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Council sounds alarm CITY WANTS CONSOLIDATION OF AMBULANCE DISPATCH REVERSED

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

City of Red Deer firefighters work to douse a blaze in a mobile home at Mustang Acres Monday afternoon.

Blaze leaves four homeless NO ONE INJURED AS FIRE DESTROYS MOBILE HOME

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF A fire ravaged a trailer in Mustang Acres in Red Deer on Monday, leaving three adults and an infant without a home.

Emergency Services received a call at 2:11 p.m. from concerned neighbours at 6834 59th Ave. who

smelled smoke coming from a nearby mobile home.

Heavy smoke and visible flames were leaping from the structure when crews arrived.

Smoke billowed out from the front windows as firefighters pushed the blaze towards the front of the trailer to get it under control.

No injuries were reported as

no one was home at the time of the fire.

The fire was extinguished within 40 minutes.

Assistant platoon chief Terry Brew was on scene and noted the damage was extensive.

The neighbouring trailers were not affected.

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The City of Red Deer has formally sounded the alarm, urging the province to reverse plans to consolidate ambulance dispatch service.

The newly-elected council wasted no time in voicing its concern over the change that would see the city’s ambulance dispatch service moved to Calgary.

Red Deer has an integrated service that allows for dispatch of ambulances and fire rescue at the same time.

A transfer to Calgary would seemingly complicate the process by bouncing calls between Calgary and Red Deer.

Since the province made the announcement last spring, the city has been fighting to retain its service within a regional dispatch model.

On Monday, council turned up the pressure by unanimously passing a motion to formalize its position.

Council raised concerns about the impacts and risks for Red Deerians and citizens in surrounding communities that depend on the integrated service.

Please see DISPATCH on Page A2

Family gathers to mourn crash victim MAN KILLED IN TAXI STRUCK BY ALLEGED DRUNK DRIVER

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF ‘Keep your head up and keep your heart strong’ were words Jonathon David Wood lived by.

The 33-year-old man was killed in Red Deer in the early morning hours of Saturday when an alleged drunk driver struck the taxi Wood was a passenger in.

His uncle and business partner, Travis Gangl, said on Monday that Wood was one of his best friends and since Wood didn’t grow up with a father, Gangl considered him his son as well.

“He was a very nice person. His mother is at my house and I was playing the song he played often at the office, it’s ‘keep your head up and

keep your heart strong,’ ” said Gangl, referencing the song Keep Your Head Up by Ben Howard.

“He was always a glass half full guy, he’s a motivator for his friends.

He’s a super-achiever.”

The oldest of five kids (he had three brothers and a sister) Wood’s family have come from all over Alberta to Red Deer to honour him.

Wood grew up in Lacombe with his siblings and their single mom, Lori Church. Wood really wanted to play hockey, but he was unable until Grade 3 because of finances.

“Jon was a small boy at the time and he wanted to play so badly,” said Church, of Calgary.

“He’s out there, two years behind everybody and he can barely stand on the skates, but he goes out there and he ends the year scoring 20 goals. He was so determined, he stood in front — TRAVIS GANGL of that goal and all the kids tripped him up and he kept “It was a very, very close fam- getting back up. He was an amazing ily and they looked up to him in a big kid.” way, almost as a father figure,” said Wood went on to Red Deer College Gangl, who is shaken by the news. on a sports scholarship.

“We have lots of shoulders to cry on.”

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‘IT WAS A VERY, VERY CLOSE FAMILY ... WE HAVE LOTS OF SHOULDERS TO CRY ON.’

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The family of Jonathon Wood who died in a traffic accident early Saturday have come from all over Alberta to honour him.

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DISPATCH: Existing model has local expertise Each year the service provides ambulance and fire service to an estimated 300,000 residents outside of Red Deer. The city provides fire dispatch to 70 municipalities and ambulance dispatch to eight municipalities.

Councillors pointed out the existing model utilizes local knowledge and expertise.

“I just can’t imagine bouncing calls here and there makes any good sense for our citizens,” said rookie Coun. Tanya Handley. “That one touch, one person approach makes very good sense.”

Handley said she talked to a firefighter recently who stressed the importance of the dispatchers knowing local landmarks. She pointed to a child in distress who knows its school and other facilities.

“That just takes us back to our most vulnerable citizens,” she said. “It’s so imperative in my opinion that people dispatching know our community and our city.”

Another rookie, Coun. Lawrence Lee, said the mandate under the Municipal Government Act is to provide safe and vibrant communities.

“I see this as more of a step back than a move to a more efficient system and model. In fact I would argue it would create a financial burden, which is secondary to service level which is our safety mandate.”

The other new member of council, Coun. Ken Johnston said this comes down to a sovereignty issue and the ability of the city to provide service and safeguard its own citizens.

“If we have learned anything over the years,” said Johnston, “centralization models come and go. They tend to be less efficient. They tend to require more governance. In fact they tend to take more economic resources than the vision that was put in.”

In other council news: ● Council passed first reading of a land-use bylaw amendment that would allow the Safe Harbour Society to add six spaces to its mat program located at 5246 53rd Ave. City planner Tara Lodewyk told council the additional spaces will not require more staffing or expansion of the building. She said the expansion of six spaces or 15 per cent is a relatively small increase and still meets the intent of the district.

The approval triggers a public hearing scheduled for Dec. 2 at 6 p.m. in council chambers. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

VICTIM: Did right thing... got into cab “Jon has helped every friend of his, and when I say every friend — we’re planning a funeral for more than 500 people,” said Church.

“People are calling me who I haven’t talked to in two decades because Jon touched their lives.

“He’s the guy everybody called. You had a problem, you called Jon, he was an amazing problem solver. It made him a success with his friends, but also in business.”

A passion for the game of squash started four years ago when Gangl taught him the game.

“Now he was playing at a very high level in the province,” said Gangl.

Wood was ranked provincially in the sport and was a regular at Body Basics in Red Deer, playing almost every day. Jen Schabot, general manager of Body Basics, has set up a memorial at the gym.

“He was the kind of guy who would give you the shirt off his back,” said Schabot. “He was a really good guy.”

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

A distraught couple who declined to be interviewed watch as their home in Mustang Acres in Red Deer is destroyed by fire Monday afternoon. City of Red Deer Emergency Services personnel brought the blaze under control before it could spread to other mobile homes in the area.

Wood was participating in a squash tournament he helped organize in Red Deer over the weekend.

After playing in a match on Friday night, he went out for a few beers and then headed home in a taxi.

“It’s the battle in our heads, he had a few drinks and does the right thing, he gets in a cab,” said Gangl.

“I was proud he would make that kind of proper decision — to be penalized for it is ridiculous.”

Gangl called the tournament the next day and informed them that Wood had died. The tournament was subsequently cancelled and all the prizes were donated to charity.

“As a family we have no hatred or feelings for the person who did this right now,” said Church.

“We’re focusing on Jon and each other.”

Wood worked alongside Gangl in their business, Liquid Capital Alberta Crop., a finance business.

They work all over North America and Gangl said more than 130 emails and texts have arrived from associates expressing their condolences and sorrow.

“I could talk about Jon for hours and days,” said Gangl, adding the family is planning a celebration of life for Wood. “‘Keep your head up and keep your heart strong,’ that was Jon.” A Brooks man has been charged with impaired driving causing death after the collision that killed Wood.

Red Deer RCMP have charged 18-year-old Tyler James Wilson.

According to RCMP, an Alberta Gold taxi was stopped facing northbound at about 3:30 a.m., when a truck travelling north on 30th Avenue, at 32nd Street, rear-ended the cab.

The taxi was extensively damaged, and the pickup rolled onto its side, blocking the intersection.

Wood, the only taxi passenger, died at the scene.

He was riding in the back seat of the taxi.

The cab driver was rushed to Red Deer Regional

Hospital Centre with what were initially thought to be serious injuries. He was treated and released on Saturday afternoon.

Wilson made his first court appearance on Monday morning. He returns on Wednesday afternoon for a bail hearing. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

FIRE: Red Cross assists Ryan Taylor and his girlfriend Dana Davies were across the street visiting Davies’ parents when Taylor stepped outside and smelled “something like plastic burning,” he said.

“I called it in when I saw smoke starting to come out,” Davies said.

“It got to the point where I couldn’t breathe and had to go inside . . . They have a dog. I hope it’s OK.” The household dog was out of the building as well at the time of the fire.

Davies said a couple who lived in the trailer have a young child. The couple was too upset to speak to the Advocate.

“They had a wood burning stove. It could have been that,” Taylor said.

The Canadian Red Cross in Red Deer is providing assistance to three adults and one infant affected by the fire.

Red Cross Personal Disaster Assistance team members met with the family Monday after the fire and are providing emergency food and accommodation for the next 72 hours as required, at no charge to the family.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

The fire investigation unit, the advanced life support ambulance crew, support units from emergency services as well as utilities were also on scene. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

More than 833,000 Canadians still relying on food banks OTTAWA — The number of Canadians using food banks has fallen off slightly but still remains near record highs almost four years after the end of the economic recession.

The annual study by Food Banks Canada, scheduled for release Tuesday, shows that more than 833,000 people relied on food handouts during one snapshot month earlier this year, compared with 872,379 the previous

March. More than a third of them were children.

“Underlying this small drop is a concern of enormous proportions: food bank use remains higher than it was before the recession began,” the report states.

“During a time of apparent economic recovery, far too many Canadians still struggle to put food on the table.”

Low-income jobs are the culprit, the report found, and there’s an abundance of them thanks to a Canada-wide loss of manufacturing jobs over the

past three decades.

Roadblocks on the path to employment insurance and social assistance — and the paltry incomes provided by those programs once disadvantaged Canadians are able to access them — only add to the misery.

The annual HungerCount study provides one of the most up-to-date national indicators of poverty. The latest Statistics Canada numbers show that 8.8 per cent of people were living below the low-income cutoff in 2011.

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Eleven per cent of those using food banks self-identify as First Nations, Metis or Inuit, and another 11 per cent are new immigrants to Canada.

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Super-lab still a go: Horne MINISTER SAYS PROVINCE NEEDS TO READY WHEN CONTRACTS EXPIRE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne stepped in Monday to clear up a confusing tweet from the president of Alberta Health Services on the fate of the proposed privatized $3-billion Edmonton medical superlab.

Just days after Duncan Campbell tweeted that the lab will not proceed with its bid process as planned pending further consultations, Horne told reporters that is not the case.

“Nothing has changed. We’re still moving ahead with a request for proposals for a single lab facility to serve Edmonton and northern Alberta,” Horne said.

“I think what Mr. Campbell was reflecting on was the fact there needs to be adequate consultation. (But) these contracts in Edmonton are expiring in 2015. We need to be ready.”

On Friday, Campbell said that he is putting the brakes on the bid process for the lab, which would affect 1,000 jobs.

“AHS will not be issuing its lab RFP (request for proposals) as planned.

Stay tuned for decision in mid Dec. when we complete consultation with staff and physicians,” read the tweet.

Campbell was not made available

Monday, but Dr. John Cowell, chief administrator for Alberta Health Services, echoed Horne’s comments that the search for the super-lab provider continues.

Cowell said they expect to be taking bids “well before the end of the year.”

He said Campbell’s intent was to let people know he was seeking more feedback, but Cowell admitted the tweet wasn’t well worded.

“There’s lots of ways we can communicate, but tweeting may be a little bit too concise,” he said.

Alberta Health Services is the frontline delivery arm of Alberta’s Health Department and ultimately reports to Horne. Campbell is in charge while a search is conducted for a replacement for previous CEO Dr. Chris Eagle.

AHS plans to solicit bids for a single private provider to build and operate a super-lab that would handle all medical testing for the Edmonton area.

Currently, routine testing is being

handled by a private provider, Dynalife, while acute hospital and urgent testing is handled by Alberta Health Services and Covenant Health.

In a September letter to staff, Alberta Health Services officials said

oratory services are unsustainable,” read the letter dated Sept. 18.

The contract was to be given to a sole-source provider for 15 years at a cost of $3 billion and take effect after the province’s deal with Dynalife expires on March 31, 2015.

The new lab would affect the jobs of 1,000 Alberta Health Services and Covenant employees, but Alberta Health Services promised it would demand comparable wages and ben— ALBERTA HEALTH MINISTER FRED HORNE efits from the new provider.

Alberta’s NDP a privatized super-lab was needed to has been pushing Premier Alison handle all testing in Edmonton.

Redford’s government to scrap the If successful, said the officials, it deal, saying there’s no proof the lab could lead to similar labs in other re- would save money and adding it could gions, with the Edmonton one becom- actually reduce the quality of testing ing a provincewide testing clearing- service. house.

Last week, the NDP released a let“Alberta is faced with growing de- ter from 16 pathologists who said to be mand for laboratory services, new and effective they need to have ready acoften more expensive tests and test- cess to other specialists. ing platforms, growth in costs, space Cowell, however, said an overconstraints, an aging workforce and whelming number of the 90 patholorecruitment challenges; status quo lab- gists are in favour of the super-lab.

‘WE’RE STILL MOVING AHEAD WITH A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR A SINGLE LAB FACILITY ....

I THINK WHAT MR. CAMPBELL WAS REFLECTING ON WAS THE FACT THERE NEEDS TO BE ADEQUATE CONSULTATION.’

Griffiths under fire for oil bounty remarks SAID IT SUCKS THE LIFE OUT OF ALBERTA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths took some heat in the legislature Monday for recent comments saying the province’s oil and gas wealth “sucks the life” out of everything else in the province.

“Why was the minister out there (in Prince Edward Island) saying that the energy sector sucks the life out of every other aspect of Alberta instead of promoting the very many national benefits of the (proposed) Energy East pipeline?,” Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith asked during question period.

Griffiths made the comments a month ago while speaking about his book Thirteen Ways to Kill Your Community, which is a tongue-in-cheek title for ways to keep communities vibrant.

The Wildrose party made available to media a YouTube video showing Griffiths making the remarks. Griffiths told the legislature he was speaking in the role of author and not municipal affairs minister at the conference.

He told the house he was using Alberta as one example to make a larger point that any economy that puts its eggs in one basket is asking for trouble.

“There isn’t a day that goes by where they (the Wildrose) don’t try and smear somebody’s reputation,” said Griffiths.

“It was entirely done to talk to and promote the idea of regional collaboration, and rural communities and how to fire them up.”

Griffith’s office sent the full text of his speech.

“Everyone says it (the oil and gas) is a benefit and a bonus because we have such a dominant commodity,” reads the text. “But, you know, it sucks the life out of every other aspect of Alberta.

“It’s very difficult to hire people in hotels and restaurants or in arts and culture because they can’t compete with the wages, which damages the other parts of your economy.

“It’s better to have balance. And, you know, it happens to any community where one industry is dominant.

“Then when it’s gone, you have nothing left.”

Premier Alison Redford has made it clear in speeches and travels that opening new markets and adding pipeline access for Alberta’s oil is Job 1, but she has also stressed the long-term health of the province rests on diversifying the economy.

She told the house Monday she stands behind Griffiths.

British Army to continue to train thousands of troops in Alberta

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MEDICINE HAT — The British Army will continue to send thousands of soldiers to train in southern Alberta, but wants a better deal from Ottawa.

Col. Jim Landon, commanding officer of the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS), said the United Kingdom and Canada have agreed to extend a training agreement first signed in 1971.

“The UK secretary of state, the Right Hon. Philip Hammond, has made it clear to the Canadian minister of national defence, the Honourable Rob Nicholson, that we intend to seek savings in the support costs of running BATUS,” Landon said in a speech at Canadian Forces Base Suffield Monday.

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“Minister Nicholson has recognized this concern and undertaken to work with us to identify ways to save money.”

Department of National Defence officials in Ottawa could not be reached for comment.

Landon said the British military considered moving the training unit to a base in Germany.

But he said after a review, senior officers determined that the base in Suffield, is the best place to conduct large-scale training with live ammunition.

The base trains thousands of soldiers each year, which pumps lots of money into the local economy.

Some businesses in southeastern Alberta were concerned the British were planning to close their training unit. comes to infection control and how the process is to be monitored.

He said instrument sterilization standards need to be more uniform across the province.

He also recommended better control over guidelines and responsibilities for hand-washing.

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Child injured in school bus crash awake in Calgary hospital

EDMONTON — Alberta’s auditor general says while no patient is in immediate danger, the province can do a better job on infection control in medical centres.

Merwan Saher, in his latest report, said an audit of hospitals found that patients were not at “immediate and significant risk” of getting infected through poor handwashing or instrument sterilizing by caregivers.

But Saher said there needs to be better co-ordination and analysis of information to make sure that infection control standards are kept up.

Saher is recommending Alberta Health do a better job making it clear who is responsible for what when it

CROSSFIELD — A five-year-old boy injured in a school bus crash in southern Alberta is out of intensive care in a Calgary hospital.

Crossfield Mayor Nathan Anderson says the child is awake, no longer on a ventilator and opening his eyes.

Two other students who were also sent to hospital with critical injuries were sent home last week.

The bus collided with a large pickup truck at a rural intersection near the town of Crossfield on Oct. 25.

The front end of the bus was crushed and the vehicle ended up against a guard rail in a ditch.

Six other children and the female bus driver were less seriously injured.

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’Tis the season to smarten up It breaks the heart.

And the nightmare never ends — for the victim, for the accused, for the community.

A young man is dead. Another is facing the most serious of charges.

Jonathon David Wood, 33, died when the stationary cab he was in at 3:30 a.m. Saturday was rear-ended by a pickup truck in Red MARY-ANN Deer at 30th AvBARR enue and 32nd Street.

He had been out having a few drinks after a squash tournament and took a cab home.

Sometime from now, a year or more most likely, the courts will decide the

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guilt or innocence of a young man, just 18, who now faces a charge of impaired driving causing death after the fatal collision.

The fact that this tragedy is linked to a possible impaired driving makes it timely to have the discussion — one more time.

The season of drink will soon be upon us as Christmas party time begins in a few weeks. Truth be known, though, we could talk about impaired driving anytime, any day, anywhere, and it would be timely.

That’s what is so terrible.

Now there’s a discussion in the community about whether there are enough Check Stops being conducted

by Red Deer City RCMP. I for one refuse to start blaming the police for the impaired drivers on our streets. While Check Stops might deter people for awhile, evidence appears to show that it’s not a long-lasting remedy.

We can’t have a Check Stop outside every bar, at every corner, all the time.

We’ll never be able to put enough enforcement on the streets.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada believes that random breath testing will save lives and is pushing government on this.

MADD says: “As the law stands now, police can only demand a roadside breath sample if they have reasonable grounds to suspect the driver has been drinking. They must rely on behavioural clues and observations.

“The problem is, however, that people do not always exhibit obvious signs of intoxication, particularly those who routinely drink and drive.

“As a result, the majority of drinking drivers go undetected at sobriety checkpoints. In fact, data indicates a person would have to drive impaired, on average, once a week, every week, for more than three years before being charged with impaired driving offence, and for more than six years before being convicted.”

What we know today is that drinking and driving isn’t going away soon.

There are other things we could do, if we are prepared to, that may help.

Are we are prepared to insist on all vehicles being equipped with alcohol ignition devices? Your car won’t start when you blow into it and it senses too much alcohol.

Admittedly, even such devices wouldn’t eliminate impaired driving.

We’ve heard the stories about how people circumvent the devices by having someone who hasn’t been drinking blow into them. Seems there’s no end to how determined some people are.

How about zero tolerance? That means drivers can have no alcohol in their system at all. Never mind the .05 or .08 blood alcohol content.

Sadly though, we continue legislate and educate and enforce, yet still we have people facing impaired driving charges every day across this country.

The tragedies continue.

Mary-Ann Barr is the Advocate’s assistant city editor. She can be reached at 403-314-4332 or by email at barr@reddeeradvocate.com.

Three lessons learned over the weekend Toronto Mayor Rob Ford made a vague apology over the weekend for personal “mistakes,” but seems largely unrepentant that as mayor, he has appeared drunk in public.

