Red Deer Advocate, January 21, 2013

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‘Millions will be wasted’ on roads

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$16-MILLION WORTH OF UPGRADES TO TAYLOR DRIVE, ROSS STREET AND 54TH AVENUE NORTH INTERSECTION DERIDED

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Bob Warrener of the Central Alberta Freestyle Ski Club competes during the club’s Big Air competition at Canyon Ski Resort Sunday. Central Alberta Freestyle Ski Club hosted the first provincial at Canyon Ski Resort over the weekend. Ninety-five of Alberta’s best freestyle skiers competed. See story on Page B4.

The City of Red Deer is wasting millions of dollars on the intersection of Ross Street and Taylor Drive, says a former regional director of Alberta Transportation.

Jim Bussard has sent a detailed letter to city council, expressing his disdain for $16-million worth of upgrades to Taylor Drive, Ross Street and the 54th Avenue North intersection.

The Taylor Drive Concept Plan (43rd Street to Ross Street) will result in a very unsafe intersection, said Bussard, who knows the intersection well because he was directly involved in the project that took the rail lines out of downtown and created the Taylor Drive

traffic corridor in its path. He was regional director of Alberta Transportation in Red Deer from 1978 to 1993.

“The indirect traffic movements planned will confuse, bewilder and create accident situations,” said Bussard. “Sixteen million dollars will have been spent to make traffic movement worse.”

One of the main changes is to turn the four-pronged intersection of Taylor Drive and Ross Street/49th Street into three simpler three-pronged intersections.

Another key change would make Alexander Way (48th Street) into an all-turns intersection that features a wide pedestrian promenade connecting Riverlands to the downtown.

Please see ROADS on Page A2

Taxpayers’ demands for information costing thousands

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Information requests from a fiscal watchdog citizens group in Lacombe have cost the city more than $19,000 to process, according to a recent tally by city staff.

The Lacombe Taxpayers’ Association, which has criticized council spending, has submitted a number of requests for detailed financial information to the city over the last two years.

Requests have included a detailed breakdown of

council expenses back to 2005.

That material was provided, as well as all costs over the same period associated with a controversial housing project called Legacy Pointe. In all, almost two dozen topics were covered in four separate requests.

In a breakdown provided for council, the city said it spent $9,694 worth of staff time, $8,265 on legal fees and $1,250 on Freedom Of Information and Privacy Act (FOIP) requests.

None of those costs were collected from those making the requests.

The report from chief administrative officer

LACOMBE Norma MacQuarrie says the taxpayer association’s information requests are “frequent, large and persistent in nature, and oft times confuse FOIP matters with non-FOIP matters, thereby causing unnecessary additional work for a large number of staff, which interferes with the regular duties of administration and is costly for the municipality.”

Please see COST on Page A2

AIRGUN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sport shooters aim for titles

BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF Sport shooters targeted titles at the Alberta Airgun Championships over the weekend.

Fifty shooters competed with rifles and pistols in the two-day meet sponsored by the Alberta Handgun Association and the Alberta Smallbore Rifle Association at Westerner Park’s Agri-Centre.

They ranged in age from 9 to over 80 with some travelling from Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories to compete in a variety of age classes.

“It’s an incredibly safe sport,” said Malcolm McIlroy,

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an assistant coach from Red Deer. “There’s never been a death or injury in competitive history.”

Red Deer was well represented by the group of shooters who regularly use the Red Deer Fish and Game Association range behind the Red Deer Public School District maintenance shop just west of the Memorial Centre.

“My brother started with pistol and I decided to try rifle and I really liked it,” said Belle Medicraft, 14, who’s been shooting nearly two years.

“I like the competition and you get to travel all over Alberta and into Saskatchewan.”

Please see SHOOT on Page A2

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Belle Medicraft, 14, of Red Deer takes aim during the Alberta Airgun Championships at Westerner Park over the weekend. Please see related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com.

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ROADS: Plans called ‘pie-in-the sky’ dream for Riverlands A roundabout will be installed at the intersection of Alexander Way and 54th Avenue.

Bussard said these changes have no user benefit except the pie-in-the-sky dreams for Riverlands, an area west of Taylor Drive that’s currently made up of light industrial and commercial businesses. The city plans for this to become a thriving area of mixed uses.

Bussard said a benefit cost study should be required for any major municipal capital project. Without this study, there’s no sound justification for the plan.

He suggested a roundabout —a modernized traffic circle where drivers must always yield to traffic in the circle — is the better way to go at Taylor and Ross.

A 2011 study in the United States said these roundabouts show higher traffic capacity with lower speeds and fewer crashes.

Mayor Morris Flewwelling said that this is a complex, high-traffic intersection and leads to a fair amount of confusion. Traffic consultants came up with these solutions.

“I think they would have discarded the roundabout idea because you need equal volumes of traffic on all legs,” said Flewwelling.

“And with roundabouts, pedestrian crossings are very, very difficult.”

Adding lights from Ross Street to 43rd Street will be fine, as long as the signals are co-ordinated, added Flewwelling.

He expects that construction will get underway in 2014.

Flewwelling figures that they don’t have any choice but to go ahead with these changes.

“You can’t have 35 acres of prime downtown land with no access,” said the mayor.

The Taylor Drive Concept Plan was approved in October 2011, along with the Riverlands Area Redevelopment Plan.

Taylor Drive changes were expected to streamline traffic and make it easier for pedestrians and cyclists.

Flewwelling and Councillors Paul Harris, Cindy Jefferies, Lynne Mulder, Dianne Wyntjes and Tara Veer supported it while Councillors Frank Wong, Buck Buchanan and Chris Stephan were opposed.

Council then approved $5.7 million in its 2013 capital budget for the improvements to Alexander Way (48th Street) and Taylor Drive intersection.

Stephan doesn’t think the changes will make the Ross Street and Taylor Drive intersection better.

“Spending the amount of dollars that we’re looking at, I just don’t see it as a good use of taxpayers’ money,” said Stephan.

Wong agreed the project won’t make any improvements and is too costly.

“They are going to have four sets of lights from Ross Street to 43rd Street by the hospital, so it defeats the purpose of being an arterial,” added Wong.

“The argument is they want people to be able to walk to Riverlands.”

Resident Shirley Hocken urged the city in December to hold more public meetings on the changes coming to Taylor Drive and Alexander Way because she felt the public needed to be more informed about potential impacts.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Traffic makes its way through the intersection at Taylor Drive and 49 Street in Red Deer.

“TAXPAYER ASSOCIATION’S INFORMATION REQUESTS ARE “FREQUENT, LARGE AND PERSISTENT IN NATURE, AND OFT TIMES CONFUSE FOIP MATTERS WITH NON-FOIP MATTERS, THEREBY CAUSING UNNECESSARY ADDITIONAL WORK FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF STAFF, WHICH INTERFERES WITH THE REGULAR DUTIES OF ADMINISTRATION AND IS COSTLY FOR THE MUNICIPALITY.” — LACOMBE C HIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER NORMA MACQUARRIE

SHOOT: Family sport Scott Arthur brought his three daughters Jill, 13, Avril, 11, and Jocelyn, 9 from Saskatoon to compete.

His oldest daughter Aerial, 15, returned from Australia yesterday after winning a silver medal at the Junior Olympic Festival in Sydney.

“It’s a real family sport for us,” he said, adding he also shoots.

“We can all go to the range or an event together and enjoy ourselves.”

Breathing and concentration are the keys to success with competitors given time limits to fire a set number of pellets at the target 10 metres away.

The Alberta Handgun Association indoor electronic range system allows competitors to see shots only a moment after firing on a monitor in front of them and spectators to see the target on a projected screen.

Results are even streamed live online at aha.abshooters.org.

“It’s the only range of its kind in Canada that’s not military,” said Bernie Harrison, the competition’s chief official and past president of Alberta Handgun Association.

He said the association also has 25and 50-metre outdoor ranges which also fit in a small trailer for portability.

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Both sponsoring associations hold competitions throughout the year across the province, including an indoor one at Olds College in November.

Anyone interested in trying the sport can call Steve Medicraft at (403) 342-6555 for more information. rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

Charity Dyke, the city’s Greater Downtown co-ordinator, replied that as the city moves forward on the Riverlands and Taylor Drive plans, there will be more communication with citizens. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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COST: Hours spent digging up information MacQuarrie and communications co-ordinator Deven Kumar each spent about 50 hours on requests and another seven staffers invested 55 hours digging up information.

Association member Blaine Dushanek is unapologetic about the cost of their information requests.

“They say that it cost $19,000 for FOIP requests over a two-year period, but we believe we’ve kept about $12 million of taxpayers’ money out of the spending over the last two years.” “$19,000 is money well spent as far as we’re concerned,” he said.

Dushanek noted that the council expenses request uncovered that Mayor Steve Christie had improperly claimed $500 for tickets to a Progressive Conservative fundraiser in 2009 as a municipal expense.

Christie said the claim was made by mistake and he immediately reimbursed the money.

While Dushanek has seen the value of their information requests, he remains convinced the city could have done the work cheaper.

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He questions why more than $8,000 was spent on lawyers.

City council also raised concerns about the time and money being spent on FOIP requests.

Last month, council decided to change the policy of waiving all FOIP fees.

Those making FOIP requests are now required to pay a fee.

MacQuarrie said the city is using the FOIP fee schedule created by the province. “(The cost) really varies. The initial request is $25. After that, it’s really dependent on the information that is being requested.”

Under the province’s fee schedule, higher rates typically kick in if the work entailed tops the $150 mark.

MacQuarrie doesn’t believe the changes will make it more difficult for citizens to get information.

“I think if someone has a legitimate FOIP request, we’ll certainly respond to that, and that’s in accordance with the FOIP guidelines and regulations.”

Dushanek said the group hasn’t submitted any requests since the $25 fee kicked in but doesn’t see it as an obstacle.

“We’ll spend the $25. If we feel it’s definitely in the public’s interest to know what we’re asking, we’ll go to the privacy commissioner and appeal that $25.”

The same route would be taken for any additional costs, he added.

He said the work of the Lacombe group was given a vote of support by Scott Hennig of the Canadian Taxpayers Association, which has undertaken numerous FOIP requests in its role as a spending watchdog.

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Monday, Jan. 21, 2013

RCMP lead convoys of cars as road reopens Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Aboriginal protesters carry a banner while taking part in an Idle No More round dance flash-mob at Parkland Mall Saturday. Please see related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com.

HIGHWAY 63 WAS SHUT DOWN DUE TO TREACHEROUS CONDITIONS

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Hundreds attend flash-mob at mall IDLE NO MORE PROTESTERS HOLD ROUND DANCE

BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF Hundreds of people circled the Parkland Mall food court in an Idle No More demonstration Saturday.

Aboriginals of all ages, some toting signs and flags, staged a hand-holding round dance encouraged by Cree singers playing a ceremonial drum.

Mall security and management did not intervene in the 15-minute event, which started just before 3 p.m.

At its peak, about 200 people participated in the boisterous yet peaceful demonstration.

The dancers were joined by many mall patrons.

Some shoppers took little notice and hustled past, others shot photos and video with cell phone

‘WE SHOWED THAT WE’RE SUPPORTING THE CHIEFS AND EACH OTHER. WE’RE DOING THIS FOR THE LAND AND WATER AND NOT JUST OUT TREATY RIGHTS. IT’S ABOUT THE ECONOMY AND THE LAND AS WELL.’ — BONNIE BADGER OF THE RED DEER NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE

cameras and a few were clearly annoyed by the noise and activity.

The flash-mob event was organized through social media by Bonnie Badger of the Red Deer Native Friendship Centre.

“It was a great success. I’m so proud of how many people showed up.

“We showed that we’re supporting the chiefs and each other. We’re doing this for the land and water and not just out treaty rights. It’s about the economy and

the land as well.”

Idle No More is a national aboriginal movement protesting provisions of federal omnibus bill C-45, which supporters say strip indigeneous peoples’ sovereignty over treaty lands.

This is the second local protest, the first held on Dec. 19th. Another may occur on Jan. 28th when national organizers are calling for an Idle No More World Day of Action. rfiedler@reddeeradvocate

Redford happy with Saskatchewan support for Keystone pipeline

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Premier Alison Redford says she’s pleased to hear of a new effort to get U.S. President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has joined 10 U.S. Republican governors in sending a letter to Obama.

The letter says the proposed pipeline, which

would carry bitumen from the Alberta oilsands to U.S refineries in the Gulf of Mexico, would create thousands of jobs on both sides of the border.

Redford says Alberta is pursuing its own avenues in support of the pipeline.

But she calls Wall’s letter “another arrow in the quiver.”

TransCanada is now hoping for approval from the State Department after filing a new application with an altered pipeline route.

LAC LA BICHE — Weary motorists finally got a reprieve late Friday night after spending much of the day sitting in a long line of vehicles barred from an icy stretch of highway connecting Fort McMurray, Alta., to the rest of the province.

RCMP reopened Highway 63, which had been shut down since Thursday evening due to treacherous conditions made worse Friday by freezing rain.

But the reopening wasn’t exactly a case of off to the races — RCMP vehicles served as pilot cars slowly leading about 50 vehicles at a time at 15-minute intervals.

RCMP said the strategy allowed them to minimize the amount of traffic in any given area of the highway, as well as set the pace for the speed of travel.

Meanwhile, maintenance crews continued to work away plowing and sanding the highway between the Highway 55 junction and Secondary Highway 881.

Hundreds of cars and trucks were waiting at either end of the roadblocks.

“It’s life on 63,” quipped Guy Stacey earlier in the evening as he relaxed with his driver’s seat tipped back and his feet resting on his dashboard.

Some passed the time by reading, some by listening to music, and others by sleeping.

Some people were frustrated.

“They closed the barn door after the horse ran away,” said one man of the maintenance work.

“They should have been doing this all week, not just today.”

But Mel Peterson of M & K Trucking said drivers shouldn’t underestimate the danger.

“You can be driving along, minding your own business, and the next thing you know you’re on black ice,” he said.

“You don’t see it and you’re in trouble. I’ve been there just about 20 years and I haven’t seen the highway shut down this long.”

A spokesman for Alberta Transportation said decisions to close major highways are not made often, but there was little option in this case.

“All of a sudden you’re going from an asphalt roadway to a curling rink,” said Parker Hogan, explaining that fluctuating temperatures made it difficult to adjust the sand/salt mixture to changing road conditions.

Despite the reopening of the highway, RCMP were still recommending against travel in the area, telling people that if they were able to stay put, that’s what they should do.

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Monday, Jan. 21, 2013

Judges must make choices It was inevitable. Things are heating up between the courts and the federal government.

On the burner are Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s get-tough crime bills, imposing mandatory minimum sentences. And as legal authorities predicted, the bills most likely are headed to the RICK Supreme Court ZEMANEK of Canada for a challenge.

Courts in British Columbia and Ontario have ruled that in some cases the mandatory minimum is unconstitutional under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

It’s being argued that the sentences are excessive, far exceeding sentencing guidelines established in the past by the Supreme Court.

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not always fit the crime; each case before the courts must be considered on an individual basis.

Harper’s government could have saved the courts’ time and taxpayers’ money had he left sentencing in the hands of those who understand the complexities of the justice system.

There’s also the argument that mandatory minimum sentences constitute government interference in the due process of law and that Canada’s courts must remain free and impartial.

Recently in B.C., a provincial court judge ruled that the mandatory threeyear minimum sentence set by the federal government in its 2008 Bill C-2 for a firearms offence was unconstitutional and excessive.

It’s safe to assume the eventual outcome of that case, likely determined by the Supreme Court of Canada, can be applied to the more recent Bill C-10.

In Ontario, judges have challenged the mandatory minimum sentences in at least two cases involving firearms offences.

In another case, an Ontario Superior Court Judge struck down a section of the Criminal Code dealing with dan-

gerous offenders, citing a breach of the Charter.

And the United Nations entered the discussion in October, condemning Harper’s omnibus crime bill C-10 as “excessively punitive” for youth.

The UN said it’s a step backwards for Canada’s child rights record.

The bill includes stiffer penalties for youth and makes it easier to try them as adults, which the UN committee on child’s rights says “no longer conforms to the child rights convention or other international standards.”

In a September interview with CBC, Federal New Democrat MP and justice critic Francoise Boivin warned of growing tensions between the federal government and the courts. Boivin said the Conservatives are “pitting the judicial against the legislature” and should instead reflect on the messages the courts are sending them.

Retired Ontario Superior Court Judge James Chadwick told the CBC that sentencing is one of, if not the hardest, aspects of being a judge.

When asked if mandatory minimum sentences would make a judge’s job easier, he said, “Well, I guess it makes

it easier for throwing the key away.”

The federal government steadfastly defends its position.

Kerry-Lynne Findlay, the parliamentary secretary to the minister of Justice, said Bill C-10 was designed in part to “send a strong message that we are standing up for victims of crime and the most vulnerable in society and to make criminals more accountable for their actions.”

Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has said previously that “It’s our job to give guidance to the courts.

We have mandatory sentences in this country for quite some time, and the ones we have are reasonable and provide that guidance.”

But that mind set undermines the entire justice system. It’s up to the Supreme Court of Canada to set sentencing guidelines, based on years of experience.

If an impartial body is not the ultimate arbiter of justice, then every new government can manipulate the system on a whim. Arm’s-length justice is a cornerstone of our democracy.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Let voters decide if ward system best Mayor Morris Flewwelling, city manager Craig Curtis, and all council members: If I may open up this letter with a quote from our first prime minister, John A. Macdonald: “Politics is a game requiring great coolness and an utter abnegation of prejudice and personal feeling.”

I respect the office that is held by Mayor Flewwelling and all council members alike. I covet your indulgence in merely reading this letter and am thankful for the system of democracy in which Canada, Alberta and Red Deer is built upon.

It is that very democratic system in which I ask all council members to vote in favour of allowing a plebiscite on the introduction of a ward system for council, in which the citizens decide how they ought to be governed.

I firmly believe democracy is not just a timely vote every three or four years deciding who ought to represent you, I believe it is our democratic and endowed right to decide how we ought to be governed.

The vote coming up today has little to do with whether you as an elected member agree with the ward system. It does have to do with whether you agree with the voters having the final say. I hope you agree that the voters ought to have the final say, not just at election time, but every time.

I have heard countless times that council is elected to make the hard decisions. I ask you to stand up on those words and make the difficult decision to allow the citizens to choose for themselves how they ought to be governed. How crass that we live in such a strong democratic society, yet we the citizens must ask permission to be governed one way, or the other.

As a citizen I get one vote, I get one mark, and among thousands it is no wonder one can feel as though their vote is meaningless. If you decide to vote no on the question of whether to hold a plebiscite on the ward system, I ask you to consider if such a decision would be furthering democracy?

Would your vote empower the local citizen to get involved in the city? I submit that it would not. It would carry forth the argument that politics will never change, and that my mark, my vote, is indeed meaningless.

I will ask you one more time to put aside your personal feelings, vote for the citizens, and not for yourself.

Calvin Goulet-Jones Red Deer

Stand up for our right to a healthy environment Public health worker Beatriz Mendoza was living near the Riachuelo River in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when she started losing feeling in her fingers and toes. Her neighbours were also experiencing health issues — including skin rashes, cancers and birth defects — clearly linked to pollution in the heavily industrialized area. The MatanzaRiachuelo basin is one of the most contaminated waterways in Latin America.

In 2004, Mendoza and other residents sued the national, provincial and municipal governments and 44 corporations. And they won. Environmental lawyer David R. Boyd describes the case in his book The Right to a Healthy EnvironDAVID ment: Revitalizing Canada’s SUZUKI Constitution. He writes that the lawsuit led Argentina’s government to establish a new river basin authority and put in place cleanup, restoration and regional environmental health plans.

The government has since increased the number of environmental inspectors in the region from three to 250, and created 139 sampling points for monitoring water, air and soil quality. Three new water treatment plants have been built, providing clean water to millions of people; 11 sewage-treatment plants have been built or expanded, also serving millions; 169 garbage dumps have been closed; and 484 polluting industrial facilities have been shut down.

As Boyd points out, this was possible because

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Argentina’s constitution recognizes “the right to a healthy environment and the citizens’ power to defend their rights through the judicial system.” It’s a right that people in more than 100 countries worldwide enjoy.

Canadians are not among them.

Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives us freedom of expression, equal protection from discrimination and the right to life, liberty and security of the person.

But one fundamental right is notably absent — to live in an environment conducive to health and wellbeing, with clean air, water and soil and biological diversity. As Boyd writes, “In a country where nature is an integral element of our national identity, and in an era where scientific evidence establishes our basic dependence on a healthy environment, it is striking that our constitution makes no reference to it.”

Along with David Boyd and Ecojustice, the David Suzuki Foundation is working to change that. Boyd’s book helped launch the initiative, and the Foundation is hosting a telephone town hall with him on Sunday, Feb. 3, from 5 to 6 p.m. Mountain Time. It’s free, but space is limited. You can register until Jan. 27 at www.davidsuzuki.org.

Boyd makes a convincing case for the necessity of such constitutional protection. He points to evidence from more than 100 nations demonstrating that, “constitutional entrenchment of environmental rights and responsibilities contributes to stronger laws, increased enforcement, an enhanced role for citizens, and improved environmental performance.”

Although the idea of a constitutional right to a healthy environment is gaining support, it does have its detractors, including some government and industry insiders in Canada. The Canadian Association

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Evidence from countries with environmental rights, such as Norway, also shows the shakiness of the economic argument. “Rather than trumping economic activity,” Boyd writes, “the right to a healthy environment would compel, or at least increase the likelihood of, sustainable development.”

And, even though there is still much to be done in Argentina’s Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin, people there are already enjoying significantly improved living conditions, including a stronger local economy.

Getting the right to a healthy environment enshrined in Canada’s Constitution won’t be easy.

We’re headed in the opposite direction, with environmental protections and laws being rolled back or gutted, mostly in the name of keeping us tied to a resource-extraction economy. And despite our country’s abundant water, many people, especially in First Nations communities, don’t have access to clean drinking water.

It’s time to address Canada’s dismal and worsening environmental record. If all of us — “Canadians of all ages, all backgrounds, all provinces and territories, and all political persuasions” — work together, we can make it happen.

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More police boots on street?

I don’t see any now

Morrow fails to recognize good work done by PCs Recently a letter was published written by Kyle Morrow, former Liberal MLA hopeful, in attempt to discredit the good work that the Conservative government has done since receiving a majority mandate in the last election.

Mr. Morrow’s letter outlines various changes our government has made to keep the EI system sustainable for the future. According to Mr. Morrow, making sure future generations of Canadians will be able to have the same quality of life that the current generations do is a bad thing. Our government disagrees.

Mr. Morrow points to our shrinking deficit as a reason that our government’s record has been “abysmal.” Unfortunately for Mr. Morrow, every other major organization in the world points to Canada as having one of the most stable economies in the world. Forbes magazine has ranked Canada as No. 1 in its annual review of the best countries for business; for the fifth year in a row, the World Economic Forum has rated Canada’s banking system as the world’s soundest; and both the IMF and OECD expect Canada to be among the strongest growing economies in the G-7 next year. The economy has added almost one million new jobs since 2009 and Canada has some of the strongest growth numbers in the G-7.

Our government has stimulated the economy when it was needed, and has a detailed plan to balanced budgets which we are on track to do within four years. Part of these changes includes changing the pensions for public servants and MPs, saving taxpayers $2.6 billion over the next five years.

According to Mr. Morrow, saving taxpayers that much money is a bad thing. Our government disagrees.

Mr. Morrow’s letter also complains about our budget cuts while at the

In response to a news article written by Crystal Rhyno and published on Page A1 and A2 of the Advocate on Jan. 13, headed Extra police will cost taxpayers, relating to an increase in taxes due to a proposed necessary increase in police manpower in Red Deer: As a senior who has lived in Canada for two years, the last year in Red Deer, I find it rather confusing to a statement reportedly stated by Coun.

Buchanan, a retired police officer, that the city “needs more boots on the streets.”

As a person who spends time walking in the city centre and other times driving to and from various parts of the city, the only time I have seen police boots on the street is on Taylor Drive on nice summer Sundays stopping “speeders” in private vehicles (no commercial trucks out on a Sunday), these private vehicles driving perhaps a little over the posted speed limit but the road being reasonably free of vehicles.

I was born and educated in the U.K. and in my 40s left and lived in two European countries for 33 years prior to coming to Canada to be close to my grandchildren. In those three countries, police were always in abundance wherever you went and on foot, and in addition to keeping the areas they patrolled in free of crime, they also assisted anyone who actually needed any kind of assistance.

As a youngster, I remember seeing lots of pictures of the RCMP in their splendid red uniforms riding horses, and although I was not expecting them to be still riding horses, since living in Canada I have been rather taken aback by the generally poor standard of policing by the RCMP. For example, just one policeman driving a huge car. If a particular policeman is called to a problem scene, he then has to call for backup, meaning another policeFor $300 dollar loan for 14 days total cost of borrowing man has to drive to the is $30 dollars. Annual percentage rate is (APR)=260.71%. scene in another huge Limited time offer. car and sometimes an additional car as well.

