned in a 2-under 70 on Sunday and is tied for 116th — with a 356 total — with one round to go.

Australia’s Steven Bowditch shot an 8-under 64 on Sunday to take a one-stroke lead into the final round.

Bowditch had a 23-under 337 total.

Kris Blanks was second after a 66, and Derek Ernst (66), Steve LeBrun (67) and Edward Loar (68) followed at 21 under.

Ottawa’s Brad Fritsch, who already has his PGA Tour card for next season but is looking to improve his standing, shot a 66 and is part of a group tied for 11th at 18 under.

Sweden’s Robert Karlsson, an 11-time winner on the European Tour winner, and England’s Ross Fisher, a four-time European Tour winner, are also tied for 11th.

Karlsson shot 68, and Fisher had a 67.

Two-time heart transplant recipient Erik Compton was tied for 15th at 17 under after a 67. Tom Pernice, the oldest player in the field at 53, also was 17 under after a 68.

Camilo Villegas, a three-time PGA Tour winner, had a 73 to drop from a tie for 20th to a tie for 46th at 12 under.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL CALGARY — The Lindsay Thurber Raiders fell 51-45 to Bishop Grandin of Calgary Saturday and finished 0-3 in the SAIT senior high girls basketball tournament.

Emma Newton scored 12 points and Mikayla Morneault added 11 in a losing cause.

The Raiders open their Central Alberta League season Tuesday at 6 p.m. against the visiting Wetaskiwin Sabres. The senior boys game will follow. ● The Notre Dame Cougars JV boys took top honours in the GO Logowear weekend tournament at St. Albert, defeating M.E. Lazerte of Edmonton 46-39 in the final.

The Cougars opened the tourney with a pair of Friday wins — 44-34 over Luther of Regina and 54-39 over Airdrie Bert Church.

The Notre Dame JV girls finished with a 1-2 record in the tournament, pulling off a 46-39 win over M.E. Lazerte in their final contest after losing to Bert Church and Sherwood Park Salisbury by scores of 44-37 and 65-39.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 B5

Beckham leaves lasting legacy on MLS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS David Beckham came, he sold, he conquered.

For the first two years after he joined the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007, he was more of a brand than a player, his impact at America’s cash registers far greater than any transformation on the field.

By the time the 37-year-old English midfielder played his final game in Major League Soccer on Saturday, he had achieved his footballing and his financial goals, winning two more titles and expanding the U.S. audience for his sport.

He gained attention for his ability, and not just for his ever-changing hairstyles, Spice Girl wife and celebrity friends.

“When I decided to come here, I think I raised a little bit of interest, and I hope that’s what I’ve done,” Beckham said. “If that’s the single thing that I’ve done, then great. But I think the foundations are there now in this league. It’s a 17-year-old league and the foundations are great. It will continue to grow.”

The league expanded by about 50 per cent, with new teams announced during the Beckham era that started play in San Jose (2008), Seattle (2009), Philadelphia (2010), Vancouver and Portland (2011), and Montreal (2012). That raised the total to 19.

Ground was broken for football-specific stadiums in Houston, Kansas City and Philadelphia, the longdelayed venue in New Jersey was completed, and extensive renovations took place in Montreal, Portland and Vancouver.

MLS’ regular-season attendance averaged 15,504 in 2006, the last season before Beckham left Real Madrid to sign with the Galaxy. It was up to a record 18,807 this year, still well short of the record 44,293 set by the Bundesliga in 2011-12 and the 35,356 for England’s Premier League.

Beckham said his goals were to win and increase awareness of the league both domestically and abroad.

“I don’t think anybody would doubt that he has over-delivered on every one of those measures,” MLS Commissioner Don Garber said. “There’s arguably not a soccer fan on this planet that doesn’t know the L.A. Galaxy and Major League Soccer, and David played a significant role in helping us make that happen. He was an unbelievable ambassador for the league, for the Galaxy.”

Beckham made his debut for Manchester United’s first team in 1992, the year when he turned 17 and played alongside Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville for the Red Devils’ winning team in the FA Youth Cup. At 21, he made his debut for England.

He helped United win six Premier League titles, two FA Cups and the 1999 Champions League. Sold to Real for 35 million euros (then $41 million), he won Spain’s La Liga in his fourth and final season.

By then, he had already announced he was moving to Los Angeles. While his handlers and the Galaxy hyped the deal as being worth “in excess $250 million,” it turned out to be a $32.5 million, five-year contract. Still, he earned 50 times the league’s average of $129,395 in 2008 and twice as much as any

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Los Angeles Galaxy’s David Beckham, top center, of England, poses with his sons, from left, Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz after the Galaxy’s 3-1 win in the MLS Cup championship soccer match against the Houston Dynamo in Carson, Calif., Saturday. other player.

Following his first Galaxy appearance, in a friendly against Chelsea, he was given a welcoming party hosted by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. A crowd of 46,686 showed up for his MLS debut on Aug. 9, 2007, at D.C. United.

While injuries limited his playing time, the five games he played averaged 37,659 fans — in a league where the overall average that year was 16,770. MLS jersey sales rose 780 per cent.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that David has increased the visibility of MLS and the sport more generally,” U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati said. “That very positive impact will be felt for many years.”

When Beckham arrived, his mind seemed to be on England as much as it was on California. He commuted back to play for the national team, hoping to make its 2010 World Cup squad, and played on loan for AC Milan in early 2009 and 2010.

While in Italy, he tore his left Achilles tendon, ending his England career after 17 goals and 115 appearances — second only to goalkeeper Peter Shil-

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Matt Zentner made 25 saves in the Red Deer net. Jordan Papirny stopped 37 shots for Southside.

The Rebels Chiefs were easy 6-0 winners over the visiting Edmonton Maple Leafs Friday as Jayden Sittler made just 11 saves for the shutout.

Red Deer fired 43 shots at Maple Leafs stopper Taylor Shukalak while getting three goals from Dustin Gorgi and singles courtesy of Jacob Schofield, Rory Davidson and Trey DeGraaf.

The Rebels Chiefs will host the Edmonton Canadians Friday at 8 p.m. at the Arena.

RDC men’s curling team finishes 3-3 at Fall Regional

The Red Deer Renegades U12 tier 2 girls soccer team settled for a 2-2 weekend tie with Edmonton Scottish.

overall. The women’s team consists of Kaitlyn Sherrer, Julie Primrose, Tanis Steinbach, Lindsay Janko and Tayler Lindstrom.

Brooke Kristianson and Kadence Roberge netted the Red Deer goals. Hannah Wirtanen was the Renegades’ keeper.

Bulldogs down Circle T The Bulldogs downed Circle T 69-62 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play.

Travis Rasmussen had 18 points and Robert Swainson 17 for the ‘Dogs with Troy Normand and Aaron Lucas hitting 15 each for Circle T. In other action, Investor’s Group downed the Rusty Chuckers 98-61 with Lars Plaetner hitting 20 points, Ray Teskey 19 and Jeremy Roberge 18.

Rusty Gilchrist had 17 points and Clint Unsworth 15 for the Chuckers.

GRANDE PRAIRIE — The RDC men’s curling team finished 3-3 in the Fall Regional during the weekend and are now tied for fourth place in Alberta Colleges season play.

The team of Jason Johanson, Brett Matjka, Joe Ireland, Reid Stoyberg and Cam Smith got off to a slow start but rallied to win their final two games.

The RDC mixed squad of Nicole Ireland, Jack Sugden, Trayn Williams and Jeff Ireland posted a 1-4 record and are tied for fourth, while the women’s team was 1-5 and sits sixth

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Only after the injury did he seem to focus on MLS. His relationship with Galaxy co-star Landon Donovan improved — Donovan took back the captain’s armband — and Beckham helped Los Angeles to three straight league finals — beating Houston in the title game in 2011 and this year. He scored 20 goals in 116 competitive appearances over 6 ½ years.

Only in television ratings did MLS fail to achieve a long-term boost. The league’s regular-season telecasts on ESPN and ESPN2 averaged 311,000 viewers this year, up less than 5 per cent over 2007.

Rafa Marquez, Thierry Henry and Robbie Keane followed him to MLS. Frank Lampard and Kaka may become the next big stars to join the league.

The very best players, Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Real’s Cristiano Ronaldo, are far too good and far too expensive to leave Europe for MLS right now, a league still in its developmental stage.

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Vonn completes another sweep at ‘Lake Lindsey’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAKE LOUISE — Lindsey Vonn is in a class by herself in women’s World Cup skiing at Lake Louise.

After winning both downhills, Vonn capped a sweep with a victory in Sunday’s super-G The American ski star scored a hat trick at the Alberta resort for the second straight year after winning all three races in 2011.

Vonn brought her career wins at Lake Louise to 14.

Is that enough to prompt the world governing body of skiing to re-consider Vonn’s request to race the men’s World Cup there? Vonn would like to think so.

“It’s not like I’m getting 20th every day and saying I want to race the men,” Vonn said. “I try to let my skiing speak for itself.

“I think this weekend was the next step for me and a testament to why I want to race with the men.”

The U.S. women’s team had a banner weekend in the season-opening speed events. Julia Mancuso was second in Sunday’s super-G after Stacey Cook was runner-up to Vonn in both downhills.

Anna Fenninger of Austria was third Sunday. Larisa Yurkiw of Owen Sound, Ont., was the top Canadian in 25th.

Vonn felt pressure to win at Lake Louise this year. In October, the defending overall World Cup champion asked FIS to allow her to compete the men’s World Cup on the same mountain. FIS denied her request.

Vonn arrived in Alberta not feeling her best. The lingering affects from a stomach ailment that hospitalized her for two nights in November drained her energy.

She finished 21st in a giant slalom in Aspen, Colo., prior to her arrival in Lake Louise. Tina Maze of Slovenia jumped into the lead in the overall standings with a pair of giant slalom victories to start the season.

Vonn felt uncertain about how she would perform, but Lake Louise was once again “Lake Lindsey.”

“I was in a pretty rough place sitting in a hospital bed and everyone is training and skiing fast and Tina is winning everything and, ’Great. How am I supposed to get up and keep going? I have no training, I have no energy,”’ she recalled. “I’ve never quite dealt with something like that before. I didn’t know what was going to happen.

“I came up here trying to have a clean slate, giving myself every chance to do well and it turned around. This really sets me up well for the rest of the season. This is exactly the weekend I needed.”

Vonn rolled her eyes at Internet rumours that her hospitalization and stomach pains were due to pregnancy.

“Oh yeah. It’s awesome,” she said sarcastically. “Do I look pregnant?

Maybe I had too much breakfast. People write crap all the time and I have to take it in stride.”

It’s not just her wins, but her margin of victory at Lake Louise that sets her apart.

Vonn beat the field in Friday’s season-opening downhill by 1.73 seconds.

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Lindsey Vonn speeds down the course during the Ladies’ Super-G at the Lake Louise Winterstart World Cup in Lake Louise, Sunday. third that day was one hundredth of a second.

Despite a major slip halfway down the course, the 28-year-old from Burnsville, Minn., won again Saturday by .52 seconds. Vonn completed her sweep Sunday skiing .42 seconds clear of the field.

“Honestly, it doesn’t matter if I won by one tenth or one second,” she said.

“I think it definitely validates my cause a little bit more by winning by a larger margin, but it’s just a win and that’s all that matters to me.”

With her super-G win back in 2010, Vonn is the first woman to string together seven straight wins at one venue. The previous record was six by Sweden’s Anja Paerson in Maribor, Germany.