He associates with people known to have gang and drug connections. He wishes to defy both the courts and his own chief of police to make public a video of himself apparently smoking crack cocaine (which would ruin the video as evidence in criminal proceedings).

And he has no intention of stepping down from office.

Indeed, he said on Monday he GREG intends to run for re-election NEIMAN next October.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is embroiled in an ethics scandal himself. He said outright that he doesn’t care if three senators he appointed are denied due process in what could quite probably become Canada’s most sordid (and costly) case of wrongful dismissal in Parliament’s history.

And in both cases the base of supporters for these two national leaders shows positive feedback. Neither Conservative Canada nor Ford Nation shows any sign of doubt their men at the top can continue to run the government of Canada and the nation’s largest city.

What are the lessons to be taken from this?

First lesson: if you can produce results, then ethics can be what you make them to be.

Get tough on crime and the base will applaud.

Show indignation at the shortcomings of others, but when you have power, the rules do not apply to you.

When the base is yours, you can question the moral character of the opposition and vilify anyone who dares question you.

What matters is what you do for the base.

In Toronto, approval ratings for Ford actually went up five percentage points (albeit only to 44 per cent) after police reported they had the video that was shopped online last May, seeming to show Ford in a crack house.

The base is strong in Ford’s Scarborough region, especially since they are about to get a subway connector — paid for in large measure with a grant endorsed by Ford’s fishing buddy, Stephen Harper.

Nationally, the economy continues to move forward, for which the federal government is front and centre to take credit, via the most expensive tax-paid advertising campaign in our history.

Second lesson: a leader who is always on a war footing, is always campaigning, who always has an identifiable enemy ... that leader can get away with

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a lot.

Both Ford and Harper are described as “outsiders in power.” The traditional elites, the media and any number of leftist conspirators are always out to get them.

Thus, both demand unquestioned loyalty from all associates, at all times. In such an environment, there is no room for co-operation with the enemy — or for questioning the leader.

Consider the agony of Senator Hugh Segal. A one-time Tory MP elected at age 29 in 1972, he later served Ontario’s Big Blue Machine, and rose as a senior advisor to then-premier Bill Davis, at 29 becoming Ontario’s deputy premier.

For Brian Mulroney, he held the position Nigel Wright held for Harper before Wright resigned/was fired.

A company man, through and through.

But he was visibly choked during the faux debates on suspending the three embattled senators, saying that for the first time in his life, he was actually considering voting against his leader’s wishes. Since 1972, through all the excesses of the Mulroney years

and the too-long Tory rule in Ontario, never once did his conscience demand precedence over the party line.

Until now.

That has to be lesson three: there comes a limit.

Whether Ford or Harper have reached that limit of unquestioned loyalty from the base remains to be seen.

Ford could well be re-elected in October. Harper’s government looks wounded but will probably survive whatever comes from throwing three more once-loyal supporters under his bus.

But in neither case, is this behaviour any way to run a government indefinitely. You can’t be at war forever. And after a certain length of time in office, you are no longer an outsider; you are the establishment.

Sooner or later, you need to make peace. But I don’t see either Ford or Harper as capable of doing that.

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

cause of the inordinate number of complaints they are receiving about this charge.

First of all your transition to a paperless invoice will not be smooth.

Some companies require you to take action to avoid the charge while others require you to call them stating your preference. There is no standard method of making the choice.

Secondly, in the case of telecommunications, the rates are regulated by the CRTC and their perception is that this is a cost of doing business and should not be revenue.

Would Telus pay a bill to their supplier if they were required to go to their supplier’s website and print off an invoice?

I don’t think so!

I called the companies I deal with and they all agreed to remove the charge but continue to send me an invoice by mail. My savings will be about $60 per year or $600 over 10 years at the current charges.

When I spoke to Telus, they told me they have sent millions of dollars to companies that support a green initiative like they do.

I promptly corrected him and pointed out it wasn’t Telus but rather from the pockets of their customers.

The crowning touch is that over the last few days, I have received addressed junk mail from two of the companies I deal with. If they can afford to send these out to someone they already deal with, they can darn well send me an invoice by mail.

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Fate of disgraced senators sealed TORIES FORCE VOTE ON SUSPENSIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The fate of three disgraced, former Conservative senators is all but sealed.

The Harper government used its majority muscle in the Senate on Monday to shut down debate on the proposed suspensions of Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau.

That paves the way for a final vote today on a motion that would strip the trio of their pay, privileges and Senate resources, while allowing them to continue being covered by the chamber’s health, dental and life insurance plans.

The suspensions would be for the duration of the parliamentary session, which could last for two years.

The closure motion passed easily by a vote of 51-34, with five Conservative senators breaking ranks to defy Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s insistence that the three erstwhile caucus colleagues — whom he appointed and once feted as stars — should be booted off the public payroll as quickly as possible.

Conservative senators John Wallace, Nancy Ruth and Hugh Segal voted against limiting debate and two more Tory senators, Don Plett and Don Meredith, abstained.

Wallin, the only one of the three disgraced senators in the chamber, also abstained.

While the move has exposed a sizable rift within the normally cohesive Conservative ranks, the dissenters are too few to prevent the government from carrying its motion to suspend Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau. It is scheduled to be put to a vote Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. (ET).

Brazeau made a last-ditch appeal for clemency Monday, warning MPs and senators that his unfair treatment sets a precedent that could come back to bite any one of them.

“Colleagues, if this can happen to me, it can happen to you, ” he wrote in a letter to all parliamentarians.

Brazeau reiterated that external auditors found he met all four criteria for claiming a housing allowance for a secondary residence in Ottawa.

And they concluded that Senate

policy on the allowance was too vague to determine if anyone had claimed it inappropriately.

Yet, the Senate’s internal economy committee nevertheless decided he’d made improper claims and demanded repayment, eventually triggering the government’s current bid to suspend him.

“You may currently believe you are being compliant with (House of Commons) or Senate policy,” Brazeau wrote his colleagues.

“The rules may change without your knowledge and you may find yourself kicked out of your caucus, being suspended without pay and being scapegoated in the media as some kind of entitled ‘fat cat.’

“This can happen in spite of the fact that you are completely compliant with a given policy.

“This can happen even though you never submit per diems for lunch and brown bag it every day. Your compliance is irrelevant if internal economy says that it is, as they are above the law.”

His appeal resonated with some of Brazeau’s former caucus mates.

Plett — a former Conservative party president and one of Harper’s most loyal foot soldiers — said suspending the three senators before the RCMP has finished investigating or laid any charges sets an “extremely dangerous precedent.”

“Without giving colleagues a fair opportunity to make their case, we would be able to oust colleagues that are perceived as a political liability.”

He said he’s received almost 600 emails on the proposed suspensions and more than 80 per cent of them are supportive of his position.

Nevertheless, Plett took pains to defend Harper as “a man of the highest ethical standards” and shot down suggestions the prime minister is forcing the majority of Tory senators to support the suspensions.

Liberals in the House of Commons are set to introduce today a motion instructing the Commons ethics committee to hold televised hearings into the conduct of the Prime Minister’s Office in the payment of Duffy’s disallowed expense claims, including calling Harper as a witness, under oath.

Toronto remains divided over embattled mayor

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada’s largest city remained divided over its embattled mayor Monday after a public apology from Rob Ford failed to quell the controversy over an alleged crack video.

While some saw his words as the push needed to move past a long-running drug scandal, others said little had changed for Toronto.

After first saying he was sorry on his weekend radio show, the mayor took to the airwaves again Monday morning to repeat his apology for public drunkenness and texting while driving.

As he had before, however, Ford dodged questions about

the alleged video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine.

“I’m not an alcoholic, I’m not a drug addict,” a defiant Ford said on AM640, while challenging any member of his government to leave if they couldn’t work with him.

“Anybody who wants to go, go. I’ll be running the ship, even if it’s by myself. I’ll be serving the city.”

Ford has been under fire for months ever since two media outlets reported the existence of the alleged video.

Tensions boiled over last week when Toronto’s police chief said authorities had recovered a video with images of the mayor that were consistent with what news outlets had reported.

Ford has repeatedly said he does not use crack cocaine and his lawyer has questioned how anyone could know what substance is shown on the alleged video.

Ford has also said police should release the controversial clip. Police say it’s up to the courts to decide whether evidence is released to the general public.

For some Toronto residents, Ford’s latest statements did little to change their views.

“Rob Ford’s ‘apology’ sounds to me like just blowing smoke. Never mind what kind of smoke,” one person said on Twitter.

“How many lies must Rob Ford be caught in before we can officially declare him to be a liar?” tweeted another.

But Ford’s supporters continued their staunch defence of the mayor.

“Despite whatever Mayor Rob Ford has done in his personal life, he is still a good mayor and people should leave him alone,” tweeted one woman.

“The end result is that he is saving tax payers money,” said another.

Toronto’s deputy mayor said Ford’s “blanket apology” and an acknowledgment that his personal lifestyle was affecting the life of the city was a good first step.

“It may not be the one that everyone had anticipated but it was enough,” Coun. Norm Kelly said of Ford’s apology.

“I’ll hold him to his commitment, and hopefully time will

prove that he’s made the right decision.”

For others, however, Ford’s words have failed to impress.

“I don’t think it was adequate. It didn’t address what most people were very concerned about, which were the drug allegations,” said Coun.

Gloria Lindsay Luby.

“What I really would like to hear is him take a leave of absence. Get over this.”

Meanwhile, the chair of Toronto’s budget committee, who works closely with Ford, said the city has to push past the scandal.

“I see his message as one that will allow us to coalesce and keep our minds on the work that needs to be done for the city,” Coun. Frank Di Giorgio said at city hall.

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Habituated deer in crosshairs as Invermere approves cull

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS INVERMERE, B.C. — Aggressive deer could soon be dead deer in the southeastern British Columbia District of Invermere.

Results of a non-binding weekend referendum on the culling of deer are still unofficial, but the tally posted on the district’s website shows overwhelming support for the use of lethal measures when Bambi goes bad. Of the 994 people who voted, 749 approved the use of culls to control populations of urban deer.

The vote comes just days after the B.C. Supreme Court rejected a civil suit launched by the Invermere Deer Protection Society, which argued Invermere’s plans for a cull should be shelved because the district did not adequately consult with voters.

Habituated deer are blamed for damaging gardens and infrastructure and have also threatened, chased and attacked pets and people during mating season or when protecting their young.

Car hits restaurant, injuring four police officers VANCOUVER — Vancouver police say speed and alcohol do not appear to be factors, but investigators still aren’t sure why a small car slammed into a West End restaurant, injuring four officers dining inside.

The crash occurred at around 8 p.m. Sunday night and the scene remain taped off, with the car still embedded in the building 12 hours later.

Police spokesman Const. Brian Montague says the four injured officers were released from hospital overnight.

The members, who have between one and nine years of service, are recovering at home from injuries that include broken bones.

The 30-year-old woman who was driving the car was not hurt, but why her BMW veered into the burger restaurant (in the 1100 block of Denman Street) is still being probed.

Opening date set for federally funded human rights museum in Winnipeg WINNIPEG — A new federally funded human rights museum is to open in Winnipeg next September. Officials with The Canadian Museum For Human Rights announced the Sept. 20 date today.

The museum has been in the works since 2003 and has been the subject of controversy over its content and its cost. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress has complained the museum is giving a full gallery to the Nazi Holocaust, but not to the suffering of Ukrainians under the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin.

The museum’s price tag has also gone up almost $100 million to $351 million.

The federal government essentially took over the project in 2007 and has committed to cover $21.7 million in annual operating costs.

The federal and Manitoba governments also put up money for construction, and last year stepped in with a loan and loan guarantee to cover a $70-million funding gap.

Afghanistan veteran says government failing to help injured former soldiers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A military veteran who suffered multiple injuries when his vehicle rolled over in Afghanistan says the Canadian government is failing former soldiers by not providing the care they need.

Cpl. Shane Jones says he has been assigned more than three Veterans Affairs case workers since June and has had about eight since he was medically released from the Forces in 2008.

The 38-year-old father of three said that has impeded his treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury he sustained when his vehicle rolled over in Afghanistan in 2005.

He said he wanted to speak out at a news conference Monday

in Halifax because he knows of many injured veterans who are struggling with bureaucratic red tape and regular upheaval in their care.

“There’s no way they’re ever going to get better if every couple of months they’re getting a new case manager, which basically means they have to start at ground zero,” he said.

“It’s been six or seven years since my accident ... but I’m no further ahead today, treatment and recovery-wise, than when I first got off that plane.”

Jones said he suffered a skull fracture, swollen brain and back injuries when the light armoured vehicle he was in rolled over in an attempted suicide bombing, killing one of the men in his vehicle.

Jones wants the federal government to stop planned cutbacks at

Veterans Affairs and to beef up services for injured vets.

“The thing that’s making me come forward is that you’re going to cut back all these people and with the people you have now, you can’t even manage to do your job properly,” he said.

“It’s been horrible.”

A spokesman for Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino said in an email that the minister has asked “to reach out to see what additional support and assistance can be provided to Cpl. Jones and his family.”

He insisted services standards would not change as a result of the cuts.

Veterans Affairs Canada said in June that it was cutting almost 300 jobs, with many in Charlottetown, as part of an overhaul that will go on until 2015.

B.C. man reported at centre of outcry over online sale of Holocaust memorabilia THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Canadian Jewish leaders are asking online retailers to be more vigilant, after an investigation by the Mail on Sunday newspaper in Britain found a Vancouver man and several other eBay retailers auctioning clothing and items that belonged to victims of Nazi concentration camps.

The newspaper identified Viktor Kempf of Vancouver as the seller of a pair of trousers purportedly worn by a prisoner who died in Auschwitz.

Kempf did not respond to several emails and telephone calls from The Canadian Press.

B’nai Brith vice-president Frank Dimant said items that belonged to the victims of Nazi concentration camps belong in museums.

He said he didn’t want such items online where they could be bought by Neo-Nazis “It’s revolting. It’s disgusting. It’s totally inappropriate and highly insensitive, especially that we are just on the eve of Kristallnacht...,” Dimant said Monday, referring to the “Night of Broken Glass” on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, when the Nazi SA rounded up Jewish citizens for concentration camps.

“That someone would be selling toothbrushes, and selling shoes, and selling a uniform of someone who died in the Holocaust is despicable.”

EBay has now removed 30 items allegedly from Holocaust victims, apologized for the items making it past their safeguards to auction online and donated $40,000 to a suitable charity.

Dimant commended

the online auctioneer for taking quick action, but he said there is a proliferation of Holocaust and Nazi material sold on other, less-stringent sites.

On Monday, a quick search of Amazon.com found replica Hitler Youth knives, SS battle flags and SS weapons for sale.

“As a result of this and Amazon, we are going to be appealing to these various entities to try and govern themselves in a more corporately responsible manner,” Dimant said.

“That is truly deplorable that you think that today you can equip an entire neo-Nazi clubhouse just from Amazon.”

A request for comment from Amazon received no immediate response.

The Mail on Sunday said Kempf told them he

understands why people may think it’s wrong to sell the items, but he does so to document a horrific period in history and to earn the money to write books.

Kempf told the newspaper he bought the clothes, purportedly those of a man named Wolf Gierson Grundmann who died at Auschwitz, from a reputable dealer in the United States.

Vancouver Police said they could not discuss whether any complaints had come into the department, but if the items were lawfully obtained and lawful to possess, there would be nothing preventing their sale.

“The sale of Holocaust ‘memorabilia’ is not illegal as the sale alone would not meet criteria set out under current hate crime legislation,” Const. Brian Montague said Monday.

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Olds named one of best for business Alberta Venture magazine has declared Olds one of the best communities for business in the province.

The Edmonton-based publication ranked the town number 3 out of the 25 largest communities in Alberta, behind the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and Grande Prairie. Red Deer placed 10th and Lacombe was 19th.

Alberta Venture used a number of criteria to evaluate the business-friendliness of each community, including property taxes and the cost of serviced industrial land.

It also looked at population growth and residents’ median age, as well as the percentage

ALBERTA VENTURE MAGAZINE who had post-secondary education.

Olds’ population growth from 2012 to 2013 was 13.6 per cent, second only to Wood Buffalo.

At 41, the town’s median age was the fourth oldest, while the percentage of residents with post-secondary education was 55.8 per cent (18th).

The residential mill rate in Olds was 5.54 (13th) and the cost of industrial land there was $275,000 (10th).

An accompanying bio written by Alberta Venture about Olds praised the town’s new

Pomeroy Inn & Suites at Olds College conference centre, and its community-owned, high-speed broadband network. Olds’ relatively low nonresidential municipal tax rate and its proximity to Calgary were also noted.

Olds was the smallest community included in the Alberta Venture’s rankings.

Red Deer’s population growth was calculated at 5.7 per cent (eighth overall), its median age at 35 (ninth) and 57.4 per cent of its residents were found to have some postsecondary education (16th).

The city’s residential mill rate was 6.05 (15th) and the local cost of serviced industrial land was $300,000 per acre (12th).

Alberta Venture commented favourably on Red Deer’s diverse economy, and added: “Red Deer’s business operating costs have been ranked among the most competitive in the world by KPMG and the city has above-average levels of private sector investment.”

Lacombe was the only community out of the 25 to show a negative population growth

from 2012 to 2013, at -0.2 per cent. Its median age was 37 (15th) and 60.2 per cent of its residents had some post-secondary education (13th).

Lacombe’s mill rate was 6.90 (19th) and the cost of industrial land there was $250,000 an acre (eighth).

Alberta Venture noted Lacombe’s “reasonable land and building costs,” as well as its downtown redevelopment — which as included the refurbishment of 35 heritage buildings.

Last year, Red Deer was on an Alberta Venture’s list of the 25 Best Communities For Business in Western Canada, and in 2011 the city and Olds were both included on that list.

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Steel is going up for Rimbey’s new Agrim Centre, a multi-purpose indoor facility that will replace the town’s Agriplex. The project, which is being spearheaded by the Rimbey Agricultural Society, will include an indoor riding arena, a 900-seat grandstand, meeting space and a boardroom. It will consist of 60,000 square feet and cost approximately $3.5 million.

Young returned to Canola board

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Ag minister to discuss labelling Alberta Agriculture Minister Verlyn Olson planned to discuss the issue of United States’ country of origin labelling (COOL) rules during a North American Meat Association’s conference in Chicago this week.

“Mandatory country of origin labelling makes absolutely no sense,” he said in a release. “Not only does it fail to enhance food safety, but it is hurting the livestock industry on both sides of the border by imposing millions of dollars in unnecessary costs that will undoubtedly trickle down to consumers.”

COOL requires that meat derived from animals born, raised or slaughtered outside the U.S. must be labelled. That means extra costs for Canadian hogs and cattle exported to the U.S. Olson expected to meet with American meatpackers at the conference, which ran from Sunday to today, to rally support for changes to COOL. Also on hand were government representatives from Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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A Lacombe-area farmer has been returned to the board of directors of the Alberta Canola Producers Commission.

Terry Young will continue to represent region 7, which includes Red Deer Count, Lacombe County, Ponoka County and Clearwater County. He was one of four producers acclaimed to the board.

Young and two others are returning for their second, three-year term, while the fourth is joining the board for the first time.

The new term officially starts with the following the Alberta Canola Producers Commission’s annual general meeting in January.

Homes sales continue brisk pace

Wheat Commission to hold meetings The fledgling Alberta Wheat Commission will hold a series of regional meetings over the next five weeks, including one in Lacombe.

Organized by directors and regional representatives, the meetings will provide producers with information about the commission and allow them to provide their input. The Lacombe meeting will take place Nov. 19 at the Lacombe Memorial Centre, with the Alberta Barley Commission to hold a concurrent meeting there.

Fairfax scraps bid for BlackBerry LEADS $1 BILLION CASH INFUSION DEAL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Another change of plans at BlackBerry puts one of the smartphone maker’s largest stakeholders in the driver’s seat to raise a billion dollars in hopes it can resuscitate the struggling company.

