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BY DEAN BENNETT THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Speaker Gene Zwozdesky says he will study and make a ruling as early as Wednesday on whether Premier Alison Redford’s government broke parliamentary rules by prematurely spilling the details of its new transportation bill.

Opposition leaders say regardless of the outcome, the bill’s handling reflects a trend under Redford to co-opt the machinery of government for partisan political ends, with legislation rolled out like election ads complete with splashy press conferences, smiling faces and big signs — all billed to the taxpayer.

“All it is is electioneering with taxpayer money,” said Opposition Wildrose party Leader Danielle Smith.

“For (Redford) to go out and start advertising bills that she hasn’t even introduced in the legislature shows incredible arrogance, and shows incredible disrespect to those of us on the opposition bench who have a job to do.”

NDP Leader Brian Mason said it is out of respect for the public that legislation — and details of the legislation — must first be raised in the legislature.

“That’s where the people are represented, because not all the people voted for the PC government,” said Mason.

Mason says there are other disturbing trends.

On Monday, Redford delivered a speech outlining her government’s priorities for the legislature sitting to a luncheon crowd at the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Despite semi-retirement status, Sundre’s Dr. Hal Irvine had a stethoscope around his neck when he was named one of Canada’s top family doctors for 2013 by the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

He was on clinic duty on Monday at Greenwood Family Physicians Clinic when the winners were announced.

Irvine, 61, continues to do locum work for doctors who Dr. Hal Irvine need time off.

He joked that he was still figuring out what “semi-retirement” means.

“I stepped back from full-time practice at the end of June. Our plan is to spend six months of the year in Nelson, B.C., and six months of the year in Sundre,” said Irvine about he and his wife, Dianne Fisher, on Tuesday.

On Monday, 10 doctors across Canada were chosen for their outstanding patient care, significant contributions to the health and well-being of their communities, and their commitment to family medicine, teaching and research.

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Plucking the stuffing from a frog toy, A.J. Willick, 12, works on a Frankenplush project at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Library on Tuesday. About eight people took part in the pre-Halloween craft and movie session where they took plush toys and made some Frankenstein-like modifications to them all in the name of Halloween fun. For his project, Willick took the head and rear end of one plush toy and sewed them to another.

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Technology revolutionizing energy industry: experts

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Technological developments in the past decade have had a dramatic impact on the North American energy sector, and made the future difficult to predict. But four energy experts gave it their best shot this week during Synergy Alberta’s annual conference in Red Deer.

Susan Carlisle, director of alternative and renewable energy with Alberta Energy; Rick Marsh, senior adviser, reserves and resources, with the Alberta Energy Regulator; Dan Allan, executive vice-president with the Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources; and Mark Salkeld, president and CEO of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada, shared their per-

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Allan described how energy companies’ newfound ability to extract oil and gas from tight geological formations like shale is revolutionizing the industry.

“Unconventional now is the dominant new energy source for North America,” he said. “Horizontal wells now account for more than 70 per cent of the wells being drilled in Canada.”

By combining horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, companies can now drill into a tight underground zone and extract oil or gas from it for up to two miles, he said.

Salkeld emphasized how precise such operations have become.

“We could steer that (drill) bit in northeastern B.C. from right here in this room if we had the computer set-

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The result is that previously uneconomical reserves have been transformed into high-producing plays.

Allan noted that just eight years ago, the United States was importing about five billion barrels of oil annually.

“It’s coming down by a billion barrels a year in the last few years,” he said, attributing this mainly to unconventional oil from the Eagle Ford and Bakken shale formations.

“Those two plays, one in Texas and one in North Dakota, have added close to two million barrels a day in U.S. production, and they’re ramping up.”

Marsh echoed Allan’s assessment of the United States’ resurgent oil sector.

“Their oil production is now back up to about 1990 levels.”

Alberta also has promising uncon-

ventional resource formations, said Allan, and bitumen from the oilsands is expected to continue to grow in importance.

The problem for Alberta has been that a spike in natural gas production has occurred in the United States — the province’s No. 1 energy customer. Our southern neighbour has been producing about 65 billion cubic feet (BCF) of gas a day the past few years — enough to satisfy its needs — and is believed to have the potential to ramp up to 100 billion cubic feet, said Allan.

This abundance of natural gas has driven prices below the cost of production. Marsh said Alberta was generating close to 14 BCF a day a little more than a decade ago; by 2022 the figure is expected to sink to eight BCF.

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With winter just around the corner and recent freezing temperatures providing ideal conditions for making snow, Canyon Ski Resort got a jump on the season and began to blow out a blanket of the white stuff this week. Here, resort general manager David Martel, staff member Calvin Coleman and ski hill mascot Bernard check the consistency of the snow being blown from one of the many snow guns on the property Tuesday morning. Weather permitting, the staff are planning to continue making snow up until the planned opening day of Nov. 16.

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AWARD: Presented as part of Family Doctor Week Award recipients are nominated by their colleagues, community leaders and the College of Family Physicians’ 10 provincial chapters.

Irvine was nominated Dr. Mark Wylie, a fellow Sundre doctor.

Awards will be presented on Nov. 5 as part of Family Doctor Week in Canada at the college’s annual Family Medicine Forum being held in Vancouver this year.

Irvine said he feels both honoured and surprised to be receiving the award for just doing his job.

“I’ve always tried to do the best work I can and tried to give my patients in the community the type of service I would like to receive,” said Irvine, who will be attending the awards ceremony next week.

Irvine, an anesthesiologist, has been a family doctor in Sundre for 31 years.

He did his residency training in Ontario after studying medicine at the University of Calgary. Irvine and his wife came back to Alberta when they started having children to be close to family.

Irvine has been involved in numerous organizations such as the Alberta Medical Association and the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada. In 1988, he was president of the Alberta College of Family Physicians.

From 1995 to 2000, he served as clinical assistant professor at the University of Calgary’s department of family medicine. He was promoted to associate professor in 2000.

He was recognized as Clinician of the Year in 2002 by the David Thompson Health Region medical staff.

In 2009, the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada awarded Irvine with a Fellowship of Rural and Remote Medicine.

Irvine, who grew up in Red Deer, chose to practice in Sundre to be close to family and larger urban communities while living near the mountains and working with impressive local medical staff.

When he started there was only one doctor at Sundre’s hospital and another with an office practice in town. Now there are nine local doctors.

The hospital was rated for 36 beds when he arrived.

“It was the only place in town open 24 hours a day and we were able to use the hospital as a social service. If someone was down and out and didn’t have any place to sleep for the night, we could put them up. If a single mother needed to be in a hospital and there was no one to look after her kids, she could bring her kids with them and we could make it hap-

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“That flexibility is totally gone now. We’re down to 13 beds. Often we’re full here and need to be phoning around to communities like Olds, Innisfail, Didsbury, Rocky Mountain House trying to find beds for patients.”

Irvine is one of six Sundre doctors to retire or leave town in the last few years, but the town has been successful in recruiting one doctor trained in Alberta, one from South Africa and several from the United Kingdom.

“It’s almost unheard of in Alberta to recruit that many doctors to a rural community. I think it speaks well to what a great community we have here and the efforts of community members to make new doctors feel welcome.”

He said on one hand it’s nice to have good doctors coming from places like the U.K. and South Africa, but it would be nice to see Alberta become more self-sufficient.

“My take on that is the universities and the residency programs need to be socially responsible in terms of following and anticipating what the needs of the population are over the years and trying to encourage specialists to be training in the specialty programs where the needs are going to be.

“You certainly don’t want them to be training in a specialty they’re not going to be happy in. If they’re going to be unhappy doctors, they’re not going to be particularly good doctors, I don’t think. But at the same time, there can be ways to encourage people to go into, for example, rural practice.”

Irvine said his family practice in Sundre has been very rewarding.

“Young women I delivered 25, 30 years ago are now having children and I’m able to look after them and deliver their babies. That’s been a special treat for me.”

Irvine said he has gotten to know many patients quite well.

“They’re as much friends as patients.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

LEGISLATION: Addresses traffic-flow issues Those speeches are traditionally read by the lieutenant-governor in the throne speech in the legislature so that representatives of all parties can hear and respond to them.

Details of the bill were released Tuesday morning with Transportation Minister Ric McIver making the announcement at a schoolyard press conference.

McIver told the house that they either briefed, or tried to brief, opposition parties the night before on the contents of the bill, as per past practice.

Liberal Leader Raj Sherman said the hair-splitting is irrelevant.

WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg zoo could get a pinch of Latin-American spice.

The Assiniboine Zoo’s International Polar Bear Conservation Centre is exploring the possibility of giving Arturo, a polar bear from Mendoza, Argentina, a new home at the zoo.

The 28-year-old male polar bear has been living in isolation at the Mendoza Zoo for the past 20 years.

Zoo directors are scheduled to fly to Argentina on Sunday and discuss the bear’s transfer.

Don Peterkin, chief operations officer at the Assiniboine Park Conservancy, puts the chances of Arturo moving to Manitoba at “well over 50 per cent.”

He says there has been a lot of internal debate on bringing the older bear into the fold and what value it could have for the Winnipeg centre.

“We can’t just take the easy ones,” he said Tuesday. “It’s easy to get a bear from Churchill and bring it back in a day. If we’re serious about doing what’s right for polar bears, then we should help bring this animal into better surroundings.”

If the move gets the green light, Peterkin said the transfer process could take months. Arturo needs to pass the various medical checks to be deemed a suitable candidate, and if or when that happens, he won’t be transported until April or May of next year.

“It’s a lack of respect for the legislative process,” said Sherman. “The rule here is we don’t talk about bills until they’re introduced in the legislature.

“It seems as though the premier and her team are already campaigning for her leadership race, advertising bills that have not been introduced, that have not been debated, that have not passed.”

Redford faces a mandatory leadership review in Red Deer on Nov. 22.

The bill, the Enhancing Safety on Alberta Roads Act, would grant the government the right to designate lanes for specific uses on provincial highways.

McIver said that would help address traffic-flow issues by allowing priority bus lanes, high occupancy vehicle lanes and designated lanes for slow-moving vehicles.

Alberta’s rapidly expanding economy has led to problems with clogged and slow-moving traffic, particularly in Fort McMurray, Calgary and Red Deer.

The bill also proposes letting municipalities set rules for when reduced speeds are in effect at playground zones to align them with school zones and to better reflect local traffic conditions.

ENERGY: Overseas markets “The significant thing that will need to happen in order to boost activity back up again is higher gas prices,” said Salkeld.

And the only way to get higher prices is to tap into overseas markets, he added.

Allan is optimistic this will happen. There are currently 10 projects proposed or underway that would allow for the export of natural gas — such as West Coast liquid natural gas facilities — and just four could consume eight BCF a day.

“We’re going to make this happen, because it’s too important to Western Canada to not,” he said.

Carlisle focused on the outlook for renewable and alternative sources of energy. She said Alberta has been working hard to develop these — from solar and wind energy to biomass energy.

“I think it’s inevitable that the grid will be greener in the future,” she said of the province’s power supply.

“I think within the next five years or so there will be a breakthrough in storage technology that will make storage cheaper, and this will overcome a lot of the problems for wind or solar.”

Alternative transportation fuels, like natural gas and electricity, could grow in popularity, she added.

And more people could generate their own electricity, and sell some into the grid.

Synergy Alberta is a non-profit organization that supports community-based groups with a stake in energy development. Its 2013 conference, which started on Monday, wraps up today. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Oilsands agency still at Square 1 PROVINCE HOPES TO HAVE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PANEL RUNNING BY EARLY 2014

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The pressure is on for the Alberta government to get its long-promised environmental monitoring panel running, says one of the government’s advisers on the project.

“I hope that act gets passed in the next two weeks,” Howard Tennant said Tuesday, a day after the Alberta government introduced legislation to create the arm’s-length monitoring agency.

“That starts the process,” said Tennant, who led the advisory panel on the agency’s creation. “If it doesn’t, we’re in deep trouble.”

Tennant said Alberta’s oilsands customers are watching closely to see how serious the government is about ensuring the province’s resources are developed responsibly. “(U.S. President Barack) Obama’s not all crazy in this area and the State Department is holding the world (up) to say there has to be some standards there,” said Tennant, referring to American hesitation about approving pipelines that would take Alberta bitumen south.

The federal government is concerned enough to have tendered a contract Tuesday to buy $18 million worth of international advertising to reassure potential trading partners about Canadian environmental policies.

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First Nations say they’ve been left out of the process. One group has already announced it won’t participate in the government’s oilsands monitoring and another is dissatisfied.

Environment Minister Diana McQueen knows there’s a lot to do to get the agency on its feet by the government’s announced target of early 2014.

“It is an aggressive timeline, but we’re pretty certain we can meet that.”

McQueen added finding the right people to run the agency will be the biggest challenge.

But candidates for the board of governors and scientific advisory panel are coming forward, said Ernie Hui, the environment deputy minister charged with creating the new agency.

McQueen said the members will have to reflect all regions of the province. The chairperson, she said, will likely be someone with leadership experience.

“What we’re going to look for is who has the best experience in board governance. We can fill board members with some of those other specifics.”

The agency would be likely to receive up to $15 million a year from the province as it took over functions from Alberta Environment, Hui said. That’s in

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addition to $50 million the oilpatch has agreed to pay for three years.

Hui said there haven’t yet been discussions over who would pay for monitoring outside the oilsands.

Tennant said it could come from municipalities and industries such as ranching and irrigation.

McQueen acknowledged the agency won’t have much credibility if local people and aboriginals aren’t supportive.

“We do additional consultation with aboriginals and Métis because it is a special relationship,” she said.

Tennant said finding a leader trusted by both the scientific and business communities, as well as the environment minister, will be crucial for the agency’s long-term success.

Given the tight timelines to get the agency running, Hui suggested it initially could be led by someone from Alberta Environment.

McQueen said Albertans — and the rest of the world — can be confident in the new agency.

“The science and the data has to be arms-length, so when we receive it as a government that Albertans, Canadians and anyone can receive it at the same time,” she said. “A science advisory panel that can do peer review is very important as well.

“We’re very proud of where we’ve gotten to date and now the hard work begins.”

Tennant concedes the whole project is fraught with risk.

“Wrong chairman, wrong minister and things could take a nosedive. But we’ve got an opportunity to do something that hasn’t been done before.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A member of the Alberta legislature who was cleared of conflict of interest after he tried to get rule changes to help his home-building company hasn’t pursued any further lobbying efforts in the matter, cabinet minister Manmeet Bhullar said Tuesday.

Bhullar confirmed that Peter Sandhu has not asked him or his officials to make legislative changes to prevent “vexatious” liens since a ruling earlier this month by ethics commissioner Neil Wilkinson.

Wilkinson found that Sandhu didn’t violate ethics rules when he lobbied for the changes, because other home builders would have benefited as well.

Bhullar, minister for Service Alberta, wouldn’t say what his response would be if the Independent backbencher decided to renew his lobbying efforts.

“I don’t answer hypotheticals,” said Bhullar.

Sandhu, who represents Edmonton-Manning, stepped out of Premier Alison Redford’s Progressive Conservative caucus in May when the ethics issue surfaced in a report on CBC-TV. Wilkinson said in his report Oct. 17 that Sandhu began to approach politicians and bureaucrats after he was elected to the legislature in 2008 about changes to what he termed “vexatious” liens on his company, NewView Homes.

Wilkinson acknowledged several Service Alberta senior civil servants felt Sandhu was “inappropriately trying to use his office as a member to further the interest of his business venture, NewView.”

But Wilkinson ruled the actions were acceptable given Sandhu believed the changes would benefit other home builders, too.

Sandhu is free to ask for reinstatement to the Tory government caucus, but hasn’t done so.

He was not in the house for question period Tuesday and was absent for the first day of the fall sitting on Monday. He could not be reached for comment.

Tory whip Steve Young said there’s been no request from Sandhu to rejoin the caucus.

Redford has declined to address the concerns voiced by Bhullar’s staff to Wilkinson about Sandhu’s lobbying.

“Do you share those concerns?” Redford was asked a day after the report was released.

“We’ve reviewed the decision of the ethics commissioner, and I am pleased to see that the ethics commissioner has taken the view that he has, that Mr. Sandhu operated with honesty and integrity.” she replied. “That’s the final finding and so we’re going to proceed on that basis,” The opposition parties say Wilkinson’s ruling flies in the face of common sense and opens the door to politicians who want to lobby for their own interests.

On Monday, Wildrose deputy house leader Shayne Saskiw invoked the ire of Speaker Gene Zwozdesky when he called the rules “junk ethics legislation.”

“Clean up your act, honourable member, or we will deal with the consequences of not doing so,” Zwozdesky rebuked Saskiw.

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Horses forage for grass in deep snow near Cremona this week after an early winter snow storm blew through Southern Alberta.

RV resort appeals decision expected soon

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A long-delayed decision on appeals launched over a Gull Lake RV resort is expected within weeks.

The Gull Lake Water Quality Management Society and two individuals appealed Alberta Environment approvals related to Sandy Point RV Resort being developed by Delta Land Co. Inc. A hearing wrapped up in May and a decision was expected within 30 days.

However, scheduling issues with the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board members and a heavy staff workload led to the “highly unusual” delay, said board general counsel and settlement officer Gilbert Van Nes. The board’s request for Environment and Sustainable Resource Minister Diana McQueen to extend the 30-day deadline was the first of its kind in about a decade, he said.

The decision is now in McQueen’s hands and is expected to be released in about two weeks.

The appeals were launched after Alberta Environment approved two water licences allowing the resort to draw 62,000 cubic metres of water per year from three wells for the development on the west side of the lake just northeast of Bentley. Approvals were also granted last August for the construction of the inland marina and storm drainage system.

All but the storm drainage approval are under appeal.

A spokesman for the Gull Lake society said at the time that they are concerned the science hasn’t been done to prove that taking the large amounts of water

required for the resort, which will also include a golf course, won’t affect lake water quality.

While the appeal was being dealt with, work has continued on the inland portion of the resort. A stay prevented work on construction involving the lake.

Delta co-owner Lance Dzaman said work has been going “full tilt” all summer at the resort site while they waited the results of the appeal.

The 68-lot first phase is 35 per cent pre-sold and interest has been high, said Dzaman.

“We plan to have people moving onto their lots in the spring.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Alison Redford will make her fifth trip to Washington next month to speak about the need for the Keystone XL pipeline.

She will meet with officials in the U.S. State Department as they finalize an environmental assessment of the proposed transcontinental pipeline.

Redford says she will also meet again with Heidi Heitkamp, the Democratic senator from North Dakota who is a strong pipeline advocate.

The premier leaves on Nov. 11 for the two-day trip, during a week when the Alberta legislature doesn’t sit.

The pipeline, if approved, which would carry 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta across six U.S. states to the Texas Gulf Coast.

U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to issue a final decision later this year or in 2014 on whether to allow the $7-billion pipeline to proceed.

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Alberta blowing its assets

BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE If there was ever a place that was the “anti-Greece” when it comes to public finances, it must be Alberta.

Compare Alberta to many places around the world, be it European fiscal disasters or even nearer to home, and in most decades, Alberta shines in comparison.

For instance, consider Quebec’s destructive anti-wealth creation policies, which made that province poor. (It was not always thus. A 1940 Royal Commission noted Quebec was once “long considered the fiscal Gibraltar of the Canadian provinces.”) Or consider Ontario, which wasted up to $1.1 billion on two electricity generating plants, cancelled because of local politics.

In that sense, Alberta is the “antiGreece,” where prudence in finances has been seen properly as a worthy goal that avoids sending ever-more tax dollars to pay the interest on the debt, thus leaving more for day-to-day taxpayer priorities.

Now, normally, Alberta’s politicians are happy to trumpet the province’s

bulging coffers when the province is in such an enviable position.

For example, in 1985 Alberta Finance Minister Lou Hyndman noted the net asset position of the general revenue fund as well as the positive balance in the Alberta Heritage Savings and Trust Fund: “There are few governments in the world that can match the financial strength of the province of Alberta,” he said in his March budget speech of that year.

More recently, in a June 2012 news release, the provincial government trumpeted how Alberta was the only province “in a net financial position.”

But that boasting always tapers off whenever provincial finances spiral downwards, either because of declining resource revenues or permanently higher spending patterns.

In the mid-1980s, just after Hyndman’s boast, the province’s financial fortunes rapidly declined into red ink, staying there for nine years, and the province plunged into net debt. More recently, the boasting ended when Alberta’s net financial position atrophied and provincial politicians had to instead announce they will be borrowing more for infrastructure rather than

reduce spending in other areas.

The result of Alberta’s declining political attachment to fiscal prudence is five massive deficits since the recession of 2008-2009 and a hit to Alberta’s net financial assets. In just six years, the province’s financial assets have dropped in net value by two-thirds to $12.1 billion by 2012-13 from $34.5 billion just before the 2008 recession, a decline of $22.4 billion. (This figure does not include spending on the June floods, as the numbers are taken from the province’s annual report with a year-end in March.)

For students of history, the recent decline in Alberta’s financial assets mimics the plunge between the mid1980s and to 1994 when the province found itself in net debt of $20.1 billion (all figures adjusted for inflation).

As the earlier average annual decline in net financial assets amounted to $4 billion, compared to the most recent average decline in Alberta’s “net wealth” of just over $3.7 billion annually, the province is thus repeating, almost dollar for dollar, the 1980s-1990sera annual decline in financial assets.

It might be argued that some of the decline is to be expected, given the

post-recession decrease in resource revenues compared to higher revenue years prior to it. Indeed, some decline was expected, but a massive and often unremarked contribution to Alberta’s asset decline was the mismanagement of the spending side of the ledger.

Today, program spending is $2,861 higher per person in real terms relative to the turn of the millennium, and $874 higher per person relative to 200607 — the year when Alberta’s ownsource revenues were at their peak.

While the province has lately moderated any additional program spending growth beyond population growth and inflation, Alberta’s per capita program spending last year was still at near-record highs, at $10,564 per person. That level was exceeded only in the recession year of 2008-09. Those who wonder how Alberta just lost twothirds of its financial assets might wish to look at the program spending side of the provincial ledger. Part of the reason for the decline is right there.

Mark Milke is a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute and author of Alberta’s Double-Dip Decline in Financial Assets.

This column was provided by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Election column came up short I wish to note a major omission in the piece strategically submitted by Vesna Higham in the Red Deer Advocate on Oct. 19.

She so aptly noted all the great attributes of the two ladies running for the mayoral office but she obviously neglected to thoroughly review the resumes of the candidates. Among all the wonderful attributes of Tara Veer and Cindy Jefferies, she forgot to mention the one main attribute on Tara Veer’s website, common sense. I believe she may have neglected the other candidates as well when she said they “lacked sufficient political experience.”

Jefferies and Veer got a lot of “political experience” at the expense of the Red Deer taxpayers. I can’t quite figure out who used who on Oct. 19 in the Advocate, but these days, as long as it is consensual, and achieves the desired effect, it is OK, I guess.

Clarence Hart Red Deer

Thanks for the Halloween chuckle I found Harley Hay’s article on Halloween both insightful and hilarious. Well done!

It reminded me of my youth growing up in northern Newfoundland. We too carved turnips on Halloween, pumpkins being unable to grow above 50 degrees near the north Atlantic. The people there (called livyears) were very superstitious and firmly believed in ghosts; prime candidates for a prank.

Anyway, we carved the turnip, put a candle inside and propped it in front of a window and listened to the screams of anguish before we departed post haste. Needless to say we got no treats, only suspicious stares.

Lloyd Kean Red Deer

Smoke signals: new roots of lung cancer When we talk about lung cancer, we instinctively think of tobacco products. But the next time you start your vehicle, think about the cancer-causing substances spewing from that exhaust pipe poisoning our air.

We have been so preoccupied policing tobacco smoking as the chief culprit behind lung cancer that we’re missing the bus on a far-worse enemy — air pollution — according to the World Health Organization’s cancer agency. Air pollution was recently identified

by WHO as the leading cause of lung cancer today. Not tobacco smoke, but the air we breathe when we step outside.

RICK “We consider this (air pollution) to be the most imporZEMANEK tant environmental carcinogen, more so than passive smoking,” said Kurt Straif, head of WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which examines and monitors what goes into the atmosphere.

“The air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substances and is being officially classified as carcinogenic to humans,” according to WHO’s cancer agency.

“Our conclusion is that this (air pollution) is a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths,” added Dr. Christopher Wild, director of the IARC. According to the research group, the risk of today’s air pollution is akin to breathing in second-

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The agency’s deputy head, Dana Loomis, said: “Our task was to evaluate the air everyone breathes rather than focus on specific air pollutants. The results from the reviewed studies point in the same direction: the risk of developing lung cancer is significantly increased in people exposed to air pollution.”

Mostly caused by power generation, transport, industrial emissions — and also agricultural emissions, and heating and cooking in your home — air pollution on a broader scope has been sadly ignored.

Society in general is poisoning the air, far more than smokers, to accommodate its comfort zone.

Is it too dark in the house? Turn on more lights. Is it too chilly in the house? Crank up the thermostat.

Roast turkey for Christmas? Turn on the oven for a prolonged period. A bit nippy this morning? Fire up the family vehicle and let it idle for several minutes to ward off the chill prior to climbing in.

All these comforts in life ultimately are poisoning the air, making average Canadians guilty of air pollution.

What’s scary is inhaling the poisoned air can’t be avoided.

“You can choose not to drink or not to smoke, but you can’t control whether or not you’re exposed to air pollution. You can’t just decide not to breath,” said Francesca Dominici, a professor at Harvard University’s School of Public Health.