Stoughton, Lawton win Canada’s Cup of curling Kings edge Lakeland,

Queens remain winless

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MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Jeff Stoughton of Winnipeg defeated world champion Glenn Howard 4-3 on Sunday in the men’s final of the Capital One Canada’s Cup of curling, while Stephanie Lawton won the women’s title.

Stoughton and Lawton each scored in the 10th end to secure a spot in the 2013 Roar of the Rings.

Lawton — teaming up with Marliese Kasner, Sherri Singler and Sherry Anderson — won 6-4 over a Jennifer Jones team that was being skipped by Kaitlyn Lawes.

Stoughton was joined by Jon Mead, Reid Carruthers and Mark Nichols in taking out the Coldwater, Ont., skip.

The men’s and women’s champions receive one of the six automatic qualification spots for the Roar of the Rings next December in Winnipeg — the tournament that will determine Canada’s entries at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

“It’s huge,” Lawton said on clinching her spot.

“You count points all year — the last couple of years — to get that berth. We don’t have to worry about counting points, and where you’re ranking. . . For sure, that feels really good.”

Lawes, meanwhile, is handling skip duties for Jones’ Winnipeg rink since Jones gave birth to a baby girl two weeks ago and is also recovering from knee surgery.

Lawes’ team includes Dawn Askin, Jill Officer and Kirsten Wall.

“It was an interesting year for us,” said Lawes.

“Definitely learned a lot and we had a wonderful time playing with Kirsten. It would have been nice to finish it off with her, but we’re happy with our week at the Canada Cup. To make the final is really satisfying.”

Howard’s rink consisted of Craig Savill, Brent Laing and Wayne Middaugh.

PIERCE GETS 22 REBOUNDS FOR MEN, WOOLLEY GETS NINE POINTS IN WOMEN’S LOSS

BASKETBALL LLOYDMINSTER — Lloyd Strickland poured in 27 points as the RDC Kings edged the Lakeland Rustlers 94-91 in overtime in Alberta Colleges men’s basketball action Saturday.

The Kings, who wrapped up the first half of their schedule with a 9-1 mark, got an additional 19 points from Ashaunti Hogan. Robert Pierce contributed 13 points and 22 rebounds.

Earlier, the RDC Queens fell 63-46 to Lakeland in women’s play. Amrei Bondlio led the 0-10 Queens with 10 points, while RDC player of the game Melissa Woolley scored nine and Desirae Paterson had seven rebounds.

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Tree honours the departed ORNAMENTS CREATED IN THE MEMORIES OF THOSE LOST ADDED AT TREE OF REMEMBRANCE SERVICE

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AUTHOR SPEAKS AT KERRY WOOD Animals and plants transplanted to new, unique environments is the subject of a globe-trotting author’s presentation on Friday. Glen Chilton, a Canadian university teacher now living in Australia, will talk about his book Attack of the Killer Rhododendrons at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 7 p.m. The talk is jointly sponsored by the nature centre and the Red Deer River Naturalists. Chilton’s book and presentation look at how plants and animals have been moved from their native lands to others, often with weird and even devastating results. An Alberta example he’ll detail is the Banff longnose dace, a small fish that once thrived in the area’s hot pools, but became extinct after exotic fish were introduced. Other cases involve Asian termites in New Orleans, Japanese oysters in the Netherlands and eucalyptus trees in Ethiopia. The lighthearted talk that’s suitable for youth is free and begins at 7 p.m.

JAZZ HISTORY AT LIBRARY Things will get jazzed up with December’s first Thursdays in the Snell. Once a month, the Red Deer Public Library hosts an event on the first Thursday of the month in the Snell auditorium.

For December, that event is the history of jazz with downtown.

The event runs from 12:15 to 1 p.m. at the Snell auditorium at the downtown library branch, 4818 49th St. There is no admission charge, but a free will donation will be accepted at the door.

Coffee and tea is provided by Cafe Noir and people can buy a lunch or bring their own for the event. As with all first Thursday events, they are streamed live for those who can’t attend at www.rdpl.org/events/ liveAtRDPL.

CAMPERS HELP FOOD BANK The Mountain View County Food Bank has benefitted from the generosity of the Westward Ho Campers Association. The association donated $10,000 to help the food bank over the Christmas season. The year-old association, which also supports a local sports team, is a non-profit organization formed to operate Westward Ho Family Park and Campground under an operating agreement with the county which owns the property.

Celebration mixes with heartbreak as, one after another, daughters, sons, grandchildren, wives, husbands, sisters and brothers hang Christmas tree ornaments created in the memories of those they have lost.

Christmas is an especially challenging season for people who have lost loved ones in the previous year, says Pastor Dale Fallon, chaplain for the palliative care section — Unit 32 — at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

It’s difficult to celebrate when there is an empty chair at the table, says Fallon.

To help ease families through the season, the staff and volunteers at Unit 32 have created an annual remembrance celebration, including a prayer service after which people are invited to hang memorial ornaments on a special tree in the hospital’s chapel.

The 23rd-annual Tree of Remembrance Service, held in a hospital auditorium on Sunday, honoured the families and friends of the 150 people who died while under care on the unit between November of 2011 and September of this year.

Palliative care is targeted at people whose illnesses cannot be cured, said Fallon.

Some people return from the unit to long-term care and some go home. But the gravity of their condition is such that Unit 32 is a place where many people will spend the last days of their lives.

The idea of holding an annual celebration was brought to Red Deer by a nurse who had worked in another hospital, where a similar program was in place, said Wendy Henry, who is one of the charge nurses on Unit 32.

Along the assistance they provide for patients on the unit, its palliative care team looks after the needs of their families, helping them learn to cope with their loss.

Henry said she does not believe professional staff can afford to let their own emotions interfere with the care they provide their patients and the families of their patients.

She experienced the unit “from the other side of the desk” in August, when her stepmother, Claire Ellis, died after battling a lengthy illness.

“You have to be professional. You’re the one who has to keep it together, because everybody else is really upset. It was way different with Claire, because that was my family.”

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Brian Ellis hangs an ornament in memory of his mother, Claire, who died while under care on Unit 32 in August.

THOUGHTS FOR THE BEREAVED AT HOLIDAYS Inspirational writer Joanetta Hendel, in 1989, published an article entitled Thoughts For the Holidays, targetted especially at people who are dealing with the loss of loved ones.

Hendel offers eight pieces of advice in this excerpt from her work: ● Plan ahead. Bereaved individuals who experience the most diffculty with the holiday season are those who have given little thought to the challenges they will encounter. ● Accept your limitations. Plan to lower your expectations to accommodate current needs. ● Make changes. Servce notice on family and

friends that this year, things may be somewhat different. ● Trim down to essentials. Limit social and family commitments, re-evaluate priorities and forego unnecessary activities and obligations. ● Ask for and accept help. ● Inform others of your needs. Keep family and friends up to date when those needs change.

-● Build in flexibility. Learn to take each moment as it comes. ● Give yourself permission to be. Allow yourself the privilege of limping until your wounds have healed and you can learn to run again.

For the staff to be kind with patients and their families makes all the difference in the world, said Henry, who has worked on Unit 32 since 1986.

Her stepbrother, Brian Ellis, said he valued the help offered in both Red Deer and at the Calgary Foothills Hospital because his mother was kept in good spirits to the end.

“She went through the entire ordeal saying that the staff were incredible. She had not one bad thing to say about anybody who cared for her,” said Ellis.

Fallon said that, while the service has strong Christian foundations, its organizers do their best to include people of all faiths.

“We try not to make it so aggressively Christian in a sense, but it is within a Christian context,” he said.

The celebration is timed to give people a chance to reflect and celebrate the lives of those who have been lost during a time of the year when they will be missed the most, he said. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Yuletide Festival to keep on going RESPONSE RAISES CASH FOR URGENT CARE CENTRE

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Sylvan Lake’s first Yuletide Festival will definitely become an annual event, say organizers.

Despite the frightful weather outside on Friday and Saturday, sponsors, donors and participants found plenty of ways to keep warm inside, raising just over $10,000 toward the urgent care centre they are pressuring Alberta Health Services to build.

The need for an urgent care facility is critical in Sylvan Lake, where existing medical facilities are pushed to the limit to keep up with the needs of their patients, said Dr. Johannes Myburgh, a partner in one of the town’s two medical clinics.

Dr. Johannes Attending the celebra- Myburgh tions on Saturday, Myburgh said the doctors and staff at his clinic commonly start at 8:30 in the morning and work through until 6 p.m., with additional hours on Saturday.

It is not unusual for someone calling in with an emergency to be deferred to the walk-in clinics in Red Deer because there is no way to slot them in, said Myburgh.

“If you look at how our system works, we try to accommodate as many patients as possible. We will see walk-in patients at our clinic, but you can only see so many,” he said.

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Graham Parsons stacks some wrapped gifts as he and other volunteers prepare for the Spirit of Sylvan Yuletide Festival.

‘THE NEED FOR AN URGENT CARE FACILITY IS CRITICAL IN SYLVAN LAKE, WHERE EXISTING MEDICAL FACILITIES ARE PUSHED TO THE LIMIT TO KEEP UP WITH THE NEEDS OF THEIR PATIENTS.’ — DR. JOHANNES MYBURGH

Probably the biggest frustration for Sylvan Lake physicians is that there is no lab service after hours, so someone coming in with an emergency still needs to go to Red Deer for tests, where they may sit for hours awaiting results.

“I think the biggest problem still is after hours and weekends. You can’t do a lot if the lab is not available,” said Myburgh.

It is also difficult to look at Lacombe, which has a similar population and is a similar distance to Red Deer, but has its own hospital and emergency services, he said.

There were plans when there was still a regional health board for an urgent care facility to serve Sylvan Lake and the northern part of Red Deer. But those plans disappeared with the system was restructured, said Myburgh.

He said it doesn’t make sense to him for people to go all the way to Red Deer and then sit and wait when emergency services could be made available in Sylvan Lake.

Mayor Susan Samson said the push for urgent care is a regional initiative, includ-

ing Eckville, Benalto and Bentley with a total draw of about 18,000 people.

Besides raising money to equip a new urgent care facility, the Sylvan Yuletide Festival helped keep the issue in front of the people who have the ability to move the process along, said Samson.

“We’re in a holding pattern. We’re always waiting for something to happen. Now, we’re waiting for Alberta Health Services to look at the overall provincial plan for what services they’re going to deliver in 2013.

“We’ve been identified as a need in that plan. Whether any dollars will be allocated to us, we’re not sure,” she said.

Graham Parsons, chair of the Yuletide Festival committee, said he was “tinkled pink” with the results from the inaugural event and that plans are now falling into place for the 2013 festival, to be held on Nov. 29 and 30.

Committee members learned a few lessons this year that will be implemented for 2013, said Parsons. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Heat’s on climate policy OBAMA’S DECISION ON US-CANADA OIL PIPELINE MAY PREVIEW NEW TERM’S ENERGY, CLIMATE APPROACH

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — It’s a decision President Barack Obama put off during the 2012 campaign, but now that he’s won a second term, his next move on a proposed oil pipeline between the U.S. and Canada may signal how he will deal with climate and energy issues in the four years ahead.

Obama is facing increasing pressure to determine the fate of the $7 billion Keystone XL project, with environmental activists and oil producers each holding out hope that the president, freed from the political constraints of re-election, will side with them on this and countless other related issues down the road.

On its surface, it’s a choice between the promise of jobs and economic growth and environmental concerns. But it’s also become a proxy for a broader fight over American energy consumption and climate change, amplified by Superstorm Sandy and the conclusion of an election that was all about the economy.