The investment firm Fairfax Financial has scrapped plans to

purchase BlackBerry (TSX:BB) outright, but will lead a group of investors to inject US$1 billion of funds into the Waterloo, Ont.based company under new management.

Among the changes, chief executive Thorsten Heins will exit the company with a hefty payout estimated at $22 million.

The announcement Monday was a surprise, considering that

Fairfax and others had been poring over BlackBerry’s financials to determine whether it was worth making an official bid for the company.

Instead, the new plan extends the lifeline for a technology company that has struggled with an identity crisis, an eroding consumer base, money-losing operations and a failed search for an outside buyer.

Canada, Honduras to sign free trade deal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada and Honduras are expected to finally sign a free trade agreement today after concluding negotiations two years ago.

Trade Minister Ed Fast and his Honduran counterpart Jose Adonis Lavaire are scheduled to announce Tuesday in Ottawa that the relationship between the two countries is about to “reach a new level.”

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The government says after the signing, the agreement will be debated in Parliament and the Honduran Congress before coming into force.

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Home sales in Red Deer continued at a brisk pace last month, with 160 deals processed through the Multiple Listing Service.

Statistics provided by the Central Alberta Realtors Association indicate that the October sales tally for the city was nearly 13 per cent higher than in the same month of 2012, when there were 142 residential sales. In September 2013, the figure was 157.

In the area covered by the association outside of Red Deer, MLS sales reached 217. That marked an 11 per cent improvement over the 196 sales there a year ago. The preceding month there were 223 residential sales in the region.

Over the first 10 months of 2013 there were 1,627 home sales in Red Deer, up almost nine per cent from the 1,498 to the same point in 2012. Outside the city, there were 2,222 sales from January to October, down marginally from 2,225 in 2012.

The average resale price in Red Deer last month was $320,527, down from $324,505 in September and $323,937 in October 2012.

For the surrounding region, the October average was $279,779. That compared with $261,156 in September and $252,577 in October 2012.

Because average prices include homes of various types and locations, the Central Alberta Realtors Association has cautioned against relying upon such information as indicators of market trends.

New residential listings in Red Deer numbered 202 last month, as compared with 221 in September and 208 in October 2012. For the outlying area, there were 300 new listings in October, down from 326 in September and 308 last October.

Nova profits rise Nova Chemicals Corp. earned increased profits in the third quarter of 2013, despite higher feedstock costs for its Joffre ethylene plants.

The Calgary-based petrochemical company — whose operations include both ethylene and polyethylene plants at Joffre — had earnings of US$120 million for the three months ended Sept. 30, up 15 per cent from $104 million in the same quarter in 2012.

Nova said in a release that the increase was due mainly to its polyethylene segment, which experienced higher margins and sales volumes. It noted that third quarter profits at its Joffre and Corunna, Ont. ethylene plants were down.

Nova pointed out that the price of natural gas, from which the ethane used by the Joffre ethylene plants is derived, was up two per cent from the same period in 2012.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 96.95 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.45 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.09 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.83 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.60 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market registered a minor gain Monday amid a huge plunge in BlackBerry (TSX:BB) shares after its largest shareholder said it won’t be taking the tech company private.

The S&P/TSX composite index rose 24.27 points to 13,361.73 led by gains in beaten-down mining stocks.

U.S. indexes also racked up small gains as traders hoped that a heavy slate of economic data coming out this week will offer some clues about when the Federal Reserve will start to wind up stimulus that has supported a strong rally on stock markets.

BlackBerry shares tumbled $1.34 or 16.56 per cent to $6.75, its lowest level in a decade, after Fairfax Financial (TSX:FFH) said it will lead a group that will inject US$1 billion into the smartphone company. BlackBerry will stay as a public company.

Fairfax had announced in late September that it would lead a consortium to pay US$9 per share for BlackBerry, a proposed deal that was subject to many conditions.

Under this new arrangement, Thorsten Heins will be replaced as BlackBerry CEO on an interim basis

by John Chen, who will also be the chairman of the BlackBerry board.

The Canadian dollar rose 0.09 of a cent to 95.99 cents US. New York’s Dow Jones industrials climbed 23.57 points to 15,639.12, the Nasdaq was up 14.55 points to 3,936.59 and the S&P 500 index added 6.29 points to 1,767.93.

The most important data of the week comes out Friday — October employment data for Canada and the U.S. Economists looked for Canadian job creation to come in at a modest 10,000 with an uptick in the jobless rate from 6.9 per cent to seven per cent.

In the U.S., job creation is expected to come in at only 125,000 for October while the unemployment rate is forecast to rise 0.1 of a point to 7.3 per cent. Analysts say the numbers will be affected by the partial U.S. government shutdown of last month since the data would include private sector workers who were laid off.

On Thursday, the U.S. government will release the first look at third quarter economic growth. Gross domestic product was expected to rise by an annualized rate of 1.9 per cent, down from 2.5 per cent in the sec-

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On Tuesday, the Institute for Supply Management releases its latest snapshot of the American service sector, which is expected to show slightly slower expansion. The ISM index is expected to come in at 54, down from 54.4 in September.

The communique from last week’s meeting of the Federal Reserve left the impression that the central bank could decide to start winding up its $85 billion in monthly asset purchases as soon as December.

Gold stocks led TSX gainers as December bullion moved ahead $1.50 to US$1,314.70 an ounce. The gold index was up just over three per cent as Kinross Gold (TSX:K) moved up 24 cents to C$5.24 while Goldcorp (TSX:G) improved by 75 cents to $26.09.

The base metals sector also provided major support, ahead 1.17 per cent while December copper lost five cents to US$3.25 a pound.

Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) rose 17 cents to C$4.78 and Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) was up 37 cents to $28.57.

BlackBerry pushed the TSX tech sector down 2.3 per cent. But elsewhere in the sector, Celestica (TSX:CLS) rose 26 cents to $11.52.

December crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained a penny to US$94.62 a barrel and the energy sector was slightly lower.

Meanwhile, investors will take in plenty of earnings reports this week including WestJet (TSX:WJA) on Tuesday, pipeline company Enbridge (TSX:ENB) and auto parts giant Magna International (TSX:MGA) on Wednesday. Thursday is the heaviest day for earnings as traders will hear from Tim Hortons (TSX:THI), BCE (TSX:BCE), Canadian Tire (TSX:CTC.A), Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) and insurance giants Sun Life Financial (TSX:SLF), Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) and Great West Lifeco (TSX:GWO).

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Monday: Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,361.73 up 24.27 points TSX Venture Exchange — 952.58 down 2.76 points

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 54.04 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.91 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.62 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 44.78 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.62 Penn West Energy . . . . . 11.49 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.520 Precision Drilling Corp . . 10.92 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.63 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 13.04 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.68 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 10.06 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 57.93

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 72.87 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.38 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.88 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 33.53 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.33 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.18 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 49.82 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 64.68 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.49 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 91.03 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.41 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 70.31 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 35.30 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.67 TSX 60 — 767.76 up 0.77 point Dow — 15,639.12 up 23.57 points S&P 500 — 1,767.93 up 6.29 points Nasdaq — 3,936.59 up 14.55 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 95.99 cents US, up 0.09 of a cent Pound — C$1.6634, up 0.29 of a cent Euro — C$1.4082, up 0.17 of a cent Euro — US$1.3517, up 0.28 of a cent Oil futures: US$94.62 per barrel, up a penny (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,314.70 per oz., up $1.50 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.614 per oz., down 10.3 cents $759.19 per kg., down $3.31 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Monday at 952.58, down 2.76 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 136.42 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $5.50 higher $487.20; Jan. ’14 $5.10 higher $496.50; March ’14 $5.60 higher $505.00; May ’14 $5.50 higher $511.00; July ’14 $5.00 higher $516.20; Nov. ’14 $4.90 higher $522.10; Jan ’15 $4.90 higher $524.60; March ’15 $4.90 higher $523.40; May ’15 $4.90 higher $517.90; July ’15 $4.90 higher $515.10; Nov ’15 $4.90 higher $511.30.

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.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 233,440 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 233,440.

Ritz sees chance for solution to meat labelling dispute with U.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says he has growing confidence the U.S. will back off on country-of-origin labelling regulations on beef and pork, but is prepared to retaliate.

The minister and his counterparts from Alberta and Manitoba were in Chicago on Monday speaking to the North American Meat Association in opposition to the U.S. law known as COOL, which Ritz said is costing Canadian producers $1 billion annually.

Last month, Tyson Foods Inc. announced it had stop buying slaughtered cattle from Canada because of the high costs associated with COOL, including the need for specific product codes, production interruptions and sorting.

Ritz called the loss “devastating,” adding that it would become “catastrophic” for Canadian producers if other U.S. processors followed suit. But he said there is now a unique opportunity to fix the legislation so it does not discriminate against imports from Canada and Mexico through the U.S. farm bill that is currently before U.S. Congress.

He notes that Canada has allies within the U.S., including the American Association of Meat Processors, along with other industry players, who have sought a court injunction against the implementation of the labelling requirements.

Ritz said 100 senators and congressmen have also signed on support the industry-led court action.

“That would have been unheard of a year

Junior miners face rough year as market cap hits 6-year low

ago,” he said. “So the ground has shifted, the tide has changed and we feel very confident we can move forward with this repeal of COOL through the farm bill.”

In the meantime, Canada is proceeding with a World Trade Organization action seeking permission to retaliate against the U.S. In the summer, Ottawa announced a list of 38 imports from the U.S. — including cattle, pigs, cheese, pasta, some fruits and vegetables, chocolate and maple syrup — it is prepared to retaliate against if Washington does not change the COOL law.

MONTREAL — Canada’s junior mining companies, hit hard by low metal prices and tight financial markets, dropped in market value to the lowest level in at least six years, according to an annual report.

The market capitalization of all junior minors fell by about half in the past year to $11.1 billion, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

As of June 30, the top 100 accounted for $6.5 billion of that total, down 44 per cent from 2012. That followed a similar slide in 2011 when the value peaked at $20.6 billion.

“The health of the junior mining sector has been on a downward spiral since 2011, when commodity prices were at or near record highs and markets recovered from the devastating impact of the 2008-09 global financial crisis,” said the seventh annual report released Monday.

The accounting firm said the mining companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange also saw their cash and short-term investments drop by $695 million to $1.2 billion.

The report’s author says the entire mining sector is facing a “confidence crisis” and that junior companies are hardest hit.

“The junior mining sector is not for the faint of heart,” said John Gravelle, global mining leader.

He said the activities of the smaller mining companies - many of them in gold sector - are dependent on the market mood and commodities prices.

When the recovery comes, investors will likely first allocate money to senior producers given their stronger balance sheets and proven production and profit-making capabilities.

“That means many juniors will need to be even more patient with their plans, and have as much cash on hand as possible to wait out the uncertainty,” he said.

But generating cash has been challenging.

The amount generated from financing activities fell 34 per cent, on top of a 52 per cent drop in 2012. Net losses among the top 100 companies collec-

Holder says airlines must make concessions before merging THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says American Airlines and US Airways must make broad concessions if they want to settle a lawsuit blocking their proposed merger.

Holder’s comments Monday show that the government’s concerns extend beyond the control that American and US Airways would have at Washington’s busy Reagan National Airport.

The attorney general’s comments show that the parties could try to reach a deal and avoid a Nov. 25 trial, but also could indicate that the government’s demands may be too steep for the airlines.

The government sued to block the merger on grounds that it would restrict competition and drive up prices for con-

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Only three paid a dividend last year — Sierra Metals (TSXV:SMT), Callinan Royalties Corp. (TSXV:CAA), and Midway Gold Corp. (TSXV:MDW), which only paid preferred dividends.

The report said companies have cut expenditures, including stopping exploration work, while others will only survive by merging or accept takeover bids.

But the numbers spell trouble for many of the junior miners, said the report.

“Some may not be around at this time next year,” the report said, noting that the “washout of junior” predicted last year didn’t materialize.

About one-fifth are no longer listed on the Venture Exchange, seven graduated to the TSX, 10 were acquired or merged and one was delisted.

Writedowns surged to $87 million for the year ended June 30, up from $32 million in the prior year.

The top 100 raised $795 million in equity financing, down by half from $1.6 billion in 2012, with only four of 15 producers raising more than $1 million.

The number of initial public offerings has fallen by more than half in the past three years to 24 in 2013, down from 52 in 2011.

About 64 per cent of the junior miners in the top 100 had headquarters in British Columbia, 16 per cent in Ontario, 10 per cent in Quebec and two per cent in Alberta.

Gold was the main commodity for 41 per cent of the companies, while 32 per cent focused on a series of minerals and metals such as diamonds, uranium, platinum and rate earth and zinc.

Sliver and copper followed at about 10 per cent. Only four per cent focused on iron ore.

The mining sector is a shrinking part of the TSX Venture Exchange. It represented 35 per cent of its $32 billion market capitalization, down from 51 per cent of $40 billion in 2012 and a 38 per cent drop from 2011.

There were no mining companies with a market cap of more than $500 million.

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A9 Obama losing personal appeal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s personal favourability ratings for years has served as a political firewall that sustained him through an economic recession, grueling fights with congressional Republicans, and the grind of a re-election campaign.

But after a rough start to Obama’s second term, Americans increasingly view the president unfavourably. And perhaps most concerning for the White House: an Associated Press analysis of public polling shows it has become more difficult over time for Obama to fully rebound from dents in his favourability ratings.

“It’s a slow cumulative effect,” Republican pollster David Winston said, adding that personal favourability “is a much harder number to move if it starts to go south.”

The American public’s increasingly negative view of Obama may be less of a concern for his future given that he is barred from running for re-election.

But the president still needs a strong connection with the public in order to rally the country around his policy proposals and, in turn, to show Congress he remains politically relevant at a time when lame duck status is lurking.

The president’s advisers need only look at Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, to see the impact of a crumbling relationship with the public.

Positive impressions of the Republican trailed off in the beginning of 2005 amid public frustration with the Iraq war and the government’s flawed response to Hurricane Katrina. Bush’s favourability rating

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never recovered and he struggled to fulfil significant policy goals throughout the rest of his presidency.

A series of recent polls show Obama’s personal favourability now leaning negative, including an NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll released last week that found positive views of Obama at the lowest point of his presidency and down 6 points from earlier in October.

The drop follows the 16-day government shutdown, the cascade of problems during his health care law’s rollout, and another flood of revelations about U.S. government spying.

White House officials blame the shutdown in particular for Obama’s falling favourability, given that it resulted in shuttering many federal services and furloughs for hundreds of thousands of Americans, while again highlighting the troubled ties between the president and Capitol Hill. But Obama aides note that the impact of the shutdown on congressional Republicans has been even worse, with both their personal and job performance ratings at record lows.

“Everybody gets hurt when there’s dysfunction in Washington,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

Throughout Obama’s presidency, his job approval and personal favourability ratings have generally risen and fallen in tandem. But his favourability numbers, which often reflect the public’s gut-level reaction to a politician, generally remained the more positive of the two measures.

That, the president’s supporters argue, made the public more likely to give him a chance even when they disagreed with his policies or the direction the country was headed. His strong likability was seen as a particular asset during his 2012 re-election campaign when most polls showed that voters saw him

in a more favourable light than his Republican rival Mitt Romney.

“For the president, it’s meant that people have cared about what he had to say because they liked him,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster.

The question for the White House now is whether that dynamic will hold if the public’s personal opinions of the president continue to sour. An Associated Press-GfK poll from early October found that 52 per cent of Americans didn’t think Obama was very honest and were split on whether he was even likable.

The president’s favourability has taken hits during other points in his presidency. Most polling found the public’s impression soured in late summer 2011 around the first round of debt ceiling negotiations and again last summer in the midst of his presidential campaign.

Although Obama’s favourability improved somewhat after each hit, he never fully recovered, with each rating rebound peaking below earlier average favourability ratings.

Past presidents have also struggled to recover from dips in their favourability ratings.

Bush left office with majorities saying they had both a negative impression of him personally and disapproved of his job performance. And former President Bill Clinton’s favourability numbers never recovered after a fall in 1998 as the Monica Lewinsky story unfolded, though his job approval remained strong through his last days at the White House.

Republican President Ronald Reagan evoked the warmest reaction from the American public, leaving office with high job approval numbers, 63 per cent according to Gallup polling in December 1988, and a majority holding a favourable impression of him personally.

Ousted president defiant in first court appearance EGYPT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt — Ousted President Mohammed Morsi refused to wear a prison jumpsuit, entering the caged dock in a dark business suit as his codefendants applauded. He defiantly questioned the legitimacy of the court and proclaimed himself still Egypt’s leader. His fellow Muslim Brotherhood members chanted, “Down with military rule!”

Morsi’s long-awaited trial got off to a chaotic start Monday, with outbursts and interruptions, and it was quickly adjourned until Jan. 8.

The dramatic first public appearance for Morsi since the July 3 military coup that removed him from power was meant to be a step toward due process. Instead, it highlighted the challenges facing Egypt’s interim authori-

ties as they attempt to close a chapter of his presidency, while his Islamist supporters seek to disrupt the effort.

Morsi and 14 co-defendants — seven of whom are still at large — are charged with inciting the killing of protesters who massed outside the presidential palace in December 2012 and demanded that he call off a referendum on a new Islamist-drafted constitution. Brotherhood members attacked a sit-in by the protesters, sparking clashes that left 10 people dead.

Before Monday’s session began, silent video broadcast on state TV showed Morsi arriving in a minibus outside the makeshift courtroom at a police academy in eastern Cairo. He wore the dark suit, light shirt and no tie, flanked by burly policemen.

A smiling Morsi later walked into the cage in the court — still in the same garb, unlike his co-defendants in white prison jumpsuits. They stood in two lines like a presidential honour guard, applauding and raising their hands in a four-fingered gesture — commemo-

rating the hundreds of his supporters killed when security forces moved to clear protest encampments in August.

Another defendant — an aide held with him in the secret military location — also was in a suit.

Feisty and healthy-looking after four months of secret detention, the 62-year-old Morsi immediately started talking even before Judge Ahmed Sabry Youssef gave him the floor.

“What is going on now is a cover for a military coup,” Morsi shouted in a voice that echoed through the courtroom. “I warn everybody. ... I wish that the Egyptian judiciary would not become one day a cover for the military coup.”

The defence lawyers clapped.

Chants from his fellow defendants followed: “Down, down with military rule!”

Youssef tried to calm the raucous scene.

“This is enough. The court wants to carry on and provide you with the guarantees necessary” for a fair trial,

he said. But Morsi repeated at least four times, “I am the president of the republic.”

He rejected the proceedings and said he had been forced to attend. “I am here by force and against my will.

The coup is a crime and treason,” he said Morsi refused to enter a plea and demanded that he be given a microphone, although his voice was loud enough for everyone in the courtroom to hear.

“This is not my court,” Morsi went on. “This court, with all due respect, doesn’t have jurisdiction over the president. There is a military coup in this country. The leaders of this coup must be brought to trial according to the constitution.”

At one point, some journalists in court shouted: “Execution, you will get execution, Morsi!”

Morsi had set the unruly tone, interrupting the judge, speaking when he wanted to, and once even talking over a defence lawyer.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A mix of high-tech toys and old classics are predicted to be the most popular playthings of the season, but what will emerge as the ultimate must-have over the holidays is anyone’s guess.

The Canadian Toy Association revealed some 100 items in its annual “Hot Toys for the Holidays� showcase Friday, saying the crowning of the season’s absolute favourite will come only after children declare their top choices. “There’s a lot of different hot properties this year and so really it depends on the interests of the child. But rest assured there’s always some sort of craze that happens in December,� said association president Kerry George. “We just let children just come and play and experiment and test them out and see what they’re actually really interested in.�

The toys highlighted by the association are a selection of what manufacturers think are going to be popular among children of all ages and interests.

