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Power line costs mounting AND ALBERTANS WILL PAY THE PRICE: CRITIC

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A boost in the cost estimate for a major Edmontonto-Calgary power line won’t be the last, and Alberta consumers will bear the brunt, says the Wildrose environment critic.

Earlier this month, AltaLink submitted to the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) an updated

cost estimate of $1.65 billion — up $200 million from an earlier estimate — for the 500-kilovolt power line.

The increase falls within the $1.3 billion to $1.7 billion range anticipated in January 2011, the company notes.

Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre Wildrose MLA Joe Anglin said he is not surprised costs are already mounting.

“I predicted it. There will be more to come,” he said on Wednesday.

Incumbents give Veer full support

Since AltaLink can apply to boost power rates to cover all construction costs and provide a profit, there is no need for the company to rein in costs, he charges.

“There’s incentive to spend. There’s no incentive to be frugal and sort of responsible,” said Anglin.

“The incentive is to spend outrageously because the more money they spend the more they make.”

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MOST BACKED JEFFERIES DURING CAMPAIGN

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF While the majority of the five re-elected city council incumbents openly threw their support behind Cindy Jefferies during the campaign, they say they are ready to work with Red Deer mayor-elect Tara Veer.

Coun. Lynne Mulder was part of the group of new councillors in 2004 that included Veer and Jefferies.

During the campaigning for Monday’s election, Mulder made no secret of the fact that Jefferies had her vote for mayor.

But now that the ballots are counted and the election signs are gone, Mulder says Veer has her full support in the mayor’s seat. She said Jefferies will be greatly missed on council.

“I think it is what it is and we have to move forward,” said Mulder on Wednesday. “Certainly Tara has some great ideas and she has experience. We will make the most of it and move forward.”

Mulder said the relationship with Veer wasn’t necessarily contentious but it was a matter of different philosophies, which worked well on council. She said Veer is an outstanding woman who will do great things for the city.

“Hopefully in her role as leader she will work to bring us together,” said Mulder.

Coun. Paul Harris was quite vocal on social media and in person about his support for Jefferies. A list of his endorsed candidates was included in a newsletter distributed before the election.

While Harris is disappointed that his good friend did not come out on top, Harris said it’s time to move forward.

“The past is the past and just leave it behind,” said Harris. “You have to focus on what you have today and make it as best as possible.”

Coun. Buck Buchanan was less vocal during the campaign about his support for Jefferies but he did not shy away from his opinions.

Buchanan said the two women brought different skill sets to the table.

“They both know what they have in me as a councillor,” said Buchanan. He said he has no problem telling either one of them to what he thinks.

Buchanan said the campaign is over and it is time to get back to work.

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Cornerstone Youth Theatre is preparing to launch yet another musical performance this week.

After falling down the rabbit hole, Alice, played here by Rachel Stillings, dances with the Mad Hatter, played by Max Veselym during a rehearsal of Alice in Wonderland. The show opens on Friday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m., at the First Church of the Nazarene at 2 McVicar Street in Red Deer. Two more shows are scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 26, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Nine more shows round out the run over the next 11 days. Tickets are available on the Cornerstone Youth Theatre website, by calling 403-986-2981, or at the door.

Nabors Canada drops pressure pumping business, over 90 affected

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Nabors Canada is getting out of the pressure pumping business, a move that affects more than 90 employees at the Nabors Industries Ltd. facilities in Sylvan Lake.

Company president and CEO Joe Bruce said 49 employees were released on Wednesday, with the remainder expected to be integrated into other operations.

“Some will go to the U.S., some will go to (Sylvan Lake-based Nabors Production Services) and the remainder, come late November, December sometime

if we haven’t found a position for them, will also be released.”

Bruce stressed that only Nabors Well Services Canada, which provides pressure pumping services, is affected.

“Nabors Production Services, which is our service rig division, and our Nabors drilling division are both extremely viable and will continue to operate.

There are no plans whatsoever to change anything in those two divisions.”

Bruce said Nabors’ parent company, Nabors Industries Ltd., brought pressure pumping to Canada after it acquired Superior Well Services in 2010.

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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools officials are cautioning parents and reminding them to talk to their children about strangers and street safety after a student was punched.

A male middle school student was assaulted after getting off a bus in West Park. He was approached by an adult male who punched him in the stomach, tried to search him for valuables and then ran off.

According to a letter sent home with students of Ecole Camille J. Lerouge School, the student ran home and reported the incident to his parents.

Red Deer RCMP are investigating.

The male who is believed to have assaulted the student is described as about 50 years old, with white hair and a long white beard. He was wearing a blue jacket with patches and blue track pants.

The letter detailed how the school’s teachers have spoken to students about how to respond when approached by a stranger.

Paul Mason, Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools superintendent, said this incident is an opportunity to remind parents and students of how to stay safe.

Letters home to parents are a typical response from schools when an incident like this occurs. Mason said such incidents are rare, but when they do happen the school district wants to keep parents informed and aware.

The letter reminds parents to talk to their children about establishing a buddy system, being cautious and keeping a safe distance when talking to strangers, using well-travelled and well-lit streets and never getting into or approaching an unknown vehicle, among other tips.

“Safety is a major concern for us,” said Mason. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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POWER: Consumers are the losers Anglin has long criticized the province’s power line upgrade plan as a massive, unnecessary overbuild.

The real losers will be power consumers, whose bills will skyrocket in coming years, he predicts. Those most hurt will be small business owners and people on low or fixed-incomes, including seniors.

Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) spokesman Jim Law said there is a process in place to ensure that costs and companies’ rate forecasts are scrutinized.

The initial cost estimate is reviewed by the Alberta Electric System Operator, which also must approve significant changes.

The AUC has also gotten involved in reviewing cost increases. When ATCO, which is building a 500-kilovolt north-south transmission line on the east side of the province, submitted a higher cost estimate the AUC demanded an explanation. A similar request is likely with AltaLink, said Law. “As part of the process which adds costs of transmission to bills they come under scrutiny at a public hearing where intervenors can argue before the commission that some costs are not reasonable to include,” said Law. In the last few months, the Alberta government has extended the power of the AUC to review costs by removing what was known as the “presumption of prudence” by power companies.

“What we determine is whether these costs are reasonable to include (on power bills),” said Law. AltaLink says the power line project’s budget was adjusted because of rising construction costs.

“Alberta’s hot construction market continues to put pressure on project cost estimates,” says Dennis Frehlich, AltaLink interim president and CEO in a statement.

“We will continue to carefully manage this important project to keep costs as low as possible.”

The 350-km Western Alberta Transmission Line was approved last December and will carry energy from power generators in Genesee southwest of Edmonton to Langdon east of Calgary.

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Participants join chefs to prepare bibimbap, a signature Korean dish, for 12,013 people during an event to mark the Korean Food Festival in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday. The festival was held to encourage people to eat Korean food and promote the cuisine to foreign countries. Bibimbap, a mixed rice topped with several vegetables, meat and eggs, is a popular dish in South Korea. to upgrade transmission lines that have seen little expansion in the last 30 years, says the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO), which oversees the province’s power grid.

“As a province we’re really catching up on the aging infrastructure within the province,” said AESO spokesperson Dawn Delaney, who said the need for transmission capacity to serve the province was identified a decade ago.

“We need to add more capacity. And we’re building it once, we’re building it right, in an effort to not go back to landowners in a couple of years to add additional capacity.”

Delaney said that the cost of new projects, based on a 10-year average, is expected to add $1.10 per month for each $1 billion worth of power line construction to residential electricity bills.

It should be noted, said Delaney, that transmission costs only represent about 20 per cent of the typical residential bill and about 25 per cent of the bill for industrial users.

Besides AESO and the AUC’s involvement, a provincial committee was set up called the Transmission Facilities Cost Monitoring Committee to monitor costs.

“There are avenues for people to keep an eye on these project costs,” she said. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

COUNCIL: Mandate from the public Coun. Dianne Wyntjes did not publicly throw her support behind either of the two third-term councillors.

“But when the people speak, you give your support to the mayor,” said Wyntjes. “Coun. Veer has my full support. You need that in that job. That’s why I wasn’t vocal about who I was supporting. If people asked me one on one, I would give my perspective but I wasn’t putting anything out on Facebook. I think that is respectful of all the people who are running for office.”

Coun. Frank Wong said Veer is an outstanding woman with proven leadership skills. He said he looks forward to working with the new councillors — Tanya Handley, Ken Johnston and Lawrence Lee. The incumbents echoed Wong’s thoughts about getting back to city business.

Veer said throughout the campaign she would work with whoever the public elected. She said she was

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well aware that some openly endorsed other candidates.

“We all have a mandate from the public,” she said. “I certainly recognize that and would hope my council colleagues would recognize that as well.”

Veer said it is time to move past the election and recognize that council has a governance mandate to fulfil. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

NABORS: Equipment moving to U.S. Used in hydraulic fracturing operations, pressure pumping accounts for only a small part of Nabors’ Canadian business.

“When you look at the overall pressure pumping business in Canada, the Nabors Well Services piece is only about one per cent,” he said, adding that the big players include Calfrac Well Services Ltd., Trican Well Service Ltd., Canyon Technical Services Ltd. and Sanjel Corp.

That’s made it difficult for Nabors Canada to gain a strong foothold in the pressure pumping market, he said, despite making a “considerable investment in the assets here.”

“Given the fact that it hasn’t necessarily played out the way we had initially projected, the decision has been made to move the equipment — specifically the pressure pumping equipment — to our sister company in the U.S., which is Nabors Completion and Production Services.”

Bruce said the prospects are better in the United States, especially since the industry there isn’t subject to seasonal cycles due to weather.

Earlier this year, Nabors Well Services moved from Blackfalds to the Nabors Production Services facilities in Sylvan Lake. Approximately 440 employees, including field staff, will continue to work out of that location.

Given the current shortage of workers in the oil and gas sector, Bruce is optimistic that Nabors’ displaced employees will find new jobs.

“We are aware that our competitors — Trican, Calfrac, Baker (Hughes Inc.) and so forth — are in the process of hiring.”

In addition to Nabors Production Services in Sylvan Lake, Nabors Canada operates a drilling division in Nisku and field offices in Leduc, Lloydminster, Brooks, Grande Prairie and Slave Lake. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Wildrose to vote on policy changes OPPOSITION AIMS TO PUT PAST CONTROVERSIES BEHIND IT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s Opposition Wildrose party is taking steps this weekend to drain once and for all the “lake of fire� that torched its hopes of forming government in the last election.

Members at the party’s annual meeting in Red Deer are to vote on several policy changes designed to dismantle platform planks that brought damning criticism last year that the party was ignorant and intolerant. “We know that we’ve got some contentious policies that have to be debated,� Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith said at the party’s legislature office Wednesday. “Our members have identified six or seven policies that they either want to repeal or revise, so I’m looking forward to seeing how that debate goes.�

The key changes involve sexual orientation, race, climate change, the human rights commission, conscience rights and citizen-initiated referendums.

The topics bedevilled Smith’s party in the closing days of the April 2012 election campaign and scuttled what some were predicting was a strong chance at victory. The party ended up with 17 seats in the 87-seat legislature, while Premier Alison Redford led the Progressive Conservatives to a majority.

Smith was harshly criticized in particular for not tossing overboard two candidates for their statements on gays and race.

Edmonton candidate Allan Hunsperger made national headlines just days before the vote when it was revealed he had written a blog warning homosexuals that Satan was setting a “trap� for them and

if they didn’t change their ways, they would “suffer the rest of eternity in the lake of fire, hell.�

At the same time, it was revealed that Calgary candidate Ron Leech made comments that he was the best person to mediate concerns among multiethnic groups in his riding because “as a Caucasian, I believe that I can speak to all the community.�

That brought accusations of racism at worst and, at best, chauvinistic “white man’s burden� paternalism.

Smith said she didn’t believe Leech was racist and suggested Hunsperger was free to speak his mind. She said Hunsperger’s views did not reflect Wildrose thinking and wouldn’t be acted upon in a Wildrose government.

At the weekend conference, one resolution urges the party to pledge to “defend the equality of all persons regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.�

Smith said a policy forbidding discrimination against homosexuals or any other identifiable group is already in the platform, but she is OK with members wanting to “double affirm� it with a resolution.

The change is a good first step, said Kris Wells of the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies at the University of Alberta. “It will show some lessons have been learned from the last election,� said Wells. “It’s a party that recognizes it must be much more moderate in its policies if it’s going to claim to represent the majority of Albertans.�

Smith said the party will also outline new rules on candidate selection.

A second issue that precipitated the Wildrose’s late-campaign collapse was the party’s position that

the science of climate change was not settled.

Smith was roundly booed at one debate when she insisted “there is still a debate in the scientific community.�

Redford capitalized quickly. She told Albertans that a premier who didn’t believe in global warming would be an international laughingstock.

A number of proposed policy planks this weekend make clear the party’s acceptance of global warming and its belief that action is needed to combat it.

One resolution urges the party work to “reduce greenhouse gases by advancing, implementing and co-operating on technology, research, conservation and alternative renewable energy sources.�

Smith said her party needs to recognize the need for policies to reduce greenhouse gases, but fenced with reporters when asked if she believes climate change exists. “I’m not a scientist. My opinion is that, as a political leader, I recognize we have an obligation to reduce greenhouse gases and toxic emissions.�

She was also criticized on the campaign trail for advocating conscience rights, a belief that people can rightly refuse to carry out duties as professionals if those duties conflict with moral or religious beliefs. In some jurisdictions, that has led to nurses and doctors refusing to assist with abortions and justices of the peace refusing to marry gays.

Delegates will vote to delete a policy that the party will, if elected, implement conscience rights for health-care workers. Members will also vote to replace it with a promise to “defend the fundamental charter right to freedom of conscience and religion for health-care professionals and all other Albertans.�

Study finds carcinogens downwind of Edmonton petrochemical plants

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A newly published study says air downwind from a cluster of petrochemical plants northeast of Edmonton contains pollutants at levels equal to some of the world’s largest cities.

Other pollutants, including some known to cause cancer, also measured well above normal. And cancer rates linked to those chemicals were found to be higher in communities closest to the so-called Industrial Heartland.

Although scientists don’t definitively link the two, one of the report’s coauthors said the findings raise concern about the possible long-term effects of

LOCAL

BRIEFS Recount confirms Bonnett won mayor’s race by a vote Rick Bonnett is Ponoka’s new mayor in a squeaker.

The former town councillor beat out his council colleague Doug Gill by a single vote — 960 to 959 — a recount confirmed on Wednesday.

The results become official on Friday. “I’d rather lose by 500, than one,� said Gill. “But that’s the way things

exposure to petrochemical emissions. “We’re suggesting a prudent approach — reduce the carcinogens now as a preventative measure,� said Isobel Simpson, a chemist at the University of California Irvine and co-author of the report published online by Atmospheric Environment.

An Alberta government spokeswoman said the report doesn’t necessarily reflect real human exposure to the pollutants.

The area, 30 km northeast of Edmonton and adjacent to the town of Fort Saskatchewan, now holds Canada’s largest concentration of petrochemical processors. More than 40 companies are spread out over nearly 600 square kilometres. worked out. “One vote is a like not having the last number on a lottery ticket,� he said with a chuckle.

Gill had only a faint hope that the result would change since the community used an electronic ballot rather than paper ballots.

He feels a bigger issue than the closeness of the vote was turnout. Only about 1,900 of Ponoka’s 5,000 electors voted. “It’s not about one vote. It’s about people not exercising their right to determine their municipal government.�

Gill, who sat on council for three terms, said he plans to stay involved in his community and support the efforts of council.

Bonnett could not be reached on Wednesday.

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Bright days on the horizon Red Deer’s prospects have always been bright, but in the afterglow of our civic elections, I have to say I like them even better now.

That’s not because all my choices got elected. Rather, the overall makeup of our next city council promises an even mix of perspectives. That means whatever initiatives get on the agenda in the next four GREG years, people NEIMAN are really going to need to have their facts arranged in convincing order.

On some issues, at least one councillor will need a change of mind for a vote to pass without the mayor’s vote deciding everything. There will need to be compromises and teamwork.

Council will need a willingness to let predetermined attitudes relax in favour of an eagerness to find solutions with broad support.

INSIGHT

As voters, we will need to allow councillors to decide matters according to what’s on the table, not what was believed coming in — without one group or another raining condemnation down on their heads. If our mayor and council can accomplish that, there are bright days coming.

Not just for us, but for the entire province. The three cities representing the lion’s share of the province’s population all have young mayors with a vigorous agenda.

Calgary’s Naheed Nenshi has turned his office into a national template for success as a mayor. He was returned to office with 74 per cent of the vote.

In Edmonton, Don Iveson, age 34, won 62 per cent of the vote, and a strong mandate to proceed with a massive (and costly) rebuild of the city’s central core.

Here in Red Deer, Tara Veer took 46 per cent of the vote in a much closer race. (For comparison’s sake, Lethbridge had an election ballot similar to Red Deer’s, with four mayoral candidates and 31 council candidates. Chris Spearman, a longtime businessman and school board member, won the mayor’s seat with 46 per cent of the vote.)

Red Deer has much in common with

both Calgary and Edmonton, being a centre of growth. We also have a city centre that is embarking on a major overhaul in the next decade. It’s up to this council to begin building on the stage set by the previous one.

Add in another 60 acres or so of prime, parklike city-centre land to be redeveloped in the next decade, as the province decides the future of the Michener Centre. By the time this council’s four-year mandate is over, we are going to have a rather different city horizon than we do now.

Transit service from Red Deer to Blackfalds and Lacombe is being hammered out. Regular flights by Air Canada now land and take off from our airport.

Our manufacturing base is the envy of many a troubled Ontario heartland city. In sectors that pay very well indeed, employment opportunities abound.

With the trend toward greener, more physically active lifestyles, our access to mountain trails and a relatively untouched river valley corridor has a huge potential upside to tourism, along with our regular list of festivals and attractions.

We have broad consensus that infrastructure for recreation and culture

should not be ignored in pursuit of immediate paycheques.

The whole Hwy 2 corridor is poised to hit a strong stride of growth that other Canadian regions simply cannot match.

All of this bodes toward more people wanting to come and live here. Lots more. If our city council can find its way to a middle ground where they can pull together for the next four years, Red Deer stands on the cusp of something truly great. A golden age, peopled by a much more diverse society.

The only barriers are stubborn ideology and a lack of vision of what our city can become in the next decade.

If we cannot find pragmatic compromises needed to allow us to move forward, Edmonton and Calgary (and their economic regions) definitely will.

Opportunities such as we have now will never return.

I didn’t get everything I wanted in this election; I don’t think anybody did.

What we have instead is a terrific opportunity to bury what divides us and find common goals. I like our prospects.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

Prime minister in high-stakes game of chicken Stephen Harper is in a place no politician wants to be.

The prime minister is out on a ledge, hewing to a version of events that appears less credible each day.

And now he has to dodge the grenades Mike Duffy is lobbing at him.

Inside the red-carpeted Senate chamber late Tuesday afternoon, those in attendance were privy to a political performance that will outlive anyone who witnessed it, a man about to be politically TIM buried reaching up from the HARPER grave to drag down everyone he could reach, most notably a prime minister facing the biggest crisis of his tenure.

This Duffy-Harper battle is a high-stakes game of chicken, but the fact that Duffy appeared to gain the upper hand on Tuesday is a direct result of an inept Prime Minister’s Office that has mismanaged its Senate stain for months.

It allowed — or directed — the Conservative leadership in the Senate to try to vapourize a trio of problems, make the three headaches named Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau disappear, and make sure they were gone by the time Harper had to rally his Tory troops at the end of the month at the Calgary convention.

They overreached and got a scorched earth in response. One could see this coming, but the ferocity of the Duffy counterattack shook the place to its foundation.

Duffy told the Senate that Harper personally told him to repay the $90,000 the PMO believed he owed, that the rules and the truth didn’t matter because the party base was getting restless and the cash had to be returned or Duffy would be booted from the Senate.

Following a caucus meeting on Feb. 13, 2013, Duffy said he met with Nigel Wright and Harper — “just the three of us” — where Harper told him to ‘pay the money back,’ end of discussion.”

Duffy urged his fellow senators to stand up to the “unaccountable power” of Harper’s office and the “short pants” brigade running the country through bullying and intimidation.

And, most damaging, he repeated what we heard from his lawyer, Donald Bayne, on Monday — that there are documents that will be released at the proper time, “when all of the players are under oath

INSIGHT

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Funding for post-secondary projects doesn’t come from operational cash A recent letter by Roger Davis (Post-secondary funds defy logic, Oct. 21, 2013, Advocate) may mislead your readers, and I would like to clarify.

The letter alleges that funding for the University of Calgary’s Schulich School of Engineering has been pulled from other institutions’ operating budgets.

The truth is that capital and operational funding

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Duffy, Brazeau and Wallin, who has yet to have her day of defence, have likely lost the battle of public opinion, but all three have been pushed into a corner by Harper where they have, predictably, decided to bite back.

Duffy has hinted at this moment for months and while Harper’s office must have been girding for the counterattack, it is inexplicable that it hastened this day.

While Duffy was verbose, Harper was nearly mute in the Commons earlier Tuesday in his first confrontation with Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair since last spring.

Harper spent most of the daily question period glaring contemptuously at his inquisitor, tossing the job of repeating the message track to his parliamentary secretary, Paul Calandra.

Harper has not wavered. He did not know about the payment from Wright to Duffy, Wright acted alone, had Harper known about it, he would have shut it down.

This game of chicken can now only be resolved in one of three possible ways.

One plausible outcome is that Harper is telling the truth and, even if many if not most Canadians are doubting him, there can be no risk in telling the truth and he has no other alternative.

There is no smoking gun yet to show otherwise, but Harper’s story is hanging by a thinner and thinner thread.

His position must remain precise. He either knew or he didn’t know; there is no room for nuance in that answer.

He must now not only defend himself against his opponents, but those who were once friends.

Another plausible outcome is that Harper and his office know what Duffy is holding back in his documents and they know that there is no smoking gun in that pile of emails his lawyer Bayne packed with him at a Monday press conference.

Even as the doubts creep in, Harper can call the senator’s bluff.

Less plausible is the chance that Harper and his staff believe Duffy will not ultimately release what he has.

That’s a very poor bet.

To shut this down, over the course of almost 11 months, Harper’s office has bullied, smeared, changed stories, tried to change the channel and stonewalled. They haven’t placed a winning bet yet.

Last week’s throne speech and a triumphal trade deal in principle with the European Union already seem like distant memories.

Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer. He can be reached at tharper@thestar.ca.

are not interchangeable. More than $2 billion a year in operating funds supports our post-secondary institutions. Budget 2013 reduced the major operating grant to all institutions by seven per cent. Capital funding commitments were kept.

The Schulich building was part of the capital plan, and it is a sensible project that supports better learning for hundreds of students.

Construction is also underway at NAIT and Mount Royal University for facilities supporting trades and arts education.

Maintaining Alberta’s position as a leader in postsecondary education requires a balance: supporting programs and faculty, maintaining existing infrastructure, and building world-class facilities to at-

tract the best and brightest.

Pitting communities, programs and institutions against each other is tired and antiquated thinking, especially when tied to claims that one institution’s growth is coming at others’ expense.

I would encourage Mr. Davis and all Albertans to take a look across Campus Alberta, and see why there is a great deal to be optimistic about. This government is building Alberta, and giving students the skills and knowledge they need to be successful — in a wide range of programs.

Thomas Lukaszuk Deputy Premier and Minister of Enterprise and Advanced Education Edmonton

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Pamela Wallin says a government move to expel her from the Senate is an affront to Canadian democracy, motivated by politics and personal vendettas against her by confidantes of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The embattled senator — who has reimbursed almost $150,000 in travel expense claims that the Senate has ruled invalid — told the chamber Wednesday that she was targeted unfairly by fellow Conservatives Marjory LeBreton and Carolyn Stewart Olsen.

LeBreton was government leader in the Senate until she stepped down this summer. Stewart Olsen is a former aide to Harper who, until this week, was a key member of the Senate committee that sat in judgment on Wallin and three other senators, ordering external audits of their expenses and ultimately asking the RCMP to investigate all four.

Wallin said public opinion was whipped up against her by 14 different leaks to the media — leaks she believes “were orchestrated in large measure by senators LeBreton and Stewart Olsen� and which were designed to cast her conduct “in the worst possible light.�

The pair “could not abide the fact that I was outspoken in caucus, or critical of their leadership or that my level of activity brought me into the public eye and once garnered the praise of the prime minister,� Wallin said, her voice occasionally wavering. “They resented that. They resented me being an activist senator.�

LeBreton rose immediately following Wallin’s speech to call her accusation “false, false, false.�

LeBreton denied ever leaking information about Wallin to the media or instigating the investigation into her expenses. Indeed, LeBreton said it was a letter of complaint to Senate administration from one of Wallin’s own staffers that prompted a review of her travel claims.

In addition to Wallin, the RCMP is investigating the housing allowance and living expense claims of three others — former Conservatives Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau, as well as former Liberal Mac Harb, who has resigned from the Senate.

Wallin said the government’s motions to suspend her, Brazeau and Duffy without pay, before any charges have been laid or verdicts issued, is a viola-

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tion of their constitutional right to the presumption of innocence. “Why is the Senate acting as accuser, judge, jury and executioner before I’ve had that day in court?�

Wallin answered her own question: “(It’s) designed to appease the party faithful before the Conservative party convention at the end of the month.

It is intended to intimidate —not only me but others in this chamber. It is about political expediency, to get rid of someone it considers to be a political liability.�

She suggested the motions are really aimed at depriving her of any income so that she won’t be able to afford to mount a proper legal challenge.

The government “hoped all this would force me to resign� she said. “But despite the clear, vindictive intent of this motion, you will never break my spirit.�

Nothing Wallin could say, however, could compete with the bombshells dropped Tuesday by Duffy.

He implicated Harper in an alleged conspiracy to intimidate him into accepting $90,000 from Harper’s chief of staff to reimburse the Senate for his ineligible expenses.

Duffy also implicated LeBreton and Stewart Olsen, among others.

Earlier Wednesday, Stewart Olsen confirmed she’s stepping aside as a member of the internal economy committee.

She is just the latest Conservative involved in managing the scandal to exit the spotlight, making it more difficult for opposition parties to question the principals.

In an email, she said it was her choice not to continue sitting on the internal economy committee. “I asked for a change to spend more time on NB (New Brunswick) issues and to sit on committees that reflect that,� she said. “I helped make changes to Senate rules, a goal of mine, but I want a change.�

However, Stewart Olsen herself was recently accused of wrongly claiming more than $4,000 in accommodation and meal expenses at a time when she was not involved in any Senate business.

She has denied the allegation but the new chair of the internal economy committee, Sen. Gerald Comeau, has asked Senate finance officials to review Stewart Olsen’s expenses and refer any irregularities to the auditor general, if necessary.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has mounted his most spirited defence in months on the Senate spending scandal, accusing Sen. Mike Duffy of playing the victim card because he was ordered to refund inappropriate expense claims. “Mr. Duffy now says he is a victim because I told him he should repay his expenses,� Harper told a high-octane House of Commons on Wednesday. “Darn right I told him he should repay his expenses.�

With his Conservative caucus enthusiastically hooting and banging their desks, Harper took the offensive in the daily question period, repeatedly rising to his feet to respond with vigour, if not always clarity.

His performance — which lasted all of 19 minutes, including opposition questions — served as an antidote for Duffy’s toxic accusations levelled the previous afternoon in the Senate chamber.

Duffy claimed all his expenses were cleared by the Prime Minister’s Office and Senate leadership, but that he was thrown under the bus when news reports began undermining party popularity.

It was a scenario largely reiterated Wednesday by Sen. Pamela Wallin, another apostate Tory. “’It’s not about what you did,�’ Duffy quoted Harper telling him. “’It’s about the perception of what you did that’s been created in the media. The rules are inexplicable to our base.�’ Harper denied making any such statement Wednesday. Instead, he dished up a bumpersticker-simple response for the Conservative party base that has the benefit of being true, as far as it goes.

Yes, Harper agreed, he did order Duffy to repay the expense claims. As for the rest of the saga, the prime minister artfully managed to take none of the responsibility but all of the credit.

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Blair lauded the government for setting up an Office of Religious Freedom in the Foreign Affairs Department — a decision that has exposed the government to criticism from rights groups and political opponents.

And in a rebuke of critics who say the Conservatives have tilted too far towards Israel, Blair heaped praise on Canada — and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, personally — for what he called a huge and immense contribution towards the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

The effusive endorsements from the respected international statesman came during a visit to Ottawa, where he said the fight for religious freedom and tolerance is the “central battle� being waged in the Middle East.

Blair is now the Middle East peace envoy for the so-called Quartet, which was set up a decade ago to negotiate peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

It’s comprised of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia.