“The broader climate movement is absolutely looking at this administration’s Keystone XL decision as a really significant decision to signal that dirty fuels are not acceptable in the U.S.,” said Danielle Droitsch, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defence Council.

Once content with delays that have kept the pipeline from moving forward at full speed, opponents of Keystone XL have launched protests in recent weeks at the White House and in Texas urging Obama to kill the project outright. On Capitol Hill, support for the pipeline appears to be gaining.

But Obama has shown little urgency about the pipeline, which would carry crude oil about 1,700 miles from western Canada to Texas Gulf Coast refineries. The pipeline requires State Department approval because it crosses an international boundary.

The pipeline became an issue in the campaign, and Obama put it on hold while a plan was worked out to avoid routing it through Nebraska’s environmentally sensi-

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President Barack Obama arrives at the TransCanada Stillwater Pipe Yard in Cushing, Okla.

Embarking on a second term, Obama faces mounting pressure on a decision he had put off during his re-election campaign: whether to approve the $7 billion proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline between the U.S. and Canada. tive Sandhills region.

TransCanada, the company applying to build it, revised the route, but that caused the lengthy environmental review process to start over.

In the meantime, the company split the project into two parts, starting construction in August on a southern segment between Oklahoma and Texas even as it waits for approval for the northern segment that crosses the Canadian border.

Although the lower leg didn’t require Obama’s sign-off, he gave it his blessing in

China approves A123 purchase China has approved a proposal by auto parts conglomerate Wanxiang Group Corp. to purchase the assets of bankrupt U.S. battery maker A123 Systems. The Chinese Commerce Ministry’s approval of the bid was announced by the official Xinhua News Agency on Sunday.

Wanxiang, based in Zhejiang province, is interested in buying substantially all of the assets of A123, which is based in Waltham, Massachusetts. It will have to compete with other bidders, including Johnson Controls Inc., a U.S. auto parts maker in Milwaukee, which has offered $125 million for A123’s automotive assets.

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March anyway, irking environmental activists who see the pipeline as a slap to efforts to reduce oil consumption and fend off climate change.

“At a time when we are desperately trying to bend the emissions curve downwards, it is wrong to open up a new source of energy that is more carbon intensive and makes the problem worse,” wrote former Vice-President Al Gore, now a climate activist, in an email.

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Iran to boost oil production TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s oil minister has said the country plans to increase its oil production capacity to up to 5.2 million barrels per day by early 2016. A Sunday report by state TV quotes Rostam Ghasemi as saying this requires some $300 billion investment in the oil industry. He says current capacity is about four million barrels per day.

The remarks come as the country is struggling to sell crude oil due to Western sanctions over its disputed nuclear program.

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He acknowledged that Republicans are “having a tough time trying to figure out what they can do, what they can get support from their members for.”

The White House “might need to give them a little more time to figure out where they go next.”

Geithner presented congressional leaders Thursday with Obama’s postelection blueprint for averting the combination of hundreds of billions in tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect beginning in January if Washington doesn’t act to stop it.

The Bank of Canada is expected to announce this week that it is leaving interest rates unchanged and continue to give the impression that it’s in no rush to move them off ultra-low levels.

No surprises are expected Tuesday with economists confident the central bank will continue to keep its key interest rate unchanged at one per cent.

And the bank will likely leave the language in the announcement largely unchanged, indicating that a hike in rates is still far away amid worsening economic conditions around the globe.

Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets, doesn’t see the bank hiking rates until at least a year from now and adds that the risk is the bank may take even longer to hike rates.

“It’s very difficult to see the bank raising rates before then. Growth is struggling to hit two per cent, inflation is struggling to stay above one per cent, the currency remains doggedly above parity, there’s no obvious reason for the bank to be raising rates in that environment for quite some time.”

The latest indication of weakness came on Friday when Statistics Canada reported there was no growth in gross domestic product during September following a 0.1 per cent dip during August.

That translated into third-quarter economic growth of 0.6 per cent on an annualized basis, versus expectations of 0.8 per cent growth as exports registered their worst decline in three years.

There will likely be another reading of weak growth Friday when the agency releases the November employment report.

“I think we will be fortunate to see any job growth in November,” said Porter.

“We are seeing moderate job growth, just enough to keep the unemployment rate flat over the last year and I think that could be the story going into the next 12 months ... that we get just enough job growth to keep unemployment from rising but I think at this stage of the cycle we would do very well to do better than that.”

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answeres questions about averting the “fiscal cliff” on the December 2nd edition of Face the Nation. Geithner said Republicans have to stop using fuzzy ‘political math’ and say how much they are willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest two percent of Americans and then specify the spending cuts they want, Treasury Secretary.

Geithner says next move up to Republicans ‘MUST ACCEPT HIGHER TAX RATES ON TOP EARNERS’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is ready to entertain Republican proposals for spending cuts, but GOP lawmakers must first commit to higher tax rates on the rich and specify what additional spending cuts they want in a deal to avoid the looming “fiscal cliff,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said.

“The ball really is with them now,” Geithner, one of the president’s chief negotiators with Capitol Hill, said during appearances on five Sunday talk shows.

Investors prefer honesty from advisers over returns

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Who would you prefer — an investment adviser who is honest, communicates well and is willing to spend time to work with you, or one who gets you returns?

Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, a recent study by BMO Nesbit Burns has found that Canadians would prefer the former rather than the latter.

With so much uncertainty and volatility in financial markets and world economies, getting good advice from a qualified financial ad-

viser or planner is more important than ever.

“There is tremendous value in working with a trusted investment adviser given the sideways movement we’ve seen in the markets and the myriad of financial options available to Canadian investors today,” said Bill Brown, senior vicepresident and managing director of BMO Nesbitt Burns. “Working closely with a professional who understands your financial goals and can identify a suitable investing

strategy can greatly enhance your ability to succeed when it comes to managing your investments.”

The BMO study found that when selecting an adviser, 89 per cent of Canadians want trustworthiness and honesty, 88 per cent look for knowledge level, 83 per cent experience,76 per cent look for a good track record and availability, and 75 per cent want a good reputation and confidence level.

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HONESTY: Different expectations The study also showed that 82 per cent of Canadians want their adviser to explain their investments in easy-tounderstand terms. Eighty-four per cent say it is more important to get returns that meet the targets of their financial plans while 71 per cent think it’s more important to get returns that outperform the market.

Finding a good adviser is not that easy because financial planning is not regulated in most Canadian provinces, which means that anyone can call themselves a financial planner. However, not everyone who refers to themselves as a financial planner is actually qualified. Many so called financial planners actually are licensed to sell products but have no actual financial planning or expertise.

Some of the financial planning credentials on the market include certified financial planner (CFP), personal financial planner (PFP), chartered financial consultant (CH.F.P) and registered financial planner (RFP).

Additional qualifications financial planners hold may include chartered accountant (CA), certified general accountant (CGA), investment dealer, mutual fund dealer and insurance broker.

“In the absence of government regulation, consumers must ensure their planner is trained, certified and held accountable in providing professional financial planning,” says the Financial Planning Standards Council, which offers the following tips to help consumers find the right planner. ● Do some independent research to maximize your familiarity with financial planning terms and strategies. Understanding the basics will allow you to engage more in the process. ● Think about your financial and personal goals. Financial planning is about putting the right strategies in place to meet your life goals. ● Speak with friends and family whom you trust to see if they know of or have worked with advisers they would recommend. Interview more than one planner, verify their credentials and get referrals. ● Understand fee structures. Planners are paid in a variety of ways, such as commissions, fees and salaries, so it’s important to understand how each planner will be compensated. ● Insist on a written agreement, usually called a letter of engagement, outlining the specific terms of the engagement and any potential conflicts of interest. The letter should clearly disclose the planner’s method of compensation and business affiliations.

Frequent communication is crucial, and make sure your planner understands your needs as they change over time, and have your plan amended and updated accordingly.

Honesty, trust and communication on both sides are critical to the success of the financial planning relationship.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

PIPELINE: Polarized political climate Still, in an otherwise highly polarized political climate, access to affordable energy has become a rare issue with bipartisan appeal.

“It’s just a no-brainer,” Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., told The Associated Press. “Canada is going to export this oil. It’s either going to come to the U.S. or it’s going to go to Russia or China.

Even Democrats that aren’t really excited about oil and gas development generally can figure that out.”

Many Democrats from states whose economies depend on oil support the pipeline. So do some trade unions, whose workers stand to gain thousands of new construction jobs. While environmentalists make up an important part of their base, Democratic lawmakers are under intense pressure to create jobs and reduce American reliance on Mideast oil.

There’s less variation among Republicans, who generally support the project.

But in Texas, a deep red state that normally embraces the oil industry, the project has drawn intense opposition from landowners who argue their property along the pipeline’s route is being unfairly condemned.

Their complaints, along with those from Texans who oppose an influx of foreign oil from Canadian tar sands, have fostered an unlikely alliance with environmentalists, who have taken to chaining themselves to machinery and trucks in an attempt to stall construction.

The messy politics may demonstrate why Obama punted the decision until after the election. Now both sides are applying pressure with renewed vigour.

A group of Keystone XL opponents, organized by climate activist Bill McKibben, marched on the White House in November, hoping to call attention to an issue that got barely a mention during the presidential campaign. Days earlier, nine Democratic and nine Republican senators sent Obama a letter urging him to stop stalling.

North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven, a Republican who helped organize the letter, said there’s been no response from the White House, which declined to comment.

The ratings agency Moody’s says it expects Obama will eventually approve the pipeline, but it won’t be

quick.

Take too long to approve the permitting, Moody’s warned in a November report, and Obama risks missing the boom in oil prices that instigated the pipeline in the first place.

Estimates for how many jobs the pipeline would create range from a few thousand up to 20,000 or more. At 36 inches in diameter, the pipeline will have an initial capacity of 700,000 barrels a day. That’s significant because demand for oil and gas pipelines is expected to surge over the next four years, according to a November report

by The Freedonia Group, a market research firm.

A TransCanada spokesman said the company expects a decision by the State Department, which is determining whether the pipeline is in the national interest, in the first quarter of 2013, and hopes to start construction on the upper portion shortly thereafter. The longer the decision drags on, the less realistic that timeline appears to be.

Officials in Nebraska are close to completing their own study of the revised route, with a public hearing planned for Tuesday ahead of a final decision by Gov. Dave Heineman.

Online: TransCanada: http://www.transcanada.com/keystone.html

SPEAKER: Says plan not serious But House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, dismissed the plan as “not serious,” merely a Democratic wish list that couldn’t pass his chamber.

As outlined by administration officials, the plan calls for nearly $1.6 trillion in new tax revenue over the next decade, while making $600 billion in spending cuts, including $350 billion from Medicare and other health programs.

But it also contains $200 billion in new spending on jobless benefits, public works and aid for struggling homeowners — and would make it virtually impossible for Congress to block Obama’s ability to raise the debt ceiling.

“I was just flabbergasted,” Boehner said, describing his meeting with Geithner.

“I looked at him and I said, ‘You can’t be serious?” The speaker, noting the short time between the Nov. 6 election and the new year, said time has been lost so far “with this nonsense.”

With the George W. Bush-era tax cuts expiring and across-the-board spending cuts hitting in under a month, Boehner said, “I would say we’re nowhere, period.” He said “there’s clearly a chance” of going over the cliff.

