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City’s top Mountie retires SUPT. WARREN DOSKO LEAVING AFTER NEARLY 3 YEARS IN THE POSITION

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s top cop unexpectedly resigned from his post in a surprise announcement on Tuesday.

Supt. Warren Dosko worked his last day at the city’s RCMP detachment on Friday

after nearly three years in the position.

Mayor Tara Veer did not shed too much light on the sudden departure but indicated Dosko was eligible to retire under the RCMP plan.

“While his departure is unfortunate, it is completely understandable that he is eligible for retirement,” said Veer.

“We knew this day would eventually

come.”

Veer said Dosko was highly involved in establishing the local policing service levels and standards for response times.

She said this was a bit of a milestone for a municipality with RCMP as a contracted service.

Supt. Warren Dosko

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SALVATION ARMY TURKEY DINNER

Good food, good people RECORD NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS HELPS WITH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MEAL

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF A crowd of people gathered just before noon at Red Deer’s Salvation Army Church, the line curling out the door, waiting for the traditional turkey dinner.

“I come every year,” Jerry Langevin said. “Good food, good people.”

Rounds of “Merry Christmas” were passed around while others patted each other on the backs and some handed out candy canes.

The annual Christmas meal hosted by the Sally Ann for more years than Major Larry Bridger can remember had a record amount of volunteers show up on Wednesday morning.

“We have at least 30 volunteers, closer to 40 actually, I think,” he said, noting the various people in red and green aprons helping in the kitchen and also dishing out plentiful scoops of mashed potatoes, ham, vegetables and dressing from the assembly line buffet.

Many of the volunteers begin stating their interest in September, he added.

Crews had begun preparing the eight turkeys (all over 20 pounds each) on Monday. More volunteers showed up on Christmas Eve to begin the time-consuming and tedious process of peeling hundreds of carrots and potatoes.

Living Stones Church had also donated various trays of festive cookies for dessert.

Volunteer Daniel Pullen was at the front of the line handing out paper plates to everyone.

“It’s my first time volunteering for the Christmas dinner,” he said. “It’s just a good, good thing. It helps them and it helps me when I’m helping others.”

Photo by RENEE FRANCOEUR/Advocate staff

Jerry Langevin enjoys the free Christmas dinner at the Salvation Army in Red Deer on Wednesday. Langevin comes every year to visit with friends over hot turkey and gravy.

The spirit of the season and giving back were Almost 100 people had dined by 12:30 p.m. with also the reasons Barb Deschenes and Mardelle King more expected to trickle in until around 1:30, Bridgof Markerville made the er said. drive into the city to box They could serve as up fixings of turkey and many as 300, he added, a ham to be delivered to bit bigger than last year those who can’t make it when they prepared in to the church. enough food for 250.

Almost 40 boxed dinBridger expected at ners went out to shut-ins least 220 would come and recipients of Meals through the doors. on Wheels services from As dinners dabbed — VOLUNTEER DANIEL PULLEN the Salvation Army, their lips with napkins courtesy of Associated and prepared to depart, Cabs. two families stood by the doors next to a table ladThat was up from last year’s number of 25 or so en with all kinds of warm winter goodies: toques, meals delivered via cab. scarves, mittens and hand warmers.

The taxi company also offered to drive anyone who needed a ride to and from the church for free.

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‘IT’S JUST A GOOD, GOOD THING. IT HELPS THEM AND IT HELPS ME WHEN I’M HELPING OTHERS.’

Emergency crews spend Christmas with second family

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Not everyone can be at home nestled by the fire with a cup of steaming eggnog, surrounded by friends and family on Christmas Day. For the members of Shift D with Red Deer Emergency Services, working Dec. 25 is a chance to spend the holiday with their second family.

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“Christmas is special. We have our families at home but we’re a family here, too, so we put on a big spread.

“The younger, new guys prepare lunch. But we all pitch in,” said Gary Engebretson, assistant platoon chief.

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He had brought in a handwritten note from his mother detailing how to prepare a turkey, much to the amusement of his fellow crew members.

Dressing, mashed potatoes and all the fancy fixings of a traditional holiday dinner including a counter full of sweets were also to be served around noon, depending on what calls came in.

“It’s been a quite morning,” Engebretson said.

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Red Deer Emergency Services Shift D stands ready to answer any urgent calls on Christmas Day at the downtown Fire Station 1.

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CREW: Generally quiet “And it’s generally quiet on Christmas —I’ve been here for 25 years and worked a number of those Christmases — but you just never know how it will go.”

Fellow emergency crew member Lt. Steve Opp has two young children, 7 and 10, making it more difficult to be away.

“We opened a few gifts together this morning and we’ll open some more tonight when I get home. The good thing about working Christmas is it really extends the whole process,” Opp said with a chuckle.

“It’s hard as a parent to head out the door for work when everyone is having a blast and it’s a family day, especially when the kids are younger and opening gifts. We do miss being with our families but we make the best of it, try to have some fun, crack a few laughs,” added Engebretson, whose three children range in ages 16 to 20.

Cpl. Egan Henderson with Red Deer RCMP was working 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Christmas Day this year so he celebrated the holiday on Christmas Eve with his wife.

He said they try to give members a bit more latitude to slip home in the morning to open presents with their children — with a radio close by of course.

About a dozen RCMP officers were on shift throughout Wednesday along with two municipal workers and one jail guard, said Henderson.

“It’s been a pretty busy morning, answering calls

and attending to complaints,” he said.

After many years working in rural detachments in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, this is one of the many Christmases Henderson has spent in uniform.

He doesn’t mind, though, he said, as he knew it would be occasionally required of him when he began his career with the police force.

“It’s all part of the job.” rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

MOUNTIE: City to have say The city will have a say in the appointment of the next superintendent who oversees the more than 130 officers in Red Deer.

Veer said the city renegotiated this clause into the existing contract.

Veer said this is a positive because the city had less say with the superintendent appointment in the previous contract.

Acting city manager Paul Goranson said Dosko will be greatly missed. Goranson said he resigned for personal reasons but did not elaborate. Goranson said he did not know Dosko’s future plans.

Dosko could not be reached for comment.

“He did a great job here,” said Goranson. “We’re going to miss him.”

Goranson said his strategic approach to policing issues has been an asset to Red Deer.

He said his good work included working on the policing aspect of the city’s safety charter and the development of the Policing Governance and Accountability Framework and the Red Deer Policing Plan – The Way Forward.

“We look forward to continuing this positive relationship with Red Deer RCMP and wish Warren all

the best in his retirement,” said Goranson.

Dosko has been with the RCMP for 27 years and came to Red Deer in 2011 after serving in St. Albert as detachment commander.

Insp. David Elliott has been named acting detachment commander as Dosko’s interim replacement.

He has worked in Red Deer for the last year as the RCMP’s Operations Officer for the Central Alberta District.

A nationwide search has begun for a permanent replacement for Dosko. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

VOLUNTEERS: Helping Sandy Walsh and Susan Gustafsson are sisters and both their families had discussed doing something for the community last Christmas.

This year they had signed up too late to help with serving the meal so the women, their husbands and their children decided to do their part by handing out little gifts.

“Our kids were the ones who actually suggested doing something like this,” Walsh said. “They told us they didn’t want gifts; that they wanted us all to do something together for those in need.”

The families put out emails to friends and colleagues to help collect donations for the winter gear.

“It’s great to see so many people come together.

Our boy Eric mailed a big box of mitts and toques form Vancouver,” Gustafsson said. “It’s just a great feeling.” rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

Psychiatric patient jailed for setting fires A psychiatric patient who set two fires at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 months in jail followed by two years probation.

Layton Wyatt, 18, was given credit for nine months in custody so he has three months left to serve.

Wyatt pleaded guilty in September to two counts of arson in connection with fires in Unit 26 on March 20, that required an evacuation of the hospital and caused $200,000 in damages, and another fire in Unit 34 on April 24.

He had been a psychiatric pa-

tient on high watch at the time of the fires.