For those who like items with a modern edge, there are a selection of learning tablets, a kid’s DJ set with a downloadable app (EZ Pro DJ) and tech-savvy play sets like the Rock Stage which, once constructed, can be hooked up to an MP3 player to blast a child’s favourite tunes from built-in speakers. “Technology seems to be im-

prove easier to handle. There’s a balanced give and take between you and your co-workers. Family matters come to light now. You will inherit a greater sense of responsibility.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s time to come out of your comfort zone and express your inner individuality. You have so much creativity to display and so much fun to catch up with. You have to let go of the past and move on to a new adventurous phase in your life.

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You have an itch for decorating and for beautifying your surroundings in very practical, yet simplistic ways. This is a great time to welcome guests in your newly revamped home.

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Mead making a comeback CANADIANS REVELLING IN RESURGENCE OF ANCIENT ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — It’s a drink that has been shared among Greek gods, Vikings, mythical dwarves and magical wizards.

Made using honey, water and yeast, the origins of mead have been traced back nearly 10,000 years, predating wine and beer. Its popularity has ebbed and flowed through time and throughout the world, popping up in places like ancient Greece, northern China and Ethiopia.

Now, Canadians are buzzing about mead — one of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages. The so-called nectar of the gods has made a resurgence in Canada over the past decade, with meaderies multiplying across the country.

Vicky Rowe, owner of the U.S.-based Internet mead hub Gotmead.com, said she counted about four meaderies in Canada in the mid-2000s. That number has since grown to more than 30 meaderies from coast-to-coast.

“We started seeing more and more Canadian meaderies cropping up. I mean, just all over the place, like they were growing on trees,” said Rowe, who’s operated her website for about 20 years.

Its North American comeback began south of the border in the mid-20th century at Renaissance festivals until the 1980s, when people began producing it commercially, said Rowe. Much like its accelerated growth in Canada, the number of meaderies skyrocketed in the 1990s in the U.S., where there are now more than 200.

Rowe believes that the spike in popularity can in part be explained through an ageold idiom: “Everything old is new again.”

“It’s unique, it’s different, it’s trendy,” said Rowe in an interview from her home in Youngsville, N.C. “We’ve got a

young generation that’s coming up and looking for new and exciting beverages.”

It’s also easy to make and easily adaptable, said Rowe.

Things like fruit, nuts, spices, hot peppers and chocolate can be added to create distinct flavours that tickles both the taste buds and a mead maker’s creative juices, she said.

“Because we don’t have a 400-year-old set of rules that is built up around what constitutes a merlot, people feel like they can get out there and they’re free to express their creativity in the making of it,” said Rowe.

“There’s always that yearning for something new and interesting.”

Popular culture has also lent a hand in its resurrection, said Bob Liptrot, co-owner of Tugwell Creek Honey Farm and Meadery on Vancouver Island, B.C. Mead is widely drank among the wizards and witches in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.

It’s enjoyed in middle-earth, with several references to it in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series and The Hobbit.

Mead is also prominently featured in the epic of Beowulf, which depicts a grand mead hall called Heorot.

“People have read about it in their English (literature) classes,” said Liptrot, whose family has been making mead for more than 50 years, commercially for about 15 years.

“There’s a lot more general knowledge out there. But I also think there are people that are looking for something besides chardonnay and cabernet ... for pairing with food.”

Canadian beekeepers are also looking to mead as another way to sell their honey and expand their business, said Liptrot.

It’s what prompted Micheal Magnini to start the Midgard Meadery in Scotch Lake, N.S., last year.

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Micheal Magnini, owner Midgard Meadery in Scotch Lake, N.S., pours a sample of his product.

Mead, made from honey, water and yeast, is one of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages and is undergoing a resurgence in Canada.

“I was exploring things to do with bee products. In the exploration, I came across the ancient drink of mead.”

Part mead merchant, part historian, Magnini said his product often captures the interest of customers at local farmers’ markets throughout Cape Breton and Halifax.

“There’s a large percentage of people who are unaware of mead. They don’t know it ex-

ists, they don’t know how it’s made or what it’s made from,” said Magnini, adding that close to a pound of honey goes into each 750 ml bottle.

But the fear of the unknown isn’t deterring people from buying up his supply. Magnini said he sells “every drop” of his mead, which is roughly 50 bottles a month, enough to spark expansion plans at his small operation in northern

Cape Breton.

Rowe said she doesn’t expect mead will lose momentum any time soon.

This spring, the American Mead Makers Association celebrated its first year and is looking at expanding into Canada, said Rowe.

“Everything goes in cycles,” she said. “But there’s so many possibilities that are yet unexplored. The sky’s the limit.”

Consumers seeking new greens Mobster hoping will be inspired by new cookbook to make a hit with Mafiathemed eatery

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Susan Sampson has always loved greens. In a spirit of adventure, the food writer decided to explore “the wide world of wonderful greens” and develop a comprehensive guide.

“The Complete Leafy Greens Cookbook” (Robert Rose) delves into 67 different types of leafy greens and includes 250 recipes she developed.

“We’re always talking about healthy foods. You can’t get much healthier than these greens,” says Sampson, a self-taught cook and former Toronto Star food columnist.

“They’ve got a lot of antioxidants in them, chlorophyll is a very healthy ingredient. If something is healthy, doesn’t cost a lot and tastes good, then I think that’s a darn good combination.”

She thinks the renaissance of kale has given rise to an interest in leafy greens.

“Kale was always sort of a supermarket staple, but a lot of people just kind of looked at it, didn’t really know what to do with it,” says the author of two other books, “12,167 Kitchen and Cooking Secrets” and “200 Best Canned Fish and Seafood Recipes.”

“Then more cooks started discovering it and they not only cooked it, they started putting it in salads and made kale chips and kale pizza and that was sort of a stepping stone to other greens. People found that the greens are not only delicious but very healthy and generally they don’t cost a lot.

“I think it opens people to experimentation.

There’s a wide world of wonderful greens out there.

People want to explore new territory and that’s actually what I wanted to do in my book as well.”

She started with the so-called standard greens — spinach and lettuce are probably the most popular and well-known — and “kept expanding out and out and out.”

“I shopped like crazy. If I found a green that I wasn’t familiar with I bought up a bunch and started cooking with it.” Living near Chinatown in Toronto was a bonus. Then came the research.

“Once I saw the greens, they weren’t always labelled. I had to cross-reference everything online and I had to go through a lot of scientific botanical lists, which were quite complicated, but once I got going, once I pinned down the species, that eliminated a lot of confusion.”

While there are officially 67 greens in the book, there are references to many more. Included are such exotics as African bitter leaf, Japanese mustard greens, Maritime fiddleheads and mizuna.

She lists the species and common names, and provides tips on buying, storing, preparing and consuming each one. A photo helps with identification.

There are also health notes, in which she lists nutritional benefits along with folklore, remedies and herbal medicine practices. Warding off evil spirits, aphrodisiac, detoxification and alleviating fever, constipation or wounds are just a few examples.

If you’re a greens newbie, Sampson suggests starting with mild forms, such as spinaches, chickweed, purslane, mache and chard.

“They say you develop a taste for greens the more you eat.”

Begin with small quantities and work your way up.

“You can start by taking something very familiar, like lettuce, and not relegating it to the salad bowl. For example, lettuce sauce is really super-

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Consumers looking for new varieties of inexpensive, nutritious and versatile greens can get some inspiration from The Complete Leafy Greens Cookbook. Susan Sampson has put together a comprehensive book with information on 67 types of leafy greens and 250 vegetarian recipes, which she developed. delicious.”

She adds chopped romaine to soups like minestrone or pasta fagiole. Add “a little layer of goodness” to lasagna or other noodle dishes with chopped spinach.

Some of her favourite greens are arugula, mache, chard, fiddleheads and tatsoi.

Greens are best measured by weight, Sampson says, but she provides volume equivalents.

“Volume measurements can just vary so much by how it’s chopped up, how it’s packed into the cup, that sort of thing. So I tried my best to get the equivalent for loosely packed greens. But I always recommend people go by weight if they can go by weight.”

One of the oddest greens she came across is houttuynia, also called fishwort. It’s a Vietnamese green with a sharp, metallic, fishy flavour.

“Even in Vietnam they’re ambivalent about it. I loved every single green I tried except for that one because it literally tastes and smells like fish when you cook it. Like many greens it’s certainly an acquired taste.”

The recipe she developed to feature houttuynia is lemon vermicelli, a twist on a classic Vietnamese dish.

“The noodle recipe is great, but if I made it again I would certainly switch out the houttuynia for something else. But it’s fun testing all these new things.”

COLLINGSWOOD, N.J. — When he was on trial for racketeering back in 2001, Angelo Lutz denied the mob’s existence, but now he’s using his past in organized crime to promote his new restaurant, the Kitchen Consigliere.

The sign out front echoes the logo for “The Godfather” but with a chef’s hat. A mural on one wall puts Lutz, also known as Fat Ange, at a table with famous gangsters, both real (John Gotti) and fictional (Tony Soprano). Sconces to hold lights look like 9 mm handguns. And some nights, he serves up a special he calls Joey’s Pork Chops, in honour of Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino, the reputed Philadelphia-South Jersey mob boss. He’s also happy to tell customers stories from his past.

Lutz is using some unsavoury associations as he attempts a transformation from inmate to opinionated celebrity chef. Last week, he moved his operations from an 11-table restaurant to one three times as large on a prominent corner of the hip, foodiefriendly Philadelphia suburb of Collingswood.

“I never considered myself a gangster. I’m not a gangster. The government considered me a gangster.

The government considered me a mob associate,” he said. “But what I am now is a businessman.”

Lutz, 49, grew up in South Philadelphia, where food was a big part of his life. According to federal prosecutors and a jury, he also did some bad along the way. He was one of seven men convicted in a 2001 mob trial that made him a celebrity. He was the only non-“made” member of La Costa Nostra in the case and the only defendant allowed bail during the trial.

And he talked and talked while he was out, calling into a sports-talk radio show and cooking steaks for a TV news reporter.

The government said Lutz was a bookie and debt collector for the Mafia. Although he wasn’t violent, he was sentenced to nine years in prison but later got nearly a year knocked off on appeal.

The night before he entered prison, he cooked for his own going-away party, leading one TV reporter to call him “the kitchen consigliere.”

“I then served my time like a man, didn’t rat, didn’t snitch, you know, took the medicine that went along with when you break the law,” he said from the section of his restaurant that pays tribute to Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack.

In prison, he grew to well over 400 pounds and learned more about cooking, including how to use a microwave to bake a pizza made from flour stolen from the kitchen. When he got out in 2008, Lutz did some online cooking shows before opening his first restaurant in Collingswood.

But when it came time to move to bigger digs, there was a problem: “I couldn’t get conventional bank loans because I’m a felon. I broke the law,” he said, slapping his arm. “Shame on you forever, for life.”

He raised nearly $100,000 for renovations from investors and crowd-funding for his restaurant, which features home-style Italian classics.

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Little-known slave site near DC has connection with new film PAINFUL STORY IS BASIS OF THE NEW FILM 12 YEARS A SLAVE

BY BRETT ZONGKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The painful story of a free black man lured from his home in New York in 1841 to be sold into slavery, now the basis of the new film 12 Years a Slave, has a little-known connection to a slave site that still stands near the nation’s capital.

Alexandria’s one-time slave pen complex, based out of a colonial-style rowhouse, was once the epicenter of the domestic human trade in the United States after the importation of slaves was banned, according to historians.

The last slave trader at the site, James H. Birch, was the same dealer who paid kidnappers $250 for Solomon Northup of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and sold him into slavery in Louisiana.

Northup’s story of 12 years in slavery, published in 1853, is the basis of the new film from British director Steve McQueen. Now curators hope the film will spark new interest from visitors and historians in a rare slave site that still stands near the Capitol.

It has been open to visitors for five years as the Freedom House Museum, now a place to learn about American history.

“What’s very unique about this building is it’s one of the few remaining buildings that the slave trade actually took place in,” said curator Julian Kiganda, who designed the exhibits.

“Everyone who’s come through there, they feel moved.”

Northup’s story is among several narratives illustrating the slave trade at the time.

Exhibits in the brick basement that once served as slave quarters include artifacts found there, along with the original bars and door of this slave jail.

While there’s no evidence Northup was sold through this particular site, Kiganda said it’s similar in design to other slave jails at the time. Northup wrote about being held at

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Lupita Nyong’o, a cast member in the film 12 Years a Slave, is shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Sept. 7, 2013. Portraying a brutally abused plantation worker in the harrowing based-on-fact film took a toll on breakout star Nyong’o during shooting in Louisiana.

Williams’ Slave Pen, located near the National Mall. In the film, his cell is depicted within view of the Capitol.

Northup was captured at a time of rising demand for slaves in the Deep South to cultivate cotton.

The slave-trading firm Franklin and Armfield began operating in Alexandria to help move a surplus of slaves in Maryland, Virginia and Delaware to selling centres in New Orleans and Natchez, Miss., either by boat or by land.

Later, Birch operated the Alexandria slave pen until Union troops liberated the

area in 1861, according to a history of the site.

When Northup was freed from slavery in 1853 with the help of Northern allies, he had Birch arrested for kidnapping, but Birch was set free because Northup had no right to testify against a white man.

Today, the last Birch slave-trading site stands on a busy commuter corridor in a wealthy Washington suburb.

An outdoor plaque provides a brief explanation of the National Historic Landmark site, but most passers-by likely never notice.

“I think a lot of Alexandrians would be shocked to know

their city was a major hub of the country’s slave trade,” Kiganda said. “It’s a story that’s not told often enough.”

The Northern Virginia Urban League bought the building in 1996 to serve as its headquarters and created the museum five years ago. Last year, it drew about 1,000 visitors. Organizers are hoping to reach a broader audience.

Cynthia Dinkins, the president and CEO of the Urban League chapter, said the museum will likely work with Fox Searchlight Pictures to create educational curriculum for students to accompany 12 Years a Slave when it’s re-

leased as a DVD. The group also is working with the Alexandria Convention and Visitors Association to create an African-American heritage tour to launch next year.

And the museum hopes to one day draw visitors from the Smithsonian’s future black history museum who would want to see a real slave site.

“I think this movie will really inspire people and really make them realize more about their own history,” said Audrey Davis, acting director of the nearby Alexandria Black History Museum. “Slavery is America’s story, and we have to face it.”

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The recent Chili for a Cause luncheon sponsored

by GrammaLink-Africa raised $4,288.65 on Oct. 30 at The Hub in Red Deer. The funds will be sent to the Stephen Lewis Foundation to help HIV/ AIDS work in Africa.

GrammaLink would like to thank The Hub, Gaetz United Church, Cafe Pichilingue, Las Palmeras Restaurant and Nova Chemicals for their support. They would also like to thank the Red Deer Pottery Club, which donated the handmade bowls that the chili was served in, Maureen Lewis and the Red Deer College Ceramic Club, and everyone who came out for the hot lunch.

for backup help.

Crews were out on Monday clearing sidewalks, transit stops and maintaining traction control in all 12 city zones.

All priority two zones (arterial roads and Mother Nature wreaked havoc on Cenhigh collision intersections) were set to be tral Alberta roads throughout the weekend completed by 6 a.m. this morning. and well into Monday.

About 23 km of select trail in the WaskaIcy areas in the southbound lanes on soo Park system was scheduled to be Hwy 2 near Hwy 12 led to a four-vehicle colcleared as well for today, Sikora said. lision on Monday around 11:30 a.m., causing “We’ll be monitoring traffic to be diverted onto Hwy to see if any more snow 2A north of Lacombe. over the next few days The collision involved a large will put us back through commercial vehicle and affectthis cycle and possibly ed traffic for nearly three hours. then put us through the No injuries were reported. downtown clearing cycle.

“There are some slippery We haven’t hit the trigsections from Red Deer to In— CONST. CHRISTOPHER WARREN WITH INNISFAIL TRAFFIC UNIT ger yet for the downtown nisfail that appear bare but are clearing.” not,” Const. Christopher Warren Red Deer city crews started de-icing A total of 33 cm of snow fell in Red with the Innisfail Traffic Unit said on Monbridges and hills early on Saturday and Deer on Saturday and Sunday, the largest day morning.

“We are urging everyone to drive accord- were “working round the clock” to man- amount across the province. age snow-covered roads, said public works However, the sun is set to shine in the ing to the winter conditions.” region today and Wednesday due to a high Buses for the Wolf Creek Public School manager Greg Sikora.

“We completed all priority one areas pressure system passing through, according Division and Chinook’s Edge were canon Sunday: hills, bridges, overpasses to Environment Canada. celled on Monday.

All bus routes in the Caroline and Cor- within the target period,” Sikora said, ridor areas were cancelled for Wild Rose noting “contracted forces” were pulled Please see WEATHER on Page B2

Public Schools as well as numerous routes in Rocky Mountain House.

Rural buses for Red Deer Catholic schools were also cut for the day.

Travel along Hwy 2 in both directions was not recommended over the weekend with reduced visibility due to blowing snow and snow-covered roads.

With the snow comes Traffic had been reduced to one lane in most sections.

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF

‘WE ARE URGING EVERYONE TO DRIVE ACCORDING TO THE WINTER CONDITIONS.’

STOCKING STUFFERS FROM SCRATCH

LAPTOPS FOR HOSPICE

REMEMBRANCE DAY

People looking for stocking stuffers can learn how to make two from scratch at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre, at 6300 45th Ave. The informative workshop will teach people to make handmade soaps and wool slippers on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. All materials will be provided. The workshop costs $15, plus GST, for members and $17, plus GST, for nonmembers. Pre-registration is required by Thursday.

For more information and to register, call 403-3462010.

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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

WHERE WOMEN THRIVE SUMMIT A cross-Canada leadership and personal development event exclusively for women is kicking off in Red Deer on Nov. 15. The Where Women Thrive Summit is a two-day event to “harnesses the power of sisterhood by bringing women of all ages, backgrounds and life stages together, province by province, to share in their experiences, triumphs and recommit to a journey of self discovery and personal leadership.”

Launched by Strategic Coaching Solutions, the 16-hour summit features co-founders Leaha Mattinson and Michelle Woods, who will help attendees take control of their choices, explore tools to create supreme relationships, learn to stop self-sabotaging and much more. To register, visit www. wherewomenthrive.com.

Tickets start at $419 and include a complimentary breakfast as well as course materials. The event will take place at the Sheraton Hotel. The next session takes place in Vancouver in January.

GIVE US A CALL The Advocate invites its readers to help cover news in Central Alberta. We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something inaccurate in our pages. We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit. Call 403-3144333.

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Tim Johnston of Red Deer started a call for donations last month to help buy 10 laptop computers for the Red Deer Hospice. The laptops, equipped with Skype, will help connect patients with friends and family unable to be by their sides. Peter Doug Leyen of Blackfalds and his family donated 11 laptops and a server to the hospice, worth about $15,000 in total. Johnston began to set up the laptops on Monday. Johnston also collected about $1,500 in cash to go towards the hospice.

Compost plan gets personal GOAL IS TO THANK PARTICIPANTS

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Red Deer’s Composting at Home program is getting personal with the launch of its second phase.

The new Compost & Keep up with the Joneses (and the Lunneys, the Kenworthys and the Latunskis) campaign is a series of social media posts, ads and posters showcasing locals who compost.

Its goal is to thank the latest group of program participants and encourage other community members to join in.

“These are photos of real-life participants in our Composting at Home program. These are people who signed up on their own and enjoy it.

“This is a way we can spread the word that regular Red Deer families compost,” said Lauren Maris, an environmental program

specialist with the city.

“Many families think they’re too busy to stir a compost bin or throw scraps in their kitchen catchers, but if these everyday families can find the time, anyone can. ... We want Red Deerians to realize that backyard composting is a normal, easy and desirable thing to do for our community and our environment.”

The posters will be up in recreational facilities and other hightraffic areas, Maris said.

There will also be Facebook posts from the city recognizing composting families and individuals.

The initiative kicked off in March 2012 and trained 253 households. About 70 per cent of those homes continued to actively compost one year later, diverting approximately 20 tonnes of organic waste from the landfill.