WHO doesn’t arrive at its conclusions without firm evidence. Scientists analyzed more than 1,000 studies worldwide and concluded there was enough evidence to prove exposure to outdoor air pollution is a major cause of lung cancer. The study group also noted a link to other cancers.

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IRAC reported that in 2010, more than 220,000 lung cancer deaths around the globe were linked to air pollution. The agency also noted, according to reports, “a link with a slightly higher risk of bladder cancer.”

Closer to home, and a week after the WHO findings were made public, three researchers from the University of British Columbia concluded nearly one-third of Canadians are at risk of an early death from traffic pollution.

The trio, researchers with UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, concluded that 10 million Canadians are exposed to the worst levels of traffic pollution.

“Traffic-related air pollution should be high on Canadian’s public health agenda,” said one of the researchers, Michael Brauer.

The Canadian Medical Association claims that about 21,000 Canadians die prematurely yearly from repeated exposure to air pollution. It adds, “This is in addition to the 92,000 who visit an emergency room and 620,000 ending up in their doctor’s office every year,” an annual cost of about $8 billion to treat air-pollution-related health issues.

It’s vital that Canadians recognize the role they play in poisoning the air.

Look beyond these anti-smoking campaigns and start examining the main issues of air pollution — starting with the family vehicle. Are we willing to cut back on turning the ignition key? We should be, for health’s sake.

“It’s time we got serious about traffic-related pollution,” said Brauer. “Our lives will benefit.”

That seems clear enough to inspire anyone.

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Pipelines a benefit to all, say premiers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — All of Canada will reap the rewards of moving landlocked Canadian oil to coastal ports to allow its sale to international markets, two of the country’s premiers said Tuesday.

“Every province, every region, every community, every Canadian will benefit when we’re able to diversify our markets and get full value for the resources that we have,” New Brunswick Premier Dave Alward told a trade conference hosted by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

Alward and his Saskatchewan colleague, Brad Wall, urged provinces like Quebec and Ontario against standing in the way of pipeline projects like TransCanada’s proposed Energy East line, which they say would speed Canadian oil to market.

Refining and manufacturing industries in both provinces will get a shot in the arm from the pipelines, they asserted.

“If we look at it collectively as a country, we’re

all going to benefit, but if we get into this situation where we look at one individual item or opportunity and don’t think we’re getting enough out of it, then ultimately none of us are going to gain anything,” Alward told a receptive business audience.

“We’re all winners, but the two largest winners are actually Ontario and Quebec.”

TransCanada recently delayed until next year its goal of filing an application for the $12-billion Energy East project with the National Energy Board.

The company said there’s too much work to be done to file the application before the end of the year.

The 4,500-kilometre Energy East pipeline would ship up to 1.1 million barrels per day of Alberta oilsands bitumen to refineries and export terminals in Quebec and New Brunswick.

The proposal involves converting a portion of TransCanada’s underused natural gas mainline to move oil, and to build 1,400 kilometres of new pipeline to Saint John.

It’s one of two projects that have been proposed to transport oil out of Western Canada.

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Enbridge (TSX:ENB) plans to spend $110 million to reverse its Line 9B to carry western crude to meet Quebec’s refining needs. The National Energy Board, which recently held heated hearings into the proposal, is expected to make a decision on the proposal in 2014.

Wall expressed dismay that Canada seems almost “apologetic” about the fact that it’s an energy powerhouse. Canada is third in the world in oil reserves and in the Top 10 in terms of oil production, Wall noted, “but we’re not acting like it.”

“A country with all of this would find ways to move energy to tidewater, to improve the return to Canadians for the resource, to ensure there are jobs for the future for all of us — including First Nations, non-First Nations, for the entire country,” he said.

“We would do everything we could to ensure we had this great resource working not just for today’s economy but helping for the economy of tomorrow.

We have to get our head around moving that energy.”

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John Russell, co-founder of Robocoin, works out the kinks of what is being billed as the world’s first Bitcoin ATM at a coffee shop in Vancouver, Tuesday. The ATM will allow consumers to exchange Canadian cash for digital cash. Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, and proponents argue it is a convenient alternative to other forms of banking because transactions are instant and there are no processing fees involved. People trade cash for the digital coins at a current rate $211.79 per Bitcoin, and so far about 16 Vancouver-area merchants accept the currency. But Catherine Johnston with ACT Canada, a group that works to ensure secure online payments, says the fact that Bitcoin is not backed by a central bank means it is not subjected to the same regulations surrounding money laundering as other currencies.

Civil rights group asks top court to move quickly on assisted-suicide case

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The civil rights group behind a landmark case that is expected to see the Supreme Court of Canada wrestle again with the contentious issue of doctor-assisted suicide is asking the country’s highest court to fast-track what it says is a matter of “extreme urgency.”

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association has filed a notice with the Supreme Court of Canada, asking it to hear an appeal of an earlier decision that upheld the law and to ensure the case is expedited.

It’s the latest development in a case that has stretched on for more than two years, with the B.C. Supreme Court initially overturning the law and the B.C. Court of Appeal re-instating it.

Grace Pastine, a lawyer with the association, said the Supreme Court of Canada shouldn’t allow the case to drag on any longer than necessary.

“This is a matter of extreme urgency,” Pastine said Tuesday. “The fate of gravely ill Canadians hangs in the balance . . . . For those who are suffering at the end of life, justice delayed is justice denied.”

OTTAWA — Gravely injured troops who want to remain uniform are being booted from the military before they qualify for their pensions, despite assurances to the contrary from the Harper government.

A former reserve combat engineer from London, Ont., Cpl. David Hawkins, was let go last Friday on a medical discharge after begging for months to remain until he’d hit the 10-year mark of service.

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The case began in 2011, when the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and several other plaintiffs, including ALS patient Gloria Taylor, filed a lawsuit alleging the bans on assisted suicide and euthanasia violate the charter.

Last year, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled the law is unconstitutional and gave Parliament a year to rewrite it. The court also granted Taylor an immediate exemption from the law, though she died last fall without the help of a doctor.

The federal government appealed, and this month the B.C. Court of Appeal released a split decision that concluded a 1993 ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada involving Sue Rodriguez was binding and the trial judge had no authority to overturn it.

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OTTAWA — Stephen Harper sees nothing wrong with the Conservative party using taxpayer-subsidized funds to pay disgraced Sen. Mike Duffy’s legal expenses.

The prime minister insisted Tuesday there’s nothing unusual about that.

“The party regularly reimburses members of its caucus for valid legal expenses, as do other parties,” Harper told the House of Commons.

Donations to political parties are underwritten by the public purse through generous tax credits.

However, it seems the Conservative party didn’t extend its largesse to all other senators accused of improperly claiming travel expenses or housing allowances.

Sen. Patrick Brazeau’s office said no offer was made to pay his legal expenses.

It was not immediately clear if the party ever offered to pay Sen. Pamela Wallin’s legal bill.

All three are under investigation by the RCMP and are facing a government bid to to suspend them, without pay or privileges, from the Senate.

The suspension motions were tied in procedural knots Tuesday, making it unlikely they will be voted on before the Conservatives gather Thursday evening for a two-day national convention in Calgary.

Duffy disclosed Monday there were two cheques regarding his allegedly improper expenses: one for $13,560 from Conservative party lawyer Arthur Hamilton to cover his legal expenses, plus the well-known $90,000 from Harper’s former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, to enable him to reimburse the Senate.

Harper was grilled repeatedly Tuesday about Duffy’s latest bombshell. But while he condemned the conduct of Wright and Duffy, he shrugged off suggestions that Hamilton did anything wrong.

“This individual is not accused of anything,” he said, in response to a question from NDP Leader Tom Mulcair who asked whether the prime minister intends to fire Hamilton.

“New Democrats tell us that we should fire or expel people on the flimsiest of allegations without, in some cases, any proof of anything against anybody,” Harper said.

“Then when we determine that actions should be taken (against the three senators), the leader of the Opposition stands up and pretends these people are somehow victims of arbitrary actions.”

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U.S. weighs spying on allied leaders LAWMAKERS SUGGEST PROGRAM MAY HAVE GONE TOO FAR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and key U.S. lawmakers say it is time to look closely at surveillance programs that may have gone too far.

The White House is considering ending eavesdropping on friendly foreign leaders, a senior administration official said Tuesday.

The chairman of the House intelligence committee said it might help to disclose more about National Security Agency operations but barring NSA from collecting millions of Americans’ phone records would scrap an important tool.

“We can’t ask the FBI to find terrorists plotting an attack and then not provide them with the information they need,” said Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican. He spoke at the start of a hearing where top intelligence officials were testifying, including National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander.

A bipartisan plan introduced Tuesday would end the NSA’s massive sweep of phone records, allowing the government to seek only records related to ongoing terror investigations. Critics both at home and abroad have derided the program as intrusive and a violation of privacy rights. It also drew complaints from world leaders because of reports that their cellphone conversations were monitored.

The White House is considering ending eavesdropping on friendly foreign leaders, a senior administration official said.

The administration tried to tamp down damage Tuesday from the months-long spying scandal — including the most recent disclosure that the National Security Agency had monitored the cellphone conversations of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A final decision about listening in on allies has not been made, the senior official said.

The White House also faces complaints at home about the NSA collecting millions of Americans’ phone records and sweeping up Internet traffic and email. The Obama administration defends those programs as important in the fight against terrorism.

Asked about the reports of eavesdropping on world leaders, Obama said in a television interview that the U.S. government is conducting “a complete review of how our intelligence operates outside the country.” Obama declined to discuss specifics or say when he learned about the spying operations.

“What we’ve seen over the last several years is their capacities continue to develop and expand, and that’s why I’m initiating now a review to make sure that what they’re able to do doesn’t necessarily mean what they should be doing,” he said Monday on the new TV network Fusion.

A second U.S. official said Obama did not know the NSA was monitoring Merkel’s communications until after his visit to Germany in June. The official said information about the surveillance of foreign leaders emerged in the course of the White House’s broader review of spying programs, triggered by media reports based on documents leaked by former

Police focus on Uighur suspects after attack at Forbidden City

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BEIJING — Police investigating a vehicle that plowed through pedestrians and crashed at Beijing’s Forbidden City in an apparent suicide rampage searched Tuesday for information on two ethnic Uighur suspects believed linked to the attack, which killed five people and injured 38.

Police released no information about a possible motive for Monday’s incident at one of China’s most politically sensitive and heavily guarded public spaces. But investigators sent a notice to hotels in the city aimed at tracing the recent movements of two suspects, and possibly at uncovering any other conspirators.

The sports utility vehicle veered inside a barrier separating a crowded sidewalk from a busy avenue and then plowed through pedestrians as it sped toward Tiananmen Gate, where it crashed into a stone structure near a large portrait of Mao Zedong which hangs near the entrance to the former imperial palace.

The vehicle’s three occupants were killed along with two bystanders, including a Filipino woman. The 38 injured included three other Filipinos and a Japanese man, police said.

The gate stands opposite sprawling Tiananmen Square, which was the focus of the 1989 pro-democracy movement that was violently suppressed by the military, and any incident there is highly sensitive.

Zhao Fuzhou, a security official at Beijing’s Xinjiang Dasha hotel, said police had circulated a notice seeking information about two suspects with Uighur names in the aftermath of Monday’s incident. A clerk at the Hubei Mansion hotel also confirmed receiving the notice, while employees at other hotels said they’d been told not to discuss the matter.

The notice asked hotels about the two suspects, and to report any suspicious guests or vehicles registered with their establishments going back to Oct. 1. One of the men, identified in the notice as Yusupu Wumaierniyazi, was listed as living in a town in the northwestern Uighur homeland of Xinjiang in which 24 police and civilians

and 13 militants were killed in an attack on June 26.

Beijing police referred reporters’ questions to a spokesman whose phone rang unanswered.

Radicals among the Muslim Turkic Uighurs have been fighting a lowintensity insurgency against Chinese rule for years. This summer saw an unusually large number of violent incidents and Chinese security forces say they have been guarding against attacks outside of Xinjiang.

Uighurs are culturally, religiously and linguistically distinct from China’s ethnic Han majority and many have chafed under heavy-handed Communist Party rule.

If intended as a political statement, Monday’s attack could hardly have picked a more significant target.

Just west of the square lies the Great Hall of the People, the seat of China’s parliament, while many of China’s top leaders live and work just a few hundred meters (yards) away in the tightly guarded Zhongnanhai compound.

Monday’s incident had every appearance of being deliberate, since the driver apparently jumped a curb and travelled about 400 metres to the spot where the car was said to have caught fire.

Along the way, it avoided trees, street lights and at least one security checkpoint. The attackers also struck during the lunch hour when security would have likely been relatively slack.

Witnesses quoted in Chinese media said the SUV’s driver honked his horn as he drove along the sidewalk, suggesting mass murder was not the intention.

Photos showed flames licking the vehicle and a huge cloud of smoke, although there was no word on whether an incendiary device had been activated or shots fired.

“The vehicle ran very fast, I could hear people screaming all the way while the vehicle ploughed through the crowds,” the Global Times newspaper quoted an unidentified female witness as saying.

NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and insisted on anonymity.

The White House says the United States isn’t currently listening to Merkel’s conversations and won’t do so in the future.

On Tuesday, the leader of the House, Speaker John Boehner, said there should be a thorough review of intelligence gathering, bearing in mind the responsibility to keep Americans safe from terrorism and the nation’s obligations to allies.

“We have to find the right balance here,” said Boehner, a Republican. “And clearly, we’re imbalanced.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called for a “total review of all intelligence programs” following the Merkel allegations. In a statement, the California Democrat said the White House had informed her that “collection on our allies will not continue.”

The senior administration official said that statement was not accurate, but added that some unspecified changes already had been made and more were being considered, including terminating the collection of communications from friendly heads of state. That official also was not authorized to divulge information about the program by name and insisted on anonymity.

Reports based on new leaks from Snowden indicate that the NSA listened in on Merkel and 34 other foreign leaders.

Islamic extremist attack leaves at least 127 dead in Nigeria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAMATURU, Nigeria — A fivehour battle between Islamic extremists and army troops in the capital of Yobe state killed at least 127 people, all but two combatants, according to reports from army and police officers that raise doubts about military claims that they have the upper hand in Nigeria’s fight to halt an Islamic uprising.

The stench of rotting corpses from the morgue hung over Damaturu Specialist Hospital on Tuesday, where a reporter counted 31 bodies identified as those of extremists.

Details still are trickling in about the attack, which militants began at dusk Thursday on an army barracks 20 kilometres outside Damaturu, the capital, where they overpowered the soldiers, seized an armoured car, looted the armoury and set the barracks ablaze.

The reports were given to Yobe state Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam by military officers as he toured the destroyed sites with a heavily armed escort on Monday.

The attackers then moved down the main road into the city where they rammed the armoured car through the gates to the headquarters of the Police Anti-Terrorist Squad. There, they

burned down three buildings.

While some of the extremists exchanged fire with the police, the armoured car and others in all-terrain pickup trucks and on foot went on to shoot up and set fire to the police Criminal Investigation Department offices and four other police offices scattered across the city until they arrived at the Mobile Police Base, where the armoured car caught fire and was abandoned.

The militants went to the hospital where they looted drugs and bandages as the medical staff fled in terror, according to doctors at the hospital.

This account differs from the official version of events that extremists attacked an army checkpoint along the road from Damaturu to Benisheikh — where militants have killed hundreds of civilians in recent weeks — at around 3 a.m. on Friday. A “firefight ensued and the insurgents were effectively neutralized,” according to a statement Monday from the army spokesman in Damaturu, Ibrahim Attahiru.

He said 70 militants were killed there.

“Fleeing insurgents” then “regrouped to carry out attacks on Damaturu town,” Attahiru said. Security forces killed another 25 insurgents in the city, he said.

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Syrian president sacks deputy PM OVERSTEPPED DUTIES WHEN HE MET WITH U.S. OFFICIALS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s president sacked a deputy prime minister who met Western officials to discuss the possibility of holding a peace conference, saying he acted without permission. The Tuesday decree was the latest blow to diplomatic efforts to bring the country’s warring parties to the negotiating table.

The sacking came as the UN’s health agency said it confirmed 10 polio cases in northeast Syria — the first confirmed outbreak of the highly contagious disease in the country in 14 years. Officials warned the disease threatened to spread among an estimated half-million children who have never received immunization because of the 2 ½ year civil war.

Deputy prime minister Qadri Jamil was fired after a weekend meeting in Geneva that Washington says was with its ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford.

The Oct. 26 meeting was to discuss the possibility of holding a conference next month, also in Geneva, to negotiate a settlement to Syria’s conflict, said a U.S. official who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to discuss the private conversation.

Three days later, President Bashar Assad issued a decree relieving Jamil of his duties for “undertaking activities and meetings outside the homeland without co-ordination with the government,� Syria’s government news agency SANA said.

Jamil told Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV that he also met with a Russian diplomat and UN officials. He did not say whether his moves were coordinated with Assad. “I am not an employee,� he said. “I am a political activist.�

Assad has said in principle that his government will attend talks, but it will not negotiate with the country’s disparate armed rebel groups.

But sacking Jamil appeared to signal the government was hardening its stance, or that it feared he was jockeying for a position in a post-Assad Syria.

In other diplomatic efforts aimed at convincing warring parties to attend the conference, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is cur-

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Israeli court decision paves way for second Palestinian prisoner release JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court cleared the way for the release of 26 Palestinian prisoners on Tuesday, the second of four batches set to be freed as part of a deal that set in motion the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

The decision to release the 26 has triggered anguish and anger in Israel, where many view the men as terrorists who have committed grisly crimes against Israelis. But jubilant celebrations are expected in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where the prisoners are set to be received by their families and Palestinian leaders. The release is expected to take place overnight.

The court appeal claimed that in light of a recent spate of deadly attacks on Israelis in the West Bank, the government should review the decision it made earlier this year to release the convicts.

The Supreme Court rejected that claim and ruled that there was no legal basis to cancel the release.

An organization of bereaved families behind the appeal has said it fears the prisoners, all convicted in connection to the deaths of Israelis, will return to violence once freed.

Highlighting the opposition to the move, some 50 Israelis protested outside the West Bank prison where the inmates were held ahead of the release.

They held signs reading “death to murderers� and burned keffiyehs, traditional Palestinian headscarves.

Over a thousand people demonstrated against the release on Monday.

rently in Syria to meet officials and opposition figures.

A key sticking point is Assad’s future: much of Syria’s fractured opposition rejects any transition plan in which Assad or his close associates are involved.

Meanwhile, a UN official warned cases of polio confirmed in Syria could risk spreading across the war-battered country because of a lack of access to clean water, sewage infrastructure and a lack of vaccinations.

World Health Organization spokesman Oliver Rosenbauer said they confirmed 10 cases among babies and toddlers, all under two. Rosenbauer said they were awaiting lab results on another 12 cases showing polio symptoms.

The polio virus usually infects children in unsanitary conditions through consuming food or drink contaminated with feces. It attacks the nerves and can kill or paralyze, and can spread widely and unnoticed before it starts crippling children. “This is a communicable disease — with population movements it can travel to other areas,� said Rosenbauer. “So the risk is high of spread across the region.�

Neighbouring Lebanon and Jordan are likely to be at particular risk because the two countries have absorbed the bulk of Syrian refugees fleeing war-torn areas. The refugees often flee places where children have not been vaccinated. The poorest refugees often crowd, several families together, into apartments and dilapidated shacks.

In an interview with The Associated Press in Damascus, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said his organization and WHO planned to immunize 2.4 million children throughout the country. Over 500,000 have never been vaccinated against the disease.

Lake said that he had discussed issues concerning access to war zones with senior Syrian officials. He said they had not begun negotiating with rebels. “Vaccinations and immunizations have absolutely no political content, they have no relationship to any military issues and therefore there is every reason . . . (to) believe we will gain access into these communities,� he said.

Tuesday’s release is part of an agreement brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to get Israel and the Palestinians back to the table for peace talks that had been paralyzed since 2008.

It is the second of four stages expected to free 104 convicts in the coming months.

Poll suggests Bachelet will win Chile presidential election; no runoff likely SANTIAGO, Chile — Former President Michelle Bachelet has a big lead ahead of Chile’s Nov. 17 presidential election and a poll released Tuesday suggests she’ll win in the first round and avoid a runoff.

Top polling company CEP said that 47 per cent of those surveyed said they’d vote for centre-leftist Bachelet if the elections were held this Sunday.

Likely votes from uncommitted or undeclared voters would push her past 50 per cent, eliminating the need for a Dec. 15. runoff.

Her closest rival is conservative Evelyn Matthei, backed by 14 per cent.

Independent candidate Franco Parisi came in third in the poll with 10 per cent.

CEP polled 1,437 people between Sept. 13 and Oct. 14. The margin of error is 3 percentage points.

Bachelet and Matthei were childhood friends whose fathers became top generals on opposite sides of the country’s deep political divide.

Bachelet’s father supported socialist President Salvador Allende until a 1973 coup.

Matthei’s father ran the military school where Gen. Alberto Bachelet was tortured to death for refusing to line up behind dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Bachelet, who served as Chile’s first female president from 2006 to 2010, vows to use a second term to fight the country’s sharp income inequality.

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Turkish officials wait outside a passenger train before the inauguration of a tunnel called the Marmaray in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday. Turkey is for the first time connecting its European and Asian sides with a railway tunnel, completing a plan initially proposed by an Ottoman sultan about 150 years ago.

Turkey connects Europe, Asia with new railway tunnel

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkey has opened an underwater railway tunnel linking Europe and Asia, and the two sides of Istanbul, realizing a plan initially proposed by an Ottoman sultan about 150 years ago.

The Marmaray tunnel runs under the Bosporus, the strait that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and divides Istanbul between Asia and Europe. The tunnel is 13.6 kilometres (8.5 miles) long, including an underwater stretch of 1.4 kilometres (4,593 feet).

It is among a number of large infrastructure projects under the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that have helped boost the economy but also have provoked a backlash of public protest. “I wish from God that the Marmaray that we are inaugurating will be a benefit to our Istanbul, to our country, to all of humanity,� Erdogan said at the opening ceremony.

Officials hope that with up to 1.5 million passengers a day, the tunnel will ease some of Istanbul’s chronic traffic, particularly over the two bridges linking the two sides of the city. A more distant dream is that the tunnel may become part of a new train route for rail travel between Western Europe and China.

The underwater portion of the tunnel wasn’t dug, but was dropped in sections to the sea bottom — the

immersed-tube method used around the world. Turkish officials say that at more than 55 metres (180 feet) deep, it is the world’s deepest railway tunnel of its type.

Started in 2005 and scheduled to be completed in four years, the project was delayed by important archaeological finds, including a 4th century Byzantine port, as builders began digging under the city.

Rejecting any fears that the tunnel could be vulnerable to earthquakes in a region of high seismic activity, Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim said that it is designed to withstand a massive 9.0 magnitude quake. He calls it “the safest place in Istanbul.�

The tube sections are joined by flexible joints that can withstand shocks.

Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid is said to have proposed the idea of a tunnel under the Bosporus about a century and a half ago. One of his successors, Abdulhamid, had architects submit proposals in 1891, but the plans were not carried out.

The tunnel is just one of Erdogan’s large-scale plans. They include a separate tunnel being built under the Bosporus for passenger cars, a third bridge over the strait, the world’s biggest airport, and a massive canal that would bypass the Bosporus.

The projects have provoked charges that the government is plunging ahead with city-changing plans without sufficient public consultation.

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WORKING TO END COUNTRY-OF-ORIGIN MEAT LABELLING REQUIREMENTS BY THE U.S.

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A Central Alberta farmer who chairs the Alberta Beef Producers says the Canadian beef industry is working diligently to force an end to country-of-origin meat labelling requirements by the United States.

But Doug Sawyer doesn’t expect the matter to be resolved for at least a year.

“It keeps twisting and turning,” he said of the issue, which he believes is motivated by protectionism. “It’s a hard snake to find the head of.”

Country-of-origin labelling (COOL) requirements were initiated by the U.S. in 2008. They stipulate that meat products sold there must indicate what country they came from, and that meat from other countries be packaged separately.

Because these requirements increase costs for U.S. processors, there’s an incentive for them to shun meat

from other countries. This has is the third largest purchaser company Vesta Holdings. The resulted in a big drop-off in of Canadian cattle. plant, which has been closed Canadian beef and pork ex“It will take a bidder away since 2007, could reopen next ports to the U.S. on our finished cattle,” said year with an emphasis on AlThe World Trade Organi- Sawyer, adding that there may berta beef for the European zation has ruled against the also be increased pressure to market. labeling requirements, which ship Canadian feeder cattle to “They’re talking about 600, prompted American officials the U.S. for finishing.

700 head a day, which is sigto amend the nificant,” said regulations.

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‘IT KEEPS TWISTING AND TURNING. IT’S A That’s led to Another another WTO positive is HARD SNAKE TO FIND THE HEAD OF.’ review, and the pending an appeal of a — ALBERTA BEEF PRODUCERS CHAIR DOUG SAWYER C a n a d a - E U U.S. court rulComprehening that denied sive Economic an injunction against the lat“They have to be in the U.S. and Trade Agreement (CETA), est version of COOL. for 60 days before they can which is expected to boost The Canadian government slaughter them.”

Canada’s annual beef exports has even produced a list of Sawyer, who has a cow-calf to Europe by $600 million.

U.S. products that could be operation near Pine Lake, said “That’s vitally important subject to retaliatory tariffs: Tyson’s decision will impact to us,” said Sawyer, pointing cattle, pigs, beef, pork, some more than Canadian feedlots. out that Europe is a mature fruits and vegetables, and “Anytime there’s an issue market where consumers want chocolate. with our fed cattle, our cow- the same primal beef cuts as The dispute came to a head calf guys — like me — we Americans. last week when American food hurt.”