Wyatt also pleaded guilty to theft for stealing a company truck from a market garden just outside of Lacombe on March 8, driving it to Red Deer and selling the tools inside, and then returning the unharmed vehicle to the same yard, with the keys in the ignition.

Wyatt underwent a psychiatric assessment while in custody at the Edmonton Remand Centre.

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He said while the fires were impulsive and an attempt to escape, the gravity of the arson could not be ignored.

“There was reckless endangerment of people in the hospital, and there were two fires,” Yake said.

Wyatt’s probation conditions included remaining under the care of psychiatrist, abstaining from drugs and alcohol, following a curfew established by his parole officer and his mother, and not using a computer unless supervised.

Wyatt must also provide a DNA sample to authorities.

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Number of H1N1 confirmed cases in Edmonton nearly double

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — One person has died from H1N1 influenza in Alberta, and the province’s senior medical officer of health says this year’s strain is causing a small number of people to get seriously ill.

Dr. Gerry Predy also says the number of confirmed influenza cases in the Edmonton area has jumped this week to 125, up from 65 last week.

Predy says those numbers, and the death, are not unusual, but what is is that there’s a small number of people who have been seriously ill with the flu.

He says there will be drop-in clinics open over the holidays and is encouraging people to get a vaccination.

Predy says this H1N1 strain has been around for about five years and hits people in their 30s, 40s and 50s harder than seniors, who usually get very ill with other strains.

The doctor says the number of confirmed cases will rise even more when children head back to school in January.

Police investigate Christmas Eve death of inmate EDMONTON — Homicide detectives in Edmonton are investigating a death at the city’s remand centre on Christmas Eve. Investigators say witnesses report that a fight occurred between two inmates in a cell on Tuesday night.

Police say paramedics were called, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

His identity hasn’t been released.

Earlier this year, prison guards across Alberta walked off the job illegally in a labour dispute that began over safety concerns at the new Edmonton Remand Centre.

The government forced them back to work with a court order, which included heavy fines for the union and the province also fired some of the employees.

There has not been a homicide at the facility since it opened in April, according to an Alberta Justice and Solicitor General spokesman.

Poor weather a factor in one of two fatal highway crashes Separate road accidents during the countdown to Christmas have taken the lives of two people in Alberta.

A woman was killed and a male passenger was sent to hospital when two pickup trucks collided Monday night in Edmonton.

The second accident happened in northwestern Alberta when a car, minivan and a pickup truck collided Monday afternoon near an intersection about 16 kilometres north of Valleyview.

RCMP say a 75-year-old Edmonton woman who was driving the car died at the scene, while a number of other people suffered a variety of injuries.

Police also say that the weather and road conditions were poor at the time, with a mix of rain, snow and freezing rain.

They don’t believe alcohol played a role in either crash.

What Christmas is all about FAMILY TAKES A BREAK, DECIDES TO HELP OTHERS

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF One family made new Christmas traditions this year.

Logan Hermus of Red Deer County said he was looking to strip the season of all its tinsel and lights and get back to the bare bones of what the holiday was supposed to be all about.

“I was getting so fed up with the materialistic idea of Christmas,” said the 17 year-old.

“We were getting run down and stressed out by it. We didn’t need any more gifts. We’re a pretty blessed family and have almost everything you could ask for. I thought it was time to help out someone else who could use a hand.”

Hermus, brother Brock, 14, mother Carol, and father, Terry Wengberg, took a hiatus from the bustling shopping malls and gift wrapping and instead showed up at the Red Deer Hospice Society on Christmas morning to prepare a turkey lunch for its residents and their families and friends.

The family had no previous connection to the hospice but a coworker of Hermus’s, Shelby Colling, recommended it as a place the family could do some good.

“She’d worked here before and told me it was a wonderful place that could use some extra help at this time of year,” Hermus said.

Marian Cloutier, the fund development and marketing co-ordinator at the Red Deer Hospice, was thrilled to have the newcomers cooking in the kitchen.

A hospice nurse’s family pitched in with the meal in 2012 and it was refreshing to have a group of strangers express interest this year.

“I think it’s amazing that a family with two young boys would choose the hospice as a Christmas service project,” Cloutier said.

Photo by RENEE FRANCOEUR/Advocate staff

Brock (left) and Logan Hermus wash some of the many dishes used to put on a feast fit for kings at the Red Deer Hospice on Christmas Day. The family along with another long-time volunteer and hospice cook Robyn Reid helped season the turkey, peel vegetables, mash potatoes, mix gravy and scoop out dressing.

Another volunteer came in during the afternoon to play Christmas carols on the piano for the residents.

Carol joked it was a Christmas miracle in itself to see her husband peeling so many carrots.

“He’s peeling carrots like I’ve never seen before,” she said with a laugh.

When Hermus proposed the idea of volunteering together rather than have a bunch of gifts bought for them, it “lifted a

weight” off of Carol’s shoulders, she said.

“I was touched when Logan came to us with the idea . . . Rather than drive around, try to find the best gift for everyone and all that jazz, we just got a few things for each other’s stockings and that was it. It’s much less stressful and we’re here together, really spending time talking and helping out.”

Carol hopes the new family tradition carries on, extending beyond the yuletide.

“People need help all year long, not just during the holidays so hopefully we can make it into something we do on a fairly regular basis,” she said. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

ing the holiday season,” Debbie Barron, co-ordinator at Lacombe Victim Services, said.

“We’d also like to thank the community for their ongoing support.”

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Toy run raises $17,000

Charity CheckStop raises cash The Lacombe and District Mothers Against Drunk Driving chapter raised $2,000 in their annual Christmas Charity Checkstop on Dec. 19.

Volunteers from MADD, Lacombe Victim Services and Lacombe RCMP braved the cold from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. to gather cash donations in front of the Lacombe Police Station.

All proceeds go towards the Lacombe chapter of MADD, a volunteer driven charity with a mission to stop impaired driving and support victims of the crime.

“We would like to thank the Lacombe Police Services Chief Steve Murray, Cst. Jason Pettem, Sgt. Michelle Kristian, Cst. Nicole Martin, CPO Derek Lewko and of course Santa for helping us raise money and for helping us to spread the message about the dangers of drinking and driving, especially dur-

The Central Alberta Toy Run raised $17,000 this year for various local Christmas Bureaus across the region.

The annual motorcycle event was held on the last weekend in August at the Tee Pee Village campground, just north of Blackfalds.

The event featured live music, a motorcycle rodeo, a parade through Red Deer to the campground and a motorcycle show and shine.

Just over $5,000 plus a large selection of toys was donated to the Red Deer Christmas Bureau. Blackfalds Neighbourhood Place was delivered $6,000 and $5,000 was donated to the Lacombe and District Family and Community Support Services. The annual Stuff A Bus fundraiser in Red Deer also received $1,000 from the group.

Next year’s Toy Run will take place the weekend of Aug. 22 at Tee Pee Village once again.

Freezing rain forces Edmonton police helicopter to land in mall parking lot

Calgary motorist fined for rooftop display of Santa and Rudolph CALGARY — A man who celebrates Christmas in an eye-catching way is now facing a fine for his festive display.

Slawomir Czyz stops everyone in their tracks when he drives around Calgary with a life-size display of Santa and Rudolph mounted to the top of his van.

But late last week, Czyz was slapped with a $57 ticket.

He says the officer told him the display was distracting to other drivers.

Acting Sgt. Sio Chuong confirms the admonishment, saying that the lights on it could be confusing to other motorists.

He says there are also concerns about how stable the display is, noting it does “not look very aerodynamic” and could come loose.

While Czyz doesn’t agree with the rationale behind the ticket, he plans to pay it.

“If I am guilty and I deserve it, yeah, I will pay it,” he says.

“It’s a small price to pay for a little imagination.”

He says most people have reacted positively to the display.

“Everybody’s stressed running around, and suddenly they see and it’s like, wow!” Czyz says with a laugh.

“Those smartphones nowadays, everybody’s ready.