The training program gives each household a compost bin,

tools and how-to workshops, as well as learning resources, and access to support and expertise to help participants follow through with the project.

A household can reduce its waste by one-third thanks to composting.

The city had 200 spots open in the program last March. All spots were filled within 55 hours.

The third year of the program, ready to launch in March 2014, will see another 200 spots open for those interested in recycling organic waste and making their own fertilizer for healthy yards.

If you’re living in an apartment without a backyard, Maris said there is still the option of composting with a worm bin (vermiculture) or bokashi bucket (fermented organic matter through microbes).

For more information, visit www.reddeer.ca. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

Central Albertans looking to honour Canada’s veterans have several options throughout the region to pay their respects.

Red Deer’s main Remembrance Day ceremony is highlighted by the Silver Cross Mother, chosen by the Red Deer Legion to lay a wreath on behalf of all mothers who have lost children in service of their country.

The event gets underway at 10 a.m. when the doors open at the Red Deer Arena, at 4725 43rd St., with the ceremony beginning at about 10:45 a.m.

Many other dignitaries will also lay wreaths in the Arena as part of the service.

“It’s usually packed and if you don’t come at 10 a.m., there’s no room,” said Grant MacKay, a Red Deer Legion member.

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NICOLE HOAR

Case remains open The case of a Red Deer woman missing since 2002 remains an active police investigation.

A person of interest in the disappearance of Nicole Hoar, related to B.C.’s Highway of Tears, took a polygraph test.

Leland Switzer, who was arrested for the murder of his brother, became a suspect in the 2002 disappearance of Hoar, 25.

He has not been charged with anything related to Hoar.

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Bombing accused wants court proceedings moved An Innisfail financial planner charged in the bombing death of a young mother wants his court proceedings moved away from Red Deer.

Brian Andrew Malley, 56, is charged with first-degree murder, causing an explosion likely to cause harm or death and sending an explosive device.

Innisfail RCMP allege that Malley had a bomb delivered to the home of Vicky Shachtay, 23, who died in an explosion at her Innisfail home on Nov. 25, 2011. A care worker in the home was also injured.

Shachtay’s seven-year-old daughter, Destiny, was not at home.

Shachtay was wheelchair-bound as the result of a vehicle collision in 2004.

Represented by Edmonton lawyer Bob Aloneissi, Malley was ordered to stand trial at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing in September.

However, Red Deer lawyer Brad Mulder, acting on Aloneissi’s behalf, said in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday that the trial dates cannot be confirmed because Malley wants to be tried elsewhere.

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

An application for the change in venue is to be heard in the Court of Queen’s Bench on May 12, 2014.

Depending on the outcome, Malley’s trial is tentatively scheduled to open in Red Deer with a voir dire, or trial within a trial, to be heard before the jury is assembled.

The voir dire is set for Dec. 8 to 19, 2014.

The trial proper is scheduled for Jan. 26 to March 6, 2015.

Malley was released from custody on June 29, 2012, after posting $10,000 bail.

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ONE GIANT SNOWMAN

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BRIEFS Zed Haunted House raises $100,000 Central Alberta’s scariest attraction set a new record bringing $100,000 for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Red Deer and District.

The walls of the Zed Haunted House came down this weekend after ushering about 6,000 brave souls for close to two weeks.

The previous $85,000 record was set in 2011. Last year, the house spooked in $70,000.

John Johnson, event organizer, said the was thrilled with the turnout this year. He thanked the generosity of the community, which has embraced the event for 23 years.

More than 150 volunteers put 8,000 hours into the project.

All of the proceeds will go to support the ongoing efforts of Boys and Girls Club, which offers youth programs that foster a sense of belonging, personal empowerment, achievement and skill development.

Trial in 2015 into alleged misuse Trial is still 15 months down the road for a Calgary man accused of using his position with an oilfield service company to get money from a subcontractor.

David Griffith, formerly of Balzac, is charged with four counts of misusing his position in connection with activities alleged to have taken place between Jan. 1, 2006, and March 22, 2010, while he was employed with Baker Hughes in Red Deer.

Griffith, 38, has asked to be tried by judge and jury in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

In court on Monday, his trial was set for nine days, opening on March 23, 2015. A pre-trial conference has been scheduled for later this year.

An early date for the conference was requested by defence counsel Lorne Goddard, who disputes the length of time the Crown estimates for the trial.

Goddard believes the trial could be completed more quickly than the Crown’s estimate.

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These four Red Deer boys built this almost-three-metre-high snowman in the green space just west of Mattie McCullough Elementary School in Lancaster on Sunday. The foursome spent all afternoon, after Red Deer’s first big snowfall of the year, crafting this giant. They are Geoffrey Nielsen, Nathan Nielsen, Luka Trpevski and Cole Walsmith.

Release of sediment from coal mine contained

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HINTON— Alberta Environment says a release of contaminated water from a coal mine west of Edmonton has been contained.

The department is still ad-

vising people not to draw water from the Athabasca River downstream from the Obed Mountain Mine site near Hinton.

The department says water samples already taken don’t indicate any health risks.

But government staff are

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SUSPECT: Took polygraph test

continuing to test the water and results are to be shared with Alberta Health Services and other agencies.

Further analysis is also to determine what, if any, environmental impact there may have been.

Sediment was released

last week from an on-site water storage pond that contains high levels of suspended solids such as clay, mud, shale and coal particles.

The government is also advising farmers not to let livestock drink from the river until the full results from

ary contest winners, Kirsten Joseph and Derek Penman, reading their winning entries.

Afterwards, people are invited to the Legion Branch where the women will put on a lunch and Tim Hortons coffee. At 2 p.m., there is a small march from the Legion to the nearby Cenotaph.

Lacombe’s Remembrance Day service starts early in the morning, at 8:30 a.m., with a pancake breakfast at the Legion, at 5138 49th St., ending at 10:15 a.m. At 10:30 a.m., they will march over to the Lacombe Memorial Centre, at 5214 50th Ave., for the service.

After the service they go back to the Legion for lunch for both children and adults, followed by an afternoon of visiting and a potluck supper.

Olds’ Remembrance Day service takes place at the Olds Senior High School Auditorium, at 4500 50th St., with the hope that people will be seated by 10 a.m., the same time the parade assembles. Immediately following the service, there will be a brief ceremony at the Community Cenotaph. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

B.C. RCMP confirmed that Switzer has taken a polygraph test in regard to Hoar’s disappearance.

But police have not released the results of the test.

RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen said on Monday that more than 100 people have taken polygraph tests during the Project E-Pana investigation, an investigation into the series of unsolved murders with connections to Hwy 16.

“The Nicole Hoar investigation remains active and ongoing and all possible investigative techniques are being used in order to solve this case,” said Thiessen.

“It is a complex invesRoyal Canadian Legion Br. #35 tigation and we are not in a position to discuss the specifics around Nicole’s case. However, OCTOBER 15TH TO NOVEMBER 6TH no one has been charged If you wish to purchase a wreath for your business or organization, in connection with her please drop by the Poppy Campaign Office anytime now thru Nov. 9 death. The search for The Royal Canadian Legion answers is also continuing in the other E-Pana REMEMBRANCE Donations will also 2810 Bremner Avenue SERVICES cases. We continue to be accepted at the Mon. & Tues. 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m DAY Red Deer arena encourage the public to Campaign Office Wed. Fri. 10:00 a.m.

4:00 p.m Nov. 11th, 10:30 a.m. come forward with any information they may Last Year’s Donations From the Poppy Drive Benefited: have.”

Switzer became a • Meals On Wheels • RD Hospice Society person of interest in the • Flood Victims • Cadet Corps disappearance of Hoar in 2009. Switzer’s prop• Veterans & Families • Bursaries erty near Prince George, • St. John’s Ambulance where Hoar had been staying, was previously searched but Switzer was never charged.

Hoar was working as a tree planter when she 2810 Bremner Ave. Phone 403-342-0035 disappeared on June 21, 2002, along Hwy. 16. At the time, she was hitchhiking to Smithers to meet her sister.

At least 18 women have either disappeared or been killed near Hwy 16 in northern B.C. since 1969.

water samples are available.

It also advises that residents may see a noticeable colour change on the river as the sediment moves downstream.

WEATHER: Colder nights Temperatures for today are expected to reach a high of -4C with a low of -17C and a high of -1C on Wednesday with a low of -13C. To report unsafe roadways, call City of Red Deer Public Works at 403-342-8238. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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After the ceremony, the Red Deer Legion, at 2810 Bremner Ave., opens at noon and everybody is welcome.

A small group of Korean War veterans and some dignitaries will head to the Cenotaph downtown to stand guard and pay their respects after the Arena ceremony.

In Sylvan Lake the ceremony takes place at the Multiplex, 4823 48th St., at 10:30 a.m. Sharon Graham said this year they will have two liter-

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Family misadventure meets humour in Walmart so not to leak too many pee dribbles on their freshly waxed floor or dashing my son to play dates at the neighbours — to whom he tells horrifyingly embarrassing accounts of me — there is always a tale to tell.

This is Me Plus Three — stories, antics and a whole lot of mishap just waiting to be told from a stay at home mom’s perspective. These are the untold chronicles of a typical family of four, a place where misadventure meets humour.

Because somebody needs to say it. ★ ★ ★ There are those occasions in life that always call for celebration.

The birth of a babe, the coming together of a union, the clink of wine glasses making merry over a promotion worked hard for. And the joyous completion of potty training your last diapered child also fits in quite nicely to this category.

Not that I have had the festive pleasure of raising a glass to this accomplishment yet.

I in no way shape or form enjoy the task of training a small human to do their business on the toilet rather than in their pants, mainly because in my experience those first few days are spent cleaning up fecal matter and urine that have been lazily disposed of on the floor instead of the pot in which it was meant.

I have found poop massaged lovingly into the carpet, smeared across the freshly painted wall, as well as brown-streaked knickers hid contritely behind the toilet. I have literally seen it all, when it comes to the potty training department.

An envious disbelief overcomes me when I hear the other moms at playgroup telling of how their child was potty trained at one-year-old, and within the time frame of three consecutive days. No regression, no surrender.

Reasons and lessons “In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.”

– Charlie Brown of the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

The lesson here was to appreciate every moment with the people you love.

Viktor Frankl — Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survi“It’s so unfair,” she cried. “It’s just vor — dedicated an entire volume to so unfair.” the topic, aptly titled Man’s I wanted to say that life Search for Meaning. isn’t always fair, but it didn’t To me, Frankl’s personal seem appropriate.

Holocaust account is filled “I want to know why,” with life lessons – page afshe said. “I want someone to ter page of astounding inplease tell me why.” sights.

Her son had been diagWrote Frankl, “Everynosed with cancer and the thing can be taken from a prognosis was poor. man or a woman but one At the time of diagnosis, thing: the last of human the cancer was already at freedoms to choose one’s stage three — one step away attitude in any given set of from being terminal. circumstances, to choose As to the why, I told her one’s own way.”

I didn’t know why. Genetics, A potent life lesson MURRAY diet, attitude —all of the drawn by Frankl while enabove or none of the above. during the most horrific of FUHRER Over the years, I have lost circumstances imaginable: friends and family to cana Jewish prisoner in the cer (and other tragic events) most feared death camp, and spent many nights lying Auschwitz. Frankl relinawake frantically searching for rea- quished his need to understand the sons — for the whys. reasons (the whys) and instead looked If I relinquished my grip on logical for the lessons the experience could and rational thought, I could come up provide. In captivity, his treatment was with any number of reasons, each more beyond his control, so there was no use fanciful or outlandish than the one be- dwelling upon the reasons for it. fore it. None of the whys provided any Certainly a historian or social scilasting solace. entist might want to study the reasons Some people claim everything hap- so as to prevent another Holocaust, pens for a reason. but for Frankl the reasons why were Though part of me likes that whimsi- irrelevant. cal notion, another part of me believes “Between stimulus and response” things sometimes happen because they wrote Frankl, “there is a space. In that happen. Certainly, there’s a time to space is our power to choose our research for reasons. sponse.

There is value in asking “why” In our response lies our growth and about things that are within our con- our freedom.” trol. Why did something fail? Why did There’s a question I like to ask when a plane fall out of the sky? it comes to my own search for meaning: Why do I seem stuck in a recurring what can I take from this experience pattern of behaviour? Uncovering the that will help me to become a more “whys” can lead us to create strategies grounded, empowered and heart-centhat help prevent further unwanted tred person? recurrences.

It’s a simple yet powerful shift in But what of those events that seem- perspective that has brought me both ingly defy reason: random, unpredict- insight and clarity. able and out of our control — the ones I am metaphorically sifting through that keep us up at night? my experiences looking for the posiSometimes we need to relinquish tive aspects. our need to know the reasons (the I am looking specifically for knowlwhys) and instead look for the lessons edge blocks for self-esteem building. experience can provide.

I am convinced that it’s this searching After the sudden death of two close for life lessons (meaning) that makes friends a few years ago, I decided to us able to transcend our conditions. stop looking for reasons and begin We may not always be able to dislooking for the life lessons. cern the reasons why things happen to While knowing the medical reasons us and others. for the passing of two friends might Sometimes the reasons are obvious provide me some degree of insight into and others time impossible to decipher cause and effect, discerning the les- and perhaps that’s as it should be. sons that come from losing someone Even though we may never settle on close would certainly provide me with a reason, we can generally find a life greater self-awareness and a deeper lessons contained within. appreciation of the unpredictable nature of life.

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Talk to him about the sanctity of Jim: We’re sorry to learn human life. Help him think of this difficult situation. about the tremendous and Your son and his girlfriend awesome responsibility of have clearly made a serious bringing a child into the mistake, but mistakes of this world. kind can be important stepEncourage him to discuss ping-stones to maturity and these issues openly with his adulthood. girlfriend and her parents.

Our counseling team sugUrge him to explore ways gests that your whole famin which he can take an acily can play a role in guidtive role in the pregnancy, ing the expectant mother the birth and the crucial through this frightening new decisions that lie ahead. experience.

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Question: Should I accept a “friend” She won’t be able to do this without request on Facebook from an old boythe assistance of caring, life-affirming friend? adults.

I’m very much in love with and comYour son also needs your under- mitted to my husband, so I feel sure standing. that this will not pose a threat to our At his age, he’s trying hard to be- marriage. come his own person.

Dr. Greg Smalley, Vice President, Unfortunately, his bid for indepen- Family Ministries: The first thing you dence has put him in an awkward posi- should do is sit down and discuss this tion. with your husband. Tell him about the Unlike the girl, who has to deal with “friend” request, and ask him how he the realities of pregnancy, a teenage feels about it. dad can find it easy to dissociate himself from the situation.

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“LIARS!” Is what I want to scream at these women who sit before me drinking their low-fat Latte Macchiato wearing their oh so smug faces. But instead I nod my head in agreement and pretend that I too am a potty training guru who never had pee pee problems or a poopy predicament.

The misanthropist in me is all the while screaming to be let out.

“Ah yes, that wasn’t quite my method. But similar indeed,” I will spew out, hating myself a little more with each delusional word spoken.

That is until the moment that my five-year-old son runs up to me in a mad dash, screaming at the top of his lungs, “Mama, Mama, Sophie pooped her pants!”

I scan the room to find my three-year-old girl perched atop a small plastic slide. Children surrounding her, while she laughs her mocking baby chortle in my general direction.

All I can conjure up in my mind is: Do not slide down!

My face is quickly turning a bright crimson as my previous words of wisdom in the potty training discussion have all too soon been smeared pitifully over the pink leggings of my three-year-old daughter.

And then the kid goes for it. “NO!” I can hear the word come out of my mouth but it is too late, following the child down the slide is a long loose trail of brown.

It was as I cleaned up the last paper towel load of waste that I came to a profound conclusion.

There simply is no point in trying to keep up with the Joneses, whether it is in regards to toilet training or anything child-rearing related. Kids will be who they are and cross those milestones at their own pace.

Because one thing is for sure when it comes to a kid: they will always make a liar out of you at the most inopportune moments.

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Welcome to the world of Lindsay Brown, a Sylvan Lake mom and blogger who will now be a weekly contributor to Tuesday’s Family pages.

I am horrified with my current surroundings. Clutter encompasses almost every square inch of the space that was once my living room.

Now it is a jungle gym for my three-year-old daughter and an open canvas for blanket forts and train tracks for my son Lars.

The memories of boogerfree couch cushions and unstained carpets flit lovingly through my head. I often go to that wonderful place, just to take a load off if only for a few minutes. To bear in mind LINDSAY what once was.

BROWN All too soon reality smacks me with a vengeance when ME PLUS THREE my darling daughter grabs a large glass vase that is currently housing my newest of houseplants and tips it gingerly over, smashing it to smithereens. Dirt, glass, and greenery now accompany my oh so blemished carpet.

I will admit that the children have changed me.

Years ago, a bit of broken glass and dirt on the floor wouldn’t concern me. Nowadays, I am horrified over the death of my houseplant and the fact that I have to pull out our prehistoric and weighty vacuum to clean up this disaster. Let’s just say that stress has become the norm and anxiety is standard.

As a mama of two, I am constantly on the go.

Whether I am running errands for my husband, scampering my three-year-old to the nearest toilet

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Belgium considers unprecedented law to grant euthanasia for children, dementia patients

BY MARIA CHENG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Should children have the right to ask for their own deaths?

In Belgium, where euthanasia is now legal for people over the age of 18, the government is considering extending it to children — something that no other country has done. The same bill would offer the right to die to adults with early dementia.

Advocates argue that euthanasia for children, with the consent of their parents, is necessary to give families an option in a desperately painful situation.

But opponents have questioned whether children can reasonably decide to end their own lives.

Belgium is already a euthanasia pioneer; it legalized the practice for adults in 2002.

In the last decade, the number of reported cases per year has risen from 235 deaths in 2003 to 1,432 in 2012, the last year for which statistics are available.

Doctors typically give patients a powerful sedative before injecting another drug to stop their heart.

Only a few countries have legalized euthanasia or anything approaching it.

In the Netherlands, euthanasia is legal under specific circumstances and for children over the age of 12 with parental consent. (There is an understanding that infants, too, can be euthanized, and that doctors will not be prosecuted if they act appropriately.)

Elsewhere in Europe, euthanasia is only legal in Luxembourg. Assisted suicide, where doctors help patients to die but do not actively kill them, is allowed in Switzerland.

In the U.S., the state of Oregon grants assisted suicide requests for residents aged 18 or over with a terminal illness.

Assisted suicide also is allowed in the states of Washington, Vermont and Montana.

In Belgium, the ruling Socialist party has proposed the bill expanding the right of euthanasia.

The Christian Democratic Flemish party vowed to oppose the legislation and to challenge it in the European Court of Human Rights, if it passes.

A final decision must be approved by Parliament and could take months.

In the meantime, the Senate has

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Thousands of protesters demonstrate outside Dutch government buildings at The Hague, Netherlands, as the Upper House of Parliament voted to legalize euthanasia in 2001. In neighbouring Belgium, where euthanasia is now legal for people over the age of 18, the government is considering extending it to children — something that no other country has done. heard testimony on both sides of the issue.

“It is strange that minors are considered legally incompetent in key areas, such as getting married, but might (be able) to decide to die,” Catholic Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard testified.

Leonard said alternatives like palliative sedation make euthanasia unnecessary — and relieves doctors of the burden of having to kill patients.

In palliative sedation, patients are sedated and life-sustaining support is withdrawn so they starve to death; the process can take days.

But the debate has extended to medical ethicists and professionals far from Belgium.

Charles Fostr, who teaches medical law and ethics at Oxford University, believes children couldn’t possibly have the capacity to make an informed decision about euthanasia since even adults struggle with the concept.

“It often happens that when people get into the circumstances they had so feared earlier, they manage to cling on all the more,” he said.

“Children, like everyone else, may

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LESSONS: No mistakes or failures As for the lady in question, her son lost his battle with cancer.