Sawyer thinks this expandprocessing giant Tyson Foods A bright light is the recent ed overseas market for Canasaid it had stopped buying announcement that the former dian beef should pressure U.S. slaughter cattle from Canada Rancher’s Beef plant at Balzac legislators to settle the COOL because of the costs related to is being sold by Sunterra issue — particularly since the the COOL requirements. Tyson Farms to Colorado investment American beef industry needs

Canadian cattle to satisfy its needs.

“With the new European deal and our export deals looking very promising, they’re simply going to need our cattle.”

Sawyer noted that many Americans have sided with Canada on the issue. The American Association of Meat Processors, the American Meat Institute, the Canadian Pork Council, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the National Pork Producers Council, the North American Meat Association and the Southwest Meat Association are all participating in the current court appeal.

“I’m optimistic that it will be resolved,” said Sawyer.

His concern is the time this will take.

“It’s cost us, as producers hundreds of millions of dollars every year.” hrichards@reddeeeradvocate. com

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Workers with Pidherney’s install the underground services for the latest phase of Melcor Developments Ltd.’s Southbrook subdivision in south Red Deer. Fifty-five multi-family residential lots are planned for the five-acre area west of 40th Street and north of Living Stones Church. An existing access road to the church will be preserved.

BoC governor says quantitative easing has helped strengthen the U.S. economy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says he believes the controversial quantitative easing program adopted by the United States has helped that country’s economy.

The remarks appear to diverge from a recent statement

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Flaherty recently likened quantitative easing to basically printing money, but Poloz would not back that description, instead, describing the program as the purchasing of government debt that gives markets and business more certainty about the path of interest rates.

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adding that Washington has made great strides in reducing the deficit.

In other testimony, Poloz says there have been few new jobs for young Canadians since the recession mainly because there’s been a lack of new companies created.

He explains that most new jobs are not created by existing firms, but by new startups and from 2008 to 2012, the net number of companies in Canada have remained flat.

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Hotels Red Deer was presented with an Alberta Tourism (Alto) Award Monday evening during the Travel Alberta Industry Conference in Banff. It won in the Marketing Partnership category, which is open to partnerships of organizations that promote tourism.

Hotels Red Deer is a consortium of 11 local hotels that work together to raise the profile of the region and attract events. Formed in 2010, the association is funded by its member hotels.

The other finalists in the Marketing Partnership category were the Edmonton Attractions Consortia and Tourism Calgary & Partners.

Two other Central Alberta tourism initiatives were finalists in other Alto Award categories.

The Red Deer 2013 Centennial project was vying for the Tourism Community of the Year award, while Phoenix House Bed and Breakfast in Stettler was in the running for the Service Excellence award.

Nine Alto Awards were presented this year.

Liz Taylor, executive director of Tourism Red Deer, said previously that having Central Alberta tourism initiatives in the running for Alto Awards helps raise the profile of this region.

In 2012, Tourism Red Deer’s 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Online Campaign and Central Alberta Country Drive received Alto Awards for Marketing Excellence.

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Three-quarters of Canadians have debt THE CANADIAN PRESS As many as threequarters of Canadians recently polled say they are in debt and owe an average amount of nearly $16,000, according to a new survey.

The average personal debt load, which doesn’t include a mortgage, jumped by $2,779 to $15,920 this year compared with last year, says RBC’s annual debt poll released on Tuesday.

Kim Taylor, the director of personal lending at the Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY), said consumers may have increased their personal debt — which includes credit cards, loans and personal lines of credit — after putting off vacations or big ticket items in recent years.

Debt is also indicative of where people are in their lives, she said.

“Debt is very personal,” said Taylor.

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and can be very anxious about that $1,000 and there could be a client who owes $100,000 and they don’t feel as anxious about it.”

Those over 55 seemed to be the most comfortable with their debt because many said they had savings and were at ease with their plan to pay it off, she added.

Albertans experienced the biggest jump in their personal debt load, with the average amount owing coming in at more than $24,000 — up from $14,881 in 2012.

“We truly believe it is based on the flood situation and that has impacted Alberta,” said Taylor, noting that many were waiting for insurance payments or didn’t have insurance and had to take on debt to cover damage by last summer’s flood.

The survey found that 24 per cent of Canadians surveyed indicated they were debt-free, down from 26 per cent in 2012.

Europe exporters will save more

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS European exporters will save about three times the amount of duty payments compared with their Canadian counterparts in a landmark free-trade agreement, The Canadian Press has learned.

Sources say European Union exporters will save more than $670 million annually in duty payments compared with about $225 million annually for Canada’s.

That apparent win for European exporters is contained in an internal EU analysis of its sweeping agreement-in-principle with Canada, sources say.

The figures emerged Tuesday as Prime Minister Stephen Harper rose in the House of Commons to table additional details of the Canada-EU trade pact.

“The free-trade agreement between Canada and Europe is the most important signed by our country.

It will lead to jobs and opportunities for families, workers, companies throughout the country,” the prime minister said. “It is a historic moment.”

International Trade Minister Ed Fast called the 26-page document from Harper a “detailed summary” of the trade agreement with the EU. However, it did not contain the same detailed tariff prediction making the rounds internally in Europe.

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Canadian lumber producers were hit hard when U.S. homebuilders slowed construction to a crawl during the economic downturn, which was deeper and longer south of the border than in Canada.

However, the U.S. housing market has shown some life recently.

The U.S. reported last month that builders started work in August on the most single-family homes in six months.

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Lumber prices were up in the third quarter, helping boost the Vancouverbased company’s revenue and profit, but West Fraser CEO Ted Seraphim told analysts that he was wary.

“Lumber demand has been relatively strong in October,” he said.

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Last week, West Fraser announced a plan to close its mill in Houston, B.C., due to the widespread damage caused by the mountain pine beetle infestation. The move resulted in 225 job losses.

The closure is part of a larger plan including a timber tenure swap with Canfor to help provide some security to its mills in Quesnel, Smithers and Fraser Lake, B.C. Seraphim said the company would do its best to help the workers in Houston find work at other West Fraser operations and provide some help to relocate to the new jobs before the mill is shut down likely in May. “It is a decision that we had to make, but I’ve got to tell you we don’t

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Industrials led the pack on the TSX, up 1.2 per cent with the two big railroads continuing to benefit from strong earnings reports last week.

Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) rose $2.71 to a new 52-week high of $150.88 while Canadian National Railways (TSX:CNR) climbed $1.06 to $115.09.

The financials sector continued to build on the strong gains of this month, up one per cent Tuesday. The sector is up over five per cent for this month alone, helped along by fewer worries about the health of the Canadian real estate market.

TD Bank (TSX:TD) climbed 96 cents to $95.15 while Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) advanced 33 cents to $18.32.

The consumer discretionary segment was also up about one per cent as information giant Thomson Reuters Inc. (TSX:TRI) said that it is cutting about 3,000 jobs as part of its plan to speed up its cost cuts. The company is also recording US$350 million of accounting items related to a restructuring and reported adjusted earnings 48 cents per share.

Its shares advanced $1.26 or 3.38 per cent to $38.58 after hitting a fresh 52-week high of $38.60.

Commodities were mixed with the December crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange down 48 cents to US$98.20 a barrel. The energy sector gained per cent while Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) improved by 92 cents to C$33.61.

The gold sector led declines, down 2.74 per cent while December bullion shed $6.70 to US$1,345.50 an ounce. Goldcorp (TSX:G) faded 83 cents to C$27.48 while Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) moved 44 cents lower to $20.71.

The base metals segment was down 0.44 per cent while December copper rose one cent to US$3.29 a pound. First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) shed 59 cents to C$18.77 a day before the miner releases quarterly earnings.

Investors also digested a major real estate deal involving Sears Canada (TSX:SCC). The retailer will get $400 million from its landlords for vacating five department stores by the end of February, including its flagship location in Toronto’s Eaton Centre.

Sears shares gained 81 cents or 5.98 per cent to $14.35.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Tuesday, building on the strong gains racked up so far this month amid a stream of earnings reports.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 68.77 points to 13,440.61 leaving the market up 5.1 per cent for the month.

The TSX has risen for the past four weeks amid positive earnings news and growing confidence about steady economic growth in Europe and China.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.23 of a cent at 95.51 cents US. U.S. indexes were higher as the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policymakers began a scheduled, two-day interest rate meeting.

Two key U.S. indexes finished at fresh, record highs. The Dow Jones industrials ran ahead 111.42 points to 15,680.35 while the S&P 500 index gained 9.84 points to 1,771.95.

The Nasdaq was up 12.21 points to 3,952.34 amid another technical problem with the exchange. Nasdaq indexes weren’t updated for about 40 minutes starting shortly before noon EDT because of a technical problem. Trading of Nasdaq-listed stocks wasn’t affected, the exchange said.

Markets had previously expected the Fed to begin withdrawing stimulus this year but after the Fed took a pass on tapering last month, expectations have shifted to next year as the pace of improvement in the U.S. economy faded.

Also, economists are still trying to gauge the cost of the political wrangling earlier this month that resulted in a partial shutdown of the U.S. government.

Traders also took in a soft reading on retail sales for September.

Overall, retail sales dipped 0.1 per cent in the weakest showing since March. But excluding autos, sales rose 0.5 per cent in September, up from 0.2 per cent in August.

On the earnings front, Apple shares were down 2.5 per cent to US$516.68 after reporting after the close Monday that quarterly earnings came in at US$7.5 billion, or $8.26 per share, during the quarter, down from $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per share, last year. That beat expectations of $7.92 per share while revenue rose four per cent to $37.5 billion, again topping expectations.

But Apple’s earnings have now fallen from the previous year in three consecutive quarters after a decade of steady growth.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Tuesday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index —

Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.95 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.75 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 58.01 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 36.58 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.34 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 46.76 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 98.50 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.60 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 12.99 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.65 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.30 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.17 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.85 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 63.57 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.06 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.95

13,440.61 up 68.77 points TSX Venture Exchange — 968.44 down 3.87 points TSX 60 — 773.28 up 5.01 points Dow — 15,680.35 up 111.42 points (record high) S&P 500 — 1,771.95 up 9.84 points (record high) Nasdaq — 3,952.34 up 12.21 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 95.51 cents US, down 0.23 of a cent Pound — C$1.6798, down 0.61 of a cent Euro — C$1.4389, down 0.13 of a cent Euro — US$1.3743, down 0.45 of a cent Oil futures: US$98.20 per barrel, down 48 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,345.50 per oz., down $6.70 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $24.462 per oz., down 2.3 cents $786.45 per kg., down 74 cents TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 968.44, down 3.87 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 140.19 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $3.70 higher $484.50; Jan. ’14 $3.80 higher $495.00; March ’14 $4.20 higher $503.30; May ’14 $4.00 higher $509.90; July ’14 $4.10 higher $515.70; Nov. ’14 $3.90 higher $522.10; Jan ’15 $3.90 higher $523.30; March ’15 $4.70 higher $523.10; May ’15 $4.70 higher $517.10; July ’15 $4.70 higher $514.30; Nov ’15 $4.70 higher $510.50.

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.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 473,720 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 473,720.

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.71 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.00 First Quantum Minerals . 18.77 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.48 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.47 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.40 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 32.91 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.61 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 29.61 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 27.80 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 71.49 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 58.66 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.62 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 57.96 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 33.61 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.79

Canyon Services Group. 11.45 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 31.26 CWC Well Services . . . .0.790 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.05 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.94 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.93 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 53.25 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.01 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.84 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.97 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.65 Penn West Energy . . . . . 11.92 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.560 Precision Drilling Corp . . 11.26 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 38.00 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 13.25 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.20 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.99 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 57.52

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.90 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.54 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.93 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 33.38 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.37 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.96 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 49.63 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 65.30 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . . 8.32 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 89.35 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.60 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 70.06 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 35.25 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.15

B.C. booze review seriously pondering sale of liquor in grocery stores

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — British Columbians appear to be overwhelmingly in favour of picking up a six-pack of beer or bottle wine at the same neighbourhood grocery store where they buy their bread and milk, says the Liberal government’s liquor policy reform czar John Yap. Yap said Tuesday the Liberals are now seriously weighing changing B.C.’s liquor laws to permit liquor sales at grocery stores.

He said up to 80 per cent of the people responding to the government’s ongoing liquor policy review put selling alcohol in grocery stores at the top of their wish list.

The Liberals have embarked on a review to modernize and update the province’s liquor laws, which were last reviewed in 1999. British Columbians have until Oct. 31 to provide input into the current review, which Yap will submit to Justice Minister Suzanne Anton on Nov. 25.

“British Columbians value convenience and our liquor laws should reflect this changing dynamic,” Yap said at a Vancouver news conference.

“British Columbians have spoken and I want to let them know this — I am listening. The idea of selling beer and wine, particularly in grocery stores has been such a popular one that we are going to start exploring which models might work for B.C.” Yap said Quebec, Nova Scotia and Ontario all have some forms of liquor sales in stores, which B.C. will exam-

ine before considering the concept further.

He said other liquor policy changes suggested by British Columbians, include allowing craft beer and wine to be sold at farmer’s markets, streamlining the liquor licence application process for special events and allowing children to accompany their parents at liquor establishments such as pubs and legions.

A spokesman for B.C.’s private liquor stores said the organization opposes grocery store liquor sales, both on safety and economic grounds.

“The model we have now is working extremely well for British Columbians,” said Ian Baillie, Alliance of Beverage Licensees of B.C. spokesman.

“It’s virtually impossible to find a grocery store in this province that is 100 to 200 feet away from a liquor store,” he said.

Baillie said British Columbians are well-served by private and public liquor outlets and an overstocked supply of liquor outlets raises health and business concerns. He said there are currently 1,400 liquor outlets in B.C. Private liquor stores employ 15,000 people, said Baillie.

He said the government’s review of expanding liquor sales to grocery stores should go beyond the criteria that “it’s popular.”

Yap said the policy review will focus on health and safety concerns, which could involve maintaining a cap on the current number of liquor outlets, but allow liquor operations to set up shop within grocery stores.

Firm profits down, resources and manufacturing in biggest slump THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian corporate profits have declined in five of the past six quarters and are now 16 per cent below their post-re-

cession peak in late 2011, according to a study released Tuesday by TD Bank.

“This decline is not as bad as during the last recession, but it is approaching the perfor-

mance Canadian firms saw during the U.S. downturn in 2000-2001,” TD economist Leslie Preston writes.

Key export-driven sectors like manufacturing and resources

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have seen the most weakness.

The resource sector’s corporate profit performance has followed closely with commodity prices, which fell last year and remain below a post-recession peak in set in early 2011.

“So far in 2013, generally higher commodity prices have helped drive encouraging growth in resource sector profits, although the sector is still in the red over the past six quarters as a whole,” Preston writes.

Manufacturers face

competitive challenges, not only from a relatively strong loonie but also because unit labour costs have risen in Canada since the recession but remain flat in the United States, TD says.

Profits in more domestically-oriented industries have held up better, although they too

have seen their pace of growth slow dramatically compared to the prerecession period.

The study says the weakness in corporate profit can be seen in the way Canada’s equity markets have underperformed the United States since the lows seen in October 2011.

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Real Rebels need to step up TEAM LOOKING TO END LOSING STREAK ON LAST GAME OF HOMESTAND BUT NEED EXPERIENCED PLAYERS TO PLAY TO THEIR STRENGTHS

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The real Red Deer Rebels have to step up almost immediately and stop playing like imposters.

The Rebels have come out on the short end of four consecutive Western Hockey League games and are situated near the bottom of the Eastern Conference. In the process, they’ve squandered the majority of a six-game homestand which concludes with tonight’s 7 p.m. clash with the Kootenay Ice. The club has hit the skids, veteran defenceman Brady Gaudet insisted Tuesday, because the more experienced players have shunned their roots and tried to perform in a manner not conducive to their strengths.

“I think it starts mainly with us older guys and just going back to simplicity,” said Gaudet. “We have to get back to what made us the players we are and what got us into the league, for that matter.

“I think that’s simply what it’s going to take and it has to involve our older core, starting with myself. I’m the first to admit that I’m not even close to where I should be right now. It’s not rocket science at this point — it’s getting down to our basics and sticking to our game plan, the plan that our

coaches have put in place for us.”

The decline of the Rebels over the past two to three weeks can’t be traced to one specific area. The club isn’t scoring enough and the back end has continually coughed up the puck in perilous positions.

“When you get yourself in a bit of a hole sometimes the tires really start spinning and you try to do too much and it just snowballs from there,” said Gaudet.

“Then you have a chain reaction that turns into a bad score and a bad outcome. We have to get back to work and simplify our game.”

A major point of frustration, Gaudet

agreed, is that many of the turnovers have been unforced.

“We have 12 players who have been in the league for two years or more, so there’s really no excuse for it,” he said.

“It’s just time for us to strap the work boots on and get back to what made us successful in the past. That’s more or less what all it comes down to.”

Overage forward Rhyse Dieno, who last season averaged well over a point per game and has 12 points (5-7) in 14 games this fall, reiterated Gaudet’s assertion that the Rebels have been playing a pretend style that’s outside of their comfort zone.

“We’ve been trying some different things and I think we’re all just trying to do too much,” he said. “When you get on a skid like this guys think they have to do too much. In reality, we just have to get back to the basics, back to what we’re good at doing, and I think we’ll turn this around.”

Dieno and linemates Lukas Sutter and Brooks Maxwell were big-time impressive through the first few games of the season. Sutter went down with an injury just four games in and although he’s been back in uniform for the past three games, the veteran line — when intact — has failed to show any of the earlier zip.

“Yeah, we were connecting earlier

before Suttsy got injured,” said Dieno.

“Now we have to get back to what was working for us.

“It’s just not working right now, so we have to hit the reset button for Wednesday and we also have to start shooting the puck more. We’ve been playing around the outside too much, trying to be too fancy. We have to get pucks to the net and really drive the net.” ● Defenceman Matt Dumba appeared in his ninth NHL game Monday and now awaits his fate. Does he stay with the Minnesota Wild or is he sent back to the Rebels?

Dumba, whose three-year entry level contract will kick in if he plays a 10th game, struggled in the Wild’s 5-1 loss to the visiting Chicago Blackhawks and was on the ice for three of the four goals Chicago scored in the second and third periods. Later, he admitted that he was shaken by the reality that he might be playing his last NHL game for some time.

“Obviously, it’s there and I’m not going to say that I didn’t think about it at all, because that would be a lie,” he told the Minneapolis StarTribune. “I did put that pressure on myself and wasn’t really happy with my third period. All I can do is move forward and try to be my best.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Kessel kills Oilers, extends losing streak KESSEL GETS FOUR POINTS, REIMER GETS SHUTOUT AS LEAFS DOWN OILERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Maple Leafs 4 Oilers 0 TORONTO — Everything that Phil Kessel touches at the moment seems to result in a goal.

Kessel had two goals and two assists on Tuesday as the Toronto Maple Leafs won their second game in a row, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 4-0.

The 26-year-old winger has now recorded seven goals and 10 points in his last four games to move into a tie for second place in the NHL’s point-scoring race.

“I’ve just been getting a couple of good bounces right now,” Kessel said. “I’ve had some good passes and some guys have been making some good plays.

I’ve been pretty fortunate. I’m just playing the game and trying to help the team win.”

Leafs head coach Randy Carlyle has been satisfied with how Kessel has found his game after recording just two assists in his previous four games.

“Puck luck is part of it, but skilled players find a way to get goals,” he said. “The puck kind of follows those guys around. He doesn’t need many opportunities to score.

James van Riemsdyk and Nazem Kadri also scored for the Maple Leafs (9-4-0) who have won three of their last four to take over sole possession of first place in the Atlantic Division, moving ahead of the Tampa Bay Lightning.

James Reimer stopped 43 shots for his 11th career shutout.

“As a team, I don’t think we want to give up 40-plus shots, but having said that, I don’t think it was as dangerous as the quantity suggested,” Reimer said. “Our defence and our whole team did a heck of a job of eliminating second chances. Edmonton played well and came at us, but I thought we protected the house really well.”

Richard Bachman stopped 22 shots for the Oilers (3-9-2), who have now lost four straight.

“You look at that game and it was about who finishes chances and who doesn’t tonight for me,” said Oilers head coach Dallas Eakins. “I don’t believe we were outcompeted, outhit, outtoughed, outshot.

We were outfinished, that’s what we were. We talked about that, the Toronto Maple Leafs, they’re a team that doesn’t have the puck a whole lot, they’ve been outshot a lot this season. But if you give them the opportunity, they will score. They have guys that can put it in the net and they showed that tonight.”

Edmonton outshot the Leafs 43-26.

“We didn’t find a way to score,” said Oilers forward Sam Gagner, who played his first game of the season. “It’s a results-based league, it doesn’t matter,

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Toronto Maple Leafs winger James van Riemsdyk and Edmonton Oilers defenceman Andrew Ference battle in front of the net as goalie Richard Bachman makes a save during first period NHL action in Edmonton on Tuesday. you can’t sit back and think things are good because we got a lot of shots. We have to find a way to score, that’s all that really matters.”

Toronto started the scoring just over a minute into the game on their first shot of the contest. Kadri made a nice play to hook a pass to a hard-charging Kessel on his way to the net and he was able to fake out Oilers goalie Bachman with a quick move to score his eighth goal of the season.

Edmonton had its chances in the fast-paced first period. Most notably on a drop pass from Nail Yakupov that defender Nick Schultz shot wide of an empty net.

Bachman was able to keep it a one-goal game early in the second on a big glove save on Mason Raymond, but couldn’t do it again a minute later as Kessel dished a two-on-one pass off to van Riemsdyk, and he chipped it into the net.

Toronto went up 3-0 with 11 minutes left in the second period as Bachman lost track of a deflected shot that went behind the net and Kessel displayed his skill by barely pulling the puck over the goal-line before putting it in the roof of the cage for his second goal of the night.

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Abegar getting rewarded after long road to RDC The Alberta Colleges Athletic Con“I thought I could help in the midference men’s soccer league season field, but once into the season I felt I wasn’t even underway when RDC Kings could help more on defence,” he exhead coach Steve Fullarton plained. “It worked perfectoffered this up about Julius ly.”

COLLEGE Abegar.

Abegar played most of the REPORT “He’s extremely talented season with several nagging and possibly too good for injuries with a slight groin this league,” he said. pull, an ankle sprain and Now two months later then a knee injury, but felt the rest of the ACAC sees what Ful- he could help the team by just being in larton saw as Abegar was not only se- the lineup. lected to the All-Conference team for “It’s a short season with just 10 the South Division, but named an All- games and I wanted to help the team, Canadian and the ACAC male player and felt I had to play,” explained the of the year. He’ll attend the Canadian 26-year-old native of Ghana. “It was championships at the University of tough at times, but we were doing well New Brunswick in St. John next week as a team and that kept me going and I where he’ll look to add the player of was able to play on the weekends.” the year award for the Canadian ColIt was a long and winding road from leges Athletic Association.

Ghana to RDC as Abegar played semi“I don’t think I played my best this pro and pro in Hong Kong and Malayyear, but it’s great to win the award sia as well as Thunder Bay, Ont. and I’m hoping to win the CCAA “After high school I wanted to conaward,” said Abegar with a laugh. tinue to play soccer and was able to Abegar started the season in the get on a team in Hong Kong,” he exmidfield, but two games in he was plained. “I was there for a couple of switched to his natural position as a years and was going to go to India, and central defender. had actually signed there, but I was in-

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jured and that fell through so I moved to Malaysia.”

After close to three years in Malaysia he was once again injured and sitting out when an opportunity to move to North America came up.

“I had a Julius Abegar buddy playing in Kansas City and his agent told him to tell me about a chance to try out in Thunder Bay in the PDL (the 68-team Premier Development League). I decided to give it a try and if it didn’t work out that’s fine.”

He made the team for the 2009 season and helped them finish second in the conference in 2010. However, he met a girl from Red Deer, which eventually swayed him to move to the Central Alberta community.

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months after the 2009 season and went back to Thunder Bay for the 2010 season. That’s when I decided to move here full time.

“It’s been good for me and Steve has been great. He’s helped me a lot and wanted me to play at the college, and I promised him I would once I was a permanent resident.

“I got that last year and wanted to fulfill my promise to him.”

By the time he made the decision, to attend RDC most of the classes he wanted were full, so he took open studies and will switch to his main program next year. He indicated he’s interested in kinesiology for one.

Abegar played a major role in the Kings success this season as they won the South Division and finished third in the ACAC playoffs.

“It was disappointing as we felt we could go to the Canadians, but it was a good team effort to come back after losing to NAIT (in the semifinals) and beat Lethbridge for the bronze,” said Abegar.

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Injuries starting to pile up for Flames SUFFER HUGE LOSS AS CAPTAIN GIORDANO OUT 6-8 WEEKS WITH BROKEN ANKLE, STEMPNIAK ALSO SIDELINED FOR TWO WEEKS

Scouting report Rebels vs.

Kootenay Ice Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium The Ice possess a 7-6-2-0 record and hold down fourth place in the Central Division and fifth spot in the Eastern Conference. Kootenay is 5-41-0 in its last 10 games . . . The Ice are lead by the dynamic duo of C Sam Reinhart and RW Jaedon Descheneau, who have accumulated 27 (9,18a) and

22 (11-11) points respectively and sat fourth and ninth in league scoring heading into Tuesday’s slate of games . . . Kootenay GM Jeff Chynoweth acquired LW Tom Bozon from the Kamloops Blazers last week to play with his top forwards and Bozon responded with three assists in his first two outings with his new club . . . The Ice are 6-2-1-0 when scoring the first goal of the game and 0-4-1-0 when their opponent strikes first . . . Mackenzie Skapski, selected by the New York Rangers in the sixth round of this year’s NHL entry draft, is 17th among WHL goaltenders with a 3.15 goalsagainst average.