“Just click-click.”

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EDMONTON — Freezing rain forced an unscheduled landing for the Edmonton police helicopter.

Department officials say the chopper and its crew left the Villeneuve airport just west of the city and headed for Edmonton about 1 a.m. Monday morning.

After two hours of helping officers with calls, the crew prepared to head back to the airport but ran into the freezing rain.

The pilot decided to land the aircraft in the parking lot of Callingwood Mall in Edmonton just after 3 a.m.

Insp. Gary Godziuk says there was no risk to the flight crew or the public.

He says the pilot, who has 3,200 hours experience, made a proactive decision.

“Mechanically, the aircraft was functioning and in no distress.

“The situation involved reduced visibility and any potential risk was professionally managed by the flight crew by deciding to land the helicopter immediately.”

Officials also said the decision to land was made before the situation became an emergency.

Police said the helicopter was de-iced in the parking lot later that morning, and it took off to return to the Villeneuve airport at about noon Monday.

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A Northern Gateway to conflict FAILURE TO ALLOW THE PIPELINE WILL SEND WRONG MESSAGE KENNETH P. GREEN TROYMEDIA The National Energy Board (NEB) released its report on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal December 19, finding that plans for building the pipeline are sufficient for its approval.

The report states “We have concluded that the project would be in the public interest. We find that the project’s potential benefits for Canada and Canadians outweigh the potential burdens and risks.”

The NEB did have a few conditions — 209 of them in fact — but assuming they are all met by Enbridge, the NEB says the pipeline project is good to go.

But this does not mark the end of the process. It is merely a first step in what is shaping up to be an extremely adversarial process driven by environmental extremists.

A group called ForestEthics, which claims to have organized the largest act of civil disobedience in Canada “in the history of the pipeline fight,” has

pledged, that regardless of law, regardless of public opinion, regardless of the fact that Canada stands to benefit from energy production in Alberta, Northern Gateway will ‘never be completed.’

Ben West, who campaigns against the oil sands for ForestEthics, frames the issue as one of the federal government overriding the will of the province of British Columbia and pledges that their ‘many thousands’ in the antioil sand social movement will never relent on the pipeline.

Other environmental groups such as 350.org, the Suzuki Foundation, and Greenpeace will no doubt join them in the ongoing campaign against Northern Gateway. In an e-mail sent the day of the decision, the Suzuki Foundation encouraged its followers to send notes to persuade First Nations bands to disapprove construction of the pipeline.

This is a deeply troubling situation for several reasons.

First, it overturns an expectation that has prevailed throughout Canada’s history, which is that people can engage in lawful commerce without threats of intimidation, violent protests, political sabotage, and slander or disinformation campaigns.

The expectation that one will be allowed to engage in legal commerce is vital to our economy because investments are made in businesses on that expectation.

Without the expectation that one

will be able to engage in lawful commerce, business investments become higher in risk, and ultimately become more scarce, to the detriment of a healthy economy. Indeed, Fraser Institute’s annual Global Petroleum Survey consistently finds that perceptions of unfairness in a jurisdiction’s legal system is a significant deterrent to investment in petroleum exploration and development.

Enbridge is a big company and can defend itself. But one has to assume that they’ve spent many millions in the process of applying to build the Northern Gateway pipeline and they would not have done so without the expectation that if they follow the laws of the land, they would be allowed to build the pipeline. It’s just common sense to expect companies to avoid proposing any controversial projects that might be completely legal but still die a political death.

The situation is troubling for another reason, which is that ForestEthics, and other pipeline-protest groups, are actively working to undermine a duly-established process and fairlyarrived at outcomes, that can then be implemented (or not) depending on the recommendations received.

The consultation and comment process undertaken by the NEB cost over $500 million to complete and took four years.

If activist groups can negate the outcomes of such consultation and public

comment processes, why would anyone expend the effort to do them?

The federal government has six months to decide on the pipeline.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper faces an ugly situation regardless of how the federal government acts on the Northern Gateway or other energy transportation infrastructure. He is literally in a ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ situation.

If he lets the pipeline proceed he will infuriate a swath of Canadians.

If he turns the project down, he’ll infuriate a different swath of Canadians, mostly in his home province, but across Canada as well.

But despite the political risk, there is one thing the federal government might wish to consider with regard to the message it would send by failing to uphold Enbridge’s right to conduct lawful business in Canada, as approved by the National Energy Board, after extensive consultation and public involvement.

A failure to allow the pipeline will essentially send the message that Canada’s political process is nearly as dysfunctional of that of the U.S., and Canada can no longer deliver on critical energy infrastructure. That’s not a happy message for the holiday season. www.troymedia.com MUST be credited.

Kenneth Green is Senior Director, Natural Resource Studies at the Fraser Institute.

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Parti Québécois loses high ground with charter Maria Mourani, the Ahuntsic MP traffic on this particular Quebec road who this week publicly renounced sovhas traditionally been heavier in the ereignty after being ousted from the other direction.

Bloc Québécois earlier this Moreover, past lapsed fall, is no Lucien Bouchard. sovereigntists had usually Her decision to embrace tended to be discreet about federalism the better to their change in allegiance. turn her back on the Parti But there was little Québécois’ secularism that was furtive about this charter will not unleash a week’s developments. flood of pro-Canada converOn Wednesday Mourani sions in Quebec. Nor is it proclaimed that Canada — exclusively altruistic. because fundamental rights Mourani’s diverse are enshrined in its ConstiMontreal riding is fundatution — is best placed to mentally federalist and protect minorities. only a division in the nonA simple majority in the CHANTAL sovereigntist vote between national assembly is enough HÉBERT a high-profile Liberal canto water down the rights didate and the surging NDP guaranteed in the Quebec allowed her to keep it in charter and the PQ is prothe Bloc fold in 2011. posing to use that route to That her change of heart will enpave the way for the restrictions on hance her prospects for re-election religious rights that it seeks to impose should she run again in 2015 is not in throughout the province’s public serdoubt. The ex-Bloc MP, who continues vice. to sit as an independent in the ComMourani added that with its secularmons, has a variety of federalist politiism charter the PQ had veered from cal vehicles to choose from between its long-held tenet of inclusiveness to now and then. embrace a more ethnic-based form of Be that as it may, Mourani’s defecnationalism. Liberal Leader Justin tion was a clear shot across the soverTrudeau could have been speaking eigntist bow. through her mouth.

Mourani is not the first sovereigntist The reaction from sovereigntist to cross over to the other side but the quarters was virulent. But that viru-

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lence in itself is representative of an ongoing shift in the Quebec sovereigntist-federalist paradigm.

For a long time the onus has been on francophone federalists to explain how they can find fault with the 1982 patriation of the Constitution without Quebec’s assent and/or support the PQ’s language laws and still oppose sovereignty.

The inference has been that their loyalty to Canada is somewhat unprincipled; that it goes against the grain of the larger collective Quebec interest.

Both the language and the constitutional issues also exposed divisions in the federalist facade that the PQ was only too happy to exploit. But with her secularism charter Marois might as well have taken a hammer to her own foundations.

Over the past fall, Quebecers have been treated to the sight of public sovereigntist divisions — including between the premier and her predecessors — over the charter.

Such divisions over the identityrelated initiative of a PQ government are unprecedented.

With federalists mostly on the sidelines, sovereigntists have been debating other sovereigntists over the perils of the charter for the fabric of Quebec society and for the greater cause of the province’s independence.

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This week, Mourani’s defection found other sovereigntist critics of the charter on the defensive, scrambling to explain how one could be staunchly against the Marois’ initiative and still support the PQ. By all indications they are failing to convince some of their own.

On Friday, former Bloc MP Raymond Gravel penned a devastating open letter in which he wrote that Marois’ professed admiration for France’s secular model made him “want to vomit.”

He described France as a country where discrimination and racism are rampant.