Though understandably devastated, she eventually turned away from asking why and began to look for the lessons and she began to find them.

In time, she became an advocate for cancer research and a counsellor/mentor to individuals and families moving through similar experiences.

“There are no mistakes or failures,” wrote Denis Waitley, founding member of the National Council for Self-Esteem.

“There are only (life) lessons.”

The reality is that no matter how smart we may be there will always be certain things we are just never going to figure out. Sometimes we must admit that we just don’t know and that’s OK. By recognizing and ultimately accepting the unpredictable and indecipherable nature of life, we can shift our analysis and critical thinking into another direction.

We can start looking today for the lessons. This opens the mind up to the possibilities for a better today and tomorrow.

not be able to anticipate how much they will value their lives if they were not killed.”

There are others, though, who argue that because Belgium has already approved euthanasia for adults, it is unjust to deny it to children.

“The principle of euthanasia for children sounds shocking at first, but it’s motivated by compassion and protection,” said John Harris, a professor of bioethics at the University of Manchester.

“It’s unfair to provide euthanasia differentially to some citizens and not to others (children) if the need is equal.”

And Dr. Gerlant van Berlaer, a pediatric oncologist at the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussels hospital, says the changes would legalize what is already happening informally.

He said cases of euthanasia in children are rare and estimates about 10 to 100 cases in Belgium every year might qualify.

“Children have different ways of asking for things, but they face the same questions as adults when they’re terminally sick,” van Berlaer said.

remote they may seem.

Since your former boyfriend has initiated this contact, you should consider his motives.

If you suspect that his intentions are not entirely appropriate or honorable, ignore the request and move on. Plus, you don’t know what’s going on in his life, and this might cause him to stumble.

If you’re still confused, apply this basic litmus test: Would it be helpful or harmful to your marriage to re-establish a connection with this person?

“Sometimes it’s a sister who tells us her brother doesn’t want to go back to the hospital and is asking for a solution,” he said.

“Today if these families find themselves (in that situation), we’re not able to help them, except in dark and questionable ways.”

The change in the law regarding people with dementia is also controversial.

People now can make a written declaration they wish to be euthanized if their health deteriorates, but the request is only valid for five years and they must be in an irreversible coma.

The new proposal would abolish the time limit and the requirement the patient be in a coma, making it possible for someone who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s to be put to death years later in the future.

In the Netherlands, guidelines allow doctors to euthanize dementia patients on this basis if they believe the person is experiencing “unbearable suffering,” but few are done in practice.

Dr. Patrick Cras, a neurologist at the University of Antwerp, said people with dementia often change their minds about wanting to die.

“They may turn into different people and may not have the same feelings about wanting to die as when they were fully competent,” he said.

“I don’t see myself killing another person if he or she isn’t really aware of exactly what’s happening simply on the basis of a previous written request (to have euthanasia). I haven’t fully made up my mind but I think this is going too far.”

Penney Lewis, a professor and medical law expert at King’s College London, agreed that carrying out euthanasia requests on people with dementia once they start to worsen could be legally questionable.

“But if you don’t let people make decisions that will be respected in the future, including euthanasia, what you do is encourage people to take their own life while they have the capacity or to seek euthanasia much earlier,” she said.

In the past year, several cases of Belgians who weren’t terminally ill but were euthanized — including a pair of 43-year-old deaf twins who were going blind and a patient in a botched sex change operation — have raised concerns the country is becoming too willing to euthanize its citizens.

If you’re feeling inclined to grant the request, you may need to pause and evaluate your own motives.

Are you certain that you don’t feel compelled to revisit the past because of present discontent? We’re not suggesting that this is the case, but it’s a question worth considering. In the final analysis, it’s a decision that you and your husband must make together.

Catch up with Jim Daly at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

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It’s important to be open and honest and lay everything out on the table. Keeping secrets only undermines trust. If your marriage is as strong and healthy as you say it is, then it’s worth protecting.

A recent survey of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers revealed that Facebook has been a major factor in U. S. divorces the last few years.

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Taking the long road to win RED DEER CURLING CLASSIC

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The road least traveled doesn’t always lead to success on the World Curling Tour.

In fact, the 2013 Red Deer Curling Classic champions both took the long route to their respective paydays, earning virtual last-minute quarter-final berths by qualifying out of the C event Sunday night.

“Maybe it should (always) happen like this,” chuckled second Franziska Kaufmann of the victorious Swiss rink skipped by Binia Feltscher, following a 7-1 win over Kristie Moore of Sexsmith in Monday’s women’s championship final at the Pidherney Centre.

The foursome arrived in Canada two weeks ago and competed in the WCT’s Manitoba Liquour and Lotteries Women’s Classic Oct. 25-28 at Winnipeg before heading to Red Deer. The team planned to fly home to Switzerland today.

“In Winnipeg we had good games as well, but actually here we had two losses at the beginning and from the third game on we had very good play each time,” said Kaufmann, referring to the quartet’s 6-0 record following their 0-2 start.

Two sheets over, Brock Virtue’s Regina foursome got by Jeff Richard of Kelowna 4-3 in the men’s final. Virtue and his supporting cast of third Braeden Moskowy, second Chris Schille of Red Deer and lead D.J. Kirby, dropped to the C event Saturday night and ran off six straight wins to pocket the first prize of $10,000.

“Coming back from the back of the C event this weekend, qualifying (for the quarter-finals) and then coming in today and running the table to win the tournament . . . this was an awesome victory for us,” said Virtue. “This is our first Tour victory and we’re really excited about the way we’re playing right now.”

The defending Saskatchewan men’s champions appeared ready to surrender the lead in the final when Richard was left with a tap-back for two in the fifth end.

However, the 2010 B.C. champion was narrow with his final shot and ticked a guard, leaving Virtue with a steal of one and a 4-2 cushion.

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Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Skip Brock Virtue watches as his teammates D.J. Kidby and Chris Schille sweep in a shot during the men’s final against Jeff Richard’s rink at the Red Deer Curling Classic at the Pidherney Centre in Red Deer on Monday.

Rebels shut Eskimos, at critical stage, part with head coach Kavis Reed out from Super Series

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

There’s not a single Red Deer Rebels player on the Team WHL roster for Sunway Super Series games against Team Russia Nov. 27 at the Centrium and 24 hours later at Lethbridge.

That could change, however, as the roster that was revealed Monday isn’t complete. For example, just one goaltender — Eric Comrie of the Tri-City Americans — is on the list.

Rebels forward Conner Bleackley is among the players who could be added to the roster — for at least one game — at a later date.

The Team WHL roster announced Monday: Goaltender — Eric Comrie, Tri-City Americans.

Defence — Madison

Bowey, Damon Severson, Kelowna Rockets; Dillon Heatherington, Swift Current Broncos; Josh Morrissey, Prince Albert Raiders; Derrick Pouliot, Portland Winterhawks; Ryan Pulock, Brandon Wheat Kings; Griffin Reinhart, Edmonton Oil Kings.

Forwards — Troy Bourke, Prince George Cougars; Colby Cave, Swift Current; Greg Chase, Calgary Hitmen; Jaedon Descheneau, Sam Reinhart, Kootenay Ice; Hunter Shinkaruk, Medicine Hat Tigers; Morgan Klimchuk, Chandler Stephenson, Regina Pats; Jujhar Khaira, Everett Silvertips; Curis Lazar, Mitch Moroz, Edmonton; Taylor Leier, Brendan Leipsic, Nichols Petan, Portland.

EDMONTON — Saying the Edmonton Eskimos are at a critical stage for their future, general manager Ed Hervey fired head coach Kavis Reed on Monday and said he will bring in a new man who is more like himself.

“It is my feeling the club is at a stage that is critical to our onfield expectations and this move was necessary,” Hervey told a news gathering hours after he informed Reed he was gone after three years as head coach. “I have confidence this decision will give our club its best opportunity to compete at a high level heading into the 2014 season.”

Hervey said his plan is to appoint a head coach who will bring a structured environment, a unified coaching staff and have the ability to develop players.

The first-year GM said he’s looking for a coach who could bring the best staff with him, but added he has not spoken to the current Eskimo assistants about their future.

“It’s going to be a very thorough and methodical process and I’m

going to choose the right coach,” he said of the search.

“Not the right fit, but the right coach. I’m going to get someone who is a little bit more like myself, a little more detailed and structured and not really looking to spend a lot of time with you guys, more time developing the football team.”

Reed took over the Eskimo coaching job in 2011, leading them to an 11-7 record, second in the CFL West and was a finalist for coach of the year.

In 2012 their record fell to 7-11 and this year they were 4-14, one of the worst records in franchise history.

Hervey, who didn’t speak to the media for much of the season, said he’s “not certain” there was much Reed could have done this year to save his job.

“The record aside, there were other factors in my decision and moving forward I believe when I appoint the next head coach he will have all the qualifications that I want for this team. I believe that this team in some ways unachieved at times. The record did not reflect the changes we made in the off-season.”

He was especially critical of the team’s season-long rash of penalties that cost them valuable yards, first downs and points. He said Reed, his staff and the players never resolved that issue “and that was a concern of mine.”

He did, say, however that he was impressed with Reed’s ability to motivate the players, especially in the latter stages of the season when their playoff hopes were gone and they were unable to halt losing streaks.

“Even when we were eliminated from the playoffs and many suggested there was nothing to play for, he was the only man downstairs who was capable of keeping those men together and playing as hard as they did. Even in the games they lost you could see the efforts they played with a I marvel at his ability to motive those men not only all season but during those times.”

Hervey said Reed did a good job of holding players accountable and that despite the dismal record he “saw growth to this roster and I’m excited about 2014 and what it brings.”

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Bowden cowboys earn some big awards heading into CFR The Canadian Finals Rodeo is marking its 40th anniversary this week. For most of those years, CFR week has begun for some contestants with the Alberta Champions awards presentation in Red Deer.

The top earning competitors in each event from the more than thirty rodeos held across the province are given their trophies.

The roster this year included Ky Marshall of Bowden, who picked up the beautiful bronze as the AllAround champion for Alberta. He’s competes in both the tie-down roping and the bareback riding.

“It’s been a very exciting year,” said the 21-year-old, who turned pro in 2012.

DIANNE “I was fortunate enough to make FINSTAD the CFR in the bareback. It was my goal to be there this year, even in one event. So I accomplished that goal.

Just all year, I had lots of fun and met more people, and it was a great year.”

Marshall was the 2011 Canadian novice bareback champion, so he’s been to Edmonton before.

“It’s kind of nice that I’ve been there. I know the routine and what to do, but it’s a whole different feeling. It feels like it’s my first time going because now I’m playing with the big boys, and riding in the open.

It’s going to be a different game, that’s for sure.”

Because Marshall competes at both ends of the arena, and earned his required number of cheques in both events, he’s also in the hunt for the Canadian All-Around championship.

He and Travis Reay are the only two in the race at Edmonton.

“We’re pretty neck and neck. We’re within a hun-

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dred dollars of each other, so it’s going to be a close race, but it’s going to be exciting.”

“I’ve been getting on some practice horses and working out a little bit, so I’m feeling good, so hopefully it all works out in my favor.”

The bull riding Alberta bronze went to Marshall’s Bowden-based neighbor Tanner Girletz, who also topped the Canadian bull riding season standings.

“It’s nice. The Daines family comes together and puts this one on for us every year. We win a super nice bronze. This is the second time I’ve won it. It’s a pretty nice accomplishment to know that this year in Alberta you’re the best. It gives you pretty good hype the Monday before going into Edmonton, where you can become the best in Canada.”

Girletz knows the competition will be tough when the chute gates crack open Wednesday night, but he’s banking on his leading position being a bit of an advantage.

“Every other year, I’ve always had to play catchup. I’ve never been in the position where I’ve gone in leading it, like I am right now. I don’t know how it’s going to affect me. I hope I can go and keep my lead increasing.”

Girletz was sporting long, curly locks under his cowboy hat Monday night, but early this morning, he’s getting them shaved off live on Global TV to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“They’re taking pledges all the way to the end of the CFR, and I think we’ve got about $4500 raised right now. They asked me what my goal was and I said ten thousand.”

Also at the presentations, Cole Neely was presented with a buckle, bronze and a cheque for $5000 as the winner of the Duane Daines Saddle bronc series.

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-44363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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The rookie from Duchess will be at his first CFR in the open bronc riding.

Other Alberta champions included Cort Scheer, who made it all the way up from his home in Nebraska to claim the bronze in the saddle bronc riding. He also finished as the overall season leader.

Kyle Bowers of Brooks, a three-time Canadian bareback champion, also managed to finish the 2013 season as both the Alberta champion and the season leader.

The Alberta steer wrestling bronze went to one of the sport’s most successful bulldoggers, Lee Graves of Calgary.

It was Morgan Grant of Ontario grabbing the provincial honors in tie-down roping, while Lisa Lockhart took the Alberta title for barrel racing.

Team ropers Levi Simpson and John Robertson started out the season nearly untouchable, and while they were surpassed at season’s end by Clint Buhler and Brett McCarroll, they did finish number one among Alberta shows.

Kale McKenzie of Rocky Mountain House heads to his first CFR as a novice saddle bronc rider, with the Alberta honors already in hand, while Kody Lamb of Sherwood Park notched the Alberta award in novice bareback riding.

The steer riding Alberta award went to Dawson Hay of Wildwood.

The Canadian Finals Rodeo begins with the first of six performances Wednesday night at 7:00 pm at Rexall Place in Edmonton. This year’s purse is sitting at $1.47 million, compared to the $29,000 offered at the first event at the Edmonton Gardens in 1974.

Sylvan Lake’s Brett Gardiner, who was voted CPRA announcer of the year for the second year in a row, will make his first appearance as a CFR announcer this week.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey Pt 23 21 18 18 16 16

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL Medicine Hat 16 11 3 2 0 Calgary 17 10 4 1 2 Edmonton 17 9 7 0 1 Kootenay 17 8 7 2 0 Red Deer 17 7 9 0 1 Lethbridge 18 2 13 1 2

Pt 24 23 19 18 15 7

GF 63 62 62 51 46 43

GA 44 58 49 56 53 91

Volek Gaudet Pawlenchuk Musil Sutter Johnson Doetzel Fafard Chorney Stockl Mpofu Polei Nell Dixon Burman Charif Bear Bartosak

17 16 7 14 10 17 17 14 10 15 17 10 12 15 3 5 14 15

5 3 4 2 3 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

3 5 3 4 2 3 4 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

8 8 7 6 5 5 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

7 20 0 17 12 20 29 40 6 7 4 7 0 39 0 0 17 2

GA 43 8

SO GAA 0 2.90 0 3.58

0 -9 5 -3 -3 2 6 -8 -2 -5 -3 -3 -2 -3 — 0 0 —

Dallas 4, Ottawa 3, SO Calgary 3, Chicago 2, OT Minnesota 4, New Jersey 0

GA 39 47 73 73 62

Pt 24 21 18 16 12

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 18 14 3 0 1 90 58 29 Everett 16 11 3 2 0 57 42 24 Spokane 18 12 6 0 0 69 47 24 Seattle 18 11 5 0 2 66 63 24 Tri-City 20 10 8 0 2 58 52 22 Note: Any win is worth two points; a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Sunday’s results Regina 3 Moose Jaw 1 Brandon 6 Lethbridge 2 Edmonton 4 Calgary 2 Tri-City 4 Kootenay 2 Monday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Tuesday’s games Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Kamloops,8 p.m.

Edmonton at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Swift Current at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Tri-City at Portland, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Red Deer at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Edmonton at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Red Deer Rebels Scoring G 8 5 5 3 3

A 12 9 7 7 6

Pts 20 14 12 10 9

PIM 13 7 15 4 6

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Today ● AJHL: Camrose at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

(The Drive).

Monday’s Games Anaheim 2, N.Y. Rangers 1 Winnipeg 4, Detroit 2 Tuesday’s Games Dallas at Boston, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Columbus, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Carolina, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday ● JV basketball: Semifinals starting at 6 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

(The Drive).

Monday’s summaries

Goaltenders WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 15 11 2 0 2 64 Victoria 19 10 8 0 1 46 Prince George 20 7 9 1 3 55 Vancouver 19 7 10 1 1 57 Kamloops 17 5 10 1 1 47

GP 17 17 16 16 17

MP 889 134

Sv% .921 .867

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 14 10 4 0 20 Toronto 15 10 5 0 20 Detroit 16 9 5 2 20 Boston 13 8 5 0 16 Montreal 15 8 7 0 16 Ottawa 14 4 6 4 12 Florida 14 3 8 3 9 Buffalo 16 2 13 1 5

GF 47 48 40 36 41 42 28 26

GA 35 36 41 25 31 47 49 49

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 15 11 4 0 22 N.Y. Islanders14 6 5 3 15 Washington 14 7 7 0 14 N.Y. Rangers14 6 8 0 12 Carolina 14 4 7 3 11 Columbus 13 5 8 0 10 New Jersey 14 3 7 4 10 Philadelphia 13 4 9 0 8

GF 48 45 44 26 27 33 26 21

GA 33 44 40 40 44 36 42 37

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Colorado 13 12 1 0 24 Chicago 15 9 2 4 22 Minnesota 15 8 4 3 19 St. Louis 12 8 2 2 18 Nashville 14 7 5 2 16 Dallas 14 6 6 2 14 Winnipeg 16 6 8 2 14

GF 42 52 38 44 31 37 39

GA 19 42 34 29 40 42 47

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 16 12 3 1 25 52 40 San Jose 14 10 1 3 23 53 27 Phoenix 15 10 3 2 22 51 46 Vancouver 16 10 5 1 21 46 41 Los Angeles 15 9 6 0 18 43 40 Calgary 14 6 6 2 14 42 49 Edmonton 15 3 10 2 8 36 59 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Jets 4, Red Wings 2 First Period 1. Winnipeg, Little 8 (Setoguchi, Ladd) 19:00 Penalties — Tootoo Det, Thorburn Wpg (fighting) 0:16, DeKeyser Det (holding) 3:26, Datsyuk Det (hooking) 9:14, Setoguchi Wpg (hooking) 14:05.

Second Period 2. Detroit, Zetterberg 8 (Datsyuk, Quincey) 7:09 3. Detroit, DeKeyser 1 (Kronwall, Weiss) 10:05 (sh) 4. Winnipeg, Frolik 3 (Scheifele) 17:04 Penalties — Kindl Det (hooking) 1:45, Detroit bench (too many men; served by Bertuzzi) 8:48.

Third Period 5. Winnipeg, Halischuk 1 (Frolik, Scheifele) 4:27 6. Winnipeg, Ladd 4 (Setoguchi, Little) 10:57 Penalties — Kronwall Det (slashing) 8:10, Ladd Wpg (tripping) 8:37, Lashoff Det (hooking) 13:28, Clitsome Wpg (hooking) 17:16.

Shots on goal Detroit 9 10 9 — 28 Winnipeg 14 17 16 — 47 Goal — Detroit: Howard (L,5-5-2); Winnipeg: Montoya (W,2-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Detroit: 0-3; Winnipeg: 0-6.

Ducks 2, Rangers 1 First Period 1. Anaheim, Perry 9 (Penner, Sbisa) 2:29 2. Anaheim, Palmieri 4 (Beauchemin) 9:09 Penalty — Etem Ana (tripping) 14:14.

Second Period 3. N.Y. Rangers, Del Zotto 1 (Hagelin, Callahan) 18:36 Penalties — None.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Allen Ana (hooking) 14:43, Getzlaf Ana (slashing) 16:34, Pouliot NYR (high-sticking) 18:09, N.Y. Rangers bench (too many men; served

by Brassard) 19:10.

Shots on goal Anaheim 6 6 13 — 25 N.Y. Rangers 10 15 8 — 33 Goal — Anaheim: Andersen (W,4-0-0); N.Y. Rangers: Lundqvist (L,4-6-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Anaheim: 0-2; N.Y. Rangers: 0-3.