Injuries: Kootenay — D Tanner Faith (upper body, indefinite). Red Deer — G Patrik Bartosak (upper body, day to day), LW Grayson Pawlenchuk (upper body, indefinite).

Special teams: Kootenay — Power play 26.8 per cent, second overall prior to Tuesday schedule; penalty kill 80 per cent, ninth. Red Deer — Power play 23.7 per cent, ninth overall prior to Tuesday schedule; penalty kill 75.4 per cent, 17th.

Pospisil loses in opening round of Paris Masters SAYS HE IS MENTALLY BURNED OUT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PARIS — Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil was ousted in the first round of the Paris Masters on Tuesday, saying he was “mentally injured” in a 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 loss to Spain’s Pablo Andujar.

Ranked 32nd in the world, Pospisil was due to play Frenchman Gael Monfils, but he withdrew with a wrist injury. Pospisil had the momentum going into the match against No. 52 Andujar, who got into the draw as a lucky loser, after making the semifinals last weekend in Basel.

But he said his head wasn’t in the game Tuesday.

“I had no physical issues,” Pospisil said. “I was just burned out mentally. I was not ready to fight, I’m very disappointed right now. It’s true I’ve had a great season but it’s disappointing to lose like that.”

Pospisil went down with 62 unforced errors, 38 off of his usually reliable forehand. His lack of fire was evident in the opening game when he dropped serve in the 37-minute first set, despite dominating Andujar with 12 winners. Pospisil rallied in the second set to take it with a pair of breaks but failed to keep up his intensity in the third set as the rigours of the demanding season began to take a toll.

Andujar earned a 4-2 lead on a break but was then unable to easily serve out the win. Instead, the Spaniard lost serve leading 5-2 and missed a match point chance a game later as Pospisil hammered over an ace. Pospisil saved three more match points a game later before Andujar managed a passing winner to end the struggle.

The 23-year-old Pospisil said that several months of travelling in Asia and Europe since the U.S. Open finally hit him.

“I’ve been on the road for eight or nine weeks, and I’ve been struggling the last few weeks, even if I did well last week,” he said. “It was definitely tough to play today. I didn’t play well at all, credit to him, he played solid, but I’m not happy with my game.”

Pospisil said he’s anxious to move on.

“I’m bitter now, but I’ve had a great year for sure,” he said. “I’ll try to forget this match as quickly as possible and look back on a positive year.”

His 32nd ranking is a career high for Pospisil, who now has a chance to be seeded at the Australian Open in January. He started 2013 ranked 128th.

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New Calgary Flames captain Mark Giordano passes the puck during NHL preseason action in Calgary, Monday, Sept. 23. The Flames could be without their captain for the next two months as the team says Giordano will be sidelined for six to eight weeks with a broken ankle. one game without both Giordano and Stempniak.

Calgary held Alex Ovechkin to zero points and defeated the Washington Capitals 5-2 last Saturday. Defencemen Wideman and Kris Russell were both plus-five in the game.

“Every player — you ask Derek Smith, you ask Shane O’Brien, you ask anyone on this team — if they want ex-

tra responsibility, the answer is pretty simple and very easy and it’s ‘yes,”’ Hartley said. “It’s up to you when you get that chance to really make the best of it.

“If one guy picks up a five per cent, another guy picks up a 10 per cent and 15 per cent, we might compensate and we have to find a way. No one feels sorry for us. We can’t shut down.”

Sylvan Lake faces Hunting Hills in high school football league final The Central Alberta High School Football League playoff games are set.

The B-side games go Friday with the Wetaskiwin Sabres at the Stettler Wildcats at 3:45 p.m. in the third-place game with the final set for 7:30 p.m. in Camrose with the Trojans hosting the Lindsay Thurber Raiders.

The championship side is slated to go Saturday.

The Lacombe Rams and West Central Rebels clash for third place at noon in Rocky Mountain

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OILERS: Remain home The Maple Leafs added to their lead six minutes into the third period as Morgan Rielly finished off a tic-tac-toe passing play by rifling a puck off of Kadri and in.

“I thought it hit him,” said Rielly, who was originally credited with his first career NHL goal. “He tried to give me credit for it at the start, but I said if it hit him he should have it. I’m not too worried about it. I’m just glad we got the win.”

Kadri also had two assists in the game.

The Maple Leafs are right back at it in Calgary today to play the Flames.

The Oilers remain home to face the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday.

Notes: It was the second and final of two meetings this season.

The Maple Leafs beat the Oilers 6-5 in overtime on Oct. 12 in the previous meeting as Joffrey Lupul scored with under a minute left to force the extra period before Dave Bolland scored the winnera Lupul drew back into the Toronto lineup after missing the last two games with a foot injury.

RDC: Home opener ● The basketball squads open their home season Friday against Olds. The women tip off at 6 p.m. with the men to follow.

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House while the Sylvan Lake Lakers and twotime defending champion Hunting Hills Lightning go for gold at 4 p.m. at Great Chief Park.

Four of the playoff teams will compete in provincial play on Nov. 9. The LTCHS Raiders compete in the Tier I quarter-finals for the first time in several years and visit the Edmonton Metro champions.

The Lightning host the South Central Region 2 champion in Tier II play while in Tier III the Lak-

The Queens have a 1-2 record while the Kings are 3-0. The Olds women are 2-1 with the men 0-3.

The teams play again Saturday in Olds, also starting at 6 p.m. ● The volleyball squads also meet Olds in a homeand-home series — Friday in Olds and Saturday at RDC. The women get underway both days at 6 p.m. with the men to follow.

Both RDC teams are 2-0 with the Olds women 1-0 and men 0-1. ● The hockey Kings have an important home-andhome series with the SAIT Trojans — Friday at 7:15 p.m. at the Penhold Regional multiplex and Saturday at SAIT. The teams go into the weekend tied for first place with 16 points each. ● The hockey Queens face the NAIT Ooks for the first time since losing to the Ooks in last year’s league final.

The two meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena and Saturday at NAIT. ● The Kings soccer team were selected the Boston Pizza RDC male athletes of the week while soccer Queens netminder Jesse Stewart received the top female award after a brilliant effort in a loss to NAIT in the ACAC quarter-finals.

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CALGARY — It was going better than expected for the Calgary Flames, but the loss of their captain as well as one of their top forwards has thrown a dash of cold water on the team.

Captain and No. 1 defenceman Mark Giordano is out for six to eight weeks with a broken ankle. He took a shot off the right ankle in the second period of a road game Los Angeles Kings on Oct. 21. The Flames revealed the severity of his injury Tuesday.

“It’s brutal,” Giordano said. “You don’t want to miss any time, but if you have to you’re hoping it’s something not as significant as that time frame.”

Another shot broke a bone in the foot of winger Lee Stempniak last week in Dallas. His status is week to week.

The lower right legs of both Flames were encased in plastic walking casts Tuesday.

“I feel like the team is playing well and to not be a part of it is tough,” Stempniak said. “The swelling is going down so hopefully it’s not too long.”

Just above .500 and without a loss in regulation at home so far this season, the rebuilding Flames (5-4-2) were giving their fans reasons for optimism.

An unexpected bonus has been the performance of 19-year-old forward Sean Monahan, who is among the league’s rookie scoring leaders with six goals and four assists in 11 games.

But for a team without stars and a squad that requires maximum effort to win, the Flames will have to drain their tanks for victories, particularly if Stempniak is out long term.

Giordano and Stempniak were tied for third in points on the team with nine each behind Monahan with 10 and Jiri Hudler with 13.

It’s likely Giordano won’t return to the lineup before his predecessor as Flames captain, Jarome Iginla, returns

to Scotiabank Saddledome on Dec. 10 as a member of the Boston Bruins.

With defenceman Chris Breen day to day with an abdominal strain, the Flames had just six healthy defenceman Tuesday. Head coach Bob Hartley didn’t seem to be in a hurry to summon reinforcements from Abbotsford, B.C. Calgary hosts the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday and the Detroit Red Wings on Friday before departing on a four-game road trip.

“I’m very comfortable,” Hartley said. “We’re not in back-to-back situations. We feel that it’s important for our young players to play in the American League.

“If we’d had a back-to-back and Abbotsford far away from us we’d probably call up someone, but in this situation right now, we feel very comfortable.”

Giordano says an initial scan of his ankle after the Kings game didn’t reveal a fracture. He tried to skate the next day in Phoenix prior to facing the Coyotes, but pain forced him off the ice. A subsequent scan revealed the injury.

“One guy coming in and out of the lineup isn’t going to change the way we play,” Giordano said. “Guys have done a great job. I’d like to be around the guys as much as possible. Obviously being hurt you’re not in it as much as when you’re playing.

“You almost feel it’s a letdown for the team, but there’s nothing I can do about it now.”

Calgary is 1-2 since Giordano was sidelined. Stempniak continued to play last Thursday in Dallas after a shot from teammate Dennis Wideman deflected hard off his skate boot.

“It’s one of those things when it’s not bad and your (foot) is in your skate and it feels all right and then it gets a little bit worse once you take your skate off,” Stempniak explained.

The Flames were successful in their

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Home win would be sweet for Red Sox LOOKING TO WIN WORLD SERIES AT FENWAY PARK FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1918 BOSTON — Generations of New Englanders are preparing. Practically no one alive can remember seeing such an event unfold: The Boston Red Sox could win a World Series title on the celebrated green grass at Fenway Park.

Ted Williams never did it. Not Carl Yastrzemski. Not Carlton Fisk. Not even Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling, who ended The Curse nearly a decade ago but did it on the road.

When the Red Sox last won a World Series at home, Babe Ruth, Carl Mays and Harry Hooper were the stars in September 1918, a season cut short by World War I. Ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2, the Red Sox have two chances to reward their faithful.

“It would be awesome,” said John Lackey, who starts Game 6 on Wednesday night against Cardinals rookie Michael Wacha.

Fenway was just a kid the last time the Red Sox won a title at home, a modern 6-year-

old ballpark. A crowd of 15,238 watched the Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 to win the Series in six games.

“It was a ball game that nobody who was present will forget. It left too many lasting impressions,” Edward F. Martin wrote the following day in the Boston Globe.

That was so long ago that Woodrow Wilson was president of the United States, television hadn’t been invented and the designated hitter didn’t exist. There were 16 major league teams — none west of St. Louis — all games were played in the daytime and the NFL was 23 months from formation.

Now, Fenway Park is a centurion, the oldest home in the majors and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The last time a World Series Game 6 was played between Lansdowne and Van Ness Streets was in 1975, the night Fisk sent Pat Darcy’s second pitch of the 12th inning high down the left-field line and waved his arms three times, urging the ball fair, be-

fore it clanked off the yellow foul pole atop the Green Monster.

“I was just wishing and hoping,” Fisk recalled in 2005.

“Maybe by doing it, you know, you ask something of somebody with a higher power. I like to think that if I didn’t wave, it would have gone foul.”

Boston needed that 7-6 win to force a seventh game against Cincinnati, and the Red Sox went on to lose the following night.

Now, they are one win from setting off a Boston Glee Party.

“With no disrespect to history or to Carlton, you know, it’s an iconic video and a highlight that is shown repeatedly, and one of the more memorable swings that probably has taken place in this ballpark,” Red Sox manager John Farrell said Tuesday, “but hopefully there’s somebody tomorrow night that can wave their arms just the same.”

Boston swept the Series in 2004 and ’07, starting at home and winning titles at St. Louis and Colorado. Given the length of time since the last cham-

pionship clincher at Fenway, there is a seemingly insatiable demand for the just over 38,000 tickets. As of Tuesday evening, the cheapest of 1,600 or so ducats for sale on Stubhub. com was for standing room on the right-field roof deck for $983.75. A dugout box seat was available for $10,894.20.

“I don’t know what happened in 1918, but tomorrow we’re going to try and make it happen, make people proud and happy in the city of Boston and New England,” David Ortiz said. “I guarantee it’s going to be wild.”

Ortiz’s performance in the World Series has been better than Ruthian. He’s batting .733 (11 for 15) with two homers, six RBIs, four walks and a sacrifice fly, and has one-third of Boston’s hits.

“That’s why we call him ’Cooperstown,”’ Game 5 star David Ross said, “because he does Hall of Fame stuff.”

While the Red Sox went through a light workout at Fenway Park on a cool autumn afternoon, the Cardinals tried to maintain their cool as they got stuck in St. Louis, joined

Gold Gloves handed out, Dickey first Blue Jays pitcher to win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina won his sixth straight Gold Glove award Tuesday, making him one of four players in the World Series rewarded for superior defence this season.

Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia and right fielder Shane Victorino also were honoured, along with Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright. Boston has a 3-2 edge over St. Louis going into Game 6 on Wednesday night.

Colorado third baseman Nolan Arenado became the first rookie to win a Gold Glove since Seattle outfielder Ichiro Suzuki in 2001. Atlanta shortstop Andrelton Simmons and Baltimore third baseman Manny Machado also were among the eight first-time recipients.

“It’s pretty awesome,” Simmons said in a brief interview on ESPN during the awards show.

The Orioles and Royals had three winners apiece, tied for the most of any team. Baltimore finished with the fewest errors in the majors (54) and set a big league record with a .991 fielding percentage.

Kansas City left fielder Alex Gordon took his third Gold Glove in a row, while first baseman Eric Hosmer and catcher Salvador Perez each received their first.

“I’ve got a trophy case back in Lincoln, (Neb.), so this one won’t be the chip-and-dip tray. This one will actually go up in the trophy case,” Gordon said. “It means a lot. The first one was pretty special, just because it’s the first one, but to be able to share it with two teammates makes this one the best one of all.”

Baltimore shortstop J.J. Hardy and centre fielder Adam Jones were repeat winners, as was Rockies left fielder Carlos Gonzalez.

His 22-year-old teammate, Arenado, became the 10th rookie to win.

“I’m still kind of in shock. I still can’t believe it,” he said on ESPN. Center fielder Carlos Gomez became the first Gold Glove winner for Milwaukee since shortstop Robin Yount in 1982, ending the longest drought for any team in the 57-year history of the award.

Toronto knuckleballer R.A. Dickey was the winner among American League pitchers and became the first Blue Jays pitcher to win the award. He had

only two errors in his 224.2 innings of play, qualifying him for the award as best fielder at his position for the first time in his career.

The 39-year-old knuckleballer is the ninth Blue Jay to win a Gold Glove and the first since outfielder Vernon Wells in 2006.

Arizona’s Gerardo Parra won in right field after taking the National League honours in left two years ago. Other recipients in the NL were Cincinnati second baseman Brandon Phillips, his fourth, and Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, his first.

“Pretty cool,” said Goldschmidt, who also won the Hank Aaron Award as the NL’s top hitter this season.

Now, a Gold Glove for Goldschmidt as well. Fits like a ... well ... you know.

“It’s a huge honour to get recognized,” he said.

“There’s so many great players around the league.”

Since 1957, Rawlings has presented Gold Gloves to the finest fielders at their positions.

Managers and coaches vote for players in their league but cannot choose their own guys. For the first time this year, Rawlings added a sabermetric element to the balloting. The SABR Defensive Index made up about 25 per cent of the process.

“Wow, hard work pays off,” Phillips said. “I take pride in my defence and try to go out there to make the pitching staff feel comfortable while they’re on the mound. I like being the pitcher’s best friend.

People overlook defence these days.”

Six teams accounted for 14 of the 18 winners. Only two clubs had multiple winners last season, when the Orioles claimed three and the New York Yankees two.

“To win three Gold Gloves this year was very impressive I think for our team, for our organization,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “These young men who won these Gold Gloves have worked their tails off defensively, and the thing that impresses me so much is I think these kids are only going to get better and better defensively.”

Rawlings announced three finalists at each position last week. Tampa Bay’s entire infield was picked, but none of those four players won. Baltimore led all teams with six finalists, including first baseman Chris Davis, right fielder Nick Markakis and catcher Matt Wieters.

Heat begin title reign with win over Bulls

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heat 107 Bulls 95 MIAMI — They got their rings before the game, then a challenge as it was winding down.

The Miami Heat responded to both.

Shane Battier went 4 for 4 from 3-point range, including a critical one from the right corner with 1:33 remaining, and the Heat wasted most of what was a 25-point lead before holding off Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls 107-95 on Tuesday night in the season-opener for both teams.

“You never know what to expect when you’re trying to keep the main thing the main thing, and that’s the game,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

“But you can’t deny the emotions and what a special moment it was for everybody in the organization because we know how difficult that was and how harrowing that was last season. So it was great to actually get the win after that to cap off a very good night for the Miami Heat.”

LeBron James had 17 points, eight assists and six rebounds for Miami, which got its 2013 NBA championship rings and raised the franchise’s third banner in a pregame ceremony. The Heat trailed 9-2 early, then outscored Chicago 52-24 over the remainder of the first half.

Rose finished with 12 points in 34 minutes in his first game since a serious knee injury in April 2012. Carlos Boozer had 31 points and seven rebounds for Chicago, which got within eight points in the final minutes.

But Battier’s right-corner 3 — a staple for the Heat — snuffed out the comeback, and Miami wasn’t in trouble again.

“We’re not trying to pull close.

NBA There were a lot of corrections that we have to make,” Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said. “It always comes back to the same thing — our defence and our rebounding.

And if we could have taken better care of the ball early on, we would have been in position to win down the stretch.”

Chris Bosh scored 16 points, Battier finished with 14 and Dwyane Wade and Mario Chalmers each had 13 for Miami, which had seven players score in double figures.

Ray Allen and Norris Cole each scored 11 for Miami.

Rose shot 4 for 15 for the Bulls.

“I think we had a lot to do with it,” Allen said.

Said Rose: “If anything, I’m disappointed in the loss. My performance, I can easily change that by making shots and keep down the turnovers.”

By halftime, Miami was rolling, up 54-33 — putting the game on pace for a 108-66 final, which would have exactly matched the score of the game in 2006 when Chicago came into Miami and spoiled the Heat franchise’s first ring night.

Not this time, though the Bulls made it plenty interesting down the stretch.

A layup by Butler with 5:34 left got the Bulls within 15, and after he missed the ensuing free throw, the rebound made its way to Kirk Hinrich — who made a 3-pointer that cut Miami’s lead to 91-79.

Hinrich fouled out on the ensuing Miami possession. Wade scored seconds later, the Heat followed that with a stop, and James simply overpowered Luol Deng in the post on the next trip to restore the 16-point lead.

But again, the Bulls weren’t done, cutting the lead to 95-87 on a drive by Boozer with 2:47 left.

They would get no closer, and James raved about Miami’s balance.

“It’s a team game,” James said.

“That’s what this team is put together for.”

Rose’s start was promising early, with two drives for impressive scores. The Bulls led 15-10 when Rose checked out for the first time with 3:36 left in the opening quarter.

When he returned, the lead was gone for good. The Heat outscored the Bulls 13-3 in Rose’s first stint on the bench, turning a five-point lead into a five-point deficit, and by then the Heat were off and running.

Over a 4-minute stretch of the second quarter, everything changed.

Rose’s surgically repaired knee might be fine, but in the basketball vernacular, Cole broke the ankles of the 2011 NBA MVP — starting a run that turned what was a tight game into a romp. Cole faked out Rose on the dribble, causing the Bulls’ star to tumble over, and the Heat reserve connected on an 18-foot jumper that sent the Miami bench leaping from its seats.

“There was a lot of emotions going on,” Cole said.

That began the 17-0 run. The Bulls missed nine straight shots, Rose getting blocked by Bosh on one, and the Heat went to work.

Miami shot 7 for 10 during the burst, which was capped by a driving layup by James with 4:23 left, and suddenly the Heat led 41-20.

It was a runaway, and became a grind-it-out win.

by their families on a charter flight delayed several hours by mechanical difficulties.

“Fortunately we have plenty of food, snacks for the kids, lots of entertainment with onboard movies, and everybody travels with all their high-tech stuff,” manager Mike Matheny said. “Most of these kids are pretty happy that they’re not in school right now, and it’s a great way to spend a day.”

The plane took off about 9:10 p.m. EDT after a delay that appeared to last around 6 hours.

Farrell made a bit of news, saying Ross will get his fourth Series start behind the plate in place of slumping Jarrod Saltalamacchia.

“David has given us a spark offensively out of the position,” the manager said.

Shane Victorino is expected to return to right field after missing two games due to a bad back, and Game 4 star Jonny Gomes will start in left over Daniel Nava. With the shift back to the American League ballpark, Mike Napoli returns to first base and Ortiz to designated hitter.

MINOR HOCKEY Peewee A Kyle Bax, Cole Hardman and Quinn Tomalty scored for Red Deer Sunrise Roofing in a 3-3 weekend tie with the visiting Thunderstars.

Sunrise Roofing also dropped a 6-4 decision to host Maskwacis, getting goals from Eric Melnyk, Rhys Knash, Kyle Gladney and Jake Simpson. The winners got goals from six different players — Jayden Wildcat, Jerry Johnson, Ashten Littlechild, Ethan Smallboy, Kaeden Laroque-Wolfe and Carson Baptiste.

Atom A Brecken Curtis fired four goals to lead the Lacombe Rockets past visiting Red Deer Motors 7-1 in weekend play.

Also scoring for the Rockets were Dulton RaddisConnley, Daniel Humbke and Owen McKinlay. Jaxin Browes had the lone RDM goal.

In another game, Red Deer Motors fell 5-3 to Red Deer Phone Experts.

MINOR HOCKEY Brian Samuel of the Red Deer and District Boxing Club captured bronze in the men’s 69kg elite division at the Canadian senior national boxing championships in Regina.

Samuel defeated Quebec champion Jacob Landry in the second round of his quarter-final bout before losing a 3-0 decision to Devin Reti of Calgary in the semifinal. Reti lost to an Ontario fighter in the final.

Samuel’s next action will be at the Rumble in Red Deer, Nov. 15, at the Harvest Centre at Westerner Park.

HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL

Top schools to face off at Hunting Hills tournament Six of the top seven ranked girls’ team and six of the top nine boys;’ squads are entered in the 20th annual Hunting Hills Lightning senior volleyball tournament, which opens Thursday and runs to Saturday.

On the girls’ side, the seventh-ranked Lindsay Thurber Raiders competes in a pool with the topranked William Aberhart of Calgary, second-ranked Chinook of Lethbridge, third-ranked Strathcona of Edmonton, fifth-ranked Grande Prairie and sixthranked Harry Ainlay of Edmonton.

The host Lightning, Notre Dame Cougars, Calgary’s Western Canada, Calgary Centennial, Spruce Grove and Archbishop O’Leary of Edmonton are in Pool B. On the boys’ side, top-ranked Lindsay Thurber is up against Chinook (No. 3), Bev Facey of Sherwood Park (five), Harry Ainlay (seven), Grande Prairie (eight) and Notre Dame (nine).

The Lightning has William Aberhart, Western Canada, Centennial, Spruce Grove and O’Leary in their pool.

Action gets underway Thursday at 6 p.m. with Hunting Hills clashing with O’Leary in both divisions.

The final draw Thursday goes at 8:30 p.m. with pool play continuing Friday at 8:30 a.m. and going to 8:45 p.m.

The playoffs go Saturday with the finals set for 7 p.m.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Prince Albert 16 9 6 1 0 54 Swift Current 17 8 8 0 1 55 Saskatoon 16 7 7 0 2 57 Moose Jaw 17 6 8 1 2 45 Brandon 14 7 7 0 0 45 Regina 15 7 8 0 0 42 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Calgary 16 10 3 1 2 60 Medicine Hat 14 9 3 2 0 56 Edmonton 16 8 7 0 1 58 Kootenay 15 7 6 2 0 45 Red Deer 14 6 8 0 0 40 Lethbridge 16 2 11 1 2 40

GA 53 52 63 55 54 51

Pt 19 17 16 15 14 14

GA 54 39 47 49 45 77

Pt 23 20 17 16 12 7

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 13 9 2 0 2 53 32 20 Victoria 17 9 7 0 1 42 44 19 Prince George 16 7 7 0 2 41 53 16 Vancouver 15 4 9 1 1 40 57 10 Kamloops 15 4 10 1 0 39 54 9 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 15 11 3 0 1 77 53 23 Everett 14 10 2 2 0 49 36 22 Spokane 15 11 4 0 0 58 35 22 Seattle 15 10 3 0 2 60 51 22 Tri-City 17 8 8 0 1 44 46 17 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; 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 Swift Current 3 Lethbridge 2 (SO) Medicine Hat 3 Prince Albert 1 Vancouver at Prince George, late Brandon at Seattle, late Wednesday’s games Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Brandon at Portland, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s summaries Broncos 3, Hurricanes 2 (SO) First Period 1. Swift Current, Merkley 4 (Black, Debrusk) 0:46 2. Lethbridge, Sheen 4 (Ramsay, Jensen) 5:07 3. Lethbridge, Ramsay 4 (Wong, Topping) 16:03 Second Period 4. Swift Current, Cave 9 (Sanvido, Heatherington) 17:34.

Third Period No Scoring.

Overtime No Scoring.

Shootout Swift Current wins 1-0 Swift Current : Gordon miss, Cave miss, Sanvido goal.

Lethbridge : Estephan miss, Sheen miss, Duke miss.