Unless the charter is rewritten along more inclusive lines, Gravel concluded, he will terminate his 30-year association with the PQ. For decades the PQ had succeeded in commanding what most francophone Quebecers construed as the political high ground in the province’s identity debate. But its secularism charter has opened a breach in its walls of moral superiority and so far it is not federalists who are rushing in but sovereigntists who are running out. And they are not all leaving in the dead of the night.

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Lawyer who helped gang disbarred CONVICTED OF HELPING ORGANIZED CRIME GROUP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A British Columbia lawyer convicted of helping the organized crime group known as the Greeks track down an informant has been disbarred.

William Mastop pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court last December to passing on information about police activity to Greeks gang leader Peter Manola-

kos. The Vernon lawyer was initially sentenced to one year in jail, but last month, a B.C. Court of Appeal judge increased his sentence to two and a half years.

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All Steve Simonar wants is an apology.

The man with no arms firmly believes having a Saskatoon police officer say sorry for how he treated Simonar will be a step forward for other disabled people doing their utmost to lead regular lives.

Simonar made headlines across the country earlier this year when he complained about getting his first ticket for not wearing a seatbelt — he can’t physically buckle up but has been driving in customized vehicles for years.

The fine resulting from his ticket was withdrawn in court after the province gave him a medical exemption allowing him to drive without a belt, but Simonar still held out for an apology from the officer who he says spoke to him in a way he’s never experienced before, particularly by someone in public service.

“That’s the only thing that I ever wanted. The ticket, whatever, that was minor details, but this apology, that’s still what I want. And it will be a happy day if that ever happens,” the 56-yearold said in an interview.

For Simonar, the situation is about much more than his individual case.

“I can take care of myself,” he said. “But there’s other people that never get a voice.”

Simonar lost his arms after he was electrocuted in a boating accident in 1985. He learned to drive with his feet, using his left foot to turn a small steering wheel near the floor and his right foot to work the gas and brake pedals. He also uses his feet to open the door and turn the key.

He’s been pulled over by police in the past but never got a seatbelt ticket until the officer he encountered in April brusquely told him if he couldn’t wear a seatbelt, he shouldn’t be driving.

Police later explained that Simonar didn’t have a medical exemption note so he had to be ticketed, but Simonar said it was the officer’s attitude he was angry about.

“People shouldn’t be able to get away with that. When you’re a public employee you should be even more respectful, more aware of the implications of your actions,” said Simonar, who remembers being “just furious.”

“I’d sucked it up for 25 years. So, it’s time that it had got straightened out.”

Simonar eventually sat down with the officer who gave him the ticket and a superior, but he said the interaction didn’t go so well.

The officer, he said, remained offensive, giving Simonar all the more reason to push for an acknowledgment that the cop should have more sensitivity toward those with disabilities.

“I’m over the fact of not having arms — well some days I am and some days I’m not, whatever life goes on,” he said.

“At the end of the day if I can help anybody out, I’ll do it.”

Simonar has since filed a formal complaint with the Saskatchewan Public Complaints Commission and is waiting to see what comes out of his efforts.

“I kinda thought it would have been done by now,” he said of the entire episode. “I want an apology from him...I just feel that something should be done.”

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Train disaster is Story of the Year LAC-MEGANTIC DISASTER CHOSEN AS 2013’S CANADIAN PRESS NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR

Heading into 2013, Lac-Megantic was known as a quiet holiday town in a Quebec region recognized abroad for its mountaintop observatory and its inky, starry skies.

The community finishes the year remembered for a deadly train crash that horrified people around the world and ignited a fire so big its rage could be seen from space.

Last summer’s LacMegantic derailment, which killed 47 people and pushed the issue of rail safety into the spotlight, has been voted Canada’s 2013 News Story of the Year in the annual survey of the country’s newsrooms by The Canadian Press.

Editors and news directors across Canada selected a story that circled the world after a runaway train hauling crude oil careened off the tracks and exploded, levelling dozens of buildings in the heart of town.

The multiple layers to the July 6 catastrophe attracted interest with its gripping stories of survival and loss, the vast environmental consequences and the stunning images of the devastation. It also launched new debates about the continent’s boom in oilby-rail traffic.

In the News Story of the Year poll, the LacMegantic tragedy received nearly 31 per cent of the ballots cast. Voters were asked to either choose a story from a list of candidates or to nominate their own selection.

“The Lac-Megantic disaster was one which caused everyone who lives in a small Canadian city, or town that has freight trains rumbling through it, (to) stop and ponder, ‘That could happen to me some day,’ ” said Murray Guy, assistant managing editor for the Times & Transcript in Moncton, N.B. “From the sheer enormity of the death, destruction and upheaval for a small community’s way of life, to the shaken trust we all have in our rail safety laws, Lac-Megantic will likely become a red-letter day in the world of railway safety.”

Adrienne Tanner, deputy editor for the Vancouver Sun, said, “Disasters don’t get any bigger. A human tragedy with a lot of political and policy implications going forward.”

The Lac-Megantic story edged the Senate expenses scandal, which received 24 per cent of the votes.

Voters who chose the Senate controversy argued it’s an issue that could bring long-lasting change to Canada.

“The Senate expense story strikes a deep core visceral nerve with readers,” Jim Poling, the Hamilton Spectator’s managing editor, said of a scandal that has swamped the Prime Minister’s Office.

“It’s about the money, but it’s mostly about the entitlement.

“It’s a story that has the potential to change the structure of government in Canada and who its leaders are.”

Rob Ford, Toronto’s notorious mayor who admitted to smoking crack cocaine, finished third after amassing nearly 23 per cent of the vote.

Those who selected the Ford story, which became the butt of jokes on American late-night TV shows, said they made their choice based on how much attention it grabbed around the world.

“Very tough choice,” said Colin McNeil, web editor for Metro News.

“But ... the Rob Ford scandal caught fire nationally and globally in a way none of the other, more ‘serious’ stories did.”

A media-monitoring firm found that the Ford

story generated 1.4 times more international news coverage in 2013 than the Lac-Megantic disaster.

But the world still took notice of the rail tragedy — in a big way.

It remained a top3 worldwide news item over the first four days following the disaster and reached as far away as Kuwait, India and the Philippines, says a recently released study

by Montreal-based Influence Communication.

“Media organizations are attracted to the dramatic (side of a story),” said Influence spokeswoman Eve Couture, who noted the crash also launched public discussions about oil-by-rail transport and prompted long investigations by authorities.

“It’s a mysterious story that had many mysterious elements: an unmanned train that hurtled down a hill that blew up a village.”

The analysis also says Lac-Megantic generated more coverage within Quebec than any story since the start of the century, ahead of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The results of the News Story of the Year survey also suggest that geography played a role in the voting.

The train disaster was selected by 55 per cent of newsrooms polled in Quebec, but was the top choice of only 26 per cent of the voters based outside the province.

In Lac-Megantic, the mayor believes the crash that struck her community of 6,000 has potential repercussions for people across Canada and beyond.

“I think this tragedy allowed the whole world to reflect on rail safety,” Colette Roy-Laroche told The Canadian Press in a recent interview at the sports centre in Lac-Megantic, about 250 kilometres east of Montreal.

Roy-Laroche hopes all the attention gener-

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

The downtown core lays in ruins as firefighters continue to water smouldering rubble July 7, 2013 in LacMegantic, Quebec. Editors and news directors across the country have selected the Lac-Megantic train derailment as Canada’s News Story of the Year. ated by the disaster will inspire governments and companies around the globe to push for improvements to train security.

Trains returned last week to Lac-Megantic, where the economy relies on the railroad, for the first time since the derailment.

For now, trains that cross through town will only carry non-hazardous materials.

The community greeted the rebirth of the rail line with difficulty, as people here slowly rebuild their lives amid a prolonged grieving period.

The town’s tranquil region of rolling hills, popular with outdoor enthusiasts, is perhaps best known for the nearby Mont-Megantic observatory.

Stargazing is made easier here thanks to the internationally recognized “dark-sky reserve” that blankets the area, established through local efforts to reduce night-time light pollution.