He’s also the founder of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, his post-political enterprise that builds on his devout Christianity. Blair converted to Catholicism from the Anglican church after serving as prime minister.

Blair made it clear that he sees a powerful connection between his two jobs, and that he’s happy Canada sees the world as he does. “This issue is central a I think the very fact that Canada’s taken the step to have an Office of Religious Freedom is a great sign,� Blair said in a speech to diplomats, religious leaders and public servants at Foreign Affairs headquarters that was hosted by Canada’s new religious freedom ambassador, Andrew Bennett. “I think it shows leadership from Canada. And Canada, by the way, in many ways is a perfect place from which to promote this ideal because of the complexion of the country.�

Blair said religious freedom has to be equated with all other human rights — something that critics of the new Canadian office have objected to in the past. “All over the Middle East, all over the region, I think there is one central battle that is going on,� Blair told an earlier joint news conference with Baird. “And that is between the open-minded people who want societies that are tolerant and respectful and promote religious freedom, and those who are close-minded and who don’t like people

who are different, and want to impose a certain view of religion on society — which is very damaging.�

Blair met earlier with Baird and emerged to publicly endorse Canada as a vital player in the peace process, citing its economic support of the Palestinian Authority.

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Sex offender who fled Canada was allowed across border

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — For a few weeks, Michael Sean Stanley managed to cut away from a troubled life in Canada and navigate a bizarre pathway to freedom.

The sex offender removed his electronic monitoring bracelet, eluded a Canadian manhunt and headed for the border. He was allowed to cross into Washington state, where local authorities told the U.S. citizen to register as a sex offender but didn’t arrest him, since he’d committed no crimes here.

Less than four days after registering, Stanley was accused this week of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old in a Seattle alley in a case that has caused alarm on both sides of the border and exposed a challenging dynamic of cross-border relations.

“This, for us, was the worst-case scenario,” Seattle Police Det. Renee Witt said. “Our worst fear was realized when this kid came forward and said Stanley had attempted to sexually assault him.”

Stanley’s criminal record in Canada dates back to 1987.

The 48-year-old last received a 32-month prison term for assault and forcible confinement involving two mentally challenged boys. Parole Board records say he lured the boys into a washroom, blew crack smoke in their faces and then sexually assaulted them.

Parole records also detail the sexual assault of an elderly woman and charges he exposed himself to kids.

That wasn’t enough to stop him at the U.S. border, because he had already served his time for his violent crimes and was only being sought at the time for charges related to removing his monitoring bracelet. Canadian officials hadn’t sought a provisional arrest warrant that would allow U.S. officials to arrest an American citizen

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In this image photographed off of a video monitor, Michael Sean Stanley, right, appears in court with defense attorney Nick Gross as sheriff’s deputies look on Wednesday in Seattle. Days after Canadian authorities decided not to extradite Stanley, a violent sex offender who crossed into the U.S., he is in custody, suspected of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy. on home soil.

Even once Stanley crossed the border, Canada could have sought such a warrant and Seattle officials could have nabbed him and sent him back, said Gary Botting, a criminal defence and extradition lawyer based in the Vancouver area. But in this case, Canadian authorities didn’t seek that type of warrant or ask for his extradition, saying his crimes weren’t serious enough.

To seek extradition would have been time-consuming and costly. If Stanley was returned and convicted, he likely would have gotten credit for time served in custody and released, Botting said.

It could cost have the Canadian government close to $1 million to accom-

plish little.

On the U.S. side, a citizen who flees back to his home country must be let back in if there’s no warrant to arrest him, Botting said.

“If he’s an American citizen, he’s home free,” Botting said.

Shayne Saskiw, justice critic with Alberta’s Opposition Wildrose, said some people had argued to leave Stanley in the United States so that Canada didn’t have to deal with him anymore.

“I didn’t feel that was right,” said Saskiw, who pressed the government to seek Stanley’s extradition. “I don’t think it’s fair to one of our close allies — the United States — to dump predators into their areas without, at a minimum, appropriate monitoring systems in place.”

nate at his Toronto plant.

Duffy Smith of Belmont Meats said the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is checking where the beef trim that his company uses to make burgers came from so that the source of the E. coli can be traced.

“We fully vetted all our production systems and checks. They cover the gamut of federal requirements for handling raw meat and our operations are clean,” Duffy said Wednesday.

“They (CFIA) have gone back into the supply chain and they are working with several suppliers trying to source where the contamination came from.”

Guy Gravelle, a spokesman for the CFIA, said in an email from Ottawa that he could confirm that the agency continues to investigate.

Last Thursday, the Ontario Ministry of Health said that some of the recalled beef has been linked to nine confirmed cases of people getting sick from E. coli in the province, two prob-

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Smith said the beef Belmont uses is certified and inspected by the CFIA from Canadian beef suppliers, which he declined to name.

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by XL Foods. The plant was at the centre of the largest meat recall in Canadian history last year. Eighteen people became ill.

OTTAWA — The RCMP has expanded its investigation into dubious expense claims by former Liberal Sen. Mac Harb.

The Mounties are investigating allegations that Harb declared two largely unused country homes as his primary residences, allowing him to fraudulently claim a Senate housing allowance and living expenses for his supposedly secondary residence in Ottawa — where he had lived for years prior to his 2003 appointment to the Senate and where he continued to spend most of his time.

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He is one of four Additionally, dental hygienist Kirsten, will be joining us on a senators whose expense permanent schedule this September. Kirsten is looking forward to claims are being probed re-connecting with her clients she has worked with over the years. by the RCMP. The others OFFICE HOURS TO SUIT are former Conservatives YOUR SCHEDULE Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau.

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MOSCOW — Russia’s main investigative agency said Wednesday that it has dropped piracy charges against jailed Greenpeace activists, including two Canadians, and charged them instead with hooliganism.

The news brought little comfort to anxious family members back home, since the new charges still carry stiff prison sentences of up to seven years.

But Patti Ruzycki Stirling, whose brother Paul Ruzycki was serving as first mate aboard the Greenpeace ship “Arctic Sunrise” when it was seized last month, said the decision still represents progress from the Russian government.

Ruzycki, fellow Canadian Alexandre Paul and 28 other activists were originally facing prison terms of up to 15 years under the original piracy charges.

“It’s the first step in the right direction, the fact that they’ve come to their senses and realized that piracy is lunacy, that they had no grounds for that,” she said in a telephone interview from her home in Port Colborne, Ont. Greenpeace took a harder line, saying their crew members were arrested while travelling in international waters and should not be behind bars at all.

Christy Ferguson, Arctic Campaign Co-ordinator with Greenpeace Canada, called the new charges “wildly disproportionate.”

“Hooliganism carries up to seven years in prison for what was still a peaceful protest being made in the public interest,” she said. “These were people who were protesting dangerous Arctic drilling and trying to shine a light on what’s happening in the Arctic.”

She added the situation could get worse if Russia’s Investigative Committee follows through on a warning that it could file additional charges against the activists, including violence against authorities — a charge punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Vladimir Chuprov of Greenpeace Russia said the activists “are no more hooligans than they were pirates” and should be freed immediately.

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Bombing suspect may try to blame brother

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers may try to save him from the death penalty in the Boston Marathon bombing by arguing he fell under the murderous influence of his older brother, legal experts say.

The outlines of a possible defence came into focus this week, when it was learned that Tsarnaev’s attorneys are trying to get access to investigative records implicating his brother in a triple murder in 2011.

In court papers Monday, federal prosecutors acknowledged publicly that a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev told investigators that Tamerlan participated in the unsolved killings of three men who were found in a Massachusetts apartment with their throats slit, marijuana sprinkled over their bodies.

The younger Tsarnaev’s lawyers argued in court papers that any evidence of Tamerlan’s involvement is “mitigating information” that is critical as they prepare Dzhokhar’s defence.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, faces 30 federal charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction, in the twin bombings April 15 that killed three people and injured more than 260. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in a gun battle with police days later.

The government is still deciding whether to pursue the death penalty for the attack, which investiga-

tors say was retaliation for the U.S. wars in Muslim lands.

Miriam Conrad, Tsarnaev’s public defender, had no comment.

Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said the defence may be trying to show that the older brother was the guiding force and to argue that the death penalty is too extreme in this case.

“If I was a defence attorney and was seeking perhaps to draw attention to the influence the older brother had in planning the bombing, I would use his involvement in other crimes to show that he was likely the main perpetrator in the Boston bombing,” Dieter said.

Aitan D. Goelman, who was part of the legal team that prosecuted Oklahoma City bombing figures Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, said the defence may be looking to minimize the younger brother’s role.

“I think the mostly likely reason is that if they are arguing some kind of mitigation theory that the older brother was a monster and the younger brother was under his sway or intimidated or dominated by him,” he said.

Investigators have given no motive for the 2011 killings. One victim was a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s.

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev smiles after accepting the trophy for winning the 2010 New England Golden Gloves Championship in Lowell, Mass., on Feb. 17, 2010.

Prosecutors in the case against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan’s brother, say a man shot to death during questioning by an agent in Florida told investigators that Tamerlan had been involved in a triple homicide.

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ACAPULCO, Mexico — Raymond weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm Wednesday and began moving away from Mexico’s Pacific coast, granting relief to a region devastated by storms last month.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Raymond’s maximum sustained winds decreased to near 100 km/h with additional weakening possible over the next few days. At its peak, the storm was a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 205 km/h that threatened to collide with the Mexican coast.

The storm was centred about 250 kilometres south-southwest of the beach resort of Zihuatanejo Wednesday morning and was moving west-northwest at 13 km/h.

Officials in coastal mountain regions said they were evacuating hundreds of people from vulnerable villages on Tuesday because of fears of landslides, said Guerrero state’s deputy secretary of civil protection, Constantino Gonzalez.

While Raymond failed to produce the sort of torrential rains inflicted by Tropical Storm Manuel last month, authorities were taking no chances following widespread criticism of their preparations for the earlier storm, which caused more than $1.7 billion in damage and about 120 deaths. Some 10,000 people are still homeless.

Still the storm flooded streets in low-lying parts of Acapulco and other areas, and some homes wrecked by Manuel were once again flooded.

In the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Lorenzo strengthened far out to sea but posed no threat to land. Lorenzo’s maximum sustained winds early Wednesday were over 50 mph (80 kph) with gradual weakening forecast over the next two days. The storm was centred about 1,515 kilometres east of Bermuda and was moving east near 13 km/h.

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Young muskrats, which are born blind, naked and helpless, develop rapidly. They begin leaving the lodge at about three weeks of age and are essentially independent at six weeks. I could tell this muskrat was a young one by its small size and teenager-like hair-do.

THEY’RE INDUSTRIOUS THEY’RE FASCINATING THEY’RE SCRAPPY THEY’RE . . .

I have mentioned my fascination with muskrats in previous columns.

These industrious and scrappy little rodents are found in most wetlands throughout the province.

They are especially evident at this time of year as they swim about busily preparing for winter.

Muskrats have several types of homes. The most common abode is a lodge constructed by heaping plant material and mud together, then burrowMYRNA ing out a chamber which PEARMAN is accessed from below water level. Where the soil is suitable, they will also excavate shoreline bank dens, often creating a complex labyrinth of chambers and tunnels.

Interestingly, muskrats will also take up residence in beaver lodges. In fact, one seems to have moved in with June and Ward’s family at Ellis Bird Farm (check www.ellisbirdfarm.ca for webcam views). The muskrats don’t seem to be of any benefit to the beavers, but the beavers don’t mind sharing their lodges (or food) with them.

Once our wetlands start to freeze over, another type of muskrat feature will appear. Called “push ups,” these mounds of vegetation are built as the ice thickens. An entrance area is kept open into the push up, which is used as a resting and feeding area during the winter.

Most muskrats live short and brutish lives.

They often fight viciously among themselves, especially in the spring when territories and mates are at a premium. Apparently the seniors (four-to-five-year olds) become less wary in their old age and thus make easy meals for such predators as mink, foxes, owls, hawks and coyotes.

Myrna Pearman is the biologist/site services manager at Ellis Bird Farm. She can be reached at mpearman@ellisbirdfarm.ca.

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Muskrats are well adapted to their semi-aquatic lifestyle. Their thick fur gives them buoyancy and keeps them warm throughout the seasons. Their long front claws enable them to groom, manipulate food items and excavate soil, while their partially webbed back feet propel them effortlessly through the water.

ABOVE LEFT: Like beavers, muskrat lips close behind their incisors so they can eat while submerged (and show their teeth while swimming!). Their round and hairless tail acts as a rudder while swimming.

ABOVE RIGHT: While walking at Gaetz Lakes Sanctuary last summer, I noticed a muskrat swimming in the direction of a red-necked grebe nest. The adult grebe slipped off the nest, swam over to the muskrat and gave it a serious pecking. The muskrat, apparently unhurt and seemingly nonplussed after the altercation, continued on its merry way across the lake.

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An underwater image of a hooked brook trout: no complaints about pictures of fish, but photographers need to take care when taking these photos as well.

On photos of bagged game READERS UPSET AT PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUNTERS’ DEAD PREY For the first time I can re- much time driving in Alberta call in almost 48 years, a pic- for the next couple of months, ture accompanying one of you will see more deer corpsthese columns has drawn a es “killed by people” in vehidisapproving letter to the edi- cles and dumped in the roadtor. side ditches than you will in Dale Latam of a year of these colRed Deer writes: umns.

“I do not feel that There are far I should be submore columns with jected to viewing a fish pictures, but picture of the dead I have never reanimal that (a huntceived a complaint, er) killed when I possibly because open your newspapeople do not care per … it upsets me about cold-blooded every time this hapcreatures, pens. … You do not and many post photographs suspect the of dead people fish is alive killed by people, and about to so please do not be released, BOB post photographs of anyway.

SCAMMELL dead animals killed This paper by people.” tries to avoid The complaint is publishing regarding the Oct. 3 column, a pictures of “dead peostory about a remarkable hunt ple killed by people,” of a mule deer buck by a fine yet other media are full and principled hunter, and of real or fictional vioa quality picture that shows lence producing dead honour and respect to a mag- people and interviewnificent animal. ers who know just what butOne of the reasons this col- tons to push to make survivors umn has endured as long as sob and wail. it has is because of its coverThat “journalism” upsets age of many different outdoors me more than any good pictopics. ture I’ve ever seen of a hunter Hunters are entitled to with a dead animal. a column occasionally, and I am grateful to Mr. Latam some of them are probably up- for giving me occasion to set when they see a column of hold forth on a subject that mine accompanied by pictures has been bothering me for of mushrooms … or garlic. some time: poor “grip ‘n’ grin” I submit few pictures of photography of both fish and dead animals with my col- game. umns each year. If you spend Each year I receive doz-

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ens of pictures ranging from a few great, through poor, to downright disgusting images of hunters with dead big game: cluttered foreground and background, blood to the armpits, drooping cigarettes, so awful that I can’t use them to illustrate my points on how to do better in the coming hunting seasons, so I’ll resort to mainly fish shots.

What we must strive for is a good image that respects and honours a special creature, dead or alive.

new dimension to fish photography.

With dead creatures, take the pictures immediately, but clean any blood away and bag the used paper towels. Arrange the animal for an uncluttered foreground and background.

Blue sky is a great background and so is one that shows the country that grew the deer.

Big game animals are often taken when the light is poor, so turn on the flash.

some light on the subject.

Many fish “grip ‘n’ grins” today are for an angler to prove to others that he really did catch that special fish that had to be released.

For a successful live release, the fish must be handled carefully and be kept out of the water as little as possible.

The instantly-ready shirtpocket camera shortens the down time.

Many anglers today pose their fish never totally out of the water with rod, net, etc., in the picture.

I know several anglers who photograph their catches totally underwater, using those same Pentax Optio’s in their underwater mode.

Holding big, — COLUMNIST BOB SCAMMELL strong, slippery fish without injuring them is hard.

The hunter (also cleaned Years ago I learned from up), beside the deer, with a angling artist Jack Cowin that big smile is the cliché classic holding a big fish briefly upshot, but taking a few of him side-down in the water calms looking admiringly at his ani- it down enough for a couple of mal often produces the best quick pictures before a careimage. ful release.

Some bright colour livens Sometimes nothing works, a picture, and hunters often but then you might get a great wear blaze orange or red shot of a big fish taking matcaps. ters out of its “holders” hands.

But in sunny conditions the Bob Scammell is an awardshade under the bill or brim winning columnist who lives in can erase facial features; turn Red Deer. He can be reached at on the soft flash and shed bscam@telusplanet.net

‘THERE ARE FAR MORE COLUMNS WITH FISH PICTURES, BUT I HAVE NEVER RECEIVED A COMPLAINT, POSSIBLY BECAUSE PEOPLE DO NOT CARE ABOUT COLD-BLOODED CREATURES, AND MANY SUSPECT THE FISH IS ALIVE AND ABOUT TO BE RELEASED, ANYWAY.’ For practical starters, forget the cellphone and carry a real camera that has the features needed for quality outdoors images: shirt pocket size for instant availability, a sharp zoom lens, and a strong flash, including soft or fillflash.

I still favour my Pentax Optio W80, which is no longer available, but the WG3 and WG10 models are allegedly even better, and they are all waterproof, adding a

Placing a feeder in strategic location will attract birds Geese are the most noticeable mi- used before, wash it with a light solugratory bird in our area. This is due to tion of bleach water. their size and their encouraging honk Then allow the bleach to dissipate as they fly overhead. before adding seed. Mould, mildew Canada geese honk to encourage the and viruses can lurk in a feeder and rest of the flock to stick tothat will be detrimental to gether and fly in formation the birds. for thousands of kilometres.

There are many differThey are just one of the ent types of birdseed on the bird types that summer market. here before heading south Sunflower seeds are the for the winter months. most universal feed in CenThe migration from north tral Alberta as they attract to south in the fall brings the widest variety of birds. other birds to Central AlThere are other seeds, berta. nuts and meals on the marThese birds, along with ket that are attractive to ones that are permanently specific varieties of birds. in the area, can be seen in Do some research to dethe trees, bushes and at locide which birds you wish cal feeders. to attract before making a LINDA There is enough food in purchasing seed or feeders.

TOMLINSON the wild to sustain the birds The Kerry Wood Nature but placing a feeder in a Centre in Red Deer and strategic location will bring Myrna Pearman and Ted them into the yard.

Pike’s book Naturescape Alberta are Their antics can be entertaining. both excellent resources.

Set up the bird feeders with care.

Hopper-style feeders are very popuWhile we want to watch the birds, we lar. also do not want to see them crash into The larger the hopper, the less often windows. it must be filled. Large spaces between For this reason, the feeder should where the birds stand and the seed either be within one metre of the win- tray allow all birds to feed. Smaller dow or more that four metres from the distances between the stand and tray window. limit the feeder to smaller birds.

Feeders placed in the area between This being said, smaller birds can one and four metres are more likely to use larger feeders if the larger birds have birds hitting windows. allow it.

Where dogs and wildlife are a probWhile the hopper is the traditional lem, place the feeders higher, out of feeder, a number of species prefer to their reach. It should be high enough feed off the ground or an open tray. that the animals cannot reach it or Ground feeding birds will go under knock the seed out of it when they are hanging feeders and eat what has been on their hind legs. spilled but more will be attracted to Anytime is a good time to set out their own feeding station. a bird feeder. If the bird feeder was When setting up a ground feeding

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Anytime is a good time to set out a bird feeder. Placement and research is important. area, keep in mind that the birds are very vulnerable to cats. If possible, make sure all shrubs are at least 10 metres from the feeder.

A tray feeder is a flat surface placed a number of feet off the ground. The feeder may or may not have a roof. Unlike the hopper, this feeder will have to be swept cleaned and replenished frequently.

Suet is popular with birds, especially during cold snaps.

It can be purchased in balls, logs, prepackaged lard or in the raw form from the butcher.

A mixture of lard and peanut butter is popular with many birds.

When mixing this treat, be sure to use products that contain little or no additives. Extra sugars, etc., that are common additives to human food can be detrimental to a bird’s health.

There are bird feeders available for suet or one can place the material in a net bag to be hung up high in a tree.

Setting up a feeder is a commitment.

The birds will not die if the feeder is empty, but chances are if it is often empty they will not come back. Birds are creatures of habit.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House.

She can be reached at www.igardencanada.com or your_garden@hotmail.com.

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Reasons to be cautious Ways of dealing with of coffee health claims pesky gallstones Is coffee an important part of a actually drive the body into exhaushealthy lifestyle — or could all of its tion and burnout. This is one of the recent health claims be detrimental to keys things I think people misperceive our overall well-being? about coffee, especially those who are Coffee is the most widely consumed consistently fatigued and feel that they beverage across the world. “need” it to get through Globally, more than 400 biltheir day. lion cups are consumed a It also has acidifying efyear. Finland takes the fects on the body and can ir“cup” at five cups a day! ritate the gut wall and lower Many studies claim this libido levels. black brew of popular deDr. Andrew Weil and Dr. mand lowers risks for heart Joseph Mercola both recdisease, developing type 2 ommend a coffee alternadiabetes, and even claims tive called Holy Basil or to have benefits for great Tulsi tea from India. It’s a skin. Some studies show non-toxic substance, and inheavy coffee drinkers (three creases resistance to stress, to four cups per day) lower fatigue and anxiety — a KRISTIN their risk of diabetes by 67 more healthful alternative.

FRASER per cent and breast cancer Dr. Gabrielle Cousens, by 57 per cent! author of There is a Cure for The one thing that is key Diabetes, suggests suppleto note is that these benefits menting with green coffee are not being found from extract, which contains the the caffeine. Polyphenols polyphenol chlorogenic acand antioxidants are the beneficial id, known to help stabilize blood sugar factors found in coffee but caffeine, we levels. must remember, is a stimulant that can Douillard suggests if drinking coffee lead to anxiety, poor concentration, to have a small amount after a meal, dehydration and headaches, and has which can help stimulate digestion, been known to block a chemical in the rather than drinking coffee on an empbrain — adenosine — that is associated ty stomach first thing in the morning, with sleep. which can drive the adrenals to go into It is certainly high on the addictive debt. substances list.

If you are looking for another alter“The fact that coffee contains good native to coffee, try roasted grain bevstuff does not necessarily mean that erages found at your health food store, it’s good for us,” says James D. Lane, including Dandy Blend.

PhD, professor of medical psycholoTo tell if you are addicted to coffee, gy and behavioural medicine at Duke you can try eliminating it for several University Medical Center in Durham, days and see if you experience any N.C. “Caffeine can raise blood pres- withdrawal symptoms such as getting sure, as well as blood levels of the headaches or experience mood swings. fight-or-flight chemical epinephrine And if choosing to consume regular(also called adrenaline),” Lane says. ly, be sure to incorporate extra water This is what makes people more into your daily regiment. alert or responsive, but Dr. John DouKristin Fraser, BSc, is a holistic nuillard, Ayurvedic expert and founder tritionist and local freelance writer. Her or Lifespa.com, cautions that overcon- column appears every second Thursday. sumption of caffeinated coffee can She can be reached at kristin@somethinggive people a false sense of energy and tochewon.ca.

SOMETHING TO CHEW ON

How good health is the ultimate aphrodisiac Justin Timberlake rocketed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2006 by bringing SexyBack, which could be the theme song for this column on how great health is the key to looking great, feeling great and having a great sex life.

We were inspired to share strategies for your good health and great looks after hearing about an intriguing side effect of sleep apnea treatment.

People who wore special breathing masks at night to keep their airways open — preventing apnea’s heavy snoring, snorting and gaps in breathing — started looking better.

In an unbiased comparison, their faces were rated as younger, far more attractive and more alert about 65 per cent of the time.

Skin looked less puffy and red, and forehead wrinkles were less noticeable, too.

But it’s not the only health upgrade that brings sexy back. Check out these five other strategies: ● Sleep more. Even if you don’t have apnea (one in 11 adults suffer from the disorder), there’s a good chance you’re skimping on shuteye.

Thirty per cent of grown-ups get less than six hours a night.

Skimping can make you look a lot less attractive (puffy eyes, saggy skin, grumpy expression) and worn out.

“I’m too tired” isn’t just an excuse; in one survey around 40 per cent of folks admitted that they’d skipped sex because they were too weary.

We bet the true number is a lot higher. ● Nix these food felons.

Cutting out added sugars, syrups, excess sodium and any grain that’s not a 100 per cent whole does your skin a big favour.

When your blood sugar is too elevated, the glucose gloms onto proteins throughout your body, including collagen and elastin, which are

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No wonder one recent study found that high blood sugar adds a year or more to your appearance.

Excess sodium damages the heart and kidneys, and makes you bloated with excess water retention.

So cut back on packaged, processed and restaurant foods.

They’re loaded with salt.

Bonus?

You’ll keep your blood pressure healthier.

While you’re at it, cut back on saturated fat, found in full-fat dairy products, fatty meats, poultry skin and many processed treats.

This gunky stuff may encourage crow’s feet.

The reason?

Could be that it makes skin more vulnerable to damage from the sun’s ultraviolet rays.

But your appearance isn’t all that suffers!

When you eat saturated fats, too much sugar and processed grains you damage your circulatory system and reduce blood flow to your genitals, which causes erectile dysfunction and may contribute to difficulty with orgasm for women. ● Say yes to produce.

Eating more fresh fruits and vegetables can give your skin a rosier glow.

Adding just three extra servings a day for six weeks can make a big difference, especially if you invite yellow — and red-hued produce on to your plate.

(We advocate nine servings a day.) The

health bonus?

You get lots of fiber, which helps with weight loss and digestion, and can help control blood sugar, improve HDL cholesterol and lower lousy LDL cholesterol. You also get phytonutrients that fuel your body’s disease-fighting immune system.

If your LDL level is sky-high, a diet low in saturated fat plus cholesterol-lowering medications may save your life and your sex life. It also can help smooth your skin. ● Smile more. Stress — about job, money, relationships — generally is the No. 1 sexual desire killer.

And dumping stress is a bodywide health booster.

So walk 10,000 steps daily; meditate 10 minutes each evening; and spend time with friends and loved ones. Bonus: A smile can make your face look up to three years younger. ● Lose a few pounds.

Excess weight doesn’t just make your midsection and back view look older.

Sometimes if you’re uncomfortable with your weight you’re reluctant to have fun in bed.

But obesity can also interfere with the biology of sex — lose 10 pounds to stimulate a reawakening of your sex hormones!

Mehmet Oz, MD, is host of The Dr. Oz Show, and Mike Roizen, MD, is chief wellness officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, visit sharecare.com.

I have gallstones. They have come The first I choose a plant called celand gone for years. andine (chelidonium majus). CelanThey act up when I ignore my good dine is a member of the poppy family eating habits and choose to indulge in and does quite well in my garden. cake, bagels and cream cheese and red It works on the stones in two ways. meat.

First, celandine is a bitter A stitch in the right side plant. of my abdomen right under Bitter herbs stimulate my rib cage lets me know the release of bile from the I have taken my self indulliver and gallbladder. This gence too far and a new helps keep everything flowstone has formed. ing. Secondly, celandine I am not alone in this dissolves stones. health challenge.

To accompany celandine, Ten per cent of North I add fumitory (fumaria ofAmericans have gallstones. ficinalis). Fumitory dilates Most are women. By 60, apthe biliary duct. proximately 20 to 40 per cent Big stones can become of women have gallstones. stuck in the biliary duct’s Exactly why some people narrow tubing. A stuck develop gallstones is unstone is dangerous and can ABRAH known. cause pancreatitis: a condiARNESON Several factors attrition in which the pancreatic bute to the development of HERBS FOR LIFE enzymes (commonly called stones: sudden weight loss, digestive enzymes) begin to diet of saturated and trans fats, birth eat the pancreas. For this reason, I adcontrol pills and hormone replace- vise people to refrain from gall bladment therapy, genetics and the usual der flushes that do not dissolve stones culprits of health challenges: lack of and dilate the biliary duct. exercise, obesity (although many slim Next, I like to add licorice (glycyrpeople develop gallstones) and stress. rhiza glabra). Licorice cools, soothes Many people with a high fat diet, low and moistens. Gallstones make my livexercise and on birth control pills do er and stomach feel hot, dry and tight. not suffer with gallstones.

Licorice is an anti-inflammatory herb My doctor suggests surgery. I am ex- effective in calming abdominal inflamtremely reluctant to under go surgery, mation. having once coded on the operating Then I add some lovage (levisticum table. officinale). Headaches often accompaMy mother reminds me that I was ny gallstone attacks. Gallstones create significantly underweight with mul- significant tension in the right side of tiple organ failure during that risky abdomen. surgery.

This tension travels up the back to Today I am strong and healthy the shoulder and lodges itself behind (other than the pesky gallstones) and the right eye. Lovage eases this tension would probably be fine. But I continue better than any other herb I have used. to diligently work away at the stone.