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Wherever I have lived, I have always read the local newspapers and in both the provinces I have lived in Canada, British Columbia and Alberta.

I have yet to read anything positive about the RCMP. After arriving in Red Deer, I was driving towards the city centre and was not absolutely certain if I was heading in the right direction to my destination and came upon two policemen (with two cars) with some sort of photo equipment to stop private vehicles who were allegedly speeding. I pulled over, waited until they were quietly standing alongside one of the vehicles and politely asked them for directions. Their response to me, and not in a pleasant manner, was “Can’t help you” and “I don’t know.”

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same time complaining about deficits, which is a laughable position. I am not sure where Mr. Morrow learned that you can cut deficits without budget cuts unless we follow the Liberal agenda to raise taxes. Our government has cut taxes over 140 times and we have no plans to raise them again. The budget cuts we made in the most recent budget were uniform across the board.

Our government understands that the number of veterans who served our country during the Second World War and the Korean War are sadly dwindling. The amount of money needed for these veterans accordingly decreases and these dollars are put toward our new veterans, who have returned from missions such as Afghanistan. For Mr. Morrow to assert that it is the Conservative government who is turning their backs on the military and veterans, while being a former Liberal candidate is laughable. There is a reason why the military refers to the years of Liberal governments as the “decade of darkness.”

According to Mr. Morrow, spending money to re-equip our military after years of liberal cuts and investing in programs for our veterans is a bad thing.

Our government disagrees.

Lastly, Mr. Morrow talks about Member of parliament’s salaries in a lastditch effort to smear the government.

What Mr. Morrow does not mention is that both MPs’ salaries and operating budgets have been frozen for almost five years now. As I mentioned above, further changes to public service and MP pensions will save Canadians billions of dollars in the coming years.

Our government’s plan is going to benefit Canadians for years to come. It is a shame that Mr. Morrow would rather tax and spend during times of fiscal restraint.

Blaine Calkins, MP Wetaskiwin

Thanks for help at library as result of knee injury I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Donna Storvik and Linda Feenstra at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library.

When a knee injury made it extremely difficult to walk, these two ladies went to great lengths to make sure I was all right and made it to my car safely. Mrs. Storvik provided an ice pack and Mrs. Feenstra accompanied me one city block to my car.

They have my gratitude and respect.

Ben Ordman Red Deer

Navigable waters protection remains a federal priority Re: Jan. 17 Idle No More article A Canadian Press article on the Idle No More movement in the Jan. 17 Advocate inaccurately suggests that the Navigable Waters Protection Act is environmental legislation.

In fact, the Navigable Waters Protection Action has always been about navigation. From the day it was enact-

ed, the goal has been the safe and efficient movement of marine traffic. The recently passed Navigation Protection Act emphasizes this long-standing objective, and it will ensure a balance between the public right to navigate and the need to build works such as bridges, wharfs and docks.

Nothing in the Navigation Protection Act diminishes the powers of Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and various provincial authorities to continue to protect the environment, fish and fish habitat, and species at risk. As well, there is no impact on pipelines that will have to be approved by the National Energy Board.

Our navigation plan is in line with our government’s commitment to cut red tape, streamline the regulatory process, return to balanced budgets, and encourage long-term economic growth and job creation.

Denis Lebel, PC, MP Minister of Transport Infrastructure and Communities Ottawa

Lack of service no surprise I too, was appalled, but not at all surprised at Ms. Summers’ account of her extremely unfortunate trip with Greyhound (Advocate, Jan. 11). I can imagine what she and her husband suffered.

What I am surprised at, though, is the fact that Greyhound has never before come to the public’s attention in this way. I have had extremely horrific experiences with Greyhound.

Their customer service department in Texas does not seem to hold their drivers and customer service personnel accountable and at no time made it even remotely simple to communicate my concerns.

I hope that Ms. Summers will not accept less than what this pathetic show of customer relations drivers/staff showed them. I have certainly found other mode of travel and would go to great lengths in order to avoid any further contact with Greyhound Canada.

Greyhound should also be extremely grateful that the young woman did manage to get home safely, no thanks again to the staff at Greyhound. I hope the Jones family will be duly compensated for that sad display of caring.

Sara Rattray Red Deer

Some fair reporting, please Not another article about climate change by a pseudo scientific reporter (Tim Harper, Wednesday, Jan. 16, and Evan Bedford earlier)!

Can’t you find at least one scientist who can review the subject in a rational manner?

Are you afraid that your readers might discover another viewpoint that makes more sense than the gloom and doom you always cover?

You now, some fair and balanced reporting.

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The article County taking over Bowden fire service had one paragraph that was not accurate. The Town of Bowden was never “contracted” to provide fire protection. We had a written agreement with Red Deer County pertaining to costs and services that each jurisdiction was responsible for.

The Town of Bowden did not “want to get out of the firefighting business,” but instead wanted to ensure the best possible fire protection for its citizens.

Red Deer County has more resources to maintain the components that are currently needed for the high standards of a fire department.

The Town of Bowden is extremely grateful of all of the efforts of the past and present volunteers on the Bowden Fire Department.

A new agreement (for the provision of fire service) was signed by the elected officials of Red Deer County and the Town of Bowden. The Bowden Fire Department will continue to operate as before. The same building and the same volunteers will remain to provide fire protection services to the Town of Bowden and Red Deer County.

Robb Stuart Mayor Town of Bowden

and from Calgary on three occasions and never sighted a single police car.

One of the areas I drive daily is through the intersection of Taylor Drive and 67th Street. When heading south and waiting for the lights to turn green in my favour, nearly every time they do, as many as six cars heading north and in the left lanes for turning left onto 67th continue to do so. Surely the police check these intersections and know what I describe happens but I have never once seen police in attendance.

I don’t know how many police are on duty at one time, I don’t know how many of them are actually outside patrolling the city, how many police cars are out at one time, and how many pairs of boots are out on the street at one time and where these boots are located, because in my opinion total costs of using the RCMP in Red Deer could be greatly reduced. And finally, do the councillors of Red Deer know exactly what the police are actually doing for the total time they are on duty, because they seem to be a law upon themselves (pardon the pun)?

James Taylor Red Deer

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Woman asks B.C. to alter heritage law family to punish member over masks’ sale

By THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The recent sale of two cedar masks considered culturally sacred to a Vancouver Island First Nations family has prompted a university instructor to ask the provincial government to change the law affecting cultural property.

Members of Port Alberni, B.C.’s Hamilton and Sayers families say they plan to strip the family member who sold the “hinkeets” of her royal title and cultural responsibilities at an upcoming ceremony, shedding light on the internal disciplinary proceedings practised

by First Nations for generations.

The masks were more than 100 years old, depicted male and female serpents and had been passed down along the maternal lines of the family for safe keeping. But they were auctioned off in November to an unknown buyer for $4,000 and $22,500.

“We just have to take care of business,” said Judith Sayers, a former elected chief for the Hupacasath First Nation who lectures in law and business at the University of Victoria.

The family member responsible for the masks was out of the country and could not be reached for comment.

Sayers said she recently told a working group of First Nations leaders and provincial government representatives that B.C.’s Heritage Conservation Act doesn’t address the sale of similar items.

Sayers has said the masks were “cultural property” owned by the family. The individual who sold them inherited them in a will governed by provincial law that recognized individual ownership.

As a result, said Sayers, a legal and cultural clash has developed over collective and individual rights.

Karen Duffek, a curator at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology, agrees there’s a problem.

“The legal ownership that the owners of those particular Nuu-

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A native dancer wears a cedar mask. The recent sale of two cedar masks considered culturally sacred to a Vancouver Island First Nations family has prompted a university instructor to ask the provincial government to change the law affecting cultural property.

Chah-nulth pieces had is recognized by our legal system, but it’s not the same definition of ownership that is the Nuu-chah-nulth one.”

While demand has existed for First Nations masks and other cultural symbols since Europeans arrived on the West Coast, the market grew in the 20th century, especially when museums and art galleries began to collect and exhibit the work, said Duffek.

“I think that masks, there’s a certain appeal to them internationally, no matter where they’re from,” she said. “There’s a strong interest in masks and a huge range in characters being represented and artistic styles.”

But the masks aren’t just art because “intangibles,” such as rights, privileges and responsibilities, are attached to them, she

said.

Wawmeesh Hamilton, a member of the Hupacasath First Nation and a cousin of Sayers, said he learned about the auction when he was tipped by a relative.

The masks, he said, were accompanied by shawls and even a specific dance and were handed down to his mother, Jessie Hamilton, who died in 2008, before they were again passed on.

He said the masks were only brought out during potlatches.

“This can’t go unanswered in so far as consequences are concerned,” he said, noting the family holds a cultural responsibility to correct the sale.

Hamilton said the family is still trying to locate the masks. If they are successful and can regain ownership, they will show them during the potlatch in the fall.

Requests for Royal Prerogative of Mercy on the rise by ºTHE CANADIAN PRESS

bled the crime-free waiting period before an offender can apply to 10 years for indictable convictions and to five years for summary offences, which are less serious.

At the same time, Ottawa enacted new regulations that quadrupled the application fee for a pardon — now officially called a record suspension — to $631.

The Royal Prerogative of Mercy also received a high-profile boost last August when Prime Minister Stephen Harper used the government’s repeal of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly to announce clemency for grain farmers previously convicted of wilfully breaking the monopoly in protest.

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briefs Canada evacuates staff from Mali embassy, urges Canadians to get out

by THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA, Ont. — The federal government has evacuated most of its staff and their families from the embassy in Mali, and is urging any Canadians still in the country to get out now.

The Department of Foreign Affairs says all nonessential staff and all 29 dependents of the workers and diplomats there have been relocated from the mission in the capital of Bamako.

The situation in Mali has been volatile for nearly a year, with Islamist radicals taking over northern parts of the country following a coup.

Two thousand French troops are now stationed in the country, trying to help the government there dislodge the insurgents.

Foreign Affairs warns that it now has a skeleton staff in Bamako, with limited ability to help any Canadians who have stubbornly remained in the country.

The department says in addition to the political instability and military clashes, there is a threat of terrorism, banditry and kidnapping in the northern region.

Canada has sent a heavy-lift plane to help the French military with their operation in Mali.

Canada condemns kidnappings; no Canadians among hostages OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says Canada condemns the Algerian kidnappings, calling the attacks “deplorable and cowardly.”

The minister says it’s believed no Canadians or dual nationals were among the hostages and a permanent resident of Canada who was at the site is safe and has left Algeria.

The minister says while the full scale and exact details of the situation remain unclear, Canadian officials remain in close contact with Algerian authorities to seek further information.

The Algerian government says special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert Saturday to end a standoff with Islamist extremists that left at least 23 hostages dead and killed all 32 militants involved.

Foreign Affairs is looking into reports that one of the hostage-takers was a Canadian.

“The thoughts and prayers of our entire country are with the families and friends of the innocent lives lost,” Baird said.

“Canada remains a committed partner in the global struggle against terrorism in all its forms.”

Surrey rejects casino after residents fight to preserve neighbourhood SURREY, B.C. — Residents opposed to a $100-million casino complex in Surrey, B.C., have swayed the city to reject the project that proponents touted as an economic boost for British Columbia’s fastgrowing city.

Council ditched the controversial proposal with a 5 to 4 vote at 2 a.m. Saturday after a packed public hearing that began Monday night was carried over to Friday and stretched into the next morning.

Eight councillors cast four votes each for and against the project before Mayor Dianne Watts defeated it with her tie-breaking vote.

Watts said she was initially in favour of the development that would have brought much-needed revenue to the city, but changed her mind during the consultation process when there was significant pushback from the No side.

New restrictions on the granting of criminal record suspensions, or pardons, are causing more former convicts to seek clemency under the rarely used Royal Prerogative of Mercy, according to the Parole Board.

In fact, the federal agency has posted an “Important Notice” on its website to discourage clemency applications, which it notes are “only granted in exceptional circumstances.”

“If you are ineligible SAVE UP TO for a record suspension, $750 WHILE or the board has refused QUANTITIES to order a record suspension in your case, it is LAST! highly unlikely that you will qualify under RPM,” cautions the board.

There are currently 79 active clemency applications in the pipeline, according to Parole Board spokeswoman Caroline Douglas.

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Rebels handed pair of losses JOFFREY LUPUL

LUPUL GETS EXTENSION A day after naming Joffrey Lupul an alternate captain, the Maple Leafs showed just how much faith they have in the 29-year-old left-winger.

Toronto signed Lupul to a five-year contract extension Sunday, rewarding him for a career year last season.

Lupul recorded 25 goals and 42 assists in 2011-12, second-most on the Leafs roster and career highs in assists and points. Lupul is now signed through to the 2017-18 season.

Although the team did not release details of the contract, Nonis was pleased with the deal that is reportedly worth US$26.25 million. Toronto acquired Lupul a from the Anaheim Ducks in 2011.

Today

● Women’s basketball: Collin Barrows Storm vs. Funk, Shooting Stars vs. Triple Threat, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber; Nikes vs.

Spartans, Big Ballers vs.

Hoosier Daddy, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Central Alberta Christian; Vertically Challenge vs. Rampage, 7:45 p.m., Hunting Hills.

Friday

● College basketball: Calgary St. Mary’s at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Brandon at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer IROC, 7:45 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Stettler, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blazers at Sylvan Lake, 8 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Innisfail at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Stony Plain at Sylvan Lake, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Peewee AA hockey: Innisfail at Red Deer Parkland, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena; Southeast at Red Deer Black, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Tigers 3 Rebels 0 Cougars 3 Rebels 1 That impressive and well-deserved 4-1 win the Red Deer Rebels posted over the defending WHL champion Edmonton Oil Kings last Thursday?

Well, that must seem like a month or more ago to the Rebels following a pair of weekend setbacks, including an ugly 3-1 loss at home to the Prince George Cougars Saturday.

The Rebels’ offence was missing in action Saturday and fired blanks during a 3-0 loss Sunday to the Tigers at Medicine Hat. “It’s disappointing, especially after playing as well as we did Thursday night,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “The effort we had last night was pretty upsetting. To go from one extreme to the other . . . that was as disgraceful a game as I’ve seen this team play in a long time.”

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complacent. The preparation was obviously not where it needed to be. It’s just disappointing.”

The Rebels opened the scoring just 74 seconds into the contest when Joel Hamilton connected from the edge of the crease.

But that was it for the hosts, who watched the Cougars get goals from Zach Pochiro and defenceman Daniel Gibb, whose point shot beat Bartosak through a crowd, before the first intermission.

Red Deer was outshot 12-5 in the second period and despite holding a 14-5 edge in shots in the third, seldom threatened and were never close to being in synch. Former Edmonton Oil King Klarc Wilson had the fans racing to the exits when he notched an empty-net goal in the final minute.

Red Deer native and Cougars netminder Mac Engel recorded 31 saves for his fifth win of the season. Bartosak made 21 saves.

“These players don’t get to pick and choose what days they can come here and go to work. We still have guys in that mindset,” said Sutter. “This is major junior hockey. The next level is pro and you have to work for everything you get.

“We got totally outworked tonight. Our forwards, through to a man, were awful and our defence struggled moving pucks. It was a totally bad game overall as a group.”

The Rebels host the Brandon Wheat Kings and Lethbridge Hurricanes Friday and Saturday. ● Rebels defenceman Mathew Dumba didn’t dress for either of the Minnesota Wild weekend games despite being placed on the NHL club’s season-opening roster due to injuries to a pair of veteran blueliners.

The 18-year-old will likely return to the Rebels this week, perhaps as early as today. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Flames shark-bitten in season opener

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS San Jose 4 Calgary 1 CALGARY — Patrick Marleau looked to be in mid-season form as the San Jose Sharks opened their lockout-shortened 2013 campaign Sunday.

The Sharks centre scored twice in the second period as San Jose defeated the Calgary Flames 4-1.

The 33-year-old from Aneroid, Sask., has scored 30 or more goals in four consecutive seasons and has six overall in his career.

“You don’t normally get your first goal in January,” Marleau said. “It was great to be back, even though it was their home opener. Just to be in the rink and have fans cheering was something special.”

Martin Havlat and defenceman Dan Boyle also scored for the Sharks, who spoiled the debut of new Flames coach Bob Hartley. Joe Thornton and Joe Pavelski each chipped in with a pair of assists for San Jose.

Antti Niemi made 31 saves to get the win. Calgary counterpart Miikka Kiprusoff, playing in his 600th career game, made 25 saves. Lee Stempniak’s power-play goal in the first period was all the offence the home side could muster.

The Flames outplayed San Jose in the opening period with a 16-9 edge in shots, a couple of chances that rang off the post and a Mikael Backlund breakaway foiled by Niemi.

San Jose recovered to out-

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San Jose Sharks’ Martin Havlat tries to score on a backhand shot between his legs as Calgary Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff stops it during NHL action in Calgary, Sunday. shoot the Flames 14-4 in the second period and took advantage of loose defence around Kiprusoff to score three times from close range.

“That first period was a little bit of a shock, but after that the guys fell into it and you get into a rhythm,” Marleau said. “It’s going to be a learning curve, a little bit of rust for all teams.

“You try and get those points as quick as possible, especially

with a shortened season.”

The Flames were greeted warmly at Scotiabank Saddledome. Attendance was not announced, but a Flames spokesman said it was a sellout at 19,289. There were a few pairs of empty seats, however, and the odd string of three and four vacant.

One glaring indicator of fan discontent was a sign in the lower bowl that read “We were

held hostage by greed”, but the sign disappeared after one period.

As other NHL teams have done at home-openers to soothe the feelings of jaded fans postlockout, the Flames deeply discounted food, drink and merchandise Sunday. The Saddledome stores were doing a brisk business 90 minutes prior to the game.

The Flames also guaranteed a minimum $50,000 payout to the winner of the 50-50 draw Sunday and for Monday’s game versus the Anaheim Ducks.

Calgary did not apologize for the lockout as some teams did, but instead expressed appreciation for their fans’ loyalty prior to the game.

The Flames pressed in the third period with 12 shots to San Jose’s six, but Niemi held off Calgary’s charge.

With Calgary’s Curtis Glencross and Sven Baertschi serving coincidental minors late in the third period, Boyle scored a power-play goal on a two-man advantage with a minute remaining.

“We had everything in place for a great game but the bottom line, we played 40 minutes,” Hartley said. “We have to show more consistency.”

San Jose scored two powerplay goals on six chances, while Calgary went 1-for-3.

“We weren’t our best, put it that way,” Thornton said.

“We’ve still got a lot of work to do and we realize that, but starting on the road and getting the first win was huge.”

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The Rebels had more jump in their game Sunday, but couldn’t solve Tigers netminder Cam Lanigan and committed a series of mental/defensive errors that ultimately sealed their fate.

“We responded tonight and were better, but we couldn’t score and we had some breakdowns. We didn’t capitalize on some opportunities and we made three detailed mistakes that cost us goals,” said Sutter.

“It comes down to our older players having to be accountable in their actions. I’m not going to point fingers at our younger players, they’re young kids still learning the game at this level. The older guys have to show the way. They can’t be friggin’ erratic all over the friggin’ map.”

The Rebels were assessed all four minor penalties in the opening period but kept their hosts off the scoreboard. Hunter Shinkaruk potted the eventual winner midway through the middle frame and Curtis Valk and Logan McVeigh added third-period goals.

Lanigan stopped all 26 shots he faced, while Patrik Bartosak made 36 saves for Red Deer.

“We were better in the second and third periods tonight, but again there were mistakes made where we just broke down within our system. Those are mistakes we can’t make,” said Sutter.

The Rebels bench boss was disgusted with his club’s showing the night before in front of a sellout gathering of 6,660 at the Centrium.

“That was a huge disappointment. Outside of our goaltender (Bartosak) you can’t say there was one guy who even came close to where he needs to be for our team to have success,” said Sutter following the loss to the Cougars, whose points total is superior to only the Vancouver Giants.

“That is strictly based on the mental part of it and coming to the rink tonight very

Edmonton 3 Vancouver 2 VANCOUVER — Ales Hemsky tied the game in the third period and added the shootout winner Sunday as the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Vancouver Canucks 3-2.

Sam Gagner also scored in the shootout for the Oilers, who were making their debut in the lockout-shortened season, while Devan Dubnyk stopped both Vancouver attempts.

The Canucks blew a 2-0 lead and have now suffered back-toback losses after losing 7-3 to Anaheim at home on Saturday night.

Jordan Eberle had the other goal in regulation for Edmonton, while Alex Edler and Zack Kassian scored for Vancouver.

Roberto Luongo, who was expected to be traded after being displaced as Vancouver’s starter by Cory Schneider in last spring’s playoffs, made his second straight appearance in the young season and finished with 30 saves.

Dubnyk finished with 27 to get the win.

Trailing 2-0 late in the second, Eberle got the Oilers on the

board by roofing a backhander past Luongo from a sharp angle with just four seconds left in the period.

Edmonton pressed for the tie in the third period, with Hemsky beating Luongo on a weak shot from the wing on the power play at 14:05.

The goal came after Andrew Ebbett took a penalty for tripping Oilers rookie Nail Yakupov, who was making his NHL debut.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a chance to put the Oilers ahead with just over two and a half minutes left in the third, but he fired wide on a rush.

Luongo then stopped Eberle with 1:16 left, setting the stage for another shootout in which would be disappointed.

Luongo mopped up for Schneider in Saturday embarrassing loss to Anaheim.

Canucks coach Alain Vigneault chose to start Luongo against Edmonton in the second of back-to-back games rather than give Schneider a chance to redeem himself and restore some confidence.

“I had (the starting assignment) figured out a couple of days ago, and nothing that happened (Saturday) night changed

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Edmonton Oilers’ Ales Hemsky, left, scores against Vancouver Canucks’ goalie Roberto Luongo in a shootout during an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday. my mind,” Vigneault told reporters after the team’s morning skate on Sunday.

The Oilers had 12 players in the AHL or in Europe during the lockout, while only four Canucks played overseas during the labour dispute.

Vancouver had trouble dealing with Edmonton’s speed in the early going, but Edler

opened the scoring at 10:58 of the first period, blasting a slapshot by Dubynyk.

Play opened up in the second period, forcing Luongo to stop a Shawn Horcoff one-timer. A little while later, Kassian missed the net on two dangerous chances twice on the same shift before double the Vancouver lead at 14:18.

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49ers going back to Super Bowl to what remains the only Super Bowl in franchise history.

The AFC championship game record is 18 points, when Indianapolis rallied past New England in 2007.

Harbaugh is hardly cool and collected like the 49ers’ first Super Bowlwinning coach, Bill Walsh, but has pulled off a similar turnaround in San Francisco. The 49ers had eight straight years without a winning record before their new coach arrived from Stanford in 2011.

He immediately led San Francisco to the cusp of the Super Bowl, losing to the eventual champion New York Giants in overtime in last year’s NFC title game, a bitter defeat at home set up by a fumbled return.

This time, the 49ers were the ones winning on the road to set up another celebration in the city by the bay, which is rapidly becoming the new Titletown USA. They’ll try to follow the lead of the baseball Giants, who won the World Series in October.

“We’ve come full circle,” said Denise DeBartolo York, part of the family that has owned the 49ers since their championship days, “and the dynasty will prevail.”

Kaepernick guided San Francisco on a pair of second-half scoring drives that wiped out Atlanta’s 24-14 lead at the break. Gore scored on a 5-yard run early in the third quarter, then sprinted in from 9 yards out for the winning score with 8:23 remaining after each team made crucial mistakes to ruin potential scoring drives.

On both of Gore’s TDs, the Falcons had to worry about Kaepernick running it in himself. They barely even touched the running back on either play, and James scored pretty much the same way.

“I kind of figured that coming in and they showed that on film, so I assumed Frank and LaMichael were going to have a big day,” Kaepernick said.

“Frank ran hard today, and I can’t say enough about him.”

The top-seeded Falcons (14-4), in what appeared to be the final game for Hall of Famer-to-be Tony Gonzalez, tried to pull off another seasonextending drive. But, unlike the week before against Seattle, they needed a touchdown this time.

They came up 10 yards short.

On fourth down, Matt Ryan attempted a pass over the middle to Roddy White that would have been enough to keep the drive going. But linebacker NaVorro Bowman stuck a hand in to knock it away with 1:13 remaining.

The 49ers ran off all but the final 6 seconds, not nearly enough time for Ryan to pull off his greatest comeback yet.

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San Francisco 49ers’ Vernon Davis catches a pass with Atlanta Falcons’ Thomas DeCoud defending during the first half of the NFC Championship game Sunday, in Atlanta.

RALLY FROM 17-POINT DEFICIT TO BEAT FALCONS IN NFC TITLE GAME

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The San Francisco 49ers are ready to start a new dynasty with a familiar formula.