Shots on goal Swift Current 13 12 14 3 3 — 41 Lethbridge 8 9 12 2 3 — 31 Goal — Swift Current: Bow (W, 4-1-0); Lethbridge: Boes (LS, 2-8-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Swift Current: 0-2; Lethbridge: 0-1.

Tigers 3, Raiders 1 First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Doty 3 (Vannelli, Valk) 5:15 (pp) Second Period 2. Prince Albert, Gardiner 8 (Lange, Morrissey) 4:42

3. Medicine Hat, Lewington 2 (Owre, Cox) 16:55 Third Period 4. Medicine Hat, Valk 7 19:26 (en) Shots on goal Medicine Hat 15 23 12 — 50 Prince Albert 5 7 10 — 22 Goal — Medicine Hat: Langhamer (W, 5-2-1); Prince Albert: Cheveldave (L, 8-5-1).

Power PAs (goal-chances) — Medicine Hat: 1-5; Prince Albert: 0-3.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Toronto 13 9 4 0 18 Tampa Bay 12 8 4 0 16 Montreal 13 8 5 0 16 Boston 10 7 3 0 14 Detroit 12 6 4 2 14 Ottawa 12 4 6 2 10 Florida 12 3 7 2 8 Buffalo 14 2 11 1 5 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 12 8 4 0 16 Carolina 12 4 5 3 11 N.Y. Islanders 12 4 5 3 11 Columbus 11 5 6 0 10 Washington 12 5 7 0 10 New Jersey 12 3 5 4 10 N.Y. Rangers 11 4 7 0 8 Philadelphia 11 3 8 0 6

GF GA 44 30 40 33 37 23 30 17 27 33 35 38 26 42 23 41 GF GA 38 29 26 36 37 39 31 29 34 38 26 37 18 37 20 30

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Colorado 11 10 1 0 20 35 16 Chicago 13 8 2 3 19 45 38 St. Louis 10 7 1 2 16 38 25 Minnesota 13 6 4 3 15 30 31 Nashville 12 6 5 1 13 23 32 Winnipeg 14 5 7 2 12 34 40 Dallas 12 5 6 1 11 31 36 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 12 10 1 1 21 48 20 Anaheim 13 10 3 0 20 42 33 Vancouver 14 9 4 1 19 41 39 Phoenix 12 7 3 2 16 40 39 Los Angeles 12 8 4 0 16 35 30 Calgary 11 5 4 2 12 34 39 Edmonton 14 3 9 2 8 36 54 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games Dallas 4, Buffalo 3 Pittsburgh 3, Carolina 1 Montreal 2, N.Y. Rangers 0 Chicago 5, Minnesota 1 Vancouver 3, Washington 2 Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 3, N.Y. Islanders 2 Anaheim 3, Philadelphia 2 Montreal 2, Dallas 1 New Jersey 2, Tampa Bay 1 Chicago 6, Ottawa 5 St. Louis 3, Winnipeg 2 Toronto 4, Edmonton 0 Los Angeles at Phoenix, late

3. Toronto, Kessel 9 (Phaneuf, Kadri) 8:42 Penalties — None.

Third Period 4. Toronto, Kadri 5 (Rielly, Kessel) 6:14.

Penalties — Franson Tor (kneeing) 8:27, Orr Tor (misconduct) 11:42, Gazdic Edm (misconduct) 11:42.

Shots on goal Toronto 12 9 5 — 26 Edmonton 14 10 19 — 43 Goal — Toronto: Reimer (W, 4-0-0); Edmonton: Bachman (L, 0-1-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Toronto: 0-1; Edmonton: 0-1.

Blues 3, Jets 2 First Period 1. St. Louis, Morrow 2 (Reaves, Shattenkirk) 6:36 2. Winnipeg, Wheeler 5 (Ladd, Byfuglien) 11:20 (pp) Penalties — Enstrom Wpg (high-sticking) 7:39, Roy StL (interference) 9:50, Morrow StL (roughing) 9:50, Kane Wpg (roughing) 11:57, Morrow StL (slashing) 15:20.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Shattenkirk StL (slashing) 5:06, Polak StL (delay of game) 8:58, Halischuk Wpg (highsticking) 16:43.

Third Period 3. St. Louis, Pietrangelo 2 (Oshie) 4:16 4. Winnipeg, Little 7 (Ladd) 10:27 (sh) 5. St. Louis, Steen 11 (Bouwmeester, Pietrangelo) 19:00 (pp) Penalties — Stuart Wpg (cross-checking) 4:58, Setoguchi Wpg (elbowing) 8:31, Enstrom Wpg (interference) 17:47.

Shots on goal Winnipeg 5 9 9 — 23 St. Louis 10 10 13 — 33 Goal — Winnipeg: Pavelec (L, 4-6-2); St. Louis: Halak (W, 7-1-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Winnipeg: 1-5; St. Louis: 1-6.

Blackhawks 6, Senators 5 First Period 1. Chicago, Shaw 2 (Sharp, Keith) 6:54 (pp) 2. Ottawa, Michalek 3 (Ryan) 19:00 Penalties — Brookbank Chi (roughing) 3:02, Smith Ott (roughing) 3:02, Neil Ott (high-sticking) 6:45.

Second Period 3. Ottawa, Turris 2 (MacArthur, Karlsson) 6:51 (pp) 4. Chicago, Hossa 5 (Toews, Hjalmarsson) 7:41 5. Ottawa, Corvo 1 (Spezza, Michalek) 10:19 6. Ottawa, Zibanejad 2 (Turris, MacArthur) 11:14 7. Chicago, Toews 5 (Sharp, Hossa) 14:30 Penalties — Seabrook Chi (tripping) 4:57, Grant Ott (tripping) 14:49.

Third Period 8. Chicago, Toews 6 (Oduya) 1:20 9. Chicago, Toews 7 (Seabrook, Hossa) 9:13 10. Chicago, Shaw 3 (Morin) 14:10 11. Ottawa, Smith 3 14:23 Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Ottawa 15 11 11 — 37 Chicago 12 15 13 — 40 Goal — Ottawa: Anderson (L, 4-4-2); Chicago: Crawford (W, 7-2-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Ottawa: 1-1; Chicago: 1-2.

Referees — Dan O’Halloran, Justin St. Pierre.

Linesmen — Andy McElman, Jay Sharrers.

Attendance — 21,123 at Chicago.

Wednesday’s Games Boston at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Calgary, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

San Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Devils 2, Lightnings 1 First Period

Tuesday’s summaries Maple Leafs 4, Oilers 0 First Period 1. Toronto, Kessel 8 (Kadri, Raymond) 1:08 Penalties — Gardiner Tor (roughing), Yakupov Edm (goaltender interference) 14:50, Gagner Edm (tripping) 17:00.

Second Period 2. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 6 (Kessel) 1:41

No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 1. New Jersey, Henrique 4 (Elias) 1:36 (sh) 2. New Jersey, Jagr 3 10:54 3. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 9 (Purcell, Malone) 15:23 (pp) Penalties — Volchenkov NJ (interference) 0:21, Henrique NJ (hooking) 14:15.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Sustr TB (high-sticking), Carter NJ (high-sticking) 5:39, Gudas TB (tripping) 9:36, Ryder NJ (hooking) 15:08, TB Bench (too many men) 17:15, NJ Bench (too many men) 19:56.

Shots on goal Tampa Bay 4 9 4 — 17 New Jersey 10 7 5 — 22 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 7-2-0); New Jersey: Brodeur (W, 2-2-2).

Power plays (goal-chances)Tampa Bay: 1-4; New Jersey: 0-2.

Rangers 3, Islanders 2 First Period 1. NY Rangers, Kreider 1 (Richards, Stepan) 12:30 (pp) Penalties — Hagelin NYR (slashing) 9:45, Okposo NYI (hooking) 11:03.

Second Period 2. NY Islanders, Clutterbuck 1 (Carkner) 3:40 3. NY Islanders, Regin 2 (Hamonic, MacDonald) 19:19 Penalties — Okposo NYI (interference) 0:31, Dorsett NYR (fighting), Martin NYI (fighting) 10:25, Stepan NYR (tripping) 10:40, Hamonic NYI (holding) 15:30.

Third Period 4. NY Rangers, McDonagh 2 (Stepan, Zuccarello) 4:59 (pp) 5. NY Rangers, Pouliot 2 (Hagelin, Del Zotto) 13:46 Penalties — NYI Bench (too many men) 4:29, Hagelin NYR (slashing), Okposo NYI (roughing) 6:44, Zuccarello NYR (boarding) 8:32, Tavares NYI (roughing), Clutterbuck NYI (roughing), Dorsett NYR (misconduct), Tavares NYI (misconduct), Richards NYR (roughing) 20:00.

Shots on goal NY Rangers 4 15 5 — 24 NY Islanders 9 7 8 — 24 Goal — NY Rangers: Talbot (W, 2-1-0); NY Islanders: Nabokov (L, 4-3-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — NY Rangers: 2-4; NY Islanders: 0-3.

Canadiens 2, Stars 1 First Period 1. Montreal, Bournival 3 (Diaz, Plekanec) 12:02 Penalties — Bouillon Mtl (fighting) 10:40, Roussel Dal (fighting) 10:40, Horcoff Dal (hooking) 17:06.

Second Period 2. Montreal, Bourque 4 (Diaz) 12:55 3. Dallas, Eakin 3 (Dillon) 17:27 Penalties — Goligoski Dal (high-sticking) 10:26.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Daley Dal (holding) 5:19, Murray Mtl (interference) 11:48, Gallagher Mtl (goaltender interference), Lehtonen Dal (roughing) 17:39.

Shots on goal Dallas 9 9 9 — 27 Montreal 9 12 3 — 24 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (L, 4-2-1); Montreal: Price (W, 6-5-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Dallas: 0-1; Montreal: 0-3.

Ducks 3, Flyers 2 First Period 1. Philadelphia, Read 3 (Simmonds, Grossmann) 3:40 2. Philadelphia, Lecavalier 5 (Giroux, Simmonds) 16:34 (pp) Penalties — Simmonds Pha (hooking) 6:41, Getzlaf Ana (slashing) 15:21.

Second Period 3. Anaheim, Cogliano 2 (Getzlaf) 16:25 Penalties — Giroux Pha (diving) 10:12, Bonino Ana (hooking) 11:11.

Third Period 4. Anaheim, Palmieri 2 1:01 5. Anaheim, Palmieri 3 (Bonino, Vatanen) 15:51 Penalties — Ana Bench (too many men) 17:05.

Shots on goal Anaheim 10 11 16 — 37 Philadelphia 15 7 5 — 27 Goal — Anaheim: Hiller (W, 5-2-0); Philadelphia: Mason (L, 3-6-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Anaheim: 0-2; Philadelphia: 1-3.

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Week 19 Friday’s games Montreal at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Friday’s games Calgary at BC Lions, 8 p.m.

Saturday, November 2 Hamilton at Winnipeg, noon Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 3 p.m.

Canadian Football League Leaders TORONTO — Unofficial CFL scoring leaders following Week 18 (x—scored two-point convert): TD C FG S Pt Paredes, Cal 0 49 52 2 207 Whyte, Mtl 0 41 41 10 174 Milo, Sask 0 44 42 2 172 McCallum, BC 0 44 24 7 123 Congi, Ham 0 34 24 3 109 Waters, Tor 0 21 18 10 85 Cornish, Cal 14 0 0 0 84 Prefontaine, Tor 0 27 15 9 81

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Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Indiana 97, Orlando 87 Miami 107, Chicago 95 L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, late Wednesday’s Games Miami at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Washington at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

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

Orlando at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Houston, 6 p.m.

Indiana at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

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

Oklahoma City at Utah, 7 p.m.

Portland at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Denver at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games New York at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

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Monday’s Game Seattle 14, St. Louis 9 Thursday, Oct. 31 Cincinnati at Miami, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 3 Minnesota at Dallas, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Carolina, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Washington, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

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

Baltimore at Cleveland, 2:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at New England, 2:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Arizona, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, N.Y. Giants, San Francisco Monday, Nov. 4 Chicago at Green Bay, 6:40 p.m.

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Major League Baseball Playoffs WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 1: NL: Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 2 Wednesday, Oct. 2: AL: Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 0 DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5) American League Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Boston 12, Tampa Bay 2 Saturday, Oct. 5: Boston 7, Tampa Bay 4 Monday, Oct. 7: Tampa Bay 5, Boston 4 Tuesday, Oct. 8: Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 3, Oakland 2 Friday, Oct. 4: Detroit 3, Oakland 2 Saturday, Oct. 5: Oakland 1, Detroit 0 Monday, Oct. 7: Oakland 6, Detroit 3 Tuesday, Oct. 8: Detroit 8, Oakland 6 Thursday, Oct. 10: Detroit 3, Oakland 0 National League

St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 2 Thursday, Oct. 3: St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 1 Sunday, Oct. 6: Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 3 Monday, Oct. 7: St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1 Wednesday Oct. 9: St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 1 Los Angeles 3, Atlanta 1 Thursday, Oct. 3: Los Angeles 6, Atlanta 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Atlanta 4, Los Angeles 3 Sunday, Oct. 6: Los Angeles 13, Atlanta 6 Monday, Oct. 7: Los Angeles 4, Atlanta 3 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

National League St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2 Friday, Oct. 11: St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 2, 13 innings Saturday, Oct. 12: St. Louis 1, Los Angeles 0 Monday, Oct. 14: Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 0 Tuesday, Oct. 15: St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2 Wednesday, Oct. 16: Los Angeles 6, St. Louis 4 Friday, Oct. 18: St. Louis 9, Los Angeles 0 WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Boston 3, St. Louis 2 Wednesday, Oct. 23: Boston 8, St. Louis 1 Thursday, Oct. 24: St. Louis 4, Boston 2 Saturday, Oct. 26: St. Louis 5, Boston 4 Sunday, Oct. 27: Boston 4, St. Louis 2 Monday, Oct. 28: Boston 3, St. Louis 1 Wednesday, Oct. 30: St. Louis (Wacha 4-1) at Boston (Lackey 10-13), 6:07 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 31: St. Louis at Boston, 6:07 p.m.

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Name Dave Wallace pitching coach.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with 1B-DH Jose Abreu on a sixyear contract.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent LHP Pedro Hernandez outright to Rochester (IL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Extended their player development contract with New Hampshire (EL) through the 2016 season.

Eastern League AKRON RUBBERDUCKS — Announced their new nickname.

American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Exercised the 2014 option on RHP Bradley Blanks.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DALLAS MAVERICKS—Announced the resignation of Gersson Rosas, general manager.

UTAH JAZZ—Exercised the club contract options on G Alec Burks and C Enes Kanter.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Released DT Jay Ross. Signed WR Cordell Roberson to the practice squad.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Placed CB Leon Hall on the injured reserve list.

Signed LB J.K. Schaffer from the practice squad. Waived DE DeQuin Evans.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed OL Reid Fragel from the practice squad of Cincinnati. Signed WR Armanti Edwards. Placed WR Travis Benjamin on injured reserve. Re-signed WR Tori Gurley to the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Released DE Jason Vega. Released RB Davin Meggett from the practice squad. Signed DE Everette Brown.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Re-signed TE Weslye Saunders to the active roster.

Signed OT Xavier Nixon to the practice squad. Waived CB Daxton Swanson.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Acquired DT Isaac Sopoaga and a 2014 sixthround draft pick from Philadelphia for a 2014 fifth-round draft pick. Placed OL Sebastian Vollmer on injured reserve.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Claimed DB Bobby Felder off waivers from Minnesota.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Waived S Jordan Pugh.

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Reassigned F Cody Bass to Springfield (AHL).

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Waived TE Chase Ford. Signed DE Justin Trattou.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned F Patrick Holland to Hamilton (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled G Keith Kinkaid from Albany (AHL).

WINNIPEG JETS — Recalled D Ben Chiarot from St. John’s (AHL). Placed D Paul Postma on the injured reserve list, retroactive to Oct. 27.

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Milwaukee D Bryan Rodney two games for an illegal check to the head of an opponent in an Oct. 26 game against Texas.

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Announced F Jesper Fast was loaned to the team by the New York Rangers. Reassigned F Michael Kantor to Greenville (ECHL).

Loaned G Jeff Malcolm and F Andrew Rowe to Greenville.

NORFOLK ADMIRALS — Agreed to terms with C Dave Steckel. Released G Aaron Dell from his PTO contract and returned him to Utah (ECHL).

ECHL GWINNETT GLADIATORS — Announced D Sacha Guimond was assigned to the team by Utica (AHL). Released D Brad Nunn.

SOCCER Major Soccer League VANCOUVER WHITECAPS — Announced the contract of coach Martin Rennie will not be renewed.

National Women’s Soccer League CHICAGO RED STARS — Acquired the rights to D Casey Short and a 2015 thirdround draft pick for the No. 11 overall pick in the 2014 draft.

COLLEGE BIG EAST CONFERENCE — Named Amber Cox associate commissioner for women’s basketball.

KANSAS — Suspended G Naadir Tharpe from the Jayhawks’ season opener against Louisiana-Monroe after playing in an unauthorized summer league game.

MISSISSIPPI — Suspended men’s basketball G Marshall Henderson three regular-season games for his behaviour since the end of the season.

WYOMING — Fired defensive co-ordinator Chris Tormey. Named defensive line coach Jamar Cain as interim co-ordinator.

Thursday

● Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament. ● College women’s hockey: NAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Friday

● Curling: World Curling Tour — Red Deer Classic at Pidherney Centre. ● Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament. ● High school football: Central Alberta League, B-side, Wetaskiwin at Stettler, third place, 3:45 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber at Camrose, first place, 7:30 p.m. ● College basketball: Olds at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Lacombe, 6 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 8 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Red Deer at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

(The Drive).

Saturday

● Curling: World Curling Tour — Red Deer Classic at Pidherney Centre. ● Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● High school football: Central Alberta League, A-side, Lacombe at Rocky, third place, noon; Sylvan Lake at Hunting Hills, championship final, 4 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Major midget girls hockey: Highwood at Red Deer, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Bisons at Red Deer Black, 12:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex; Leduc at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer Elks, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, 8:15 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Foothills at Sylvan Lake, 5:30 p.m.; Okotoks at Lacombe, 5:45 p.m. ● AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● College volleyball: Olds at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Ponoka at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

(The Drive).

Sunday

● Curling: World Curling Tour — Red Deer Classic at Pidherney Centre. ● Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Parkland, 10:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Lacombe, 2 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Steel Kings 2:15 p.m., Kinex; Red Deer Ramada at Sylvan Lake, 5 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Northstar, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Rusty Chuckers, Sheraton Red Deer vs. The Secret Runs, Alken Basin Drillers vs. Gord Scott Nissan, 4:15 p.m., Lindsay Thurber; Carstar vs. Dream Team, Orangemen vs. Monstars, Triple A Batteries vs. Triple Threat, 5:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

SOCCER VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have fired coach Martin Rennie after a second straight up-and-down season doomed the club’s chances of making the Major League Soccer playoffs.

Vancouver started the season strongly but was eliminated from the playoff race with a 3-2 loss to the Colorado Rapids on Oct. 19. The Whitecaps rebounded to beat Colorado 3-0 in Sunday’s regular-season finale, with Brazilian forward Camilo Sanvezzo getting a hat trick to win the MLS Golden Boot as the league’s top scorer. Whitecaps president Bob Lenarduzzi said the club’s inconsistency over the past couple years was problematic.

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FRONT The graduating class of 2014 from Hunting Hills high school in Red Deer presented Family Services of Central Alberta with a cheque for $500 recently. The donation was made thanks to the students’ fundraising efforts towards the Gifts for Grandparents program through various bake and poinsettia sales. The Grade 12 students will also be volunteering to help package and deliver the gifts over the coming Christmas season. This is the second year grads at Hunting Hills have helped with the program.

SMILE COOKIE CASH RAISED Red Deerians turned into veritable cookie monsters at the end of September in support of local prekindergarten students. Red Deer Public Schools’ Smile Cookie campaign raised $25,620 through the selling of special cookies at Tim Hortons locations.

The money raised will support the division’s Bright Start program, which provides prekindergarten placements to children with learning needs. The campaign ran from Sept. 23 to 29, with the cookies being sold for $1 each.

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Rogers Communications Inc. proposal to build a cellphone tower near homes in Sylvan Lake has been met with static from residents and municipalities.

Both the Town of Sylvan Lake and Red Deer County voiced their opposition to the chosen site for the 60-metre tower off 60th Street on the southwest edge of the town.

A small group of town residents applauded on Tuesday afternoon when the county’s municipal planning commission (which is comprised of members of council) voted 4-3 to deny a development permit for the tower.

“I thought we were not going to win this one,” said a relieved Hope Jensen after the meeting.

Residents said cellphone coverage is important but they want Rogers to either build the site further away from homes or use existing towers.

Homeowners are also concerned the tower will hurt property values, could pose a health risk and will be an eyesore.

“I think there are other locations where it would be better suited,” said Jensen.

Helen Dietz was also concerned about property devaluation and noted the tower falls in an area due to be developed.

“There’s a lot of growth anticipated for that area for the Town of Sylvan Lake.”

Lori Mercredi said she has passed her concerns on to Rogers but has not heard back and feels residents are being ignored.

“It’s just like a done deal, and I feel it’s really unfair to people who live around there.”

County Mayor Jim Wood spoke strongly in favour of the tower, saying while no one

wants a tower next to them, good cellphone communications are important to economic development.

proposed site is identified for future growth.

“Being as it’s so close to current residential and potentially right in the middle of a future development for us ... it’s just an inappropriate area and we would like them to move it back,” she said.

“We do know from the past — SYLVAN LAKE COMMUNICATIONS there are other OFFICER JOANNE GAUDET options for the placing of cellphone towers, so Coun. Richard Lorenz said hopefully they can try an alterhe didn’t see how this issue was native that isn’t so close to resiany different than putting an in- dential.” dustrial area across from housThe county’s decision and loing. cal opposition does not neces“There are other places sarily mean the cellphone plan where (the tower) could be is dead. moved.” Town of Sylvan Lake Towers are federally regulatcouncil also voiced its opposi- ed and it will be up to Industry tion to the tower in a motion Canada to decide what location passed on Monday night to send is appropriate. that message to Rogers.

A Rogers spokesperson could Town communications of- not be reached for comment. ficer Joanne Gaudet said the pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

‘WE DO KNOW FROM THE PAST THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS FOR THE PLACING OF CELLPHONE TOWERS.’

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HORSES TO HEARTS RAISES SHELTER FUNDS The Horses to Hearts fundraiser at Willowdale Equine Centre raised $3,587 for the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter on Oct. 20. Donated items were also collected for Loaves and Fishes. The first-time event consisted of a silent auction and a number of activities inside the main arena, such as jumping demonstrations, miniature horses to see, horse dressage displays, dog tricks and obedience lessons, and more. Tickets were $15 for a family day pass or $5 per person.

Admission was also granted per person for three donated items.

CORRECTION A story in Friday’s Advocate had an incorrect surname for two of the speakers who will address young people during the Teen Empowerment Day in Red Deer on Nov. 23. The correct names are Dean and Nicole Williams.

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Red Deer Legion poppy sales co-chair Neil St. Denys holds up a wreath available for sale at the Legion. With the Poppy campaign now in full swing volunteers are keeping about 400 businesses in Red Deer stocked with the iconic red and black flowers of the season. For the past two years the poppy campaign in Red Deer has raised about $70,000 and the goal is to hopefully bring in the same amount this year said St. Denys. Donations to the poppy campaign go towards funding a number of programs in the community including providing support for ex-service members and their dependants, medical training and research, providing bursaries to children and grandchildren of veterans, supporting drop-in centres for seniors and funding meals-on-wheels services. The Red Deer Legion also supports the Red Deer Hospice Society and other organizations that provide support for veterans.

A 67-year-old man was killed on a worksite after his truck rolled over him last week.

Alberta Occupational Health and Safety spokesperson Lisa Glover said the man, a water truck operator, was killed on a worksite north of Rocky Mountain House on Hwy 22.

Glover said the man had stopped to close a gate and left the truck running on a sloped surface. The truck rolled forward over the worker.

A co-worker found the man about 20 minutes later.

STARS Air Ambulance was dispatched to the site and pronounced the man dead at the scene.

The man was employed by RW Millar Drilling, under prime contractor Encana. No stop work order was issued as a result of this incident.

Hospice Society Spine-tingling events Gala to cook up planned for Thursday celebrity delights HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES

Alberta here and they’re putting up two bouncy castles on the northeast end of the mall and they’re also having a craft station.”

Around 15,000 people toured the Carve the pumpkins, grab your garlic garlands and stay clear of mall last Halloween so staff “stuck graveyards — Halloween is back in with what worked,” Dunstan said, and planned a very town. similar HallowFrom blood, een event this candy, ghouls year. and things that “It’s a great go bump in the family event. It’s dark, Red Deer been going on for has numerous a long time. This goodies and is for fun and bespine-tingling ing able to walk events for all agaround without es on Thursday. your snowsuit on The city’s two underneath your main shopping costume.” malls are sportBower Place ing orange and Shopping Centre black, cobwebs is hosting a simiand bat wings, lar event with ready for their trick-or-treating annual mall-wide — KRISTA DUNSTAN, PARKLAND MALL’S trick-or-treat sesMARKETING DIRECTOR from 5 to 7 p.m.

There will be sions. a photographer Games and on site to capcandy handouts ture little skelkick off at 4 p.m. at Parkland Mall on Thursday, running etons, witches and goblins on the quest for sweets starting at $12 a photo. until 7 p.m.