The volatile oils in lovage relax the Here’s what I do. musculature around the gallbladder First I eat good fats daily. and quickly resolve the headache.

This includes coconut oil, olive oil Lastly, I use echinacea (echinacea and salmon oil. angustifolia). Lingering gallstones or Fat encourages the release of bile passing gallstones can irritate the tisfrom the gallbladder. Some suspect sues lining the gallbladder and biliary that a buildup of stagnant bile in the duct. gallbladder is a cause of stones. StudInfection can then settle in and that ies of shown that people on a low-fat is a serious matter. Echinacea helps diet are more likely to develop stones. prevent infection from getting hold Therefore, I eat fat. while the tissues heal.

I walk, go to a yoga class and swim.

Then I drink several cups herbal tea Exercise massages the organs in the made with fennel (foeniculum vulgaris) abdomen. Massage releases tension. and sage (aalvia off). Both these plants Relaxation opens up flow and relax tension in the gallbladder and movement in the abdomen, including encourage the liver to release bile. the gallbladder and the biliary duct While taking these herbs, the gallthrough which the stone must pass. stone symptoms come and go, until I eat plenty of vegetables in soups, eventually they disappear altogether. salads and as a side dish. I eat vegeta- After that, it is up to me to turn down bles with every meal. My No. 1 snack is bagels with cream cheese. an apple.

Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Both grains and meat aggravate the Arneson, a local clinical herbalist. It is gallstones, so I avoid them. intended for information purposes only.

For protein, I eat eggs, legumes and Readers with a specific medical problem nuts. should consult a doctor. For more inFinally, I use plant medicine. formation, visit www.abraherbalist.ca.

To begin, I formulate a tincture of Arneson can be reached www.abraherbs. the following plants: com.

Study with National Ballet School aims to see if dance can help Parkinson’s patients

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS In a large, mirror-walled and sunfilled practice studio at Canada’s National Ballet School, more than a dozen dancers are stretching out their arms as they step across the floor in time to the piano, following the moves of their instructors with earnest concentration.

But this isn’t a class of young ballet students decked out in tights and ballet slippers performing pirouettes and plies, but a group of adults with Parkinson’s disease engaged in a study to determine how dance might alleviate their symptoms and alter the course of

their disease.

Often joined by their care partners, the 15 participants mimic the moves of instructors leading the 75-minute weekly class, first while sitting, then standing, and finally by adding choreographed steps that take them across the floor.

Their final “number” has the dancers as would-be sheriffs moseying into an Old West saloon to shoot off a few rounds in a showdown, their feet moving to the strains of a musical arrangement that includes bars from Oh! Susanna.

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Participants take part in a Parkinson’s Dance class at the National Ballet School in Toronto. Researchers have teamed up with Canada’s National Ballet School to provide classes for people with Parkinson’s to determine if learning and executing dance steps may help relieve symptoms and alter the course of the disease.

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DANCE: Recreational aspect helps They end with a celebration, a hoedown that has the dancers throw up their arms with an exuberant “yeehaw.”

“My wife talked me into it,” 72-yearold Bill Ferguson of Toronto said Tuesday after joining his fellow classmates for a snack and a bit of socializing in a lounge area on the school’s main floor.

Ferguson was diagnosed with Parkinson’s about six years ago, and while he isn’t sure if the dancing is easing his symptoms, he and wife Pat Steer say they both enjoy the recreational aspect of the class and getting together with others who have the disorder.

“Music was always part of my life, in the form of jazz, mostly,” said Ferguson, who also exercises at the gym every other day to try to keep his muscles from stiffening up, a symptom of the Parkinson’s.

“Going to the gym and coming to the ballet program is so different. It’s nice to get a different kind of movement and to enjoy ourselves more,” added Steer, 68, who also takes part in the class as his care partner. “I come for the enjoyment of it because I know we both need the movement and the socializing, and it’s a lot of fun,” she said, adding that dancing proves a moodbooster for both of them.

Rachel Bar, who attended the National Ballet School and now is a graduate student in clinical psychology at Ryerson University, pitched the idea of a dance class for people with Parkinson’s.

Her former school, she said, jumped at the chance to offer dance to people with Parkinson’s, bringing on board the Mark Morris Group’s Dance for PD and Sarah Robichaud, founder of a program called Dancing with Parkinson’s to help design and implement the course.

Anecdotally, at least, dance has been found to temporarily alleviate some symptoms of Parkinson’s, or PD, a progressively debilitating neurological disorder that can cause tremors, rigid muscles, balance problems and slowed or frozen movements.

Bar said there seems to be some-

thing about dancing that goes beyond simply exercising or having physiotherapy.

“If you think about dance, it’s not just exercise. It’s cued by music, so there’s a rhythmic cue. There’s usually a narrative, a story that goes behind, so there’s a linguistic level to it,” she said.

“There’s also an emotional level — the joy of just dancing — and also if you’re getting into a certain character, there’s an emotional value there.

“So really when you’re thinking of dance, you’re not just thinking of exercise, you’re thinking of movement along with some type of dramatic expression.”

Bar has teamed up with Joseph DeSouza, a neuroscientist at York University, to study how learning and executing dance steps over the 12-week course affects participants’ physical symptoms as well as their brains.

Half of the 20 registered class members volunteered to take part in the pilot study, undergoing MRI brain scans about two weeks after the program began in September, which will be repeated when it ends in December.

“We have them visualize their dance while in the scan,” said DeSouza, explaining that researchers will look for both anatomical and functional changes in the brain during the imaging.

“By the time we’re finished the classes in early December, they would have danced this dance at least 10 times if they came to every class,” he said of the “Showdown Hoedown.”

“So we’re going to look at this progression over 10 weeks of what happens in their brain in this auditory-tomovement network that they obviously have an issue with in their movement disorder, and see if it’s comparable to controls (volunteers without Parkinson’s).” Bar said researchers hope the brain scans will provide hard scientific evidence of neurological and physical benefits of dance to people with Parkinson’s, a disease that affects more than 100,000 Canadians and seven million people worldwide.

In the meantime, though, it is gratifying to see the enjoyment that participants are getting from the opportunity to step out on a dance floor.

“I know the benefits of dance,” said Bar. “I know the benefits for the body, the mind, for the spirit.

“The biggest goal and the biggest joy for me in this study is to see that we’re bringing dance to people who can benefit from it in so many ways and the joy that it is bringing to their lives.”

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In Canada, only 105 people had tested positive for West Nile virus infection by Oct. 5, down from more than 400 at the same time last year.

And in the United States, case counts too are about a quarter of what they were in 2012, one of the most active years on record.

All the pieces in the complicated interplay that makes for a bad, a mild or a so-so West Nile virus year have not yet been identified.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 2013

Generals not resting on laurels SENIOR MEN’S AAA HOCKEY TEAM LOOKING TO STAY COMPETITIVE WITH HOPES OF WINNING ANOTHER ALLAN CUP CHAMPIONSHIP

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The rumours of their demise, as it appears, were greatly exaggerated.

Mildly popular off-season scuttlebutt amongst both senior hockey followers and casual observers revolved around the possibility and even likelihood that the Bentley Generals would take a step back in 2013-14.

After all, the Generals accomplished everything they possibly could last spring while hosting and winning the Allan Cup as the top senior AAA team in the country. Maybe, just maybe, several of the older players would retire or hook up with former coach Brian Sutter and the Innisfail Eagles, the management people would be OK with resting on their laurels and the Generals would be a good, but not great, team this season.

Those suggestions were off-base if the Generals’ regular-season opening games against the Fort Saskatchewwan Chiefs and Innisfail Eagles are accurate indicators. The Gens downed the Chiefs 4-3 at Fort Saskatchewan Saturday night and rolled over the visiting Eagles 7-0 Sunday afternoon.

To borrow a line from little Carol Anne in the fright film Poltergeist . . .

They’re back.

“I heard that talk during the summer and it frustrated me,” Generals GM Jeff McInnis said in reference to the unfounded rumours that the club would be satisfied with gradually rebuilding instead of reloading. “Yes, we have seen umpteen Allan Cup hosts fall off the next season, but I had two goals last year — one was to prove my

critics wrong and the other was to do it again this season.

“We feel we’re an organization that doesn’t have to fall off. We didn’t win last year because we were the host team and I’m trying to prove that again.

We’re off to a good start and while I’m not saying we’re going to roll this season, we hope to find a way to be better than last year. That’s been our goal every year.”

To that end, McInnis successfully recruited the likes of forwards Connor Shields and Kyle Bailey, players he chased for two years. Also new to the team are goalie Dennis Bassett and forwards Cody Esposito, Logan Sceviour and Greg Hennessey.

Shields, a holder of two degrees from Ivy League school Dartmouth, is currently the club’s leading scorer after notching three goals and adding an assist during the weekend. The 29-year-old had seasons of 62 (28g,34a) and 47 (16-31) points in the ECHL in 2009-10 and ‘10-11.

“He had two knee blowouts and wasn’t able to play last year,” said McInnis, “so he came out and watched a game or two with me and got to know the level of hockey. He stayed in touch, tried out and made our team this fall and after our first two games he’s certainly enjoying being a hockey player again while still building his career and his life.”

Bailey, a Ponoka native and former WHL captain with the Portland Winterhawks, played five years at the University of New Brunswick and last season scored eight goals and collected 19 points with a team in Austria.

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Photo by ROD INCE

Connor Shields is just one of a few key acquisitions for the Bentley Generals this season. The Generals are hoping to silence their critics by competing for another Allan Cup, one year after hosting and winning the Canadian senior men’s hockey championship.

Red Sox open World Series with rout of Cards RED SOX JUMP ON CARDINALS’ MISTAKES IN DRAMA-FILLED GAME 1

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St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina watches as Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz hits a two-run home run during the seventh inning of Game 1 of baseball’s World Series Wednesday, in Boston.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Red Sox 8 Cardinals 1 BOSTON — Given a bit of help by the umpires and a lot more by the Cardinals, the Boston Red Sox turned this World Series opener into a laugher.

Mike Napoli hit a three-run double right after the umps reversed a blown call, Jon Lester made an early lead stand up and the Red Sox romped past sloppy St. Louis 8-1 Wednesday night for their ninth straight Series win.

David Ortiz was robbed of a grand slam by Carlos Beltran — a catch that sent the star right fielder to a hospital with bruised ribs — but Big Papi later hit a two-run homer following third baseman David Freese’s bad throw.

The Red Sox also capitalized on two errors by shortstop Pete Kozma to extend a Series winning streak that began when they swept St. Louis in 2004.

Boston never trailed at any point in those four games and, thanks to this embarrassing display by the Cardinals, coasted on a rollicking night at Fenway Park.

It got so bad for St. Louis that the sellout crowd literally laughed when pitcher Adam Wainwright and catcher Yadier Molina, who’ve combined

to win six Gold Gloves, let an easy popup drop untouched between them.

Serious-minded St. Louis manager Mike Matheny didn’t find anything funny, especially when the umpires huddled in the first inning and flipped a call by Dana DeMuth at second base.

The six-man crew correctly ruled that Kozma had not caught a soft toss from second baseman Matt Carpenter on a slow grounder by Ortiz. A season before Major League Baseball employs full replay, fans got to see a wrong get righted.

“There’s five of us out here, OK? And all five of us agreed 100 per cent that it wasn’t a catch. Our job is to get it right,” crew chief John Hirschbeck told Matheny on audio played on the Fox telecast.

The normally slick-fielding Cardinals looked sloppy at every turn. Wainwright bounced a pickoff throw, Molina let a pitch skitter off his mitt, centre fielder Shane Robinson bobbled the carom on Napoli’s double and there was a wild pitch.

The Cardinal Way? More like no way.

Game 2 is Thursday night, with 22-year-old rookie sensation Michael Wacha starting for St. Louis against John Lackey. Wacha is 3-0 with an 0.43 ERA this post-season.

Lester blanked the Car-

dinals on five hits over 7 2-3 innings for his third win this post-season.

“He was locating both sides of the plate. His cutter is so tough on righties. He was pretty impressive tonight,” Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia said.

Ryan Dempster gave up Matt Holliday’s leadoff home run in the ninth.

Boston brought the beards and made it a most hairy night for St. Louis. The Cardinals wrecked themselves with just their second three-error game of the season.

The umpires made a mistake, too, but at least they got to fix it in a hurry.

After the control-conscious Wainwright walked leadoff man Jacoby Ellsbury, Pedroia singled him to second with one out.

Ortiz then hit a slow grounder to Carpenter, and it didn’t appear the Cardinals could turn a double play. Hurrying, Kozma let the backhanded flip glance off his glove.

DeMuth instantly called Pedroia out, indicating that Kozma dropped the ball while trying to transfer it to his throwing hand. Boston manager John Farrell quickly popped out of the dugout to argue while Pedroia went to the bench.

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Argonauts to make statement and annihilate Bombers Last week was my first break-even prediction inexperienced backup Thomas DeMarco in Lulay’s weekend after I recklessly picked a long-shot Eskimo absence. DeMarco was a mess against the Riders last victory over the Stamps and then picked a more like- weekend and wilted under the pressure in nasty conly Hamilton victory over Montreal. How I lost sight ditions on the road. of Edmonton’s complete devotion to utter incompeThe saving graces for DeMarco and his Lions are tence and mediocrity this season is a twofold: They are 6-1 at home and they host mystery for the ages. the Eskimos in this game. The downside is First up on the “weekend” slate is tothe Lions’ woeful play of late and the Eskinight’s rematch between the Argonauts mos’ inexplicable ability to play tough footand Blue Bombers. Last week the Argos ball in B.C. Place. Tough call in this game looked very mortal against the Bombers but I will go with a Lion victory because and left Winnipeg with a too-close-forEdmonton is just bad this year. comfort victory against one of the two Next up is a very important East Diviworst teams in the league. sion game between Hamilton and MonWinnipeg actually had an approxitreal with major implications for homemation of a passing game against Tofield advantage in the playoffs. These two ronto and should be very happy with teams met last week in Montreal and the former NFL starter Mike Sims-Walker result was a lopsided Alouette victory that at receiver on their roster. The Bombers changed the dynamics of the playoffs.

JIM also put a lot of heat on Ray in their last The Montreal defence owned the Ti-Cats SUTHERLAND matchup, however I still believe Toronto all afternoon in the game and probably had will make this a statement game and anHamilton quarterback Henry Burris thinknihilate Winnipeg in the process. ing very fondly about how easy life would The Friday night game showcases two be if he was just throwing drunks out of his teams with little on the line beyond the urgent need Calgary pizza bar for a living. to sharpen up for the playoffs (BC) and an urgent Football is all about redemption, so Hank and the need to hold onto a job (Edmonton). This game will boys have a golden opportunity to return the favor at have more of an exhibition-game feel to it rather home against the Alouettes in a rematch. Burris has than a playoff atmosphere, but the Lions need a been fighting the ball for the past few weeks and will tune-up game to get ready for the playoffs. face a severe test against a killer Montreal defence B.C. has slid off the road since the injury to start- geared to blitz often and well. Note that new Moning quarterback Travis Lulay forced the Lions to use treal pivot and former Heisman winner Troy Smith

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owned the ‘Cats in the last game.

Despite these obvious factors in Montreal’s favor, I am still not sold on the Alouettes, so look for a Hamilton victory in this game.

Last but definitely not least this week is the Stamp-Rider game in Calgary. The Stamps probably brought their accountant into the coaching sessions so he could break down the game in terms of playoff revenue. A Stamp win ensures a West Final and a potential playoff game against the Riders where a likely sellout is a huge financial windfall for Calgary’s bottom line.

A loss against the Riders leaves the door open for a potential West semi-final game against the BC Lions where close friends and family show up to watch the playoff game in Calgary.

The financial incentive to win this game is pretty obvious for Calgary and I foresee a Stamp victory that guarantees Rider fans could potentially cure the giant attendance problem for a West Final in McMahon Stadium.

I see Calgary as a complete team in all three phases of the game and I view the Riders as solid in two phases of the game. The glaring Rider weakness is their offence behind the inconsistent play of quarterback Darian Durant. Durant had a terrible game against B.C. and was heavily assisted by a massive number of Lion turnovers in the Rider victory.

Calgary is not nearly as generous in the turnover department and I expect the Stamps to win the game in front of a largely green crowd at McMahon.

Jim Sutherland is a Red Deer freelance writer

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SCOREBOARD Today

● Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● JV volleyball: Hunting Hills at Lindsay Thurber, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● College women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Friday

● Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber tournament. ● JV volleyball: Notre Dame tournament.

College volleyball: Medicine Hat at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Fort McMurray Keyano at RDC, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Elks, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Cranbrook at Sylvan Lake, 8 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Bentley, 8:30 p.m.; Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber tournament. ● JV volleyball: Notre Dame tournament.

Peewee/bantam football: Semifinals. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Airdrie/ Cochrane at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● College volleyball: Medicine Hat at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow. ● College men’s hockey: Fort McMurray Keyano at RDC, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major bantam hockey: Southeast at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge at Sylvan Lake, 2 p.m. ● Major bantam female hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kin City B. ● Bantam AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Ramada, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Lacombe, 4:45 p.m.; Cranbrook at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Stony Plain at Bentley, 7 p.m. ● AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds Grizzlys, 7:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Ponoka, 7:30 p.m.; Coaldale at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at Three Hills, 8 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Stettler, 8:15 p.m.

Sunday

● Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Parkland, 10:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Foothills at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:15 p.m., Kinex. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 2013

Hockey Atom Tier II Red Deer Phone Experts 16 Lacombe Atom B 1 RD: Grayson Borchers 4, Maguire Smyth 3, Mason Leroux 2, Oakley Perves 2, Tyler Dallas 2, Kai Richer, Darin Watkins, Austin Davis. Goal: Jonathon Miller. Lac: Kyle Chrenek.

Phone Experts 6 Stettler 1 RD: Smyth 2, Brochers 2, Perves, Watkins. Goal: Austin Schafer. Stett: Quinn Hansel. Goal: Raden Baskey.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Prince Albert 14 8 5 1 0 50 49 17 Brandon 12 7 5 0 0 43 43 14 Regina 13 7 6 0 0 39 41 14 Saskatoon 14 6 6 0 2 49 54 14 Swift Current 15 6 8 0 1 49 49 13 Moose Jaw 15 5 7 1 2 37 47 13 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Calgary 14 9 3 1 1 53 47 20 Medicine Hat 12 7 3 2 0 47 34 16 Edmonton 14 7 6 0 1 50 42 15 Kootenay 13 6 5 2 0 37 39 14 Red Deer 13 6 7 0 0 37 41 12 Lethbridge 14 2 11 0 1 35 70 5 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Victoria 15 9 6 0 0 40 38 18 Kelowna 11 7 2 0 2 47 30 16 Prince George 14 6 7 0 1 34 46 13 Vancouver 12 3 7 1 1 28 45 8 Kamloops 13 4 9 0 0 32 43 8 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Spokane 13 10 3 0 0 48 30 20 Portland 13 9 3 0 1 67 47 19 Seattle 13 9 3 0 1 53 45 19 Everett 12 8 2 2 0 36 25 18 Tri-City 15 6 8 0 1 37 43 13 Note: a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Tuesday’s results Portland 3 Lethbridge 2 Calgary 2 Kelowna 1 Tri-City 4 Swift Current 1 Wednesday’s results Edmonton 3 Moose Jaw 1 Portland 5 Medicine Hat 3 Prince Albert 3 Regina 1 Vancouver 4 Calgary 3 (OT) Thursday’s game Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s summaries Giants 4, Hitmen 3 (OT) First Period 1. Vancouver, Orban 1 (McEvoy, Baer) 4:18 2. Vancouver, Baer 3 (Morrison) 6:39 3. Vancouver, Franson 1 (Baer) 19:21 Penalties — Brassart Cgy (cross-checking) 1:31, Thomas Cgy (holding) 14:31, Atwal Vcr (holding

stick) 16:48, Zgraggen Cgy (hooking) 19:40.

Second Period 4. Calgary, Virtanen 8, 8:35 Penalties — Zgraggen Cgy(hooking) 10:25, Popoff Vcr (hooking) 14:16.

Third Period 5. Calgary, Peterson 4 (Brooks) 4:57 6. Calgary, Brooks 2 (Padakin, Zgraggen) 15:29 Penalties — McEvoy Vcr (high-sticking) 11:02, McEvoy Vcr (high-sticking) 13:22.

Overtime 7. Vancouver, Traber 3 (Popoff, Atwal) 2:04 Penalties — Brassart Cgy (unsportsmanlike conduct), Thrower Vcr (unsportsmanlike conduct, misconduct) 2:00.

Shots on goal Calgary 6 12 16 1 — 35 Vancouver 12 12 7 2 — 33 Goal — Calgary: Driedger (L, 4-3-0); Vancouver: Lee (W, 3-6-1).

Oil Kings 3, Warriors 1 First Period 1. Moose Jaw, Point 5, 0:35 2. Edmonton, Baddock 1 (Irving, Petryk) 10:02 Penalties — Lazar Edm (instigating, fighting, misconduct), Forsberg MJ (fighting) 3:40, White MJ (boarding) 10:45, Moroz Edm, Bell MJ (fighting) 19:36, Sautner Edm, Forsberg MJ (roughing) 19:36, Bell MJ (checking from behind) 19:36.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Eberle MJ (charging) 3:55, Bauer Edm (hooking) 16:36, Irving Edm, Fioretti MJ (roughing) 17:28.

Third Period 3. Edmonton, Kulda 3 (Kieser) 3:50 4. Edmonton, Kieser 3, 19:46 (en) Penalties — Irving Edm (tripping) 0:56, Kieser Edm (double roughing), Bell MJ (roughing) 9:16, Samuelsson Edm (hooking) 16:23.

Shots on goal Edmonton 13 15 12 — 40 Moose Jaw 9 6 14 — 29 Goal — Edmonton: Jarry (W, 7-5-0); Moose Jaw: Paulic (L, 3-7-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 0-3; Moose Jaw: 0-5.

Winterhawks 5, Tigers 3 First Period 1. Portland, Petan 8 (Leipsic) 13:12 Penalties — Haar Por (tripping) 7:25, Haar Por, Bredo MH (roughing) 14:06, Bjorkstrand Por (hooking) 14:33.

Second Period 2. Medicine Hat, Sanford 9 (Valk, Bredo) 4:26 3. Portland, Leier 6, 5:14 4. Portland, De Leo 8 (Bjorkstrand) 8:16 5. Portland, Iverson 4 (De Leo, Haar) 12:21 6. Medicine Hat, Owre 3 (Penner, Vannelli) 16:37 7. Medicine Hat, Penner 3 (Bredo, Lewington) 18:05 Penalties — Doty MH (roughingunsportsmanlike conduct) 14:23, Bittner Por (roughing) 14:23, Leipsic Por (high-sticking), Sanford MH (roughing) 19:06.

Third Period 8. Portland, Leipsic 6 (Petan) 19:07 (en) Penalties — Kopeck Por (delay of game) 5:08, De Leo Por, Stanton MH (roughing) 10:08, Texeira Por (holding) 12:37.

Shots on goal Portland 12 16 7 — 35 Medicine Hat 15 14 14 — 43 Goal — Portland: Burke (W, 9-2-0); Medicine Hat:

Langhamer (L, 4-2-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Portland: 0-1; Medicine Hat: 0-4.

Raiders 3, Pats 1 First Period 1. Prince Albert, Busenius 3 (Hart, Johnston) 18:26 (pp) Missed penalty shot — Kammerer Reg, 4:14.

Penalties — Winther PA (hooking) 1:39, Maguire Reg (hooking) 12:27, Leverton PA (check to the head) 12:58, Leier Reg (tripping) 17:14.

Second Period 2. Regina, Leier 9 (Kammerer) 12:33 Penalty — Guhle PA (holding) 4:46.

Third Period 3. Prince Albert, Hart 4 (Winther) 4:00 4. Prince Albert, Morrissey 4 (Draisaitl, Lange) 13:08 (pp) Penalties — Andrlik PA(interference) 1:22, Gardiner P.A. (tripping) 5:19, Winther P.A. (check to the head major, game misconduct) 7:15, Maguire Reg (hooking) 11:26, Engel Reg (roughing) 16:05.

Shots on goal Prince Albert 6 4 10 — 20 Regina 18 16 9 — 43 Goal — Prince Albert: McBride (W, 1-1-0); Regina: Engel (L, 0-1-0).

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Toronto 10 7 3 0 14 34 24 Detroit 11 6 4 1 13 25 30 Boston 8 6 2 0 12 25 12 Tampa Bay 8 5 3 0 10 26 21 Montreal 9 5 4 0 10 29 19 Ottawa 9 4 3 2 10 27 25 Florida 10 3 6 1 7 22 35 Buffalo 11 1 9 1 3 15 33 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 9 7 2 0 14 31 20 Carolina 9 4 2 3 11 22 26 N.Y. Islanders 9 3 3 3 9 29 28 Columbus 9 4 5 0 8 23 23 Washington 9 4 5 0 8 26 29 New Jersey 9 1 5 3 5 18 30 N.Y. Rangers 7 2 5 0 4 11 29 Philadelphia 8 1 7 0 2 11 24 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Colorado 9 8 1 0 16 28 12 Chicago 9 6 1 2 14 26 21 St. Louis 7 5 1 1 11 27 19 Nashville 10 5 4 1 11 19 24 Minnesota 10 4 3 3 11 21 22 Winnipeg 10 4 5 1 9 26 30 Dallas 8 3 5 0 6 20 28 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 9 8 0 1 17 40 16 Anaheim 9 7 2 0 14 32 23 Phoenix 10 6 2 2 14 31 28 Vancouver 11 6 4 1 13 32 33 Los Angeles 10 6 4 0 12 26 25 Calgary 9 4 3 2 10 28 32 Edmonton 10 3 6 1 7 30 39 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s Games

Chicago 3, Florida 2, SO Washington 5, Winnipeg 4, SO Toronto 4, Anaheim 2 Vancouver 5, N.Y. Islanders 4, OT Columbus 4, New Jersey 1 Edmonton 4, Montreal 3 Minnesota 2, Nashville 0 Phoenix 4, Calgary 2 Wednesday’s Games Ottawa 6, Detroit 1 Boston 5, Buffalo 2 Thursday’s Games San Jose at Boston, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Anaheim at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Washington at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s summaries Senators 6, Red Wings 1 First Period 1. Ottawa, Gryba 1 (Zibanejad, Condra) 5:46 2. Ottawa, Spezza 6 (Phillips, Karlsson) 10:48 (pp) 3. Ottawa, Ryan 5 (Corvo, Turris) 14:14 (pp) 4. Detroit, Bertuzzi 3 (Zetterberg, Kronwall) 16:14 (pp).

Penalties — Kronwall Det (hooking) 9:22, Quincey Det (tripping) 14:07, Greening Ott (cross-checking) 14:56.

Second Period 5. Ottawa, Spezza 7 (Karlsson, Methot) 5:12 Penalty — Ryan Ott (high-sticking) 0:49.

Third Period 6. Ottawa, Cowen 2 (Smith, Neil) 1:50 7. Ottawa, Ryan 6 (MacArthur, Turris) 6:13 Penalties — Cowen Ott (elbowing) 3:23, Alfredsson Det (tripping) 10:57.

Shots on goal Ottawa 9 12 7 — 28 Detroit 12 13 7 — 32 Goal — Ottawa: Anderson (W, 4-1-2); Detroit: Howard (L, 3-4-1).

Bruins 5, Sabres 2 First Period 1. Boston, Lucic 4 (Iginla, Krejci) 11:01 Penalty — Soderberg Bos (goaltender interference) 12:42.

Second Period 2. Boston, Lucic 5 (Iginla) 0:40 3. Buffalo, Hodgson 3 (Vanek, Foligno) 8:21 (pp) 4. Boston, Hamilton 2 (Marchand, Soderberg) 11:50 5. Buffalo, Zadorov 1 (Ott, Foligno) 15:10 Penalties — Tallinder Buf (high-sticking) 1:58, Porter Buf (boarding) 3:01, Krejci Bos (high-sticking) 4:20, Boston bench (too many men) 7:38.

Third Period 6. Boston, Krug 2 (Smith, Soderberg) 4:17 7. Boston, Krug 3 (Krejci, Lucic) 9:42 (pp) Penalties — Larsson Buf, Kelly Bos (roughing) 2:22, McQuaid Bos (instigating, fighting, misconduct), Scott Buf (charging major, fighting) 5:49.

Shots on goal Boston 7 14 13 — 34 Buffalo 6 8 2 — 16 Goal — Boston: Johnson (W, 1-0-0); Buffalo: Miller (L, 1-7-0).

Football x-Toronto x-Hamilton x-Montreal Winnipeg

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CFL East Division W L T 10 6 0 8 8 0 7 9 0 3 13 0

West Division GP W L T x-Calgary 16 13 3 0 x-Sask.