Next stop, the Big Easy.

Colin Kaepernick and Frank Gore led San Francisco to a record comeback in the NFC championship game Sunday, overcoming an early 17-0 deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons 28-24 and send the 49ers to their first Super Bowl since 1995.

Gore scored a pair of touchdowns, including the winner with 8:23 remaining for San Francisco’s first lead of the day, and the 49ers defence made it stand up. A fourth-down stop at the 10-yard line denied Atlanta another stirring comeback after blowing a big lead.

“Everybody does a little,” 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said, “and it adds

up to be a lot.”

San Francisco (13-4-1) moves on to face Baltimore at New Orleans in two weeks, looking to join Pittsburgh as the only franchises with six Super Bowl titles. It’ll be a brother-vs.-brother matchup, too, since John Harbaugh coaches the Ravens.

Joe Montana led the 49ers to four Super Bowl wins and Steve Young took them to No. 5. It’s up to Kaepernick and Co. to get No. 6.

“He just competes like a maniac all the time,” said Harbaugh, whose much-debated decision to bench Alex Smith at midseason now looks like the best move of the year.

Harbaugh was hoppin’ mad when a disputed call went against the 49ers on Atlanta’s potential winning drive. He leaped in the air, screamed at the officials and had to be restrained by his staff from charging the field.

No complaints when it was over.

“We rose up there at the end,” Harbaugh said.

His second-year quarterback, who runs like a track star, didn’t get a

chance to show off his touchdown celebration — flexing his right arm and kissing his bicep, a move that quickly became a social media sensation known as Kaepernicking.

But he shredded the Falcons through the air by completing 16 of 21 for 233 yards, including a 4-yard touchdown to Vernon Davis, and had them so worried about his running ability out of the spread option that Gore and LaMichael James had plenty of room.

Gore scored a pair of touchdowns, including the game winner with 8:23 remaining for San Francisco’s first lead of the day. Davis scored the first TD for the 49ers on a 15-yard run.

“I take my hat off to Atlanta. They played hard. They’ve got a great team,” Gore said.

“But we fought, man. We fought and we deserved it.”

The 49ers pulled off the biggest comeback victory in an NFC championship game, according to STATS. The previous NFC record was 13 points — Atlanta’s victory over Minnesota in the 1999 title game, which sent the Falcons

Ravens upset Patriots for all-Harbaugh Super Bowl

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Ravens 28 Patriots 13 FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Oh, brother!

John Harbaugh and his Baltimore Ravens set up a family reunion at the Super Bowl, shutting down the New England Patriots 28-13 Sunday in the AFC championship game.

The Ravens reached their first Super Bowl in 12 years, thanks to three touchdown passes from Joe Flacco and a defence led by Ray Lewis that made Tom Brady look downright ordinary.

Next up for Harbaugh and the Ravens is baby brother Jim and the San Francisco 49ers, who beat Atlanta 28-24 earlier in the day for the NFC title.

They’ll meet in two weeks in New Orleans — what a place for a party to celebrate the first brother-vs.brother coaching matchup in Super Bowl history.

It also will be quite a last game for Lewis, the emotional linebacker who will retire after the matchup with the 49ers, who opened as a 5-point favourite.

Driven by Lewis’ pending departure from the NFL, Baltimore’s defence stepped up in the playoffs.

Brady was 67-0 at home when leading at halftime, but this was no contest in the second half.

It also was a first for the Patriots, who hadn’t lost an AFC championship at home. After they had avenged last year’s AFC title game loss at Gillette Stadium, many of the Ravens gathered on the field jumping, chest-bumping and whooping before several thousand fans wearing Ravens jerseys — mostly Lewis’ No. 52 — who remained in the stands.

As in the previous two playoff wins against Indianapolis and Denver, the Ravens (13-6) were brilliant offensively in spots.

This might be 17-yearveteran Lewis’ team, but it’s also Flacco’s, and the quarterback’s six road wins are the most in playoff history.

“It was pretty awesome,” Flacco said. “We were here last year and Red Deer Rebels thought we had it, but vs came up a little short.

Guys came out in the Brandon second half and made Wheat Kings plays. ... We put pressure Friday, January 20 on them like that, and it worked pretty well.”

7:30 pm Flacco, the only quarterback to win a playoff Red Deer Rebels game in each of his first vs five seasons, was dynamic with his arm and precise Lethbridge with his decision making.

Hurricanes Looking much more the Saturday, January 26 championship passer than 7:30 pm Brady did, his throws of 11 and 3 yards to Anquan 80’s Night Boldin and 5 to Dennis Pitta all were perfect.

Red Deer Rebels New England (13-5) lost vs a home AFC title matchup Kootency Ice for the first time in five home games. The loss deThursday, January 31 nied Brady and coach Bill 7:00 pm Belichick a shot at their Ladies Night sixth Super Bowl. They’ve gone 3-2, losing their last Enmax Centrium two times in the big game.

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seeking their second NFL championship. San Francisco has won five.

“This is our time. This is our time,” Lewis said as he and a few teammates were receiving the AFC championship trophy. “All these men out there, there might just be only five of us up here, but every man out there sacrificed this year for each other, and man, we did it and we’re on our way to the Super Bowl. That’s awesome.”

The Ravens have gotten there the hard way, with no post-season bye. Then again, five of the last seven Super Bowl champions took that route. They also were pushed into a second overtime in frigid Denver last weekend before eliminating Peyton Manning and the top-seeded Broncos. And now they’ve cast aside the league’s most successful franchise of the last dozen years.

New England (13-5), which hasn’t won a Super Bowl since the 2004 season, had four injuries, the scariest when running back Stevan Ridley was knocked flat by Bernard Pollard in the fourth quarter, forcing a fumble. Baltimore turned that into the final touchdown, on the only short scoring drive it had, 47 yards.

The Ravens gained just 130 yards in the first half.

Brady guided a 13-play drive to Stephen Gostkows-

ki’s 31-yard field goal for a 3-0 lead. Neither defence yielded a big play, and punters Zoltan Mesko and Sam Koch were the busiest guys on the field.

That changed when the teams switched sides for the second quarter. Baltimore again was pinned deep, at its 10, but Flacco led a 13-play drive. Ray Rice, whose 83-yard run on the Ravens’ first play from scrimmage in their wild-card round victory here three years ago, ran left untouched for the TD. Awakened by Baltimore’s march, the Patriots staged a long one of their own, 79 yards, aided by a 15-yard personal foul by Ravens linebacker Dannell Ellerbe. Wes Welker picked up 24 yards on a short pass, then got free in the right corner of the end zone after a mix-up in the Ravens’ secondary, making it 10-7. It was 13-7 by halftime as Gostkowski connected from 25 yards, with New England outsmarting Baltimore several times. Danny Woodhead ran for 7 yards on a direct snap on fourth-and-1 in the drive. Defensive end Paul Kruger, who’s good at sacks, not much in coverage — found himself downfield on Aaron Hernandez on what became a 17-yard reception.

But Brady made a mental error himself, not calling timeout quickly enough after a short scramble.

So the Patriots didn’t get a shot at the end zone and Gostkowski made his second kick.

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Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Prince Albert 46 27 15 1 3 161 140 Swift Current 48 23 20 3 2 143 131 Saskatoon 45 22 20 0 3 152 152 Regina 48 18 26 2 2 124 172 Brandon 47 17 26 2 2 133 192 Moose Jaw 47 14 24 3 6 118 163 Central Division W LOTLSOL 31 11 2 3 31 12 1 3 25 20 3 2 22 21 1 6 23 22 2 1 21 25 1 0

Pt 58 51 47 40 38 37

GF GA 166 104 167 124 138 150 160 163 166 162 124 153

Pt 67 66 55 51 49 43

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 47 34 10 2 1 205 118 Kamloops 49 30 14 2 3 172 133 Victoria 45 25 17 1 2 146 149 Prince George 46 14 26 2 4 114 168 Vancouver 48 12 36 0 0 131 208

Pt 71 65 53 34 24

Edmonton Calgary Red Deer Lethbridge Medicine Hat Kootenay

GP 47 47 50 50 48 47

Power plays (goals-chances) — Prince George: 0-2; Red Deer: 1-6 Attendance — 6,660 at Red Deer, Alta.

U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 45 37 6 1 1 206 101 76 Spokane 46 28 17 1 0 176 143 57 Tri-City 47 27 17 1 2 153 137 57 Everett 48 20 26 0 2 123 169 42 Seattle 47 18 26 2 1 141 188 39 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 Kootenay 3 Moose Jaw 2 (SO) Swift Current 2 Regina 1 Brandon 3 Saskatoon 2 (SO) Medicine Hat 4 Calgary 0 Prince George 3 Red Deer 1 Victoria 5 Kamloops 4 Kelowna 5 Vancouver 3 Everett 3 Lethbridge 2 Seattle 4 Portland 3 Tri-City 4 Spokane 3 Sunday’s results Edmonton 6 Prince George 1 Everett 4 Vancouver 0 Medicine Hat 3 Red Deer 0 Seattle 6 Lethbridge 5 (SO) Monday, Jan. 21 Spokane at Portland, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 22 Saskatoon at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Seattle at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 23 Everett at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Cougars 3 Rebels 1 First Period 1. Red Deer, Hamilton 6 (Ness, Fleury) 2:56 (pp) 2. Prince George, Pochiro 7 (Witala) 4:50 3. Prince George, Gibb 2 (Wilson, Bourke) 15:32 Penalties — Ehrhardt PG (hooking) 1:14, Hanes PG (boarding) 19:49.

Second Period No scoring Penalties — Bleackley RD (tripping) 6:35, Pochiro PG (slashing) 7:49, PG bench (too many men, served by Witala) 10:20.

Third Period 4. Prince George, Wilson 6 (Witala) 19:19 (en) Penalties — Ehrhardt PG (tripping) 3:35, Fafard RD (goaltender interference) 7:15, Ehrhardt PG (unsportsmanlike conduct) 14:18.

Shots on goal Prince George 7 12 5 — 24 Red Deer 13 5 14 — 31 Goal — Prince George: Engel (W,5-15-5); Red Deer: Bartosak (L,19-9-3)

Sunday’s summaries Tigers 3, Rebels 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties—Hamilton RD (high sticking) 4:35, Bleackley RD (slashing) 16:38, Gaudet RD (slashing) 18:45, Elson RD (delay of game) 19:11.

Second Period 1. Medicine Hat, Shinkaruk 26 (Pearce, Lewington) 10:51 Penalties—Bartosak RD (roughing), Leier MH (inter. on goaltender) 11:42, Lanigan MH (delay of game) 14:00.

Third Period 2. Medicine Hat, Valk 27 (McVeigh, Leier) 1:27 3. Medicine Hat, McVeigh 13 (Valk, Leier) 11:25 Penalties—Johnson RD, Labelle MH (fighting) 5:32, Jensen MH (roughing) 12:14, Dieno RD (slashing) 12:29, Jensen MH (tripping) 16:32.

Shots on goal Red Deer 7 9 10 — 26 Medicine Hat 14 10 15 — 39 Goalies—Red Deer: Bartosak (L,19-10-3). Medicine Hat: Lanigan (W,16-10-2).

Power plays (goals-chances)—Red Deer: 0/3; Medicine Hat: 0/5.

Attendance — 4,006 at Medicine Hat, Alta.

Silvertips 4, Giants 0 First Period 1. Everett, Winquist 19, 16:58 Penalties—Zalitach Vcr (holding) 12:17.

Second Period 2. Everett, Mueller 4 (Hayer, Winquist) 9:04 (pp) Penalties—Bauml Evt (inter. on goaltender), Kulak Vcr (roughing), Trott Vcr (roughing, misconduct) 8:45, Petryk Evt (hooking) 11:00, Mueller Evt, Franson Vcr (roughing) 11:47, Sieben Vcr (hooking) 14:21, Oslanski Evt, Geertsen Vcr (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 14:52, Bauml Evt (inter. on goaltender) 15:31, Sieben Vcr (hooking) 18:47.

Third Period 3. Everett, Winquist 20 (Sandhu, Hayer) 0:53 4. Everett, Winquist 21 (Hayer, Oslanski) 7:20 (pp) Penalties—Betker Evt (interference) 1:56, Trott Vcr (tripping) 6:33, Davis Evt (tripping) 13:05, Soumelidis Evt (instigator, fighting, game misconduct), Houck Vcr (fighting) 17:13.

Shots on goal Everett 10 9 3 — 22 Vancouver 11 10 10 — 31 Goalies—Everett, Cotton (W,9-10-0). Vancouver: Lee (L,7-15-0).

Power plays (goals-chances)—Everett: 2/5, Vancouver: 0/6.

Attendance — 9,554 at Vancouver.

Oil Kings 6, Cougars 1 First Period 1. Prince George, Jacobs 15 (Witala, Bourke) 9:21 (pp) 2. Edmonton, Cheek 20 (St. Croix, Foster) 13:00 Penalties — Mykitiuk PG, Benson Edm (fighting) 6:48, Gernat Edm (tripping) 8:00, Brossoit Edm (delay of game; served by Legault) 8:40, Gernat Edm (checking from behind) 10:31, Jacobs PG (roughing) 14:15, Grewal PG (holding) 18:14, Tkatch PG (butt ending double minor) 19:40.

Second Period 3. Edmonton, Lazar 20 (Gernat, Legault) 2:42 (pp) 4. Edmonton, Legault 9 (Foster) 8:32 (sh) Penalties — Lowe Edm (cross checking) 4:13, Jacobs PG (slashing) 5:19, Musil Edm (hooking) 5:59, Lazar Edm (tripping) 8:13, Belter PG (cross checking) 10:25, Baddock Edm (checking to the head) 13:21, Ewanyk Edm (charging) 16:54.

Third Period 5. Edmonton, Samuelsson 23 (Wruck, Lowe) 10:46 6. Edmonton, Kulda 5 (Musil, Benson) 12:40 7. Edmonton, Samuelsson 24 (Corbett, Wruck) 15:43 Penalties — Moroz Edm (hooking) 16:48.

Shots on goal Prince George 8 8 5 — 21 Edmonton 11 11 14 — 36 Goal — Prince George: Zarowny (L,9-11-0); Edmonton: Brossoit (W,20-6-5) Power play (goals-chances) — Prince George: 1-9; Edmonton: 1-5 Attendance — 6,531 at Edmonton.

Thunderbirds 6, Hurricanes 5 (SO) First Period

1. Seattle, Sanvido 11 (Sheen, Smith) 6:03 2. Lethbridge, Sofillas 2 (Blomqvist, Erkamps) 7:19 Penalties — Pilot Leth, Troock Sea (unsportsmanlike conduct) 2:13, Kambeitz Sea (slashing) 13:07.

Second Period 3. Lethbridge, Mckechnie 21 (Ekramps, Henry) 3:03 (pp) 4. Lethbridge, Watson 11 (Laurencelle, Pilon) 3:42 5. Seattle, Honey 12 (Theodore, Glover) 9:19 6. Seattle, Johnson (Smith, Hickman) 11:52 Penalties — Delnov Sea (hooking) 2:54, Wong Leth (checking from behind) 4:13, Simpson Leth (roughing) 7:16, Troock Sea (goaltender interference) 7:42, Ramsay Leth (tripping) 8:06.

Third Period 7. Seattle, Hickman 11 (Wardley, Lockhart) 2:01 8. Seattle, Lipsbergs 19 (Theodore, Honey) 5:10 (pp) 9. Lethbridge, Henry 3 (Laurencelle, Wong) 6:45 10. Lethbridge, Yakubowski 26 (Erkamps, Pilon) 16:18 Penalties — Simpson Leth (slashing, fighting) 4:22, Hickman Sea (fighting) 4:22, Delnov Sea (checking from behind) 16:43. Henry Leth (interference) 1 8:39.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — Ramsay Leth (high sticking) 4:59.

Shootout Seattle wins 1-0 Lethbridge (0) — Laurencelle, miss; Mckechnie, miss; Hood, miss. Seattle (1) — Lockhart, goal; Delnov, miss; Swenson, miss.

Shots on goal Lethbridge 11 11 12 1 — 35 Seattle 16 13 19 8 — 59 Goal — Lethbridge: Rimmer (L,19-19-6); Seattle: Glover (16-19-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Lethbridge 1-3; Seattle 1-5.

Attendance — 3,375 at Kent, Wash.

Ottawa 4, Winnipeg 1 Chicago 5, Los Angeles 2 Boston 3, N.Y. Rangers 1 Toronto 2, Montreal 1 New Jersey 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 Tampa Bay 6, Washington 3 Florida 5, Carolina 1 St. Louis 6, Detroit 0 Dallas 4, Phoenix 3 Minnesota 4, Colorado 2 Anaheim 7, Vancouver 3

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 2 2 0 0 4 9 4 New Jersey 1 1 0 0 2 2 1 N.Y. Islanders 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 N.Y. Rangers 2 0 2 0 0 4 9 Philadelphia 2 0 2 0 0 3 8

Sharks 4, Flames 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Stempniak 1 (Bouwmeester, Backlund) 12:21 (pp) Penalties — Havlat SJ (goaltender interference) 10:56, Bouwmeester Cal (hooking) 12:38.

Second Period 2. San Jose, Marleau 1 (Thornton) 13:52 (pp) 3. San Jose, Havlat 1 (Vlasic, Clowe) 15:05 4. San Jose, Marleau 2 (Boyle) 18:10 Penalties — Burish SJ (roughing) 5:35, Baertschi Cal (tripping) 6:33, Butler Cal (roughing) 13:45.

Third Period 5. San Jose, Boyle 1 (Thornton, Pavelski) 19:00 (pp) Penalties — Havlat SJ (high-sticking) 1:52, Stajan Cal (hooking) 16:13, Glencross Cal (holding), Baertschi Cal (tripping) 18:36.

Shots on goal San Jose 9 14 6 — 29 Calgary 16 4 12 — 32 Goal — San Jose: Niemi (W,1-0-0); Calgary: Kiprusoff (L,0-1-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — San Jose: 2-6; Calgary: 1-3.

Attendance — 19,289 (19,289) at Calgary.

Boston Buffalo Ottawa Toronto Montreal

GP 1 1 1 1 1

Northeast Division W L OT Pts 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0

GF GA 3 1 5 2 4 1 2 1 1 2

Florida Tampa Bay Carolina Washington Winnipeg

GP 1 1 1 1 1

Southeast Division W L OT Pts 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0

GF GA 5 1 6 3 1 5 3 6 1 4

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 1 1 0 0 2 5 2 Columbus 1 1 0 0 2 3 2 St. Louis 1 1 0 0 2 6 0 Nashville 1 0 0 1 1 2 3 Detroit 1 0 1 0 0 0 6 GP Minnesota 2 Edmonton 1 Vancouver 2 Calgary 1 Colorado 1

Northwest Division W L OT Pts 2 0 0 4 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0

GF GA 5 2 3 2 5 10 1 4 2 4

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 1 1 0 0 2 7 3 Dallas 2 1 1 0 2 4 4 San Jose 1 1 0 0 2 4 1 Los Angeles 1 0 1 0 0 2 5 Phoenix 1 0 1 0 0 3 4 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Columbus 3, Nashville 2, SO Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 1

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Southeast Division W L Pct 26 12 .684 22 18 .550 14 26 .350 10 30 .250 8 30 .211 Central Division W L Pct 25 16 .610 23 16 .590 21 18 .538 15 25 .375 10 32 .238

Penguins 6, Rangers 3 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Neal 2 (Malkin, Letang) 1:48 (pp) 2. N.Y. Rangers, Callahan 1 (Richards, Stepan) 9:55 (pp) 3. Pittsburgh, Kennedy 2 (Vitale, Despres) 15:05 4. Pittsburgh, Niskanen 1 (Crosby) 18:50 Penalties—Glass Pgh, Asham, NYR (fighting) 0:02, Richards NYR (interference) 0:37, Sutter Pgh (faceoff violation), Despres Pgh (holding) 9:23, Cooke Pgh (tripping) 19:41.

Second Period 5. Pittsburgh, Pa.Dupuis 1 (Malkin, Kunitz) 9:11 (pp) Penalties—Del Zotto NYR (slashing) 8:03, Richards NYR (freezing the puck) 19:02, Staal NYR (delay of game) 19:07.

Third Period 6. Pittsburgh, Neal 3 (Malkin, Martin) 5:06 7. N.Y. Rangers, Pyatt 1 (Del Zotto, Richards) 6:04 8. N.Y. Rangers, Nash 1 (Stepan) 14:45 (sh) 9. Pittsburgh, Letang 1, 18:08 (en) Penalties—Neal Pgh (slashing) 8:09, Bickel NYR (roughing) 13:23, Adams Pgh (slashing), McDonagh NYR (roughing) 17:39.

Shots on goal Pittsburgh 14 14 11 — 39 N.Y. Rangers 13 9 12 — 34 Goalies (shots-saves)—Pittsburgh, Vokoun (W,10-0). N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist (L,0-2-0) (18-14), Biron (9:11 second, 20-19).

Power plays (goals-chances)—Pittsburgh: 2-5, N.Y. Rangers: 1-4.

Attendance — 17,200 (18,200) at New York.

Sunday’s Games Edmonton 3, Vancouver 2, SO Buffalo 5, Philadelphia 2 San Jose 4, Calgary 1 Pittsburgh 6, N.Y. Rangers 3 Minnesota 1, Dallas 0 Chicago at Phoenix, Late Monday’s Games Winnipeg at Boston, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 4 p.m.

Buffalo at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Florida at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Winnipeg at Washington, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Florida at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Jersey, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s summaries

Sabres 5, Flyers 2 First Period 1. Buffalo, Ott 1 (Pominville, Vanek) 11:07 (pp) Penalties — Hartnell Pha, Foligno Buf (roughing) 1:34, L.Schenn Pha, Foligno Buf (roughing) 6:03, Grossmann Pha (tripping) 9:35, Regehr Buf (tripping) 12:40, Leopold Buf (interference) 17:16.

Second Period 2. Philadelphia, Couturier 1 (Foster, Voracek) 2:23 3. Philadelphia, Giroux 2 (Timonen, Simmonds) 4:57 (pp) 4. Buffalo, Vanek 1 (Stafford, Pominville) 15:54 (pp) Penalties — Regehr Buf (tripping) 4:25, Timonen Pha, Kaleta Buf (roughing) 6:04, Hartnell Pha (boarding) 7:17, Philadelphia bench (too maney men; served by Laughton) 13:50, L.Schenn Pha (hooking) 15:27, Hartnell Pha, Stafford Buf (fighting) 18:20, Ott Buf (diving) 19:18.

Third Period 5. Buffalo, Myers 1 (Ennis, Vanek) 14:57 (pp) 6. Buffalo, Hodgson 1 (Vanek, Sekera) 16:13 7. Buffalo, Vanek 2 (Pominville) 19:12 (en) Penalties — Fedotenko Pha (tripping) 7:26, L.Schenn Pha (tripping 14:00, Hartnell Pha (goaltender interference), Myers Buf (interference) 15:47.

Shots on goal Philadelphia 7 13 9 — 29 Buffalo 13 13 15 — 41 Goal — Philadelphia, Bryzgalov (L,0-2-0); Buffalo: Miller (W,1-0-0).

Wild 1, Stars 0 First Period 1. Minnesota, Parise 1 (Bouchard, Heatley) 8:11 Penalties—Koivu Minn (tripping) 0:59, Goligoski Dal (closing hand on puck) 6:11, Suter Minn (tripping) 6:18, Jagr Dal (holding) 6:47, Cullen Minn (charging) 12:59.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalty—Brodziak Minn (tripping) 18:40.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties—Robidas Dal (interference), Bouchard Minn (goaltender interference) 9:02, Daley Dal (high-sticking) 17:59.

Shots on goal Dallas 8 11 5 — 24 Minnesota 11 10 11 — 32 Goalies—Dallas, Nilstorp (L,0-1-0); Minnesota, Harding (W,1-0-0).

Power plays (goals-chances)—Dallas: 0-4; Minnesota: 0-3.

Attendance — 18,296 (18,064) at St. Paul, Minn.

Oilers 3, Canucks 2 (SO) First Period 1. Vancouver, Edler 2, 10:58 Penalties—Hall Edm (tripping) 0:39, Lapierre Vcr (slashing) 8:49, Smid Edm (roughing) 11:22, N. Schultz Edm (interference) 15:40, Volpatti Vcr (goaltender interference) 19:31.

Second Period 2. Vancouver, Kassian 1 (D. Sedin, H. Sedin) 14:18 3. Edmonton, Eberle 1 (Hall) 19:56 Penalty—Edler Vcr (hooking) 7:07.

Third Period 4. Edmonton, Hemsky 1 (Gagner, Whitney) 14:05 (pp) Penalties—Hemsky Edm (hooking) 6:47, Hall (tripping) 9:12, Ebbett Vcr (tripping) 12:31, Eager Edm, Kassian Vcr (fighting) 14:11.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties—None.

Shootout Edmonton wins 2-0.