But Geithner, also in interviews that were taped Friday, offered a somewhat rosier view. “I think we’re far apart still, but I think we’re moving closer together,” he said.

He called the back-and-forth “normal political theatre,” voicing confidence a bargain can be struck in time, and said all that’s blocking it is GOP acceptance of higher tax rates on the wealthy.

“It’s welcome that they’re recognizing that revenues are going to have to go up. But they haven’t told us anything about how far rates should go up ... (and) who should pay higher taxes?”

Geithner said.

He said so far, GOP proposals demonstrate “political math, not real math.”

Republican leaders have said they accept higher tax revenue overall, but only through what they call tax reform — closing loopholes and limiting deductions — and only coupled with tough measures to curb the explosive growth of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

But Geithner insisted that there’s “no path to an agreement (without) Republicans acknowledging that rates have to go up for the wealthiest Americans.”

He also said the administration would only discuss changes to Social Security “in a separate process,” not in talks on the fiscal cliff.

As to spending, Geithner said if Republicans don’t think Obama’s cutting enough spending, they should make a counter-proposal. “They might want to do some different things. But they have to tell us what those things are,” he said.

Republicans have also rejected Obama’s debt ceiling proposal. Geithner noted it was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who first suggested it, as a temporary measure in the summer 2011 deficit deal.

JOBS: Storm impact U.S. jobs data also comes out Friday and expectations are fairly muted, largely because of the impact of superstorm Sandy in the northeast.

“We’re looking for a gain of just a bit more than 100,000 in overall employment, which is a bit of a step back from what we saw in October,” said Porter, who thinks job gains would be in the neighbourhood of 200,000 had it not been for Sandy.

The storm affected 24 states, with the most severe damage in New York and New Jersey as business was severely curtailed.

On a more positive note, the December number will look quite good because November figures could be adjusted upward.

Meanwhile, it’s the fear of worsening economies that is expected to produce another volatile week on stock markets as traders look for some progress in avoiding a serious budget impasse in the U.S. that could result in steep tax increases and significant spending cuts at the start of 2013.

Britain’s Treasury chief says debt reduction taking longer than expected THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Britain’s Treasury chief acknowledged Sunday the economy is taking longer than expected to recover from the financial crisis, but insisted he will not waver from his policy of tax hikes and spending cuts.

George Osborne said the British government might miss its self-imposed goals of cutting debt as a share of national income by 2015/16 and of balancing the current budget.

Osborne said he would introduce new tax measures for the rich on Wednesday, along with further moves to trim welfare spending.

The Conservative-led government is cutting 50 billion pounds ($80 billion) in spending through 2015 in a bid to slash the national debt, which stands at more than 1 trillion pounds ($1.6 trillion).

But critics say the government’s austerity policy has failed to kickstart the economy, which has been through two periods of recession since 2008.

“It is clearly taking longer to deal with Britain’s debts, it’s clearly taking longer to recover from the financial crisis than one would have hoped, but we have made real progress,” Osborne told BBC television.

But he insisted that

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British Finance Minister George Osborne, right, speaks to an unidentified member of his delegation during a meeting of EU finance ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels. Shoring up Europe’s banking sector and strengthening oversight of economic policies topped the agenda of a meeting of the European Union’s 27 finance ministers. any change of course now “would be a complete disaster.”

“Undermining the credibility of our deficit plan, going back on our commitment to deal with our debts, would be a complete catastrophe for Britain,” he said. “(That) would put us into the place where some European coun-

tries are at the moment and that is not a place where Britain wants to be.”

Ahead of Osborne’s semi-annual statement, the Office for Budget Responsibility will announce financial figures, expected to show higher borrowing and lower growth than previous estimates.

Merkel may forgive some of Greece’s debt

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — Germany no longer rules out the possibility of forgiving Greece some of its debt once the country’s finances are in order, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, signalling a softening of her government’s tough stance on Greece.

The question of debt forgiveness, or

a “haircut,” can be revisited after the current bailout program will be successfully concluded and the government in Athens no longer takes on new debt, Merkel said Sunday.

Greece is trapped by an unsustainable debt level — forecast to reach 190 per cent of the country’s economic output next year — which forces it to drastically slash its budget.

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Twain’s triumphant return SHANIA TWAIN LAUDED WITH STANDING OVATIONS IN RETURN TO STAGE IN LAS VEGAS

BY NICK PATCH THE CANADIAN PRESS LAS VEGAS — Shania Twain roared into her first live show in more than eight years perched atop a glistening motorcycle on Saturday, dangling on wires at least three metres in the air in a sequined black catsuit, her thick brown hair flowing behind her.

Without singing a word, she then received her first standing ovation from an adoring Caesars Palace audience.

Shania was back.

And her new Las Vegas digs seemed an even better fit for the Canadian-bred country starlet than the skin-tight costume she wore as she stomped her thigh-high black boots back across the stage for the first time since July 2004.

Next, fierce guitars cut like buzzsaws as her 13-piece band launched into I’m Gonna Getcha Good and Twain strutted about the stage as if she’d never left.

But of course, she did leave — and she didn’t let the sold-out crowd forget that they were witnessing a tough, triumphant moment for the 47-yearold many still consider the Queen of Country.

“Thank you. Thank you so much — you guys are going to get me all emotional, and then my eyelashes are going to fall off,” said Twain, dabbing at her eyes as she addressed the audience for the first time.

“This is a very overwhelming night.... It’s been a lot of years for me since I’ve been here.

“I realize what I’ve been missing, thanks to you.”

And yet, this 100-minute show — titled Shania: Still the One — was at once a callback to one of the most successful runs in recent music history as well as a chic, cheeky look toward a new era in Twain’s career.

And she certainly looked rejuvenated.

She laughed often — even when it threatened to throw off her delicate diction — she blew kisses, she waded into the crowd, she mimed cymbal smashes and occasionally tossed off seemingly improvised dance moves imbued with the spontaneous joy of someone lost in the moment.

“You guys having a good time so far?” she asked halfway through her set.

“I hope so, ’cause that’s the only reason I do this.... Otherwise I would just stay on my lonesome and sing.”

Yes, Twain still effortlessly projected the warmly accessible cowgirl next door — even while wholeheartedly embracing the glitz and sizzle expected on the Las Vegas Strip.

The production values of the show were, indeed, dazzling. Performing at the Colosseum — a gloriously highceilinged, 4,298-seat modern replica of the Roman architectural marvel — inside sprawling Caesars Palace, Twain’s show featured no shortage of splashy surprises.

She first sent a jolt through the crowd by charging onstage on the back of a black stallion before launching into a rowdy take on Ain’t No Quitter with the stage decorated to look like a Wild West saloon.

During That Don’t Impress Me Much, meanwhile, huge metal pipes churned out smoke on either side of the stage while snarling leopards were projected on the walls.

And during You’re Still the One, she trotted onstage on a different horse — a white equine this time — before gently frolicking with it throughout the performance, confetti shaped like snowflakes falling from the sky.

The entire time, a high-definition screen behind her beamed kaleidoscopic visuals or all-new film clips starring Twain herself, helping along a narrative that the singer has said tells her own story.

Saturday’s show was extra meaningful in part because Twain has been in vocal rehabilitation for years, since reporting the sudden loss of her voice following her painful split from studio wizard and key creative collaborator Robert (Mutt) Lange.

If Twain showed hints of rust in her voice early, she only sounded more robust and comfortable as the gig went on, setting an especially lofty mark for herself during a lovely version of From This Moment On, with billowing white curtains fluttering overhead, smoke languidly filling the air around her feet and tribal drummers hammering away on either side of the stage.

And even her less sure-footed mo-

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Shania Twain performs onstage at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Saturday, in Las Vegas. The show kicks off a two-year residency at Caesars. ments didn’t slow her momentum. Although the event was tightly produced, it was also relaxed, and Twain let her banter flow naturally even if it slowed the pace of the slick show.

“I know I’m talking a lot,” she said with self-awareness at one point. “But this is the first opening night — I can’t help myself.”

While the show was a family friendly affair, Twain also proved that after nearly a decade spent out of the public eye she’s still not shy about tapping into the power of her sex appeal — and this is, after all, Vegas.

One video depicted her writhing about on a couch in lingerie, while another in the Wild West motif showed a steely-eyed Twain marching into a dusty town clad in a cowboy hat, long coat and bustier, eliciting enthusiastic whistles from a couple approving audience members.

Twain was arguably the first country star to take full advantage of MTV, and many of the outfits she wore paid homage to memorable duds from videos past.

She wore a modified version of the leopard-print hooded robe familiar from the That Don’t Impress Me Much clip and kicked off an encore performance of Man! I Feel Like a Woman in the familiar black undertaker’s coat and bowler hat with veil.

She cycled through a series of other outfits: a sparkling pink western button-down with matching cowboy boots and jeans; a glittering tank top with baggy animal-print pants; a glamorous long white gown that perfectly set the tone for You’re Still the One. Somehow, everything fit — both the ageless Twain and her show.

As for the selection of songs, well, Twain stuck to the best-known tunes.

And let’s face it: she has hits like Pete Rose.

To quickly recap Twain’s stunning commercial achievements: two double-diamond albums in Canada (1997’s Come On Over” and 2002’s “Up!) plus her 1995 breakthrough The Woman in Me, which “only” went diamond once.

Come On Over is still the best-selling studio album by a female act and bestselling country album of all time. And she’s sold more than 75 million albums worldwide.

Twain’s sound fused slickly catchy country-pop with the swelling choruses of arena rock and, as her career went on, increasing elements of adult contemporary pop — but much of her show seemed instead focused on her country side.

Twain’s initial run will include 10 performances through Dec. 15, with the next 14-show engagement beginning March 19.

Stars turn out for film academy’s Governors Awards LOS ANGELES — Tom Hanks. Quincy Jones. Kristen Stewart.

Warren Beatty. Quentin Tarantino. George Lucas.

Steven Spielberg. Kirk Douglas. Amy Adams.

Richard Gere.

These and other famous folks came to the film academy’s Governors Awards Saturday to honour filmmakers whose names may not be as well known, but whose contributions to the industry have affected movie-lovers everywhere.

Documentarian D.A. Pennebaker helped make the medium mainstream with his directcinema approach. George Stevens, Jr., founded the American Film Institute and established the Kennedy Center Honors.

Hal Needham developed new ways of performing and directing death-defying movie stunts.

DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg raised hundreds of millions of dollars for charity.

Octogenarians Pennebaker, Stevens and Needham received honorary Oscars for their distinguished careers and Katzenberg was recognized with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards ceremony, held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hol-

lywood and Highland Center.

The film academy has long awarded honorary Oscars, but established a new tradition four years ago of presenting those statuettes at a private dinner party where there are no time limits on speeches.

Portions of the untelevised event may be included in the Feb. 24

Academy Awards telecast.

Stars mingled in the ballroom and dined on filet mignon and banana cream pie before academy president Hawk Koch urged them to “finish the deals, make the deals” so the program could begin.

Each honoree was introduced by a pair of stars and a short film of

their work.

Michael Moore and Sen. Al Franken introduced Pennebaker.

Moore called him an inspiration and the inventor of the modern documentary.

Pennebaker ditched the tripod and carried his camera on his shoulder, and “all filmmaking changed,” Moore said, “nonfiction and

fiction.”

The 87-year-old Pennebaker seemed to thank every colleague from his six-decade career during a nearly 20-minute speech that prompted his family to signal him to finish.