16 11 5 0 x-B.C. 16 9 7 0 Edmonton 16 3 13 0 x — Clinched playoff berth.

Buffalo PF 451 389 412 333 PF 513 468 435 362

PA 414 437 424 512 PA 362 339 425 450

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WEEK 18 Thursday, Oct. 24 Winnipeg at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 25 Edmonton at B.C., 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 26 Montreal at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Saskatchewan at Calgary, 5 p.m.

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Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 4 3 0 .571 200 Philadelphia 3 4 0 .429 169 Washington 2 4 0 .333 152 N.Y. Giants 1 6 0 .143 126

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Atlanta at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Washington at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.

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Monday, Oct. 28 Seattle at St. Louis, 6:40 p.m.

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Thursday, Oct. 24 Carolina at Tampa Bay, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 27 Cleveland at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Miami at New England, 11 a.m.

Dallas at Detroit, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

San Francisco vs. Jacksonville at London, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m.

Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic goals inspire Baseball Madrid, PSG to Champions League wins

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WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 1: NL: Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 2 Wednesday, Oct. 2: AL: Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 0

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic warmed up for their World Cup playoffs meeting with high-scoring displays for Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Ronaldo’s two goals lifted Madrid to a 2-1 home victory over Juventus in the marquee matchup of the day, although the Portugal star was topped by Sweden’s talismanic forward.

Ibrahimovic struck four goals — including an unstoppable long-range strike — as PSG outclassed Anderlecht 5-0 in Brussels.

Defending champion Bayern Munich routed Viktoria Plzen 5-0, with Franck Ribery scoring twice, and Bayer Leverkusen won 4-0 against Shakhtar Donetsk. Madrid, PSG and Bayern all lead their groups with three straight wins, and Manchester United heads Leverkusen by a point after edging Real Sociedad 1-0 Manchester City also won, 2-1 at CSKA Moscow, though the main talking point was racist abuse targeted by Russian fans at City’s black players and reported by City’s Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure.

The incident happened during a week-long UEFA campaign to highlight its fight against racism and CSKA faces a partial stadium closure for a future home match.

Galatasaray beat Copenhagen 3-1, with Wesley Sneijder and Dider Drogba adding to Wednesday’s star-studded list of scorers, and Benfica levelled late in a 1-1 draw with Olympiakos.

Three weeks ahead of their scheduled firstleg clash in the Portugal vs. Sweden playoff, Ronaldo now leads Ibrahimovic 7-6 atop the Champions League scoring table after just three matches.

Ronaldo took only four minutes to strike against Juventus, rounding goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon to score from a tight angle after taking a clever reverse pass from Angel Di Maria.

Juventus was level in the 22nd when Spanish forward Fernando Llorente pounced on the loose ball after Iker Casillas dived low to push out Paul Pogba’s far-post header.

Ronaldo got the winning goal in the 29th from the penalty spot after Giorgio Chiellini

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LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7) American League Boston 4, Detroit 2 Saturday, Oct. 12: Detroit 1, Boston 0 Sunday, Oct. 13: Boston 6, Detroit 5 Tuesday, Oct. 15: Boston 1, Detroit 0 Wednesday, Oct. 16: Detroit 7, Boston 3 Thursday, Oct. 17: Boston 4, Detroit 3 Saturday, Oct. 19: Boston 5, Detroit 2

wrestled Sergi Ramos to the ground as a freekick cross came in.

DIVISION SERIES Chiellini was red-carded in the 48th when (Best-of-5) League he raced alongside Ronaldo and caught the American Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Boston 12, Tampa Bay 2 Madrid forward’s face with a raised arm.

National League Oct. 5: Boston 7, Tampa Bay 4 Ibrahimovic fell one goal short of Lionel Saturday, St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2 Monday, Oct. 7: Tampa Bay 5, Boston 4 Messi’s Champions League record of five in a Tuesday, Oct. 8: Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Friday, Oct. 11: St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 2, 13 innings match, yet was no less memorable.

Saturday, Oct. 12: St. Louis 1, Los Angeles 0 Detroit 3, Oakland 2 A 17th minute tap-in was followed by a non- Friday, Oct. 4: Detroit 3, Oakland 2 Monday, Oct. 14: Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 0 Tuesday, Oct. 15: St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2 Saturday, Oct. 5: Oakland 1, Detroit 0 chalant back-heel in the 22nd, a long-range Monday, Oct. 7: Oakland 6, Detroit 3 Wednesday, Oct. 16: Los Angeles 6, St. Louis 4 screamer in the 36th and a dipping volley in Tuesday, Oct. 8: Detroit 8, Oakland 6 Friday, Oct. 18: St. Louis 9, Los Angeles 0 Thursday, Oct. 10: Detroit 3, Oakland 0 the 62nd.

WORLD SERIES The French champion’s fourth was scored National League (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 2 Boston 1, St. Louis 0

by Uruguay star Edinson Cavani who, not for Thursday, Oct. 3: St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 1 Wednesday, Oct. 23: Boston 8, St. Louis 1 the first time this season, was somewhat left in Friday, Oct. 4: Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 1 Thursday, Oct. 24: St. Louis (Wacha 4-1) at Boston (Lackey 10-13), 6:07 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 6: Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 3 the shadows.

Monday, Oct. 7: St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1 Saturday, Oct. 26: Boston (Buchholz 12-1 or Peavy Bayern outgunned Czech champion Plzen, as Wednesday Oct. 9: St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 1 12-5) at St. Louis (Kelly 10-5), 6:07 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 27: Boston (Peavy 12-5 or Buchholz expected, with Ribery opening the scoring from Angeles 3, Atlanta 1 12-1) at St. Louis (Lynn 15-10), 6:15 p.m. the penalty spot. David Alaba made it 2-0 at the Los Thursday, Oct. 3: Los Angeles 6, Atlanta 1 x-Monday, Oct. 28: Boston at St. Louis, 6:07 p.m. x-Wednesday, Oct. 30: St. Louis at Boston, 6:07 break, and a second-half stroll was completed Friday, Oct. 4: Atlanta 4, Los Angeles 3 Oct. 6: Los Angeles 13, Atlanta 6 p.m.

by Ribery, Bastian Schweinsteiger and substi- Sunday, Monday, Oct. 7: Los Angeles 4, Atlanta 3 x-Thursday, Oct. 31: St. Louis at Boston, 6:07 p.m. tute Mario Goetze.

Man City was frustrated soon after arriving in Moscow by the poor condition of the greenpainted pitch, and left angered by home fans’ treatment of its black players.

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Xpress: Katie Keene, Sandra Tapias 8. Bank: Sergio Aguero eased the visitors’ mood with Lindsey Watt 13.

Shooting Stars 49 Big Ballers: 43 two goals in the first half, carrying City clear of POG: Xpress: Keene.

Stars: Ilana Zackowski 17 Ballers: Jill Richardson CSKA into second place behind Bayern.

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Argos’ Kackert gains perspective from Kipling MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — It’s been a frustrating season for Chad Kackert.

Injuries have forced the speedy running back to miss nine of Toronto’s 16 games this year. After sitting out two weeks with a shoulder ailment, Kackert returns Thursday night when the Argonauts (10-6) face the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (3-13) at Rogers Centre.

Kackert has been plagued by knee and shoulder (twice) injuries as well as a concussion this season.

But heeding some friendly advice has helped the 2012 Grey Cup MVP put his struggles into proper perspective.

“It’s been frustrating but it’s been a learning experience,” Kackert said. “When you’re not playing you have too much time to think and thankfully I got some good advice from some friends back home and have been able to find some peace and make the most out of the circumstance.”

Kackert drew solace from English writer Rudyard Kipling’s poem If, an inspirational sonnet about character and integrity and remaining true to one’s self. In fact, two lines from Kipling’s composition — “If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same,” — are featured above the players’ entrance to Centre Court at Wimbledon.

“It kind of talks about stuff you hear about every day but the way he words it is unique,” Kackert said. “(The poem offers) perspective and that if I let anything get to my character, then I’ve lost.

“I kind of had to take that in and understand that’s the one thing I do have that can’t be taken away.”

Injuries have taken Kackert’s big-play potential

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GENERALS: Very excited “He reminds me a lot of (Gens veteran) Curtis Austring, just a very straight shooter . . . very honest and upbeat,” McInnis said of Bailey. “He’s a very good leader, to add him to the crew of leaders we already have, like (returning captain) Sean Robertson, is a big plus.”

Esposito came over from the Sylvan Lake Admirals, who ceased operations during the summer. The former Red Deer Rebel was a physical force and top scorer with the Admirals the past two seasons and sniped a pair of goals during the weekend.

“I wondered if his scoring touch in Sylvan was a product of him maybe being the guy and getting all sorts of ice time and opportunity,” said McInnis.

“But his production hasn’t dropped off with us. I’m impressed with his release and he scored a goal the other day that not all guys could score. We’ve had 30- and 40-goal scorers from leagues he didn’t play in that couldn’t do that any better than Cody. So credit to him. He’s been a later bloomer as far as his offence is concerned.”

Sceviour played five seasons of junior A hockey in Alberta and Saskatchewan and joined the Generals after a failed tryout with an ECHL team, while Bassett, 37 years of age and a friend of Generals new head coach Ryan Tobler, last played pro in 2001-02 but has maintained his physical conditioning over the years.

“He hasn’t missed a practice,” said McInnis, who admitted that Bassett has already surpassed his expectations of the goaltender. “I’m impressed with his personality and his commitment.”

Hennessey, a former junior A player at Bonnyville who last season was at Concordia College in Edmonton, has yet to make his Generals regular-season debut due to injury. Defenceman Matt Kinch didn’t play on the weekend, either, but has committed to returning to the Gens, while forwards Dustin Moore and Eric Schneider are affiliated players.

Moore, who lives in Lethbridge, will play senior hockey with the Big Valley Oil Kings this season and Schneider will skate with the Drayton Valley Wildcats. Both will be available to Bentley for senior AAA provincial and inter-provincial play.

“Last year was quite an enjoyable season from all perspectives,” said McInnis. “It was quite re-invigorating, in fact, and I think this year we’re bigger, stronger, faster and younger.”

The Generals lost goaltender Dan Bakala and forward Jeremy Colliton to pro teams in the United Kingdom and Sweden, while forward Travis Brigley retired and defenceman Joe Vandermeer and forwards Travis Dunstall and Tyler Haarstad left for the Innisfail Eagles.

“But we have 10 forwards, five defencemen and a goaltender (Travis Yonkman) back from last year,” said McInnis. “We didn’t have a lot of holes to fill and the players we did lose we were able to replace with quality guys.

“We’re very proud with the people we’ve added and feel very good about the players who are returning. There’s a good energy and we’re very excited and looking forward to the season.”

The Generals will host the expansion Okotoks Drillers Friday at 8:30 p.m. and will entertain the Stony Plain Eagles Saturday at 7 p.m. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

SERIES: Got it right “I was just trying to slide in there to break up two.

I saw it wasn’t on the transfer,” Pedroia said.

“They call you out, you have to run off. There’s a lot of great umpires out there. They put their heads together and got it right and that’s the most important thing.”

Farrell argued with every umpire he could and must’ve made a persuasive case. As the fans hollered louder and louder as they studied TV replays, all the umpires gathered on the dirt near shortstop and conferred and decided there was no catch at all.

“It was pretty obvious it wasn’t on the transfer.

The umpires got the right call and we got some momentum,” Ortiz said.

Pedroia came bounding from the dugout and suddenly, the bases were loaded in the first. Napoli unloaded them with a double that rolled to the Green Monster in left-centre.

Napoli, with maybe the bushiest beard of all, certainly picked up where he left off the last time he saw the Cardinals in October. In the 2011 Series, he hit .350 with two home runs and 10 RBIs as Texas lost in seven games to St. Louis.

The Red Sox added to their 3-0 lead with two more runs in the second. A fielding error by Kozma set up Pedroia’s RBI single.

Ortiz, who hit a tying grand slam at Fenway in the AL championship series win over Detroit, sent a long drive to right-centre. Beltran, playing in his first World Series, braced himself with one hand on the low wall in front of the bullpen and reached over with his glove to make the catch.

“At least I got an RBI and we were up four and got the momentum,” Ortiz said.

“We just have to make sure we’re fighting for our goal more than they’re fighting for theirs.

“At this point it might be easy to say we share a common goal where they might be fighting for their own jobs.”

Toronto has a CFL-best 7-2 road record but is just 3-4 at Rogers Centre. However, Milanovich said the Argos’ formula for success is a simple one, regardless of where they play.

“The things we like to think we’ve built our foundation on are protecting the football, winning the field-position battle on special teams and winning the penalty battle,” he said. “When we’ve done that, whether we’re at home or on the road we’ve won games.

“We’re just looking for some more consistency from all three phases.”

Winnipeg has a league-worst 1-7 road record but Milanovich isn’t taking the Bombers for granted.

“These guys are professional football players, they’re paid to do a job,” he said. “I expect they’ll play hard and play well, I don’t know we can look at it any other way. “(When) you’ve got nothing to lose you can kind of come out and just let it all hang out and those kinds of teams can be very dangerous. We’re going to have to be at our best, there’s no doubt about it.”

NOTES — Ray is a man with simple needs. He turned 34 on Wednesday and when asked what gifts he received, Ray said he got a set of headphones and ice cream cake . . . Argos slotback Andre Durie leads the CFL with 685 yards after catch. That’s the most ever since the league began compiling the stat in 2010 . . . Toronto safety Matt Black returns to the starting lineup Thursday night . . . Argos receiver Chad Owens has regained the lead in CFL all-purpose yards despite missing four games with a rib injury. Owens is attempting to win the combined yards crown for a record fourth straight year. Owens and Winnipeg’s Dave Raimey (1966-’68) are the only players to have won it three consecutive years.

Flames decide to keep Monahan for rest of season

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Sean Monahan will remain with the Calgary Flames this season instead of being returned to his junior club.

“We feel good about the decision we’ve made,” general manager Jay Feaster said in making the announcement. “We believe his development is best served with us.”

A junior-eligible player is allowed to play up to nine games without his NHL team burning a year of his entry-level contract.

Monahan had six goals and nine points in his first nine games.

Calgary selected Monahan sixth overall in June’s draft after he played three seasons with the OHL’s Ottawa 67’s.

The centre has been given a heavy workload at even strength and on the power play by Flames

coach Bob Hartley.

“I think he’s a unique individual ... in his determination,” Feaster said.

“He’s a 19-year-old going on 29 years old.”

The Flames have not indicated whether Monahan would be released to play for Team Canada at the 2014 world junior championship, and said that decision would be made closer to the tournament.

Eller regrets poor choice of words after calling Oilers junior team

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BROSSARD, Que. — Montreal Canadiens forward Lars Eller admitted he used a “poor choice of words” when he characterized the Edmonton Oilers as a junior team.

Eller spoke to reporters at Montreal’s practice facility Wednesday a day after the Canadiens were beaten 4-3 at home by the Oilers.

Oilers coach Dallas Eakins thanked Eller after the game for motivating his players, saying he used excerpts from an interview where Eller said Edmonton sometimes “played like a junior team” that was “all over the place.”

Garbutt gets five for hit on Penner

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THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — The NHL has suspended Dallas Stars forward Ryan Garbutt five games for charging Anaheim forward Dustin Penner.

The incident occurred at 6:28 of the first period in Anaheim’s 6-3 home win over Dallas on Sunday. Garbutt left the penalty box and skated at Penner before leaving his skates to deliver a check.

He hit Penner in the head, and the Anaheim forward had to leave the game.

Penner didn’t travel with the team for a road game in Toronto on Tuesday.

No penalty was called on the play.

Garbutt will forfeit US$14,743.60 in salary.

He is eligible to return for the Stars’ Nov. 3 game in Ottawa.

“When you have a player like Lars Eller running his mouth before the game, it makes for great banter in our dressing room and great motivation,” Eakins said after Tuesday’s game. “That is a total hockey god thing. I’m sure that young man has learned his lesson, and I highly doubt you’ll see anything like that out of his mouth again.”

While Eller regretted the comment, he said it was taken out of context from a longer piece in which he also said some positive things about Edmonton.

Asked what he though of Eakins’ comments, Eller said he hadn’t heard them.

“It wasn’t my intention to be disrespectful against him or anybody else,” he added. “You win some, you lose some, you learn from it.”

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SENATORS 6 RED WINGS 1 DETROIT — Jason Spezza and Bobby Ryan scored two goals apiece, and the Ottawa Senators routed Daniel Alfredsson and the Detroit Red Wings 6-1 on Wednesday night.

Alfredsson was held without a point by his former team. The Swedish winger spent 17 seasons with the Senators before signing a one-year deal with the Red Wings in the off-season.

Eric Gryba and Jared Cowen also scored for the Senators, who had three goals on eight shots against Jimmy Howard before the Detroit goalie was taken out in the first period.

Craig Anderson made 31 saves for Ottawa.

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Todd Bertuzzi scored for the Red Wings.

Spezza has seven goals on the season, trailing only Washington’s Alex Ovechkin, who leads the NHL with nine. Ryan has scored six.

Alfredsson is Ottawa’s career leader in games (1,178), goals (426), assists (682) and points (1,108), but he had a quiet game Wednesday, along with the rest of the Red Wings. Alfredsson had two shots and was called for a third-period tripping minor.

BRUINS 5, SABRES 2 BUFFALO, N.Y. — Milan Lucic had two goals and an assist, and Torey Krug also scored twice to help Boston beat reeling Buffalo.

Dougie Hamilton also scored for Boston. The Bruins are 6-2 overall and have won their first four road games for the first time since 2010.

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By the time Krug netted the second of his two third-period goals, the fans launched into what have become regular “Fire Darcy! Fire Darcy!” chants in reference to Sabres general manager Darcy Regier.

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from Toronto’s offence for much of this season. The five-foot-eight, 206-pound Kackert has managed just 60 carries but is averaging a solid 6.7 yards per attempt.

Kackert rushed for 112 yards and a TD on 10 carries in Toronto’s season-opening 39-34 win over Hamilton on June 28. He ran for a season-high 155 yards and two touchdowns on 13 carries in a 34-22 victory over Edmonton on Sept 28.

“He’s got that explosiveness,” Argos quarterback Ricky Ray said of Kackert. “We’ve seen it this year and last where he gets a crease and he’s gone for a touchdown.

“That’s a big game-changer. It changes momentum, it changes field position, it gets you going offensively. Just to have that big-play ability back in the lineup is going to be big for us.”

Argos head coach Scott Milanovich agrees.

“Kack is fast . . . and when he’s playing well he’s very decisive, he hits the hole and then he goes,” Milanovich said. “That’s what we’re looking for.

“We don’t want to see him out there dancing and being indecisive. We want him to get through that hole before they can close it and get north and south and run away from people.”

Kackert’s returns at a good time for Toronto, which can clinch first in the East — and home field for the division final — with a win. An Argos victory would give them top spot for the first time since 2007 and just the third time since 1997.

“I did,” Milanovich said when asked if he told his players what was on the line Thursday night. “But they’re well aware of what the reward is.”

Toronto eliminated Winnipeg from playoff contention with last weekend’s 26-20 road victory.

Kackert and the Argos know the importance of finishing strong. Toronto was 6-12 in 2011 but 3-1 over its final four regular-season games, momentum Kackert said the club carried into last season when it captured the 100th Grey Cup. “We’ve been in their shoes before,” Kackert said.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Before facing last season’s Western Conference finalist Memphis Grizzlies in one of the final tune-ups for this season, Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey said he was hoping for a tight contest.

He wanted to see his starters forced to play big minutes late in a close game in order to get them ready for next week’s NBA season opener.

It didn’t quite work out that way.

The Raptors took charge of the game late in the first quarter and quickly turned it into a laugher, pounding the Grizzlies 108-72 before a crowd of 14,421 at Air Canada Centre.

Still, Casey was impressed with how his team rebounded the ball, especially at their own end of the court, against one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the game.

“They did an excellent job and they responded,” Casey said. “I thought our guys met the challenge defensively.

This has to be our personality night in, night out.

“As meaningless as these games are, you can still have a chance to work on some things.”

Toronto surrendered just seven offensive rebounds to the Grizzlies while grabbing 12 at the Memphis end of the court. Overall, the Raptors held a 54-36 edge in rebounds.

Thirteen different Toronto players scored points, five of them in double figures, as the Raptors led by as many as 39 points on the way to improving to 6-1 in the pre-season, which ends in Milwaukee Friday.

“Tonight was a great test for us,” said Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan, who led the way with 21 points. “We wanted to come in and hold our ground and that’s what we did.”

With the Raptors poised to open the season at home against the Boston Celtics next Wednesday, DeRozan said

his confidence is “as high as it’s ever been, by far.

“I just don’t feel like anybody can guard me. I don’t really worry about anything on the offensive end. I know I can score when I want to and I know I can create whenever I want to or get to the free-throw line.”

Rudy Gay added 15 points while Austin Daye had 14 points off the bench as the Raptors shot 46 per cent from the field, including an impressive 53 per cent from three-point range.

The Grizzlies, meanwhile, were brutal at both ends of the court. They shot just 35 per cent from the field, including only 24 per cent from the beyond the arc.

Ed Davis and Jon Leuer each had 11 points to lead the Grizzlies.

“We are getting closer and closer to the season so the quicker we can get into game shape the better,” said Gay, who came to the Raptors from Memphis in a trade last year. “We really want to get a jump start this season so I think it’s good we got a lot of minutes.”

The Raptors did come out of the evening with some health concerns.

Starting guard Kyle Lowry left the game in the second half with an injured left ring finger and did not return. Starting centre Jonas Valanciunas took an elbow from Zach Randolph and required stitches to his chin while Tyler Hansbrough injured his right thumb and Julyan Stone got a knee to his thigh.

“It wouldn’t be pre-season if we didn’t have some drama,” Casey quipped.

The biggest concern is clearly Lowry, who Casey said “popped out” his finger when reaching for a loose ball.

But the coach noted the injury, which will be re-evaluated Thursday, is to his non-shooting hand.

Despite the lopsided victory, it was far from a pretty effort for the Raptors, who committed 17 turnovers. The Grizzlies had 19 turnovers on the night.

Jaguars the closest thing to London-based NFL team NFL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — The Jacksonville Jaguars are the closest thing the NFL will have to a Londonbased team for the next four years. And that’s just fine, for the moment.

Jacksonville is playing the first of four “home” games at Wembley Stadium over four seasons on Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers.

The Jaguars are often talked up as a potential London franchise, but the organization is treating this like a business trip abroad.

Jaguars owner Shahid Khan said the team’s commitment to London does not go beyond the current deal.

“I think it’s way too early to think about a team being based over here — if you look at it, it’s the first year with two games,” Khan was quoted as saying by Sky Sports. “Next year there’ll be three games here, so it’s a long time to go, you’ve got to decide if it makes sense, and we haven’t got all the facts.”

The NFL has vied to develop interest in its product in Europe before — most notably through the World League and NFL Europe — but that experiment did not work.

It has instead looked to its International Series as a means to drum

up interest, with London being a regular site for NFL games since 2007.

This season is the first year that two games will take place at Wembley: The Minnesota Vikings beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 34-27 in Week 4.

Next year, the league has scheduled three games, with the Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons and Oakland Raiders all set to play as “home” teams.

Despite their 0-7 record, the Jaguars have been a good draw at their Everbank Field with just under 60,000 spectators attending on average through three games this season.

So while more than 84,000 fans are expected to fill Wembley Stadium on Sunday, the novelty of watching American football courtesy of the Jaguars may lose momentum if the team does not improve. Jacksonville heads into the game against the 49ers (5-2), a Super Bowl finalist last season, having been outscored 89-11 in those three home defeats.

While players are lapping up the overseas experience, many are weary about a full-time franchise across the Atlantic Ocean, with questions over travel, living, and income taxes.

“It would be a brutal schedule for a team that has to be playing on the other side of the world all year because the travel is definitely going to tax the players and the staff on any team. Then

you’re talking about people staying away from their families for weeks away at a time, so it’s a difficult situation,” Jaguars guard Uche Nwaneri said Wednesday from the team’s training base outside London.

“There’s a lot of different variables that players are going to consider when it comes to having to live in London.

Players are going to have some concerns about that. It would be tough to find solutions for everything, but the NFL always seems to find a way so we will see.”

Jaguars quarterback Chad Henne can see this experience benefiting the team going forward.

“Everybody will be accustomed to the travel and what day we’ll leave, where we’re staying and what we actually have out here for the future,” Henne said. “It will definitely be beneficial for our team being out here this year and continuing the next four years.”

Khan does have a venue for the Jaguars in London. He owns the English Premier League club Fulham, which plays in South London at the near-26,000 capacity Craven Cottage.

Khan said he had entertained the thought of playing one game at Craven Cottage.

“Anything is possible,” Khan was quoted as saying. “This is like a high school game setting, so personal, so up close, it might be kind of fun.”

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Memphis Grizzlies Quincy Pondexter (20) runs into stiff defence from Toronto Raptors DeMar DeRozan (10) and Rudy Gay (22) during first half pre-season NBA action in Toronto on Wednesday.

HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL All three Red Deer teams will be involved in both the boys’ and girls’ divisions of the 40th annual Lindsay Thurber senior volleyball tournament this weekend.

All the pools are the same in both divisions. The host Raiders, Dr. E.P. Scarlett of Calgary and Lethbridge Catholic Central are in pool A with Notre Dame, Foothills from Okotoks and W.P. Wagner of Edmonton in Pool B and Hunting Hills, Bev Facey of Sherwood Park and Sir. Winston Churchill of Calgary in Pool C. Teams play in their pools Friday

before being reseeded for the second round Saturday. The girls’ quarter-finals go at 3:15 p.m. Saturday with the boys at 4:30 p.m. Both semifinals are set for 5:45 p.m. with the finals at 7 p.m.

Four of the top 10 teams in the province are in the boys’ division, including No. 1 ranked LTCHS. Bev Facey is ranked fifth, Notre Dame ninth and Scarlett 10th. Foothills is an honourable mention. On the girls’ side, Sir Winston Churchill comes in ranked fourth, and LTCHS seventh with both Bev Facey and Scarlett receiving honourable mentions.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Top-ranked Serena Williams overcame Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 6-4 for her second win in two matches at the WTA Championships on Wednesday and all but sealed a spot in the semifinals.

Jelena Jankovic topped secondranked Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 6-3 in her first match at the tournament and fourth-seeded Li Na opened her campaign with a 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory over Sara Errani.

Williams cruised in the first set but ran into some trouble in the second against a player she had never lost to in seven previous matches.

“She definitely played pretty well.

But, you know, I can always look to improve on some things. My serve wasn’t as good today as it was yesterday, but you can’t expect it to be great every day,” Williams said.

Radwanska wasted three break points at the start of the set and dropped her serve in the fourth game.

She broke right back and levelled at 3-3, but Williams pounced on her serve again in the final game, winning the match with a backhand winner.

Radwanska has won just one set

of 17 she has played against Williams overall - in the 2012 Wimledon final.

She has now dropped both round-robin matches in Istanbul, where she also lost to Williams in last year’s semifinals. Williams is bidding for her fourth title in the event.

Errani also lost her opening group match on Tuesday to Azarenka and now looks all but certain to be eliminated.

Jankovic, who was ranked No. 1 in 2008 and is back in the top 10 for the first time since 2011, outplayed Azeranka to snap a four-match losing streak against a fellow former No. 1.

“Vika is a great champion, and I knew it was going to be a tough match.

We played against each other in Cincinnati and I lost in three sets, and I think the difference today was that I was serving much better,” Jankovic said.

Williams, 32, is enjoying the finest season in her career, having already won 10 titles. She added the French Open and U.S. Open titles to bring her Grand Slam record to 17 championships and is 75-4 for the year.

Williams, making her eighth appearance in the event, is looking to become the first player to successfully defend the title since Justine Henin in 2007.

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FRONT TOPS 45TH TOPS Chapter AB617 is celebrating its 45th anniversary with an open house today in Red Deer.

The celebration will take place at 7 p.m. at the Elks Club, 6315 Horn St. Past members are encouraged to attend as well as those interested in finding out more about Take Pounds Off Sensibly. There will be prizes, snacks and information on how to join the non-profit weight support group. For more information, call Jo-Anne at 403-347-3939.

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KOREAN WAR VETERAN DVD We Must Never Forget, a newly produced Korean War veteran tribute DVD, is available to museums, libraries or schools that want students to learn more about this largely misunderstood war. The DVD, made by Veteran Voices of Canada with interviews with veterans who served in Korea, is intended to show that the conflict was indeed a war that produced many casualties and losses of life “without being too graphic.” Copies can be requested by emailing info@vetvoicecan.org.

JUMP ROPE FOR HEART The Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Red Deer Rebels are teaming up for the Jump Rope for Heart program at Red Deer schools. Schools that register will have the opportunity to have a Red Deer Rebel attend their kickoff assembly.