Vancouver (1) — Edler, miss; Burrows, miss. Edmonton (0) — Gagner, goal; Hemsky, goal.

Shots on goal Edmonton 7 14 9 2 — 32 Vancouver 13 9 6 1 — 29 Goalies—Edmonton: Dubnyk (W,1-0-0); Vancouver: Luongo (SOL,0-0-1).

Power plays (goals-chances)—Anaheim: 1-4; Vancouver: 0-5.

Attendance—18,910 (18,910) at Vancouver.

Football

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 25 13 .658 — Brooklyn 24 16 .600 2 Boston 20 20 .500 6 Philadelphia 17 23 .425 9 Toronto 15 26 .366 11 1/2

Miami Atlanta Orlando Charlotte Washington

Power plays (goals-chances) — Philadelphia: 1-4; Buffalo: 3-6.

Attendance — 19,070 (18,690) at Buffalo, N.Y.

GB — 5 13 17 18 GB — 1 3 9 1/2 15 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

Pct .744 .667 .500 .429 .325

GB — 4 10 1/2 13 1/2 17 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 32 9 .780 Denver 25 18 .581 Utah 22 19 .537 Portland 20 20 .500 Minnesota 17 20 .459

GB — 8 10 11 1/2 13

Pacific Division W L Pct 32 9 .780 24 15 .615 17 23 .425 16 25 .390 13 28 .317

GB — 7 14 1/2 16 19

San Antonio Memphis Houston Dallas New Orleans

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

W 32 26 21 18 13

L 11 13 21 24 27

Saturday’s Games San Antonio 98, Atlanta 93 Sacramento 97, Charlotte 93 Memphis 85, Chicago 82, OT Minnesota 92, Houston 79

Golden State 116, New Orleans 112 Utah 109, Cleveland 98 Milwaukee 110, Portland 104 L.A. Clippers 94, Washington 87 Sunday’s Games Toronto 108, L.A. Lakers 103 Dallas 111, Orlando 105 Detroit 103, Boston 88 Denver 121, Oklahoma City 118, OT Monday’s Games Indiana at Memphis, 11 a.m.

Sacramento at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Atlanta, noon Houston at Charlotte, noon Brooklyn at New York, 1:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 2 p.m.

San Antonio at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Portland, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Boston at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Tennis Australian Open Monday At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia Purse: $31.608 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Women Fourth Round Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, def. Caroline Wozniacki (10), Denmark, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5.

Victoria Azarenka (1), Belarus, def. Elena Vesnina, Russia, 6-1, 6-1.

Women Third Round Varvara Lepchenko, United States, and Zheng Saisai, China, def. Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japan, and Arantxa Parra Santonja, Spain, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5).

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, and Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic, def. Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, and Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, 2-1, retired.

SUNDAY MEN Singles Fourth Round Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Stanislas Wawrinka (15), Switzerland, 1-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 12-10.

David Ferrer (4), Spain, def. Kei Nishikori (16), Ja-

pan, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4.

Tomas Berdych (5), Czech Rep., def. Kevin Anderson, South Africa, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (13).

Nicolas Almagro (10), Spain, def. Janko Tipsarevic (8), Serbia, 6-2, 5-1 retired.

WOMEN Singles Fourth Round Maria Sharapova (2), Russia, def. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 6-1, 6-0.

Agnieszka Radwanska (4), Poland, def. Ana Ivanovic (13), Serbia, 6-2, 6-4.

Ekaterina Makarova (19), Russia, def. Angelique Kerber (5), Germany, 7-5, 6-4.

Li Na (6), China, def. Julia Goerges (18), Germany, 7-6 (6), 6-1.

SATURDAY MEN Singles Third Round Milos Raonic (13), Thornhill, Ont., def. Philipp Kohlschreiber (17), Germany, 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-4.

Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Bernard Tomic, Australia, 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-1.

Andy Murray (3), Britain, def. Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.

Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Juan Martin del Potro

(6), Argentina, 6-3, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 3-6, 6-3.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (7), France, def. Blaz Kavcic, Slovenia, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4.

Richard Gasquet (9), France, def. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-0.

Andreas Seppi (21), Italy, def. Marin Cilic (12), Croatia, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Gilles Simon (14), France, def. Gael Monfils, France, 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 1-6, 8-6.

WOMEN Singles Third Round Victoria Azarenka (1), Belarus, def. Jamie Hampton, U.S., 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

Serena Williams (3), U.S., def. Ayumi Morita, Japan, 6-1, 6-3.

Caroline Wozniacki (10), Denmark, def. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 6-4, 6-3.

Maria Kirilenko (14), Russia, def. Yanina Wickmayer (20), Belgium, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Elena Vesnina, Russia, def. Roberta Vinci (16), Italy, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

Sloane Stephens (29), U.S., def. Laura Robson, Britain, 7-5, 6-3.

Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, def. Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.

Bojana Jovanovski, Serbia, def. Kimiko DateKrumm, Japan, 6-2, 7-6 (3).

Grizzlys get great goaltending during weekend road trip OLD GRIZZLYS Goaltending was the Olds Grizzlys’ key to success during the weekend, as Ethan Jemieff and Jake Tamagi both excelled to help the club post a 2-1 record during an Alberta Junior Hockey League road trip.

The Grizzlys concluded the three-game jaunt into the North Division with a 5-3 win Sunday over the Drayton Valley Thunder. Jake Tamagi stopped 36 shots in the Olds net while teammates Chris Stachiw, Brandon Clowes and Landon Kletke potted first-period goals and Matt Hanger and Bart Moran tallied in the second frame.

Eric Sieben scored twice for the Thunder, who got a single from Jordan Baillie and a 12-save outing from Marc Olivier Daigle. Olds

was three-for-eight on the power play, with the host team two-for-11.

Ethan Jemieff turned aside 37 shots in Saturday’s 5-1 loss to the Whitecourt Wolverines.

Austin Kernahan notched a late goal for the Grizzlys, after Colten Meaver, Lindon Penner, Jerome Raymond, Clay Spencer and Mathieu Guertin had connected for the home side.

Whitecourt netminder Anthony Terenzio faced only 15 shots.

The Grizzlys opened the trip Friday with a 2-0 win over the Grande Prairie Storm. Matthew Marcinew and Clowes fired second-period goals for the visitors and Jemieff made 34 saves for the shutout.

Storm stopper Nick Kulmanovsky stopped 16 shots.

The Grizzlys are idle until Feb. 6 when they host Grande Prairie.

NFL Playoffs

New England 41, Houston 28

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 5 Houston 19, Cincinnati 13 Green Bay 24, Minnesota 10 Sunday, Jan. 6 Baltimore 24, Indianapolis 9 Seattle 24, Washington 14

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 20 San Francisco 28, Atlanta 24 Baltimore 28, New England 13 Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 27 At Honolulu AFC vs. NFC, 5 p.m. (NBC)

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 12 Baltimore 38, Denver 35, 2OT San Francisco 45, Green Bay 31 Sunday, Jan. 13 Atlanta 30, Seattle 28

Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3 At New Orleans Baltimore vs. San Francisco, 4 p.m. (CBS)

Lacrosse GP Philadelphia 2 Buffalo 3 Toronto 3 Rochester 2

NLL East Division W L Pct. GF 2 0 1.000 21 2 1 .667 35 2 1 .667 30 0 2 .000 25

GA 15 38 28 27

GP 3 2 2 1 2

West Division W L Pct. GF 2 1 .667 40 1 1 .500 27 1 1 .500 26 0 1 .000 12 0 2 .000 23

GA GB 43 — 20 1/2 29 1/2 13 1 26 1 1/2

Washington Edmonton Colorado Minnesota Calgary

GB — 1/2 1/2 2

Week Three Saturday’s results

Colorado 13 Calgary 12 (OT) Philadelphia 8 Toronto 7 Buffalo 14 Rochester 13 Sunday’s result Edmonton 18 Washington 10 Week Four Friday, Jan. 25 Minnesota at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Washington at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 26 Philadelphia at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 27 Calgary at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA—Fined Dallas Mavericks F Shawn Marion $25,000 for public criticism of officiating.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Named Pat Morris offensive line coach.

CHICAGO BEARS — Retained defensive backs coach Jon Hoke and defensive line coach Mike Phair. Announced the retirement of Rusty Jones director of Physical developement.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Named Jedd Fisch offensive co-ordinator and Bob Babich defensive co-ordinator.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DL Marcus Forston from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Signed general manager Darcy Regier to a contract extension.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned RW Bobby Butler to Albany (AHL). Recalled LW Mattias Tedenby from Albany.

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Assigned F Chris Porter to Peoria (AHL).

ECHL ECHL — Suspended F Ian Schultz two games and fined him an undisclosed amount.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association MIAMI HEAT — Re-signed F Jarvis Varnado to a second 10-day contract. Signed F-C Chris Andersen to a 10-day contract. Recalled C Dexter Pittman from Sioux Falls (NBADL).

PHOENIX SUNS — Named player development director Lindsey Hunter interim coach.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed F Joffrey Lupul to a five-year contract extension.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Assigned D David Warsofsky to Providence (AHL). Recalled D Aaron Johnson from a conditioning assignment at Providence.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled G Thomas McCollum from Grand Rapids (AHL). Placed F Jan Mursak on injured reserve.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned D Victor Bartley to Milwaukee (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned F Brandon Segal to Connecticut (AHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed LW Joffrey Lupul to a five-year contract extension through the 2017-18 season.

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Announced G Jordan Pearce was reassigned goaltender from Toledo (ECHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer CHICAGO FIRE — Announced the retirement of M Pavel Pardo.

PHILADELPHIA UNION — Signed F Aaron Wheeler and D Damani Richards.

Fujimoto gets hat trick in U12 Renegades win over Edmonton Corbynn Fujimoto netted three goals as the Red Deer Renegades dumped the Edmonton Phoenix 6-3 in under-12 tier 2 girls soccer action Saturday at the Collicutt Centre.

Abbie Good, Lauren Bettenson and Aislin Borle also scored for the Renegades. Kadence Roberge was the winning goalkeeper.

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BIG AIR

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/ Advocate staff

DEVYN HURRY

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Red Deer Fencing Club’s Devyn Hurry is making his mark on the national scene.

Hurry is ranked No. 1 in the U17 men’s epee, both provincially and nationally, according to the latest rankings sent out by the Canadian Fencing Federation.

Hurry is doing all this despite being only 15 years of age.

THIS WEEK Today

● Women’s basketball: Collin Barrows Storm vs. Funk, Shooting Stars vs. Triple Threat, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber; Nikes vs.

Spartans, Big Ballers vs.

Hoosier Daddy, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Central Alberta Christian; Vertically Challenge vs. Rampage, 7:45 p.m., Hunting Hills.

Friday

● College basketball: Calgary St. Mary’s at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Brandon at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer IROC, 7:45 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Stettler, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blazers at Sylvan Lake, 8 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Innisfail at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Stony Plain at Sylvan Lake, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Peewee AA hockey: Innisfail at Red Deer Parkland, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena; Southeast at Red Deer Black, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Major bantam female hockey: St. Albert at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Kin City B. ● Major midget female hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kin City B. ● Bantam AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Ramada, 5:30 p.m., Kin City A. ● Junior women’s hockey: Thorsby at Central Alberta Amazons, 5:30 p.m., Penhold. ● Chinook senior hockey: Stony Plain at Bentley, 7 p.m.; Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 7:30 p.m. ● WHL: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: High River at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Three Hills at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena.

Sunday

● Major bantam hockey: Southeast at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Steel Kings, 1:45 p.m., Kin City A. ● Chinook senior hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, 2 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 3 p.m.

Lia Sayers of the Central Alberta Freestyle Ski Club lands her flip during the club’s Big Air competition at Canyon Ski Resort, Sunday. Megan Cressey was a double medalist for the Central Alberta Freestyle Ski Club at the provincial meet at Canyon Ski Resort during the weekend.

Cressey was third in the F4 (female) moguls on Saturday and second in the Big Air Sunday. Lisa Sayers was fourth and third respectively in the F4 category. Meanwhile Megan Warrener was second in the F3 Big Air and fourth overall while she was fourth in the F3 moguls and eighth overall. Cressey was fifth and Sayers sixth in the Big Air overall. Neil Jefferies placed third in the M3 Big Air and sixth overall and eighth in the moguls. Andrew MacDonald took fifth in the M2 moguls and sixth in the Big Air while Josh Medak was eighth in M4 Big Air.

Kings and Queens post wins over Trojans

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

RDC ATHLETICS

Kings 3 Trojans 1 CALGARY — If there was any doubt as to just how good the RDC Kings are this season they put that to rest this weekend.

The Kings completed a two-match sweep of the SAIT Trojans in Alberta Colleges Men’s Volleyball League play by downing the Trojans 18-25, 25-19, 25-20, 25-20 at SAIT Saturday.

That, coupled with the Kings 3-2 win over the previously undefeated Trojans at RDC Friday, left the Kings alone in first place with a 14-0 record. The Briercrest Bible College Clippers moved into second place at 13-1 by sweeping a two-match series against Olds College. The Trojans are 12-2.

The Trojans, buoyed by a loud capacity crowd, jumped on the Kings in the first set, but it didn’t last. The Kings continued to do a good job of passing and were solid at the net, taking away any momentum the Trojans may have had.

“Neither team was as crisp as Friday, but it was a good team win,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha. “Overall it was a good weekend and put us in a good spot.”

Tim Finnigan, who transferred to RDC this year after two years at SAIT, was named player of the match for the second straight night, finishing with 13 kills, four digs, three stuff blocks and two aces.

The Kings finished with 15 stuff blocks.

Chris Osborn collecting four blocks to go with eight kills and three digs, and Trent Schmidt added three blocks. Braden O’Toole had eight kills, five digs and a

Pearman solid at World Cup event Ponoka’s Maddison Pearman turned in a solid performance for the Canadian junior national speed skating team at a World Cup Junior long track event in Minnesota.

Pearman placed third in the 500-metre final and was fourth in the 1,000 and 3,000.

The Canadian team will now head to Italy for the World Cup final and the world junior championships.

Meanwhile, Red Deer’s Gabrielle Waddell placed fourth at the Canadian open short track championships.

She was third in the 1,500 and 3,000 and fourth in the 500 and 1,000.

At the Calgary Olympic Oval Red Deer native Danielle Wotherspoon was second in the 500m B event of the World Cup sprint meet Sunday in a time of 38.33 seconds. She was ninth in the 500 Saturday and 16th in the 1,000 Sunday.

block while Chris Jones had six kills, seven digs and a block.

Scott Lesher of Lacombe led SAIT with 12 kills while Red Deer native Darcee Froese added 11.

Queens 3 Trojans 0 The RDC Queens ran their record to 12-2 to remain in a second-place tie with Grant MacEwan, one game back of Lakeland, 13-1.

“We were able to run a good balanced attack for the second straight night,” said Queens heads coach Talbot Walton, whose squad beat SAIT 3-0 Friday.

“They served us tough again, especially in the last two sets, but we did a good job of running our offence, especially during long rallies. It was good to get the two wins and can now move forward.”

Sidney Ponto was player of the match with 11 kills and seven digs while Amber Adolf had nine kills and 11 digs, Karissa Kuhr seven kills and 10 digs and Shelby Bramall seven kills and four digs. Setter Kirsten Sorensen had 12 digs.

The Olds College women split a weekend twin bill with Briercrest.

Futsal The RDC Queens finished their first tournament ever with a solid 2-1-2 record.

Their only loss was 4-2 to undefeated Lakeland College Rustlers in their final game Sunday afternoon.

The Queens opened the tournament at Ambrose College in Calgary, with a 5-3 win

over Medicine Hat Friday, then tied Keyano 1-1 and Olds 2-2 Saturday and downed Ambrose 6-1 Sunday morning.

Kristi Lem scored against Keyano while Adi Moyer had three goals and Tara Berger, Hallee Peter and Paula Dadensky one each against Ambrose. Teagan Donald and Shannon Middlemiss connected against Lakeland “We played well considering it was our first time playing the game,” said Queens head coach Dave Colley. “We showed we have an extremely skillful team, we just have to learn a little more about the game.

It’s new for us and while we did a good job we do need to work a bit on breaking down defences.”

The Kings finished with a 2-3 record after defeating Medicine Hat 7-5 Friday and Olds 5-3 Saturday. They lost 5-3 to Keyano Saturday and 5-4 to Ambrose and 6-2 to Lakeland Sunday.

Evan Foerster had two goals against Olds with Cale Jacobs, newcomer Alim Hirji and Chase Grenier adding single markers.

Haydn McLean, Hayden Slaymaker and Jacobs connected against Keyano while Hirji and Jacobs had single markers against Ambrose, who also had two owngoals against. Foerster and an own-goal accounted for the RDC scoring against defending league champion Lakeland.

“Lakeland is a very good team and showed we have work to do:” said Kings head coach Steve Fullarton. “But it was a good learning experience and we’ll be ready for the next tournament (Feb. 15 at Lakeland).” drode@reddeeradvocate.com

MINOR HOCKEY Minor midget AAA Brad Makofka potted a the game-winner on the power play and Ryley Smith notched an empty-net goal as the Red Deer IROC Chiefs downed the visiting Southeast Hounds 4-1 Sunday.

Andrew Perry and Drew Joslin also scored for the Chiefs, who got a 24-save effort from Dalyn Haire.

On Saturday, IROC outshot the visiting Calgary Stampeders 45-17 but came out on the short end of a 3-1 decision. Smith potted the lone Red Deer goal and Carson Franks stopped 14 shots in a losing cause.

Also on Saturday the Red Deer Northstar Chiefs downed Grande Prairie Storm 6-4 as CXhase Allen scored four times and Cole Kapak and Mack Diufferenz once each.

Major Midget Female The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs tied the St. Albertt Slash 3-3 in their only weekend game.

Autumn Woelk, Taylor Hall and Rylee Kramer scored for the Chiefs, who led 1-0 and 3-2 by periods.

Nisa Bartlett made 31 saves in goal.

Major Bantam Female The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs took both ends of a doubleheader from the homestanding Lethbridge Hurricanes dur-

Photo by GREG MEACHEM/Advocate staff

Bradley Makofka of the Red Deer IROC Chiefs goes for a rebound in front of Calgary Stampeders goalie Josh Williams during a midget AAA contest between the two teams at the Arena, Saturday. Williams made 44 saves as his team was outshot 45-17 but they still got the win over the Chiefs 3-1. ing the weekend, winning 5-1 Saturday and 6-1 Sunday.

Erica Nelson, Maddison Toppe, Kirsten Baumgardt, Mairead Bast and Skylar Colonna scored on Saturday while Christina Boulton made 22

saves in goal.

On Sunday, Nelson scored twice with single goals added by Shealee Dolan, Baumgardt, Carley Wlad and Breanna Martin.

Alexandra Galenzoski finished with 14 saves.

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Virtue and Moir win fifth ice dance title

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will be spending the next few weeks training with a stopwatch in hand.

Virtue and Moir easily claimed their fifth national ice dance title at the Canadian figure skating championships Sunday, but were left troubled by their marks that included two violation point deductions.

The violations were for holding two lifts over the allowable time — and two points could be the difference between gold and silver when they meet American rivals Meryl Davis and Charlie White at the world championships in March.

“Marina (Zoueva, their coach) is going to be all over me now with a stopwatch,” said Moir — they also use video to monitor lift length. “(Ice dancing) is a bit fussy. And to be honest we were kind of excited because that was an awesome skate for us. There was no doubt in our minds. That’s exactly what we want to do. Now the (violations) don’t take away from it but it would be nice to have a big number to go home and work off of.”

The two-time world champions and Olympic gold medallists scored 187.23 overall, and their dramatic and sultry “Carmen” free dance brought the capacity crowd of nearly 4,500 fans at the Hershey Centre to its feet.

Toronto’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier won the silver with 169.81, while Nicole Orford of Burnaby, B.C., and Thomas Williams of Okotoks, Alta., finished third with 152.56.

Virtue, from London, Ont., and Moir, who grew up just down the road in Ilderton, Ont., are gunning for their third world title when London hosts the championships in March.

They also received a surprisingly low score on one of their spins.

Their “Carmen” program this season is a marked departure from their ethereal gold-medal free dance that most fans remember them for at the Vancouver Olympics. Virtue, wearing a black dress with a neckline that plunges down to her navel, opens by running her hand down Moir’s backside — the gesture prompted a wolf-whistle from someone in the crowd Sunday.

Virtue and Moir have never been afraid of taking risks, and despite not receiving the high marks they’ve been after so far this season, they’re still committed to the program.

“We wouldn’t be skating if we were just going to play it safe and do the same tricks every year,” Moir said. “We’re going after it. That’ll start to pay off. It already has started to pay off.

“To lose the points — it is disheartening but it’s easy too at the same time. At least we have them in black and white, on paper. I always find it a lot more difficult to go home and try and fix the program component scores (the artistic impression scores under the old judging system) where you have no idea where the judges’ brains are at.”

The Canadian championships was the qualifying event for the Four Continents, Feb. 6-11 in Osaka, Japan, plus part of the world championship team will be announced Monday.

The three ice dance medallists were named to the Four Continents team.

Patrick Chan will skip the Four Continents, so the three men competing there will be Kevin Reynolds

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nuggets 121 Thunder 118 OT DENVER — Kenneth Faried scored the goahead layup in overtime, and the Denver Nuggets overcame 30-plus point games from Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook to beat Oklahoma City 121-118, snapping the Thunder’s six-game winning streak.

Corey Brewer scored 26 points, including 15 in the fourth quarter, to lead the Nuggets, who reversed a 20-point loss to Oklahoma City last Wednesday. Danilo Gallinari added 18 points and Faried finished with 16 points and 10 rebounds.

The Thunder, who beat Dallas in overtime Friday night behind a career-high 52 points from Durant, lost for the first time in five overtime games this season. They got 37 points from Durant and 36 from Westbrook.

The game was a difficult one emotionally as well for Thunder coach Scott Brooks, whose 79-year-old mother, Lee, died on Saturday. In a statement released by the club earlier, Brooks thanked friends, family and the team for their support and said his mom would have wanted him to coach Sunday night’s game.

“I do so to honour her memory and all that she meant to me as a mother and as an invaluable role model,” he said.

The Nuggets took a 101-90 lead after Ty Lawson scored on a putback with 6:40 remaining. But the Thunder managed to pull to 103-96 after Durant made a 3-pointer with 4:17 left to play.

Andre Miller answered with a layup and Brewer made a pair of

NBA free throws to rebuild the Nuggets’ lead to 10796 with 3:04 remaining.

Oklahoma responded with a stunning 10-0 run culminating in successive 3-pointers by Durant and Kevin Martin, pulling to within 107-106 with 1:26 left to play.

After Gallinari made a pair of free throws, Westbrook drained a 3-pointer to even the score at 109-all with 22.9 seconds remaining.

Manoeuvring for a last-second shot, Lawson failed to get a shot off before the buzzer sounded ending regulation, and the game went into overtime.

Faried’s driving layup gave the Nuggets a 117-116 lead with 46.5 seconds remaining in overtime. After Durant missed a long jumper, Faried missed two free throws with 10.6 seconds left. As the Thunder were going for the goahead shot, Nick Collison was called for an illegal screen, turning the ball over to the Nuggets.

The Thunder quickly fouled Miller, and he made both free throws with 5.4 seconds remaining. The Nuggets then fouled Durant, who made both free throws to pull the Thunder to within a point with 4.9 seconds left.

On the inbounds, the Thunder fouled Wilson Chandler, who made both free throws with 4.5 seconds left to give the Nuggets a three-point cushion. Durant tried for a tying 3-pointer at the final buzzer but it rimmed out.

Down by a point at the break, the Thunder got a boost when Durant hit his first 3-pointer of the

game and Serge Ibaka followed with a basket to give Oklahoma City a 6461 lead midway through the third quarter. The Nuggets scored the next seven points, starting with a 3-pointer by Gallinari and the game stayed tight with Denver taking an 81-79 lead into the fourth quarter after Corey Brewer made one of two free throws with .04 seconds remaining in the third.

The third quarter was marked by some chippy play on both sides. Kendrick Perkins was called for a flagrant foul when he swung an elbow that caught Faried in the head as they fought for a rebound.

Denver assistant John Welch was called for a technical for his protests from the bench on a goal-tending call against JaVale McGee, which resulted in a basket for Durant.

The teams were tied at 25-all after the first quarter and Denver nudged in front 51-50 at the half when Lawson made one of two free throws near the end of the second quarter.

NOTES: The Nuggets improved to 3-0 in overtime games this season. ... Oklahoma City is now 1-1 on its seasonlong six-game road trip that continues Tuesday in Los Angeles against the Clippers. ... Durant scored 30 or more points in a career-best fourth consecutive game. ... The Thunder are 20-5 this season when Westbrook and Durant each score at least 20 points. ... The Nuggets averted a third consecutive loss, which would have matched a season high.