For a more hair-raising ordeal, Red “Our community partners, like UNICEF, will be in the mall. We’ll Deer also has two haunted houses, full have face painters and a balloon art- of severed heads, blood-thirsty shadist wandering around,” said Krista ows and groaning, pus-oozing monDunstan, Parkland Mall’s marketing sters. director.

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‘IT’S A GREAT FAMILY EVENT. IT’S BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME. THIS IS FOR FUN AND BEING ABLE TO WALK AROUND WITHOUT YOUR SNOWSUIT ON UNDERNEATH YOUR COSTUME.’

After two years of the celebrity dance-off, the Red Deer Hospice Society Gala is changing its flavour, choosing to instead showcase celebrity chefs and tasty food.

Massimo Capri and Michael Bonacini will bring their culinary masterpieces to Red Deer, putting their skills on display for the Jan. 17 gala. Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, said Lori Dufresne, gala event co-ordinator.

“We were looking for something that would have that audience attraction as well as a little audience participation,” said Dufresne.

“We had really struggled with what people are really interested in right now, and I would think the Food Network and its popularity was kind of a natural fit.”

The two chefs have designed the menu and will be on stage, demonstrating the prep and bringing up audience members to help them.

Not giving much away in terms of what is on the menu, Dufresne said the proposed menu still has to be approved by the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel as they will be the ones to mass prep and cook it for the guests.

The food includes four cocktail/hors d’ouevres and a four-course meal.

“If you Google the chefs, they both sort of have that rustic Italian slant to their restaurants and their cooking,” said Dufresne.

On top of their presentation and design of the menu for the event, the two celebrity chefs have donated a live auction item — a round trip flight to Toronto with dinner for four at Capri’s restaurant one night and then Bonacini’s another night, with accommodations included.

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Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Trial ordered in fatal collision A Red Deer man facing criminal charges in connection with a fatal collision in Red Deer has been ordered to stand trial.

Brent Robert Cameron, 25, is charged with leaving the scene of a fatal collision and public mischief in connection with the death of a man whose body was found on Taylor Bridge shortly after 2 a.m. on Oct. 6, 2012.

The man who died, Paul Gabriel Bertin, 18, had recently moved to Red Deer from Botha, just east of Stettler.

Cameron was scheduled for a preliminary hearing before Judge David Plosz in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday. Preliminary hearings may be held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before proceeding to trial.

However, plans changed when a new witness was introduced to the case just after court was opened on Tuesday morning.

Crown prosecutor Wayne Silliker met with the witness for a few minutes outside of the courtroom, after which defence counsel Glen Allen of Wetaskiwin asked to waive the hearing and proceed to trial.

Previously released on $2,000 cash bail, Cameron is due back in the Court of Queen’s Bench on Dec. 2 to set a date for his trial.

Sylvan Lake to continue monitoring tents at park The Town of Sylvan Lake will keep an eye on tenting next summer but isn’t planning any new rules.

Concerns were raised by a town councillor last summer that the number of tents being set up in Centennial Park was getting out of hand.

Beach ambassador staff were asked monitor over the summer to see if any problems arose.

There were no complaints received and no damage from tenting was seen, says a report to council discussed on Monday.

The province says it has had few problems and is not planning to restrict tenting in Sylvan Lake Provincial Park, which runs along the water’s edge.

Overnight camping is not allowed.

Town spokeswoman Joanne Gaudet said most tents were located in the province’s park, where the town has no jurisdiction.

“The direction from council is that it’s just something we monitor every summer,” she said.

The town will be specifically checking next summer to see that damage isn’t done in the park.

Red Deer College inviting all potential students Red Deer College is throwing its doors wide open to show off the programs it offers to anyone, be it a high school student wondering what to do next or someone looking to switch careers.

On Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., both the main RDC campus, 100 College Blvd., and the downtown RDC campus, Millennium Centre 4909 49th St., will welcome visitors.

Potential students can connect with college instructors, students, staff and alumni to find the right program, and even apply for programs that start in January or September 2014.

More than 75 programs will be featured during the open house.

“This is a great way for us to connect with future students personally,” said Brad Donaldson, RDC vice-president academic.

“When future students visit our facilities, they are always impressed by our learning spaces and, more importantly, when they connect with our friendly

Screamers Haunted House, located at 5239 53rd Ave., two blocks north of the Superstore, takes those who dare through a self-guided tour of various themes, including Lockdown, Evil Clowns, 50 Shades of Screamers, Buffet and Dinner.

Known as Alberta’s “premium haunted house,” Screamers wraps up the horror tonight until next year.

Haunts run from 6 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $15 at the door.

The Boys and Girls Club of Red Deer’s Haunted House, now in its 23rd year, is open tonight and Halloween night from 6 to 10 p.m.

Brave the man-eating dog, flying vampire and dreaded Tormentor among other moving horrors lurking in the dark in the ‘psych ward’ at Lions Plaza (7710 50th Ave.). Tickets are also $15 at the door.

A ‘Spook Pass’ providing admission plus other benefits for $20 can be reserved online.

Blood is the theme of the night for another good cause, the Halloween Howl, at 5020 68th St., also known as the Red Deer Blood Donor clinic.

Do your part to save someone’s life on the night of haunts and be treated to candy and Halloween movies. The clinic hopes to have 64 blood donations throughout the day.

It runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday. To book an appointment, visit at www.blood.ca or call 1-888-2-DONATE. The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame also hosted its annual Family Halloween Night on Tuesday evening with games and costume prizes, as well as a spooky craftmaking station. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

United Way nears halfway mark of fundraising goal The United Way of Central Alberta is closing in on the halfway mark of its $2.25-million fundraising goal.

As of Tuesday, $1,098,913 has been raised for the 2013 campaign. The four-month drive kicked off in September.

The money raised during the campaign provides funding to more than 30 programs and services in Central Alberta.

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RDC to unveil new website

Nurses in Red Deer will march today to raise awareness about what the union representing them says are government-imposed layoffs hurting patient care in the province’s hospitals.

Members of United Nurses of Alberta Local 218 will hold an information walk from 12-1:30 p.m. today at the intersection of Gaetz Avenue and 32nd Street.

The walk “is being held to raise public awareness of the impact of nurse layoffs planned and implemented by Alberta Health Services,” according to a release.

The union says nurses are being replaced by unregulated health care aides who receive less training than registered nurses across the province.

Similar walks have been held around the province throughout October.

After four months of hard work, Red Deer College is set to unveil its new website.

The revamped college site replaces the version RDC has had the past five years.

Jim Brinkhurst, RDC vice-president College Services, said the new site will be up by 6 p.m. today.

“It has to load, so it is going to take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour depending on what the total load time is,” said Brinkhurst.

He said much has changed in terms of design and needs of websites since they developed the current one, starting with the navigation of the site, which has been changed.

Another adjustment has been to make the website more accessible and friendly for mobile devices.

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HOSPICE: 13th gala This will be the 13th hospice gala, but unlike the last two, which took place in March, the event will be in January to accommodate the chefs’ busy schedules.

“We think it’s something new for Red Deer, something that hasn’t been seen here and we’re getting a really good response,” said Dufresne.

Sales have gone well so far and Dufresne said they think they will sell out without difficulty.

The hospice society hopes to raise about $110,000 net. She said that could be down a little from last year, but their expenses were greater doing the celebrity dance-off.

Tickets to the event cost $200 and are available at www.reddeerhospice. com or by calling the hospice society directly at 403-309-4344. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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“We know it is a big part of the marketplace now,” said Brinkhurst.

“If you’re accessing the site by iPhone, iPad or other types of devices, the site will adjust accordingly to the device’s format.”

Significant emphasis was placed on the new or potential student section of the website.

What stands out for Brinkhurst, though, is the increased use of video on the site.

“Our goal is to move towards more video,” said Brinkhurst.

“It will allow for one-or-two-minute clips from faculty or a dean, to give people a sense or understanding of what they might experience if they were to go into that program.”

staff and expert instructors it helps them see that RDC is a great fit.”

For more information, visit www.rdc.ab.ca/openhouse.

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The zombie apocalypse hit the Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site this month for a first-time event called Fright Night at the Site. Educational and blood-curdling “fright walks” took place on Oct. 18, 19, 25 and 26 and raised an estimated total of just over $23,000 from ticket sales, which were $15 each. More than 1,500 people from across Central Alberta braved the walking dead. All proceeds went to the Confluence Heritage Society, which runs events at the site throughout the year. Organizers say they plan to host a similar event next October due to this year’s success.

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Sedentary work, stress biggest health risks 500,000 CANADIANS ARE ABSENT FROM WORK EVERY WEEK DUE TO MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES Ninety-two per cent of organizations surveyed recognized that the health of their employees influences overall corporate performance, since healthy employees mean more productivity, better attendance and a stronger bottom line, the report found.

Sapna Mahajan, director of prevent i o n and promotion with the Mental Health Commission of Canada, says 500,000 Canadians are absent from work every week due to mental health issues and it‘s costing the national economy $50 billion a year.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The sedentary nature of Canadian workplaces is becoming as much of a health risk as stress for many workers.

That’s according to a new wellness survey from Sun Life Financial, which found 24 per cent of Canadian employers consider work-related stress and sedentary lifestyles the most serious health risks affecting their employees.

“Stress has been the number one for many years, what we’re seeing now that stress is staying very high on the radar for employers and they’re certainly recognizing work-related stress is a key issue, but sedentary lifestyle has now crept up as a key concern and key factor,” said Lori Casselman, assistant vice-president of group benefits at Sun Life.

Doctors want limits on kids’ gadget use THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Doctors 2 parents: Limit kids’ tweeting, texting & keep smartphones, laptops out of bedrooms. goodluckwiththat.

The recommendations are bound to prompt eye-rolling and LOLs from many teens but an influential pediatricians group says parents need to know that unrestricted media use can have serious consequences.

It’s been linked with violence, cyberbullying, school woes, obesity, lack of sleep and a host of other problems.

It’s not a major cause of these troubles, but “many parents are clueless” about the profound impact media exposure can have on their children, said Dr. Victor Strasburger, lead author of the new American Academy of Pediatrics policy “This is the 21st century and they need to get with it,” said Strasburger, a University of New Mexico adolescent medicine specialist.

The policy is aimed at all kids, including those who use smartphones, computers and other Internet-connected devices.

It expands the academy’s longstanding recommendations on banning televisions from children’s and teens’ bedrooms and limiting entertainment screen time to no more than two hours daily.

Under the new policy, those two hours include using the Internet for entertainment, including Facebook, Twitter, TV and movies; online homework is an exception.

The policy statement cites a 2010 report that found U.S. children aged 8 to 18 spend an average of more than seven hours daily using some kind of entertainment media.

Many kids now watch TV online and many send text messages from their bedrooms after “lights out,” including sexually explicit images by cellphone or Internet, yet few parents set rules about media use, the policy says.

“I guarantee you that if you have a 14-year-old boy and he has an Internet connection in his bedroom, he is looking at pornography,” Strasburger said.

The policy notes that three-quarters of kids aged 12 to 17 own cellphones; nearly all teens send text messages, and many younger kids have phones giving them online access.

“Young people now spend more time with media than they do in school — it is the leading activity for children and teenagers other than sleeping” the policy says.

“It’s a huge economic cost and it’s one that just can’t be ignored anymore by business,” Mahajan said.

The commission set out a national standard earlier this year, which Mahajan hopes companies will use as a guide to both prevent and accommodate mental health issues.

“We’re — SAPNA MAHAJAN not saying that you’re not going to have stresses at work or anxiety,” Mahajan said.

“But maybe there are certain things you can put in place — processes, policies, and structures — to try to avoid as much as possible that psychological

harm, and to have structures in place so that if people aren’t feeling well, there’s a way to accommodate them.”

He adds that once somebody goes off work, it’s harder to have them back.

The Sun Life study found that 62 per cent of the companies surveyed offer wellness initiatives, with 51 per cent reporting an increase in employee morale and a 40 per cent drop in absenteeism as a result of such programs.

But in order for such initiates to work, Casselman says employers must promote them so that employees take advantage of the programs, and also provide rewards to those who do participate.

“Programs that are offered in the workplace are largely very well received by employees if they’re offered in the right way, with the right incentives,” she said.

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Still Important To Apply Sunscreen, Protect Your Skin In Winter

as well as any new growths, sores that won’t heal, or areas

By Pam Snowdon that bleed, swell up, ooze, or are itching, red and bumpy “The Power to Change Your Skin”, “Four Weeks to should also be referred to your health care provider.

Younger Looking Skin!”, “Age Defying” : we are inunDr. Johnson notes that skin is our biggest detoxifying dated with advertising messages about transforming aging organ, and is an indicator of our overall health. “Cleanskin, and by 2015 North Americans will spend about 114 er, healthier eating results in a healthier complexion,” he billion dollars on anti-aging skin care products, according says. The fat that is lost from our skin cells over time can to the Huffington Post, in attempts to reverse the effects be partly replenished by eating healthy oils such as those of time. found in flax seeds and certain fish oils. He also suggests In reality, nothing completely eradicates wrinkles as that the antioxidants found in vitamins A, C, E are imwe age. Changes in skin tone, elasticity, and appearance portant. come with the territory. As the skin loses fat cells, it tends Talk to your health care provider about the need to supto look less plump and smooth, while the bone structure plement with vitamin D, if you aren’t getting enough from and veins underneath the surface become more apparent. the sunshine or your diet. “Many topical applications can Dry skin is also caused by the fact that we sweat less as work, “ says Dr. Johnson, “but in terms of aging, what we grow older. Thinner, less supple, and dry skin can be we put inside is more important than what we put on the very uncomfortable, itchy, even painful in the case of conoutside of our skin.” ditions such as psoriasis or eczema. In severe cases the Many lotions, creams, and serums now contain ingrepeeling, shedding, and scaling skin can become prone to dients which benefit the skin, soothing and healing, and bacterial infections. As if that weren’t enough, thin skin providing a smoother look. Alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) bruises more easily, too. and beta hydroxy acid (BHA) help the skin to shed built Exposure to sunlight is the major cause of the changes up the layer of dead cells which tend to give a rough, unthat we see when we look in the mirror, and that we blame even, or discoloured appearance. Serums are typically on aging: wrinkles, age spots, redness, and dry patchconcentrated forms of antioxidants that are used as part of es. The ultra violet (UV) rays of the sun break down the a daily routine to boost the benefits of moisturizer lotions elastin fibres in the skin. If you gently pull on your cheek or creams. Again, a facial moisturizer or sunscreen that or your wrist, the elastin fibres are one of the properties contains an SPF of 15 or slightly higher is your best anwhich give your skin the ability to snap back in place. Sun ti-aging weapon. To discuss the benefits of these products, exposure can also cause those flat, brown discolourations or prescription products and skin targeting treatments, on the face, hands, and arms known as age spots. While a consult with your health care provider or dermatologist. certain amount of sagging in muscles is caused by graviA routine of gentle cleansing and exfoliation, followed ty, people who smoke seems to have more wrinkles than by one of the very good moisturizers available, perhaps those who don’t have the habit. cancer. Early detection remains the most important step In fact, the biggest agers of skin are alcohol, smoking, in prevention. In the colder months, we tend to cover up a selection of one or two specialized products that target and exposure to UV rays, according to Dr. Shane Johnson, more and therefore don’t notice any changes or new, un- age spots or that will give your skin a healthy glow, can a Doctor of Naturopathy at Aspire Natural Medicine in usual growths on our skin that might be more apparent to go a long way to providing smoother, more supple lookRed Deer. us in the summer when we cover up less. Likewise, we ing skin: what we call “younger” skin. Yet, sooner or later But enough of the bad news. While we can expect to may figure we can skip the sunscreen when the tempera- we all have to accept certain changes in our appearance (at least until science comes up with the ultimate wrinsee changes in our skin, there are ways and means of ag- ture drops. ing with healthy looking (and feeling) skin. While there Just because we wear more clothing in winter is no rea- kle remover). Until then, manage your stress about those are no magic elixirs to completely vanish wrinkles, there son to assume we aren’t at risk, according to the Canadi- “character lines”, adapt a positive attitude and smile lots, are creams, lotions, and preparations to reduce the appear- an Cancer Society. The UV rays are at work on our skin, and take your vitamins. And perhaps save your cash for ance of lines and to lighten up age spots. Laser therapies despite the clouds, haze, or fog. In fact, the strength of a vacation somewhere warm: just remember to pack the and other dermatological treatments are also an option for UV rays are twice as strong when reflected off the snow. sunscreen. some people.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30, 2013 THE MARVEL OF FALL

Woman worried about finding happiness after retirement

ANNIE ANNIE

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A police statement says the theft occurred around Liebenfels, a village about 200 km southwest of Vienna.

It says a farmer reported his field mowed

and the grass gone on Monday.

Police say the grass went missing sometime in the last three weeks but the farmer noticed it only Monday because the field is at some distance from the rest of his property.

They say the owner estimates its worth at around 3,000 euros (more than $4,000) as fodder.

Photo by D. MURRAY MACKAY/freelance

Beautiful mountain ash trees adorned much of Ponoka in the fall. The wonderful array of colours made an enjoyable sight just before the snow and cold hit.

HOROSCOPE Wednesday, Oct. 30 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Sarah Carter, 33; Fiona Dourif, 32; Nia Long, 43 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon continues to transit through judicious Virgo. The Moon makes useful alliances with Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. This is one of those days where we can brainstorm and get a lot of work done. The eagerness and the hopefulness to see a project or an endeavour reach to fruition is high. There is a perfect synchronicity between our need to be in alliance with our life’s requirements, with our minds and our emotions.

Faith in our own abilities will take us far!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, your combination of personal goals, intentions and longterm planning is aligned with your hopes and wishes. You will do all it takes to reach a big dream of yours as you see nothing that could possibly get in your way of sweet taste of victory. Dream big!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Health news should be more uplifting. You have been in a long period where your stamina had to suffer due to some unhealed spiritual wounds. Let today’s astral configuration give you that surge of optimism and power.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your sentimental inclinations want to express themselves in a grandiose style.

Your need to unleash your inner child can be done with the help of a partner who understand you fully and who supports you unconditionally.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your determination and your consistency in a given job are now waiting to be remunerated. Your house of money looks extremely encouraging and generous.

The money you will be getting now will offer you lots of inner peace and comfort.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your relationship with your relatives, such as a brother or sister will go very well right now. Pick up the phone or get in touch with them to find out more about their lives. Once you start talking, you won’t be able to put an end to your uplifting conversation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Stability and security are pondering heavily on your mind right now. There are serious agreements and negotiations done in privately right now.

Help is on its way from an undisclosed source or from someone from your past.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): Your negotiations, even though somewhat unstable lately, will need to be set in stone this time. You rely entirely on definite rules and you expect others to follow their promises. A boost in revenue is highly likely and so are your wishes.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your aspirations are based on what you have accumulated or saved thus far. You are concerned about your earnings status and seek ways to increase it. Expand your business circle. Right now, it’s not what you know, but rather who you know.

ASTRO DOYNA

SUN SIGNS SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your outlook on life depends a lot on what you feel that your expectations

regarding your hopes should be and what would truly make you feel that you have accomplished something.

Think outside the box.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): You are engaged into some heavy, serious contemplation today. Your mind is full with baggage from the past and which needs some cleaning or structuring.

Focus on your own destiny’s path for now and give your heavy thoughts a big break.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Opportunities abound through partnerships.

Your fortune stems from reliable and entrusted alliances.

Mingle around and get in touch with diverse individuals as there is certainly someone who may contribute to your prosperity.

The Red

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): You find a greater enthusiasm and ease in your daily chores or at your usual job. Today you are feeling in control of your emotions and you are able to tap into your inner self quite effortlessly as well. Your emotional wellbeing will be restored.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You want to broaden your sphere of knowledge but you don’t want to go about it alone. In your romantic union, there is plenty of tender loving care. Indulge in one another’s worship and your dramatic expression of adoration gestures.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Dear Annie: I am retiring at the end of the week and am worried.

I have been married for 27 years to my second husband.

For the past 24, he has not once touched me, said “I love you” or displayed any affection. He is a good stepfather to my children and a wonderful grandfather, but there is absolutely nothing for me.

I am a very social person, but he is happy reading or MITCHELL working in our garden. When & SUGAR we do something together, it is invariably what he wants to do. We go where he wants to go and eat what he wants to eat.

I feel I have let life pass me by. My marriage vows said “until death us do part,” so divorce is out of the question.

Will I be able to find happiness in retirement? I’m dreading it. — Is There Hope for Me? Dear Hope: Since divorce is not an option, please use your energy to carve out your own life within your marriage.

Assert your independence, and do some things just for yourself. Join a book club, choir, theatre group or political organization. Volunteer your time at a children’s hospital. Take a trip with friends.

You also might find it beneficial to get some counseling, with or without your husband, to help you navigate the rest of your life in a way that brings you some type of happiness and satisfaction.

It’s not too late. Just take the first step.

Dear Annie: What happens if you invite your son’s classmate to his birthday party, and the parent gives you a list of things he’s not allowed to eat — not for health reasons, but for religious or moral ones, and the kid wants to eat them anyway?

For example, what if the family keeps kosher, but the kid wants the non-kosher hamburgers? Or the parents are strict vegans and don’t want their child to eat anything with meat, milk or eggs, but the kid doesn’t care and wants the hot dogs and birthday cake?

Do I forcibly keep the child away from the unapproved food? Or do I say, “My house, my rules”? — Gary, Ind. Dear Gary: We know it can be difficult when you feel you are catering to a wide swath of food restrictions, but the parents’ rules apply.

You must tell the child, “Sorry, but your parents said you aren’t allowed to have that.” Of course, it would be a kindness to serve something that all the kids can eat, and it’s not as complicated as you might think. Ask the parents for assistance. And if you cannot accommodate the child’s requirements, please inform the parents ahead of time. They may prefer to pack him his own food or not send him.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Tired of Poor Customer Service.” I have been in customer service for 30 years. I have been cussed at, threatened, had food thrown at me and worse, all the while with a smile on my face.

I love working with the public, but the public needs to remember that I am there to provide a service. I’m not your slave.

I deserve to be treated with respect the same as you. I don’t respond well to rudeness and demands. I will help any way I can, but if I can’t get you what you want, don’t blame me, swear at me and tell me I’m stupid. It is not my fault that you lost your job, your marriage is failing, your car broke down or your dog died. I am sympathetic, but don’t take it out on me.

I agree that customer service is becoming a thing of the past. But, dear customer, take a look at yourself, as well. Would you want to be treated the way you have treated me?

A smile, a kind gesture and a positive attitude go a long way on both sides of the counter. — Still Smiling in Indiana 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.

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From the left, Alan Doyle, Sean McCann and Bob Hallett of Great Big Sea perform with the band during a stop in Red Deer Monday performing to a full house at the Memorial Centre. The band played two sets for a very enthusiastic audience.

Sounds from The Rock GREAT BIG SEA SERVES UP A FOOT-STOMPING MIX OF GREATEST HITS AND RECOGNIZABLE STANDARDS ON ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

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ber Bob Hallett, (also a guitarist, tin whistler and fiddler) accompanied him on the squeeze box.

The band, on its 20th anniversary tour, launched into Heart of Hearts, with the lyrics, “I drove a million miles with you, I broke a million smiles with you . . . in my heart of hearts, I’d do it all again!” It was clearly a love song to the audience, made more apparent by the hearts suddenly appearing on a video screen behind the band.

The screen was framed by two large, neon-lit Xs, standing for XX, the title of Great Big Sea’s current greatest hits album.

Looking over the sea of fans’ faces, Doyle declared, “Sold out to the doors! Red Deer was the first concert to sell out on the whole tour.”

McCann joked that he’s always liked Red Deer as it’s Rudolph’s the Red Nosed Reindeer’s hometown, “And he’s Santa’s freakin’ favourite!”

After the two musicians somehow segued to the topic of naughty films shown on Petty Harbour’s first French-Canadian TV channel, and how a third X in the band’s album title would have led it to be stocked in adult video stores, Doyle decided “I feel we should sing something more wholesome now.”

A Boat like Gideon Brown proved just the ticket, with its happy flute solo.

The gifted band members played two sets with an intermission, pulling off great covers of Pete Townshend’s Let My Love Open the Door and Slade’s Run Runaway. Great Big Sea also performed the hit Consequence Free, When I am King, Goin’ Up, and the comical tunes Scolding Wife and Helmethead, about hockey.

As well there were Lukey, Penelope and a poignant acoustic version of Nothing But a Song.

Even more memorable was the haunting The River

Dallas Buyers director says McConaughey was on a mission

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Quebec director Jean-Marc Vallee says Matthew McConaughey was “on a mission” to reinvent his career with his much-lauded turn as renegade AIDS patient Ron Woodroof in The Dallas Buyers Club.

“It’s a giant performance,” Vallee said at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, where the movie screened.

“When we were on the set I was forgetting to say ‘cut’ sometimes . .

I was so moved.”

Critics have been similarly dazzled by McConaughey’s portrayal of Woodroof, a real-life heterosexual electrician (and part-time rodeo rider) who contracted HIV and — unhappy with the treatment from his doctor — began smuggling unapproved drugs from Mexico, both to take himself and to sell to others.

The A Time to Kill actor is practically unrecognizable in the role and much has been made of his shocking weight loss, but McConaughey says it was reading Woodroof’s diary that ultimately provided the key to the character.

“You know, there’s who we are and there’s who we portray ourselves to be,” the actor said at the festival, still looking thin but no longer emaciated.

“Boy, the ‘who he was’ that I got from his diary really helped me grab (on) to say, ‘OK, I have ownership of the man.”’

The film, which co-stars Jennifer Garner as a sympathetic doctor and Jared Leto as a drag queen who goes into business with Woodroof, paints a vivid portrait of the early days of AIDS, when the medical community knew little about how to treat the new scourge.