Sidney Poitier and Annette Bening intro-

duced Stevens, speaking of his commitment to honouring, preserving and furthering the art of film. In accepting his Oscar, Stevens thanked his late father for encouraging him to consider film a timeless art and “for opening the door for me to a creative life.”

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ROY Joseph Gerald 1930 - 2012 Mr. Joseph Gerald Roy of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at home on Thursday, November 29, 2012 at the age of 82 years. Gerald will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 54 years; Carole, two sons; Tom (Dawn) of Red Deer County and Rod (Claudia) of Red Deer, two daughters; Jeannine Stuart (Rick Coley) of Rocky Mountain House and Deanne of Red Deer. Gerald will also be greatly missed by his eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, as well as by his five brothers. In honor of Gerald’s life, a Memorial Service will take p l a c e o n W e d n e s d a y, December 5, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

For those who so desire, donations in Gerald’s name may be made directly to Ronald McDonald House, 5002 - 39 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 2T2. 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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F/T RDA Level II assistant req’d. for Family Dental practice dedicated to exceptional patient care.

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Eligible participants will receive minimum wage while attending this project. Childcare costs and transportation funds may be available.

The Next Program will begin in January 02, 2013.

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Circle T Service & Rental Ltd. is a privately owned, Canadian based company providing services & equipment to the Oil & Gas industry since 1963.

RECEPTION / ADMINISTRATIVE APPRENTICE Due to our growth in facilities and expanding inventory we require a full time receptionist /administrative apprentice.

This is a permanent position with numerous opportunities for individual advancement within the position and the company. The position is integral to the company and requires a proactive, energetic individual able to focus on the customer at all times. The primary function of this position will be the initial point of contact for our company, which will include incoming phone calls and greeting visitors.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES: • Manages the company’s reception area (keeping it clean, organized and professional at all times) • As the initial point of contact, this candidate will receive incoming phone calls and direct to the appropriate person or department • Greets and directs all visitors while ensuring proper sign-in and company security procedures are adhered to • Announce visitors to appropriate person or department • Process incoming and outgoing mail • Preparation of appropriate paperwork for courier services • Key person of contact for all vendors and maintain vendor contact list • Accounts payable coding and data entry QUALIFICATIONS: • Minimum 2-3 years Office Administration experience including multi-line phone systems • Effective communication skills including an excellent telephone manner, clearly spoken, helpful and pleasant.

• Motivated self-starter who can follow instructions and work independently or with a team • Highly organized with attention to detail and accuracy • Positive attitude, integrity, fast learner and reliable • Must be proficient in Microsoft Office applications • Administration Diploma, other Post-Secondary education and Apple Application Technology are considered assets.

We offer a safe, dynamic workplace with a team oriented culture, Competitive benefit package Salary to be based on experience and accreditation level Must have valid Alberta drivers license Hours will be 8:00am - 5:00 pm (1hr lunch) Monday - Friday Please submit resume with a cover letter. In cover letter please state the number of times the word ‘position’ appears in this ad and where you first viewed this ad.

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Landcore Technologies Inc. located in Ponoka is currently seeking energetic, motivated team players for the following positions:

able to pass a pre-employment drug test.

Safety tickets are an asset but we are willing to train the right candidate.

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First Aid, H2S and PSTS req’d. Need to be physically fit. Resume by fax 403-227-1398 or email info@accutechcanada.ca LOCAL Oilfield Company seeking experienced Wireline Tool Salesman.

Vehicle mileage paid as well as commissions and benefits. Please forward resume to: btopcanada @hotmail.com or fax 403-340-8581 Attn: Manager 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

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND and DERRICK HAND. Locally based, home every night!

Qualified applicants must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Emai: hr@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Snow Cat Operators Must have tickets and equipment experience.

403-348-1521 or 403-391-1695

Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, First Aid We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

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COMPANY DRIVER Required for busy Red Deer based Hot Shot Company.

Oilfield exp. preferred but willing to train the right individual. Company benefits & scheduled days off.

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A RED DEER BASED Pressure Testing Company req’s. Operators for testing BOP’s throughout AB. Only those with Drilling rig exp. need apply. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email mikeoapt@gmail.com Only those selected for interview will be contacted.

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IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Oil & Gas Well Testing Supervisors, Night Foremen, Exp’d/inexp’d Junior Day/Night Operators.

Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license.

Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages.

Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca or by fax to (403) 783-8004 Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted

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PHARMACY TECHNICIAN- The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy is looking for a part-full time Pharmacy Technician. No evenings or Sundays.Kevin 403-343-8088

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We need an outgoing dental assistant to assist a solo practitioner in our restorative and cosmetic dental practice.

Our emphasis is on comprehensive dental care for our clients.

A four day work week with 4 weeks paid vacation and a generous bonus plan makes this an excellent opportunityfor an outgoing dental assistant who is excited to provide quality comprehensive dental care.

To arrange for an interview, please submit resume and contact Dr. Brian Saby #100 3947-50a Ave. Red Deer.

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Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

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CHINESE FOOD Restaurant requires DISHWASHER, & WAITER/WAITRESS Drop resume off in person to Red Star Restaurant 3731 50 Ave. Red Deer Phone 403-309-5566

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PART/FULL TIME COOK Apply at East 40th Pub. 3811 40th Ave. HIRING * Gas station Manager * $25/hr, full time 1 person * The day to day operations of filling station and convenience store, managi n g s t a ff , w o r k i n g w i t h vendors and monitoring sales. * Completion of University ( Economics). Over 1 yr business experience.

Leeoh Holdings Inc. o/a Rimbey Gas & Splash.

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BAMSS Contracting Inc.,

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LOOKING for a few good Apples! Hiring part time and full time kitchen line Key responsibilities for this cooks... great flexibility, position include: weekends a must! * Providing administrative Apply in person between support to Management 2 pm and 5 pm and ask for * Maintenance of IFTA Angie or Amy. reporting program * Responding to staff inquiries Sales & * Data entry & maintaining Distributors document files * Reception including METALSMITHS answering telephones, and greeting visitors Bower Mall *Maintaining supplies and is looking for office equipment Assistant Manager, * Open, sort and distribute and 1st. Key correspondence (including starting wage 14/hr. fax and email) plus monthly bonus, and health benefits. Also The successful candidate accepting for will have: Full Time * Strong organizational (40 hrs. a week) $12-$13 skills Part Time * Proficiency in using (20-30 hrs. a week) Microsoft Word, Excel, Apply in person or e-mail and Outlook careers@metalsmiths.ca * Excellent oral and written communication skills * High degree of professionalism Trades * The ability to work independently or as part CARPET COLOUR of a team CENTRE is currently looking for QUALIFICATIONS: 2 TILE INSTALLERS. High school diploma and 3 years of related experience Applicant must have ability in an office environment. to lay out tiles, be familiar A diploma in Office Admin- with setting materials and istration will be considered products. This is a F/T an asset. Equivalencies position with a wage of $25/hr. will be considered.

Submit resume att`n: Andrew @ Carpet Colour Fax resume to: Centre 1100, 5001 - 19 St. Human Resources Red Deer, AB T4R 3R1 or 403-782-1044 or Email: careers@bamssinc.com email : awiebe@ carpetcolourcentre. com

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850

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

DRYWALL helper req’d.

Exp. an asset. Must have own transportation.

403-341-7619

GEMINI is Hiring for Ponoka Fabrication Shop

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Must have clean driving record. Please fax or email resume to service manager.

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Please send resumes to Hmorrow@geminicorp.ca

JOURNEYMAN or 3rd Yr. Apprentice Plumber/Gas Fitter

req’d for small shop in Westaskiwin area.

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MACHINIST/ AREA SUPERVISOR 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.

Salary will be commensurate with education & experience.

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Vacuum & Water Truck operators req’d. to start immed.

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References Req’d.

Exc. salary & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 hartwell@telus.net

Invites applicants for:

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Red Deer Public Schools Please see:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca Employment Opportunities

F/T. Class 1 drivers to haul NGL butane Super B’s, must be over 25 yrs., EMAIL: dreaddriving@gmail.com

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- Caretaking and Maintenance Staff for complete posting.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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ACADEMIC Express

Invites applicants for:

Adult Education and Training

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN

Winter 2013

Red Deer Public Schools

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Please see:

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Community Support Worker program GED classes evening and days

www.rdpsd.ab.ca

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

- Caretaking and Maintenance Staff for complete posting.

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Employment Opportunities

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

wegot To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Handyman Services

1200

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

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. Res/Comm.Reno’s, repair and more. Give us a buzz @ 403-598-3857 Free quotes. WCB, insured.

1100

F & J Renovations. We do it all. Good rates and references available so call John at 403-307-3001 jbringleson@shaw.ca

Contractors

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

1280

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Massage Therapy

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia Prefering non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 302-9210.

HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269

Escorts

1165

*LEXUS* 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT BEAUTIFUL college girl ROXY 403-848-2300

EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049 LEXI, Blonde, Babe, 27. No Agency Fees 403-396-8884 Need a playmate?

403-550-0732 mydiamondgirls.org

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Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346 YARD maintenance, snow shovelling, 403-318-7625

Painters/ Decorators

1310

PAINTING BY DAVE Interior, Exterior, New Construction. Comm/Indust.

2 Journeyman w/over 50 yrs exp. %15 discount for seniors. Free estimates.

LINDA’S CHINESE MASAll work guaranteed.

SAGE Grand Opening #3 403-307-4798 4820-47 Ave. 403-986-1550 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 TRADITIONAL CHINESE MASSAGE, new girls, 4606 48 Ave. Open 7 a.m.- 9 p.m. 7 days a wk.

Phone 403-986-1691

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

Seniors’ Services

FULL TIME PARTS PERSON

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

Team Atmosphere

ALSO

BOWER AREA

Please send resume to:

SOUTH HILL 83 Advocate $435/mo. $5229/YR. 1 Hr. per day.

Great Benefits

daveturnbull@ garymoe.com Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Gary Moe Volkswagen

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

Competitive plus renumeration

For delivery of Red Deer Advocate by 6:30 a.m.

Mon. through Fri. & 8:00. .am. on Saturday in

Great Benefits We require a process driven person for this position.

Please send resume to:

daveturnbull@ garymoe.com

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED 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 .

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

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.

ALSO Clearview Ridge Timberlands area 59 papers $376/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info Career Opportunity

$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 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 F/T Cashier/Postal Clerk.

Apply in person w/resume: Highland Green Value Drug Mart.

Misc.

Help ADULT & Youth Carrier Needed For Delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in

Adams Close/ Adair Ave.

Baile Cl. /Boyce St. Beatty Crs./Barrett Dr. Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St

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

880

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880

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

LANCASTER AREA

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

Lancaster Drive Lindsay Ave. Lagrange Crsc

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted.

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

INGLEWOOD AREA

Isbister Close Issard Close

SERVICE ADVISOR

Required Immediately

880

CIRCULATION

MOUNTVIEW 83 Advocate $435/mo. $5229/yr 1-1/2 hrs. per day

Required Immediately Competitive plus renumeration

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Scott St./Somerset Close.

Sunnyside Crsc.

VANIER AREA 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

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 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.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

F/T Assistant Manager req’d for busy convenience store. Please apply in person with resume to Express 24 EASTVIEW. 140 Erickson Drive Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for The Town of Olds No collecting!

Packages come ready for delivery!

Also for the afternoon in Town of Penhold!

Also afternoon delivery in Town of Springbrook 1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

P/T GRAVEYARD shift Person req’d. immed. Must be 18 yrs. old. Please apply in person with resume to Express 24 EASTVIEW. 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

920

Career Planning

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail Please contact QUITCY

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

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

FREE

for all Albertans

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

Invites applicants for:

Contract Term: Jan. 7-June 30, 2013 Please see:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

Children's Items

Employment Opportunities - Classified Staff for complete posting.