On July 6, the glow of the fire from the 1 a.m. derailment was so bright it could be seen in a NASA satellite image

captured an hour after the crash.

The mayor was among those who witnessed the terrifying blaze from the ground with her own eyes. Roy-Laroche, who lives outside of downtown, was jolted awake by her ringing phone shortly after that initial explosion.

Someone she worked with at the municipality was on the line and told her: “Ms. Roy-Laroche, the train derailed downtown and the city is on fire.”

Roy-Laroche said she and her husband quickly rushed toward downtown Lac-Megantic by car, and when they couldn’t drive any further, they moved even closer to the damaged area by foot.

“The flames were so big, so high — we even heard noises, small explosions,” she said of the inferno ignited by the volatile crude oil in the tankers.

The blast had obliterated dozens of buildings in the downtown core, including a bustling bar and the library. Meanwhile, millions of litres of crude gushed from the rail cars into the environment.

The mayor received several disturbing updates from firefighters at the front line — those reports included an expanding list of structures that had vanished.

Up to 2,000 people were evacuated from their homes and RoyLaroche said she quickly began preparations to set up an emergency shelter at a local high school.

All of this, she figures, happened within the first hour.

“We had to think quickly and I didn’t have time to cry,” Roy-Laroche recalled.

One of her next challenges was to handle the sudden, intensive media attention amid the un-

folding crisis.

The small-town mayor was the first to address a joint news conference, held only a few hours after the derailment.

As she spoke on a street just outside downtown, an unknown number of residents were still unaccounted for and smashed tanker cars continued to burn in the background.

Roy-Laroche said she was stunned by the number of news cameras that had already descended on her community.

“That’s when my emotions rose — I’d say it was the only time that I truly felt weak,” said Roy-Laroche, who later became a household name in Quebec for her poise and calm demeanour while handling the catastrophe.

“When I saw the cameras, that’s when I realized that at least (the entire province of) Quebec was listening to me.”

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Thousands without power on Christmas Day

2 Canadian Greenpeace activists clear to come home RUSSIAN CHARGES DROPPED

AS COMMUNITIES RECOVER FROM ICE STORM THE CANADIAN PRESS

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A man helps himself to free firewood piled up by a roadside in Oakville, Ont., Wednesday. The branches fell from trees damaged during last weekend’s ice storm. most of it. We’re family and we’re together and now we have a warm roof over our heads,� she said, adding she intends to cook the turkey left behind in her fridge if it’s still edible when power returns.

However, she said the dozen or so fish in their large tank perished as temperatures at their house in the part of the city with the most outages dipped to 5 degrees. “So now we have Christmas outside our house but we also have to explain to our son that all of our fish are gone,�

Coombs said. “I’m not sure when to tell him.�

Officials have also warned people about the deadly risk of carbon monoxide poisoning as some residents are reported to have used equipment designed for outdoor use — like gas powered generators, charcoal stoves and barbecues — inside their homes.

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It was hoped that two Canadian Greenpeace activists would return home by the weekend after Russia dropped charges against them following a protest outside an oil rig in the Arctic.

A Greenpeace spokesman confirmed on Wednesday that Alexandre Paul of Montreal and Paul Ruzycki of Port Colborne, Ont., were among 29 members of the group who had their criminal cases closed under an amnesty that was passed

by Russian parliament earlier this month. “The families are really relieved. This news is the best Christmas present that the families of the activists could receive,� Diego Creimer said in a phone interview.

The move has been seen by many as an attempt by the Kremlin to dampen criticism of Russia’s human rights record before the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February.

Paul and Ruzycki were held in custody for two months along with their fellow activists be-

fore they were released in November pending trial.

They were originally charged with piracy, but that was then downgraded to hooliganism.

Greenpeace says the activists who have had their cases closed have already applied to the Russian authorities for exit visas to leave the country and expect to get them in the next few days.

The two Canadians have all they need to return home, Creimer said. �Now we’re down to the logstics, basically booking flights,� he said. �We’re expecting the two Canadian Greenpeace activists to be arriving in Canada by this weekend.�

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has questioned the Greenpeace protesters’s intentions to protect the Arctic and alleged that they were trying to hurt Russia’s economic interests.

He said earlier this month that he did not mind that charges against the Greenpeace team were dropped under the amnesty, but that he hoped that “this will not happen again.�

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The weather agency said the winds, while forecast to be relatively minor in strength, could potentially bring down more icy tree branches.

Without power since early Saturday, east-end Toronto resident Deborah Coombs along with her husband and sevenyear-old son finally left their freezing home on Tuesday for the comfort of a hotel room. They managed to bring along a small Christmas tree, which they tucked their gifts under. “We’re making the

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Tens of thousands of people in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick had no power in their homes this Christmas as communities recovered from an ice storm that walloped much of eastern Canada.

The weather system that hit on the weekend downed power lines, splintered trees and caused wide-spread travel delays.

Hydro crews have been working around the clock to restore power to homes which have now been in the dark for three full days, but utility companies said some might have to wait until the weekend to get their lights back on.

In Toronto — where some 300,000 customers were without power at the height of the storm — about 72,000 customers remained without electricity on Christmas Day. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said it “has been a very challenging four days,� but the city is doing its best through the holidays to restore power to all homes as soon as possible.

Authorities have been urging those in homes with no power to make alternative arrangements for the holidays and to take advantage of warming centres being offered in many communities.

Ford said some 1,000 people sought refuge at the warming spots in Toronto on Tuesday night. “That’s the highest number we’ve had. It’s gone from 500, to 750, to 1,000,� Ford said. “Hopefully that number will go down as the hydro is restored, but we’re expecting more people tonight.�

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The fire department typically gets about 20 such calls a day.

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Egypt declares Pope hopes Muslim Brotherhood for better, peaceful a terrorist group

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt’s military-backed interim government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization Wednesday, intensifying its campaign of arrests and prosecutions targeting its members and tightening the noose on the group’s network of charities and businesses.

The unprecedented executive decision likely ends any chance of reconciliation between the government and the 85-year-old Brotherhood, still Egypt’s most organized political group.

It marks a stunning reversal of fortunes for the long-outlawed organization that saw member Mohammed Morsi reach Egypt’s highest office in the country’s first democratic election, only to be ousted in a popularly backed military coup in July.

And it takes a step that not even autocrat Hosni Mubarak took in his nearly 30-year rule.

Hossam Eissa, deputy prime minister and minister of higher education, read the government’s declaration, saying the decision was in response to Tuesday’s deadly bombing in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura which killed 16 people and wounded more than 100.

It was the deadliest militant bombing since Morsi’s ouster and showed growing reach of the country’s Islamic insurgency, previously concentrated in the northern Sinai.

Although Eissa and the government offered no proof of the Brotherhood’s involvement, the accusation instilled in the public mind the image of the group as being behind the surge in violent attacks.

The Brotherhood has denied being responsible for the Man-

soura attack. Earlier Wednesday, an al-Qaida-inspired group called Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or the Champions of Jerusalem, said it was behind the suicide bombing to avenge the “shedding of innocent Muslim blood” at the hands of Egypt’s “apostate regime” — a reference to the security forces’ crackdown on Islamists following the coup.

Brotherhood members dismissed the government label Wednesday, promising their neardaily protests against Morsi’s ouster would continue.

“The protests are in the streets despite a law restricting them — and killings and prison sentences. All this has not changed the will of the people,” said Ibrahim Elsayed, member of the Brotherhood’s political group, the Freedom and Justice Party. “The decision has no value for us and is only worth the paper it is written on.”

Another member, Islam Tawfiq, said the Brotherhood is considering whether to challenge the declaration in courts at home or abroad.

“An interim government for nine months will not stymie with terrorism a group working for (nearly) 90 years,” Tawfiq said.

Soon after the declaration, however, a state-owned print shop stopped printing the Brotherhood party’s newspaper.

Tawfiq said it followed oral orders from security agencies to halt publication.