Availability is limited.

Jump Rope for Heart encourages kids to get active by skipping rope and collect pledges for heart disease and stroke research. To register, contact Karen Jackman at the local Heart and Stroke area office at 403-3424724 or at kjackman@hsf. ab.ca.

CORRECTION A photo caption in Tuesday’s Advocate had the new mayor of Sylvan Lake’s first name incorrect.

It should have read Sean McIntyre.

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Rachel Ashley, a country/pop artist whose music sends an antibullying message, selects some volunteers from the students at Westpark Middle School to help her demonstrate the damage that can be caused by bullying. Westpark was the first stop for Ashley on her Western Canadian No Time For That Anti-Bullying Tour, and the first school she visited in Red Deer. The event was sponsored by the Canadian Red Cross.

Activist remembered for inspiration

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A committed, passionate and dedicated Red Deer community and political activist, Yvonne Johnson, has died.

The longtime Conservative and Action Bus advocate died early Wednesday morning in hospital at the age of 76.

She had two sons. One of them, Grant Johnson, said she was an inspiration both in his pursuit of political life and at home.

“She was extremely dedicated to the community and worked very Yvonne Johnson hard to provide for the family tirelessly,” said Grant.

“I would remember as a very young boy hearing the adding machine as she would be performing her duties as an accountant for a law firm, but also taking on work from other law firms.”

Grant, like his mother, was active with both the provincial Progressive Conservative and federal Conservative parties.

“Mother’s inspiration allowed me to

YVONNE JOHNSON make my own direction and with that it broadened me individually to even serve internationally in spreading democracy.”

Yvonne grew up in the Drumheller Valley and moved to Red Deer in 1954, where she completed high school.

From 1977 to 1985 she operated a store, the Wardrobe, first by herself when it was known as Yvonne’s House of Fashion and then with partners Phyllis Anderson and Stephanie Lawrence.

She was one of the early supporters in Alberta of the PCs, starting in 1966, five years before they dethroned the Social Credit Party.

She was elected as president of the Red Deer provincial PC constituency association in 1974, becoming the first woman to earn that role.

She had previously held the same role with the federal constituency association.

In 1985, she suffered a brain aneurysm that almost killed her. An operation two months later left her paralysed on the right side of her body and confined to a wheelchair.

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Two physician assistants will work at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre as part of a $3.8-million pilot project to allow doctors to spend more time with patients.

A total of 10 physician assistants (PAs) will be in high needs locations around the province to perform more routine duties such as taking a patient’s history and ordering lab tests.

The first PA started in Milk River on Aug. 29.

Other locations scheduled to receive PAs include Bassano, Beaverlodge, Edmonton, Calgary and Red Deer.

“There are four in place right now and the recruitment is (underway) for the remaining six, of which two are going to Red Deer. We hope to have them in place in the next month or so,” said Dr. Verna Yiu, vice-president and chief medical officer of quality and medical affairs with AHS. She said AHS Central Zone asked to participate in the pilot and the zone will decide where its PAs will be assigned to work. Likely a group of doctors will supervise them.

PAs will work about 12 to 18 months and an assessment of the pilot will be done to see if PAs are a good fit for Alberta’s health-care system, she said.

“I think what it will do is allow for probably care of more patients so that you get better flow and overall care of the patients,” Yiu said.

Dr. Peter Bouch, chairman of Red Deer Primary Care Network, said physician assistants could work well in a hospital setting or speciality clinic. A PA could take patient histories, perform some part of the physical exam, and assist patients navigating the health care system.

They could also give advice to people on lifestyle and diet, he said.

“A lot of time physicians don’t have enough time to spend with patients to discuss these things and that role could definitely be filled by a physician assistant for sure,” Bouch said.

Physician assistants have been used elsewhere to alleviate the load of the doctor and if properly used, they could be a great addition to the health care team, he said.

Natalie St-Pierre, spokesperson with the Canadian Association of Physician Assistants, said a physician assistant is like a resident that never leaves.

“The doctor is still responsible for his patient population, however the physician assistant can come in and help and provide service and care and take histories and come up with treatment plans, diagnose, prescribe — all of the above,” St-Pierre said.

Undergraduates must complete a 24-month program, currently available in Ontario and Manitoba, to become physician assistants.

They can earn between $80,000 to $100,000 to start.

“The PA scope of practice would mirror that of their supervising physician.

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Renovation starts at Medicine River Wildlife Centre $2.5-MILLION PROJECT EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED IN TIME FOR THE CENTRE’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2014

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF The sound of hammering is the common noise at the Medicine River Wildlife Centre near Spruce View these days.

The educational centre, which doubles as a hospital for injured or orphaned wild animals, is in the midst of a major renovation project and in need of more funding to see the necessary upgrades carried out.

“At this moment we’re looking for about $100,000 that we’re short of to begin the concrete work,” Carol Kelly, the centre’s executive director, said on Wednesday.

Kelly wants to have the concrete poured and walls up before winter weather comes.

The contractor told her she has until the end of November to make it happen.

The current 4,500-square-foot centre will be remodelled into a larger, 12,000-squarefoot structure worth an estimated $2.5 million sometime over the next year — just in time for the centre’s 30th anniversary in 2014, Kelly said.

The old building, built in 1991, is being stripped by volunteers this month to make way for an additional wing in the hospital part as well as a bigger public learning area with room for a cafe and indoor living wetland space.

“Everything we’re putting in will connect people with the environment. ... It’s a real vision and this will be a incredibly unique place,” Kelly said.

“The current centre was built on a shoestring using home grade materials. We had so much more usage in this building — the demand for something like this was higher

than we ever imagined so the building wore out.”

The centre will now be built with industrial materials that are as “green” as possible, Kelly said, to reduce the environmental footprint.

“We’ll also be doing things like having an air exchange system for safety and smell, composting toilets and solar hot water heating.”

The hospital will be upgraded with new equipment and become a full-fledged teaching hospital.

“We have international students who come learn with us.

“This will be an even better facility for them with more efficiency and better layout of rooms,” Kelly said.

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BRIEFS Internet device contracts renewed Parkland Regional Library, headquartered in Lacombe, has renewed device contracts for its 50 public libraries, guaranteeing high-speed Internet service for the next four years.

The renewed contract will also allow staff to continue to perform crucial software updates and definitions.

The library board voted in September to have all Fortigate Customer Edge Devices (CEDs) renewed until Jan. 5, 2017.

CEDs act as a gateway to the Alberta SuperNet for Parkland members.

The network provides all internal and external services. This will ensure the maintenance and support of highspeed Internet services as well as switching, routing and firewalling.

According to the library, firewalling is one of the most important aspects of tech services as it takes care of antimalware scanning/blocking, application control for peer-to-peer software, traffic shaping and additional securityrelated functions.

The value of the maintenance renewal contract was just over $51,000.

“Due to the adept negotiating by Tim Spark, network administrator, Parkland was able to get an exceptional discount price,” a news release from the regional library stated.

In a single day, 493 Central Albertans used the public computers at the local library in 2012.

Suspect pleads guilty A suspect who was tracked by police to Red Deer after a vehicle was stolen in Calgary has pleaded guilty to breaching his release conditions.

Darren Bergman, 28, of Calgary, was sentenced to a seven-day jail term and fined $100 during an appearance this week in Red Deer provincial court.

Two other charges against Bergman were dropped — possessing proceeds of a crime and possessing stolen property.

But Bergman still faces more serious charges in Calgary.

Last month, a Calgary Police helicopter followed a pickup truck travelling northbound on Hwy 2.

Members of Airdrie RCMP eventually arrested Bergman and Melissa Johnston, 28, of Airdrie, after a vehicle was stopped with a spike belt near Red Deer.

More check stops coming Sheriffs, Mounties and wildlife enforcement have served notice that more check stops are coming after tallying the numbers from a multi-agency blitz held near Caroline on Oct. 14.

In a series of check stops held over a six-hour period, eight people were arrested on outstanding warrants and 59 additional charges were laid, including 14 speeding and seatbelt tickets, seven liquor violations, two drug charges and six wildlife violations, said Sgt. Michael Numan of the Rocky Mountain House RCMP. Police charged 12 drivers for child seat compliance failures and wrote 18 tickets on non-moving violations including failure to produce insurance and registration documents.

Another 30 people were issued written or verbal warnings, said Numan in a press statement released earlier this week.

Officers plan to run multi-agency check stops in the Rocky area through to the Christmas season, with emphasis on traffic safety and wildlife violations, he said.

Two face drug charges Two people have been charged following a drug seizure at the Olds Trailer Park.

RCMP issued a search warrant on a residence on Sunday around 11:30 p.m. after a months-long investigation. They found just under 30 grams of cannabis marijuana and a “couple” marijuana plants being grown, said Cpl. C.J. Peden of the Olds RCMP.

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CENTRE: Major donors Ground was first broken for the project in April but because of delays thanks to the major floods in June and a busy summer season for construction, the bulk of work just kicked off this fall.

While Kelly said she didn’t have the exact figure for the amount of donations that have come in, she noted there have been around five major donors who have contributed around the $10,000 mark.

“Last week we also just got word from a major oil company who say they are committed to supporting the facility and Medicine River programs in their 2014 budget,” Kelly said.

“It’s very encouraging. They’ve visited the centre, liked what they saw and hopefully this will encourage the other oil companies to take a look at us.”

The company and the amount they will be donating will not be disclosed until the new year.

Meanwhile, individual donors who sponsor a square foot of the new building for $300 will have a tree planted in their name of the property. Medicine River plans to GPS each tree so sponsors can locate them at any time.

“You don’t have to donate an exact $300 either.

Even a $10 donation helps — anything at all,” Kelly said.

The interpretive part of the centre remains closed until renovations are complete.

To donate, call 403-728-3467 or visit www.mrwc.ca. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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not be anything out of the ordinary here.

Alberta’s annual influenza campaign began Monday.

The vaccine is free of charge to all Albertans six months of age and older, and is available at public immunization clinics, as well at some pharmacies and physician offices.

Once again this year, a nasal spray will be available for children age two to 17.

Alberta Health Services

says those at risk for serious health problems from influenza are children younger than two and adults 65 and older; people with weakened immune systems; those with chronic illnesses such as heart, lung or kidney disease, diabetes and cancer; and severely overweight individuals.

For dates and times for clinics visit www.albertahealthservices.ca/influenza.asp. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com

A 56-year-old woman was charged with trafficking a controlled substance and production of a controlled substance. A 17-year-old male has also been charged with possession of a controlled substance.

Both have been released from custody on promises to appear with conditions imposed for a court appearance in Didsbury provincial court on Nov. 25.

Peden said the residence had been under investigation since the beginning of summer and police had received a number of complaints from the public.

Anyone suspecting drug activity in their neighbourhood is urged to call their local RCMP detachment or Crime Stoppers.

know about Islam is terrorist bombers blowing themselves up in a crowded marketplace in Afghanistan. They think that’s the face of Islam.

“Well that’s no more the face of Islam than the KKK is the face of Christianity.”

The RDC Humanities Department has a good relationship with the Ahmandiyya Muslim Jama’at group out of Calgary, sharing the same concept that understanding is important. They will be a part of this event and have helped put it together.

The conference is scheduled for Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Arts Centre Mainstage at RDC, 100 College Blvd., with doors opening at 5:30 p.m.

Admission is free and Barron said it would be well-catered.

Secularism and religion to be discussed

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Representatives from several major religions will speak on a panel about the ability of secularism and religion to coexist.

The eighth annual religions conference tackles the question of coexistence, in part spurred out of the debate raging in Quebec over a truly secular public service.

Guillermo Barron, a Red Deer College philosophy teacher, said they wanted to use the opportunity to investigate more thoroughly what secularism means.

“I think when we’re talking about religion, people maybe get their feelings hurt when they feel their religious beliefs are being attacked,” said Barron. “In those situations, information sharing is more important than the cut and thrust of debate. That’s what we have in this panel.”

The panel consists of representatives from Christianity, Judaism, aboriginal faiths, Sikhism and Islam.

Barron said the events have grown significantly, starting with a small group at the Margaret Parsons Theatre and growing into the RDC Arts Centre Mainstage.

“I think there is a real hunger on the part of people to learn about what religions actually say,” said Barron.

“Most times the only thing people

great discussions.

Later in Yvonne’s life, Mulder would drive her to doctor appointments in Edmonton or Calgary.

“She always said to me ‘Lynne, get out there and campaign. Are you knocking on doors?’ ” said Mulder. “I’d tell her I wasn’t knocking on doors and she’d insist I do.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

ASSISTANTS: All areas “They could practise in all areas and specialties, anywhere from primary care, emergency medicine, orthopedics, neurosurgery, neurology, psychiatry — as long as they have completed their course, preferably obtained their certification, and they’ve been trained by the physician and the physician is confident, and the PA as well, in their level of expertise and skills.”

About 400 PAs are practising mostly in Ontario,

New Brunswick and Manitoba.

Some are already working in occupational settings in Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan.

About half of PAs are trained by and work for the Canadian Forces.

St-Pierre said physician assistants have worked in the Canadian Forces for about 50 years and outside the forces since 1999.

She said the United States has about 90,000 PAs. They have been working in that country since the 1960s.

“It was a spinoff from the Vietnam War. They had these highly trained medics who were to the level of physician assistants. Once they came back from the war, they were looking for places to utilize their skills.

“Then the position was created. It was born within the health-care system.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Being in the wheelchair turned her into a strong activist and advocate for the Red Deer Action Bus. City Coun. Lynn Mulder said she took a lot of Yvonne’s phone calls about the Action Bus. “She’s a really strong Conservative member,” said Mulder. “She was one of these people who could get the prime minister Royal Canadian Legion Br. #35 on the phone any time she wanted to.

“She had a really good sense of humour.

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The Royal Canadian Legion Mulder had just visREMEMBRANCE Donations will also 2810 Bremner Avenue ited her Tuesday afterSERVICES be accepted at the Mon. & Tues. 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m DAY Red Deer arena noon while Yvonne was Campaign Office Wed. Fri. 10:00 a.m.

4:00 p.m Nov. 11th, 10:30 a.m. in hospital and showed her the election results.

Last Year’s Donations From the Poppy Drive Benefited: “She was one of my biggest fans, and had • RD Hospice Society • Meals On Wheels others she wanted to • Flood Victims • Cadet Corps make sure got in,” said Mulder. “I went in (Tues• Veterans & Families • Bursaries day) and gave her the • St. John’s Ambulance results.”

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Bail has been denied a second man charged in connection with the shooting of a convenience store clerk in Red Deer.

Jaysen Arancon Reyes, 26, is being treated in a Calgary hospital for injuries that police allege were caused by a shotgun blast to his face and hands during a robbery at the West Park Fas Gas in the late evening of Sept. 11.

Suspect Jeffrey Lyle Geary, 30, turned himself in on Sept. 13 on charges including armed robbery, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, possession of a loaded prohibited weapon and possession of a stolen prohibited weapon.

A second suspect, Eric Michael Ayotte, 29, was arrested on the following weekend on a charge of armed robbery.

Represented by Edmonton lawyer Arnold Piragoff, Ayotte was denied bail before Judge Gordon Yake in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday.

Ayotte also pleaded guilty to an earlier charge of being drunk in public and was fined $115, which he can satisfy by serving two days in custody.

Geary, represented by Red Deer lawyer Walter Kubanek, is undergoing a psychiatric assessment, ordered on Oct. 2. He has not yet asked for a bail hearing.

Both men are due back in court on Oct. 31 to enter their pleas.

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son, Central Zone had 251 lab confirmed cases of influenza A and 125 confirmed influenza B cases.

This year the flu vaccine contains two strains of influenza A, including 2009’s pandemic strain H1N1, and one influenza B strain.

Horne said the vaccine continues to include H1N1 because it continues to circulate.

He said judging on the impact of the flu in the Southern Hemisphere, the flu should

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The flu has yet to strike in Central Alberta and residents are heading to immunization clinics to try and stay healthy this season.

So far Alberta has had seven lab confirmed influenza cases, none of them detected in Alberta Health Services Central Zone.

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pening now and it’s good to get immunized in advance. But if someone couldn’t get around to it until say January, that wouldn’t be ideal, but it’s not too late.

“As long as influenza is occurring, it’s not too late to be immunized,” said Dr. Digby Horne, a medical officer of health for AHS Central Zone at the immunization clinic at the Harvest Centre at Westerner Park on Wednesday.

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Bradley Rucka of Red Deer leans back and enjoys the experience as hair stylist Courtney Rancier from the Bower Place Shopping Centre Tommy Guns salon demonstrates straight razor shaving to other stylists from Tommy Guns outlets across Canada Wednesday. Hundreds of Chatters and Tommy Guns hair stylists, franchise owners and operators gathered at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel for the company’s annual symposium.

Plenty of style descends for Chatters Challenge HUNDREDS GATHER IN RED DEER FOR STYLISTS CONNECTION AND MAKEOVER CHALLENGE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Rarely has there been so much hair-styling talent under one roof.

Approximately 1,000 stylists, salon managers, salon owners and hair product reps gathered at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel this week for Chatters Canada Ltd.’s 2013 Stylists Connection and Makeover Challenge.

Red Deerbased Chatters organizes the event annually with Redken 5th Avenue NYC. About 650 stylists from Chatters and Tommy Gun’s Original Barbershop franchises took part this year.

“We seem to grow by about 20 per cent a year,” said Chatters CEO Jason Volk.

With Chatters and Tommy Gun’s employing about 1,500 stylists across Canada, the turnout was impressive.

But attendance at the Red Deer event is considered a “ma-

jor perk” for Chatters and Tommy Gun’s staff, said Volk.

“A lot of these kids that are hairstylists, they’ve never been on airplanes before.”

At the symposium, they take part in learning sessions and have the chance to rub shoulders with the likes of Redken 5th Avenue’s Sam Villa and Sean Godard.

There’s also a high-end fashion show and an awards gala where stylists and franchisees are recognized.

Chatters even flew in Montrealbased touring band Alter Ego this year.

“The show is several hundred thousand dollars to put on,” said Volk of the event, which ran from Monday to Wednesday.

Chatters’ Stylists Connection and Makeover Challenge appears likely to grow, with Chatters’ network of salons continuing to expand.

“We’ve opened up, JASON VOLK I think, seven new Chatters this year and we’ve opened so far about six Tommy Gun’s — with another five or six actually opening in the next 60 days,” said Volk. “So we’ll be up to 22 Tommy Gun’s nationwide by the end of the year, and then we’ll add 25 Tommy Gun’s next year in 2014.”

There are curently more than 100 Chatters salons across Canada. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

‘SO THERE ARE TWO THINGS AT WORK HERE: THE MANAGEMENT SIDE OF THE BUSINESS AND THE ARTISTIC SIDE OF THE BUSINESS. IT’S A VERY INTERESTING DYNAMIC.’ — CHATTERS CEO

“These guys are the North American gurus in the beauty business,” said Volk.

Meanwhile, franchisees and managers can participate in business training sessions.

“So there are two things at work here: the management side of the business and the artistic side of the business,” said Volk. “It’s a very interesting dynamic.”

Telus buys Public Mobile Public Mobile has been bought by Telus, eliminating the small company from Canada’s wireless landscape and leaving Wind Mobile and Mobilicity as the remaining cellphone startups from the federal government’s efforts to create more competition almost five years ago.

Telus received federal approval late Wednesday to buy Public Mobile, primarily a talk-and-text service with 280,000 customers in Ontario and Quebec.

Federal Industry Minister James Moore approved the transfer of Public Mobile’s spectrum licence to Vancouver-based Telus, saying the transaction doesn’t affect competition in the wireless industry.

Canaccord Genuity analyst Dvai Ghose called the deal a “surprise move,” saying it eliminates a small competitor for Telus, Rogers and Bell, as well as for Wind Mobile, Mobilicity and Quebecor’s Videotron.

“It also highlights that the new entrants have, by and large, failed,” Ghose said in a research note.

Industry Canada said Public Mobile’s spectrum — radio waves needed to operate cellphone networks — isn’t used for the latest smartphones and data plans. However, Telus says such spectrum can now be deployed for next generation networks.

Public Mobile bought its spectrum in 2008 and was never under any restrictions that would have prevented it from being sold.

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ent kind of spectrum that the government does not appear to want sold to Rogers (TSX:RCI.B), Bell (TSX:BCE) or Telus (TSX:T) when their spectrum licences expire next year.

“We will not approve any spectrum transfer request that decreases competition in our wireless sector to the detriment of consumers,” Moore said in a statement.

All three startups launched in recent years have made only a dent in attracting consumers away from the big three carriers, who have about 26 million customers between them.

Telus tried to buy struggling Mobilicity last spring, but the $380-million deal was rejected by Industry Canada. Both Mobilicity and Wind Mobile are still seeking buyers. Financial terms of the Public Mobile deal were not disclosed.

Public Mobile’s customers will be migrated to Telus’s fast network that uses Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology.

Telus said Public Mobile’s G-block spectrum can be used for LTE networks and for some smartphones, such as the new iPhone 5s and 5c.

Telus said proceeds from the deal will be used to pay Public Mobile’s debt and equity investors and its employees will have the possibility of working at Telus.

“We look forward to the successful completion of this transaction, and migrating Public Mobile’s customers onto Telus’ world-class 4G LTE network while putting their spectrum to good use for millions of customers across Canada,” Eros Spadotto, executive vice-president of technology strategy and operations, said in a statement.

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Quest hopes to become global rare earth player REPORTS POSITIVE RESULTS AT KEY PROJECT THE CANADIAN PRESS

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada has pointedly dropped its warning about the potential for higher interest rates, triggering a sell-off in Canadian dollars that pushed the loonie almost one cent lower Wednesday and raised speculation that rates could actually fall further.

In a more predictable move, the bank also lowered the anticipated growth path for the economy, shaving the projected pace of expansion for this year as well as in 2014 and 2015.

The central bank, by jettisoning the now familiar tightening bias that it has used since April 2012 to caution consumers about over-borrowing, suggests that it is just as likely to cut the one per cent overnight rate as to raise it in future.

And at a news conference following the release of the bank’s monetary policy report and rate announcement, bank governor Stephen Poloz made no effort to dissuade markets from that assumption.

“The statement is making it clear we have balanced the risks,” Poloz said. “If we were to receive more data flow that was more negative for that inflation outlook, then we would need to rethink that balance.”

However, most analysts doubt the bank will cut the overnight rate below its already historically low setting — where it’s been for more than three years — unless conditions deteriorate materially.

But at the very least, the bank is sending a strong signal that it is prepared to stay low for much longer, likely into 2015.

And the bank is suggesting it is prepared to risk reigniting the housing market and the increased borrowing that might entail if that is what it takes to light a fire under the economy, particularly the critical export sector through dollar-deflating policies.

“The Canadian economy has struggled, struggled with a growth rate that is below two per cent, so I think the bank is prepared to throw down the gauntlet to support growth and exports,” said Bank of Montreal senior economist Michael Gregory.

TD Bank chief economist Craig Alexander says he still believes the governor’s next move is a hike, but says that at the very least he has put some doubt into markets.

A Canadian mining company is ready to dig into the lucrative market for rare earth minerals after reporting positive results from its key project in northern Quebec.

Quest Rare Minerals Ltd. (TSX:QRM) said providing a steady supply of the rare earth elements was critical as they are used in the production of high-tech electronics.

But pricing and availablity are not always guaranteed when dealing with China, the world’s largest source of the material.

“Rare earths are critical components on modern technologies that we take for granted right now — smartphones, flat screens, compact fluorescent lighting, LED lighting, as well as in the automotive industry,” said Peter Cashin, Quest’s president and chief executive.

“I would say that they’re important inputs into the new economy.”

China has cut back exports in an attempt to boost prices and maintain reserves in some of the materials, despite rising global demand.

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Luisa Moreno, a research analyst at Euro Pacific Canada, said the makeup of Strange Lake’s deposit will be particularly good for the global market if Quest is able to bring it to production.

“They have this multiproduct deposit producing a lot critical elements,” she said.

A handful of producers are beginning to come online in the U.S., including Molycorp Inc. (NYSE:MCP) and Lynas Corp. (ASX:LYC) and some countries, such as India and Vietnam, are already looking to expand.

But Moreno said Quest has a “unique opportunity” because the company should be able to produce the less common heavy rare-earth metals. Those are scarce and sold at higher prices than the so-called “lights”.

She said China, which controls 90 per cent of the heavy market, has said that it only has 15 years of production left.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 90.46 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.13 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.47 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.44 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.32 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.82 Cdn. National Railway . 114.59 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 148.53

Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 37.45 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.76 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.52 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 41.04 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 43.75 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.82 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.60 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.05 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 18.97

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed little changed Wednesday amid strong earnings reports from Canada’s two big railways and glum news from China’s financial sector.

The S&P/TSX composite index gave up solid gains in the morning to end the session down 4.66 points at 13,243.4, brining to an end six straight advances for the Toronto market as losses in the resource sectors accelerated in the late afternoon.

However, the TSX did find major support from Canadian National Railways (TSX:CNR) and Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP). Both blew past expectations and hit fresh 52-week highs with CN rising 4.4 per cent and CP surging more than 10 per cent.

The Canadian dollar tumbled after the Bank of Canada announced economic growth would be lower than expected through 2015. The currency tumbled 0.89 of a cent to 96.3 cents US. U.S. indexes were lower after a string of gains as traders took in positive earnings from Boeing and a disappointment from Caterpillar.

The Dow Jones industrials lost 54.33 points to 15,413.33, the Nasdaq declined 22.49 points to 3,907.07 and the S&P 500 index was down 8.29 points at 1,746.38.

The industrials sector led TSX advancers after Canada’s two largest railways both reported strong earnings results that beat analyst estimates on several key measures.

Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) said after the close Tuesday that quarterly profits climbed 6.1 per cent to $705 million. CN also posted adjusted earnings of $1.72 a share, a dime better than estimates.

Revenue came in at $2.7 billion, against estimates of $2.64 billion and its shares ran up $4.84 to $114.59 after hitting a new 52-week high of $116.20.

On Wednesday, Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) posted record earnings and the lowest operating ratio in its history in the third quarter as revenue rose by six per cent from last year to $1.5 billion. CP’s net income was $324 million or $1.84 per diluted share, up from $224 million or $1.30 per share in the third quarter of 2012.

CP’s operating ratio improved to 65.9 per cent, down from 74.1 per cent. Its shares jumped $13.79, or 10.23 per cent, to $148.53 after earlier hitting a new 52-week high of $150.42.

The strong stock performance surprised some analysts who thought the valuations were getting a bit rich.

Commodity prices were sharply lower amid speculation that the People’s Bank of China may tighten monetary policy to cool a hot property market. China reported Tuesday that house prices surged in some cities, including Guangzhou/Shenzhen where they soared 20 per cent yearover-year. Those in Shanghai jumped 17 per cent while Beijing saw a 16 per cent increase.

The bank reported Wednesday that outstanding real estate loans are up 19 per cent from a year ago.

The market was dragged down by a 2.7 per cent drop in the base metals sector as December copper lost seven cents to US$3.27 a pound.

Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) fell 31 cents to C$29.41 while HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM) fell 31 cents to $8.57.

The gold sector was down about 2.33 per cent as bullion fell $8.60 to US$1,334 an ounce. Goldcorp (TSX:G) faded 42 cents to C$26.57 and Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) lost 35 cents to $20.12.

The energy sector was down about one per cent as the December crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange dropped $1.44 to US$96.86 a barrel, its lowest level since late June. Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) fell 87 cents to C$36.64.

Oil declines piled up amid data showing a much larger than expected buildup of supplies last week.

Beyond the strong performance in the industrials sector, telecom

stocks were also supportive, up 0.72 per cent as Telus (TSX:T) climbed 72 cents to C$36.47.

It was a mixed bag in the U.S. where Caterpillar shares were down $5.41, or 6.07 per cent, to US$83.76 after the maker of heavy equipment cut its 2013 revenue forecast to US$55 billion from earlier estimates of $56 billion to $58 billion.

Caterpillar earned $946 million, or $1.45 a share, in the third quarter, down from $1.7 billion, or $2.54 a share, a year ago. Total sales and revenue fell to $13.42 billion from $16.45 billion. Analysts expected earnings of $1.68 a share on revenue of $14.29 billion.

Aircraft maker Boeing reported third-quarter profit rose 12 per cent to $1.2 billion, or $1.51 a share. Exitems, earnings per share came in at $1.80, up from $1.55 a year earlier.