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL HEALTH COORDINATOR

1580

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 suede coat, w/hood, women’s size M, $40, 403-314-9603

EquipmentHeavy

JOHNSTONE CROSSING Jennings Crsc & Joa Ave. ALSO Jack & Jenner Crsc.

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

1010

Hwy 2, Westside Gasoline Alley

880

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GLENDALE Gunn St. & Goodacre Close

services

Accounting

880

Misc.

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Gary Moe Volkswagen

Truckers/ Drivers

850

Trades

850

Trades

1630

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

Firewood

ALSO

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

KENTWOOD Kirkland & Kidd Close ALSO Kilburn & Krause Crsc

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

RIVERSIDE MEADOWS 59 & 60 St. ********** Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

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.

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

Misc.

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MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life in the towns of Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick at 403-314-4303

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

Clark’s Plumbing & Heating

Trades

274935L3-8

850

Trades

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 D3

Household Appliances

1710

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

1720

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.

KITCHEN table (white) 4 chairs, EXC. COND. $200 403-886-4309 LIGHT oak color desk w/hutch, matching filing cabinet, and Canon scanner, $200/all, 403-341-3698 403-505-5326

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

Main Flr. Hewson Ave.

BOX of Christmas decorations incl. 2’ pre-lit tree, $20, 403-314-9603 BUFFALO HEAD, BEADED, $195.00 403-347-7405

6 Chalmers Close.

Large, bright townhouse.

3 bdrms 1.5 baths, bsmt. yard. 5 appls. In-suite laundry, NO PETS. VAILABLE NOW! $1350 & UTIL. Hearthstone 403 314 0099 or 403 396-9554 www.hpman.ca

Condo in Inglewood

1840

3 F. WEST Highland Terrier puppies, ready to go Nov. 30. 403-346-8788 AUSTRALIAN Shepherd, miniature pups, 6 mos. 1M, 1F, shots and dewormed. $250/ea. 780-372-2387 ENGLISH Mastiff puppies for sale. Certified, first shots, microchipped.

CKC. All colours available.

May be viewed on our website at www. doublepjsenglishmastiffs. net call 403-652-3429 pcrowder02@gmail.com $2500.00 well worth it.

LABRA DOODLE PUPS F 1 $700; F1 B $900 2 YR health Guaranteed. awesome bloodlines, ready now until Christmas Hold with deposit.

Ph. 403-919-1370 306-792-2113 www.furfettishfarm.ca

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Kirsch Cl. 2 Bdrm.

KITSON CLOSE

Kyte/Kelloway Cres.

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. Dec. 1.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Riverfront Estates

Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, blinds, large balcony, no pets, n/s, $1195 or $1220 along the river.

SD $1000. avail.

Dec 1 403-304-7576 347-7545

CLEAN quiet responsiblel furn. $450, s.d. same, , 347-6865, 403--201-0305 FURN. working M. preferred $475/mo. $200 s.d. , incl. utils., internet, 403-346-1390 ROOM in Westpark, n/s, no pets. Furnished. TV & utils incl. 403-304-6436 ROOMS Highland Green fully furn., 6 appls, basic cable and utils. incld., bdrms. keyed, $500/mo., + SD, working only. Avail. immed. 403-342-4604

Storage Space

Mobile Lot

Manufactured Homes

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Sharon 403-550-8777

3060

Suites

1 & 2 BDRM. APTS. Clean, quiet bldg.

Call 318-0901.

2 bdrm. suites.

Heat/water/parking incl., adults only. NO PETS. Call 403-342-2899

2 Bdrm. Apt. Lawford

2000-2290

LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

3190

2 bdrm., balcony. 3 appl., No pets. Only $995 + Elect.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Manufactured Homes

3040

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5080

A MUST SEE!

20,000with Intro

$

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable www.lansdowne.ca

4000-4190

Houses For Sale

4020

4090

MUST SELL

By Owner $7,000.

Sharon 403-550-8777

Lots For Sale

4160

FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe.

Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Cars

5030

Public Notices

6010

NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING OF CREDITORS (Subsection 102(4) IN THE MATTER OF THE BANKRUPTCY OF The Estate of the Late Douglas Doane Ewert TAKE NOTICE THAT: 1. The Estate of the Late Douglas Doane Ewert has filed an Assignment in Bankruptcy on November 29, 2012 and the undersigned, BDO Canada Limited, was appointed Trustee of the estate.

2. The first meeting of creditors of the bankrupt will be held on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning at the office of the Trustee in Bankruptcy, #302, 220 – 3rd Avenue South, Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 0G9.

3. Any creditors having claims or wishing information, regarding the above, should contact the undersigned Trustee.

DATED at Lethbridge, Alberta, on November 30, 2012.

2007 FORD Fusion, SE, V6, black, excellent cond., original owner, A/C, PW, PL, 4 dr. 117,000 kms. $10,900. o.b.o.

403-348-9009

BDO Canada Limited Trustee for the estate of The Estate of the Late Douglas Doane Ewert 200, 220 – 3rd Ave. South Lethbridge, Ab. T1J 0G9

DO YOU WANT YOUR AD TO BE READ BY

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At

100,000 Potential Buyers???

has relocated to

Central Alberta LIFE

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SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

CALL 309-3300

FREE Cable

216751

DEADLINE THURS. 5 P.M.

GUARANTEED DELIVERY

2 & 3 bedroom

modular/mobile homes in pet friendly park

If your paper is wet, torn or missed, call our Circulation Dept. and we’ll gladly replace your paper.

Starting at

/month

314-4300 274499L1-31

www.lansdowne.ca

PUBLIC NOTICES

Brian Veres, CA.CIRP, CIRP Trustee in Bankruptcy

274500L1-31

Sharon (403) 550-8777

5190

WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

Renter’s Special

849

Auto Wreckers

CLASSIFICATIONS

$

Sharon (403) 550-8777

WINTER SPECIAL

2009 HERITAGE Soft Tail Classic, low mileage.

15,000 kms. Must Sell! $16,000. 403-877-1170

REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

with Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

$

Motorcycles

homes

Riverside Apts.

Newly Renovated Mobile Home Only

1997 GMC 3500 h.d., w/metal flat deck, 2WD, 203,000 kms., good cond., $8900 obo, 403-340-8777

5200

YOU LOOKING?

AGRICULTURAL

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

2001 DODGE Ram 1500.

Q/cab. loaded 403-596-6995

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519 or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home Vehicles buyers. 403-588-8820 Wanted MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, To Buy 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Sharon 403-550-8777 A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519

A Great Location

2140

3160

1600 square foot workshop / storage. Clean, dry, high ceilings. (403)227-6759 lornaj@airenet.com

Homes

Adult Bldg. bachelor unit.

Heat/Water/parking incl’d Call 403-342-2899

Horses

3090

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer SYLVAN, 2 bdrm. condo, www.homesreddeer.com w/private entrance and 5 appls., near shopping, avail today. 403-341-9974 Manufactured

Balcony. No pets, 5 appl.

NOW $1295 incl UTIL. Hearthstone 403-314-0099

CLASSIFICATIONS

5050

3150

newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 SD $1000. n/s Avail.

Dec. 1 403-304-7576 / 347-7545

Dogs

Rooms For Rent

2 bdrms. 1 bath, in-suite laundry, No smoking, NO Garage PETS. only $1225. Incl.

Space Utils. Available NOW! Hearthstone 403-314-0099 GARAGE - cold storage or 403-396-9554 $175/mo. 343-6615 www.hpman.ca

5 FREE KITTENS,3 black, 2 grey,Blue Russian Tuxedo X, very cute, ready for good home/farm/acreage, good mousers, litter trained 403-886-4852 403-588-6505

SIAMESE ALSO BELANISE (3) KITTENS FOR SALE $60 each obo.

403-887-3649

SUNNYBROOK

2005 AVALANCHE 1500, loaded, Viper command start, 161,000 kms., exc. cond. Must See. $17,900.

403-342-4909

3030

1830

CALICO F. cat found in Innisfail, had been abused, now healthy, looking for loving home, free cat condo as well to give away 403-307-1350

2 bdrm, 1 bath. 3 appls.

Shared laundry. No pets. $995 & elect.

Available NOW Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403 319 4225 www.hpman.ca

2 bdrm. apt. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.

403-346-6686 READ THE CLASSIFIEDS & SYLVAN LAKE 2 bdrm. find just what you’re looking bsmt. suite, private entrance, shared laundry, for. 309-3300 avail. Jan. 1, $700/mo., $700 s.d., ref’s req’d., 403-224-3819 Condos/ 2000 TOYOTA 4 RUNNER 196,000 kms., $10,400.

Townhouses Wanted Tenant obo 403-597-5972 Large 1 bdrm. adult suite.

3 BDRM. 1 1/2 baths, Heat/water/parking incl’d.

5 appls, fenced, n/s, no Call 403-342-2899 pets, avail. Dec. 1, Deer Trucks Park 403-391-1740

Townhouse. Sm. Pet. Deck, 5 appls. NOW $1295 + UTIL. Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Cats

5040

SUV's

SUITES WITH BALCONY

3 bdrm. 2 bath, No pets.

NOW $1475 incl UTIL. Hearthstone 403-314-0099

AVAIL. Jan. 1, 3 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl., hardwood, 2 parking stalls, 20 METAL sheet pans and c l o s e t o s h o p p i n g & rack with cover for baking schools. $1075 + util. + d.d products $100.00 call 403-506-0054 403-728-3485 21” SNOWTHROWER, 3 HP, $200. 403-348-7619

3060

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Pacific nations, environmentalists alarmed by tuna overfishing

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines — Pacific island nations and environmentalists raised an alarm Sunday over destructive fishing methods and overfishing that they say are threatening bigeye tuna — the fish popular among sushi lovers worldwide.

Palau fisheries official Nanette Malsol, who leads a bloc of Pacific island nations, said at the start of a weeklong tuna fisheries conference in Manila that large countries should cut back on fishing, curb the use of destructive fishing methods and respect fishing bans to allow tuna stocks to be replenished in the Pacific, which produces more than 60 per cent of the world’s tuna catch.

The annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, which regulates commercial fishing in the vast expanse of waters from Indonesia to Hawaii, is to approve steps aimed at protecting the bigeye and other threatened tuna species, along with giant whale sharks. More than 600 delegates from about 40 Asian and Western countries, along with environmental activists, are attending.

Malsol said she expects heated debate. Proponents of the multibilliondollar fishing industry have squared off with conservationists in the past over the best ways to protect the bigeye and other species without considerably setting back the lucrative business.

Bigeye and yellowfin tuna, which can grow to 8-9 feet (2.4-2.7 metres) long and weigh more than 450 pounds (200 kilograms), are not in immediate danger of being wiped out, but have been hit hard by overfishing. The fish are used mostly for steaks, and in the case of bigeye, sushi.

The fisheries business in the western and central Pacific region, estimated to be worth about $5 billion annually, has drawn increasing numbers of industrial fishing fleets, which have caused tuna stocks to fall since the 1960s.

“This week it’s up to the big fishing nations to show the world what they are going to do to cut overfishing of bigeye tuna,” Malsol said.

Repeated telephone calls and messages to industry officials seeking comment Sunday were not answered.