“He was figuring it out like everyone else,” McConaughey said of the hard-living Woodroof, who battled the FDA for the right to choose his own medication and died in 1992.

“Here’s a guy with a seventh grade education . . . . He hadn’t really found his way or a purpose in life, you know, (he) was going to get away with what he could.

And really, the guy got purpose when he got HIV and the purpose was: ‘What am I going to do to stay alive?”’

Garner notes that “a terrible complacency has set in” when it comes to HIV and hopes the mov-

ie pushes the issue back into the public conversation.

Despite that wish, The Dallas Buyers Club never feels preachy.

Indeed, McConaughey says he and Vallee were united in their view that Woodroof should retain his essence as a “hell-raising bigot” and that he not have a “coming-to-God moment in act three.”

“I kept saying if we keep him human, the humanity will come out,” said McConaughey.

“He’s not the guy who’s going to grab the white flag.”

McConaughey has made a conscious decision in recent years to take on edgier roles in films such as Magic Mike and Killer Joe and it’s clear he forged a strong creative connection with Vallee, noting he was impressed by the director’s Genie-winning C.R.A.Z.Y. “I try to grow (with) each of my roles and I feel like I’ve been doing that more so in the last few years.... I had an incredible experience doing this,” he said at the festival.

Dallas Buyers Club opens Friday in limited release.

Driver’s Lament that started with just Doyle’s voice, but gradually included four-part harmony, thanks to Hallett, McCann and bassist Murray Foster. Drummer Kris Macfarlane kept the beat on the bodhran.

Safe Upon the Shore, a ballad that advises never asking favours from the heartless sea, was another shiver-inducing tune.

Additional powerful moments were provided by McCann’s performance of Far from the Shores of England — a tribute to the brave souls who sailed off into the unknown on wooden ships, and Doyle’s Yankee Sailor, about a poor Newfoundland lad whose girlfriend took up with a U.S. sailor stationed on a naval base on the island.

Fans warmed up to the band’s rousing performance of early hit Wadd’ya At, which was used for a 1990s Newfoundland phone commercial that was shown on the concert’s video scene. Doyle later quipped, “For all you young people out there, those big boxes are telephones. One call at a time was all they were good for.”

But perhaps the evening’s biggest real crowdpleaser was Hallett’s spirited version of Come and I Will Sing You, a call and response tune involving audience participation.

The largely upbeat concert that left fans standing, cheering and dancing wound to a regretful close with Old Black Rum and Live This Life — about appreciating every minute of our sad, happy, complicated lives.

“I’m grateful for this evening,” said Doyle to his fervent followers. A fan shouted back, “Many more years!”

Hopefully not too many more, though, before Great Big Sea returns to reindeer, I mean, Red Deer. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Gallery IS reception Gallery IS is holding a First Friday reception in Red Deer this week.

A group art exhibit by the Northern Terrain Painters — Jeri Lynn Ing, Susan Woolgar, Judy Sutter and Larry Reese — is showing at the 5123 48th St. gallery.

The artists have painted harvest fields in Central and South Alberta, mountain scenes, still life and abstract works in a diversity of sizes.

A reception for the show is from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday.

Gallery IS will also be open from noon to 5 p.m.

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If these Red Deer-area resLANA idents were starved for hearty MICHELIN Atlantic musical fare, then the boisterous Newfoundlandbased band was only too happy to serve up foot-stomping sounds from home.

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LOEHR 1964 - 2013 Kevin Anthony Loehr of Red Deer, passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at the age of 49 years. Kevin is survived by his wife Lori, sons Christian (Jill Degrood) Loehr, Jordan (Trisha) Loehr, daughter Katelyn Loehr and numerous other family members and friends. A Memorial Celebration of Kevin’s life will be held at CrossRoads Church, located at the SW Corner of 32 Street and Highway 2, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, November 1, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Kevin’s honor may be directed to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 - Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6.

Condolences to Kevin’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca Bruce MacArthur MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

SCOTT William “Bill” Roy On Saturday, October 26, 2013, William Roy Scott of Red Deer, dedicated and loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather passed away suddenly at the age of 87 years. His love for his wife Pearl was undeniable, and with her he lived a true fairytale. Bill was a strong sport developer, past recipient of the Sportsmen Of The Year Award, founder of the Red Deer Athletic and Alberta’s first Softball Umpire Associations, and a strong supporter of athletic and personal growth through sports.

Bill is survived by his loving family: wife Pearl Scott, son Greg Scott and wife Ellen of Red Deer; daughter Gail Scott of Calgary; daughter Carol Moen and husband Jim of Sherwood Park; grandchildren Sarah Cawsey and husband Dave, Jackie Pinsent and husband Dan, Lauren Ford and fiancé Jules, Alex Ford, Nicholas Moen and Christopher Moen; great grandchildren, Addison and Olivia Pinsent and Gabrielle and Elise Cawsey.

William was predeceased by his father Russell, mother Gladys, and brother Howard.

A Funeral Service and Celebration of Bill’s Life will take place at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer on Friday, November 1, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories (ASANT) at 10531 Kingsway Avenue, Edmonton AB, T5H 4K1 or online at canadahelps.org/dn/3344.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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QUESNEL Donald “Ken” 1929 - 2013 Ken passed away on Saturday, October 26, 2013 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre at the age of 84 years. He is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Mira and his four loving children; Michael (Jan), Carol, Tim (Monica), Pat (Michele) and his six grandchildren; Candace, Shane, Christopher, Nicola, Michael and Andrew. Ken was in the RCAF for 20 years before attending the University of Alberta where he received his degree in Vocational Education and spent 17 years teaching in Lacombe. He was a loving caring husband, Dad and Grandpa and will be always missed, loved and remembered by all his family.

He taught all of us how to live a good life spiritually and how to approach everything with enthusiasm. He will be forever remembered and missed. The family would like to thank the staff at Emergency and Unit 32 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre; the staff at Bethany CollegeSide and a special thank you to Dr. C. Holmes for their care for Ken. Relatives and friends are invited to a Prayer Service at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor D r i v e ) , R e d D e e r, o n We d n e s d a y O c t o b e r 3 0 , 2013 at 8:00 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer on Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. with the Reverend Father Les. Drewicki, celebrant. Interment will take place at Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Alzheimer Society. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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MILLAR Ronald 1945 - 2013 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of Ronald W. Millar on Friday, October 25, 2013 at the age of 67 years.

Regardless of the season or weather conditions, Ron spent most of his life working and playing in the outdoors.

He lived by his motto of “work hard and play harder.” Ron had a passion for golfing, river boating and spending time with good friends and f a m i l y. B e s i d e s h i s w e l l utilized membership at the P o n o k a G o l f and Country Club, Ron attended the annual “Kokanee Springs Twist Off Tournament” in B.C. for the past thirty three years and helped organize it for the past few years. Ron won the tournament for the second time this summer. Ron’s love of river boating and racing took him as far as Mexico. Ron’s passion for the sport lead him to the spot where he and Ann eventually built their dream home, on the banks of the Red Deer River. This was the perfect setting for Ron and Ann to share great times with the vast amounts of friends they have always valued. Ron began his career in the Seismic Drilling Field in 1967. He was admired and respected by the drilling crews he worked with, for his optimistic outlook, cheerful demeanor and infectious positive attitude. He was always the first man in and always the last man out to secure everyone else’s safety on the job. Ron passed from this life into the next surrounded by the great outdoors he loved. Ron is survived by his loving wife of 43 years, Ann Millar; son, Cory Millar( Linda); daughter, Tammy Halko; grandson and buddy, Collan Millar; granddaughters Sabrina and Vanessa Van Haarlem; sisters, Doreen Whaling (Gary) and Darlene Gribbon (Tom); brothers Dave Millar (Tracey) and Brian Millar; brothers-in-law, Jim Westgard (Georgine), Murray Westgard (Sandy) and Dennis Westgard; sisters-in-law, Darlene Curzon, Barb Westgard, Trudy Spore (Ed), Cheryl Grover and Robin Westgard and mother-in-law, Mary Westgard, as well as numerous other family members and an infinite number of friends. Ron was predeceased by both of his parents. A private family service will be held on S a t u r d a y, N o v e m b e r 2 , 2 0 1 3 f o l l o w e d b y a n o p e n celebration of Ron’s life, “Ron Style” at the acreage at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 2, 2013. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations made to S.T.A.R.S Foundation, Box 570, 1441 Aviation Park NE Calgary, Alberta, T2E 8M7, would be greatly appreciated. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403-340.4040

BARRON 1928 - 2013 Charles Ernest Patrick Innes Barron of Red Deer, Alberta died peacefully on October 25, 2013 at the age of 85 years, surrounded by his family. Charles was born at Echinghen Pas de Calais, France on February 29, 1928 to Ernest and Maud, the youngest of 12 children.

Following WW II, Charles and his mother returned to England where Charles completed his education and joined the Royal Navy. In 1953, he married Sheila Grace Brown and they were married for 50 years. In 1954 son Guillermo arrived and in 1955 daughter Elizabeth.

Following the family’s emigration to Canada in 1957, Charles joined the RCAF, and Peter was born in 1958. In 1963, Charles left the RCAF, relocated to Red Deer and began work in 1964 for DND at the Diefenbunker at Penhold. Son Robert was born shortly after their arrival in Red Deer.

Charles continued to work at the Diefenbunker until his retirement in 1988. After his retirement, Charles and Sheila spent many happy winters as snowbirds in Arizona. After Sheila’s death, Charles returned on several occasions to the place of his birth in France where he spent happy days with family and old friends drinking wine and eating wonderful French food. His final trip ‘home’ was in September 2012.

Family was very important to Charles and his happiest times were spent with his children and grandchildren. Charles was predeceased by his wife Sheila in 2003; his father Ernest in 1941; his mother Maud in 1962; as well as his 11 brothers and sisters. Charles is survived by his four children, Guillermo (Catherine Kappmeier), Elizabeth (Wayne) Hanson, Peter (Sandra), and Robert (Ken Cole); five grandchildren, Amanda Hanson (David Lillico), Russell Hanson (Pam Buijs), Michael Hanson (Erin Gillis), Caitlin Barron and Ethan Barron; five great-grandchildren, Silas Buijs, Noa Buijs, Lucius Hanson, Fiona Hanson and Pearl Lillico; brothers-in-law, Bill Plunkett, Peter Brown (Pam Brown) and Dashwood Balhatchett; sisters-in-law, Mardie Barron and Sylvia Chisam; numerous nieces and nephews; and dear friends, Cecile Mancini, Francoise Lacoste, Yvonne Cornet and Ruby Cameron. A Celebration of Life for Charles will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #35, 2810 Bremner Ave., Red Deer on Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, if friends desire, donations may be made to the charity of your choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040

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REE Julie Irene 1950-2013 Julie Ree of Bentley passed away at the Red Deer Hospital on Thursday, October 24th, 2013 at the age of 63 years. She is predeceased by her father Domokos Nagy and sister Helen. Julie is survived by her mother Mary Nagy; her loving husband Paul; children Daren (Rochelle), Nikki, and Natalie. She will be watching over her beloved grandchildren Brooklynn, Clayton, Bennett and Madelynn. Julie’s love for family and her passion for horses was a legacy that she left behind.

She always supported her children and grandkids in all their interests. Many people will remember good hearted visits and her infectious laughter. The family would like to thank the staff on Palliative Care Unit at Red Deer Regional Hospital for care and support they offered Julie and family throughout her stay. A Funeral Mass for Julie will be held at the Our Lady Of The Assumption Catholic Church, Sylvan Lake, Alberta on Friday November 1, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Julie’s name to the S.P.C.A or Canadian Cancer Society.

Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

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SIMPSON Margaret Ellen 1956 - 2013 It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Margaret Simpson (Lamb) after a brave battle with lung cancer on Sunday, October 27, 2013. Marg was born and raised in Calgary where she graduated from Diefenbaker High. Marg was a past Honored Queen of Bethel 14, Job’s Daughters. She received her Interior Design diploma from Mount Royal College. It was in Calgary that she met and married the love of her life, Greg. They moved to Lacombe where Greg was teaching school.

Marg worked in the flooring industry for several decades, with Fargey’s Floors and Interiors and with Carpet Superstore. During that time, Marg and Greg raised three w o n d e r f u l k i d s , A b b e y, Michael and Melanie. She loved interior design, gardening, Sudoku puzzles and lunches with the Shady Nook gang. Marg was predeceased by her father Rob Lamb. Left to cherish Marg’s memory are her mother Adrienne Lamb, husband Greg, daughters Abbey (Colin) Taekema and Melanie (Alek) Hunchbeck, son Michael, brothers John (Susan) and Bruce (Pina), sister Debra Lamb and her brother and sister in law, Jim and Melanie Simpson. She also leaves nieces Taylor, Jamie, Margot, Stephanie and Nicole, as well as nephews Scott, Garrett and Jack. The family thanks Dr. R. Tetz for her compassionate care, the Home Care group for all of their assistance and all the wonderful staff at the Red Deer Hospice for making Margaret as comfortable as possible for the past two months. As Margaret requested, there will not be a formal funeral service held.

Her husband and children will host a gathering on Friday, November 1, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at the Red Deer Legion, Branch #35, 2810 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer to honour and celebrate her life. If friends so desire, as an e x p r e s s i o n o f s y m p a t h y, memorial tributes can be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society or the Red Deer SPCA. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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WATERFIELD Roger Lee Roger Lee Waterfield was born November 8, 1954 in Calgary. He passed away peacefully in his sleep at home in Red Deer on October 27, 2013. In his passing he leaves behind his wife of 30 years, Marilyn; sons, David (Dawna) Brunner, Darcy (Melody) Waterfield and his 3 angels, as he called them, Carly, Mya and Tobin; brother, John (Jill) Waterfield; sister, Evelyn (Dave); along with numerous nieces and nephews as well as his Anniversaries loving dogs, Mika and Billy.

Predeceased by his stepson, Craig Brunner; niece, Julie and his parents. A Celebration of Roger’s Life will be held at Sunnybrook United Church, 12 Stanton Street, Red Deer, AB on Friday, November 1, 2 0 1 3 a t 11 : 0 0 a m . A n y donations can be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4R 3S6 as this is an organization he truly valued.

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THOMPSON Happy 73rd Anniversary Jim and Olive Oct. 30, 1940 - Oct. 30, 2013 Love from your family.

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MALLORY BECKER - LANDI Mallory graduated from Life University in Marietta, Georgia on September 27, 2103 with two degrees.

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Family owned and operated since 1974, Trail Appliances is one of the leading independent appliance retailers in Western Canada.

Trail Appliances Ltd is looking for a full time Cleaning Custodian for our Red Deer location.

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F/T FEED TRUCK OPERATOR for large expanding feed lot in Sundre.

Fax resume to 403-638-3908 or call 403-556-9588 or email: feedlot@hotmail.ca

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JUST CUTS is looking for F/T HAIRSTYLIST No clientele necessary.

Call Jen at 403-340-1447 or Christie 403-309-2494

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If you wish to become part of a well known family owned and operated business, please apply in person to Chris Sturdy at 2823 Bremner Ave.

RED DEER HOSPICE is hiring casual

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4-7 hours per day with weekend shifts.

For more information or to apply contact Brenda Watts, Executive Director, Red Deer Hospice 99 Arnot Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6 Fax: 403-347-4356 Email: brenda.watts @reddeeerhospice.com You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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Certified Boom Truck & Texas Bed Operators, Hot Shot Drivers, Tractor Hands, Swampers and Dispatcher. Competitive wages & immediate benefits. Submit resume and 5 year CDA Email: bardentrucking@telus.net (403) 341- 3968 No Phone Calls CLASS 1 DRIVERS. & Pressure truck operators.

Small company, good money, paid benefits.

Looking for responsible, safe drivers and operators.

Phone 403-391-8004 for details. haulinacid.com JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Night Operators, and Helpers. Must have valid Class 5 drivers license. RSP’s and benefits pkg. incentives.

Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 LOCAL Testing company seeking experienced Well Testers for areas including Sask. and US. Positions available immediately.

Day/Night Supervisors & Assistants.

MUST HAVE valid H2S and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits.

Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@ gmail.com

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LOOKING FOR BOILER OPERATORS with tickets for work in Central Alberta and Northeastern BC. Submit resumes to info@gtchandler.com or fax to: 403-886-2223

NOW ACCEPTING Resumes for: COIL TUBING SUPERVISOR Must have drivers abstract.

Must fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-314-5405.

Quattro Energy Services

P/T Professional Medical Secretary needed in Red Deer. Fax: 403-314-0499 Start your career!

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Now has immediate openings for CGSB Level II RT’s and CEDO’s for our winter pipeline projects. Top wages and comprehensive benefit package available.

Subcontractors also welcome.

Email resumes to: qtestltd@telus.net or Phone 403-887-5630.

Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

Security Clearances will be conducted on all successful applicants.

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CLERICAL SUPERVISOR - Field Administrator.

Permanent Position remote field locations. $18 $24/hr. Group benefit plan after 3 month probation.

• Min. 2 yrs. exp. in a responsible admin. role in construction or mfg.

• Post-secondary education in business or combination of exp. & education.

• Working knowledge of pertinent regulations, COPP’S SERVICE INC. 225 Burnt Ridge Rd. Red Deer County, AB T4S 2L4 Phone: 403 347-6222 Email HR@coppsinc.ca Fax: 403-406-5447 www.coppsinc.ca

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS and DERRICK HANDS

URBAN IMAGE HAIR CO.

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Req’d for an oilfield fabrication ASME facility.

Must be able to identify and source pipe, fittings, instrumentation. Review requisition orders for accuracy and verify availability with suppliers.

Prepare and maintain job purchasing files, reports and price lists. Previous experience is necessary.

We offer above industry wages and comprehensive benefit package.

Please email resumes to careers@fusionpro.ca

MCDONALD’S RESTAURANTS

of Ponoka, Lacombe, Stettler and Red Deer (Gasoline Alley East and West) are now hiring FULL TIME AND PART TIME Food Counter Attendants.

Basic duties include making food and serving customers.

All stores are 24 hours, except Stettler, which has extended late night hours and applicants must be willing to work flexible shifts, including evening, weekends and nights shifts.

Students, stay home moms, retired persons, we offer part time flexibility to fit your lifestyle, as well as scholarship programs for students. Wages range from $10.50 to 11.00 per hour and we will train.

Benefits are included and we offer opportunities for advancement. Apply in person at the store, on line at cbay22.telus.net or mail resume to 4419 Hwy 2A, Ponoka, AB, T4J 1J8

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EXPERIENCED SERVICE and SLANT RIG HANDS needed ASAP! All positions Floorhand to Rig Manager Opportunity to work close to home or away on camp rotation. (FL$27-32) (DE$31-37)(OP$35-42)(R M$50-56) FAX: 403-351-1754 or EMAIL: CV@ brightskilledworkers.com

PRODUCTION TESTING SUPERVISORS & OPERATORS Day & Night Must have tickets.

Top paid wages.

Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca

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VAC/steamer Truck driver.

Lacombe area, HOME EVERY NIGHT. Fax resume to 403-704-1442

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

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

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

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REBEL METAL FABRICATORS DRAFTSPERSON

Immediate Opportunity.

Production Bonuses Comp. wages & benefits.

Long term employment Please email resume to amie@rebelvac.ca Or fax to: 403-314-2249

RESILIENCY COACH with the Red Deer Public School District. Term: Dec., 2013 - June, 2015 Resiliency Coaches are responsible for the implementation of an adolescent intervention program designed to enhance the emotional and mental wellness of youth in grades 6-12. This is a research project and collaborative initiative of the Addiction & Mental Health Strategic Clinical Network, Red Deer Public Schools, Alberta Health Services Central Zone Addiction & Mental Health, University of Alberta and the Red Deer Primary Care Network.

Resiliency Coaches will follow a prescribed screening and curriculum determined by the parameters of the research project as outlined by the partners. Desirable Qualifications: University degree in Social Work, Psychiatric Nursing, Psychology, Education or a suitable equivalent.

For more information refer to our website: rdpsd.ab.ca Applications received by 4:00 p.m. on November 2, 2013 will be assured of careful consideration.

Applications with references should be directed to: humanresources @rdpsd.ab.ca

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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.

Apply in person, by fax or email.

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LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced F/T or P/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please QUEENS DINER REQ’S F/T DISHWASHER Hours are Mon.- Fri. 6:30-4 & Sat. 8-2:30 pm Drop off resume any time after 1 & before 4, Mon-Fri. 34 Burnt Basin St, Red Deer Fax: 403-347-2925 email: accuracyonlineoffice @gmail.com

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OK TIRE SOUTH REQUIRES AN

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We are looking for a team leader that is highly motivated, hardworking and energetic and who will be responsible for communicating and providing ‘First Class’ customer service at Bower Place Shopping Centre.

Requirements: Minimum 3 years of customer service/retail industry experience. Strong skills in Word, Excel, and basic accounting.

For more details or if you are interested in applying for this position, please visit our website at www.BentallKennedy.com.

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SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com

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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

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BRAATT CONST.

Of Red Deer is seeking exp’d. carpenters for the agricultural industry. Must have drivers license. Call Brad 403-588-8588 BUSY sheet metal company requires INSTALLER for residential new housing.

Must have experience, own tools and valid driver’s license. Immediate position. Please fax resume to: 403-309-8302 or e-mail: info@ comfortecheating.com

2nd yr, 3rd yr, 4th yr or licensed.

Apply in person, 3218 49 Ave. Red Deer Right behind BP’s South.

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for new team members to join an enthusiastic and growing company.

Concrete finisher

needed to perform detailed and quality finishing as well as other related tasks, minimum 5 years experience. All applicants must be flexible for hours and dedicated due to a demanding production schedule. Own transportation to work is needed.

Wage will be based on experience, attitude and willingness to commit to long term employment.

Please fax resume to 403 885 5516 or email to k.kooiker@ eaglebuilders.ca Thank you to all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be notified.

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for an experienced

overhead crane operator

to join an enthusiastic and rapidly expanding company.

All applicants must be flexible for hours and dedicated due to a demanding production schedule. Benefits are paid and lots of overtime.

Own transportation to work is needed. Wage will be based on experience, attitude, and desire to commit to long term employment. Please fax resume to 403 885 5516 or email to k.kooiker@ eaglebuilders.ca. We thank all applicants for their applications, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Truckers/ Drivers

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

LOCAL freight company req’s P & D body job driver for Red Deer/Edmonton run.

Fax resume and driver’s abstract to Rocky Fast Express 403-845-2432

Required Immediately Parts Delivery Driver Must possess clean drivers abstract, know city well. The individual must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment. Some warehouse work and some heavy lifting is required.

The company offers full benefit package for this full time position.

Please email or drop off resume.

ARTIC TRUCK PARTS #3-6540 71 ST Red Deer AB T4P 3Y7 (P)403-348-0999 (F)403-348-5198 Email to: ron.cain@ nfleetsolutions.com

UPS is now hiring for

F/T Driving, P/T Pre-Load & Seasonal Workers

Applicants must be physically fit and be able to lift up to 70 lbs.

P/T Warehouse, Mon. to Fri. 15 - 25 hrs/wk.

Driving Mon. to Fri, 10 to 12 hours per day.

Alberta Class 5 license, clean abstract. This is fast paced, physically demanding environment.

All candidates are subject to criminal record checks.

Apply by online @ www.upsjobs.com or fax resume to: 403-648-3310

CERTIFIED WELDER Permanent Certified Welders $28 - $45 per hour SHEET Metal Installer dependent on level of exp. required with residential Group benefit plan after 3 and retro-fit experience. month probation.

Food Counter Attendants HVAC Service Person Are you looking for a career • Red Seal Welder or also required. equiv. academic & exp. opportunity with excellent Attractive wages and benefits, a mature working • Min, 2 yrs welding exp. benefits. Great hours. at a Journeyman level environment and opportunity Shop person needed for Looking for a place to advance? If so, Subway • Familiar with working full time work. to live? outdoors in remote lohas a position for you! e-mail: brad@ Take a tour through the cations and all weather Some of our locations are comfortecheating.com CLASSIFIEDS conditions 24 Hours. or Fax resume to: • Working knowledge of Please apply online @ 403-309-8302 pertinent industry mysubwaycareer.com or Misc.

Drop resume off in person • regulations and OH&S. SHUNDA Help at 180, 6900 Taylor Drive CONSTRUCTION COPP’S SERVICES INC. Or email to Requires Full Time 225 Burnt Ridge Rd. Red careers@rdsubway.com Academic Express Carpenters or Call us at 403-342-0203 Deer County, AB T4S 2L4 ADULT EDUCATION Phone: 403 347-6222 Carpenters Helpers AND TRAINING TAP HOUSE Email: HR@coppsinc.ca For local work.

Fax 403-403-5447 NORTH Competitive Wages www,.coppsinc.ca FALL START (formerly Sam’s Cafe) is & Benefits. now taking applications for Classifieds...costs so little Fax resumes & ref’s to: Full Time/Part time COOK, 403-343-1248 or email to: • GED preparation Saves you so much!

DISHWASHER, admin@shunda.ca to start November 5 SERVERS, BARTENDERS. GOODMEN WATER WELL DRILLING Bring resume to Gov’t of Alberta Funding COMPANY IN BENTLEY ROOFING LTD. 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer may be available.