Revenue rose to $22.1 billion, from $20 billion a year earlier. Analysts had expected earnings of $1.55 a share on revenue of $21.7 billion. Boeing also raised its full-year 2013 earnings expectations and its shares rose $6.54, or 5.34 per cent, to $129.02.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Wednesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,243.40 down 4.66 points TSX Venture Exchange — 966.87 down 4.81 points TSX 60 — 761.40 up 1.24 points Dow — 15,413.33 down 54.33 points S&P 500 — 1,746.38 down 8.29 points Nasdaq — 3,907.07 down 22.49 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 96.30 cents US, down 0.89 of a cent Pound — C$1.6786, up 0.82 of a cent Euro — C$1.4307, up 1.27 cents Euro — US$1.3778, down 0.04 of a cent Oil futures: US$96.86 per barrel, down $1.44 (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,334 per oz., down $8.60 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $24.336 per oz., down 5.9 cents $782.40 per kg., down $1.90 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 966.87, down 4.81 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 156.09 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $2.00 higher $493.40; Jan. ’14 $1.70 higher $503.80; March ’14 $1.40 higher $512.30; May ’14 $1.50 higher $519.30; July ’14 $1.40 higher $524.60; Nov. ’14 $1.50 higher $525.60; Jan ’15 $0.90 higher $527.30; March ’15 $0.90 higher $526.30; May ’15 $0.90 higher $520.30; July ’15 $0.90 higher $517.50; Nov ’15 $0.90 higher $513.70.

Barley (Western): Dec ’13 unchanged $152.00; March ’14 unchanged $154.00; May ’14 unchanged $155.00; July ’14 unchanged $155.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $155.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $155.00; March ’15 unchanged $155.00; May ’15 unchanged $155.00; July ’15 unchanged $155.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 669,640 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 669,640.

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 96.19 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.40 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.00 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.95 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.32 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.03 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.10 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 62.30 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.90 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.67

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — A name makes all the difference in the fight between Ford and Toyota over who has the top-selling car in the world.

Ford on Wednesday claimed that crown for its Focus compact during the first half of the year, based on registration data gathered by the R.L. Polk & Co. research firm.

The Dearborn, Mich.-based company sold 589,709 Focuses from January through June across the globe, a 20 per cent increase over the first half of last year, said Erich Merkle, Ford’s top sales analyst.

The Focus, according to Ford, beat the perennial No. 2 Toyota Corolla, although Merkle said he could not release Polk’s numbers for the Corolla.

A Polk spokeswoman confirmed that the number provided by Ford was accurate, but declined further comment.

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Canyon Services Group. 11.44 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.69 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.780 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.15 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.99 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.61 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 50.74 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.99 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.20 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.53 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.44 Penn West Energy . . . . . 11.45 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.560 Precision Drilling Corp . . 10.90 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.64 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.62 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.64 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.90 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 56.27

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 72.33 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.13 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.64 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 32.66 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.42 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.84 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 49.40 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 64.42 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.97 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 89.11 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.63 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 69.20 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 34.57 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.45

Canadian Pacific reports record Q3 earnings

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Stock in Canadian Pacific Railway soared Wednesday after it reported record earnings that handily beat expectations while improving its operating ratio despite lower volumes, particularly in several key areas of its business.

The Calgary-based company’s net income grew nearly 45 per cent to $324 million for the period ended Sept. 30, up from $224 million a year ago. That translated to $1.84 per diluted share, up from $1.30 per share in the third quarter of 2012.

Excluding a one-time, $7-million tax item, adjusted profit was $331 million or $1.88 per share, compared with the $1.72 per share forecast by analysts.

Canadian Pacific’s (TSX:CP) revenue was $1.5 billion, up six per cent from $1.45 billion in the year-ago period.

“By all standards, this was an outstanding quarter,” said CEO Hunter Harrison.

“What we have proven this quarter is the ability to drive earnings growth and lower our operating ratio, even in a softer volume environment. That’s the power of the CP plan.”

Investors appeared to agree, sending the stock up $11.98, or almost nine per cent, to $146.72 by early afternoon on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The higher revenue combined with lower expenses resulted in a record low operating ratio for CP, which still lags Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) by this measure.

The operating ratio fell to 65.9 per cent from 74.1 per cent as CP’s operating expenses declined by six per cent to $1 billion.

“We enter the fourth quarter with momentum and are well positioned for what I believe will be

a record 2013,” Harrison said.

The veteran railway executive said CP’s transformation is “far from complete” as it continues efforts to make the railway stronger.

David Tyerman of Canaccord Genuity said the third quarter typically generates the lowest operating ratio, but the reported improvement this year is confirmation of the railway’s game improvement plan.

He expects the ratio will be 71.3 per cent this year, falling to 67.7 per cent in 2014, 65 per cent in 2015 and 61.9 per cent in 2018.

CN reported late Tuesday that its operating ratio in the third quarter improved 0.8 of a percentage point to 59.8 per cent.

“We think CP remains on track to achieve very strong EPS growth driven by cost cutting, but we think much or all of the company’s improvement potential is already in our forecast,” he wrote in a report.

Encana Q3 profits beat estimates THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Costcutting measures under Encana Corp’s new CEO are beginning to pay off, with the company reporting third-quarter profits Wednesday that beat analyst estimates.

But investors will have to wait a little longer to learn the details of Encana’s long-term strategy under Doug Suttles’ leadership, including the fate of the company’s 20-cent quarterly dividend.

The natural gas giant said Wednesday that capital spending for 2013 is expected to come in at between $2.7 billion and $2.9 billion, compared with the $3 billion to $3.2 billion previously expected.

Chief financial officer Sherri Brillon attributed the decrease to a combination of improved efficiency and greater scrutiny on which projects deserve the most capital.

Encana said earlier this year it was is aiming at between $100 million

Automakers rev engines over who has top-selling car FORD, TOYOTA SPAT

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2013, it would be the second year in a row that Ford lays claim to the top honours.

But Toyota disputes Ford’s leadership.

The Japanese automaker has said it sold a Corolla hatchback under the Matrix name, and it sells cars that are nearly identical to the Corolla under different names in countries outside the U.S. Ford doesn’t tally Toyota’s other nameplates in its count.

Toyota has contended that if all the other nameplates are added in, the Corolla is the winner.

A Toyota spokeswoman said Wednesday that the company disagrees with Ford and is drawing up a response to Ford’s claims.

Merkle said the Focus’ gains are largely due to China, where sales more than doubled to 202,380 in the first half of the year. A new version of the Focus has been on the market only about a year in China, and it’s considered a new product there.

But Focus sales aren’t as hot in the U.S., where they’re up only 1 per cent to 188,654 through September.

and $150 million in cost savings and efficiency gains over the next 18 months.

On Wednesday, it said it was well on its way to achieving that goal, with $110 million of that amount expected to be realized by the end of 2013.

Its quarterly operating earnings came in at $150 million, or 20 cents per share, besting the 17 cents per share analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had on average been expecting. It was its second profitable quarter in a row.

During the same quarter a year earlier, oper-

ating earnings were $263 million, or 36 cents per share.

Shuttles, a former BP executive, became chief executive in June, replacing Randy Eresman, who had abruptly parted ways with the company at the beginning of the year.

Suttles has since pared down Encana’s management ranks, doing away with separate Canadian and U.S. divisions and appointing a chief operating officer with company-wide responsibilities.

Suttles has also signalled Encana will become smaller and more

focused, suggesting that more sales of dry gas natural gas assets are in the works.

Encana plans to announce its long-term strategic plan and fourth-quarter dividend — which some have speculated could be cut — before year-end.

Suttles said a dividend is an important part of Encana’s total shareholder return, but it needs to be kept at a “sustainable level.”

The CEO said he’s discussed the dividend with several major investors and analysts, but the feedback has been far from unanimous.

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Traffic pollution a health risk for third of Canadians

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Trafficrelated air pollution poses major health risks for the one-third of Canadians who live or work close to high-traffic roads or highways, say researchers, suggesting there are steps that can be taken to mitigate the danger.

Pollutants from vehicles’ tailpipes have been linked to the development of asthma in children and adults, says a commentary in Monday’s issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Exhaust is also known to increase the risk of heart disease and lead to hospitalizations for pneumonia in the elderly, as well as being linked to premature birth and low-birth weight infants.

Emissions from cars and trucks also contribute to overall air pollution, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer last week declared a major carcinogen that can lead to lung cancer in some people.

“Those are all pretty big deals, so things like lung cancer and heart disease are important killers in Canada,” said lead author Michael Brauer, an environmental health specialist at the University of British Columbia. “And we know that if children are born prematurely or at low birth weight, that could have implications throughout their lives, so it puts them at risk for a lot of other potential health outcomes and asthma is for children, especially, a very important chronic disease.”

About 10 million Canadians — or 32 per cent of the population — live within 500 metres of highways or 100 metres from major urban

roads, exposing them to elevated levels of trafficrelated air pollution, Brauer said. Air pollution is blamed for about 21,000 premature deaths in Canada each year.

Although pollution from exhaust is not the prime risk for such diseases — smoking plays a much greater role in the development of lung cancer, for instance — “if you add up the fact that a third of the population is exposed, then on a population basis it becomes very important,” he said.

“It’s much more effective to remove this risk than it is to treat 10 million people.”

Michael Jerrett, head of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, said several studies have linked ongoing exposure to traffic pollution to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

“So I think the evidence is rapidly accumulating that traffic pollution in particular is bad for a wide variety of health outcomes that range from low-term birth weights all the way to premature mortality when we’re elderly, and then cancer and heart disease and lung disease in between,” he said Monday.

Brauer and his coauthors highlight four strategies with shortand long-term options to help reduce the effects of traffic-related air pollution: ● Reducing vehicle emissions: introducing programs to remove or retrofit high-emission vehicles; reducing traffic congestion; expanding infrastructure for electric cars. ● Modifying current infrastructure: limiting heavy truck traffic to specific routes; separating active commuting zones — for instance walking

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A traffic jam southbound on Toronto’s Yonge Street during morning rush hour. Traffic-related air pollution is increasingly being shown to have negative health effects, say researchers, who suggest steps can be taken to mitigate the risk among millions of Canadians living or working close to major roads and highways. and cycling routes — from busy roads. ● Better land-use planning and traffic management: locating buildings such as schools, daycares and retirement homes at least 150 metres from busy streets. ● Encouraging behavioural change: creating policies to reduce traffic congestion in specific areas and encouraging alternative commuting behaviours.

Brauer said about 200 cities in Europe have implemented fees for drivers who enter a “congestion-charge zone” in busy inner-city cores. The best known of these may be London, which has reduced traffic volume and congestion that resulted in “an estimated gain of 183 years of life per 100,000 residents within the zone over a 10-year period.”

Other urban centres have designated zones that allow only low-emission vehicles, among them gas-electric hybrids.

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“It’s really a matter of changing our mindset,” said Brauer. “We’re very focused still on designing transportation all around cars and we probably should be designing transportation around people.”

But Jerrett said health hazards in exhaust fumes aren’t confined only to those living close to busy roads and highways.

“The other thing to consider about traffic pollution is it’s not just where you live ... it’s also all the pollution you’re exposed to during the commute,” said the Canadian-born researcher.

Unless a vehicle has hepa-filtered ventilation, people will get some of the highest doses of pollution they are exposed to all day during their daily commute, he said.

NEW YORK — Online dating is shedding its stigma as a refuge for the desperate, but people who use sites such as Match.com and eHarmony are still in the minority.

Thirty-eight per cent of Americans who are “single and looking” say they’ve used an online dating site or mobile dating app, according to a new study.

The report due out Monday from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project suggests that attitudes toward online dating “have progressed in a clearly positive direction.” In fact, 59 per cent of Internet users agree that online dating is a good way to meet people. That’s up from 44 per cent in 2005.

As Americans shop, socialize and entertain themselves online, a growing number are turning to the Internet to find dates. Some 11 per cent of people who started a long-term relationship in the past decade say they met their partner online. Even so, only 10 per cent of Americans say they’ve tried online dating.

Online dating is most popular among men and women ages 25 to 34. Nearly a quarter of them have used online dating sites, compared with just 10 per cent of people in the 18 to 24 age group. For ages 35 to 44, it’s 17 per cent and then the numbers fall to the single digits. Three per cent of those over 65 have dabbled in online dating.

Whites are slightly more likely to use dating sites than other ethnicities — 11 per cent compared with 7 per cent for blacks and 5 per cent of Hispanics, according to the survey. People without a high school diploma were the least likely to use the Internet to find a date, while those who have completed “some college” were the most likely.

While a relatively small fraction of people use online dating sites, forty-two per cent of Americans say they know someone who has, up from 31 in 2005.

Among those 65 or older, the number grew to 24 per cent from 13 per cent.

Once upon a time, couples who found each other online felt compelled to spin alternate “how we met” tales, but that’s no longer the case. Perhaps it’s the result of changing attitudes. In 2005, 29 per cent of Internet users agreed that people on online dating sites were “desperate.” In Pew’s most recent study, that number fell to 21 per cent.

But online dating isn’t all chocolate hearts and red roses. More than half of online daters say they believe someone else “seriously misrepresented themselves” in an online dating profile. More than a quarter have felt uncomfortable or harassed by someone who contacted them.

The results of Pew’s recent study aren’t directly comparable to its 2005 report because the way surveyors count the “online dating population” has changed. There were no dating apps eight years ago.

That said, the percentage of Americans who say they have used an online dating website grew from 3 per cent in 2008 to 6 per cent in 2009, and 9 per cent this year.

The 2013 telephone survey was conducted from April 17 to May 19 among a sample of 2,252 U.S. adults, including people who don’t own a landline. It has a margin of error of 2.3 percentage points.

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1973 — House of Commons votes to continue a partial ban on capital punishment

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The message in the music GAPS IN MALCOLM BELL’S MUSIC REFLECT GAPS IN COLLEGE FUNDING

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BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF “Inspiration” isn’t exactly the right word for it, said local composer Malcolm Bell, but he was prompted to create an original jazz-rock fusion piece called Budget Cuts after provincial reductions to education funding last spring.

If the Red Deer College music instructor’s new work sounds a little odd when it premieres at a faculty recital on Saturday at the RDC Arts Centre, it’s because it’s one note short for every measure of music.

“Instead of there being 16 sixteenth notes, there are only 15 sixteenth notes,” said Bell, who believes the reoccurring gaps will be very noticeable to listeners.

“You hear it. It’s like watching a person walk normally and then watching someone walk with a limp,” added the instructor, who teaches composition at the college, as well as jazz, percussion and music theory.

Bell believes the audience will get used to hearing this reoccurring silent “limp” after a while, and “somehow (the piece) works.”

He was indirectly affected by the deep cuts made to health and post-secondary education last spring

by Alberta’s Conservative government. At the col-

Malcom Bell and Ruston Vuori lege, this resulted in layoffs of some support staff after a decision was made to try to lessen the impact on students.

Bell said he and other RDC music instructors continue to have similar workloads in the classroom, but now have more peripheral work to do because of the loss of these clerical, reception and communications positions.

“You can either not focus as much on the education or get less sleep every night — and if you’re like me, it tends to be the latter,” said Bell — which is not good for preventing long-term burnout.

Budget Cuts will be performed along with two original compositions by fellow RDC music instructor Ruston Vuori.

They are part of a mixed program that encompasses Claude Debussy’s Claire de Lune, as well as music

from operettas, sacred music, blues, pop by Roy Orbison and The Animals, and jazz medleys by Herbie Hancock and others. Eight RDC music instructors will perform.

Vuori’s original works, Infant Joy and Holy Thursday, are based on William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience poetry collections.

While the two poetic works were not specifically linked by Blake, Vuori believes performing the two pieces together makes thematic sense because they are like two sides of the same coin. The poem Infant Joy is about an innocent baby being born with a happy outlook, while the poem Holy Thursday is about children growing older and sadder while being exploited during England’s Industrial Revolution.

Vuori said the joyful-versus-somber moods of the two poems set differing tones for his piano compositions, which will accompany soprano Danica Hoffart singing Blake’s poetry.

Vuori has already set all of the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence to music and is working on his Songs of Experience.

He said he enjoys the opportunity to perform them for the community.

Regular faculty recitals keep instructors’ skills sharp while showing students that their teachers can do more than teach, Vuori added.

The recital also includes performances by vocalist Sharon Braun, pianist Cheryl Cooney, guitarist Jeremy Doody, flutist Val Sherman, bassist Kim Lesaca, trumpeter Steve Sherman, and pianist Janice Gerdts.

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Assange portrayal already seems dated BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH STARS AS DIGITAL MUCKRAKER JULIAN ASSANGE The Fifth Estate 2.5 stars (out of four) Rated: 14A WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange damns The Fifth Estate as a “geriatric snoozefest,” saying the film falsely portrays him and his whistle-blowing online organization.

His keen interest is understandable. Since 2010, the Aussie muckraker has morphed from obscure web activist into international firebrand, one worthy of portrayal by in-demand actor Benedict Cumberbatch. (Assange is also in demand, by legal and government authorities. Hence his current status as asylum seeker, living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.)

PETER Subjects of a film rarely HOWELL make the best judges of them, and Assange is no exception.

The “geriatric” part of his slag is simply silly (he’s 42, Cumberbatch is 37) and as for the “snoozefest” bit, it’s entirely the opposite problem for The Fifth Estate, the gala opener of this year’s TIFF. Too much info is hurled at the screen, much of it at a rapid clip that makes it hard to take in. Director Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) and screenwriter Josh Singer (TV’s The West Wing) adopt the info-dump approach of WikiLeaks, combining elements of biopic, thriller and didactic documentary for a story that engages the mind but sometimes slogs.

At the heart of it is Cumberbatch’s sterling portrayal of Assange, a man who takes the “publish and be damned” ethos to 21st-century heights, shaking world governments with revealed secrets and lies, just a few clicks away.

The performance may not be to Assange’s liking.

But it seems true to his public image as a man who, although not short of intellect, ambition or ideals, otherwise lacks social graces and quite possibly a conscience.

Together with his geeky German tech adviser Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Rush revelation Daniel Brühl), first seen in a 2007 flashback, Assange shocks world governments in 2010 by allying with newspapers the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel, to fully leak online (and partially in print) nearly 400,000 confidential U.S. government documents.

Many of the documents concern the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. WikiLeaks exposes intemperate remarks by U.S. and other government officials that often vary from the public record, such as civilian death tolls higher than previously reported.

Assange is declared a hero in some quarters and a traitor in others, since the leaks also risk exposing the identities of undercover agents worldwide. His arrogance rising along with his notoriety, he rejoins that it’s neither his desire nor responsibility to edit the material covertly obtained by WikiLeaks.

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In-demand actor Benedict Cumberbatch, left, and Daniel Brühl star as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his geeky German tech adviser Daniel Domscheit-Berg in The Fifth Estate.

The practical, ethical and legal implications of ing for his own Hollywood close-up — and wouldn’t Assange’s attitudes and behaviour are duly covered Daniel Radcliffe be a dandy casting pick?

by The Fifth Estate, as is the inevitable old press The Fifth Estate unintentionally makes for an obversus new media tussle over the responsibilities ject lesson about short attention spans, something and challenges of the digital era. A sturdy support- long known by journalists: today’s headlines are toing cast that includes David Thewlis, Stanley Tucci, morrow’s fish wrap.

Laura Linney, Anthony Mackie and Alicia Vikander Peter Howell is a syndibrings flesh and blood to the proceedings, if not al- cated Toronto Star movie ways warmth and light. critic.

There’s one very curious thing about The Fifth Estate, however. As much it claims urgency with current events and issues, it seems out of date, even coming just three years 2013 - 2014 after the real events.

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Parents don’t mind having child sleep in same bed with them Dear Annie: What is your opinion on co- about the child’s development, and the setsleeping? up does not interfere with marital intimacy.

My husband, his daughter and I all sleep If you are the stepparent and the biologiin the same bed at night, and neither my cal mother is in the picture, be sure she is husband nor I minds a bit. in agreement. This is a joint paMy husband loves it, saying he rental decision. knows where both of his beauDear Annie: I’m the proud tiful ladies are at night and he grandma of two: a young lady of doesn’t have to worry. When we 17 and a 14-year-old Eagle Scout want to make love, we wait until grandson. his daughter is not in the bed, or The problem is my Lauren we go into the spare bedroom.

Bacall voice. (A nun in the fifth What do you think? — Pennsylgrade nicknamed me “Fogvania horn.”) My granddaughter deDear Pennsylvania: We think liberately goes out of her way a lot of this is up to the parents to ignore her grandfather and and depends on the age of the me because she is embarrassed child. by how I sound. It doesn’t bothMITCHELL Often, pediatricians do not er my grandson at all, but my & SUGAR recommend co-sleeping with an granddaughter has avoided me infant because of the slight risk since the age of five. No kisses, that a parent will roll over onto no hugs, no affection at all. the child. Some older children She just graduated from high who co-sleep have difficulty transchool. My heart aches, and I cry sitioning to their own bed and will demand every day knowing she will continue to hate to sleep with the parents well past puberty. me. I always have been good to her. I never And some children who are developing say no when she asks for something, right sexually can transfer inappropriate feel- up to paying for her 18th birthday gift to ings to a parent when co-sleeping continues parachute for the first time. — A Loving and past a certain point. (We will assume that Lonely Grandma neither parent has inappropriate sexual Dear Grandma: Grandchildren generally feelings toward the child, although this is are very accepting of their grandparents’ also a concern.) voices, features, habits, etc. We know that What counts is that both of the parents some children are acutely embarrassed and the child are comfortable with this ar- by any variation of the norm. But even if rangement, both parents are responsible your voice is grating to her, by the age of 18,

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The need to share what’s on your mind may make you Thursday, Oct. 24 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: open up to the wrong people today, or at Kevin Kline, 66; Drake, 27; Jemima Rooper, least, that’s what you may feel. Receiving love and affection may seem a 32 bit challenging for the moment.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Do not despair and simply rely The Moon moves into its own on yourself. home today, in the sign of CanGEMINI (May 21-June 20): cer, suggesting a heightened The urge to know the next course sensitivity and an increased of your action may push you toemotionality towards others towards finding the resources you day. We crave spending more need. Your drive to succeed and time close to our roots, our famto meet your goals is met by the ily unit and our domestic envineed to be fully up to date with ronments. Being sincere without the ongoing tasks. invading other’s personal space CANCER (June 21-July 22): could give us rewarding returns Your hypersensitivity may make today. We strive for concrete inASTRO you manifest an extra dose of formation and we may become emotionalism. Don’t invest your DOYNA impatient when we feel that we energies into goals that you know may lack resourcefulness. will not lead you anywhere or HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today may prove wasteful. Save your is your birthday, prepare your precious energy. suitcase as you may be travelling quite a LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your partner’s fibit this year. You will find great opportunities overseas or through some foreign affair. nancial situation may not look too stable now Seeds you plant now will be highly rewarding and this may shake you up. Subconsciously to you in the long-run. Persevere with confi- you realize that your needs are not in sync with your partner’s values. Some unresolved dence and self-belief.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You may issues may make you restless.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The urge to come to the realization that you may not possess enough aptitude or may lack in sufficient find out more answers to your imminent quesknowledge for a certain ongoing project. You tions makes you somewhat fidgety. You seek to decode the underlying messages and to

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your granddaughter should have developed the maturity and tolerance to consider it unimportant compared to her relationship with you. We hope she will learn to value the love you offer, but in the meantime, please accept her limitations and focus your affection on your grandson. Also, if you haven’t had a doctor check your throat, we hope you will. Sometimes, these vocal issues have medical causes that go undiagnosed for years.

Dear Annie: I had to respond to “Venting in Oregon,” who complained about the neighbors’ noisy children. My husband and I, while sitting on our front porch, recently complained that our street is too quiet.

When we moved here 25 years ago, the street was filled with children, ours included. We enjoyed watching boys racing go-carts down the street and children dashing back and forth to one another’s homes.

Last year, a garage band around the block blasted their music for an hour in the afternoon each weekday. It was great.

Now it feels like a ghost town. All of our children grew up and moved away, and we are still here. We miss the lively commotion that makes for a family neighborhood. We don’t like all this peace and quiet. — Connecticut Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

get to the bottom of an important issue. The pattern of your personal relationships will become clearer.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You may feel that your superiors are not quite grasping you or that they are trying to pinpoint you in some undermining ways. If certain co-workers are not as collaborative as they should, do not drain your energies. Do the best you can.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You express a strong desire to simply let your hair down and explore some far-off territory. You may want to learn a foreign language or interact with individuals from abroad. Make sure that you share similar viewpoints and you will derive much more fun from your experiences.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are overly protective over your partner or their values. You seek intense experiences and you won’t take anything at face value. You want nothing but the truth. Even if it’s a stingy one, you can take it.

Boy gets giant pumpkin back from thief THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YORK, Pa. — A thief has returned a 100-pound pumpkin that a central Pennsylvania boy won by correctly guessing its weight — along with a note apologizing for the theft.

Nine-year-old Jaiden Newcomer of York won the pumpkin at an Oktoberfest celebration in Windsor Township. He had displayed the giant pumpkin on his family’s porch until it was stolen last week.

But the York Dispatch reports the pumpkin was back on the family’s porch Sunday evening after it returned from a weekend trip.

The thief also left a note saying: “I’m really sorry about taking your pumpkin, it was wrong of me, you earned the pumpkin, I didn’t think my actions through nor realize who they were affecting. Sincerest apologies.”

Amy Newcomer says her son is “very excited.

He’s beside himself.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your daily pace should slowly pick up and you may find yourself interacting more and more often about your future goals. You want concrete facts and tangible results. You are ready to do whatever it takes to attain them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You have an agenda to follow today and as chaotic as it may seem at times, follow your intuition and it will help you get through today’s to-do list.

Check the status of your health and review certain of your lifestyle habits that need to be altered.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today’s energies will help you come across those hard to express feelings and emotions. You’ll be able to share with others what truly makes you feel serene and peaceful. Follow your gut instinct.

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GORDON Gladys Gordon of Red Deer passed away at 6:30 am October 20, 2013 at the age of 87. Gladys will be lovingly remembered by her sons: Ernie of Vancouver, Larry (Dawn) of Bentley; five grandchildren; Terri, Angie, Rebecca, Randi and Shawn as well as four great grandchildren. A tea celebrating Gladys’ life will take place at the Golden Circle, 4620 - 47A Ave. R.D. on October 27, 2-4 pm.

MOLESKY Margaret “Peggy” 1919 - 2013 Mrs. Margaret (Peggy) Molesky (nee Dunn) died at the Kipnes Veterans Home in Edmonton on Monday, October 21, 2013, at the age of 94 years. Peggy served overseas with the Canadian Army as a nurse during the Second World War. Her service enabled her to fulfill her dream of going to University at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia and graduating with a BScN in Nursing in 1948. She travelled to Calgary to work as an instructor in the Holy Cross School of Nursing where she was introduced to her future husband, Benedict Molesky. They were married and moved from Calgary to Red Deer in 1961. They were married for 57 years until Ben’s death in 2007. Peggy will always be remembered as the stabilizing force in the Molesky family and fostered the values of learning and independence in all her children.

She will remain forever in the hearts of her loving family of eight daughters, Patricia (Dale), Pauline, Joanne (John) and their children, Mackenzie and Ben, Collette (Al), Marion, Miriam (Loren) and their children, Shannon and Andy, Michelle (Rik) and their daughter, Harley, Lisa (Marc) and their children Eric, Luc, Sophie and Paul, three sons, Peter (Linda) and their daughters, Meaghan, Danielle and Kirsten, Stephen (Debbie) and their children, Sean, Cameron and Allison, Ben (Keri) and their sons, Nicholas, Patrick and Mark.

She is also survived by two great grandchildren, Calum and Ava, her sister, Patricia Ferguson, and brothers, Gerard, Francis, Tony, and Michael Dunn. She was predeceased by her sister, Tillie Dauphinee.

A Prayer Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer on Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer on Friday, October 25, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Peggy’s honour may be made directly to the charity of one’s choice.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

WEIDNER Louise 1970- 2013 Louise Weidner (nee Munro) passed away at the Red Deer Hospital on October 18, 2013. She leaves to mourn her passing: her parents Robert and Agnes Munro of Delburne; a d a u g h t e r A m y, a s o n Gregory (both of Lacombe); two brothers, Eugene and James of Delburne, and friend Darcy. A memorial tea will be held on Friday, October 25, 2013 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Lacombe Action Group, # 4 Iron Wolf Boulevard, Lacombe, Alberta.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe & Rimbey in charge of arrangements.

Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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989240 AB LTD. o/a TIM HORTONS Hiring 15 Permanent F/T Food Counter Attendants & 4 Permanent F/T Food Service Supervisors for eachRed Deer Locations Parkland Mall 6359 50 Ave. & 6020 - 67 St. & 2325 - 50 Ave. Fax: 403-314-4427, email parklandtimhortons @gmail.com Must be available all shifts, evenings., wknds., nights $11./hr. - FCA No exp. needed. $13.50/hr. - FSS 1-2 yrs. industry exp. needed.

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HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT * Clean and vacuum rooms, public areas, pool etc.