Many fleets are using so-called “fish aggregation devices” — various types

of floats which are used to lure vast numbers of tuna. When schools of tuna have massed under the devices, fishing vessels alerted by sensors approach and scoop up their catch with giant nets.

Between 47,000 and 105,000 fish aggregation devices, made from bamboo, palm fronds, plastic or old nets, have been deployed worldwide to attract a wide variety of marine life. The method is used to catch nearly half of the world’s tuna and has contributed to the overfishing of bigeye tuna across the Pacific Ocean, according to the U.S.based Pew Environment Group.

Aside from tuna, sea turtles, sharks and juvenile fish have often been caught and killed.

“The deployment of tens of thousands of drifting fish aggregating devices in the world’s oceans with little to no oversight is extremely worrisome,” said Amanda Nickson of the Pew Environment Group.

“The fishing industry is not currently required to account for its use of FADs. It is being allowed to gamble with the health of the ocean, and it is time for governments to require full accountability and management of this proliferating and risky fishing gear,” Nickson said.

Conservation efforts, however, have been tough to implement and have sparked disagreements.

Greepeace activists said they will submit evidence to the fisheries commission detailing violations of regional tuna fishing rules by Southeast Asian countries including allowing fishing vessels to operate on the high seas without permits and required observers onboard.

A decision by the fisheries commission to exempt the Philippines from purse seine fishing — an industrial technique in which a net is used to surround and capture schools of fish — in a large swath of the Pacific has sparked complaints from other nations.

The exemption was given to discourage Philippine fleets from fishing in territorial waters off the country’s eastern coast, which are known spawning grounds for tuna that later spread out to the Pacific.

Philippine Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala asked the fishing commission to extend the exemption, which he said started last October and would end in February next year.

U.S. man who guarded Nazi camp faces another deportation hearing THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — As U.S. authorities continue a long legal battle to deport a former Nazi concentration camp guard, it’s not clear what will happen next if they prevail.

Anton Geiser, now 88, has been living in a small western Pennsylvania town for more than 50 years. He didn’t even tell his family about his Nazi service until 2004, when the Justice Department began legal proceedings.

Geiser’s lawyer will be appealing a deportation order next week, before the Board of Immigration Appeals in Falls Church, Virginia.

“We hope that he is deported,” said Joy Braunstein, director of the Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.

But Kurt Schrimm, the head of the special prosecutors’ office in Germany that investigates Nazi war crimes, said they aren’t currently investigating Geiser’s case, and the Austrian Justice Ministry said it hasn’t corresponded with American authorities.

Geiser says he was forced to join the SS at the age of 17, in 1942, and that he never killed anyone. And while he served as a guard at the Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald concentration camps, he didn’t serve at so-called death camps, such as Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau, which existed only to exterminate people.

The details may be ir-

relevant to most people, but in past cases prosecutors mentioned deathcamp service, noting the prisoners there had no option other than death.

In the case of Johann Breyer of Philadelphia, another accused former Nazi guard, a judge allowed him to stay in the U.S. reasoning in part that because Breyer had joined the SS at age 17, he couldn’t be held responsible for what he did as a minor.

Federal prosecutors, however, say that even if Anton Geiser didn’t kill anyone, his work as a concentration camp guard makes him a party to the persecution of countless men, women and children, no matter how long ago that happened.

Geiser escorted prisoners to slave labour sites and was under orders to shoot any prisoners who attempted to escape. Both sides agree that Geiser guarded only the perimeter of the camps, but previous court rulings have found that doing so is enough to make someone ineligible for U.S. citizenship.

Geiser told prosecutors he was ashamed of his work as a camp guard. “I was not proud where I served and I didn’t like it then and I didn’t like it now.”

Adrian Roe, Geiser’s lawyer, said his client was recently hospitalized and doesn’t want to talk about the case, but added that neither he nor his client dispute that the Nazi camps were horrific and “outrageous” chapters of history.

The Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald camps held some political and military prisoners, but tens of thousands of people also died there under horrific conditions, such as starvation, slave labour, medical experiments, and executions.

Peter Black, the senior historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, said that it’s “very difficult” to tell whether any particular individual actually volunteered for the SS, or was pressured to join.

He said guards were essential to the concentration camp system.

“Even if they don’t have any contact with a prisoner, by walking the perimeter as an armed guard, they are helping to keep the people inside that place where they are enduring persecution,” Black said, adding that SS guards were paid, got leave time, and health benefits for their service.

A federal judge in Pittsburgh revoked Geiser’s citizenship in 2006 and another judge ordered him deported in 2010. Geiser is fighting that order. He lost a circuit court appeal in 2008, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his case in 2009. In 2010 an immigration judge ordered him deported to Austria, or any other country that will take him.

Geiser, who was born in what is now part of Croatia, came to the U.S. in 1956. He became a citizen in 1962, worked in a steel mill for decades and raised five children.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest court joined a judicial rebellion against President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday by declaring an open-ended strike on the day it was supposed to rule on the legitimacy of two key assemblies controlled by allies of the Islamist leader.

The strike by the Supreme constitutional Court and opposition plans to march on the presidential palace on Tuesday take the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest political crisis to a level not seen in the nearly two years of turmoil since Hosni Mubarakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ouster in a popular uprising.

Judges from the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest appeals court and its sister lower court were already on an indefinite strike, joining colleagues from other tribunals who suspended work last week to protest what they saw as Morsiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assault on the judiciary.

The last time Egypt had an all-out strike by the judiciary was in 1919, when judges joined an uprising against British colonial rule.

The standoff began when Morsi issued decrees on Nov. 22 giving him near-absolute powers that granted himself and the Islamist-dominated assembly drafting the new constitution immunity from the courts.

The constitutional panel then raced in a marathon session last week to vote on the charterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 236 clauses without the participation of liberal and Christian members. The fast-track hearing preempted a decision from the Supreme constitutional Court that was widely expected to dissolve the constituent assembly.

The judges on Sunday postponed their ruling on that case just before they went on strike.

Without a functioning justice system, Egypt will be plunged even deeper into turmoil. It has already seen a dramatic surge in crime after the uprising, while state authority is being challenged in many aspects of life and the courts are burdened by a massive backlog of cases. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The country cannot function for long like this, something has to give,â&#x20AC;? said Negad Borai, a private law firm director and a rights activist. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;We are in a country without courts of law and a president with all the powers in his hands. This is a clear-cut dictatorial climate,â&#x20AC;&#x153; he said.

Mohamed Abdel-Aziz, a rights lawyer, said the strike by the judges will

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Supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans as riot police, left, stand guard in front of the entrance of Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top court, in Cairo, Sunday. Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top court announced the suspension of its work indefinitely to protest psychological and physical pressures, saying its judges could not enter its Nile-side building because of the Islamist presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supporters gathered outside. impact everything from divorce and theft to financial disputes that, in some cases, could involve foreign investors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ordinary citizens affected by the strike will become curious about the details of the current political crisis and could possibly make a choice to join the protests,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The Judges Club, a union with 9,500 members, said late Sunday that judges would not, as customary, oversee the national referendum Morsi called for Dec. 15 on the draft constitution hammered out and hurriedly voted on last week.

The absence of their oversight would raise more questions about the validity of the vote. If the draft is passed in the referendum, parliamentary elections are to follow two months later and they too may not have judicial supervision.

The judges say they will remain on strike until Morsi rescinds his decrees, which the Egyptian leader said were temporary and needed to protect the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s path to democratic rule.

For now, however, Morsi has to contend with the fury of the judiciary.

The constitutional court called Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Egyptian judiciaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blackest day on record.â&#x20AC;?

It described the scene outside the Nile-side court complex, where thousands of Islamist demonstrators gathered since the early morning hours carrying banners denouncing the tribunal and some of its judges.

A statement by the court, which swore Morsi into office on June 30, said its judges approached the complex but turned back when they saw the protesters blocking entrances and climbing over its fences. They feared

for their safety, it added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The judges of the Supreme constitutional Court were left with no choice but to announce to the glorious people of Egypt that they cannot carry out their sacred mission in this charged atmosphere,â&#x20AC;? said the statement, which was carried by state news agency MENA. Supporters of Morsi, who hails from the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, claim that the courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s judges remain loyal to Mubarak, who appointed them, and accuse them of trying to derail Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transition to democratic rule.

In addition to the high courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expected ruling Sunday on the legitimacy of the constitution-drafting panel, it was also expected to rule on another body dominated by Morsi supporters, parliamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upper chamber.

Syrian warplanes pound Man charged in Alaska Coast guard member murder found dead Damascus suburbs dies in boat collision BEIRUT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Syrian warplanes and artillery blasted parts of the capital Damascus and its rebellious suburbs on Sunday, part of what activists described as intense fighting as rebels try to push their way into the centre of President Bashar Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power base.

In central Syria, a car bomb killed at least 15 people, the official news agency reported.

The fighting over the past few weeks in Damascus is the most serious in the capital since July, when rebels captured several neighbourhoods before a swift government counteroffensive swept them out.

The Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighter jets struck twice in the suburb of Daraya as regime artillery pounded other districts just south of Damascus. The Syrian air force also launched airstrikes on the northern city of Aleppo, some cities in the northern province of Idlib and the Mediterranean city of Latakia, the Observatory said. The group relies on reports from activists on the ground.

The Damascus suburbs have been opposition strongholds since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011. In the past weeks, the army has pressed an offensive to regain lost territory near the capital, including two air bases. The Observatory said there was also ongoing fighting in towns near the Damascus International Airport on the southern edge of the city. The towns include Aqraba, Beit Saham and Yalda.

The road to the airport from Damascus was closed on Thursday because of heavy fighting, but authorities reopened it after troops secured

the area, activists said.

The Information Ministry said on Saturday the airport was operating normally and that the road leading to the facility is â&#x20AC;&#x153;totally secure.â&#x20AC;?

On Sunday, EgyptAir Chief Executive Roshdy Zakaria said the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national carrier will resume flights to Damascus and Aleppo after a three-day suspension because of poor security on the roads around the two airports.

In central Homs province, a car bomb exploded near Omar Bin alKhattab mosque in the al-Hamra neighbourhood of Homs, killing at least 15 people and wounding 24, state-run SANA news agency said.

Activists said seven people died in the attack and the death toll is likely to rise because some were critically wounded.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A man charged in the death of an Alaska barista has killed himself, and authorities said Sunday he had been linked to at least seven other possible slayings in three other states.

Israel Keyes was found dead in his jail cell Sunday morning. U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler said at a news conference that Keyes killed himself.

Keyes was facing a March trial in federal court for the murder of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, who was abducted from an Anchorage coffee kiosk last February. He was later arrested in Texas after using the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debit card.

Authorities said Keyes confessed to killing Bill and Lorraine Currier of Essex, Vermont. The couple was reported missing in June 2011.

Keyes also indicated he killed four others in Washington state and one person in New York state, but did not give the victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; names, authorities said.

The FBI contends Keyes killed Koenig less than a day after she was kidnapped. Her body was recovered April 2 from an ice-covered lake north of Anchorage.

Koenigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappearance had gripped the city for weeks. A surveillance camera showed an apparently armed man in a hooded sweat shirt leading Koenig away from the coffee stand. Koenigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friends and relatives established a reward fund and plastered the city with flyers with her photo.

VENTURA, Calif. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Authorities say a U.S. Coast Guard member was killed and another was injured when their small boat was rammed by a smugglerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vessel before dawn off the Southern California coast.

Chief deputy medical examiner James Baroni says 34-year-old Terrell Horne III of Redondo Beach was pronounced dead early Sunday at the Port of Hueneme.