The declaration comes after another sweeping decision Tuesday aimed at draining the Brotherhood’s finances by freezing the funds of more than 1,000 non-government organizations with links to the group and putting more than 100 schools run by the group under government supervision.

That directly attacks the grass-

roots strength of the Brotherhood, where it has much of its power in Egyptian life.

Eissa said Wednesday’s decision means that those who “participate in the group’s activities, in the organization or promotion verbally or by writing or by any other means or financing its activities” will be facing punishment according to the law.

“It’s not possible for Egypt the state nor Egypt the people to submit to the Muslim Brotherhood terrorism,” Eissa said.

He also said that the government had notified other Arab countries about its decision. The Brotherhood has organizations and political parties in other nations in the region.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman said a regional agreement for combatting terrorism requires Arab countries to hand over those wanted by Egypt.

Ahmed el-Borai, the minister of social solidarity, told reporters that the decision means that demonstrations by the group will also be banned. He said that members who abandon their membership and withdraw from the group “will be pardoned.”

The Brotherhood, founded in 1928, renounced violence in the late 1970s. Since rising to power after Mubarak’s ouster, the Brotherhood had faced growing public anger over what critics said was its attempt to monopolize power, enshrine Islamic laws in the country’s legislation and allying with some of the country’s more radical Islamist groups.

The military-backed government has blamed the group for a surge in violence particularly against security forces after Morsi’ ouster, accusing it of seeking to destabilize the country to undermine the new authorities and its political plan to hold elections.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis offered Christmas wishes Wednesday for a better world, praying for protection for Christians under attack, battered women and trafficked children, peace in the Middle East and Africa, and dignity for refugees fleeing misery and conflict around the globe.

Francis delivered the traditional “Urbi et Orbi” (Latin for “to the city and to the world”) speech from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to more than 70,000 cheering tourists, pilgrims and Romans in the square below.

In his first Christmas message since being elected pontiff in March, he asked for all to share in the song of Christmas angels, “for every man or woman ... who hopes for a better world, who cares for others,” humbly.

Among places ravaged by conflict, Francis singled out Syria, which saw its third Christmas during civil war; South Sudan; the Central African Republic; Nigeria; and Iraq.

The Vatican has been trying to raise concern in the world for persecution and attacks on Christians in parts of the Middle East and Africa.

“Lord of life, protect all who are persecuted in your name,” Francis said.

Adding an off-the-cuff remark, Francis said he was also inviting non-believers to join their desire for peace with everyone else.

The pope also prayed that God “bless the land where you chose to come into the world and grant a favourable outcome to the peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.”

Francis then explained his concept of peace.

“True peace is not a balancing of opposing forces.

It’s not a lovely facade which conceals conflicts and divisions,” the pope said. “Peace calls for daily commitment,” Francis said, reading the pages of his speech as they were ruffled by a chilly wind.

Francis also spoke of the lives of everyday people, especially those struggling for a better life.

Recalling the hundreds of migrants who have drowned this year while trying to reach European shores, including many close to the Italian island of Lampedusa, Francis prayed that refugees receive hope, consolation and assistance.

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THURSDAY, DEC. 26, 2013

Dallas builds connections REFLECTS ON PROGRESS IN DEVELOPING ALBERTA’S NEW INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR As the calendar closes on 2013, and the second year of Cal Dallas’s service as Alberta’s minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations, the MLA for Red Deer South feels that good progress has been made in connecting the province to the world.

Speaking in his Red Deer office, Dallas pointed to Alberta’s new international strategy — announced in May — as a big step forward in improving market access for companies here.

That strategy includes plans for diversifying Alberta’s markets through such steps as opening new trade offices in China, Singapore, India and Brazil; enhancing the province’s international reputation; and helping prepare Albertans and their businesses to compete in the global economy.

“There were a number of things that we wanted to get out of the gate in this past year, that we worked really hard on,” said Dallas of efforts to implement the strategy.

A key part of this work has been building relationships. Domestic examples include the recent framework agreement between Alberta and British Columbia with respect to pipeline development, and discussions with Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick about the proposed Energy East Pipeline, said Dallas.

The province is also strengthening its American connections through the likes of the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region, the Council of State Governments West and Midwest, the Western Governors’ Association, the Ports-toPlains Alliance, the Canadian/American Border Trade Alliance, and the Montana-Alberta and Alaska-Alberta bilateral advisory councils, he said.

“We’ve done a lot of advocacy work with respect to our north-south energy access, particularly on Keystone.”

This has included trips to Washington by Dallas, Premier Alison Redford and other Alberta government officials, who have lobbied representatives of the U.S. State Department, Department of Energy, Congress and Senate.

“There’s a lot of work going on by a lot of my colleagues — building relationships, talking about challenges around building new trade and enhanced trade opportunities between the United States and Canada — that really fit together with the work that the premier leads and I support, in the context of direct initiatives like north-south energy access on the Keystone.”

Energy wasn’t the only Alberta-U.S. issue addressed by Dallas and his provincial colleagues during the past year.

The United States’ mandatory coun-

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Alberta Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations Cal Dallas, left, walks in front of the Capitol Building in Washington with Premier Alison Redford and Gary Doer, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, last month. try-of-origin labelling (COOL) rules — and grain would benefit from the deal, land quality. which require that meat products sold said Dallas.

This advocacy was motivated in in the U.S. indicate the country they’re “Obviously, there are many compo- part by the proposed European fuel from and that they be processed and nents of that agreement that we see quality directive, which would claspackaged separately — have been the are going to positively impact Alberta sify fuel derived from Alberta’s oiltopic of ongoing discussion, he said. enterprises and their ability to access sands as having greater greenhouse “We continue to advocate for a (lev- a European market that quite frankly gas emissions than fuel from other el) playing field for our Alberta live- we were almost shut out of on the ba- sources of crude oil. stock industry and beef producers,” sis of both real and pseudo-trade-type Finally, said Dallas, the importance said Dallas. barriers that existed.” of Asia was recognized in Alberta’s “We think we’ve new international stratworked hard with egy. the Americans to He noted the framedevelop a contiwork agreement on susnental livestock tainable energy developmarket. To implement, signed by Alberta ment what we see and China in October, as protectionistwhich seeks to strengthtype measures, en trade ties between we’re very unhappy — CAL DALLAS, ALBERTA’S MINISTER OF INTERNATIONAL the two jurisdictions. about that.”

“I think there’s great AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS Developments significance to be placed with respect to Alon what we’ve been able berta’s trading relationship with EuThe provincial government has also to achieve there,” said Dallas, pointing rope have also been noteworthy, said worked to raise awareness in Europe out that the agreement is the first of Dallas. about positive steps Alberta has taken its kind between the Chinese central These include the Comprehensive on the environmental front. government and a sub-national governEconomic and Trade Agreement (CEThese include carbon capture and ment in Canada.

TA) between Canada and the Euro- storage initiatives, collection of levies This should set the stage for new pean Union, which was agreed to in from large greenhouse gas emitters to Chinese investment in Alberta, and principle in October. promote renewable energy and green for companies here to do business in Alberta provided input into the ne- technologies, development of alterna- China. gotiations and sought to ensure that tive energy like wind power, and other producers of products like beef, pork initiatives to protect air, water and hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

‘THERE WERE A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO GET OUT OF THE GATE IN THIS PAST YEAR, THAT WE WORKED REALLY HARD ON.’

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BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis sells $26 million in shares THE CANADIAN PRESS Mike Lazaridis has cashed in shares of BlackBerry, making US$26 million in the process, as he lessens his stake in the smartphone company he helped create.

Documents filed with U.S. regulators on Tuesday show that a numbered company registered in Ontario — and controlled by Lazaridis — has sold 3.5 million shares in BlackBerry since Monday.

The two transactions take Lazaridis’ stake below five per cent of BlackBerry, which is the threshold where he would be required by regulators to report any future sales of shares in the company.

The first sale was made on Monday when 3.17 million shares were sold at an average price of $7.55 on the open market.