JUNIOR B HOCKEY Ryan Thomson scored the lone goal for the Red Deer Vipers Sunday in a 5-1 Heritage Junior B Hockey League loss to the host Banff Academy Bears.

Brendan Mandrusiak and Jayden Adrian combined to make 35 saves for the Vipers, who were outshot 40-36.

The Vipers went into the contest on a high after dumping the visiting Mountainview Colts 8-1 Saturday at the Arena.

Jeffery Kohut and Troy Klaus each scored twice for Red Deer, with Justin Corbett, Cole DeGraaf, Thomson and Braden Corbett also connecting.

Mandrusiak made 33 saves for the win, while Michael Byer and Brendan McCambly combined to stop 22 shots for the Colts.

Mountainview was assessed six of 11 minor penalties, three of five misconducts and the lone major infraction.

In other Heritage League weekend play: ● The visiting Blackfalds Wranglers got a goal from each of Stephen Pietsch, Jason Bell, Jared Guilbault, Bryce Boguski, Jared Williams and Jared Kambeitz in a 6-5 win over Banff Saturday. Thomas Isaman made 42 saves for Blackfalds and Aaron MacKay blocked 39 shots at the other end. ● The Three Hills Thrashers, with Michael Stoetzel potting three goals and Luke Scheunert and Tom Vander-

linde each adding two, rolled over the visiting High River Flyers 9-2 Saturday.

Dylan Houston and Tyrel Severtson also tallied for the Thrashers. Winning goalie Devon Dell made 33 saves, while High River’s Tyler Fornwald turned aside 32 shots. ● The Stettler Lightning were blanked 3-0 Saturday by the host Strathmore Wheatland Kings. Details were unavailable. ● Three Hills slipped past visiting Mountainview 4-3 Friday as Tristan Cunningham scored twice and Houston and Cameron Braun had singles. Brady Hoover made 44 saves for the win as the Thrashers outshot their guests 6347. ● Stettler hammered the visiting Ponoka Stampeders 14-3 in another Friday outing, getting three goals from Jake Schwarzenberger and two from each of Tyler Bissett, Tyson Glazier, Reese Anheligar and Landon Potter.

Mark Dietz, Lyle Wooden and Kyler O’Connor rounded out the Stettler scoring.

Both clubs used two goaltenders, with Simon Thieleman and Mack Schell making 23 saves for the Lightning and Eli Falls and Aaron Swier combining to stop 57 shots for the Stamps.

Donaldson wins Abu Dhabi Championship by one stroke over Rose

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Jamie Donaldson won the Abu Dhabi Championship by 1 shot on Sunday for the biggest victory of his career, with Justin Rose narrowly missing a birdie putt on the 18th which would have forced a playoff.

Rose’s eight-foot putt rimmed out of the hole, giving the Welshman his second European Tour victory after a final round 68 for an overall 14-under 274.

Rose (71) threw his club up in the air in frustration while Donaldson flashed a relieved smile. Rose shared second with Thorbjorn Olesen (69) of Denmark, who also failed to force a playoff on the 18th when his 15-foot birdie putt rolled past the hole. Olesen, playing with Rose, had putted first.

“Awesome,” said Donaldson, sitting next to the tournament trophy. “It was a tough field, brutal golf course ... to sit here is quite surreal. ” It was fifth-ranked Rose’s tournament to lose. The Englishman had a two-shot lead over Donaldson and Olesen and led all week, hitting greens and making timely putts. But he was shaky from the start on Sunday, scrambling early to save pars and then hit-

ting errant drives on Nos. 5, 11 and 16 that led to bogeys, while finding it difficult to read the greens.

“It was definitely hard work today,” Rose said. “You want to close out with a chance to win when you have it and (I) didn’t do that today. But I didn’t do a lot wrong either.”

Rose’s struggles opened the door for Donaldson as well as several other players including Olesen and David Howell of England. Howell struck first.

Trailing by four shots coming into Sunday, he ran off five birdies, including one on the 10th when his approach shot spun back toward the hole. He sank it for a one-shot lead over Rose and Donaldson but missed three putts within five feet to triple bogey No. 13.

He never recovered.

“I felt good out there and the most annoying thing was I thought I hit a beautiful shot to the 13th. It just came up four or five yards short of where I thought it was going to go and it all went wrong from there,” said Howell, who is ranked 258th.

Olesen also made an early run with a string of birdies to draw level with Rose, only to fall back when he hit a drive on the sixth into deep rough and had to take a drop when his second ended up in bush.

Rebels Chiefs get pair of weekend wins MAJOR MIDGET HOCKEY The Red Deer Optimist Rebels Chiefs won a pair of games during the weekend to gain some breathing room on top of the Alberta Midget Hockey League standings.

The Rebels beat the Sherwood Park Kings 6-3 Friday at the Arena and blanked the Maple Leafs 4-0 in Edmonton Saturday to move eight points ahead of the Calgary Royals and Buffaloes in the South Division stand-

ings.

They’re also four points ahead of the North Division leading Edmonton Athletics in the overall standings.

The Rebels have five games remaining, all at home. Their next game is Feb. 3 when they host Grande Prairie.

Jordie Lawson and Ryker Leer scored two goals each against the Kings with Gabe Bast and Ian McLellan potting

single markers. Goaltender Matt Zentner, in his first game back from an injury that he suffered in the Mac’s tournament, made 26 saves in goal.

His teammates had 27 shots.

On Saturday, Jayden Sittler recorded the shutout, making 20 saves.

Chris Gerrie, Bast, Jacob Schofield and Trey DeGraaf scored once each in the second period.

CHINOOK HOCKEY LEAGUE Geordie Wudrick’s goal at 6:10 of the third period stood up as the eventual winner as the Bentley Generals downed the host Sylvan Lake Admirals 5-3 in a Chinook Hockey League game Friday.

Sean Robertson, Travis Brigley, Don Morrison and Brett Robertson supplied the other Bentley goals. Thomas Frazee, with two goals, and Aaron Boyer replied for the Admirals.

Bentley’s Travis Yonkman made saves for his eighth win of the season.

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of Coquitlam, B.C., Andrei Rogozine of Richmond Hill, Ont., and Elladj Balde of Pierrefonds, Que. Kaetlyn Osmond, a 17-year-old from Marystown, N.L., leads the women’s contingent at Four Continents. Amelie Lacoste of Delson, Que., and Julianne Seguin of Longueuil, Que., are the other two.

The three pairs teams are Meagan Duhamel of Lively, Ont., and Eric Radford of Balmertown, Ont., Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ont., and Dylan Moscovitch of Toronto, and Paige Lawrence of Kennedy, Sask., and Rudi Swiegers of Kipling, Sask.

While Virtue and Moir were virtually a lock to win gold at the Hershey Centre, second and third could have gone to several different ice dance duos.

Perennial runners-up Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje didn’t compete here as Weaver broke her ankle five weeks ago when she slid feet-first into the boards.

Canada is known for its ice dancers, and Gilles and Poirier said the depth in the discipline keeps them on their toes.

“The youth is really showing that they are kind of pushing to make the sport grow,” Gilles said. “It’s making us having to keep pushing the boundaries because if we stay safe, they’re going to come up and take our spots.”

Canada has a full three spots in ice dance at the world championships in London, Ont., and likely will at next year’s Sochi Olympics as well.

“What we’re all really hoping is that next year, everyone can be out there and everyone can skate their best and we can make it a super-dee-duper awesome Olympic trial event,” Poirier said. “I think that’s what the people who are watching want to see and that’s what we all want to do, we want it to be the best competition possible.”

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Calderon leads Raptors to win over Lakers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 108 Lakers 103 TORONTO — After letting two games slip away in overtime, Jose Calderon and the Toronto Raptors closed one out Sunday.

Calderon had 22 points and nine assists to lead Toronto to a 108-103 home win over the Los Angeles Lakers. The victory snapped a four-game losing streak for the Raptors, the last two defeats coming in overtime against Chicago and Philadelphia, respectively.

“It was good,” Calderon said. “We led a couple of games with big leads and it was just us.

“It’s just some mental mistakes and things we do, but we have to keep competing. We can compete against everybody in this league, but we have to do it for 48 (minutes) and try to minimize those mental mistakes we have sometimes.”

Calderon was 9-of-15 from the field and 1-of-4 from three-point range, often with Lakers star Kobe Bryant in his face.

“He (Bryant) is a great all-around player, he can play really good defence,” Calderon said. “But I was trying to put him in as many screen and rolls as possible.

“I was trying to look for my shot but also my teammates as well.”

Toronto improved to 11-9 at home before an Air Canada Centre sellout of 19,800, the club’s fourth this season. That wasn’t surprising given it was Victoria’s Steve Nash leading the Lakers but the Raptors spoiled the former NBA MVP’s first visit to Ontario with his new team.

Toronto courted Nash in the offseason before he ultimately went to Los Angeles in a sign-and-trade deal that netted the Phoenix Suns four draft picks — first rounders in 2013 and 2015 and second rounders in 2013 and 2014.

Nash finished the game with 16 points and nine assists.

“I thought our effort was very spotty, a little bit lazy, cutting corners,” Nash said. “I know we flew across the country (Saturday) and played an early —

10 a.m. by West Coast game — so for me that’s not an excuse, that’s a sign.

“You’ve got to come ready to play early and I didn’t feel like we were ready to play. We just, I thought, cut too many corners at too many different times of the game. It was too big a hole to climb out of.”

Landry Fields and Eddie Davis both added 18 points for Toronto (15-26) with Fields adding 10 rebounds and Davis registering eight. The Raptors earned their first win in five games against Los Angeles (17-23), which has lost its last five road games and eightof-10 overall.

Los Angeles is a dismal 5-13 on the road but leads the overall series with Toronto 25-7.

“I thought that was one of the most complete games we’ve had all year from top to bottom,” Raptors head coach Dwane Casey said. “It was a good team effort and we executed down the stretch, which we didn’t do the other night.

“It’s the little things, ball movement, man movement, transition defence and then when the shot goes up box out.”

Casey also heaped lavish praise upon Calderon.

“I thought he was huge,” Casey said.

“They tried to trap him but he found the right player, he made the right read and was just effective all night.”

Bryant had a game-high 26 points for the Lakers, who lost all-star centre Dwight Howard late in the first half following his second technical foul.

Pau Gasol added 25 points.

After being flagged for a technical in the first, Howard received his second with 1:18 remaining in the half along with Toronto Alan Anderson after both got tangled up following a free-throw attempt. Howard left with five points through 17 minutes and didn’t speak with reporters after the game.

“It’s too bad,” said Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni.

“Obviously we didn’t need to lose him at that point.”

Bryant, predictably, disagreed with the second technical on Howard.

“There is nothing he (Howard) can

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Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash drives the middle past Toronto Raptors, guard Jose Calderon during NBA basketball action in Toronto on Sunday. do when a guy steps on him and puts a forearm in his chest,” Bryant said.

“You say one thing and now it’s a double technical and (I) just don’t agree with that.”

Fields often drew the unenviable task of defending Bryant but made the Lakers star work for his points. Bryant finished 10-of-32 from the field and hit three of 12 three-pointers.

“He’s going to get his points,” Landry said. “There’s no way of stopping him, you just kind of have to make it as hard as possible.

“Really, that’s what my mindset was . . . react to his first move because he

gives you a bunch of them and just remain as solid as possible and contest his shot as best as possible.”

Toronto shot 54.8 per cent from the field (46 of 84) and hit on 6-of-20 threepointers. The Raptors also held a 40-37 edge in rebounding over Los Angeles, which connected on 38-of-88 shots (43.2 per cent), including 9-of-27 (33.3 per cent) from the arc.

“We have a lot of issues,” D’Antoni said. “Offensively, the ball sticks and we don’t take very good shots.

“It doesn’t have anything to do with the other teams, it has got a lot do to with us.”

Djokovic holds off Wawrinka, Sharapova advances AUSTRALIAN OPEN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic held off a valiant Swiss player for a 5-hour, five-set victory Sunday night, extending his winning streak to 18 matches at the Australian Open and then ripping off his shirt to celebrate.

The big surprise: It was a fourth-round match against Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland, not a final against Roger Federer.

Djokovic edged the 15th-seeded Wawrinka 1-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 12-10 in a momentum-swinging marathon, cashing in on his third match point to reach the quarterfinals for a 15th consecutive major tournament.

The style was reminiscent of his 5-hour, 53-minute final win here last year against Rafael Nadal.

“He deserved equally to be a winner of this match,” said Djokovic, who is aiming to be the first man in the Open era to win three consecutive Australian titles. “I give him a lot of credit. He has all my respect. He was the aggressive player on the court. I was just hanging in there trying to fight.”

Djokovic had beaten Wawrinka — the perennial No. 2 among Swiss tennis players to 17-time major winner Federer — in their 10 previous matches. He hadn’t lost a head-to-head since 2006 and had won 11 straight sets between them.

The win “brings back the memories from 12 months ago with Rafa,” he said. “We are midway through the tournament but it feels like a final to me.”

Djokovic next faces Tomas Berdych, the 2010 Wimbledon finalist who advanced with a 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (13) win over South Africa’s Kevin Anderson.

Wawrinka was cramping and needed massages on both legs at the changeovers in the fifth set. Late in

the match, he was pulling his foot up behind him to stretch his thighs between points. He was so tired he decided not to challenge a decision on a call that went against him — wrongly, according to TV replays.

But he didn’t think it made a difference in the end.

“In five sets, five hours, you always have some opportunity to win a set or to win the match,” he said.

“If you don’t take it, he’s going to take it.

“It’s by far my best match I ever play, especially in five sets against the No. 1 player ... full house. At the end I was really, really close. For sure I’m really sad. ... But I think there is more positive than negative.”

Fourth-seeded David Ferrer won 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 over No. 16 Kei Nishikori of Japan to set up an all-Spanish quarterfinal against Nicolas Almagro, who was leading 6-2, 5-1 when No. 8 Janko Tipsaveric retired from their fourth-round match.

Maria Sharapova has had almost no trouble on the women’s side, beating Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 6-1, 6-0 earlier Sunday to continue a dominant and unparalleled run in Melbourne.

The late-finishing men’s match almost changed the complexion of the tournament.

Critics who questioned if anybody could challenge Djokovic, Federer and U.S. Open champion Andy Murray in the absence of Nadal at this tournament got an answer quickly.

Wawrinka stunned the top-ranked Djokovic with three service breaks in the first set and led 5-2 in the second before the 25-year-old Serb rallied by winning six consecutive games. But just as Djokovic seemed to be taking control, Wawrinka launched his own comeback to win a long tiebreaker and force a fifth set.

Djokovic got to serve first in the fifth, giving him a psychological edge as long as he held his serve.

In the end, Wawrinka didn’t quite have the big-time experience.

Wawrinka had game point in the 22nd game but let Djokovic get on a roll. He saved his first match point with a service winner, then saved another.

At 1:40 a.m. local time, Wawrinka was whacking his head with the racket and biting the ball after giving Djokovic another match point. Moments later, he was slumped on the court.

Djokovic raised both arms, walked to the net and embraced his beaten rival, then pulled off his shirt and flexed — shades of the 2012 final.

The second-ranked Sharapova lost the 2012 women’s final to Victoria Azarenka, but she has lost only five games in four matches on the way to the quarterfinals this year, an Australian Open record that seems immaterial to the 25-year-old Russian.

“Well, I’m certainly happy to be playing this well but ... it only gets tougher from here,” said Sharapova, who is playing her first tournament of 2013 after withdrawing from a warm-up event in Brisbane because of an injured right collarbone.

Steffi Graf conceded only eight games in her opening four matches here in 1989, when she won the second of her three straight Australian Open titles.

Monica Seles matched that mark.

Sharapova has been even more dominant. She started with a pair of 6-0, 6-0 wins — the first time that has happened at a major tournament since 1985 — and then beat seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams 6-1, 6-3 in the third round.

Sharapova next plays fellow Russian Ekaterina Makarova, who ousted fifth-seeded Angelique Kerber 7-5, 6-4. Sharapova beat Makarova in the quarterfinals here last year.

Li Na, who reached the Australian Open final in 2011 and won the French Open later that year, saved a set point in the tiebreaker before beating Julia Goerges 7-6 (6), 6-1. She’ll next play No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska, who beat No. 13 Ana Ivanovic 6-2, 6-4 for her 13th consecutive win. Radwanska won the Auckland and Sydney titles before coming to Melbourne.

Gay gets win on second extra hole at Humana Challenge

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LA QUINTA, Calif. — Brian Gay won the Humana Challenge on Sunday, beating Charles Howell III with a 5 ½-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff after front-running Scott Stallings gave away a large lead.

Gay closed with a 9-under 63 on PGA West’s Arnold Palmer Private Course to match Howell and Swedish rookie David Lingmerth at 25-under 263.

Howell shot a 64, and Lingmerth had a 62. Stallings, five strokes ahead entering the round, bogeyed the final hole for a 70 to miss the playoff by a stroke.

The 41-year-old Gay began the round six strokes behind Stallings.

“The thoughts were, ‘Just be aggressive, shoot as low as you can,”’ Gay said. “I knew Scott was five ahead. Even with a great round, a really low round, it would be tough to catch him, if at all. I played great on the front, just tried to stay aggressive and shoot low.”

Gay and Howell opened the playoff with birdies on the par-5 18th, and Lingmerth dropped out with a bogey after hitting his approach into the left-side water.

Gay won on the par-4 10th, hitting a perfect drive and putting his 9-iron second shot in good position below the hole. Howell drove into the right rough, hit his second into the back bunker, blasted out to 15 feet and twoputted for bogey.

“I’m still in a little bit of shock,” Gay said. “It kind of happened so fast there at the end the way things went down. Last year was a struggle. It was a long year, a lot of work. I just wanted to come out this year kind of refocused, recharged, and believing in myself.”

Howell tied for second a week after opening the season with a third-place tie in Hawaii in the Sony Open. He won the last of his two tour titles in 2007.

“Anybody that says that that golf is fun or whatever, has really not done it for a living,” Howell said. “I would never characterize this as fun. It’s different than that. It’s awfully challenging mentally and the chances to win are what we want.”

After birdieing nine of the first 13 holes, Gay finished regulation with five straight pars. On the 18th, he missed the green to the right and failed to hole an 8-foot birdie try.

“I felt like I gave one back with a par on 18 there,” Gay said. “Was fortunate enough to feel like I had a second chance with two guys left that didn’t birdie the hole. Kind of a second chance, if you will. I was happy to be in the playoff at that point.”

Calgary’s Stephen Ames had his fourth straight round in the 60s, closing with a 4-under 68 to finish at 17-under 271. Ames eagled the eighth hole, only to have double-bogey the 10th Ottawa’s Brad Fritsch and Graham DeLaet of Weburn, Sask., finished at 13-under 275

for the tourney. Fritsch carded a final-round 70, while DeLaet had a 69.

Given that second chance, he outlasted Howell for his fourth PGA Tour title. He won the Verizon Heritage and St. Jude Classic in 2009 and the Mayakoba Golf Classic in 2008.

Playing in the second-to-last group, Howell had a chance to pull ahead on the final hole of regulation, but left his approach about 85 feet short and threeputted for par. His 5-foot birdie try made a sharp left turn inches from hole.

“Quite honestly, going into the day, I didn’t really think that anybody had a chance apart from Scott,” Howell said. “He’s won before, he hits it long enough to take advantage of the par 5s. At 22 under, I figured if he shoots 6, 7 under, he’s really not catchable. So, then to have a chance there in regulation, that’s where I really would like that one back, that three-putt there. But it happens and once you get a playoff, anything can happen.”

Stallings hit a 315-yard drive on the 18th to set up a 6-iron approach from 220 yards. The ball landed in the left rough, bounced into rocks and finished in the water. After a penalty drop, he chipped to 10 feet and missed his par try.

“I felt great. There wasn’t any nerves or anything like that going into it,” Stallings said.

The two-time tour winner saved par on the par-5 14th after hitting his into the All-American Canal on the right side.

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BRIDAL GALA Advice from a top British wedding planner will highlight this year’s With This Ring Bridal Gala next month. Jane Dayus-Hinch, the host of reality show Wedding SOS and a longtime U.K. wedding planner, presents her seminar Plan Your Wedding in a Day on Feb. 2 as part of the ninth annual bridal show. Dayus-Hinch will also share her expertise prior to the show’s two fashion shows on Feb. 3 at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. The event at Westerner Park also features exhibits by professionals providing a number of products and services required for a great wedding day. Tickets for brides and guests are $10 in advance and $15 at the door, while grooms accompanying their brides are free. Ticket price covers registration for door prizes, the grand prize, and fashion and trade show entrance.

Tickets, registration for Dayus-Hinch’s seminar and more information on the show is available online at www. bridalgala.ca.

FIDDLERS’ JAMBOUREE For the 36th time, the Lacombe Fiddlers’ Jamboree will take place, showcasing music for all ages.

The annual jamboree will be held at the Lacombe Upper Elementary School, 5414 50th St., on Sunday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. There is an admission charge of $5, but children 12 years and under and performers get in free.

For more information, call Laurie at 403-7825596.

BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF

RED DEER JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL

Albertans must help temporary foreign workers integrate into Canadian society was the message Edmonton-based filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk shared after her documentary Brooks; The City of 100 Hellos screened Saturday.

“More immigrants will keep coming and they’ll move out West because that’s where the opportunities are,” she told an audience of about 150 at Red Deer College.

The film details the challenges of immigrants from many countries hired to work at XL Foods/Lakeside Packers, the small city’s sprawling meatpacking plant, and those of longtime Brooks residents to accept the nearly 2,000 workers and their families.

It was one of 10 films shown over four days as part of the fifth annual Red Deer Justice Film Festival.

The 47-minute film is enlightening, humorous and provocative as it deals with racism, language barriers, cultural isolation and economic necessity.

“Some of the locals are very vocal about not wanting immigrants there,” said Yanchyk, who’s worked for the BBC and CBC. “They’re worried about crime, disease and integration. Others think they bring flavour and culture to the city.”

Yanchyk’s three previous films were also about immigration, as is another now in production about Middle Eastern immigrants moving to an all-white Finnish town.

“It’s not just a Canadian thing.

“It‘s happening everywhere because it’s global.

“A lot of people have nothing to do with the immigrants. They’re just there, but they don’t integrate with them. Integration starts with young people. They don’t see a black guy or an Asian guy, they just see a guy as a friend.”

The situation isn’t helped by immigrants seeking security within their own cultures in new communities.

“I did the same thing when I first moved to London.”

In answering audience question, Yanchyk said though the film was about the community, not the meat plant, grueling work conditions must be recognized.

“A lot of them have repetitive strain

Yanchyk said despite the challenges, many immigrants found success and happiness in Brooks.

“I hope this film and other films like it help people to learn more about the folks moving next door to them.”

Brooks: The City of 100 Hellos is being broadcast on Omni-TV, Christian TV and CBC documentary channel and will air on numerous PBS stations this year. It has won awards at international festivals and is used as a study tool by numerous Canadian university sociology and geography programs. rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

Famous poet still celebrated SCOTLAND’S NATIONAL POET REMAINS AN INSPIRATION

Have some fun with the children and make your own puppets. Puppet Family Storytime runs on Saturday at the G.H. Dawe public library branch in Red Deer. It runs from 1 to 3 p.m. Bring the family for a fireside puppet show called The Mitten and make your own puppets. There is no cost. For more information, call 403341-3822.

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injuries and are exhausted after working there.”

The plant’s tainted meat troubles last year hurt more than just the employees left temporarily out of work.

“If someone gets laid off, that money stops going to Africa or the Philippines or wherever.”

Jan Underwood of Central Alberta Refugee Effort told the audience about the many services and support CARE provides locally.

“We have a lot of temporary foreign workers in Red Deer and we have our own packing plant at Olymel.”

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Filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk answers audience member Monybany Dau’s question at the Red Deer Justice Film Festival Saturday.

Christmas is a big day, but bigger one comes a month later for Michael McLetchie.

Jan. 25th marks the 1759 birth of Robbie Burns, an event enthusiastically celebrated by the Innisfail-area Scot and his wife Marion.

Scotland’s national poet remains an inspiration to Scots worldwide and has relevance today, says McLetchie.

“He’s known as a drinker and a womanizer, but he’s just like the mouse in so many ways,” Michael says, referring to Burns’ poem To A Mouse, which equates a field mouse with downtrodden men struggling to survive.

It’s best known for its famous line “the best laid schemes of mice and men go often awry.”

The couple make the rounds of many Central Alberta Robbie Burns Day events where both play bagpipes and Michael passionately recites Burns’ poems.

He started about 15 years ago when at two events, “they didn’t have anyone who knew and appreciated the Address to the Haggis.

“I was brought up in Scotland and you learned poetry. You memorized it and recited it.