The second man was treated for minor injuries.

His name wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t released.

The Coast Guard says the smugglerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s panga manoeuvred at a high rate of speed directly at the small boat before fleeing. Both Coast Guard members were thrown into the water.

Two suspects on the panga were detained.

The small boat was deployed by the Coast Guard cutter Halibut, which was conducting an investigation into suspected smuggling near the Channel Islands west of Malibu.

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Children walk with activists in a torch light rally ahead of World AIDS Day in Kolkata, India, Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. The activists demanded monthly pension and free ration facilities for sex workers and HIV/AIDS affected people. fore they get sick, not only helps them survive but also dramatically cuts the chances that they’ll infect others. Yet only about 8 million HIV patients in developing countries are getting treatment.

The United Nations aims to have 15 million treated by 2015.

Other important steps include: Treating more pregnant women, and keeping them on treatment after their babies are born; increasing male circumcision to lower men’s risk of heterosexual infection; increasing access to both male and female condoms; and more HIV testing.

The world spent $16.8 billion fighting AIDS in poor countries last year.

The U.S. government is the leading donor, spending about $5.6 billion.

Thursday’s report from PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, outlines how progress could continue at current spending levels — something far from certain as Congress and Obama struggle to avert looming budget cuts at year’s end — or how faster progress is possible with stepped-up commitments from hard-hit countries themselves.

Clinton warned Thursday that the U.S. must continue doing its share: “In the fight against HIV/ AIDS, failure to live up to our commitments isn’t just disappointing, it’s deadly.”

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CHICAGO — The now familiar term “Asperger’s disorder” is being dropped. And abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given a scientific-sounding diagnosis called DMDD. But “dyslexia” and other learning disorders remain.

The revisions come in the first major rewrite in nearly 20 years of the diagnostic guide used by the nation’s psychiatrists. Changes were approved Saturday.

Full details of all the revisions will come next May when the American Psychiatric Association’s new diagnostic manual is published, but the impact will be huge, affecting millions of children and adults worldwide.

The manual also is important for the insurance industry in deciding what treatment to pay for, and it helps schools decide how to allot special education.

This diagnostic guide “defines what constellations of symptoms” doctors recognize as mental disorders, said Dr. Mark Olfson, a Columbia University psychiatry professor.

More important, he said, it “shapes who will receive what treatment.

Even seemingly subtle changes to the criteria can have substantial effects on patterns of care.”

Olfson was not involved in the revision process. The changes were approved Saturday in suburban Washington, D.C., by the psychiatric association’s board of trustees.

The aim is not to expand the number of people diagnosed with mental illness, but to ensure that affected children and adults are more accurately diagnosed so they can get the most appropriate treatment, said Dr. David Kupfer.

He chaired the task force in charge of revising the manual and is a psychiatry professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

One of the most hotly argued changes was how to define the various ranges of autism.

Some advocates opposed the idea of dropping the specific diagnosis for Asperger’s disorder.

People with that disorder often have high intelligence and vast knowledge on narrow subjects but lack social skills. Some who have the condition embrace their quirkiness and vow to continue to use the label.

And some Asperger’s families opposed any change, fearing their kids would lose a diagnosis and no longer be eligible for special services.

But the revision will not affect their education services, experts say.

The new manual adds the term “autism spectrum disorder,” which already is used by many experts in the field.

Asperger’s disorder will be dropped and incorporated under that umbrella diagnosis.

The new category will include kids with severe autism, who often don’t talk or interact, as well as those with milder forms. .

People with dyslexia also were closely watching for the new updated doctors’ guide.

Many with the reading disorder did not want their diagnosis to be dropped.

And it won’t be. Instead, the new manual will have a broader learning disorder category to cover several conditions including dyslexia, which causes difficulty understanding letters and recognizing written words.

Other changes include: —A new diagnosis for severe recurrent temper tantrums — disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. Critics say it will medicalize kids’ who have normal tantrums.

Supporters say it will address concerns about too many kids being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and treated with powerful psychiatric drugs. Bipolar disorder involves sharp mood swings and affected children are sometimes very irritable or have explo-

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A report says Canadians spend more than four hours on average in hospital emergency rooms waiting for treatment, and one in 10 wait eight hours or more.

The report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information also found more than half of Canadians surveyed said they can’t get an appointment with their family doctor on the same or next day.

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— JOHN WRIGHT CIHI says that on any given day, about CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INFORMATION PRESIDENT AND five per cent of paCEO tients are in acute-care hospital beds waiting to be discharged to residential care or back home with support services.

One in five of these patients — most of them aged 65 or older — wait more than a month to be moved.

Waits for cancer, cardiac, joint-replacement and sight-restoration operations have dropped since 2004—2005, largely because of targeted investment in these areas.

“Wait times have improved for certain types of care, but more can still be done,” John Wright, CIHI president and CEO, said in a statement.

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WASHINGTON — In an ambitious road map for slashing the global spread of AIDS, the Obama administration says treating people sooner and more rapid expansion of other proven tools could help even the hardest-hit countries begin turning the tide of the epidemic over the next three to five years.

“An AIDS-free generation is not just a rallying cry — it is a goal that is within our reach,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who ordered the blueprint, said in the report.

“Make no mistake about it, HIV may well be with us into the future but the disease that it causes need not be,” she said at the State Department Thursday.

President Barack Obama echoed that promise.

“We stand at a tipping point in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and working together, we can realize our historic opportunity to bring that fight to an end,” Obama said in a proclamation to mark World AIDS Day on Saturday.

Some 34 million people worldwide are living with HIV, and despite a decline in new infections over the last decade, 2.5 million people were infected last year.

Given those staggering figures, what does an AIDS-free generation mean? That virtually no babies are born infected, young people have a much lower risk than today of becoming infected, and that people who already have HIV would receive life-saving treatment.

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Reports of deadly salmon virus in B.C. tied up resources

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Navy struggles to explain deleted, now recovered intelligence files

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Electronic records detailing the planned overhaul of Canadian naval intelligence — created when admitted Russian spy Jeffrey Delisle was at the height of his treachery — were deleted from a National Defence data base.

Two PowerPoint slide presentations, aimed at explaining the overhaul to intelligence analysts on both the east and west coasts, were reported destroyed when copies were requested earlier this year by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. Military officials described the deletions as a clerical error.

But when the news agency asked why both the electronic and paper copies had been expunged, and whether that violated accessto-information law, the navy eventually reversed itself and claimed some copies of the presentations had survived in email accounts of officers serving overseas.

The confusion over the handling of the records alarms defence and intelligence experts.

“We should be asking questions, absolutely,” said retired colonel and military law expert Michel Drapeau.

“I mean, naval intelligence goes to the security of the country, security of people, of our Armed Forces. They are issues of national interest.”

Questions about the deletion of the PowerPoint presentations

come at time when the military’s entire handling of sensitive data is under scrutiny.

Last week, court records released in the Delisle case showed the naval officer retained top secret access even though his security clearance had lapsed and that prior screenings had failed to pick up red flags in his personal life.

Delisle had been working at HMCS Trinity, a top secret intelligence centre in Halifax, when he was arrested last January for passing highly classified information over to Russia over a five year period. He pleaded guilty in October.

The deletion of the electronic briefings on changes to naval intelligence adds to concerns raised by the Delisle case.

“You would want all intelligence documents and briefings to be handled carefully,” said Wesley Wark, an intelligence expert at the University of Toronto.

“It’s not just handling, but archiving and preservation of sensitive documents. :It goes to the heart of what an intelligence system does. An intelligence system doesn’t deal with just current information. It deals with memory and (institutional) capacity.”

Delisle would most certainly have had access to the briefings — which, among other things, compare Canada’s naval intelligence capability with its allies, lays out the division of responsibilities under the new system, as well as the number, disposition and func-

tion of staff within the beefed-up branch.

Wark said the navy’s actions become even more serious in light of the spy case. While he’s prepared to accept it may have been a mistake, the absence of those records from the data base might have significance in assessing Delisle’s actions.

“You have a security breach of significant consequence on your hands, you want to be able to discover just what a person conducting a security breach might have had access to in order to be able to assess the damage, and that’s a tricky business, but it’s absolutely crucial,” he said.

The navy has given several contradictory explanations as to why staff initially destroyed the records and whether they had authority to do so.

At first, officials said informally it was allowed because the documents were not signed and therefore not considered “official” — something Drapeau dismissed as a “silly” explanation.

“You have to ask what was the compelling reason for you to destroy — whether it was authorized or not — these documents which would very clearly have an historic value,” he said.

Federal law, under the Library and Archives Act, requires departments to hold on to such briefing material because of its historical value and mandates officials to seek permission from the chief archivist if the materials are to be destroyed.

VANCOUVER — Reports that a potentially lethal salmon virus had been found in the waters off British Columbia last year drew a fast, co-ordinated response from the federal government, tied up resources of three federal ministries for months, and even required the assistance of Canadian consular officials in the U.S., newly released documents indicate.

Documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act detail the lengths the federal government went to try to confirm and then respond to an October 2011 announcement by a Simon Fraser University professor that infectious salmon anaemia had been found in two of 48 sockeye smolts collected from the Central Coast.

Federal officials have repeatedly reported they haven’t been unable to confirm the presence in B.C. of the virus, which can’t infect humans but poses a serious threat to farmed and wild salmon stocks because it can cause anemia, hemorrhaging and lead to death.

In November, news broke that a Prince Edward Island lab at the Atlantic Veterinary College that deals with the virus had been audited by the World Organization for Animal Health after member countries became concerned the lab’s work was not consistent with findings from other researchers.

That lab also played a key role in the research that prompted the October 2011 announcement by Prof. Rick Routledge and salmon-farming critic Alexandra Morton.

A draft summary of a Dec. 12, 2011 conference call between Fisheries and Oceans, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, shows officials inside one DFO branch were still dealing with questions about the virus almost two months after Routledge’s announcement.

“DFO Science noted they have been seized with this issue for the past two months, and speaking with media and other interested parties has consumed much of their time over this period,” stated the document. “They posed the question about what more could they be doing.”

Listed as participants in the conference call were seven officials from DFO, two from the CFIA, and at least four officials from Foreign Affairs, as well as representatives of Canadian consulates in Seattle, Anchorage, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

News about the discovery of the virus broke Oct. 17, 2011, during a news conference held by Routledge and Morton.

Routledge announced tests conducted at the Atlantic Veterinary College on the smolts identified the virus as coming from the same European strain that wiped out about 70 per cent of farmed-salmon stocks in Chile.

Morton blamed opennet-pen salmon farms and called for the operations to be expunged.

Even before the announcement, DFO was preparing to respond.

Andrew Thomson, director of aquaculture management for DFO, tipped off his colleagues to the news conference in an 11:16 a.m. email, and almost 90 minutes later, an official in the department’s communications branch announced plans were in the works for a co-ordinated response with the CFIA. “We will contact CFIA, which is the lead federal department for reportable fish diseases, to review how we will handle media relations with respect to this issue and ensure that our messages are consistent,” wrote Terence Davis, DFO’s regional director of communications in an email that same day.

Davis said officials within DFO’s science program were also reviewing literature to determine “if there is scientific re™ search available on the potential impacts of ISA on Pacific salmon.” * The following day, Thomson said in an email that there was only a “presumption of disease” until the department’s national reference laboCall 310-MYTV (6988) for details or visit telus.com/tvforgood. ratory could confirm or deny the results. He also said the CFIA would get the original fish samples from the university and send them for further testing.

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