The second transaction came on Christmas Eve Day when the same numbered company sold 333,107 shares at an average price of $7.63.

In total, the transactions reaped $26.5 million.

Both sales were made through 1258701 Ontario Ltd., an investment holding company, according to the documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Research in Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis gestures at the end of his keynote address to the BlackBerry DevCon Americas conference in San Francisco, Oct.18, 2011. Lazaridis is lessening his stake in the company he helped create. bered company was part of an effort by BlackBerry co-founders Lazaridis and Doug Fregin to submit a bid for BlackBerry when the Waterloo, Ont.based firm was hunting for potential buyers.

Plans to sell the company were eventually scrapped when Fairfax Financial (TSX:FFX), one of BlackBerry’s largest shareholders, came up with a plan to raise a billion dollars in hopes to resuscitate the struggling company instead.

Major changes were made almost immedi-

ately, with the hiring of John Chen as chairman and chief executive officer. Chen previously helped turn around Sybase, a data management company.

Last week, BlackBerry (TSX:BB) reported a quarterly loss of US$4.4billion as sales of its smartphones continued to decline. Chen delivered the clearest plan for the company’s future yet, which stoked investor optimism.

Shares of BlackBerry have been on the upswing, rising 24 per cent since the financial re-

sults were released.

On Tuesday, the company’s badly beaten stock hit its highest levels since late October, before the plan to sell BlackBerry was sidelined.

BlackBerry shares closed up 27 cents to $8.25 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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TORONTO — There probably aren’t huge numbers of Boxing Day shoppers scouring flyers for a deal on a 4K Ultra HD TV, the next standard of high definition video.

December 26th is a day for seeking out bargains and history has shown crowds of consumers will shiver for hours in the cold if it means snagging a cut-rate TV — even if it’s a low-end model made by an obscure manufacturer — for a few hundred bucks.

4K Ultra HD TVs, which display four times as many pixels as 1080p HD TVs, will attract a different kind of shopper.

The cheapest 4K Ultra HD TV sold through a big box store retails for about $4,000 for a 55-inch set — when it’s on sale — while the top-of-the-line 85-inch model made by Samsung goes for a dollar shy of $40,000.

That’s not a typo: $39,999, plus tax.

And much like when the original high definition TVs first went on sale, there’s not a ton of content available to take advantage of the new standard.

Netflix hopes to change that, at least gradually.

Unlike 3D TV, which has been a total flop, Netflix believes 4K adoption is inevitable and is investing in producing and delivering Ultra HD content.

“Whether it takes 18 months or five years people are going to adopt this technology. It’s something we want to be on the forefront of, it’s our guess that ultra high definition is going to happen in a pretty significant way, unlike 3D,” said chief product officer Neil Hunt in an interview earlier this year.

“We’re not doing everything (in Ultra HD) but certainly the significant stuff, so ‘House of Cards’ is one of those things we’re shooting in 4K.

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Argentine economy closing 2013 in trouble

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez waves at a celebration marking the 30-year anniversary of democracy’s return in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — President Cristina Fernandez has tried to reinvent her image since her return from skull surgery. She’s put aside the all-black wardrobe she wore for three years mourning her late husband Nestor Kirchner, and reshuffled her Cabinet. This week, her economy minister announced a new stimulus program.

Analysts, however, say what she really needs to do, and quickly, is take politically painful steps to contain inflation by dialing back government spending.

Restoring Argentina’s sense of pride and sovereignty after its 2001 economic collapse has been the central goal of the Kirchners’ “victorious decade” in the presidency.

They renegotiated or paid off nearly all of Argentina’s defaulted debt in ways that removed the supervision of international lending organizations, nationalized the pension system, retook control of the national airline and oil company, and dug deep into the treasury to redirect revenue to the poor.

But the years of 7 per cent growth are over.

Fernandez now “faces a rapidly deteriorating economy that demands profound and urgent measures, and there are no pleasant alternatives in sight,” said Ignacio Fidanza, who directs lapoliticaonline.com, a website focused on

Argentine politics.

Inflation has been at least 26 per cent this year, more than twice the widely discredited official rate, private economists say.

This forces rounds and rounds of wage and price negotiations that scare off investors and spark social unrest, like the provincial police strikes that set off looting across the country this month.

Governors promised pay raises that reached nearly 60 per cent in some provinces to get officers back in the streets after the mob violence killed 13 people.

A 50 per cent average raise for police would cost about $2.3 billion in 2014, but the officers represent just 15 per cent of Argentina’s 2 million provincial government employees, and with at least 28 per cent inflation expected in the coming year, the rest won’t be satisfied with less.

If all 2 million get 30 per cent raises on average, it would cost the equivalent of $10 billion in today’s pesos, estimates Diego Giacomini, chief economist with the Economia y Regiones consultancy.

Printing more pesos isn’t a sustainable alternative: JP Morgan estimates the peso will be worth 45 per cent less by this time next year. Economists figure Argentina’s primary fiscal deficit, before making debt payments, grew to 2.6 per cent of GDP this year.

That’s better than the U.S deficit of 4.1 per cent of GDP, but Argentina can’t attract international loans at market rates. Instead, it uses Central Bank reserves to buy

fuel overseas, meet foreign debt payments and finance economic stimulus programs, reducing the reserves by nearly $13 billion this year, to $31 billion.

In all, the government had to spend $13 billion this year importing oil and natural gas, costing nearly $48 in hard currency for every $100 that agricultural exports brought into the economy, the Fundacion Mediterranea consultancy says.

“The ceiling that the debt once put on growth is now imposed by the energy deficit,” said Ramiro Castineira, an analyst with the Econometrica firm.

The deficit has risen because long-term business investments have slowed even as the government stimulates the economy, subsidizes energy and transportation and expands welfare for the poor.

Significant new domestic energy supplies from Argentina’s huge shale reserves remain years away, Economy Minister Axel Kicillof acknowledged this month as he promoted special deals and tax breaks to the world’s biggest oil companies.

Meanwhile, Kicillof announced $1.5 billion in government-backed, peso-denominated business loans Monday, part of a $21 billion stimulus aimed at creating 830,000 new jobs in the coming year.

He also negotiated quarterly price controls on at least 175 of the thousands of products sold in supermarkets, but private economists say such measures have already failed to control inflation.

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Most of Syria’s oil and gas fields in the country’s east are under opposition control and the country’s oil exports almost have stopped.

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For those who haven’t seen 4K Ultra HD in person yet — which is most consumers — Hunt promises the enriched level of detail will be impressive, which is posing challenges for filmmakers.

“We certainly found even with some of the original stuff we’ve done that the sets didn’t stand up to ultra high definition,” he said.

“So it really is something that starts right with the cast and the makeup and the set and then the cameras and the editing and the special FX all the way through to the coding, the staging, the delivery.”

Of course, data consumption will be a major concern when Netflix begins offering the new format to customers. The current highest quality stream eats through about 2.5 gigabytes an hour, while an Ultra HD stream is expected to use up to seven gigabytes an hour.

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Miners faced challenges ENVIRONMENTAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES AROUND THE WORLD IN 2013

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — After years of riding surging metal prices and spending freely on takeover deals and massive new projects, Canadian miners were forced to tighten their belts in 2013 as the cycle turned against them.

The industry took billions in write downs as companies re-evaluated projects that they believed were worth far more just a couple of years ago and slashed spending as falling commodity prices squeezed margins.

But it wasn’t just financial problems for the miners, as political and environmental issues made headlines around the world for several Canadian mining companies.

The largest company to face problems was Barrick Gold, which suspended nearly all of the work at its massive Pascua-Lama project high in the Andes mountain range.

The halt followed massive cost overruns and protests from an indigenous community living below the project who tried to have Barrick’s licence revoked and force a new environmental impact study The Supreme Court of Chile stopped short of ordering a new review and upheld the environmental permit, but put construction on hold until Barrick’s environmental commitments and work to protect the water systems is completed.