“Because I knew a lot of Burns poems and because we know various people,” over the years McLetchie has recited Burns’ po-

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Michael McLetchie and wife Marion enjoy a wee dram of whiskey while reciting the Robbie Burns poem A Red, Red Rose in their Innisfail-area home. Please see related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com. etry at events in Red Deer, Stettler, Rocky Mountain House, Sylvan Lake and Calgary.

He also attends Bowden Grandview School where he and Grade 4 students recite poetry together.

“Some years we’ve done nine or so.

Events come and go,” says Marion.

Both have played bagpipes since their teens though as they raised families, the music was often forgotten.

Picking them up again led to their union.

“We were both out of marriages and we both ended up going to the start of the Innisfail (Royal Canadian) Legion pipe band and that’s how we met,” explains Marion, who married Michael a decade ago.

When not a parole officer at Bowden Institution, she’s the band’s pipe major while he’s its business manager and promoter when not a Chinook’s Edge School Division accountant.

“He’s the push and I’m the enabler,” laughs Marion, as Michael adds “we’re a happy little band.”

The band is now raising funds to visit Scotland in August 2014 for the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce’s defeat of the British in the drive for Scottish independence.

The couple make their home north of Innisfail on Antler Hill’s west side where their bagpipe practice room is home to what Michael calls “a few Scottish knicky knackies.”

A myriad of Scotch whiskey tubes and tins, photos, plates and prints and Burns’ books and bric-a-brac stock the room.

Though they both enjoy its ambience, Marion insists “it stays in here. It’s not getting into the rest of the house.” rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

Aboriginal groups making historic HIV-AIDS pact Two provincial aboriginal organizations are making history by teaming up to address HIVAIDS in the aboriginal community.

On Feb. 1, an agreement will be signed between Shining Mountains Living Community Services and the Alberta Native Friendship Centres Association for the first time in Alberta.

The agreement is one of partnership and co-operation to im-

prove services for people living with or affected by HIV-AIDS. Raye St. Denys, Shining Mountains’ executive director, said this will allow resource sharing, and access to training and education for staff throughout the province.

St. Denys said the memorandum will provide two-way learning and strengthen the aboriginal community.

“We will be better able to

help aboriginal communities, whether it is here in Red Deer or in Calgary or up in Fort Mac or down in Pincher Creek,” said St. Denys.

“We will have access and be able to help people who are positive access elders who are comfortable discussing the issues in their communities.”

St. Denys said the Friendship Centres will be able to draw on Shining Mountain’s resources,

including an awareness prevention tool that was developed with input from aboriginal people from rural locations in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

The signing takes place at 1 p.m. at Shining Mountains. At noon, Red Deer and provincial dignitaries will deliver speeches.

For more information, contact Shining Mountains at 403346-9794.

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LUANN Jan. 21 1907 — Kenora Thistles hockey team sweep the Montreal Wanderers in two games two win the Stanley Cup. 1807 — Ezekiel Hart is elected to the Lower Canada Assembly for Trois-Rivières, Que. He is re-elected in 1808 but again barred from sitting because of his religion. He is the first Jew elected to a Canadian legislature.

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of David Milgaard’s murder conviction in the death of Gail Miller of Saskatoon. He will be freed on April 16, after 22 years in jail, when the court finds a miscarriage of justice.

1983 — Joanne Wilson is found murdered in her Regina home’s garage. She is ex-wife of politician Colin Thatcher, who will be found guilty of first-degree murder.

1936 — Edward, Prince of Wales, is proclaimed King Edward VIII, one day after the death of his father, George V. He will abdicate on Dec. 11 to marry divorced American Wallis Simpson.

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TAKE STOCK Innisfail Growers recognized Innisfail Growers Co-op claimed a pair of awards at the recent Subway Healthy Living Expo in Red Deer.

The produce growers group was named Healthy Business of the Year and also received the award for Leadership in Healthy Eating. Other winners were Bikram Hot Yoga, which was presented with the Leadership in Healthy Movement Award; Green Clean Red Deer, which claimed the Leadership in Environmental Health Award; Rethink Red Deer, which received the Leadership in Sustainability Award; Prairie Midwives, who were presented with the Leadership in Patient Care Award; and Dianne Wyntjes, who was named the Healthy Councillor of the Year.

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Traders await rate news LOOK TO BANK OF CANADA RATE ANNOUNCEMENT, CORPORATE EARNINGS NEWS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Currency markets and consumers alike will be looking to the Bank of Canada this week in hopes of getting some idea when the central bank will get around to raising interest rates.

On equity markets, the focus will continue to be settled on fourth-quarter corporate earnings reports from the U.S. and Canada.

There are no expectations that the central bank will up its key rate from the one per cent level where it has been since September 2010 because of weak global eco-

nomic conditions. In fact, economists don’t expect any movement on rates until 2013.

“Financial markets almost see it as a 50-50 chance there could be a rate hike before the end of the year,” said Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets. “We’re not in that camp. We think they wait until early in 2014, so it’s not a wildly different view, just a slight difference in timing.”

And for the first time, the central bank will also release its Monetary Policy Report the same day as it makes its interest rate announcement.

It’s not that the bank would not like to raise rates as they have been anything but shy in warning Canadians of the dangers of going deeper into debt, a message it is likely to reinforce on Wednesday.

“I think the bank will go out of its way to again drive home the point that Canadians should not become used to this and this is not normal and it is only a matter of time before rates start to rise,” said Porter.

In the meantime, pricing pressures are weak with the annual inflation rate currently coming in at around one per cent, half of the bank’s target.

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Pension plan buying leasing company TORONTO — The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan says it plans to acquire SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd., one of the world’s largest container leasing companies. No overall value on the deal was disclosed by Teachers, but it said SeaCube (NYSE:BOX) shareholders will receive $23 in cash per common share. The company has just under 20.3 million shares.

The offer represents a 13.3 per cent premium over SeaCube’s Friday’s closing price and a 25 per cent premium over its 50-day volumeweighted average price. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the board of directors of SeaCube and is expected to close in the first half of 2013.

B.C. premier breaks tax log jam Premier Christy Clark announced a break in a tax log jam Friday that has concerned British Columbia forest contractors since 2003 when the Liberals cut forest tenures in an industry-wide restructuring plan.

Clark told delegates at the annual Truck Loggers Association convention on Friday that ongoing B.C. government lobby efforts on behalf of forest contractors convinced the federal government to forgive the tax hit many received during the restructuring.

She said up to 190 forest contractors will get back $9 million in federal taxes.

The B.C. Forestry Revitalization Trust was established in 2003 to provide compensation to B.C. forest companies as a result of government restructuring.

B.C. did not tax the compensation payments, but Ottawa did, and the industry had been fighting the taxes ever since.

—By Advocate staff and The Canadian Press

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The shadow of an incandescent light bulb is seen on a wall behind a Compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL)

Canada ‘unprepared’ for new mercury light bulbs MERCURY-WASTE FACILITIES ARE EITHER PATCHWORK OR NON-EXISTENT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s mercurywaste facilities are either patchwork or non-existent as millions of light bulbs containing the highly toxic chemical are set to flood the marketplace.

That’s a key finding of a report commissioned by Environment Canada in the run-up to a major change in the way Canadians light their homes.

Beginning next January, a new regulation will effectively ban the sale of standard incandescent bulbs in favour of energy-efficient versions, most of which contain mercury.

So-called compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs, will also enter the waste stream as they break or burn out, many destined for landfills where their harmful mercury can get into the water.

Environment Canada says the mercury contained in a typical thermometer can contaminate five Olympic-size swimming pools to toxic levels.

Ironically, the ban on incan-

descents is partly designed to reduce mercury in the environment because old-style light bulbs are inefficient, and require more electricity from the burning of coal and other fossil fuels that can emit mercury into the air.

Environmentalists applaud the ban for eliminating far more fossil-fuel mercury than the new bulbs add — but say Environment Canada must also require the recycling or safe storage of broken CFLs. “Currently municipalities do not store mercury — most of it ends up in landfill,” says a report commissioned from Summerhill Impact, an environmental firm in Toronto.

The Aug. 31 study also found no national or industry-wide standards for the handling of mercury waste.

There was “significant variability between regulations across the provinces, and ... nearly all (mercury-handling) facilities ... rely on these regulations as their main environmental management guidelines, rather than industry

standards.”

The study, which surveyed some 28 of the 123 places that store or manage mercury waste, also found Canada lacks any facility to extract pure mercury from waste, relying instead on mercury distillers in the United States.

The authors warn that with growing restrictions on trans-border movements of mercury, such as a U.S. ban on pure mercury exports effective Jan. 1 this year, Canada may need to resolve pending storage issues.

“The sector is notably lacking distillation facilities that make mercury re-use possible,” says the report, which cost the department $47,000.

“This suggests that Canada may need to lay the groundwork for investigating best practices for longer-term storage options for elemental mercury as export bans in other jurisdictions such as the USA could negatively impact their demand for mercury waste from Canadian sources.”

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Overcharging of batteries likely culprit

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — It’s likely that burning lithium ion batteries on two Boeing 787 Dreamliners were caused by overcharging, aviation safety and battery experts said, pointing to developments in the investigation of the Boeing incidents as well as a battery fire in a business jet more than a year ago.

An investigator in Japan, where a 787 made an emergency landing earlier this week, said Friday the charred insides of the plane’s lithium ion battery show the battery received voltage in excess of its design limits.

The similarity of the burned battery from the All Nippon Airways flight to the burned battery in a Japan Airlines 787 that caught fire Jan. 7 while the jet was parked at Boston’s Logan International Airport

BOEING 787 INCIDENTS suggests a common cause, Japan transport ministry investigator Hideyo Kosugi said.

“If we compare data from the latest case here and that in the U.S., we can pretty much figure out what happened,” Kosugi said.

In the case of the 787 in Boston, the battery in the plane’s auxiliary power unit had recently received a large demand on its power and was in the process of charging when the fire ignited, a source familiar with the investigation of the 787 fire in Boston told The Associated Press.

The plane had landed a short time earlier and was empty of passengers, although a cleaning crew was working in the plane.

Canada’s railway, airline and trucking sector earnings should remain resilient this year despite forecasts of modest economic growth on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border, analysts say.

In spite of slow economic growth last year, Canadian transportation stocks outperformed the TSX benchmark last year with a return of 21 per cent.

Further gains are expected in 2013 even though real GDP growth is forecast at two per cent in the U.S. and 1.7 per cent in Canada, according to CIBC World Markets.

“Despite the share price move among the transportation equities in 2012, we still see more upside this year, reflecting the industry’s earnings resiliency and cash flow generation,” Jacob Bout wrote.

CIBC analysts have upgraded price targets for a string of companies, including Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR), Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP), WestJet Airlines (TSX:WJA) and trucking firm TransForce (TSX:TFI).

It expects Montrealbased CN to focus on capturing “a disproportionate share of freight volume growth” instead of realizing any material improvements to its operating efficiency.

Two intermodal customers have already switched to CN while rival CP simplifies its intermodal train design and trims the number of destinations.

CN is also well-positioned to double its carloads in crude and export coal and to reap the benefits of a U.S. housing recovery, said Bout, who also noted there was a risk that chief operating officer Keith Creel could jump to CP to become heir to CEO Hunter Harrison. After a honeymoon year that saw it install a new board and CEO, they Calgary-based CP Rail is “heading towards a year of execution in 2013,” the report added.

CP has already announced the closure of terminals and hump yards, returned thousands of railway cars and locomotives and cut 1,700 positions.

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Canadians unprepared for unexpected retirement

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Many Canadians are under the impression that THEY will make the decision when they retire.

That assumption, however, may not turn out to be true.

Chances are they just might find they are unexpectedly thrust into retirement sooner than they think, and when that happens they might not be prepared financially.

A recent poll by RBC found that although 85 per cent of pre-retired boomers with financial assets of

more than $100,000 or more believe they will have the choice of when they retire, only 62 per cent actually did have the choice of deciding when they retired.

In fact, only 20 per cent of retired boomers knew one month or less before their actual retirement that they were going to retire and 42 per cent had less than six months’ notice.

“The surprising number of people facing unexpected retirement highlights the critical importance

of starting lifestyle and financial planning early,” said Roger Mannell, director of the RBC research centre at the University of Waterloo.

“Many (people) may be thinking of retirement as a vacation without yet having planned for the health, lifestyle and financial considerations of the next 20 to 30 years of their retired life,” said Mannell.

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A heavily censored copy of the 127-page report was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. The ban on incandescent light bulbs was announced with fanfare by thenenvironment minister John Baird in 2007, as the new Conservative government was under pressure to take action on climate change.

The ban was to have come into effect starting Jan. 1, 2012, but was pushed back two years to “allay” the concerns of Canadian consumers.

As of Jan. 1 next year, 75- and 100-watt incandescent bulbs will be effectively eliminated from store shelves, with 40- and 60-watt versions to follow Dec. 31. Canadian retailers have already begun to switch their stocks to CFLs from incandescents to get ready.

Environment Canada has proposed, but not yet enacted, regulations setting a maximum on the amount of mercury the new bulbs can contain. The new rules are expected to be published later this year, to come into effect one year later.

And a spokesman says the department will propose other regulations later this year that will make manufacturers and importers responsible for managing the waste of their mercurycontaining bulbs.

“It is anticipated that the proposed regulations would require manufacturers and importers of mercurycontaining lamps to establish or join a program that would collect lamps and recover the mercury in an environmentally sound manner,” Mark Johnson said in an email.

Johnson did not provide a time frame for the proposals, which must go through a mandatory period of public and industry comment.

The industry will also need time to set up or expand any recycling or storage facilities.

But the railway still has more work to do despite the risks of labour disruption and curtailed revenue growth.

Cameron Doerksen of National Bank Financial said the market will remain patient for a while but the railway needs to show “tangible improvement” in its operating ratio in 2013. He said CP’s current share price already prices in that its operating ratio will fall to the mid-60s in 2016.

“Expectations for CP are very high and failure to meet earnings estimates could lead to a pullback in the stock,” he wrote in a report.

Meanwhile, industry observers expect the airline industry will improve as it continues to constrain capacity growth and increase prices.

The Redwoods Sundance Film Festival The International Air Transportation AsMonday, January 21, sociation recently raised Wednesday January 23 its forecast for global & Friday January 25 airline profits to US$8.4 2:00PM billion this year.

That would represent Discover our a 25 per cent increase from what it expects to have been earned in 2012. Profits are expected to rise even though fuel prices are predicted to be at similar levels as in 2008 when the industry lost US$26 billion.

Salvagers say information will be limited on Shell drill barge formerly aground in Alaska

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The command overseeing the salvage of the Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge that ran aground on a remote Alaska island will release minimal information on the vessel until an assessment is completed, a spokeswoman said.

Shell’s drill vessel Kulluk ran aground New Year’s Eve on the southeast side of Sitkalidak Island near Kodiak Island.

On Jan. 6, it was pulled off the rocky bottom and towed a day later to protected waters in Kiliuda Bay within Kodiak Island.

The operation is under the direction of a unified command structure made up of Shell, the Coast Guard, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the Kodiak Island Borough.

The unified command has acknowledged that the vessel remains upright, has not leaked fuel and has been examined by divers, but not much else.

The Kulluk was built in 1983 for a Canadian company and purchased by Shell in 2005.

The anchor handler Aiviq was towing the Kulluk to Seattle when the vessels ran into trouble in rough Gulf of Alaska water.

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Famed auto customizer George Barris poses with the original Batmobile in Los Angeles. Batman’s original ride, from the 1960s TV series, was auctioned on Saturday, at the Barrett-Jackson auction house in Scottsdale, Ariz. for $4.2 million. The 19-foot-long black, bubble-topped car was used in the TV show that starred Adam West as the Caped Crusader. Barris transformed a one-of-a-kind 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car into a sleek crime-fighting machine. On the show, it boasted lasers and a Batphone and could lay down smokescreens and oil slicks.

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“Although important, vacations are only part of the mix — it’s important to plan for key aspects of your day-to-day living.”

For boomers who felt that their retirement came at the right time, the majority said they wanted to enjoy an active retirement while their health was good. Being healthy was cited in the poll as the main reason for the timing of retirement, ahead of having enough money or being unhappy at work.

One of the biggest challenges of retirement is knowing what you want to do during this phase of your life and then creating a regular income stream and managing cash flow to support that lifestyle when you’re no longer receiving a regular paycheque.

Two basic principles apply to this challenge. One is to invest in a way to preserve capital but still achieve some growth. The other is to use money in the most tax-effective way possible.

Many people take the traditional view that they should invest for security only and not for growth. The trouble with that view is that people are living longer these days, so retirement can easily last 20 to 30 years. Capital has to grow if it is going to be able to maintain a standard of living over time.

One rule of thumb when determining how much of your portfolio should be in growth assets is to subtract your age from 100. At age70 roughly 30 per cent of your portfolio (100-70 = 30) should be committed to growth.

With this formula, the growth portion of your portfolio will decline as you get older.

Some other investment-in-retirement considerations include maintaining the purchasing power of your money against the ravages of inflation and managing market volatility.

Some financial experts suggest covering your basic living needs with guaranteed sources such as the Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, registered pension, annuities, guaranteed investment certificates (GICs), and government bonds, and funding cash flow requirements for up to five years through fixed income sources such as GICs and government and corporate bonds. Equities will make up the portion of your portfolio that you will not require for at least the next five years.

It’s also important to manage market volatility and protect the downside risk to avoid the double whammy of withdrawing money from a portfolio to support lifestyle when it is losing money.

In deciding your investments, consider liquidity.

The less liquid, the less risk there is — but you want to have some liquidity in case economic or market circumstances change.

Typically, a low- to moderate risk portfolio would consist of a maximum of 25 per cent to 50 per cent in equities, with some exposure to preferred shares, as they are very tax efficient and rank higher in security than most equities; 30 per cent to 40 per cent in corporate bond funds; and the balance in government bonds, GICs and money market funds.

More aggressive investors can add a little more zip to their portfolio with 50 to 60 per cent equities and some exposure to commodities, specific sectors and countries.

Many people think that a financial adviser is only for the wealthy. That’s not the case and it’s never too late to start the planning process. Whether you are leaving the workplace, heading into retirement or need help with managing your finances, a financial planner can help.

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

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CIBC said Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) and WestJet’s pre-tax operating income (EBITDA) should grow by 20.4 and 7.5 per cent respectively.

It said both carriers can achieve growth because Air Canada is looking to expand it share of the international leisure travel market through the introduction of low-cost carrier Rouge, while WestJet seeks to grow its share of domestic traffic through the launch of regional carrier Encore.

Doerksen said WestJet’s new fare structure that will add premium economy seating will add $50 million to $80 million in annual revenues (up to $50 million for the nine months of 2013) and generate 25 to 40 cents per share in earnings.

The introduction of premium economy, enhanced schedules to key business markets such as New York and the addition of Encore should allow WestJet to grow its 10 per cent share of the lucrative corporate travel.

Bout sees a number of possible catalysts for Air Canada’s stock this year, including an extension of the pension moratorium and launch of premium economy fares.

Transat’s (TSX:TRZ.B) profitability should continue to grow but added capacity from Sunwing, WestJet and Air Canada will continue to challenge the tour company during the key winter season.

Meanwhile, trucking capacity is expected to get tighter, in part due to a driver shortage that is forecast to widen in the second half of the year.

“We believe this will support freight rates despite the weak economy and any pickup in volumes will result in significant upward pressure on pricing,” Bout said.

But Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said weak economic activity in the fourth quarter resulted in soft prices and volumes for freight carriers.

His estimates for 2013 and 2014 remain unchanged but he has tempered his fourth-quarter revenue forecasts for several trucking firms.

Several analysts say industry leader TransForce should continue to expand its profits due to synergies and efficiencies from the integration of Loomis Express and other acquisitions.

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Cutting to the essence of tunes CALGARY-BASED MICHAEL HOPE DELIVERS ON SONGS FROM THE ‘30S AND ‘40S WITH THE RDSO Michael Hope drew us back to a kinder, gentler time on Saturday — if the Second World War era can be described that way.

The Calgary-based singer pointed out at the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra’s Croonermania! concert, that some of the loveliest, most hearttugging songs ever written where penned during the catastrophic war years when so many people were separated from loved ones.

Emotion lies at the core of songs from the ‘30s and ‘40s and Hope delivered exactly the right nuances at an elecLANA trifying pops evening at the MICHELIN Red Deer College Arts Centre.

While the 52-year-old’s dramatically edgy baritone voice lacks the ultra-smoothness of say, Tony Bennett or Michael Bublé, his ability to cut to the very essence of tunes proved second to none.

Despite plenty of toe-tapping orchestration from the impressive 50-member RDSO — including some fantastic and inventive percussion (see anvil reference below) — the most memorable moment was when Hope performed a stunning a cappella version of Fly Me To The Moon.

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It was an unusual rendering, but Hope’s instincts were spot on. Instead of tossing off the song’s romantic lyrics as Frank Sinatra did, Hope slowed down the tune that compares the highs of love to flying to Jupiter or Mars. He gave us a window into such raw longing and vulnerability that listening was a powerful experience.

In fact, audience members were too rapt to break the lingering silence with applause before Hope launched into Send in the Clowns.

While that song popularized by Judy Collins is often given the maudlin treatment, Hope’s stark, unsentimental delivery actually drew a tear on Saturday — so in my books, the tune is cheesy no more.

Impossible Dream is also often associated with bombast.

But Hope put the song from Man of La Mancha into context with the help of the RDSO, which first played a rousing Spanish Fandango before Hope sang passages from the musical that led up to the verses about never giving up on your dreams.

His performance of this tune, as well as Mack the Knife, It Had Better Be Tonight, and New York, New York, was pure Broadway and summarized what’s most affecting about the singer: Because Hope’s expressive, colourful voice doesn’t lull you to sleep, you actually pay attention to the lyrics and his moving interpretations.

There’s no irony in Hope’s delivery (no tottering around, like Dean Martin, with a half-full cocktail

glass in his hand, no towelling off of his forehead, a la Neil Diamond).

But earnestness worked wonders for him — without staunching any fun.

Hope’s engaging version of Swinging on a Star spotlighted his lighthearted side, as did his upbeat Too Darn Hot from the musical Kiss Me Kate.

Hope’s finger-snapping, hip-swivelling performance of Fever was so sizzling it actually pushed the image of Peggy Lee crooning it in a caftan right out of my head (no mean feat). And the orchestra helped with exclamatory booms of the kettle drum.

Give the RDSO full credit for going Big Band for the evening, complete with whistles and hand drums.

As conductor Claude Lapalme admitted, “We almost feel cool.”

With seeming effortlessness, the orchestra pulled off Lapalme’s winning orchestrations, including a medley that included Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, as well as an instrumental version of Neil Young’s Heart of Gold.

Since the latter song hangs on a mining theme, Lapalme thought he’d get a percussionist to play the anvil. (Full marks for originality, but less is certainly more when hearing the anvil).

All in all, everyone involved in Croonermania!, including pianist Kathleen Van Mourik, did a amazing job of reminding us once again why these tunes of more than half a century ago are truly timeless. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

‘Twilight’ creator Meyer makes Sundance debut

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Stephanie Meyer from the film “Austenland,” poses for a portrait during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival at the Fender Music Lodge, in Park City, Utah.

PARK CITY, Utah — Stephenie Meyer knows all about obsessive fans. So it makes sense that the Twilight author should produce a movie about a woman who takes another writer’s work a little too much to heart.

Meyer is a producer on the Sundance Film Festival premiere Austenland, adapted from her friend Shannon Hale’s novel that follows the romantic misadventures of a Jane Austen devotee.

Austenland stars Keri Russell as a woman named Jane who is so fanatical about the Pride and Prejudice author’s fiction that she blows her life savings to visit an Austen-themed British resort.

Jane is so fixated on finding her own Austen-style suitor that she has a life-size cut-out of Colin Firth as aloof suitor Mr. Darcy in a BBC production of Pride and Prejudice.

“I have seen firsthand fanatic fans, passionate people who want to live in that world so badly, who want to be a part of it,” Meyer said Saturday in an interview.

“I’ve seen tattoos that scare me to death. I mean, those things are forever. That’s not a joke. And I do think people can definitely take that fan love too far.

I think it’s nice actually to see Jane’s journey here, because she realizes this and sort of steps out of it.”

Austenland marks the directing debut of Jerusha Hess, whose career took off with the 2004 Sundance hit Napoleon Dynamite, which she co-wrote with her husband, director Jared Hess.

She and Meyer met up through mutual friend Hale. Meyer, who read Austenland before it was published, said that she and Hale joked that 10 years down the road, they would get a camera, go to Eng-

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land and make it into a movie themselves.

Hale later met Hess about another film project and mentioned that she and Meyer were dreaming of turning Austenland into a movie.

Hess then read Austenland and said, “‘No, this one’s mine. Let’s do this,”’ said Meyer, who hit it off immediately with Hess. “Jerusha’s really lovely and, like Shannon, someone I have a lot in common with.

All three of us are moms, and we kind of balance the creative and the real life.