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AFTERNOON SHIFT CNC LEAD HAND/SUPERVISOR Nexus Engineering is currently looking for Afternoon shift Lead hand/supervisor.

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We offer competitive wages, company paid benefits and a RRSP matching plan.

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OUTSIDE SALES PERSON For the Central Alberta region

This person must have: • Experience in Outside Sales • Be self-motivated with strong interpersonal skills • Experience with landscaping or construction products is a definite asset Excellent wages and benefits.

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EASTVIEW AREA Ellenwood Dr. & Erickson Dr. Area 60 papers $321/mo.

The position includes maintenance inspections, lubes, PM’s and repairs to all types of equipment in order to maintain the safe operation and fulfill production requirements of Rahr Malting. The position is rated under the Heavy Job classification.

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113 Alix, Alberta T0C 0B0 FAX: (403)747-2660 EMAIL : mlyle@rahr.com NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

DEER PARK AREA

MAINTENANCE POSITION

is looking for an experienced

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Truckers/ Drivers

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for an experienced

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd, a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for a full time Maintenance position.

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

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

Trades

ELEMENTS is looking for CERTIFIED WELDER 5 retail sales reps. selling Permanent season gift packages and Certified Welders $28 - $45 per hour personal care products in Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. dependent on level of exp.

Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + Group benefit plan after 3 month probation. bonus & comm. FT. No exp. req`d. Please email • Red Seal Welder or equiv. academic & exp. elementsreddeer@gmail.com • Min, 2 yrs welding exp.

FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN at a Journeyman level is looking for 5 SALES • Familiar with working REPS, selling shoes & outdoors in remote loapparel, at our Parkland cations and all weather Mall. 4747 67 St. Red conditions Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus • Working knowledge of & comm. F/T Position. No pertinent industry exp. req’d. Email • regulations and OH&S. Flurriesrd@gmail.com COPP’S SERVICES INC. GUEST SERVICES 225 Burnt Ridge Rd. Red SUPERVISOR Deer County, AB T4S 2L4 Bower Place Phone: 403 347-6222 Red Deer, AB Email: HR@coppsinc.ca Fax 403-403-5447 We are looking for a team www,.coppsinc.ca leader that is highly motivated, hardworking CRIBBER & LABORERS and energetic and who wanted. Start MONDAY will be responsible for OCT. 21 . 4 - 5 wks work communicating and in Red Deer. Wage providing ‘First Class’ negotiable. Contact customer service at Bower Kristian @ 403-588-1581 Place Shopping Centre.

ALL WEATHER WINDOWS is seeking a SERVICE TECHNICIAN.

Now Hiring

Oilfield

Sales & Distributors

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BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge Gasoline Alley Red Deer County Food & Beverage Server

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Restaurant/ Hotel

Long Close Law Close/ Lewis Close Langford Cres.

Landry Bend Lawson Close MORRISROE McKinnon Cres/ Munro Cres.

Marion Cres./ MacKenzie Cres.

Maxwell Ave./ McGill St. Metcalf Ave./ Mayberry Close.

McLean St. SUNNYBROOK AREA

NOW HIRING AT ALL LOCATIONS

Sherwood Cres./ Stanhope Ave. Springfield Ave. VANIER AREA

...Join our Team!

Visser St. Vanson Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

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TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

WORLDWIDE KNOWLEDGE - LOCAL SOLUTIONS

DISPATCHER req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 D3

CURRENTLY SEEKING QUALIFIED DRIVERS to transport rail crews throughout Central Alberta. Drivers to be based out of Red Deer, AB. No overnight stays required.

Drivers must possess a valid Class 1, 2, or 4 license, with a clean driver abstract.

Assisted licensing upgrade to achieve a class 4 is available. Pay is based at a rate of $14.96/hour.

Earning potential is based on your availability, as operation runs on a 24/7 on call basis. Semi retired and retired are welcome.

Please forward resumes and abstract to sfhallcon@gmail.com or fax to 403-980-0558

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery (By 6:30 a.m.) in: Kentwood / Johnstone Crossing Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the BOWER AREA WESTPARK AREA Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316 FIELD PERSON

Insulation Cover Manufacturer is looking to train someone to take measurements and make simple drawings of oilfield and petrochemical equipment and assist in manufacturing as required.

Anyone with knowledge of oilfield equipment would be ideal. Must have a dependable truck (compensation paid). $19/hr. to start with wage review and some benefits after 3 months. Please reply, with resume, to: cover@ telus.net or phone 403-343-3435 FURNACE DUCT CLEANING TECH REQ’D. IMMED. Wages neg. 403-506-4822 GREENHOUSE WORKER wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold.

16 F/T seasonal positions.

Training provided.

Start Feb 2014. $9.95/hr, 44 hrs, 5 days per week, 3 month period.

Fax resume 403-886-2252.

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

IMMED. POSISTION for F/T owner/operator Courier. for local delivery company.

Small pick-up or mini van would be the ideal vehicle.

Reply w/resume by fax: 403-342-7636 or email denw70@hotmail.com REG COX FEEDMIXERS Req’s F/T In Service Shop, exp’d with farm equipment and the ability to weld.

Apply fax 403-341-5622

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Misc.

Help

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Antiques & Art

1 PRINT, Approx. 15” x 30” Called the signing of Peace Treaty Dance Party.

A must see. $200.

403-347-7405

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

1530

Auctions

ANTIQUE ESTATE AUCTION

Sunday October 27 11 am * Viewing 9 am Location: Ridgewood Community Hall Partial List only Antiques & Collectibles - Wood Wheel Chair - Wood Propeller - Radios - Show Case - Wall Phone - Train Horns - Grandfather Clock - Curved Glass China Cabinet - Antique Oval Pictures - Wash Stands & Dressers - China Sets - Approx. 200 Die-Cast Cars Assorted - Collector Coins - Pepsi Tray - Duncan Fife Set - Vintage Comic Books - African Soap Stone & Wood Carvings - Furniture - Parlor Chairs - Sofas - Oak Dining Suite - Living Room Suite - Bedroom Suites - Miscellaneous - Vending Machines (Snack & Pop) - Money Changer (New) - Tools - Floor Model Video Games & More.

For a complete list and Directions visit www.cherryhillauction.com Terms of Sale: Cash, Cheque, C/C, Everything must be paid for & removed on sale day (NO EXCEPTIONS), 15% buyer’s premium.

Sale subject to Additions, Deletions, Errors and Omissions.

INNISFAIL Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED For afternoon delivery once per week In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Cherry Hill Auction & Appraisals

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Phone 403-342-2514 or 403-347-8988

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

1550

Building Supplies

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca WEEKEND dispatchers req’d. immediately.

Knowledge of Red Deer essential. Will require good verbal and written communication skills. Fax resume to 403-346-0295

X-STATIC

CEDAR Clad solid core wood door, 24” wide with frame. Asking $100.

403-227-2976

1590

Clothing

LIKE NEW, MEN’S BLACK TRENCH COAT. (Lined) Size 40. Reg $200, asking $60. 403-309-1838

EquipmentHeavy

1660

Firewood DOOR PERSONNEL Apply in person after 3

Employment Training

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544 24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(across from Totem)

Household Furnishings

Contractors

1100

CONCRETE!

Stamp finish, exposed finish, basements, garages, patio pads, driveways & sidewalks. etc. No job to Big or too Small, we do it All! Call Mark 403-597-3523 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Eavestroughing

1130

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

COUCH, 7’ brown micro suede. Dual recliners. $550. ***SOLD

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Looking for a new sidewalk, help on small jobs around the house, such as small tree cutting, landscaping, painting or flooring?

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

Misc.

Services

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving Central AB. 403-318-4346

UNWANTED Yard & House Items - Will haul to land fill. Call 403-896-2108

Moving & Storage

1300

FANTASY

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

International ladies

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

MASSAGE

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 TCM & Lensen Therapy In home care. Females preferred. 8 am-9 pm 4922 55 St. 403-986-1691

Seniors’ Services

1420

1165

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

Care

1430

RESIDENTIAL SNOW CLEARING. Affordable monthly contracts.

403-352-4034

ROOM in quiet home. $450. Call 403-350-7799

CLASSIFICATIONS

3140

Warehouse Space

Motorhomes

5100

5000-5300

Cars

5030

Must Sell! Well Kept 2005 HR Admiral 36’ Workhorse, 22.5” tires Sleeps 6, 4 dr. Fridge Call 403-887-0911

5110

Fifth Wheels

3160

2008 BMW 328 xi sunroof, lthr., 66,382 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

3190

2011 KEYSTONE Alpine $54,900. OBO. Top of the line. Satellite dish, built in Cummins Onan generator, Sub-zero insulation pckg. and much more. Avail. for 2007 PONTIAC G5. Manual, viewing. Call 403 357 6950 130,000 km. Great cond.

Winter & Summer tires.

Well. maint. N/S. $5550.

403-342-4318

3300

2007 COLORADO, 28RK, Dutchman, 32’, slideout, back kitchen, shower, king bed, TV, stereo, air. loaded $22,900. 403-784-2482

4010

3040

Musical Instruments

1770

GUITAR, Yamaha, Acoustic 12 string, two tone, beautiful shape.

Comes with extra set of strings. Hard case, sold extra cost. $200. FIRM **SOLD**

1830

Cats

1840

F1B GOLDEN DOODLES, black now but will brindle as they get older. Non shedding, well handled, long time breeder. $900.

Delivered to Alberta.

Text 306-521-1371 or call 306-792-2113 www.furtettishfarm.ca

1860

SATURN front seat covers $10 403-347-8726 SPACEMATE Gold treadmill $100 403-309-3117

Collectors' Items

1870

8 ONLY. Indian Holy Men & Medicine Men Shields: Sarcee, Cree, Souis, Blackfoot. All approx. 24” wide x 36” long. Generally found in Museum showcases. A must see! $200 for everything.

403-347-7405 A MUST SEE TO BELIEVE COLLECTOR’S DREAM. 5 only, 4’ “DIM”. All furs, breathtaking designed wall hangers. Not found in AB. $200. 403-347-7405

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Support Ltd. for SENIORS. Companionship, cleaning, cooking - in home, in facility.

We are BETTER for CHEAPER! Call 403-346-7777

wheels

homes

Sporting Goods

1290

3020

Mountview: fully furn bdrm $500/$250. Working Male only. Call 403-396-2468

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MINI SCHNAUZER puppies, ready to go $650/ea.

403-746-0007, 877-3352

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Window Pampering at its Cleaning VELOX EAVESTROUGH BEST! Cleaning & Repairs.

403-986-6686 Reasonable rates. 340-9368 WINDOW CLEANING. Come in and see Outside / Inside / Both. why we are the talk 403-506-4822 of the town.

Escorts www.viimassage.biz Yard

ULTIMATE PLAYMATES. 403-986-SEXY, 402-3964 Red Deer’s Best www.viimassage.biz

Houses/ Duplexes

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stuff

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3090

1760

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VINYL SIDING CLEANING Eaves Trough Cleaned, Windows Cleaned. Pckg.

Pricing. 403-506-4822

rentals

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

3050

CLEARVIEW

3 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls. Rent $1075. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail.

Nov. 1, 403-304-5337 NEWLY reno’d 3 bdrm.

4 plex., 6 appls, Glendale area, $1300/mo.

403-302-0488

SOUTH HILL

Fantastic brand new Tri-Plex.

Close to RD Hospital. All new, so be the first tenant to call this amazing place home. 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath.

Bi-level house offers huge living room windows facing treed area. Open concept kitchen with upgraded appls.

This home combines perfect layout with modern design trends. Call now to book a viewing. Sorry no pets, N/S. Avail. NOW! HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 or Lucie @ 403-396-9554

Suites

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

1070

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Rooms For Rent

ROUND 40” MAPLE TABLE & 4 CHAIRS, $200.

SMALL / LARGE SPACES 3 B D R M . 2 f u l l b a t h , -Free standing - fenced yards 403-352-8811 $1395 mo. 403-782-7156 For all your needs. or 357-7465 WANTED 400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615 Antiques, furniture and 3 BDRM. main level, estates. 342-2514 house, Johnstone Park.

Storage $1300 + d.d. 30% utils. incld’. Nov,. 1., no pets Space Misc. for 403-970-3954, 805-6102 Sale SUNHAVEN RV & BOAT 3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 STORAGE bath, new paint & carpets DECK TABLE, in green www.rvboatstorage.ca & deck at 7316-59 Ave. metal, with glass top, Do you like a good deal?

Avail. to over 40 tenants.

38”x60”, 4 chairs, 1 matching No pets. Off street parking Do you like to be safe and rocker chair. New, secure? Starting at for 3 vehicles. Rent $1600, was $700. Asking $95. $25/mo. with 24/7 8’ LIVE CACTUS PLANT $45. D.D. $1600. 403-341-4627 security/surveillance.

3 WOOL ACCENT LIVE AT THE LAKE Graveled parking and MATCHING CARPETS, NW corner of Gull Lake, sani-dump. It’s the best clean. $20/ea.

3 bdrms., ensuite, 4 pce. deal around. 403-340-9483 403-352-8811 bath + bdrm. lower level, or 403-506-7383 DEER HEAD mount on fireplace, dble det. garage w/breeze way on 1/2 acre. shield $200 403-314-2026 Mobile $1200 /.mo + utils.

DIE cast models, cars, Call Dennis 403-829-8291 Lot truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker MOBILE HOME PAD, in gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east Condos/ Red Deer Close to Gaetz, end of Cash Casino Townhouses 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

HIDE A BED, combination Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225 radio/phonograph to give 5754 71 STREET away 403-347-5316 This beautiful 1.5 bath two-storey townhouse has Housesitting INDOOR/OUTDOOR 3 bright bdrms, 5 appls. & Wanted ELECTRIC HEALTH GRILL. $45. 403-347-8726 a lrg. living room with wood burning fire place, full bsmt ROOM FOR FREE, live in, & flower beds in fenced watch my dog while I am yard. With easy accessibility, away. F. preferred. For this home is close to all info call 403-850-2947 amenities. This townhouse is a perfect solution for singles, couples, families or roommates. Avail Nov. 1.

No Pets, N/S. HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554 INVACARE Power Wheelchair. $2250. Hardly LEGACY ESTATES used. 403-342-4318 Best Adult Retirement Community 60+. 1 Bdrm. luxury JACK LALANNE’S CLASSIFICATIONS condo unit. $800 + utils.

STAINLESS STELL 4000-4190 Call Joe 403-848-0266 POWER JUICER. Like new. $75. 403-347-8726 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, Realtors S A F E S T E P WA L K I N TUB, new $17,000 asking 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, & Services generously sized, 1 1/2 $5900. 346-4926 or 304-9813 baths, fenced yards, YAMAHA P5R-500 full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Electronic piano w/chair.

Sorry no pets.

Exc. cond. $100. www.greatapartments.ca CANON K920 Copier machine w/metal stand.

Manufactured Exc. cond. $100.

403-352-8811 Homes

1720

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Cleaning

HIE-A-BED. $200.

403-347-4111

Dogs

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

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

COUCH, CHAIR & FOOT STOOL. All Matching. Yellow & Gold print. Good cond.

No stains or tears. $65.

403-342-6943 after 7 p.m. or 403-347-2374 during the day.

Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split give away. 403-343-2522 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FREE TO LOVING HOME. CHOPPED Poplar free, 4 golden orange 10 week old kittens, and 1 6 week you pick up 403-392-8385 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, old orphaned kitten, grey, white & cream calico runt.

Poplar. Can deliver 403-782-3130 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 TO GIVE AWAY LOGS Beautiful long haired, Semi loads of pine, spruce, mostly white calico, 2 yr. tamarack, poplar. old Cat. Has shots and is Price depends on location. declawed, inside cat only.

Lil Mule Logging Needs “Cat Whisperer”.

403-318-4346 **HOME FOUND** Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

services 1010

1720

Homestead Firewood 4 BEAUTIFUL kittens to

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Accounting

Household Furnishings

AFFORDABLE

900

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

1630

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

is now accepting applications for P/T exp.

278950A5

880

Misc.

Help

3060

1 BDRM apt. at the rear side of 4616-44St., 1/2 block from farmers market, for Nov. 1st. Quiet bldg & avail. to over 50 non smoker, non partier & no pets.

Laundry on site. $750/mo/s.d 403-341-4627 LARGE, 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

MASON MARTIN HOMES Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

Condos/ Townhouses

Acreages

$650/mo incl. utils. have 2 small dogs. n/s 403-986-6195

Rooms For Rent

3090

LOCATION... LOCATION! On pavement, min. from Innisfail, 1500 sq. ft. ranch style home on 3.81 acres.

5 bdrms., w/2.5 baths, att. car port, cedar vaulted ceiling, 2 fireplaces, high speed DSL internet. $495,000. 403-357-9930

4090

Manufactured Homes

Businesses For Sale

4140

2008 JEEP Rubicon 4X4, $20,888 7652 Gaetz Ave, Sport & Import 348-8788

5160

2000 CAMPION 552 with 200 hrs on 2007 Volvo Penta 4.3L I/O. All cushions, seats & tarps in great shape & winterized. Garmin fishfinder 597C & full instrument panel.

Asking $18,000, can be viewed on Kijiji. 403-341-4627 before I put the tarp on for winter.

5180

(4) R18 Winter tires with Rims for BMW X5.

Used 2 winters. $750.

403-342-0539

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

5200

A-1 WILLY’S Parts Place Inc. Will haul away salvage cars free in city limits. Will pay for some.

Only AMVIC approved salvage yard in Red Deer 403-346-7278

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Misc.

Automotive

5240

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

2008 GMC ACADIA SLE, AWD, 8 passenger, $20,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 LAND ROVER Range Rover supercharged, 4X4, nav., sunroof, lthr., $33,888 348-8788, Sport & Import

DO YOU WANT YOUR AD TO BE READ BY 100,000 Potential Buyers???

TRY Central Alberta LIFE SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

2006 LAND ROVER Sport HSE AWD, lthr., sunroof, $24,888 7652 Gaetz Ave., Sport & Import

2003 DODGE Durango SLT Plus, 4X4, $8888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Trucks

Tour These Fine Homes

SERGE’S HOMES 17 VINTAGE CLOSE BLACKFALDS Oct 26 & 27 Sat. & Sun., 1 - 5 pm 1980 sq. ft. 2 storey walk out. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

Boats & Marine

CALL 309-3300

PUBLIC NOTICES

Directory

Out Of Red Deer

2007 YAMAHA Grizzly 700 exc. cond. $6200.

403-729-7456

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

Open House 4310

5040

2008 BMW X5 4.8i AWD, pana-roof, lthr., $36,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

LIMO COMPANY. Includes CLEAN, quiet, responsible, 2 stretch SUV’s. Call for Furn. $525. 403-346-7546 more details. 403-343-0649

Out Of Red Deer

SUV's

4050

SPRUCEVALE

3080

Locally owned and family operated

4040

NEW CONDO

5150

ATV's

Tires, Parts Acces.

ROSEDALE Bi-Level w/att. dbl. garage & det. shop/ garage. 4 bdrm., 3 bath.

On quiet close. $429,000.

See kijiji # 532958670.

Call 403-309-4464

Spacious 1 & 2 bedroom suites perfect for all walks of life. Cat friendly. Plaza Apartments: 1(888)7849279 rentmidwest.com

Roommates Wanted

at www.garymoe.com

2008 LAND ROVER LR2 SE 4X4,.sunroofs, $18,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

MUST SELL

MORRISROE MANOR

THE NORDIC

1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville 4 dr., 403-352-6889

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

1443 SQ. FT. CONDO. Great location.

403-343-1811, 550-3365

Great 2 bdrm apt w/balcony $945. Coin-op laundry.

Or lower floor @ $895.

Sorry no pets, N/S. HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 or Lucie @ 403-396-9554

2006 34’ Gulf Stream Yellowstone. Sleeps 4, hot water heater, 3 slides, new awning, queen sz. bed, 3 2005 LEXUS ES 330, lthr., pc. bath, washer, dryer 41100 kms., $15,888. hook-up, fully winterized, 348-8788 Sport & Import equipped w/both Arctic & 2001 HYUNDAI Accent 2 Sub Arctic pkgs, also c/w full custom skirt & more! dr. red, 403-348-2999 $34,900. 403-8878405 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040

4020

Houses For Sale

3810 47 ST. In Eastview Spacious 2 bdrm., bsmt. suite. Adult only. No pets. $895/mo. Avail. Nov. 15th.

Phone 403-343-0070

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

2007 FORD FUSION. 3L, V6, Fully loaded, leather, remote start, new tires, very well maint. 103,000 km. $9500. SOLD

5050

6010

U-STORE IT SELF STORAGE NOTICE TO:

Sheena Hoff Carly McMeekin Corey Mitcham Jeremy Mickelson Sheldon Nadeau Peter Odidi Andrew Wiper Iron Eagle

4310

SERGE’S HOMES Mackenzie Ranch 58 Mackenzie Cres.

LACOMBE Oct. 24 & 25, 2 pm - 5 pm Custom 2 storey 1392 sq. ft. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

Public Notices

2010 CHEV Silverado 1500 LT, 4X4, Z-71, cold air intake, 62629kms, $20888 348-8788 Sport & Import Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Please be advised that you have until

November 7, 2013 to pay these units in full or they will be auctioned off on November 16, 2013

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013

Bishop expelled in spending probe OUSTED FROM DIOCESE PENDING OUTCOME OF INQUIRY INTO $43-MILLION RENOVATION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis expelled a German bishop from his diocese on Wednesday pending the outcome of a church inquiry into his 31 million-euro ($43-million) new residence complex.

The Vatican didn’t say how long Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, 53, would spend away from the diocese of Limburg but it refused calls to remove him permanently. It gave no information on where he would go or what he would do.

The Vatican said the bishop was leaving pending the outcome of a German church investigation into the expenditures and his role in the affair.

Fellow bishops and lay Catholics in the diocese, however, expressed doubt that he would ever be able to return.

“This is a crisis of confidence that will be hard to overcome,” said the dean of the cathedral chapter, Guenther Geis.

Limburg’s vicar general, the Rev. Wolfgang Roesch, who had been due to start Jan. 1, will instead begin work immediately and will run the diocese during Tebartz-van Elst’s absence, the Vatican said.

At the centre of the controversy is the huge price tag for the construction of a new bishop’s residence complex and related renovations. Tebartzvan Elst has defended the expenditures, saying the bill was actually for 10 projects and there were additional costs because the buildings were under historical protection.

But in a country where Martin Luther launched the Reformation five centuries ago in response to what he said were excesses and abuses within the church, the outcry has been enormous.

The perceived lack of financial transparency has also struck a chord since a church

tax in Germany brings in billions a year to the German church.

Tebartz-van Elst’s leadership style has also been criticized. In August and September, more than 4,000 people signed an open letter to the bishop criticizing what they considered his authoritarian style.

The head of the German bishops’ conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, has been particularly blunt in his criticism of the expenditures and the credibility problem it was causing the church.

He said the “decisive” turning point came when Hamburg prosecutors earlier this month asked a court to levy an unspecified fine against the bishop for false testimony in a related case.

Zollitsch has said the church commission will investigate the costs of the renovation, the financing and how decisions about the restoration evolved. Canon lawyers will determine if Tebartz-van Elst violated church law regarding the use of church money, Zollitsch said.

In a statement Wednesday, Zollitsch pledged that the commission would do its work “quickly and carefully.”

Francis’ decision opens “a space to return to inner calm and create a new basis for talks,” he said.

The Vatican stressed that Francis took the decision based on “objective” information, suggesting that the Vatican wasn’t being swayed by the popular outcry. Francis has also made it clear he expects his bishops to live simply, setting as an example his own humble lifestyle.

Tebartz-van Elst met with Francis on Monday.

Germany’s main lay Catholic group, the Central Committee of German Catholics, praised the decision.

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Drug policy talks open in Colorado on how pot sales will work DENVER — Dignitaries from three nations are wrapping up a “Weed 101” tour in Colorado to learn about a regulated marijuana market.

The visitors from Canada, Mexico and Uruguay gaped at a greenhouse full of pot plants tagged with digital markers. They learned about video surveillance and measuring drug production.

They saw marijuana turned into tinctures, pills and skin patches, and met with state regulators.

The three-day tour wrapped up as Colorado prepares to play host to 1,000 drug policy experts and legalization backers at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference taking place through Saturday.

Marijuana legalization will be a major topic after Colorado and Washington state authorized marijuana possession for all adults over 21, with retail sales beginning next year.

Other nations considering new drug policies are watching.

NOAA takes eastern population of sea lions off threatened species list ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal agency is taking the eastern population of Steller sea lion off the threatened species list.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokeswoman Julie Speegle says the eastern population has met recovery criteria the agency set out in 2008.

In 1979, the agency estimated there were about 18,000 sea lions in the eastern population, which stretches from Alaska’s Panhandle to California’s Channel Islands. That number rose to more than 70,000 by 2010, the most recent year a count was available.

The western population of Steller sea lions, stretching from Cape Suckling, Alaska, west to Russian waters, remains listed as endangered.

The last species NOAA delisted was in 1994, when the eastern North Pacific grey whale was taken off the threatened species list.

FBI looking into cultural exchange director as possible Russian spy WASHINGTON — A national intelligence community official says the FBI is looking into wheth-

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In this Oct. 17 picture people walk past the residence of Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, Bishop of Limburg, Germany. Pope Francis temporarily expelled the German bishop from his diocese on Wednesday because of a scandal over a $43 million project to build a new residence complex, but refused popular calls to remove him. The Vatican didn’t say how long Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartzvan Elst would spend away from the diocese of Limburg. toward a new beginning in the Limburg diocese, because the situation had become an increasing burden for the faithful there and in all of Germany,” said Alois Glueck, the group’s head.

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er the U.S.-based director of a Russian government-run cultural exchange program is a spy who tried to recruit young Americans as intelligence assets.

The publication Mother Jones, which first reported the probe, said the organization run by Yury Zaytsev has paid for about 130 Americans to visit Russia. The 130 include political aides, non-profit advocates and business executives.

The publication said Zaytsev or his associates had begun to build files on participants.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe was still under way.

Zaytsev does not have a Washington phone listing. The centre where he works referred calls to the Russian Embassy, which did not answer the phone Wednesday night.

Three children treated after police officer’s gun accidentally goes off at school CHINO, Calif. — Authorities say a police officer’s gun accidentally fired during a school safety demonstration in California and three children were treated for minor injuries.

Tamrin Olden, the Chino Police Department’s crime prevention supervisor, says the gun went off at around 11:15 a.m. Wednesday during a safety presentation at Newman Elementary School.

Fire Department spokeswoman Massiel Ladron De Guevara says three students were treated for cuts and scrapes but they weren’t hit by gunfire.

Two were taken to hospitals and one was released to parents.

Other details of the incident remain sketchy. Olden says authorities are still trying to sort out what happened.

Donations pour in for woman charged with theft from fountain BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio — More than $14,000 has been donated online to help a U.S. woman who said she stole change from a courthouse fountain to buy food and was charged with petty theft.

Police allege Deirdre Romine took $2.87 from a fountain at the Logan County Courthouse in Ohio this month. Romine has said she didn’t think the money belonged to anyone and she was jobless and trying to feed herself and her cats.

Police Chief Brandon Standley says Romine lied when an officer questioned her and found the change. He says that’s why the officer determined a citation was merited.

The 38-year-old Romine pleaded not guilty. Her trial is scheduled next month. Officials hope to resolve the case sooner.

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refused to comment on the matter.

Franz-Josef Bode, bishop of Osnabrueck, said the pope had made a “smart” decision which gives all concerned time to review the situation calmly.

But in comments to the Ger-

Examiner say more than $14,000 has been raised for Romine.

Police shoot teen carrying replica assault weapon SANTA ROSA, Calif. — California sheriff’s deputies have shot and killed a 13-year-old boy after repeatedly telling him to drop what turned out to be a toy gun, officials and family members said.

Two deputies saw the boy walking with what appeared to be a high-powered weapon Tuesday, sheriff’s Lt. Dennis O’Leary said.

The replica gun resembled an AK-47, according to a photograph released by the sheriff’s office.

Deputies learned after the shooting that it wasn’t an actual firearm, according to O’Leary.

Rodrigo Lopez identified the boy as his son, Andy, to a newspaper and said the teen was carrying a toy gun that belonged to a friend.

It wasn’t clear whether the teen pointed the replica assault rifle at the deputies or made any type of threatening gesture. The sheriff’s office referred calls to the Santa Rosa Police Department, which did not immediately return a call for comment.

O’Leary said the deputies fired several rounds from their handguns immediately after issuing the orders to drop the rifle. A neighbour in the area, Brian Zastrow, told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat he heard seven shots.

The teen was pronounced dead at the scene.

The deputies, who have not been identified, have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard after a shooting, O’Leary said.