REQ’S EXPERIENCED Requires THE RUSTY PELICAN is WATER WELL 403-340-1930 now accepting resumes for SLOPED ROOFERS DRILLERS HELPER www.academicexpress.ca F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at LABOURERS with class 3, air. All safety all stations, prep, sea food, & FLAT ROOFERS CELEBRATIONS tickets required. apps., entres. etc. Must be Meal and Accommodation HAPPEN EVERY DAY avail. nights and weekValid Driver’s Licence IN CLASSIFIEDS provided when out of town. ends. preferred. Fax or email Fax resume with drivers MUST HAVE: info@goodmenroofing.ca abstract: 403-748-3015 • 2-3 yrs. post secondary or (403)341-6722 education.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! • 2-5 yrs. training • 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp.

ADULT CARRIERS • Provide references NEEDED The hourly rate will be For delivery of $13.10 per hour WELDERS WANTED the morning FOR OILFIELD Rusty Pelican Restaurant ADVOCATE Mechanic Position MANUFACTURING FACILITY 2079 50 AVE. in Red Deer, by B Pressure Welders Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 Oil Boss Rentals, is a Call 403-347-1414 Interest in Vessel work 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk registered Commercial or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Mig and Metal Core Vehicle Inspection Station. experience is a great asset. (Reliable vehicle needed) We currently have a We are looking for friendly, mechanics position open. motivated, energetic, goal This individual must be a DEER PARK AREA orientated team players 3rd year apprentice minimum, to join our fast paced self-motivated, hard-working, growing team!.

Dempsey St. & and enthusiastic with solid Please forward your Drummond. Ave. work ethic. An ideal The Tap House Pub & Grill candidate would have some resume by fax to Area req’s full and part time 403-347-7867 fabrication experience, 70 Papers cooks. Apply with resume enjoy building equipment at 1927 Gaetz Avenue $375/mo. from scratch, be easy to Truckers/ between 2-5 pm. get along with and be able Drivers to think outside the box EASTVIEW AREA X-STATIC when necessary. is now accepting Ellenwood Dr. & applications for P/T exp.

The position will break Erickson Dr. Area DOOR PERSONNEL down as follows: 60 papers Apply in person after 3 • 60% repairs and main$321/mo. tenance on rental equipment • 15% on heavy trucks Sales & and trailers ROSEDALE AREA Distributors • 10% on light duty trucks • 10% on fabrication Ramage Cres Area ELEMENTS is looking for • 5 % p a p e r w o r k a n d 67 papers 5 retail sales reps. selling program management season gift packages and $360/mo.

Central AB based trucking personal care products in This individual will also act company requires Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. as the shop foreman and ALSO Owner Operators Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + insure that the shop is kept & Company Drivers bonus & comm. FT. No clean and organized.

Rowell Cl. Reichley in AB. Home the odd exp. req`d. Please email This position will be home night. Weekends off. Late St. & Robinson elementsreddeer@gmail.com 95% of the time. model tractor pref.

Cres. area.

On average 2-3 nights a FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN 403-586-4558 month out of town.

115 Papers is looking for 5 SALES Regular Schedule, 5/2 or 10/4 Classifieds...costs so little $616./mo REPS, selling shoes & Competitive Wages, Benefits, Saves you so much! apparel, at our Parkland Dedicated Service Truck.

Mall. 4747 67 St. Red Applicant must have a DRIVERS for furniture Call Jamie Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus clean Driver’s Abstract moving company, class 5 & comm. F/T Position. No 403-314-4306 required (5 tons), local & exp. req’d. Email for more information To apply please email long distance. Competitive Flurriesrd@gmail.com your resume to: wages. Apply in person.

Something for Everyone Gerry@oilbossrentals.com 6630 71 St. Bay 7 Everyday in Classifieds or fax to 1-866-914-7507 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

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DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS & EQUIPMENT INSTALLERS Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca

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DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 SUBURBAN 1500 LT loaded, new tires. DVD, 103,000 km. 403-346-2608

2008 JEEP Rubicon 4X4, $20,888 7652 Gaetz Ave, Sport & Import 348-8788

REDUCED $20,500 2010 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 black with grey interior 4 cyl. 4 spd. Clean, great cond. 59,500 kms.

Call 403-302-2175

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 AUDI S4 6 SPEED. Mint, 94,661 km.

Sport & Import 7652-50 Ave ***SOLD***

2006 Jetta TDI 73,699 km $16,888 AS&I 403-348-8788

2008 Acura MDX tech pkg 79,851 km $26,888 AS&I 7652-50 Ave 403-348-8788

2008 LAND ROVER LR2 SE 4X4,.sunroofs, $18,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2011 CARDINAL 38’.

Only used once. Top line. $56.000 obo. 403-347-5947

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 Range Rover Sport HSE $25,888 Sport & Import 7652 50 Ave 403-348-8788

2008 BMW 328 xi sunroof, lthr., 66,382 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 SANTA FE. 3.3L, 5 spd. auto.

Heated seats & mirrors. $6900 obo. **SOLD**

2011 CHEV Silverado LTZ 6.2 L, lthr., $27,888.

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

400 HP Cummins, 4 slides, Aqua-Hot Heating, Jake Brake, 10kW Genset 403-887-0911

2008 BMW 535xi $29,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 HR Imperial

2002 CHEV Avalanche, 4 dr, box cover, loaded, no leather, only 165,000 kms $5650. 403-348-9746

2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. Has only 69,885 km.

Fully loaded including NAV and DVD. SOLD

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 LEXUS ES 330, lthr., 41100 kms., $15,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 COLORADO, 28RK, Dutchman, 32’, slideout, back kitchen, shower, king bed, TV, stereo, air. loaded $22,900. 403-784-2482

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 FORD FUSION.

3L, V6, Fully loaded, leather, remote start, new tires, very well maint. 103,000 km. $9500. SOLD

2008 BMW X5 3.0 $31,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

2010 CHEV Silverado 1500 LT, 4X4, Z-71, cold air intake, 62629kms, $20888 348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 KEYSTONE Alpine $54,900. Top of the line. Satellite dish, built in Cummins Onan generator, Sub-zero insulation pckg. 403 357 6950

2011 VW Diesel Jetta Diesel, 6 spd., highline model.

Loaded, new winter X-Ice Tires, 68,000 km, warranty. $22,500. *SOLD*

2005 PONTIAC G6 GT, 3.5L, V6, 200HP, 4 spd auto, 4 dr, trifold sunroof, remote start, 81,832 km $8250.

403309-4255 or Picton82@shaw.ca

2007 LAND ROVER Range Rover supercharged, 4X4, nav., sunroof, lthr., $33,888 348-8788, Sport & Import

2008 CHEVY Colorado Vortec 3.7 L, 4wd, good tires & brakes, Linex box liner & undercover. 403-783-2064

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2003 HONDA Odyssey EX-L V6. Loaded.

2006 34’ Gulf Stream Yellowstone. Sleeps 4, 3 slides, new awning, washer, dryer hookup, equipped w/Arctic & Sub Arctic pkgs, custom skirt & more! $34,900. 403-8878405

2007 PONTIAC G5.

Manual, 130,000 km. Great cond. Winter & Summer tires. Well. maint. N/S. $5550. 403-342-4318

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2010 JEEP Grand Cherokee $21,000. 403-598-4131 or 403-358-4131

2004 CHEV Avalanche 4x4 loaded $8000 obo SOLD

2006 COROLLA CE. exc. cond. 78,000. kims.

Offers. 403-392-5628

2007 SATURN I0N auto, p. windows/doors, low mileage, only 54,000 kms, $7900 obo ***SOLD***

2011 F-350 Lariat Diesel.

Loaded + spare fuel/toolbox & 5th wheel hitch.

28,000 km. $53,000 obo.

403-347-5947

2008 BMW X5 4.8i AWD, pana-roof, lthr., $36,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2003 DODGE Durango SLT Plus, 4X4, $8888.

403-348-8788 Sport & Import

One owner. $7800.

Call 403-396-0722.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 GMC ACADIA SLE, AWD, 8 passenger, $20,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2010 SILVERADO 1500 LTZ silver, 90,000.

403-346-2608

2012 Tiffin Allegro

Breeze 32’ Diesel Pusher, 2 slides, 5200 miles, Onan Genset, Leveling system 403-887-0911

2013 Monte Carlo 38’

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Eagle Builders in Blackfalds, AB is looking for hard working, motivated individual to fill full-time

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in DEERPARK AREA Denovan Cres., Dickenson Cres & Davison Dr. Area $201/mo.

ALSO Doran Cres., & Dunn Cl. Area $65/mo.

ALSO Doran Cres. & Doan Ave, Area $64/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres (100 to 800 Ramage Cl.) & Ralston Cres. Area $209/mo.

ALSO Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

ALSO 28 to 233 Blocks of Reichley St. & Reighley Cl. $137/mo.

ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery (By 6:30 a.m.) in: Highland Green

Kentwood / Johnstone Crossing Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info 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 GREENHOUSE WORKER wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold 10 F/T seasonal positions.

Training provided. Start Feb 2014. $9.95/hr, 44 hrs, 5 days per week, 3 month period. Fax resume 403886-2252 or email to info@ mbrook.ca.

precast concrete erecting laborer position

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1650

Farmers' Market

at our company. Must be physically fit as this labourer WANTED: wild meat and position requires constant beef for greyhound diets. heavy lifting and involves Freezer burnt ok,749-3242 fast paced, on the job training. Applicant must be able to travel and must have reliable transportation Firewood to and from work as well as a valid class 5 driver’s AFFORDABLE license. All meals and hotel expenses are paid Homestead Firewood when out of town.

Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split Successful applicant must 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 provide an up to date drivers abstract. Construction FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver experience an asset. Full 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 benefits provided. Starting wages based on experiFREE FIREWOOD ence. Fax resumes to KINDLING 403-314-0804 403 885 5516 , must flag attn: Craig or e-mail to LOGS c.haan@eaglebuilders.ca.

Semi loads of pine, spruce, FURNACE DUCT CLEANING tamarack, poplar.

TECH REQ’D. IMMED. Price depends on location.

Wages neg. 403-506-4822 Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Integra Tire Innisfail requires exper Tire Tech, Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner Lube Bay exper an asset, BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / valid class 5 license del. Lyle 403-783-2275 required.Competitive wages/benefits. Email innisfail@integratire.com Household

1660

1710

Appliances NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED For afternoon delivery once per week In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

FOR SALE 11000 SPECIAL EDITION SEWING,EMBROIDERY SEWING MACHINE MANY EXTRA’S,PAID $6500.00 ASKING $2300.00. 403-843-7295

Household Furnishings

1720

ROUND PINE 40” TABLE & 4 CHAIRS, exc. cond. $195 403-352-8811

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303 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 SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

SORTERS for recycling also required.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca THE BURNT LAKE GENERAL STORE is looking for F/T Customer Service person for shift work. Please apply in person, Hwy. 11 West.

No phone calls please.

WEEKEND dispatchers req’d. immediately.

Knowledge of Red Deer essential. Will require good verbal and written communication skills. Fax resume to 403-346-0295 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds WOODYNOOK PALLETS, looking for pallet Builders, Payday every Fri. Must have own transportation.

Bob 403-596-9181

Misc. for Sale

1760

CEDAR chest 32”l, 16”h, 14 1/2w, $40; commercial black office chair w/adjustments $40, 3 wool accent matching carpets, clean, will sell seperatly $60, 8’ live cactus plant $25 403-352-8811 DEER HEAD mount on shield $200 403-314-2026 DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino JUICE Extractor, MEHU 403-346-4307 YAMAHA P5R-500 Electronic piano w/chair.

Exc. cond. $95 CANON K920 Copier machine w/metal stand.

Exc. cond. $100.

403-352-8811

Cats

1830

FREE TO LOVING HOME. 4 golden orange 10 week old kittens, and 1 6 week old orphaned kitten, grey, white & cream calico runt.

403-782-3130

Dogs

1840

X-STATIC

is now accepting applications for P/T exp.

DOOR PERSONNEL Apply in person after 3

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

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AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

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Condos/ Townhouses

3030

Houses For Sale

4020

LARGE 2 BDRM. CONDO!!

Bldg located on a quiet close backing onto treed area. Spacious suites c/w Dishwasher, larger storage area & more. Short walk to schools & Parks. Just $975/mo. Heat & Water incl in rent. Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to book a viewing.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 LEGACY ESTATES Best Adult Retirement Community 60+. 1 Bdrm. luxury condo unit. $800 + utils.

Call Joe 403-848-0266

STYLISH 2 BDRM. IN ANDERS

This 2 bdrm townhouse is a must-see! Located in desirable Anders on a quiet close, it boasts 3 levels, a nice yard 1.5 baths & a great feeling of comfort & openness. Come & take a look, this is a very nice home especially at just $1475/mo.

Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to get a look inside.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Manufactured Homes

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Condos/ Townhouses

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NEW CONDO

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

4090

Manufactured Homes 4-BEDROOM home in Blackfalds for rent or lease. 7 appls. Beautiful fenced backyard, Double garage, Large deck with natural gas BBQ, Wood stove. 2200 & util & DD. CONTACT JIM @ 403-396-6247 Available Dec. 15, jim@reversion.ca

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Commercial Property

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www.laebon.com 2001 HYUNDAI Accent 2 Newly Reno’d Mobile Laebon Homes 346-7273 dr. red, 403-348-2999 FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040

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1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville 4 dr., 403-352-6889

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Grain, Feed side of 4616-44St., 1/2 Money back guarantee. block from farmers market, Hay for Nov. 1st. Quiet bldg & TIMOTHY & Brome square avail. to over 50 non smoker, non partier & no pets. bales, great for horses, apLaundry on site. prox. 60 lbs. put up dry $750/mo/s.d 403-341-4627 and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798 LARGE, 2 BDRM. at SUITES. 25+, adults only www.garymoe.com n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 for retirement. 2 bdrm., 2 BDRMS. FOR THE Great 2 Bath 1/2 duplex in Olds.

BUDGET MINDED Attached garage.

At just $865 this is perfect $239,900. 403-507-0028 for a young family. Located in Woodlea with easy CLASSIFICATIONS acces to Downtown and This is space for a FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Gaetz. price that can’t be beat.

WANTED • 3250-3390 Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to take a walk through the property.

Houses/ Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Duplexes Locally owned and 104x353 lot in the heart 3810 47 ST. In Eastview family operated of Sylvan Lake. Excellent Spacious 2 bdrm., bsmt.

2 BDRM. in tri-plex, main location for future suite. Adult only. No pets. floor, washer/dryer, development. $449,900. $895/mo. Avail. Nov. 15th. everything incld’. $1400.

Phone 403-343-0070 Avail. Nov 1.

SUV's 403-392-2488 BSMT. suite $700./mo.

Call 403-352-7417 3 BDRM. 2 full bath, 2001 CHEV Venture, $1395 mo. 403-782-7156 161,000 kms., good shape, or 357-7465 clean, N/S. $2100 obo.

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403-352-2339 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Check out Classifieds to Adult bldg. N/S No pets find the purrfect pet.

Affordable newer 2 bdrm.

403-755-9852 home on large pie lot in 3 Bdrms & Tonnes of Spacious 1 & 2 bedroom Springbrook. Hardwood.

Trucks suites perfect for all walks Space -Great Value!

Deck off kitchen. $269,900 of life.

Cat friendly.

Plaza This 3 bdrm, 2 bath Duplex Apartments: 1(888)784is on a mature, quiet street!

9279 rentmidwest.com Vacant now, this could be the home you’ve been Stylish 2 Bdrm. Just looking for. With a 2nd living South of the Hospital room & kitchenette, fresh This 3rd flr 2 bdrm paint, fenced yard and apt is in a quiet, tonnes of storage this adult only building. home will go quick. Call 2011 CHEV Silverado LTZ In a quiet and calm location, Brand new Penhold bi-level.

Lucie at 403-396-9554 to 6.2 L, lthr., $27,888. assigned off street parking get a look inside!

348-8788 Sport & Import 3 bdrm, 3 bath. Fireplace.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 & a dishwasher, this could Upgraded. $379,900. be the home you are looking 3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 for. Perfect for young Fifth bath, new paint & carpets professionals. Just Wheels & deck at 7316-59 Ave. $1025/mo. Come take a Avail. to over 40 tenants. look at a bldg you will be 2010 40 FOOT CEDAR No pets. Off street parking proud to show off and call CREEK 5TH WHEEL, for 3 vehicles. Rent $1600, home. Call Lucie now at THREE SLIDES,LOADED D.D. $1600. 403-341-4627 403-396-9554 before it’s gone.

ASKING $39,000.00 OBO. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 PH 403-843-7295 Condos/ 4 bdrm., 2 bath in Bentley.

Open concept oak kitchen.

Townhouses Beautifully landscaped. $210,000. 403-877-5052 ADULT 40+ Condo. 1 bdrm. 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. + den. Partially furn. All utils, 403-596-2444 internet, cable, phone incl.

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Cleaning

1070

VINYL SIDING CLEANING Eaves Trough Cleaned, Windows Cleaned. Pckg.

Pricing. 403-506-4822

Contractors

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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

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822

Eavestroughing

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VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Escorts

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Massage Therapy

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Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

1200

TCM & Lensen Therapy In home care. Females preferred. 8 am-9 pm 4922 55 St. 403-986-1691

Massage Therapy

1280

(FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

Seniors’ Services

HELPING HANDS Home Support Ltd. for SENIORS. Companionship, cleaning, cooking - in home, in facility.

We are BETTER for CHEAPER! Call 403-346-7777

1420

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

Care

Realtors & Services

4010

1430

RESIDENTIAL SNOW CLEARING. Affordable monthly contracts.

403-352-4034

5180

WINTER TIRES. 235/70R16 Yokahama Geolandar.

Very little wear. 4 for $350.

403-318-1609

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

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

If you think an ad with a

LARGE HEADING

5120

CALL

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS to find out more ...

MUNICIPAL PLANNING COMMISSION DECISIONS On the 29th day of October, 2013, under provisions of the Land Use Bylaw 2006/6, Red Deer County Municipal Planning Commission issued decisions approving the following applications: Permitted Use SW of INNISFAIL

1. Westland Contracting Ltd. for S. Carnegie – location of an accessory building within the front yard on Lot 26, Blk 1, Plan 802-0102, SE 8-35-2-5 (Red Lodge Estates).

East of DELBURNE

2. J. Burren – the following setback relaxations as they apply to an existing garage on Pt NW 20-37-22-4: 24.2-metre front yard and 41.59-metre side yard from an undeveloped road allowance.

Discretionary Use

SW of SPRUCE VIEW

1372

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Window Pampering at its Cleaning BEST! 403-986-6686 WINDOW CLEANING. Come in and see Outside / Inside / Both. why we are the talk 403-506-4822 of the town. www.viimassage.biz Yard

Executive Touch Misc.

Massage (newly reno’d) Services

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

MASSAGE

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

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

1290

FANTASY

ULTIMATE PLAYMATES. 403-986-SEXY, 402-3964 Red Deer’s Best www.viimassage.biz

Handyman Services

Misc.

Services

homes

Tires, Parts Acces.

6010

3300

ROOM FOR FREE, live in, watch my dog while I am away. F. preferred. For info call 403-850-2947

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Notices

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

Housesitting Wanted

CLASSIFICATIONS

2009 PUMA 27’. Jack & Jill Bunks, queen bed in private bdrm. Rear end storage. Clean. $13,900.

403-872-2403

the REVERSE 5110 is also true

2007 COLORADO, 28RK, Dutchman, 32’, slideout, back kitchen, shower, king $650/mo incl. utils. have 2 This 2 bdrm 1 bath suite bed, TV, stereo, air. loaded F1B GOLDEN DOODLES, boasts both space & style. small dogs. n/s 403-986-6195 Fully finished in Lancaster. $22,900. 403-784-2482 With its own heat & controls, black now but will brindle GREENHOUSE WORKER 4 Bdrm., 3 bath. Fireplace, driveway parking for 2 as they get older. Non 2006 PILGRIM w/lrg wanted at Meadowbrook main floor laundry. $354,900. vehicles & designer colors Rooms shedding, well handled, slide-out. Hardwall, bunks, Greenhouses, Penhold.

For Rent & finishing’s, you will be CLASSIFICATIONS long time breeder. $900. loaded, clean. Model 272 16 F/T seasonal positions. comfortable in and proud HELP-U-SELL Delivered to Alberta.

BHSS. Sale $16,900.

Training provided.

1500-1990 of your new home. This is CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Text 306-521-1371 OF RED DEER 403-872-2403 anytime.

Start Feb 2014. $9.95/hr, Furn. $525.

403-346-7546 not your average bsemt or call 306-792-2113 44 hrs, 5 days per week, 403-342-7355 unit. Call Lucie at www.furtettishfarm.ca Mountview: fully furn bdrm 3 month period.

Antiques 403-396-9554 to have a look. $500/$250. Working Male Holiday Fax resume 403-886-2252.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 & Art Condos/ only. Call 403-396-2468 Trailers Sporting SOUTHWOOD PARK IMMED. POSISTION for Townhouses ROOM in quiet home.

3110-47TH Avenue, F/T owner/operator Courier. 1 PRINT, Approx. 15” x 30” Goods 2009 SWIFT 22’. Queen $450. Call 403-350-7799 Called the signing of 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, for local delivery company.

1443 SQ. FT. CONDO. bed, rear bath. Clean, VANIER WOODS Peace Treaty Dance Party. SATURN front seat covers generously sized, 1 1/2 Small pick-up or mini van Great location. $10,900. 403-872-2403 1 bdrm. $490/mo. + DD A must see. $200. baths, fenced yards, would be the ideal vehicle.

403-343-1811, 550-3365 $10 403-347-8726 call anytime!

403-588-6268 after 6 pm.

403-347-7405 full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Reply w/resume by fax: SPACEMATE Gold treadSorry no pets.

403-342-7636 or email Something for Everyone Public www.greatapartments.ca Mobile denw70@hotmail.com Everyday in Classifieds mill $100 403-309-3117

wegot

5120

grabs your 5050 attention

THE NORDIC

Wanted

Holiday Trailers

1. C. Bond – Home Business Major (fish hook manufacturing business) on NW 3-35-4-5.

East of INNISFAIL HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

2. J. & B. Glazer – location of a second dwelling (manufactured home) on Pt SE 21-35-27-4.

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

3. S. Vallance – Home Business Major (oilfield production testing business) on N ½ SE 153627-4.

Houses For Sale

4020

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

SE of PENHOLD

The Municipal Government Act provides that any person(s) may appeal a Discretionary Use approval within 14 days of the date of the decision being advertised by paying the required appeal fee and by filing an appeal in writing against the decision with the Red Deer County Subdivision and Development Appeal Board, 38106 Rge Rd 275, Red Deer County, Alberta. A Permitted Use approval may not be appealed unless the decision involves a relaxation, variance or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. For further information, contact Planning & Development Services at 403-350-2170.

Date Advertised: October 30, 2013.

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FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI & LOIS

PEANUTS

BLONDIE

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LUANN Oct. 30 1995 — Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau narrowly loses the Quebec referendum on sovereignty. The tally: Non 2,361,521 (50.6 per cent), Oui 2,308,028 (49.4 per cent); 93.2 per cent of eligible voters go to the polls; about 60 per cent of francophones vote Yes, about 90 per cent of anglophones and allophones vote No. 1991 — Canadian Forces Hercules C-130

crashes on Ellesmere Island in the high Arctic while on a routine supply mission; five of the 13 passengers die from injuries or hypothermia before rescuers can reach them more than 33 hours later.

1957 — Albertans vote for greater variety of liquor outlets.

1920 — University of Toronto medical researcher Frederick Banting scribbles the research note that leads to his team’s discovery of insulin: “Tie pancreas ducts of dogs. Wait six or eight weeks. Remove and extract.”

1918 — Cease fire in the First World War.

ARGYLE SWEATER

RUBES

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TUNDRA

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SHERMAN‛S LAGOON

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D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013

stock up and save view weekly specials at: realcanadianliquorstore.ca large 4L

9

48

/12 cans 12 x 355 mL 220014

19

95

5

98 750 mL

Sawmill Creek

assorted varieties 168362/ 164136/ 169407/ 450307

6 9 25 98

98

98

750 mL

750 mL

4L

Monkey Bay Sauvignon Blanc

Hochtaler

J.J. McWilliam Cab/Merlot, Shiraz/Cab or Pinot Grigio

Hek original lager

Brewhouse or Brewhouse Light beer

/24 cans 8 x 355 mL

359221/ 441529

or 6.65 each / works out to 0.83 per can

195789

619349

276552/ 401181/ 440101

large

1.14 L

1.75 L

large

17

Sleeman Original Draught or Honey Brown lager

10

Red Racer India Pale ale

98

large

/15 bottles

457322/ 588843

1.14 L

15 x 341 mL

bonus

bonus

bonus

50 mL

bonus

50 mL

50 mL

50 mL

with purchase

with purchase

with purchase

while quantities last

while quantities last

while quantities last

with purchase while quantities last

98

19 19 29 36 28 98

98

98

98

98

750 mL

750 mL

1.14 L

1.75 L

1.14 L

Bacardi Oakheart spiced rum

Captain Morgan spiced rum

Tanqueray gin

Royal Reserve rye

Smirnoff vodka

191871

197969

164248

171062/ 282051

168011

/6 cans 6 x 355 mL

33

98

/24 cans

or 11.33 each /works out to 1.42 per can

612612

Molson Canadian or Coors Light beer 8 x 355 mL 488415/ 247486

PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE G.S.T. OR DEPOSIT

Prices effective Wednesday, October 30 to Sunday, November 3, 2013 IN THIS AREA ONLY

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We reserve the right to limit quantities. While stock lasts. Prices subject to change. No rainchecks, no substitutions.

PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY & DESIGNATE A DRIVER • DON’T DRINK & DRIVE

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