Sunday’s Games

Football y-Toronto x-Hamilton x-Montreal Winnipeg

GP 18 18 18 18

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Local Sports

Western Hockey League Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Prince Albert 18 11 6 1 0 64 56 Swift Current 19 10 8 0 1 67 61 Brandon 18 9 9 0 0 61 68 Regina 18 9 9 0 0 49 59 Saskatoon 19 7 10 0 2 69 79 Moose Jaw 20 6 10 2 2 48 64

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CFL East Division W L T 11 7 0 10 8 0 8 10 0 3 15 0

PF 507 453 459 361

PA 458 468 471 585

Pt 22 20 16 6

West Division GP W L T PF PA Pt y-Calgary 18 14 4 0 549 413 28 x-Sask.

18 11 7 0 519 398 22 x-B.C. 18 11 7 0 504 461 22 Edmonton 18 4 14 0 421 519 8 x — Clinched playoff berth. y — Clinched division .

WEEK 19 Saturday’s results Edmonton 30 Saskatchewan 26 Hamilton 37 Winnipeg 7 Friday’s results B.C. 26 Calgary 7 Montreal 23 Toronto 20 End of 2013 CFL Regular Season CFL Playoffs Sunday, Nov. 10 Division Semifinals East Montreal vs. Hamilton (at Guelph, Ont.), 11 a.m.

West B.C. at Saskatchewan, 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 17 Division Finals East Hamilton-Montreal winner at Toronto, 11 a.m.

West Saskatchewan-B.C. winner at Calgary, 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 24 101st Grey Cup At Regina East champion vs. West champion, 4:30 p.m.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 7 2 0 .778 234 N.Y. Jets 5 4 0 .556 169 Miami 4 4 0 .500 174 Buffalo 3 6 0 .333 189 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 6 2 0 .750 214 Tennessee 4 4 0 .500 173 Houston 2 6 0 .250 146 Jacksonville 0 8 0 .000 86 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 6 3 0 .667 217 Cleveland 4 5 0 .444 172 Baltimore 3 5 0 .375 168 Pittsburgh 2 6 0 .250 156 West W L T Pct PF Kansas City 9 0 0 1.000 215 Denver 7 1 0 .875 343 San Diego 4 4 0 .500 192 Oakland 3 5 0 .375 146 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 5 4 0 .556 Philadelphia 4 5 0 .444 Washington 3 5 0 .375 N.Y. Giants 2 6 0 .250 South W L T Pct New Orleans 6 2 0 .750 Carolina 5 3 0 .625 Atlanta 2 6 0 .250 Tampa Bay 0 8 0 .000 North W L T Pct Green Bay 5 3 0 .625 Detroit 5 3 0 .625 Chicago 5 3 0 .625

Minnesota PA 175 231 187 236 PA 155 167 221 264 PA 166 197 172 208 PA 111 218 174 199

PF 257 225 203 141

PA 209 231 253 223

PF 216 204 176 124

PA 146 106 218 190

PF 232 217 240

PA 185 197 226

Seattle San Francisco Arizona St. Louis

1 W 8 6 4 3

7 0 West L T 1 0 2 0 4 0 6 0

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186

252

Pct .889 .750 .500 .333

PF 232 218 160 186

PA 149 145 174 226

Sunday’s Games Dallas 27, Minnesota 23 Tennessee 28, St. Louis 21 Carolina 34, Atlanta 10 N.Y. Jets 26, New Orleans 20 Kansas City 23, Buffalo 13 Washington 30, San Diego 24, OT Philadelphia 49, Oakland 20 Seattle 27, Tampa Bay 24, OT Cleveland 24, Baltimore 18 New England 55, Pittsburgh 31 Indianapolis 27, Houston 24 Open: Arizona, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, N.Y. Giants, San Francisco Monday’s Game Chicago 27, Green Bay 20 Thursday, Nov. 7 Washington at Minnesota, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 10 Detroit at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Seattle at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

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

Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

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

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

Houston at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Cleveland, Kansas City, N.Y. Jets, New England Monday, Nov. 11 Miami at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.

Thursday ● College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Orangemen vs.

Wells Furniture, Monstars vs. Bulldog Scrap Metal, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday ● College basketball: Lakeland at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

(The Drive). ● College men’s hockey: Briercrest at RDC, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blazers at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30

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● Peewee AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer TBS, 10:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre; Badlands at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Northstars at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Spruce Grove at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kin City B. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Stettler, 2 p.m.; Airdrie at Blackfalds, 3 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Lacombe, 2 p.m.; Foothills at Red Deer Elks, 5:30 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Maple Leafs at Red Deer, 3:15 p.m., Arena.

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Bowling Heritage Lanes Weekly Results Monday-Club 55 plus High single: Lorne Fowler 254. High triple: Fowler 651.

Monday Mixed High single: Matt Mundorf 265. High triple: Mike Sabbe 628.

Tuesday Mixed High single: Danielle MacDonald 306. High triple: MacDonald 715.

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High single: Robert Doll 268. High triple: Doll 687.

Wednesday Mixed High single: Mitzi Anderson 350. High triple: Anderson 826.

Thursday Morning Ladies High single: Darla Farnden 264. High triple: Farnden 604.

Thursday Mixed High single: Bruce Hicks 280. High triple: Hicks 671.

Monday Scratch League High single: Derek Ware 300. High quad: Nancy Gervais 1,014.

Brad Heidt of Kerrobert, Sask.

Richard earned $7,000 as the runner-up.

The losing semifinalists each picked up $4,500 and the unsuccessful quarterfinal rinks, including Tom Appelman of Edmonton — a 5-4 loser to Perepolkin — and Josh Heidt of Kerrobert, who fell 5-3 to Schlender, each won $3,000.

The Virtue foursome will compete in two more WCT events prior to the Saskatchewan men’s playdowns.

“We hope to build off of this and stay on a roll,” said the skip, whose team posted a 5-6 record in the 2013 Brier.

“If we can just keep getting better and better and peak at the right time, we’ll be on the right track. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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CLASSIC: Steal “That could have been a turning point, another was the first steal of one to go up by one (3-2) in the fourth,” said Virtue.

“But yeah, when I gave him the opportunity to get two and we stole again . . . that was a turning point. Given the conditions we had out there today, I thought we handled it very well and played good enough to win.

“There was a lot of things going on with the ice, things that were uncontrollable. But it was happening to both teams. We were kind of on the lucky side of that today.”

There was nothing lucky about the manner in which Feltscher and teammates third Irene Schori, Kaufmann and lead Christine Urech clinched the women’s title and the accompanying $7,000 cheque.

The eventual champs blew open a 1-1 game with three in the fifth end, then stole a single point in the sixth and swiped two more in the seventh, setting up the congratulatory handshakes.

“That’s perfect. We’re very happy about this win and we can use the money for maybe coming again,” said Kaufmann.

The Swiss women are hoping that their brief visit to Canada and exposure to top-notch competition will boost their chances of excelling in their home country’s playdowns and beyond.

“In Canada you have lots of teams, lots of good teams,” said Kaufmann.

“In Switzerland, for example, there are only seven (competitive) teams.

That’s a big difference.”

Feltscher was a 5-2 winner over Trish Paulsen of Saskatoon in a Monday morning quarter-final, then followed with a 5-2 semifinal conquest of Casey Scheidegger of Lethbridge.

Moore, who earned $5,000, beat Alina Paetz of Switzerland 6-3 in the semifinals after posting a 8-7 quarter-final win over Jill Thurston of Winnipeg.

The Paetz and Scheidegger teams each pocketed $3,500, while the quarter-final losers — including Allison

a.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings at Red Deer Ramada, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Southwest at Sylvan Lake, 8 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: Briercrest at RDC, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major bantam hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Black, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AAA hockey: Leduc at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Badlands at Sylvan Lake, 6 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 7 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

(The Drive). ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; High River at Ponoka, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Lacombe, 8:15 p.m.

ESKIMOS: This is a microwave society

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Skip Binia Feitscher-Beeli takes a shot against the Kristie Moore rink during the women’s final of the Red Deer Curling Classic at the Pidherney Centre in Red Deer on Monday.

MacInnes of Kamloops and Korea’s Eunjung Kim — each earned $2,500. MacInnes lost 7-6 to Paetz Monday morning, while Kim fell 6-5 to Scheidegger.

Virtue downed Oskar Eriksson of

Sweden 6-4 in a quarter-final, then rolled over Rob Schlender of Airdrie 9-4 in semifinal play. Richard defeated Trevor Perepolkin of Vernon 9-7 following a 7-6 quarter-final win over

A day earlier, in his post-season talk with the media, Reed said he gave the Eskimos everything he could and the won-loss record “doesn’t reflect the character in the locker-room and the growth in that room moving forward.

“This is a microwave society,” he added. “People feel the more changes you make the closer you get to something. Actually, the more changes you make the farther away you get.”

Reed came to Edmonton as a defensive back in 1995 and played five seasons with the Eskimos. He spent 10 years as an assistant coach with five different CFL teams before being named Edmonton’s head coach in 2011.

“This community has been tremendous to me for 20 years and I’ve enjoyed every waking moment I’ve spent in this community,” he said.

Several players who attended Hervey’s news conference said the team feels bad for Reed’s firing, something they as players contributed to.

But, said quarterback Mike Reilly, a 4-14 record will result in changes.

“It’s a tough part of the business.

Kavis is a good coach, a great man and I really enjoyed playing for him . . . he helped me a lot. His desire and his abilities will land him somewhere and he will get another opportunity.”

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Bears take advantage of Rodgers injury to upset rival Packers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bears 27 Packers 20 GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Chicago Bears have a better insurance policy than Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers.

Josh McCown, playing in place of the injured Jay Cutler, threw for two touchdowns Monday night as the Bears won 27-20 and ended a six-game skid to their NFC North rivals. The loss snapped Green Bay’s fourgame winning streak, but the far larger concern is the health of Rodgers, who hurt his left (non-throwing) shoulder when he was sacked on the first series by Shea McClellin.

Rodgers took a few warmup throws with backup Seneca Wallace but, after being examined by medical staff, ran into the Green Bay locker room. He wasn’t seen again until midway through the third quarter, when he came back onto the field in sweats. Though he waved to fans with his right hand, and didn’t appear to be wearing a brace, he kept his left hand jammed in his pocket.

“He has a shoulder injury,” Packers coach Mike McCarthy said.

“They want to run more tests. They don’t have an exact diagnosis. We’ll have more information, probably tomorrow.”

Pressed for more information, McCarthy insisted there wasn’t any.

“No timeline, no exact diagnosis,” he said.

“That’s where we’re at.”

Alshon Jeffery had five catches for 60 yards, including a 6-yard grab for the go-ahead touchdown at the end of the third quarter. Brandon Mar-

NFL shall, largely shut down in two games against Green Bay last year, had seven catches for 107 yards and a score. Matt Forte ran for 125 yards and a score, and also had 54 yards receiving.

The win pulls the Bears into a three-way tie for first in the NFC North with Green Bay and Detroit, all at 5-3. The loss spoiled another big night by Green Bay rookie Eddie Lacy, who ran for 150 yards and a touchdown.

Green Bay has been hit hard by injuries, with James Jones (knee) returning Monday night after a two-game absence and sackmaster Clay Matthews (thumb) and tight end Jermichael Finley still out. Wide receiver Randall Cobb (leg) is also on the injured list-designated to return, and offensive lineman T.J. Lang (concussion) and linebacker Andy Mulumba (ankle) left the game.

But there are injuries and then there are INJURIES, and a hurt Aaron Rodgers is Green Bay’s ultimate nightmare.

With the 2011 NFL MVP almost as durable as predecessor Brett Favre — he hasn’t missed a game due to injury since Dec. 19, 2010 — the backup quarterback has been little more than an afterthought in Green Bay.

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Legends fall in semifinals of 60-Plus World Championship PHOENIX — The Red Deer Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends dropped a 9-4 decision to the eventual champion California Tribe in a weekend semifinal of the 60-Plus World Baseball Championship.

The Legends, who downed the San Antonio Yankees 7-3 in a quarter-final while getting a strong pitching performance from Don Bonham, finished third in the 17-team tournament. The Legends also placed third in the 65-Plus World Championship the previous week.

De Wit’s goals lead to tie with Edmonton Knights Jeff de Wit scored twice Sunday to help the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs earn a 4-4 Alberta Midget Hockey League tie with the host Edmonton Knights of Columbus.

Brad Makofka and Jordie Lawson also tallied for the Chiefs, who outshot their hosts 45-18. Cole Sears made 14 saves for Red Deer.

On Saturday, Lawson potted the lone Chiefs goal in a 4-1 loss to the host Fort Saskatchewan Rangers. The Chiefs got a 31-save outing from Jayden Sittler while outshooting the home team 36-35.

The Optimist Chiefs return to action with a pair of games at the Arena this weekend, taking on

Innisfail shuts out Stoney Plain in battle of Eagles STONY PLAIN — Dan Shermerhorn and Aaron Boyer each scored twice and Jonathan Larose stopped 21 shots as the Innisfail Eagles shut out the Stony Plain Eagles 4-0 in Chinook Hockey League action Friday.

Shermerhorn also picked up two assists as Innisfail led 2-0 after one period, then scored once in each of the next two frames.

Stone Plain netminder Dallas Ungurarian made 27 saves.

Kusiek leads Carstar over Dream Team Cameron Kusiek had 21 points and Darryl Hemstreet 19 as Carstar downed the Dream Team 80-60 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Sunday.

In other action, Sheraton Red Deer downed The Secret Runs 7251 and the Orangemen stopped Monstars 84-63.

Troy Normand had 27 points and Jeff Diep 14 for the Sheraton while Daniel Kim had 13 points and Mitchel Keenan 11 for The Secret Runs.

Ray Teskey led the Orangemen with 24 points while Lars Plaetner added 18. Aaron Melin had 12 points and Adam Glover 11 for Monstars.

In another contest, Andre Touchette drained 19 points and Andrew Smith scored 11 as Triple A Batteries downed Triple Threat 77-57. Brandon Wetmore netted 17 points in a losing cause.

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JUNIOR B HOCKEY Connor Einhorn’s second goal of the evening — an empty-net marker with 63 seconds remaining— proved to be the winner as the Red Deer Vipers slipped past the Mountainview Colts 5-4 in a Heritage Junior B Hockey League game Saturday at the Arena.

Also scoring for the Vipers were Kale Lapointe, Kolton Gillett and Cole deGraaf. Red Deer goaltender Anthony Hamill made 23 saves, while his teammates directed 37 shots at Mountainview netminder Connor Slipp.

The visitors, whose fourth goal came in the final minute, were assessed six of 10 minor penalties.

The victory capped a perfect weekend for the Vipers, who got goals from Einhorn and Gillett and a 21-save effort from Klay Munro in a 2-0 won over the host Three Hills Thrashers Friday.

Thrashers netminder Brady Hoover faced 41 shots as his teammates took six of 10 minor penalties.

In other weekend Heritage League contests: ● The visiting Stettler Lightning, with Scott Ternes scoring twice and Landon Potter, Jake Schwarzenberger and Kyler O’Connor also connecting, downed the Medicine Hat Cubs 5-2 Saturday.

Stettler’s Simon Thieleman mades 24 saves as each team had 26 shots on goal. ● Three Hills rolled over the visiting Ponoka Stampeders 9-3 Saturday as Russell Olsen and Spencer Fournier each tallied twice.

Rounding out the Thrashers attack with a goal apiece were Lucas Jones, Cameron Braun, Lucas Diebert, Tom Vanderlinde and Jesse Scheunert. Brad Zimmerman, Tye Munro and Teagan Colonna replied for the Stamps.

Brody Dirk made 24 saves for the winners.

Ponoka goaltenders Brody Thomas and Aaron Swier combined to block 46 shots. ● Tyler Loomer and Garrett Glasman scored in a losing cause as the Blackfalds Wranglers dropped a 4-2 decision to Mountainview Friday at Didsbury.

Winning netminder Thomas Della Siega stopped 30 shots. Conner Zenchuk made 30 saves for the Wranglers.

“Aaron’s a huge part of our offence,” McCarthy said.

“This is a thing that’s been built over time with Aaron as the centerpiece. I don’t think it’s realistic to put anyone in there and expect him to perform (like Rodgers).”

But as the Bears know all too well, insurance policies are worth every penny when you need them.

After a series of forgettable backups under Lovie Smith — Caleb Hanie or Jonathan Quinn, anyone? — the Bears signed McCown when Cutler was hurt two years ago. He played well enough then to stick around, and his familiarity with his receivers and coach Marc Trestman’s system was evident. McCown may not have been dazzling, going 22 for 41 for 272 yards. But he mixed his passes effectively to Marshall, Jeffery and Forte, and Forte ran roughshod on the Green Bay defence — scoring one touchdown.

Better yet, McCown didn’t do anything to hurt the Bears, which is more than Wallace can say.

Wallace hadn’t played a game since the 2011 season finale, and the rust was evident.

He was intercepted on his very first series by Julius Peppers and was sacked twice, once by Peppers and once by McClellin.

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GORMAN Louis Peter 1921-2013 It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather, Louis Peter Gorman who died peacefully surrounded by members of his family on October 30, 2013 at the age of 92. He leaves behind a lifetime of memories, laughter and an enduring love for all of us to remember him by. Louis was the son of Archibald Gorman and Mary nee O’Brien. They were two Prince Edward Islanders who met in Alberta and homesteaded north of Athabasca. Louis is survived by his wife of 62 years, Noreen, their children J e a n e t t e ( P e t e r ) Ly n c h , Dennis (Claire) Gorman, Elizabeth LaRose, Peter Gorman, Patricia (Mike) Flanagan, Irene (Gordon) Taylor, sister-in-laws Carol Gorman and Isabel Gorman, fourteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

He is predeceased by his parents, sister Evelyn and brothers Alfred, Fr. Bernard, Tom, Gerald and John. Louis received his high school education in Athabasca, after which he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as an aircraft mechanic during the Second W o r l d W a r. H e s t u d i e d Pharmacy at the University of Alberta. In 1948 he joined the 4001 Medical staff of Kingsway RCAF Edmonton as a Pharmacist and was granted a Pilot Officer in the Unit which was disbanded in 1952. Louis worked for Sprague and Hoopper’s Drug in Edmonton before coming to work for Mr. Ranks at Ponoka Pharmacy in 1954, then buying the Pharmacy in 1956. Louis was chairman of the Ponoka Hospital Board for five years, during which time negotiations were made with the Department of Health for the building of the present Hospital. Louis was chairman of the Board of St. Augustine School when it was established in 1962 and remained chairman for nine years. Louis sold Ponoka Pharmacy in 1982 but did relief work in Pharmacies in central Alberta until 1991 when he retired. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Augustine Church in Ponoka, Alberta, on Friday, November 8 , 2 0 1 3 a t 11 : 3 0 a . m .

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MCCORMICK Donald Robert On October 22, 2013, Don died peacefully with his family by his side. He was born in Lacombe on September 27, 1919, to James S. and Mary V. McCormick. He attended secondary school at Upper Canada College in Toronto on scholarship and received his Bachelors of Arts and Law Degrees at the University of Alberta. Immediately after graduating, he joined the Air Force in WW2, stationed in England. It was here he met and married his Scottish soul mate Christine. They lived and raised their family in Lacombe where Don partnered with his father in their law practice. In 1977 he became a Provincial Court Judge and moved to Red Deer. He was involved in community service through Rotary, Kinsmen, Legion, and School Board. His major interests were duplicate bridge, flying club and travel. He is survived by his three children: Peter (Lorraine) McCormick, Jaqui (Al) Randall, and Shealagh (Brian) McClelland and his sister Mary Hetherington. He has seven grandchildren: Scott (Rebekah) McCormick, Lisa McCormick, Rob (Laura) Randall, Scott (Becky) Randall, Christopher McClelland, Heather (James) McLeod, Shannon (Jonathan) Donahue and six great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his beloved wife Christine in 2001 and his brother-in-law Don Hetherington in 1998. A service to celebrate his life will be held on Friday, November 8, 2013, at 1:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church in Lacombe. Memorial donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913 - 50th Ave., Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4.