Rat Island gets new look, new name JUNEAU, Alaska — Five years after undertaking an effort to eradicate rats from a remote Alaska island, conservationists and federal wildlife officials are reporting success.

They say the island, once known as Rat Island because of its infestation of invasive Norway rats, is now teeming with birds, whose noises replace the silence that had been reported there earlier.

They also say for the first time breeding tufted puffins have been documented on the island, which is not inhabited by people and is in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Some other bird species are reported to be growing in number, as well.

The makeover of the island includes a name change. What was long known as Rat Island is now officially called Hawadax Island, a nod to the original Aleut name.

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man newspaper Die Welt, he cast doubt on Tebartz-van Elst ever returning to Limburg.

“There is a fundamental crisis of confidence in Limburg. The situation there is a mess,” Bode was quoted as saying.

India says Pakistani troops attacked border posts

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SRINAGAR, India — India on Wednesday accused Pakistani troops of firing guns and mortars on at least 50 Indian border posts overnight in disputed Kashmir, calling it the most serious cease-fire violation between the nuclear-armed neighbours in a decade.

The attacks began Tuesday night in southern Kashmir after India’s home minister visited the region to review security, Border Security Force spokesman Vinod Yadav said. Indian troops returned fire, but one Indian guard was killed and six were injured by a shell fired at the Arnia post in the Jammu region, he said.

At least 100 civilians were being moved from the villages of Arnia and Ramgarh near the frontier, local Indian police officer Rajesh Kumar said. Hundreds more were sheltering overnight in government camps away from any gunfire, which had injured 12 civilians in recent days, officials said.

“These people usually go back to their homes in the day as the firing incidents mainly occur during the night,” said civil administrator Shantmanu, who uses one name.

While nearly 200 smaller violations of the 2003 cease-fire agreement have been reported this year, Yadav called the latest skirmishes the most serious in a decade. In most cases, India or Pakistan accuses the other of initiating the fighting.

India also regularly accuses Pakistan of supporting Kashmiri rebels who have been fighting on the Indian side since 1989 for independence or a merger with Pakistan.

An estimated 68,000 people have been killed in the conflict, though most resistance is now shown through street protests. Pakistan denies giving any backing to the rebels beyond moral support.

Both India and Pakistan, however, have reported an increase in the number of cross-border attacks since the current Pakistani and Indian prime ministers held their first face-to-face meeting last month in New York and agreed on the need to reduce tensions.

Pakistan said Indian troops targeted 27 Pakistani posts near Sialkot in the last two days with machine-guns and mortars. The Indians fired nearly 4,000 mortars and 59,000 machine-gun rounds, and Pakistani troops responded, Pakistan’s military said.

During the last two weeks, Indian troops have killed two Pakistani civilians and a soldier and wounded 26 other civilians, it said.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif discussed his nation’s dispute with India over Kashmir when he met President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday. After their meeting, neither leader mentioned the latest clashes in the disputed region, but Obama praised Sharif for seeking to end tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours that have fueled an arms race between them.

Sharif said he was committed to co-operation with India, including on Kashmir. He has said he would ask Obama for U.S. intervention and help in resolving the dispute.

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3D printing work looks to past and future CANADIAN RESEARCHERS IN MEDICINE AND PALEONTOLOGY ARE PIONEERING PROJECTS INTENDED TO MAKE LIFE EASIER IN THE FUTURE OR SHED LIGHT ON THE PAST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Three-dimensional printers have already begun addressing present-day demands around the world by churning out everything from food to firearms, but Canada’s contributions seem geared toward different times.

Canadian researchers in medicine and paleontology are hard at work pioneering projects intended to either make life easier in the future or shed light on the past.

Innovations emerging from Canadian hospitals and university labs have potential to ease the pain of severe burns and joint replacements, while experiments scheduled to begin this year in a Canadian museum will deepen understanding of a poorly understood dinosaur that lived and moved in water.

The common thread between these divergent projects is a piece of technology that has already made international headlines for its versatility.

Three-dimensional printers, which use chemical compounds in place of ink to reproduce 3D models of computer-generated files, have been put to work in fields ranging from architecture to archiving.

The U.S.-based Smithsonian institution has begun an effort to catalogue its vast collection through 3D printing with a view to making its exhibits accessible to a broader audience. A British company has developed a 3D-printed material resembling marble and already produces enough annual output to construct 12 two-storey buildings.

Other enterprising individuals have managed to produce guns, clocks, clothing and even chocolate using devices that work in the home.

Canadian 3D-printing pioneers may not have attracted as much attention to date, but their work promises to capture public attention in the years to come.

A team of researchers led by staff at Toronto’s Mount Sinai hospital have developed a technique for recreating replacement joints using a patient’s own tissues. The process hinges, however, upon a bone replacement created by a 3D printer.

Dr. Rita Kandel, chief of the hospital’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, said a joint is comprised of two parts — bone and cartilage.

Present-day joint replacements rely on metal or plastic prosthetic parts to take the place of the damaged bone, most of which wear out over time and cause more pain for the patient.

Kandel and a team of researchers have devised a way to print a bone replacement using a calcium phosphate compound that has many of the same properties as the human skeleton.

That bone is then used as a natural scaffolding for replacement cartilage, which is regenerated from the patient’s stem cells.

The 3D-printed part is both porous and biodegradable, Kandel said, adding it will dissolve over time as the patient’s natural bone regrows.

“The bone reattaches to the cartilage that was there, and you completely reconstruct a normal joint using the patient’s own cells,” Kandel said. “So there’s no metals or plastic and no typical way of failure that’s found in these prostheses.”

Kandel and her team have successfully created new knee joints for animals and hope to apply the

WHO SAYS POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR LARGE OUTBREAK The World Health Organization says it believes polio has erupted in war-torn Syria, a dire development in the fight to eradicate the disease.

The Geneva-based agency says a cluster of more than 10 paralysis cases have been detected in Deir Al Zour province in eastern Syria, a contested area of the country. The WHO’s senior official for polio eradication says initial tests indicate polio is the cause, and efforts to address what could be a crisis situation are being geared up.

Dr. Bruce Aylward says the potential exists for a large scale outbreak that will take time to bring under control.

That’s because the collapse of health services during the civil war has meant there are young children in Syria who haven’t been vaccinated.

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Not all 3D-printing efforts are focused on future medical innovations. Researchers in Alberta are hoping the technology can help them unlock some historical secrets as well by shedding light on one of the world’s lesser-understood dinosaurs.

Plesiosaurs did not roam the land like their more famous counterparts, but spent most of their days in water.

Donald Henderson, curator of dinosaurs at Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum, said little is known to date about how the species was able to navigate its aquatic habitats, adding debate centres on whether the animals relied on a back fin to stay afloat.

Henderson, in partnership with the University of Calgary, plans to print various plesiosaur models, some of which feature the fin in question. The models will then be put through various tests in a flume tank, and Henderson hopes the results will advance the world’s knowledge of a little-understood species.

Jessica Theodor, a paleontologist at the University of Calgary who is collaborating on the project, said more in-depth knowledge of the plesiosaur has present-day implications as well for the scientific community.

“They provide another example of different shapes possible for marine tetrapods, so understanding how they could swim is important in understanding different ways that vertebrates can move in aquatic environments,” she said.

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procedure to humans in the next few years.

These next few years may also usher in another quantum leap in medical care thanks to 3D printing.

A team of researchers led by graduate students at the University of Toronto have developed a printer that produces a tissue closely resembling human skin.

Stem cells or other genetic matter are combined with calcium chloride to produce a soft tissue that can be adjusted to different thicknesses and textures.

Dr. Marc Jeschke, a burn surgeon at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital and close collaborator on the project, said the technology’s primary application would be to treat patients suffering from severe burns.

The procedure would reduce hospital wait times, reduce the need for painful skin grafts and revolutionize modern-day approaches to burn treatment, he said.

Testing is still in the early stages, with large-scale use still expected to be at least a decade away. Still, Jeschke is brimming with optimism about the printer’s potential impact in the field.

“If we are successful in this entire picture, we will definitely change the way we care for burn patients throughout the world,” he said. “The bigger picture of this technology is dramatic, it’s tremendous, it’s incredible.”

Final confirmation may take a few more days, but Aylward says the WHO is assuming the worst.

“This quacks like a duck, looks like a duck — you’ve got to plan as though it’s a duck,” Aylward, the WHO’s assistant director-general for polio, emergencies and country collaboration, said from Geneva late Saturday.

“We think that there’s a high probability that this is real.”

The unwelcome development is the latest setback for the global effort to eradicate polio, already 13 years behind schedule and billions of dollars over original cost estimates.

While polio remains endemic — meaning transmission has never been stopped — in only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, several countries this year have seen spread of polio resume as a result of imported viruses.

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Fax 403-341-6560 editorial@reddeeradvocate.com from $10 to $15. See zedhauntedhouse.com or see Facebook. Phone 403-342-6500. ● After School Club invites teens and tweens to come to the Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library for games, crafts, movies, music and more after school every Thursday at 3:30 p.m. Program length will vary by activity. Phone 403-341-3822.

On Oct. 31, teens are invited to come in Halloween costumes, enjoy treats and win prizes. ● Storytime in Parkland Mall is offered at Parkland Mall Food Court on Oct. 31 from 10 to 11

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a.m. for Pick-A-BOOk, Monster! Snacks and stories and more. Phone 403-309-3488. ● Red Deer College music student concert will be offered on Oct. 31 on the Mainstage, Arts Centre at 1 p.m. See http://www.rdc.ab.ca/showtime ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Oct. 31, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Country Express Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403-246-3896.

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Todd Nivens, program co-ordinator at Kerry Wood Nature Centre, stands with a stack of energy-efficient LED lights being given away in exchange for at least two strands of incandescent lights. The LED Christmas Light Exchange started on Wednesday, and will continue until all LED lights — over 700 boxes — have been given away.

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Friday ● Cornerstone Youth Theatre presents Alice in Wonderland coming up at First Church of the Nazarene with performances at 7 p.m. on Oct. 25 and 26, Nov. 1 and 2, and at 3 p.m. on Oct. 26, and Nov. 2. Other showtimes are 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 and 5 p.m. on Nov. 3, as well as school day showtimes. Ticket are available at www.cornerstoneyouththeatre.org, or by phone 403-986-2981 with costs from $10 to $12, and by purchase at the door. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House Karaoke on Oct. 25, 7 p.m. Admission by donations. Phone 403-346-4043. ● Monster Mash Family Wellness Bash will be held on Oct. 25 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church. There will be booths and presentations from local health organizations, Halloween activities, and prizes and events for the whole family. Young children will receive a Teddy Bear and a passport to take home. Phone Red Deer Native Friendship Society 403-340-0020 for details. ● Jam and dance at Royal Canadian Legion in Lacombe will be held on the second and fourth Friday of each month from 7 to 10 p.m. Upcoming jam sessions on Oct. 25, Nov. 8 and 22. Admission $2. Free coffee served. Contact Henry at 403-7893738. ● Pizza 73 Slices for Smiles fundraiser for Children’s Miracle Network continues until Nov. 10. Purchase a special nine inch pizza topped with a pepperoni smile for $4.99 with a portion of proceeds to the Miracle Network. ● Drop-in Pre-school Storytime is offered from 10 to 10:45 a.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the children’s department. Stories, songs, and crafts for three to five year olds. Phone 403-346-4688.

Saturday ● Favourite Friends Series at Family Drop-in Storytime at 11 a.m. features a beloved picture book character with a party in the Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch Children’s Department for families with children ages three and up. On Oct. 26, take in Spooky Party with Scaredy Squirrel, and on Nov. 23 take in Olivia the Pig’s Dress up Divas Party. ● School’s Out: It’s a Zombie A-Sock-alypse! on Oct. 26, 2 to 4 p.m. for children ages eight and up to build a zombie sock puppet and compete in Zombie A-Sock-alypse games, activities, and more at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library in the Children’s Department. Phone 403-346-4688. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Oct. 26 session is called Bring your own pumpkin with artist Tanya Zuzak Collard and Shannon Woolgar. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405. Free with admission. ● Central Alberta Singles dance will be held Oct. 26 at Penhold Hall. Music by Double B. Doors open at 8 p.m. Music starts at 8:30 p.m. Members and invited guests only; new members welcome.

For information, call Elaine at 403-341-7653 or Bob at 403-304-7440. ● Norwegian Laft Hus Society Craft and Bake Sale takes place Oct. 26, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Oct. 27, noon to 4 p.m. at the museum located behind the Recreation Centre. Lots of new items, baking, an butikk. Phone 403-347-2055. ● Puppet Family Storytime at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library is for the whole family to enjoy a puppet show, games and crafts. On Oct. 26 the theme will be Go Away, Little Monster! from 1 to 2 p.m. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Community Hoedown will be at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre on Oct. 26. Doors open at 5 p.m. Dinner served at 5:30 p.m. Enjoy entertainment by local band the Swing Kings with special guitarist Joe Gates starting at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets cost $15 in advance or $18 at the door.

Children ages 10 years and under free. Contact Sarah at 403-362-5601 or the Golden Circle for tickets. A group of seniors will be teaching a group of youths how to fully prepare a dinner for this old fashioned event. Youth and senior volunteers to help out from noon on are welcome. ● St. Stephen’s Catholic Church Traditional Turkey Supper will take place on Oct. 26 from 4 to 7 p.m. in Olds. Costs are $30 for family with children up to 18 years, children and adults 13 years and up are $10, students ages six to 12 years are $5, and preschool children free. Contact Theresa at 403-556-6566 or coups2@telusplanet.net.

Sunday ● Time Challenge with the 1st Red Deer Rangers is the ultimate Girl Guide Challenge

including a variety of tasks and activities, indoors and outdoors at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery.

The Challenge takes place on Oct. 27 starting at 2 p.m. and will be held in conjunction with the exhibit A Friend to All. Dress for the weather and compete to win prizes. Phone 403-309-8405. ● Seniors Church meets at 11 a.m. on Sundays at Bower Kin Place for hymns and gospel preaching. Phone 403-347-6706.

Monday ● Reel Movie Mondays continues at Carnival Cinemas with the film Love is All You Need starring Pierce Brosnan, rated 14A on Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. The fall series continues on Nov. 4 with Twenty Feet From Stardom (PG), Nov. 18 with Fruitvale Station (14A), Dec. 2 with Parkland — 50 Years after JFK’s assassination (PG), Dec. 16 with The Art of Steal — with Canadian comedic content. Packages of five tickets are $35 for members or $45 for nonmembers. Single tickets are $8 for members or $10 for non-members. Memberships and tickets can be purchased in advance from Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery by calling 403-309-8405. ● Bower Community Board presents Lynn Ring, the Organizing Guru on Oct. 28 from 7 to 8 p.m. at Bower Community Hall. Coffee and cookies served. Phone 403-340-0781. ● Do you know your medications? information booths will be set up during Patient Safety Week at the following sites: Red Deer Regional Hospital from Oct. 28 to Nov. 1 at Café VA from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Parkland Mall on Oct. 29 until noon near the food court; Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre on Oct. 31 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the library; Bower Place Shopping Centre on Oct. 31 until noon near Central Court. Phone 403-406-5685 or aileen.serle@albertahealthservices.ca. ● Innisfail and District Garden Club meets the fourth Monday of each month, except for Dec., in St. Mark’s Anglican Church Hall. Please use the back door. Meetings feature speakers, tours, films, contests, plant exchanges and more. Call Davina at 403-598-9481. ● Monday Melodies at Kerry Wood Nature Centre will be on Oct. 28, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Seniors invited to drop in and celebrate nature inspired music and more. Phone 403-346-2010.

Tuesday ● Multiple Sclerosis Society Lunch and Learn on Oct. 29 will feature information on MS pain management at 11:30 a.m. Light lunch provided. Please call ahead to register, 403-346-0290. ● Frankenplush Freakout for teens ages 12 to 18 years will be offered at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium on Oct. 29 from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. Participants are invited to bring a favourite stuffed toy to perform a little “surgery” to create a Frankenstuffy, come to watch the movie Frankenweenie on the big screen, and enjoy some Halloween treats. All materials provided. ● Bower Place Community Association seniors’ coffee and card parties are held on the last Tuesday of each month at Bower Kin Place from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Join the fun on Oct. 29. Call Marlene at 403-343-0632. ● Innisfail United Church Harvest Turkey Supper will be celebrated on Oct. 29 at Innisfail Legion Auditorium from 4 to 7 p.m. Costs are $12 for 11 years and up, $6 for six to 10 years, and free for five years and under. Take out orders are welcome. To place an order, call 403-227-4159 on Oct. 29 from 9 a.m. and noon.

Wednesday ● Café Millennium cookie fundraiser for an automated external defibrillator for a local school will be held on Oct. 30 from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Buy a heart shaped cookie and support the cause, part of Project Brock. Hear Kim Ruether, mother of Brock, who died of cardiac arrest at a school in Fairview, and find out more. ● GrammaLink-Africa Chili Luncheon will be held on Oct. 30. For $18, choose a hand made pottery bowl to keep and fill with home made chili at the The Hub on Ross. See www.hubpdd.com, or phone 403-340-4869. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Country Gold North is on Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035.

Thursday ● Zed99 Haunted House will be open to the public Oct. 18 to 31 from 6 to 10 p.m. daily, and to 11 p.m. at 7710 50 Ave. in support of Boys and Girls Club of Red Deer. Evening shows not recommended for children under seven years of age.

Weekend matinees from 1 to 4 p.m. are available for younger children and others. Ticket prices range

● Multiple Sclerosis Society Research Update will be offered on Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at Sheraton Red Deer. Please call ahead to register, 403-3460290. ● Cover 2 Cover Book Club will meet on Nov. 18 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. November’s theme is books about food. See more information online at www.rdpl.org/ services/cover2cover. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Arthritis 101 will be offered on Nov. 26 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Register in advance online at www.arthritis. ca, or by calling 1-800-321-1433. This volunteer-led program will provide information to those newlydiagnosed. ● Red Deer College Music Concert Series presents Rotary Seniors Concert on Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m. on Mainstage, Arts Centre. Tickets are available from Black Knight Ticket Centre, www. bkticketcentre.ca, 403-755-6626, or 1-800-6618793. Enjoy a variety show for seniors hosted by the Rotary Club and performed by the students and faculty of the music department, complete with snacks and visiting in the lobby afterwards. ● Treehouse Youth Theatre presents another original production — Winter Wonderland 2.0 — Christmas at the Lyric Theatre — running Dec. 5 to 7 , and Dec. 12 to 14 with doors opening at 7 p.m., and matinees at 2 p.m. on Saturdays, Dec. 7 and 14. Tickets cost $17.50 before Oct. 31 and $22.50 after. Call 403-986-0631 to reserve. ● Downtown Business Association is now accepting applications for the 2013 Santa Claus Parade which will take place on Nov. 16 starting at 5:30 p.m. Other highlights will be family activities at City Hall Park at 4 p.m., light show at Old Court House sponsored by Tim Hortons, and lighting the Festival of Trees Biggest Christmas Tree sponsored by Bilton Welding and Manufacturing, also sponsors of cash prizes for the parade. For a parade application form, see www.downtownreddeer. com, or phone 403-340-8696. ● Sweetheart Gala — Fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House — will be held on Feb. 15 from 7 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at Heartland Room, Westerner Park. Tickets, $25 in advance and $30 after

Jan. 1. Event includes a silent auction, toonie bar, prizes, 50/50 draws and midnight lunch. For tickets and information contact Courtney or Chelsey at c.malone@hotmail.com. ● Heart Wise, a free, three-hour group session offered by Alberta Health Services, will be held on Nov. 1, 6, and Dec. 13 from 9 a.m. to noon, and Nov. 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Bethany CollegeSide.

Nutrition and food service professionals will share their knowledge and guide discussions to help individuals manage their heart health. To register, call 1-877-314-6997. ● Poplar Ridge Annual Turkey Supper will be held on Nov. 2 starting at 5 p.m. Advance tickets only. Call Esther at 403-346-5983 or Janet at 403346-5629. ● Reading Tails, a program to inspire confidence and encourage reluctant readers, runs year round at the Red Deer Public Library Downtown.

Children ages six to 12 can practice their reading skills by reading to a canine buddy in this six week program for 30 minutes each week. For more information or to register contact Laural at 403-3464688 or lgrimes@rdpl.org. ● Local singer songwriter Donna Durand will be in concert at The Hub on Ross, Nov. 1, 7 p.m. with special guest Elvin Bruce Berthiaume.

Tickets cost $15 per person, or $30 per family cash only at the door. Phone 403-340-4869. ● Awareness Musicale — An evening of live music in support of those affected by prostate cancer — will feature Ben Crane, Lloyd Griffith, Ray Baird, and Visions Country Gospel Group on Nov. 8, 7 p.m. at Festival Hall. Tickets cost $20 from 53rd Street Music, or by phone 1-877-895-4430, or www.davidthompsonhealthtrust.com. Central Alberta Prostate Awareness and Support Group holds meetings on the third Thursday of each month, 7:30 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church downstairs. ● Living Well with a Mental Illness is a fiveweek course for people interested in mental health including those with mental illness, their friends, family members, and general public. and will offered on Saturdays from Nov. 2 to 30, from 10 a.m. to noon at Red Deer Public Downtown Branch. To register for this free course or for more information call 403-342-2266.

Tarantulas stir fervour in loyal owners

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Tarantulas are the heaviest, hairiest, scariest spiders on the planet. They have fangs, claws and barbs. They can regrow body parts and be as big as dinner plates, and the females eat the males after mating. But there are many people who call these creepy critters a pet or a passion and insist their beauty is worth the risk of a bite.

“They are fascinating to watch. They have (eight) beautiful slender legs; you look at how they are put together and how they dig and burrow,” said Dee Reynolds, a 36-year-old nurse who has more than 50 tarantulas at her Los Angeles home.

Reynolds doesn’t consider her tarantulas pets in the traditional sense, but she says a lot of people do and will name them, talk to them and show them off.

Plus, in terms of being pets, they have lots of benefits, she said. “They don’t need daily walks, they don’t have to be fed special diets, they don’t claw furniture or bark, and you don’t have to find somebody to take care of them when you go on vacation,” said Reynolds.

But, unlike Fido or Whiskers, you can’t cuddle with them, dress them for Halloween or play catch. They can cost hundreds of dollars, but they can also live for 30 years.

Ken Macneil, 38, known as “Ken the Bug Guy,” has about 7,000 tarantulas at his exotic pet shop in Tucson, Ariz., which he claims is one of the largest in the country. He sells everything from scorpions and cockroaches to ferrets, lizards and snakes, but nothing is as popular as the tarantula, and not just around Halloween.

His biggest tarantula is a mature male Goliath bird-eater that measures 10 inches long from front leg to back leg. The most expensive one Macneil has ever sold went for $900.

Macneil said his customers include museums, scientists and teachers and up to an estimated 20,000 pet owners and hobby enthusiasts.

A metallic blue tarantula is one of the most sought after, with females selling for about $400 this year. They were $700 last year, he said, because there was a shortage. “But so many were bred that the price dropped to

$400. Babies were $200 last year, and this year, they are $100.”

The tarantula starts life as a sling — short for spiderling — so they can be as small as a fingernail and grow as large as a dinner plate. It eats mostly live crickets, cockroaches and some mice.

The spider turns prey into stew by pumping in venom through its fangs.

When you hold a tarantula, some feel like velvet, some like pipe cleaners and some have really bristly hairs, Reynolds said.

But there’s no handling her 8-inch bird-eater. “My girl happens to be wild.

You can look, but don’t touch. She has a nasty attitude.”

Many tarantulas are docile, however. Macneil has a 9-inch spider named Tess who is “extremely docile and loves you to hold her.

They don’t like to be petted. Their barbs or hair would come out and make you itch,” he said.

All tarantulas can bite, but most owners say it’s no worse than a bee sting, unless you are allergic.

If you are, it can be fatal, Reynolds said.

Although there is no documented case of a fatal bite, some of the spiders have more potent venom than others, and there is no anti-venom, so you treat the symptoms and hope for the best, she said.

Reynolds has never been bitten, but Macneil said he’s been bitten five or six times. He said it hurts for a few minutes, then goes numb.

So why do people keep and study tarantulas? For expert Stan Schultz, it’s about the exotic.

The 70-year-old from Calgary, Alberta, said he got interested in the critters when he was young because normal pets became boring.

Schultz has spent more than 45 years keeping, catching, importing, breeding, selling, writing and lecturing about tarantulas. His book, The Tarantula Keeper’s Guide, is in its third edition and headed to its fourth.

At one time, Schultz had 1,300 tarantulas — all with names.

When asked to describe the most interesting thing about the spider, Schultz said recognizing the “basic aspects of learning and, dare I say it, intelligence in tarantulas. But, before you get your hopes up, they’re still closer to a cabbage than the family dog in smarts.”

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Royals out in force for christening

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Dressed in a lace and satin gown designed in the 1840s, Britain’s 3-month-old future monarch, Prince George, was christened Wednesday with water from the River Jordan at a rare gathering of four generations of the royal family.

The occasion had historic overtones: the presence of Britain’s 87-year-old monarch and three future kings, Princes Charles, William and, of course, little George.

Queen Elizabeth II, usually the centre of attention, quietly ceded the spotlight to her rosy-cheeked great-grandson, who seemed to wave at her when he arrived — an illusion created by his father, Prince William, playfully moving the infant’s arm.

The private affair at the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace was also attended by Prince Charles, next in line to the throne, and the queen’s 92-yearold husband, Prince Philip, who has shown remarkable stamina since returning to the public eye after a twomonth convalescence following serious abdominal surgery.

All told, it was an exceptional day for a monarchy that seems to be basking in public affection since the 2011 wedding of William and Kate Middleton and the maturing of Prince Harry, who appears to have put his playboy days behind him.

George, who was born on July 22, wore a replica of an intricate christening gown made for Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter and first used in 1841.

When William was christened in 1982, he wore the original gown — by then well over a century old — but the garment has become so fragile that a replica was made.

The infant, who will head the Church of England when he becomes

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king, was christened with water from the River Jordan by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.

He arrived at the chapel in his father’s arms with his mother by their side.

Kate, smiling broadly on her way into the chapel, wore a cream-colored Alexander McQueen dress and hat by milliner Jane Taylor, with her long hair brushed to the side. William wore his customary dark suit and tie as he proudly carried their first child.

Kate’s parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, and her sister, Pippa, and brother, James, were also at the ceremony.

Pippa Middleton read from the Gospel of St. Luke and Prince Harry read from the Gospel of St. John. The two hymns were Breathe on Me, Breath of God and Be Thou My Vision.

The chapel has a strong connection to William’s mother, the late Princess Diana, whose coffin was laid before the chapel’s altar for her family to pay their last respects in private before her 1997 funeral.

Baby George has seven godparents, among them William’s cousin, Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne and a close friend of the couple.

They also include Oliver Baker, a friend from William and Kate’s days at St. Andrews University; Emilia Jardine-Paterson, who went to the exclusive Marlborough College high school with Kate; Hugh Grosvenor, the son of the Duke of Westminster; Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, a former private secretary to the couple; Julia Samuel, a close friend of Princess Diana, and William van Cutsem, a childhood friend of William’s.

Palace officials said water from the River Jordan — where Christians believe Jesus Christ was baptized — was used for the christening.

Kate Duchess of Cambridge carries her son Prince George after his christening at the Chapel Royal in St. James’s Palace in London, Wednesday. The prince was christened Wednesday with water from the River Jordan at a rare fourgeneration gathering of the royal family in London.

week, investigators said Wednesday.

More than 100 fires have killed one man and destroyed more than 200 homes in New South Wales state since Thursday.

Fire investigators found that a massive fire near the city of Lithgow, west of Sydney, began Oct. 16 at a nearby Defence Department training area, and that the blaze “was started as a result of live ordnance exercises” at the army range, the Rural Fire Service said in a statement.

The fire has burned 47,000 hectares (180 square miles) and destroyed several houses, but no injuries or deaths have been reported in the blaze. It was downgraded from the highest emer-

gency category on Wednesday.

The Defence Department declined to comment on the investigators’ findings, but had earlier confirmed that an explosive ordnance training exercise was conducted Oct. 16. The Defence Department was also investigating any link between the exercise and the fire.

The revelation drew anger from Mark Greenhill, mayor of the community of Blue Mountains, which has been ravaged by several of the fires over the past week.

“I would have hoped on a day like that — which was a dry day, a hot day, with the winds — the Australian military would have known it wouldn’t be a good time to be igniting,” Greenhill

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told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell came to the military’s defence.

“I want to ensure that this doesn’t detract from the efforts that Defence have made over the past week in assisting the state’s emergency services battle these fires,” he told the Seven Network.

Meanwhile, winds that were fanning wildfires and showering embers on threatened communities eased late Wednesday, after scores of Blue Mountains residents evacuated their homes.

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