“Jerusha’s phenomenally funny and she’s just very self-deprecating. She doesn’t realize how adorable she is. She’s really fun to hang out with.”

Hess, whose Napoleon Dynamite world was offkilter, read Hale’s novel of Austen zealotry and had her own vision for the film version.

“Let’s make it weirder,” said Hess, who joked that she instructed production associates to make sure 50 pounds of feathers were in every shot and suggested that the servants’ codpieces all be stuffed.

A codpiece covered the opening in front of a man’s breeches in 16th-century European men’s fashion.

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Because of You is cowritten by Canadians Peter Lamarr and Grant Van Dyke, with the musical arrangement and production done by Calgary guitarist Gary Martin.

The song was previewed for Calgary’s consul general, who was so excited by it, he shipped a copy to the White House as well. It is scheduled to be played at the Calgary Democrats Abroad inauguration party tonight.

Martin, who originally hails from Chicago, says he’s a great admirer of the first black U.S. President.

“Barack Obama, as an individual, went to Chicago and learned from the same activists and mentors I did. That was our big connection — we have the same mentors that come out of Chicago,” said Martin in an interview with The Canadian Press.

“Forget colour. The U.S. Constitution was finally honoured. Every man and woman in the U.S. can be the president.

“That’s why Because of You was important because of the American public. It was the young people in particular who made the difference. For Barack, it fulfilled the constitution and that’s

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Martin said he hasn’t met President Obama but still has hopes.

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Some of the lines of the song are: “For so long I didn’t know what to feel. Then you came along and you showed me what was real. You make me strong. You showed me a better way and now ain’t nobody ever going to take that away.”

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Martin, 58, was a touring member of Detroit’s Funk Brothers, a group of studio musicians known for their background vocals and on many Motown hits including My Girl, I Heard It Through the Grapevine and Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.

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Daughter knows lots about the ‘birds Lilly drug chosen and bees’ thanks to TV and radio for Alzheimer’s Dear Annie: I have an 11-year-old daughter, and I play in the family room because it’s freezing. Is this feel she may know more about the “birds and bees” considered neglect? I don’t want to jump to concluthan she should because of what she sees on TV and sions. -- Oregon hears on the radio.

Dear Oregon: You are kind to be concerned about It seems that every time I turn on the radio, we these kids. Assuming those space heaters are workhear a song with the word “sex” in it multiple times. ing properly and there are no fire hazards, however, When we watch TV (even so-called family shows on they do not seem to be in any danger of hypothermia. family-oriented channels), we see people passionate- Are they dressed warmly? Can they bundle up in ly kissing or using words like “penis” and “vagina.” lots of blankets? Do they have other places to go that What do you think of sharing informaare heated -- the grandparents’ house, tion about sex with preteens? — Mom school, libraries, etc.? Your boyfriend Dear Mom: By the time a child is 11, also can inform his brother that Oregon, she should know plenty about the birds like other states, offers assistance with and the bees, presumably because her heating bills for low-income families. parents have explained things to her. And He can check online or call 2-1-1 for loshe should also know the correct terms for cal resources. parts of the anatomy, including the private Dear Annie: I would like to assure parts.

“Too Clean” that she is not alone. My Parents often wait to discuss these friends call me “Mrs. OCD,” but my logic things with their kids, not only because is that anyone can visit my house at any they are uncomfortable doing so, but also time, and I don’t have to be concerned. because they believe their children don’t It’s always clean. need this information until they are older And like “Too Clean,” travel is stressand educating them will somehow encourful for me. I break out in hives anytime I MITCHELL age them to have sex. This is not true. It have to go long distances, and I’m trau& SUGAR only means your child will get his or her matized if I have to use the restroom sexual information from unreliable and away from home. I find it easier when I misleading sources — friends, the Interkeep my mind and hands busy, so I take net, songs on the radio and messages on my laptop and play games, look at phoTV. Teaching your child about sex, with tos, read and do crosswords. With toyour own moral values attached, will allow her to re- day’s technology, it is easy to entertain my overactive spond appropriately to situations when she encoun- brain. This is my own form of therapy. -- Wyoming ters them — and she undoubtedly will.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): ASTRO Uncertain by a career choice DOYNA or a chosen vocation? Don’t make your final conclusions yet. Do your research and ask around for now. If you are involved in the music or art field, this day could enlighten you with tremendous imaginative skills.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It would be wise of you to carefully calculate your shared finances. Certain private matters are not clear and you are left in the fog.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Relationships seem hard to pin down just when you were certain that this person was your soul-mate. If you decide to enter into a business alliance, this is definitely not a favourable time as your partner may project a totally different image from what they truly are.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keeping up with daily errands and handling ongoing chores may seem endless and way too scattered. Try maintaining a light schedule today as you may have a harder time synchronizing everything.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you are an artist, you are in sheer dumb luck. You can utilize today’s heavenly powers to tap into your imaginative side to create a potential ‘oeuvre d’art’. Romantic relationships will be hot and sizzling, but do not invest yourself for the long-term.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You find greater clarity with your romantic or business relationships rather than with your own parents. Domestic matters may not be entirely clear and you find this great need to settle in your environment some order.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Talks about your monetary situation may become too confusing. Or, it could be that your perception about your own wealth is not entirely clear. Trying to explain yourself over and over again will not be successful. Save this for another day.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Investing your money into something materialistic may not be sound today.

Watch over your spending habits and weight carefully your attitude towards money. You are not at your best to rationalize budgets for the time being.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are running low

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KOENIG Mel William 1935 - 2013 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Mel Koenig of Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, January 18, 2013 at the age of 77 years.

Mel will be remembered as a quiet, soft-spoken man, and for his quick wit and dry sense of humor. Mel spent 35 of his years working for CP Rail, and was lucky to have an early retirement which he spent golfing, curling, fishing, and especially loved the time he spent with his partner Sonia and his dog Dexter.

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Please visit our website at: www. cathedralenergyservices.com or apply by email to: HRCanada@Cathedral EnergyServices.com

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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

is a licensed inspection facility in Red Deer specializing in cryogenic tank repairs, currently seeking a Shop Hand with mechanical aptitude who possesses a set of basic hand tools. Tubing and experience in hydro testing pipe, vessels and hoses an asset, willing to train the right candidate.

Weekdays 7:00 - 4:30.

Excellent working conditions & benefits after 3 months. Fax resume to 403-346-2072 or email patty.micron@telus.net

Join Our Fast Growing Team!!

HULCO CONTROL

DEX Production Testing req’s exp. day night supervisors & assistants.

Competitive wage & benefit pkg. Email resume to: office@ dexproduction.com or fax 403-864-8284

740

Dental

Oilfield

F/T REGISTERED HYGIENIST req’d for busy family dental practice in Rocky Mtn. House. 4 day work week, competitive salary, uniform allowance & benefit pkg. If you are an enthusiastic team player, you are welcome to join our staff. Please fax resume to: FILLED

Legal IMMED. F/T Administrative Assistant, Req’d for busy Lacombe based Business.

This position supports the accounting dept. with general accounting duties, as well as general administrative duties.

Familiarity with ACCPAC, Simply Accounting, Word & Excel an asset. Fax resume to 403-342-7447

740

Valid 1st Aid, H2S, Drivers License required!!

Please contact Murray McGeachy or Jamie Rempel by Fax: (403) 340-0886 or email

mmcgeachy@ cathedralenergyservices.com jrempel@ cathedralenergyservices.com website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

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Pidherney’s is a progressive company that offers competitive wages, benefits and a pension plan.

We require a full time IT Technician for our Red Deer and Rocky Mountain House operations.

Engagements

MCSE/MCSA, CompTIA Network, Server, Security Certifications are preferred.

Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom oilfield equipment for international clients.

CompTIA A+ Certification and experience are the minimum requirements for all applicants.

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-304-1207 (Pager)

Caregivers/ Aides

EAST 40TH PUB SPECIALS

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P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must have own vehicle. 403-348-5456 or 505-7846

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Caregivers/ Aides

710

F/T Live-In Caregiver for elderly male. $1834 salary less room & board.

Send resume to: brushells_888@yahoo.com F/T Live-In Caregiver req’d for boys age 5 mo., 6 & 7 yrs. in Red Deer 403-343-9590

MONDAY - FRIDAY

Procom Insurance, A great place to work! is looking for a permanent F/T Office Service Clerk.

If your looking for a secure job with consistent hours in a busy and friendly Red Deer office, and you have a passion to assist others in person and one the phone, send your resumes to dan@procominsurance.ca or fax to 403-340-3972 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300 ASSOCIATIONS

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BALLOON RIDES www.air-ristocrat.com Gary 403-302-7167

BUILDERS

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www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 403-346-7273 www.albertanewhomes.com Stevenson Homes. Experience the Dream.

CLUBS & GROUPS

MAINTENANCE FOREMAN

www.workopolis.com Red Deer Advocate - Job Search

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Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom oilfield equipment and is currently seeking a full-time, permanent

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Please Fax resume to 403-227-7796, or Email to hr@bilton.ca

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This is a full-time permanent shop position with competitive starting Wages and benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

REAL ESTATE

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RENTALS

any equipment issues. Advise necessary upgrades to machines to extend equipment life and increase reliability.

SHOPPING

Journeyman Electrician or Millwright tickets are an asset. Preference will be given to those with experience in a manufacturing facility.

www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

VACATIONS

We offer competitive wage and benefits packages Only applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted.

www.radkeoutfitting.com AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

COMPUTER REPAIR

WEB DESIGN affordablewebsitesolution.ca

AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

Install, trouble-shoot, modify, repair, test, calibrate, commission and maintain all production and non-production equipment

• Provide technical recommendations for

www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333

www.albertacomputerhygiene.com

Actively manage, maintain and participate in the Preventative Maintenance Program

Please forward your resume via fax to (403) 227-7796 or e-mail to hr@bilton.ca

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Clerical

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If you would like to be a part of our growing and dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking -

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McDougall - Brown Norm and Colette McDougall of Red Deer and Ross and Marie Brown of Stettler are thrilled to announce the engagement of their children, Erin Annali McDougall and Michael John Ross Brown.

Wedding to take place in Red Deer on July 27, 2013.

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Coming Events

hr@pidherneys.com or fax to 403-845-5370

INDUSTRIAL INSULATORS

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

CLASSIFICATIONS

With your long-term interests in mind, we provide you with ample opportunities to achieve your career goals.

Experience with Calcium Silicate, Mineral Wool, and Utilidor panels in a tank or vessel manufacturing facility a definite asset.

Personals

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Please e-mail resumes to: 282217A26

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and employ over 175 people.

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 Professionals

810

Administrative Assistant

Soderquist Appraisals is seeking to fill a permanent full time position for an Administrative Assistant.

Monday - Thursday 8am to 4:30pm and Friday 8am-4pm

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

‘THE RED DEER CULTURAL HERITAGE SOCIETY is seeking a Catering Coordinator for Cronquist House. Food service experience and the Food Sanitation & Hygiene Certificate is required.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with volunteers is essential. Email resumes to rdchs@telus.net by January 25, 2013.

All applications are appreciated but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

PRODUCTION TESTING SUPERVISORS & OPERATORS Day & Night QUALIFICATIONS: Must have tickets. * Previous Administration Top paid wages.

Experience Required Based out of Devon, AB. * Previous Real Estate Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca knowledge is an asset * Knowledge of Microsoft Office Programs (Word, Excel and Access) is essential * Proficiency in typing and FT FOOD COUNTER Proflo Production data entry ATTENDANT $11/hr.,avail.

Separators is currently seeking energetic, motivated * Proficient in proof reading nights and weekends. Call technical reports Little Caesars Red Deer at PRODUCTION TESTERS 403-346-1600 or fax rewith valid tickets, drivers * Experience with multi-line phone system sume to 403-356-9465 license, alarm clock & a watch. Candidates must have their own cell phone, transportation and be able P l e a s e s u b m i t , i n to pass a pre-employment confidence: drug screen.

Gail Bukva No lazy testers need apply.

405, 4901 - 48 Street Send resume to: Red Deer, AB T4N 6M4 info@proflo.net or fax: 403-341-4588 LUCKY’S KITCHEN E-mail: resumes@ References are a must. located in Jackpot Casino soderquist.ca req’s a F/T or P/T exp. short order cook.

Closing date: January 26 Please drop resumes off at Thank you to all that 4950-47 Ave. after 2 pm. to apply, only those invited Eric. No phone calls please for an interview will be contacted.

A&W Village Mall, 58 6320 50 Ave. Red Deer, Road Train Oilfield Celebrate your life AB T4N 4C6. 403-346-6100 with a Classified Transport Ltd Needs F/T Food Service ANNOUNCEMENT is looking for journeyman Supervisor. Shift work, picker operator.Top wages/ must be flexible. benefits. Safety tickets req’d. Innisfail Insurance $12-$13.50/hr.

Fax or drop off resume Please apply in person or Services Ltd. 403-346-6128 No phone calls. is accepting applications email: ormit@telus.net for LICENSED BROKER,.

Level 2 status preferred and/or commercial experience but will accept level 1 applicants with one year experience. Full time SERVICE RIG Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd position. The successful candidate must be a self- The Tap House Pub & Grill is seeking an exp’d req’s full and part time LEASE and FLOORHAND motivated professional, Locally based, home every p o s s e s s i n g e x c e l l e n t cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue night! Qualified applicants communication and interbetween 2-5 pm. personal skills. Applicants must have all necessary valid tickets for the position must enjoy working in a very busy team oriented being applied for. environment. Salary to Sales & Bearspaw offers a commensurate with experi- Distributors very competitive salary ence. Please forward and benefits package resumes to: along with a steady 1511018 Alberta Ltd. O/A Carol Peterson work schedule.

Micabella Cosmetics req’s Box 6039 Please submit resumes: F/T Supervisor with 1-2 yrs.

Innisfail, AB T4G 1S7 Attn: Human Resources exp. for womens cosmetics Fax: 403- 227-3910 Email: tmorris@ and makeup in Red Deer cpeterson@ bearspawpet.com Malls $17.50/hr. innisfailinsurance.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or canadacarts@gmail.com Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Sales & Distributors

830

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Sales & Distributors

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• Cafeteria style kitchen • Baking skills preferred • Safe food handling certificate preferred • Able to manage a cash register • Work hours 20-25/per week • Some nights and weekends Please submit resume by January 25, 2013 to:

Executive Director Fax: 403-343-7977 Email: mmorrison@goldencircle.ca – No Telephone Enquiries Please – Thank you for your interest, however only qualified applicants will be contacted.

850

Snow Cat Operators Must have tickets and equipment experience.

403-348-1521 or 403-391-1695

We are a busy and progressive snubbing / live well service company with an awesome 15 day on and 6 day off shift rotation and we are rapidly expanding. We need Operator Assistants (entry level position) and experienced operators. We offer excellent wages, a great benefits package and an awesome working environment with many advancement opportunities. Class 1 or 3 driver’s license and all oilfield tickets are preferred, but we will train the right individuals for our entry level positions. THIS IS A LABOUR INTENSIVE POSITION Fax resumes to: 403-347-3075, attn- Judy.

WE are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floor hands for the Red Deer area.

Please contact Steve Tiffin at stiffin@galleonrigs.com or (403) 358-3350 fax (403) 358-3326

Professionals

810

Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom oilfield equipment for international clients.

We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and employ over 175 people.

With your long-term interests in mind, we provide you with ample opportunities to achieve your career goals.

If you would like to be a part of our growing and dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking -

B PRESSURE WELDERS ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN SAFETY ADMINISTRATOR FIELD ADMINISTRATOR/COST CONTROLLER

This is a full-time permanent shop position with competitive starting Wages and benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

Please Fax resume to 403-227-7796, or Email to hr@bilton.ca

Accounting technician responsibilities & qualifications: Duties include but not limited to: • Process and maintain A/R & A/P. • Skills in payroll/ROES • WCB requirements and reporting, and GST remittances.

• Working knowledge of MS Office & Simply Accounting (2013) program is essential • Able to work with minimal supervision.

• Must have an accounting designation.

• Min of 3+ years of payroll & accounting related experience.

Safety administrator responsibilities & qualifications: Duties include but not limited to: • Experience in the planning and implementation of safety policies & procedures in compliance with provincial rules, regulations and regulatory agencies.

• Manage and keep up to date company safety program and manual.

• Monitoring incidents to ensure accidents are properly investigated and corrective actions implemented.

• Oversee all of the administration for the health and safety department (documentation, C.O.R certifications, & training certificates).

• Working knowledge of MS Office, PICS, ISNET & Complyworks program is essential.

• Min of 3+ years of corporate safety related experience.

Field administrator responsibilities & qualifications: Duties include but not limited to: • Maintains sign in/out sheets, payroll sheets and cost control data entry.

• Works closely with head office to ensure proper and timely flow of information.

• Prioritize and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment.

• Proficiency in EXCEL, S.A.P, CORTEX, & A.D.P. • H2S & CSTS tickets would be an asset.

• Must be willing to travel, work weekends and overtime in the field.

Preference will be given to candidates who are highly organized, able to multi task, discreet, complete tasks in a timely fashion & are team players.

Please email resumes and a minimum of 3 references to:

Nexus Engineering is Currently looking for C.N.C OPERATORS. DUTIES INCLUDE, Set up of Mazak C.N.C lathe and running production runs, min. 3 years experience.

We offer competitive wages, benefits and a RRSP plan.

Please forward resumes to resume@ nexusengineering.ca AG Parts Person Wanted F/T position in a small town atmosphere Looking for someone positive and motivated to join our team Experience is an asset wmtn@inbox.com Fax# 403-442-3829 Trochu Motors ltd.

302 Main St. Trochu, AB 403-442-3866 CLARK BUILDERS Immediately Requires Superintendents for a Project in Red Deer, AB. Must Have 5-10 yrs exp in Commercial Construction.

Strong Communication and Organizational Skills a Must. Contact us at:1-877-416-6815 email: careers@ clarkbuilders.com fax:1-888-403-3051 Now Hiring CAREPENTERS & LABORERS for work in Red Deer Apply at: Email: careers@ clarkbuilders.com Fax: 1-888-403-3051 www.clarkbuilders.com

ELECTRICAL - Q2 Electrical Contractors Ltd is accepting applications for Electrical Apprentices, Beginner to 4th Year.

Please fax resume to 403-343-7952, or email to admin@q2electric.com.

EXP’D framer req’d.

Own vehicle a must.

403-350-5103

AN UP TO DATE ALBERTA “B” PRESSURE CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED. PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO THOSE WITH VESSEL EXPERIENCE

Is now accepting applications for the following full time positions:

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Currently accepting resumes for the following personnel.

HSE Advisors Safety Supervisors Shutdown Personnel All applicants must have current safety tickets for position applied for.

Email resume and safety tickets to: sitesafe@telusplanet.net or fax 403-887-8864

QC Person

CLARK BUILDERS

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca Seeking Journeyman or 2nd /3rd year apprentices.

Positions for body, prep and refinishing technicians needed for our car and light truck division. Top wages, bonus programs and benefit package. Fax resumes to (403) 343-2160; e-mail choice2@telusplanet.net or drop off in person @ #5, 7493, 49th Avenue Crescent, Red Deer.

HIRING experienced Dozer and Excavator Operators and Labourers for local, commercial and oilfield construction. Competitive wages and benefits. Fax resume to 403-347-6296 Looking for 2nd, 3rd, 4th year apprentices and journeymen plumbers for full time work. Need to have experience with service and new home construction. Must have valid drivers license and be dependable. We offer competitve wages, benefit package and company vehicle. Please fax resume to 403-347-4539 or email to galaxyadmin@telus.net

850

Trades

850

Trades

WANTED HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC for growing trucking company in Central Alberta.

Please fax resume to 403-782-0561 is a Leduc-based transportation c o m p a n y Looking for a new pet? established in 2000 that Check out Classifieds to services the oil and gas infind the purrfect pet. d u s t r y. T h e c o n s i s t e n t company growth has warranted opportunities for Truckers/ tractor and/or winch tractor driver positions in the Red Drivers Deer area. Attractive compensation, RRSP plan Blue Grass Sod Farms Ltd. BOX 11, SITE 2, RR 1 and benefits package highRed Deer, AB light these available Req’s Truck Drivers for positions.

2013 season (April-Oct) in Primary Red Deer. Duties include accountabilities: driving semi truck w/end * Loading and unloading dump trailer or super b, oilfield equipment and some paperwork. * Proper load securement Day/night shift avail. * Respect trucks and Class 1 license req’d. Will trailers train/exp. an asset. Wage * Complete and accurate $24.27 hrly, 44 hrs weekly. paperwork Email resume debbie.le*Good client communication feuvre@bg-rd.com * Ability to manage time CLASS 1 OR 3 DRIVERS and tasks or lease operators Position required immediately to requirements: operate tandem axle tank * First aid truck. Experience spraying * H2S alive dust control products an * WHMIS/TDG asset. Excellent wages, * Class 1 license must be willing to travel. * Off road experience Fax resume * Strong customer to 403-782-0561 interaction skills * A positive “Can Do” attitude * Pre-employment drug screening Preference will be given to candidates having a clean CDA or Driver’s Abstract (5 year history), GODI and EXPERIENCED off road and/or experience Vacuum & Water in this field.

Truck operators We thank all applicants for req’d. to start immed. their interest; however only CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q those identified for further All oilfield safety tickets consideration will be req’d. Clean drivers contacted.

Forward resume with refer- abstract. Must comply with drug and alcohol policy. ences, copy of safety References Req’d. certificate and current Exc. salary & benefits. drivers abstract to: Fax resume to: humanresources@ 403-742-5376 phoenixrentals.ca hartwell@telus.net o r b y f a x t o (780) 980-0740.

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Millard Trucking Ltd. is or put it in CLASSIFIEDS looking for a 3rd year and we’ll sell it for you! apprentice/journeyman heavy duty mechanic.We LOCAL ACID Transport offer competitive wages company looking for exp’d’ and performance based F/T Class 1 truck driver & bonuses. All interested pressure truck operator. persons are invited to Top wages and exc. apply by Fax: 403-638-4987 benefit pkg. or email: jmillard@ Fax resume and driver’s enerchem.com abstract to 403-346-3766

860

PLUMBER WANTED Misc.

2ND/3RD/4TH/ JOURNEYMAN Help Residential experience an asset.

Please fax resume to: 403-887-2208

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QUALIFIED ELECTRICIANS NEEDED Requires Residential exp. only Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

880

ACADEMIC Express Adult Education and Training

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True Power Electric •

First Choice Collision

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Site Safety Services Inc.

810

DAYSHIFT & AFTERNOON SHIFT

Also currently hiring dayshift & afternoon shift QC PERSON • Must be able to read measuring devices and blueprints for inspection of machined parts.

ASSISTANT COOK/BAKER

Trades

CNC Operators

DRYWALL helper req’d. • Exp. an asset. Must have own transportation.

403-341-7619

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

850

AFTERNOON SHIFT

850

Trades

830

Professionals

Trades

LOCAL Oilfield Service VARSTEEL LTD RED Company is accepting reDEER Looking for sumes from established Experienced Inside Sales member. Position is and reliable sales people.

Must be honest, pnctual, permanent full time Monreliable, work well on own. Fri. Previous experience in steel / sales required.

This position reports directWage commensurate of ly to the Presidentt.

Please mail resume to :: experience. Please email resume to chris.ball@ Box 12023 Sylvan Lake, varsteel.ca Alberta, T4S 2K9.

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Oilfield

Winter

Community Support Worker program GED classes evening and days

Spring

Women in the Trades

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Shipper / Receiver

AES INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES LTD. looking for an energetic/ enthusiastic individual for our receiving department.

Fax resume to 403-342-0233

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

ADULT Carriers Needed For Early morning delivery of the Red Deer Advocate 6 days/wk in

requires

F/T Safety Officer

to help implement & maintain safety programs.

Fax resume to: 403-343-1248 or email admin@shunda.ca

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters & Carpenter helpers.

For local work.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca STUCCO Plasterers, & Labourers. Needed Immed. Exp’d but will train.

Drivers License pref’d.

Call 403-588-5306

GLENDALE area.

ALSO 4 days a week Flyers & Sun. Life in ORIOLE PARK Oak St. & Olympic Crsc JOHNSTONE CROSSING Jennings & Joa Also Jack & Jenner Crsc Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

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resumes@newcartcontracting.com Or fax resume to: 1-403-729-2396

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

Please specify which position you’re applying for. *No phone call inquiries please

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Pidherney’s is a progressive company that offers competitive wages, benefits and a pension plan.

Accounting

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

We require individuals for our New Blackfalds office who enjoy being busy and can adapt to a constantly changing environment. The following positions are available starting in February.

CIVIL EARTHWORKS SAFETY ADMINISTRATOR & ADVISOR

Construction

Duties include health & safety support and advisement, fielding of paperwork, safety statistics, maintenance of the company Safe Work Manual, field site audits, incident investigations and other duties as required. Previous health & safety experience in a civil construction industry preferred. Strong computer skills are a must. NCSO designation an asset.