WALKER D o r o t h y I r e n e Wa l k e r o f Innisfail, formerly of the Craig district passed away peacefully Oct 31, 2013 at the age of 84. Dorothy will be remembered lovingly by her children Rena and Brian Waite of Dovercourt, Deb and Norm Allen of Innisfail, Jaye and Greg Hillman of Evarts and Ken and Linda Walker of Valleyview.

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KNUTSON Clifford Norman Knutson of B e n t l e y, A l b e r t a p a s s e d away November 1, 2013 at the age of 77 years. Cliff was born on December 20, 1935 to Harold and Sina Knutson.

Cliff is survived by his wife Cora; daughter Paulette ( R a n d y ) o f B e n t l e y, h i s sons; Blake (Christine) of Newcastle, Australia, Blaine (Sheri) of Drayton Valley; and Ellery of Edson. One special great grandchild Talalynn of Bentley. Cliff is also survived by 15 grandchildren and 7 great g r a n d c h i l d r e n . C l i ff w a s predeceased by daughter, Pauline. At the request of the deceased, there will be no funeral service. A private family gathering will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes can be made to Bentley Museum Society or The Canadian Cancer Society. A s p e c i a l t h a n k y o u t o D r.

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Guilbault Family Thank You On November 5, 2012, we learned of the unthinkable death of our dear brother Timothy Guilbault just hours before our mother Hilde Guilbault, surrounded by her shocked and grieving children and grandchildren, also passed away.

While our grief has been heavy and even overwhelming at times, we have many people to thank for your sympathy and support since that day. Friends, work colleagues, and neighbours of any and all members of the extended Guilbault family, we thank you. People who were strangers to us but who knew either Tim or Hilde, we thank you as well. Thank you for taking the time to listen, to share tears, to offer comfort, and to celebrate the lives of two beautiful people. We are grateful.

Emily Westwood, Jim Guilbault, Darlene Bouclin, Edmund Guilbault, Janice Carlyle, Lorraine Herlein, Bernadett Maxwell.

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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

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LOOKING for responsible and Reliable person w/ valid driver’s license and oilfield tickets to work for the winter, running a steam truck. Drivers abstract is needed. Send resume to: plumkraz@telus.net.

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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LOOKING for Class 1 and Class 3 driver/operators of Superheater and Swampers. First Aid and H2S an asset. Competitive wages, medical/dental plans. Lots of out of town work, camps or hotels provided. Send resume to rpower@ interceptenergy.ca or bklassen@ interceptenergy.ca

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

Oilfield

800

Q TEST INSPECTION LTD.

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.

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS and DERRICK HANDS Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

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

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F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, Comp. wages & benefits.

This is a fast-paced selling soap & bath Long term employment environment and ideal products $14.55/hr. + Please email resume to candidate would be able bonus & comm. Beauty amie@rebelvac.ca to work with minimal cert. req’d. Location Or fax to: 403-314-2249 supervision, have the Parkland Mall - 4747 67th ability to take initiative and St. Red Deer. email You can sell your guitar consistently demonstrate Our Frac Flowback Division in Blackfalds, for a song... premierjobrdbto@ exceptional customer service. or put it in CLASSIFIEDS gmail.com Alberta is seeking dynamic and motivated FUTURE AG INC. and we’ll sell it for you! individuals for the following positions: SOAP Stories is seeking 5 “People You Can Count On”, is offering the opportunity retail sales reps. Selling Operators s o a p & b a t h p r o d u c t s . to grow in your career with Restaurant/ a thriving company. $12.10 hr + bonus & com• Previous experience is an asset, but not Hotel mission. Ft No exp. req`d.

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CAREER OPPORTUNITY Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and employ over 175 people.

Recently awarded the 2013 Business of the Year, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and have recently expanded our facilities into Calgary, Alberta.

We employ over 175 people and provide ample opportunities to employees to achieve their career goals. We provide hands-on training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.

With your long-term interests in mind, we provide you with ample opportunities to achieve your career goals. We’ll provide you with hands-on training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.

We currently have career opportunities for a professional;

CAD DESIGNER / DRAFTSPERSON Essential Job Functions • design/draft tanks, vessels and piping packages • create detailed fabrication drawings using inventor software • interpret customer and engineering markups and make changes to drawings • create drawing files for parts to be cut by the plasma table • administrate autodesk vault, inventor content center libraries and autocad plant 3d specs The incumbent must possess the following; • diploma in Engineering Design and Drafting Technology or equivalent • certified Engineering Technologist (CET) • minimum 3 year’s experience designing/drafting piping packages, pressure vessels, tanks and skids • proficient with using AutoCAD, plant 3d, and inventor • experience with creating BOM’s and utilizing an ERP software (M2M preferred) • experience using a nesting software (ProNest preferred)

We are currently seeking a professional;

Essential Job Functions Perform visual inspection on all assemblies at various checkpoints in the production process Ensure conformity of production with drawings Viewing and interpret x-ray film & NDE reports Ensure proper welding procedures are adhered to Track Weld ID’s for compliance with Sec 8 Witness weld tests and record results Witness hydro tests of Spooling/Bridles/Vessels Required ABSA Reports. Ex.( U1,U1A,AB-24,AB-81,AB-83)

The incumbent must possess the following; • Minimum 3 year’s experience inspecting piping packages, pressure vessels, tanks and skids • The ability to read and understand codes and customer specifications, with this understanding be able to properly apply it to the tasks at hand.

• Perform in a high paced working environment

We offer competitive wage and benefits packages Only applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted.

Please forward your resume via fax to (403) 227-7796 or e-mail to hr@bilton.ca

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HVAC Service Person required. SHEET Metal Installer required with residential and retro-fit experience.

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Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic needed to manage and maintain a fleet of 20 trucks; $45/hour.

Fax resume to 403-786-9915 or email tksindustries@hotmail.ca

Mechanic Position Oil Boss Rentals, is a registered Commercial Vehicle Inspection Station.

We currently have a mechanics position open.

This individual must be a 3rd year apprentice minimum, self-motivated, hard-working, and enthusiastic with solid work ethic. An ideal candidate would have some fabrication experience, enjoy building equipment from scratch, be easy to get along with and be able to think outside the box when necessary.

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The position will break down as follows: 60% repairs and maintenance on rental equipment 15% on heavy trucks and trailers 10% on light duty trucks 10% on fabrication 5% paperwork and program management

This individual will also act as the shop foreman and insure that the shop is kept clean and organized.

This position will be home 95% of the time.

On average 2-3 nights a month out of town.

Regular Schedule, 5/2 or 10/4 Competitive Wages, Benefits, Dedicated Service Truck.

Applicant must have a clean Driver’s Abstract To apply please email your resume to: Gerry@oilbossrentals.com or fax to 1-866-914-7507 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.

Truckers/ Drivers

860

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.

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ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WINTER START GED PREPARATION Jan. 14 or Feb. 10 STARTS Central AB based trucking company requires

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

Owner Operators & Company Drivers

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in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558

DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 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

Performance Energy Services Inc. is seeking exp’d

N2 & Cement Operators, bulk driver’s with a valid Class 1 or 3.

We are offering comparative wages and health plan. We as a company pride ourselves on an excellent health and safety plan and record. Please contact us with a resume and driver’s abstract @403-309-0846 or erebhahn@ performanceenergy.ca or drop off at 5, 7957 Edgar Industrial Way, Red Deer.

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 Start your career!

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

WESTPARK AREA

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk (Reliable vehicle needed) DEER PARK AREA Dempsey St. & Drummond. Ave. Area 70 Papers $375/mo.

EASTVIEW AREA Ellenwood Dr. & Erickson Dr. Area 60 papers $321/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres Area 67 papers $360/mo.

ALSO Rowell Cl. Reichley St. & Robinson Cres. area.

115 Papers $616./mo Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

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

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in ARE you looking for a seasonal full time delivery driver position? We are looking for a safe exp’d and professional Class 1 or Class 5 driver. Common sense, a positive attitude and a clean drivers abstract will be a definate asset.

Typically this position is Mon. - Fri. but can include some weekends. Rate of pay depends on exp.

Please contact Shayne at Central Alberta Green House Ltd. 403-885-4606 Ext. 330 or fax resume to 403-885-4147 email. acct2cag@telus.net

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UPS is now hiring for

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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

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FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

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ANDERS AREA Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery (By 6:30 a.m.) in:

Allan St. / Armstrong Close

Highland Green

Allsop Ave / Allsop Close

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with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town.

Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015

Trades

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Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

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

precast concrete erecting laborer position

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of INNISFAIL Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316 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

Employment Training

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Firewood

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

LOOKING FOR WRAP GIRLS. Must be passionate about helping others, self motivated & hard working.

No exp. required.

Call or text Jaclyn at 403-396-8504 or email: keepfitgirl@hotmail.ca YAMAHA P5R-500 Electronic piano w/chair.

Exc. cond. $95 CANON K920 Copier machine w/metal stand.

Exc. cond. $100.

403-352-8811

Musical Instruments

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Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split GUITAR Amplifier, Rocker 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 RX-100, 7 Watt, Asking FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, $50. obo. 403-227-2976 Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

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Household Appliances

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

OVER the range microwave oven $100; GE electronic stove self cleanP / T C A S H I E R , w e e k ing oven w/convection $7nights 4 pm -8 pm. Apply 403-318-3676 with resume to Highland Green Value Drug Mart.

SERVICE DRIVER wanted for Little Jons Portable Toilet Services Drivers abstract required greg@littlejons.ca or fax resume to 403-342-6179 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

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CEDAR Clad solid core wood door, 24” wide with frame. Asking $100.

403-227-2976

Children's Items

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KIDS WOODEN PLAYHOUYSE FURNITURE - Free. 403-342-5609

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6’ NEXT TO NEW OFFICE DESK. Light caramel colour. $100. 403-347-7405 COUCH, CHAIR & FOOT STOOL. All Matching. Yellow & Gold print. Good cond.

No stains or tears. $50.

403-342-6943 after 7 p.m. or 403-347-2374 during the day.

ROUND PINE 40” TABLE & 4 CHAIRS, exc. cond. $195 403-352-8811

4 KITTENS TO GIVE AWAY. Mother can go too.

403-782-3031 FREE TO LOVING HOME. 4 golden orange 11 week old kittens, litter trained and one 8 week old M. tabby, litter trained, 403-782-3130 phone back in order IN DESPERATE NEED OF A RESCUE. Must find h o m e f o r 8 - 1 0 y r. o l d black/white spayed F, kind of grumpy, crippled with stiff back leg and on occassion can’t find litter box ASAP. Must find home or be put down 403-783-5493 KITTENS (2) SIAMESE (1) BALINESE & (1) BURMAN $50/ea. 403-887-3649

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WANTED

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Stereos TV's, VCRs

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Building Supplies

Household Furnishings

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Eagle Builders in Blackfalds, AB is looking for hard working, motivated individual to fill full-time

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PS2 with 10 games; $50. firm; Pioneer speakers 150 Watts each. $50 obo. older XBox with 15 games $75. obo.

403-782-3847 STEREO, mini Phillips 5 disc. $55. obo; X Box 360 games (10) $10. each.

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BODY Solid equip. Pd. $1800. Asking $750 obo., Great cond. 403-597-3958 Cash Only SPACEMATE Gold treadmill $100 403-309-3117

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25 BOOKS (250 pages) full of illustrations only of masterpieces of natural crafts & cloths. $200 for all.

403-347-7405 INDOOR/OUTDOOR ELECTRIC HEALTH GRILL. $45. 403-347-8726 JUICE Extractor, MEHU 403-346-4307

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

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Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 9 a.m. - Noon Alberta Works Centre 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4920 - 51 Street, Red Deer

Lawford Ave / Leonard Cres.

CLASSIFICATIONS

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

VANIER AREA Voisin Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Clark’s

PLUMBING & HEATING CORP.

Service Plumbers & HVAC Technicians NEEDED!!!

Fax Resume to 780-623-7451 or Email: sales@cpandh.ca

1000-1430

Sutton Close

850

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.

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Bring your resumé For more info, call 403-340-5353

Clark’s has immediate openings for qualified, experienced Residential, Commercial and Industrial Plumbers and HVAC Technicians for both our Bonnyville and Lac La Biche Locations.

Various Shifts available (furnished living accommodations provided for out of town employees) The successful candidates will: • hold a current Journeyman’s ticket and H2S • be experienced in Service work • must pass a Pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening • Provide a current Driver Licence and Drivers Abstract • be a motivated self-starter • take pride in doing great work and willing to work long hours if needed • be energetic, positive, and keen to work with a rapidly expanding company • be 100% dedicated to customer service and satisfaction Clark’s offers top wages,10% holiday/vacation pay, overtime after 8 hrs, training, Health and Dental packages, Cell phones, Company Truck. We are a COR Certified and ISNetworld Compliant, safety-conscious company that provides a safe and enjoyable workplace.

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

Somerset Close

Oil & Gas Job Fair

Government

Call Today (403) 347-6676

SUNNYBROOK AREA

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WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER

In the towns of:

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

IMMED. POSISTION for F/T owner/operator Courier. for local delivery company.

Small pick-up or mini van would be the ideal vehicle.

Reply w/resume by fax: 403-342-7636 or email denw70@hotmail.com

WANTED: wild meat and beef for greyhound diets.

Freezer burnt ok,749-3242

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

Lord Close

Logan Close

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

1650

Farmers' Market

For afternoon delivery once per week

1760

Misc. for Sale

Ingram Close / Inglewood Dr.

For local work.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Inglis Cres.

880

1. Alberta Flares 2. Almita Piling 3. Baker Hughes 4. CARE Industries 5. CASA Energy Services 6. Eagle Well Service 7. Enesco Energy Services 8. EVRAZ 9. G4S Secure Solutions 10. Gordon Russell Ltd 11. Ledcor Industries Inc. 12. Manpower (Oilfield Division) 13. Pacer Corporation 14. Predator Drilling 15. Redcore Enterprises Ltd 16. Savanna Well Servicing 17. Studon Electric & Controls 18. Tarpon Energy Services

EquipmentHeavy

BOWER AREA

at our company. Must be physically fit as this labourer position requires constant heavy lifting and involves fast paced, on the job training. Applicant must be able to travel and must have reliable transportation to and from work as well as a valid class 5 driver’s license. All meals and hotel expenses are paid when out of town.

Successful applicant must provide an up to date drivers abstract. Construction experience an asset. Full benefits provided. Starting wages based on experience. Fax resumes to 403 885 5516 , must flag attn: Craig or e-mail to c.haan@eaglebuilders.ca.

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Clothing

MATURE CARETAKERS MEN’S WINTER BIB f o r 3 2 r o o m m o t e l i n OVERALLS. Size Large. $40.

Boots, size 12. $40.

Forestburg, AB. Couple preferred. Handyman work, Large jacket, $50. exp. in motels and computer 403-342-5609 knowledge 1-604-725-4448 email: jmann47@gmail.com

INGLEWOOD AREA

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

Carpenters Carpenters Helpers

Employers:

880

Misc.

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Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Requires Full Time

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

880

Misc.

Help

Academic Express

Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for new team members to join an enthusiastic and growing company.

Concrete finisher

880

Misc.

Help

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Trades

DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS & EQUIPMENT INSTALLERS Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

1010

Accounting

Handyman Services

1200

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

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

1100

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

Contractors

1280

Massage Therapy

TCM & Lensen Therapy Cover all insurance 8 am-9 pm 4606-48 Ave 403-986-1691

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) Misc.

1130

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Escorts

1165

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Services

1290

International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

PRO-PAINTING & REPAIRS 403-304-0379 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

CHEAPER! Call 403-346-7777 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Yard Care

FANTASY MASSAGE

1310

1372

Massage Therapy

Eavestroughing

Painters/ Decorators

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Seniors’ Pampering at its Services BEST! 403-986-6686 HELPING HANDS Home Come in and see why we are the talk Support Ltd. for SENIORS. Companionship, cleaning, of the town. cooking - in home, in facility. www.viimassage.biz We are BETTER for

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

(FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

1280

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving

1430

RESIDENTIAL SNOW CLEARING. Affordable monthly contracts.

Central AB. 403-318-4346

403-352-4034

UNWANTED Yard & House Items - Will haul to land fill. Call 403-896-2108

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 B11

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

3 BDRM, 4 appls. partial utils. 1.5 bath. Avail. Nov. 15.

403-304-8472 or 346-8581

ORIOLE PARK

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. Dec 1 403-304-5337

Suites

3060

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

2 BDRM. APT. downtown. $800/month. No pets, N/S Ph: 403-346-0824.

3020

3810 47 ST. In Eastview Spacious 2 bdrm., bsmt. suite. Adult only. No pets. $895/mo. Avail. Nov. 15th.

Phone 403-343-0070

Houses/ Duplexes

3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 40 tenants.

No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1600, D.D. $1600. 403-341-4627

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

3 BDRM, 1 1/2 bath townhouse in well kept condominium complex at #9, 15 Stanton St. 5 appls & fenced yard.

Tenants must be over 40 w/references & quiet living.

Avail. Nov. 1st for $1300/mo. $1300 D.D. 403-341-4627

Spacious 1 & 2 bedroom suites perfect for all walks of life. Cat friendly. Plaza Apartments: 1(888)7849279 rentmidwest.com

LEGACY ESTATES Best Adult Retirement Community 60+. 1 Bdrm. luxury condo unit. $800 + utils.

Call Joe 403-848-0266

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

THE NORDIC

Roommates Wanted

3080

$650/mo incl. utils. have 2 small dogs. n/s 403-986-6195 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Rooms For Rent

3090

4020

Houses For Sale

Trucks

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ROOM in quiet home. $450. Call 403-350-7799

wheels

ROOM in Westpark, n/s, no pets. Furnished. TV & utils incl. 403-304-6436

CLASSIFICATIONS

Warehouse Space

3140

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

Mobile Lot

3190

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. Available Dec. 15, CONTACT JIM @ 403-396-6247 Available Dec. 15, jim@reversion.ca

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

MASON MARTIN HOMES Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

Condos/ Townhouses

Houses For Sale

4020

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

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4090

Manufactured Homes

4140

HAIR SALON FOR SALE. Owners retiring. Large well established clientele.

403-358-2470

Fido Check-In

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519 2010 CHEV 1500 4x4 8 cyl. Kuhmo Tires. $17,900. 403-346-9816

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Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

BUSINESS IS BUILT ON INFORMATION Locally owned and family operated

SUV's

5040

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

Businesses For Sale

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

at www.garymoe.com

4040

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

2011 CHEV Silverado LTZ 6.2 L, lthr., $27,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2001 HYUNDAI Accent 2 dr. red, 403-348-2999 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040 1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville 4 dr., 403-352-6995

MUST SELL

NEW CONDO

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

5030

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

1443 SQ. FT. CONDO. Great location.

SOLD SOLD

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Cars

5110

2010 40 FOOT CEDAR CREEK 5TH WHEEL, THREE SLIDES,LOADED ASKING $39,000.00 OBO. PH 403-843-7295

5000-5300

FREE Weekly list of MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225 phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

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5050

Fifth Wheels

2007 TOYOTA FJ Cruiser, C Package, auto., loaded 75,000 kms. $18,900. Very nice, trades considered.

403-598-0682

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LUANN Nov. 5 1992 — Environment Department says March UV ozone levels 10 per cent lower than pre-1980 average; in Toronto and Edmonton; 4 per cent lower on average overall.

1956 — Canadian Major-General ELM Burns accepts position as commander of the first United Nations Emergency Force, as the Pearson peace plan is adopted by the UN General Assembly.

1939 — The National Research Council in Ottawa first broadcasts its official time signal at exactly 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

1923 — Alberta votes for government control of liquor. The decision comes after seven years of prohibition.

1917 — The federal cabinet bans the use of grain to manufacture liquor for the rest of the First World War. 1913 — Alberta Mormons hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the new temple at Cardston; excavation for the foundation begins on Nov. 16.

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