Suitable candidates should have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, strong computer and communication skills, must be proficient at multi-tasking. Human Resource education would be an asset, all applicants must have previous Human Resource experience.

Contractors

1100

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

PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR

The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of a complete in house payroll for approx. 100-150 employees.

COUNTERTOPS

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648

The position requires that you have the Payroll Management Certification or equivalent or be working towards certification. Must have previous payroll experience combined with exceptional computer skills.

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 281947A18-31

Please e-mail resumes to:

1085

LOOKING FOR A FURNACE REPLACEMENT OR INFORMATION ON A MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT HEATING/COOLING SYSTEM? We handle all aspects of your residential ventilation requirements.

Tropical Heating and Cooling 403-506-4418

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

hr@pidherneys.com or fax to 403-845-5370

1010

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia preferring non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Educational

1140

TERRIFIED OF PUBLIC SPEAKING? Want to be a more effective communicator or enhance & build your Leadership skills? Gain CONFIDENCE & Find Your Voice - Take the Christopher Leadership Course starting January 21, 2013. Phone: 403-342-7646 or Website: www.clcreddeer.com

Escorts

1165

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Never rushed, no hidden agency fees. Call now.

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403-986-SEXY (7399)

Handyman Services

1200

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

TIRED of waiting? Call Renovation Rick, Jack of all trades. Handier than 9 men. 587-876-4396 or 587-272-1999

Health Care

1210

FOOT CARE Handled With Care Licensed, mobile foot care.

Call 403-350-7595

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch.

Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. Mon - Fri 9 am -6 pm & Sat. 10am - 3 pm 348-5650

Massage Therapy

1280

NEW HOURS Asian Relaxation Massage Open 6 days a week starting from 9 am. 587-377-1298

VII MASSAGE

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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

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

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

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal.

No household appliances 403-396-8629

Gentle Touch Massage

4919 50 St. New staff. Daily Specials. New rear entry, lots of parking. 403-341-4445 LINDA’S CHINESE MASSAGE Grand Opening. Insurance receipts. Home service.

Daily 9 am-9 pm. #3 4820-47 Ave. 403-986-1550 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

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.

All work guaranteed.

403-307-4798 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Seniors’ Services

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ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small jobs, around the house such as roof snow removal, bathroom fixtures, painting or flooring Call James 403- 341-0617 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

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

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346 JUNK REMOVAL, Yard/ Garden Serv. 588-2564

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in DEER PARK Dempsey St. area $45.00/mo.

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ALSO Duston St. Donnelly Crsc., area Densmore Crs. Dale Close $270.00/mo.

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Dunn Close $50.00 /mo.

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ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE WEST PARK Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

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91 papers $580/monthly.

DEER PARK Dempsey St. area 79 papers $423/mo.

ALSO Davison Dr. area 101 papers $541/mo.

X-Static is now hiring P/T female search personnel.

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3 bdrms, 2.5 bath, Finished Mobile bsmt. 5 appls., Large yard. Lot 53” SONY, Rear projection No smoking. Pre-approved HERITAGE LANES incl. 4 speakers & tuner, pets. $1425 & UTIL, SD LACOMBE new park, $250, 403-346-8065 $1425 Available NOW! BOWLING animal friendly. Your mobile Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Requires F/T mature or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm. or Lucie 403-396-9554 career oriented help.

Excellent 1st time home Misc. for www.hpman.ca Must be avail. eves and buyers. 403-588-8820 w k n d s . P l e a s e s e n d Sale MOBILE HOME PAD, in resume to: Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 5 stacking chairs, metal Condos/ htglanes@telus.net or 2 car park, Shaw cable incl. frames, all for $25; tall Townhouses apply in person Sharon 403-340-0225 wood clothes pole $20; roundtop wooden stool KITSON CLOSE $15; box assorted flower newer exec. 3 bdrm. pots $10; wine decanter bi-level townhouse 1447 NEWSPAPER w/6 glasses $20; oval bowl sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, CARRIERS (mother of pearl) frosted blinds, lg. balcony, fenced leaf pattern $45; 4 pc. in rear, front/rear parking, REQUIRED for desert goblets (pedestal) no dogs, rent $1395 Afternoon diamond cut pattern $25; SD $1000. n/s 4 wine and 4 cocktail delivery in Avail. immed.

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Career possession 403-588-6363 4 Cup Electric Coffee Pot, $3. 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 Planning FREE Weekly list of Large Glass Bowl SOUTHWOOD PARK properties for sale w/details, w/12 large artificial TH 3110-47 Avenue, RED DEER WORKS prices, address, owner’s vegetables, $20; large 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, phone #, etc. 342-7355 Build A Resume That spider plant $6 generously sized, 1 1/2 Works!

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CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990 TOP WAGES, BENEFITS. Exp’d. Drivers required.

MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457.

Auctions

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Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Employment Training

900

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

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EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

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Tools

WANTED: 1-2 yr. old Bichon or Shih Tzu dog to go to clean home and get good and loving care by a senior (widower) ** FOUND **

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HOCKEY bag Reebok, black w/wheels $25 403-346-0093

1900

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CANYON SKI RESORT Terrain Park - Rentals Instructors - F&B -Lifts/Tube F/T P/T. Send Resume to info@canyonski.ca or Fax 403-347-0009 or in person

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APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042

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COMFORT Zone electric heater oak cabinet 15” x 17 1/2” x 15 1/2”h $200 403-314-2026 DRYER orig. price $500, asking $150 call 403-782-5818 R E F R I G E R AT O R o r i g . $500 , asking $100, 403-782-5818 UPRIGHT freezer 14 cu. ft. white, 2 yrs. old, like new $200 403-307-4223 WASHING MACHINE orig. $600 , asking $150 403-782-5818

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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

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2004 MAZDA 3 Sport.

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2002 FORD EXPLORER. 7 pass. Eddie Bauer edit. fully loaded, exc. shape, $6800 obo 403-340-2042

2140

Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Pasture/Land Wanted

2180

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390 EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW ON ACREAGE IN RED DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 bath, rent $2000 + DD avail.

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4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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COZY SUITE ON HEWSON AVE.

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2010 GMC 3500 HD 4X4, sunroof, htd. lthr., long box, 118393 kms, $34888, 348-8788, Sport & Import

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MORTGAGES AVAIL.on all types of real estate inJOB HUNTING? Read the cluding raw land and acreages. Bruised credit Classifieds. 309-3300. and self employed welcome. Fast approvals Vans Ron Lewis 403-819-2436 Buses Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

SUITES FOR RENT THREE HILLS Affordable housing for low income, single adults of any age, F/S, water/sewer included. $400/mo, $400 DD.Further information & 2010 Mazda 3 GT leather applications available at www.studiosalberta.com or roof 6 speed 33,988 km by calling 1-888-963-5698 $16,888, 403-348 8788

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2009 FORD F-350 King Ranch htd. lthr., sunroof, nav., $33888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2009 F350 King Ranch FULLY SERVICED diesel 4x4 Nav $33888 res & duplex lots in Lacombe. Sport & Import 348 8788 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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Auto Wreckers

5190

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Vehicles Wanted To Buy

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A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519 REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585 WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

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FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Sharon 403-340-0225

GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, N/S, no pets, WANTED no partiers, avail immed.

- PASTURE LAND TO 1-403-200-8175 RENT OR LEASE. Required for 2 Load Pastures LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. to 1000 Head Pastures. Area: SUITES. 25+, adults only Alberta & Saskatchewan. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 Term: May to September, 2013. Please contact Ed ONE bdrm. ADULT only apt. across from hospital, 403-546-2278 Ext 3. $750/mo.,avail. no pets avail. Feb. 1 877-3323

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4050

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MAKITA 10” CHOP SAW with stand. $150.

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Blue Grass Sod Farms Ltd. BOX 11, SITE 2, RR 1 Red Deer, AB Req’s. Landscape Labourers for 2013 season (April-Oct) in Red Deer. Duties include lay sod, plant flowers, grass, shrubs, trees. Will train but exp. an asset. Wage $16.00 hrly, 44 hrs weekly.

Email resume to debbie. lefeuvre@bg-rd.com

Participating Employers: 1. ATB Financial 2. Central Alberta Tile One 3. Deermart Equipment Sales 4. Extendicare 5. Landmark Canada 6. Lambourne Environmental 7. Nurse Next Door 8. Precision Well Servicing 9. Securitas 10. Tim Hortons

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Stereos TV's, VCRs

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3060

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4020

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Blue Grass Sod Farms Ltd. BOX 11, SITE 2, RR 1 Red Deer, AB Req’s Farm labourers for 2013 season (April-Oct) in Red Deer. Duties include sod farming and tree nursery. Tree nursery will involve planting, pruning and digging trees. Will train/exp. an asset. Wage $9.75 hr, 60 hrs weekly.

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Monday, Jan. 21, 2013

Obama sworn in for second term U.S. president starts second term as leader of deeply divided country

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — In a private White House ceremony, Barack Obama has sworn for a second time to “protect and defend” the U.S. Constitution, officially affirming the duties of president in an oath he will repeat for hundreds of thousands of people during gala ceremonies Monday.

The day of festivities, parades and fancy dress balls will mark the beginning of Obama’s second four-year term as America’s first black president.

The politician who rose improbably from a history as a community organizer in Chicago and a professor of constitutional law to the pinnacle of power faces a nation riven by partisan disunity, a still-weak economy and an array of challenges abroad.

Obama on Monday will take the oath again before the crowd and is expected to follow the recent tradition of walking at least part of the way back to the White House, surrounded by cheers.

In the briefest of ceremonies Sunday, with family gathered in the White House, Obama took the oath of office shortly before noon, as required by law.

With his left hand on a family bible held by first lady Michelle Obama, the 44th president raised his right hand and repeated the time-honoured words read out by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

The intimate swearing-in met the legal requirement that presidents officially take office on Jan. 20. Because that date fell on a Sunday this year, the traditional public ceremonies surrounding the start of a president’s term were put off to Monday, which coincides this year with the birthday of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

Obama made no special remarks at Sunday’s ceremony. “I did it,” he said quietly to his youngest daughter, Sasha, before wrapping her in a hug. The oath went smoothly, unlike four years ago, when Roberts made mistakes while trying to recite the oath from memory and had to do it again with Obama later.

Monday’s events are expected to have less of the effervescence of four years ago, when the 1.8 million people packed into central Washington knew they were witnessing history. Obama is now older, greyer and more entrenched in the politics he once tried rise above. Officials are expecting 500,000 to 700,000 people to turn out Monday.

As he enters his second term, Americans increasingly see Obama as a strong leader, someone who stands up for his beliefs and is able to get things done, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The survey shows him with a 52 per cent job approval rating, among the highest rankings since early in his presidency.

His personal favourability, 59 per cent, has rebounded from a low of 50 per cent in the 2012 campaign against Republican Mitt Romney.

When the partying is done on Monday, it’s back to

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Barack Obama is officially sworn-in by Chief Justice John Roberts in the Blue Room of the White House during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Sunday. Next to Obama are first lady Michelle Obama, holding the Robinson Family Bible, and daughters Malia and Sasha. business for a president who is leading a nation that is, perhaps, as divided as at any time since the Civil War 150 years ago.

That conflict put down a rebellion by southern states and ended slavery.

In light of the nation’s troubled racial history, Obama’s election to the White House in 2008 as the first black president was seen by many as a turning point. In his first inaugural address, Obama vowed to moderate the partisan anger engulfing the country, but the nation is only more divided four years on.

While Obama convincingly won a second term, the jubilation that surrounded him four years ago is subdued this time around — a reality for second-term presidents. He guided the country through many crushing challenges after taking office in 2009: end-

ing the Iraq war, putting the Afghan war on a course toward U.S. withdrawal and saving the collapsing economy. He won approval for a sweeping health care overhaul. Yet onerous problems remain, and his success in resolving them will define his place in history.

Obama’s Democrats and opposition Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, are at political war about gun control and managing the nation’s finances Shortly before Obama took the oath privately on Sunday, a top White House adviser made the rounds of nationally televised talk shows, saying he was confident Congress would pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, but he sounded less sure about prospects for toughening the nation’s gun laws.

French strikes jolt Islamists, but Mali government not in control yet BAMAKO, Mali — Backed by French air strikes, Malian forces appeared close to recapturing a key central town in Mali where bands of al-Qaida-linked fighters had holed up, France’s defence minister said Sunday.

The French military has spent the last nine days helping the West African nation of Mali quash a jihadist rebellion in its vast northern desert. The comments Sunday from Jean-Yves Le Drian, however, appeared to cast some doubt on local military claims that the town of Diabaly had already been recaptured from the Islamists.

The town of 35,000, which hosts an important military camp, was taken over by al-Qaida-linked militants last week.

“Right now, the town of Diabaly is not retaken,” Le Drian told France-5 TV. “(But) everything leads us to believe Diabaly is going to head in the positive direction in the coming hours.”

The French military said its fighter planes and helicopter gunships had carried out a dozen operations in the previous 24 hours — half of them to strike “terrorist vehicles.” The report came late Sunday in a statement on the military’s Web site.

Previously, Mali’s military had claimed the government was back in

control of Diabaly — a potential breakthrough in the French-led campaign to oust extremists there.

The contrasting accounts were emblematic of the confusion in the embattled West African country, where French forces opened an air campaign on Jan. 11 and have been building up troop levels to help restore government control in central and northeast Mali. The zone around Diabaly remains blocked off by a military cordon and it is not possible to independently verify the information.

Video obtained by The Associated Press from Diabaly on Saturday showed burned-out vehicles, scattered bullets and several armoured vehicles belonging to the Malian army lying abandoned and damaged along roadsides. Displaced residents and Malian officials described how Islamists fled the town on foot after days of French airstrikes that destroyed their vehicles.

For government supporters, the incursion signalled an alarming drive by the jihadists into central Mali — and closer to the capital of Bamako — from the base they have established in the country’s vast northeast. The Islamists captured the Texas-sized northeastern expanse nine months ago, exploiting a power vacuum after a military coup in the distant capital.

Also Sunday, French forces extended their deployment northward

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from the central town of Markala, reinforcing their presence in the towns of Niono and Mopti, said Col. Thierry Burkhard, a French military spokesman.

The French statement said some 400 troops from Nigeria, Togo and Benin had arrived Sunday in Bamako to help train an African force for Mali.

Troops from Chad, who are considered hardened fighters familiar with the desert-like terrain of northern Mali, also arrived in Mali, Le Drian said.

Overall, Le Drian said the Frenchled campaign against the militants was making progress. He said he wasn’t aware of any civilian casualties and

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said the air strikes had caused “significant” — though unspecified — losses among the jihadists, and only minor skirmishes involved French forces on the ground.

Still, as they work to root out the jihadists and secure local populations, French and Malian forces also have to contend with some villagers who are backing the rebels.

“The war against the Islamists is not at all easy and there’s a very small part of the population which is helping their cause,” said Col. Seydou Sogoba, the Malian force commander in the Niono region. “That is what is making the fight against them tough.”

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 D5

Algerian siege ends, at least 23 hostages dead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALGIERS, Algeria — In a bloody finale, Algerian special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end a standoff with Islamist extremists that left at least 23 hostages dead and killed all 32 militants involved, the Algerian government said.

With few details emerging from the remote site in eastern Algeria, it was unclear whether anyone was rescued in the final operation, but the number of hostages killed on Saturday — seven — was how many the militants had said that morning they still had. The government described the toll as provisional and some foreigners remained unaccounted for.

The siege at Ain Amenas transfixed the world after radical Islamists linked to al-Qaida stormed the complex, which contained hundreds of plant workers from all over the world, then held them hostage surrounded by the Algerian military and its attack helicopters for four tense days that were punctuated with gun battles and dramatic tales of escape.

In Ottawa, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird issued a statement condemning “the deplorable and cowardly attacks by terrorists in Ain Amenas, Algeria.”

Baird said it’s believed there were no Canadians or dual nationals are among the hostages, and that one permanent resident of Canada who was reported to be onsite has left Algeria and is safe.

There were reports Friday that a news agency in Mauritania — Agence Nouakchott d’Information — has quoted an unnamed source with the militant group who says the hostage-takers included people from Mali, Egypt, Niger, Mauritania and Canada.

Ottawa says it is “pursuing all appropriate channels to seek further information” and is in close contact with Algerian authorities.

Algeria’s response to the crisis was typical of its history in confronting terrorists, favouring military action over negotiation, which caused an international outcry from countries worried about their citizens. Algerian military forces twice assaulted the two areas where the hostages were being held with minimal apparent mediation — first on Thursday, then on Saturday.

“To avoid a bloody turn of events in response to the extreme danger of the situation, the army’s special forces launched an intervention with efficiency and professionalism to neutralize the terrorist groups that were first trying to flee with the hostages and then blow up the gas facilities,” Algeria’s Interior Ministry said in a statement about the standoff.

Immediately after the assault, French President Francois Hollande gave his backing to Algeria’s tough tactics, saying they were “the most adapted response to the crisis.”

“There could be no negotiations” with terrorists, the French media quoted him as saying in the central French city of Tulle.

Hollande said the hostages were “shamefully murdered” by their captors, and he linked the event to France’s military operation against al-Qaida-backed rebels in neighbouring Mali. “If there was any need to justify our action against terrorism, we would have here, again, an additional argument,” he said.

President Barack Obama said in a statement Saturday that the U.S. stood ready to provide whatever assistance was needed in the wake of the attack.

“This attack is another reminder of the threat posed by al-Qaida and other violent extremist groups in North Africa. In the coming days, we will remain in close touch with the Government of Algeria to

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Men look at the wreckage of a vehicle near Ain Amenas, Algeria. Algerian bomb squads scouring a gas plant where Islamist militants took dozens of foreign workers hostage found “numerous” new bodies on Sunday, as they searched for explosive traps left behind by the attackers. gain a fuller understanding of what took place so that we can work together to prevent tragedies like this in the future,” the statement said.

In New York, the U.N. Security Council issued a statement condemning the militants’ terrorist attack and said all perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of such “reprehensible acts” must be brought to justice.

In the final assault, the remaining band of militants killed the hostages before 11 of them were in turn cut down by the special forces, Algeria’s state news agency said. The military launched its Saturday assault to prevent a fire started by the extremists from engulfing the complex and blowing it up, the report added.

A total of 685 Algerian and 107 foreigner workers were freed over the course of the four-day standoff, the ministry statement said, adding that the group of militants that attacked the remote Saharan natural gas complex consisted of 32 men of various nationalities, including three Algerians and explosives experts.

The military also said it confiscated heavy machine-guns, rocket launchers, missiles and grenades attached to suicide belts.

Sonatrach, the Algerian state oil company running the Ain Amenas site along with BP and Norway’s Statoil, said the entire refinery had been mined with explosives, and that the process of clearing it out is now under way.

Algeria has fought its own Islamist rebellion since

the 1990s, elements of which later declared allegiance to al-Qaida and then set up new groups in the poorly patrolled wastes of the Sahara along the borders of Niger, Mali, Algeria and Libya, where they flourished.

The standoff has put the spotlight on these alQaida-linked groups that roam these remote areas, threatening vital infrastructure and energy interests.

The militants initially said their operation was intended to stop a French attack on Islamist militants in neighbouring Mali — though they later said it was two months in the planning, long before the French intervention.

The militants, who came from a Mali-based alQaida splinter group run by an Algerian, attacked the plant Wednesday morning. Armed with heavy machine-guns and rocket launchers in four-wheel drive vehicles, they fell on a pair of buses taking foreign workers to the airport.

The buses’ military escort drove off the attackers in a blaze of gunfire that sent bullets zinging over the heads of crouching workers. A Briton and an Algerian — probably a security guard — were killed.

The militants then turned to the vast gas complex, divided between the workers’ living quarters and the refinery itself, and seized hostages, the Algerian government said. The gas flowing to the site was cut off.

Saturday’s government statement said the militants came across the border from “neighbouring countries,” while the militants said they came from Niger, hundreds of miles (kilometres) to the south.

Thousands rally against stricter gun control AUSTIN, Texas — Gun advocates — some with rifles slung across shoulders or pistols holstered at the hip — have rallied peacefully in state capitals nationwide against President Barack Obama’s sweeping federal gun-control proposals.

Summoned via social media for the “Guns Across America” event, participants gathered Saturday for protests large and small against stricter limits sought on firearms. Only a few dozen turned out in South Dakota and a few hundred in Boise, Idaho. Some 2,000 turned out in New York and large crowds also rallied in Connecticut, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Washington state.

The rallies came on a day in which accidental shootings at gun shows in North Carolina, Indiana and Ohio left five people hurt. The wounded included two bystanders hit by shotgun pellets after a 12-gauge shotgun discharged at a show in Raleigh, N.C., as the owner unzipped its case for a law officer to check at a security entrance, authorities said. A retired deputy there also suffered a slight hand injury.

About 800 people gathered for the “Guns Across America” event in Austin, Texas, as speakers took to the

microphone under a giant Texas flag stamped with one word: “Independent.”

“The thing that so angers me, and I think so angers you, is that this president is using children as a human shield to advance a very liberal agenda that will do nothing to protect them,” said state Rep. Steve Toth, referencing last month’s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

Obama recently announced the guncontrol proposals in the wake of a Connecticut elementary school shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six educators last month.

Toth, a first-term Republican lawmaker from The Woodlands outside Houston, has introduced legislation to ban within Texas any future federal limits on assault weapons or high-capacity magazines, though such a measure would violate the U.S. Constitution.

In Arizona, Oregon and Utah, some came with holstered handguns or rifles on their backs.

Rallies at statehouses nationwide were organized by Eric Reed, an airline captain from the Houston area who in November started a group called “More Gun Control (equals) More Crime.” Its Facebook page has been “liked” by more than 17,000 people.

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The restrictions have done damage “without a doubt” and the CDC has been “overly cautious” about interpreting them, said Daniel Webster, director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

“The law is so vague it puts a virtual freeze on gun violence research,” said a statement from Michael Halpern of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

“It’s like censorship: When people don’t know what’s prohibited, they assume everything is prohibited.”

Many have called for a public health approach to gun violence like the highway safety measures, product changes and driving laws that slashed deaths from car crashes decades ago even as the number of vehicles on the road rose.

“The answer wasn’t taking away cars,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association.

However, while much is known about vehicles and victims in crashes, similar details are lacking about gun violence.

Some unknowns: —How many people own firearms in various cities and what types.

—What states have the highest pro-

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MILWAUKEE — Nearly as many Americans die from guns as from car crashes each year. We know plenty about the second problem and far less about the first. A scarcity of research on how to prevent gun violence has left policymakers shooting in the dark as they craft gun control measures without much evidence of what works.

That could change with President Barack Obama’s order Wednesday to ease research restrictions pushed through long ago by the gun lobby. The White House declared that a 1996 law banning use of money to “advocate or promote gun control” should not keep the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies from doing any work on the topic.

Obama can only do so much, though.

Several experts say Congress will have to be on board before anything much changes, especially when it comes to spending money.

How severely have the restrictions affected the CDC? Its website’s A-to-Z list of health topics, which includes such obscure ones as Rift Valley fever, does not include guns or firearms. Searching the site for “guns” brings up dozens of reports on

portion of gun ownership.

—Whether gun ownership correlates with homicide rates in a city.

—How many guns used in homicides were bought legally.

—Where juveniles involved in gun fatalities got their weapons.

—What factors contribute to mass shootings like the Newtown, Conn., one that killed 26 people at a school.

“If an airplane crashed today with 20 children and 6 adults there would be a full-scale investigation of the causes and it would be linked to previous research,” said Dr. Stephen Hargarten, director of the Injury Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

“There’s no such system that’s comparable to that” for gun violence, he said.

One reason is changes pushed by the National Rifle Association and its allies in 1996, a few years after a major study showed that people who lived in homes with firearms were more likely to be homicide or suicide victims. A rule tacked onto appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services barred use of funds for “the advocacy or promotion of gun control.”

Also, at the gun group’s urging, U.S. Rep. Jay Dickey, a Republican from Arkansas, led an effort to remove $2.6

million from the CDC’s injury prevention centre, which had led most of the research on guns. The money was later restored but earmarked for brain injury research.

“What the NRA did was basically terrorize the research community and terrorize the CDC,” said Dr. Mark Rosenberg, who headed the CDC’s injury centre at the time. “They went after the researchers, they went after institutions, they went after CDC in a very big way, and they went after me,” he said. “They didn’t want the data to be collected because they were threatened by what the data were showing.”

Dickey, who is now retired, said Wednesday that his real concern was the researcher who led that gun ownership study, who Dickey described as being “in his own kingdom or fiefdom” and believing guns are bad. He and Rosenberg said they have modified their views over time and now both agree that research is needed. They put out a joint statement Wednesday urging research that prevents firearm injuries while also protecting the rights “of legitimate gun owners.”

“We ought to research the whole environment, both sides — what the benefits of having guns are and what are the benefits of not having guns,” Dickey said.

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