Jamie Kneen, of industry watchdog group MiningWatch Canada, said technology has made it easier for groups opposing mining projects to organize and disseminate information, even in remote areas around the globe.

“The level of awareness and information has been much greater than its ever been,” Kneen says.

“There’s whole countries that didn’t have mining industries before, like Mali and Senegal and Burkina Faso.”

Kneen said companies are now looking to develop projects in new, less accessible areas where indigenous people can be more protective of their culture and environment.

The rise of social and environmental concerns have come at a time of volatile commodity prices.

The price of gold, which broke US$1,900 an ounce in 2011, fell to around US$1,200 this year, while the price of silver, which started the year around US$32 per ounce, fell below $19.

Copper, which traded for about

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A woman wearing a sign reading United to save Rosia Montana shouts against the proposed development by a Canadian mining company of Europe’s largest cyanide based extraction open-cast gold mine in the Transylvanian town of Rosia Montana, during a rally in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. For Canadian mining companies, doing business overseas in 2013 was difficult.

US$3.70 per pound at the start of 2013, was down about 40 cents for the year.

In Mongolia, Turquoise Hill suspended work on development of the underground copper mine at its Oyu Tolgoi project after the Mongolian government said financing for the project would require parliamentary approval.

And Gabriel Resources also faced a significant set back at its Rosia Montana project after a draft bill that specifically would have allowed what would be one of Europe’s biggest gold mining projects go ahead was rejected by a Romanian parliamentary commission.

The rejection followed weeks protests in that country over environmental concerns and criticism that

Romania would earn too little from the deal.

In a recent report, Deloitte noted a trend of intensifying local community demands and government relations marked by rising hostility and zero tolerance regulatory environments.

Jurgen Beier, a national mining practice leader at Deloitte, said that 20 years ago mining companies took a more adversarial approach to environmental and social issues, but they are learning.

“I think something that the mining companies have learned is that they actually have to start seeing the governments as partners way earlier on in the process,” he said.

Gabriel Resources chief Jonathan Henry says there is still hope for his project as there has been talk about

the possibility of a broader legal framework for mine development. But shareholders are running out of patience.

Without progress by the Romanian government, Henry says Gabriel will be forced to do something “radically different.”

Henry conceded that the downturn in the market for the mining industry has opened up an opportunity for some non-governmental organizations seeking improvements.

“Those who are trying to make mining better certainly have more of their say when things are not in a boom market because there isn’t that demand for metals,” he said.

“So I don’t think the period we are in now is bad for our industry and I think there is a lot of learning.”

Promise of Bombardier’s new CSeries jet to be put to the test in 2014 Bombardier celebrated the first flight of its CSeries commercial jet in 2013, but the success of the world’s first new narrow-body design in nearly 30 years is riding on the test results.

Customers will be watching closely to see if data from years of computerized simulations and hundreds of hours of flights validate the promised savings on fuel and the reduction in noise and engine emissions needed to prompt orders.

The head of the Montreal-based company’s aerospace division acknowledges that some potential buyers are “on the sidelines” waiting for the results. But Guy Hachey said testing has been solid so far.

“It’s very challenging to bring an aircraft to market but there’s no big surprise that we’ve seen so far in the CSeries,” he said.

The US$3.4-billion CSeries program is expected to generate US$5 billion to US$8 billion in annual revenues as it seeks to capture about half of the global sales for this size of plane.

The newly designed aircraft, built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney’s fuel-saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older, inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.

“This is an aircraft that is designed first and foremost for worldwide demand and not just for current fortress markets,” Hachey told a recent aviation conference.

B o m b a r d i e r (TSX:BBD.B) is aiming

to secure 300 firm orders - or about four years of production - from about 20 customers by the time the CS100 is released in about a year. So far, it has just 182 — 63 for the CS100 and 119 for the larger CS300 — with very few being added of late.

September’s first CS100 flight was supposed to propel new orders, but only Iraqi Airways stepped forward as a new customer, ordering five planes.

A series of potential buyers are circling.

Among them is Indonesia’s Lion Air which is interested in about 50 planes, and Air Canada which is expected to decide over the next six months whether to select the local product over Embraer’s E2 jets.

Delivering the 110to 160-seat CSeries on schedule will be the main challenge. The flight test program for the CS100 is supposed to last 12 months, but most industry observers believe Bombardier will miss that date, just as it missed the maiden flight target by about nine months.

They believe the first delivery of the smaller of the two CSeries commercial jets will be made in the first quarter of 2015, about six months behind schedule. That would still be an achievement compared to protracted delays by Boeing and Airbus in bringing their new 787 and 380 airplanes to market. Delivery of the CS300 is expected to start about six months later.

Hachey said it is waiting for data from its second test airplane before determining if the date will be pushed back.

“It will all depend what we discover here as we have more than one aircraft in the air, but right now it’s going according to what we would have expected,” he said.

David Tyerman, of Canaccord Genuity, said the first flight was a milestone but gauging the program’s success is difficult because Bombardier has refrained from releasing many details about its test schedule and the plane’s initial performance.

Tyerman said there’s little doubt that the CSeries CS100 will be late.

Early spring could be a crucial period, when the company accumulates sufficient data to validate the plane’s promise of burning 20 per cent less fuel and reducing operating costs.

“At that point, presumably, they should know how the program’s going,” he said in an interview.

“If they’re materially behind and don’t know that information, then that’s going to be an issue.”

Karl Moore, of McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, has little doubt that the CSeries will propel Bombardier forward, despite concerns about its order book.

He said the first flight and test flight data will help to calm some marketplace anxieties.

“I think it’s superior to its competitors...and it’s something where, in the medium to long term, it’s going to be a very considerable success,” he said.

Moore said Boeing and Airbus are trying to mitigate the CSeries advantage by selling their retrofitted narrow bodies at discounted prices.

He believes Bombardier will achieve its targeted 300 sales by first delivery, but said it would be a bonus to have some big name customers, including Air Canada.

“It’s an impressive airline and, if you don’t win the people literally right across the street,

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Bombardier’s CSeries 100 touches down after its maiden test flight on, September 16, 2013 in Mirabel, Que. that may be seen negatively by some as well.”

CSeries skeptic Richard Aboulafia, of the aviation consultancy Teal Group, expects Air Canada will avoid “economic patriotism” and not order the plane.

He said losing the contract wouldn’t be a big blow to Bombardier, but the manufacturer needs to attract a network carrier other than Lufthansa to demonstrate the plane’s attractiveness to

airlines. Lufthansa has firm orders for 30 CS100 and 30 options on behalf of Swiss Air Lines that would use the planes, in part, to link Switzerland to banking centres such as London and its city airport.

Aboulafia said Bombardier has not been aggressive enough to secure orders in the face of intense pressure from its larger rivals. He said Bombardier has “superior product syndrome,”

a dangerous affliction in which a company convinces itself that customers will be lured by the attributes of the product.

“I think it’s in jeopardy of being marginalized and staying marginalized,” the U.S. analyst said from Phoenix.

Bombardier said it has avoided selling too many planes at launch discounts to prevent being saddled with years of making planes at low margins.

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TAKING IT IN STRIDE

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

FRIDAY ● Light tour in support of Boys and Girls Club at 4 McConnell Close is open to visitors to enjoy the Christmas lights and music in the front and back yard between 5 and 9 p.m. until Jan. 4. Donations to the Boys and Girls Club accepted. Contact Rob or Eva at 403-346-7647. ● Bull Skit Comedy presents Strapping Young Lads on stage Dec. 27 and 28 with two shows each night at 7 and 10 p.m. at Scott Block Theatre on Centennial Stage.

Tickets are available at the door and online at www.BullSkitComedy.com for a cost of $15 each. Strapping Young Lads features Christopher Schulz and Christoff Lundgren.

Doors open at 6:30 and 9:45 p.m. Cash bar. Mature language and adult themes. ● Red Deer needs more miracles! Canadian Blood Services asks residents to donate this holiday season.

Demand is great and 19,000 units are needed nationally including 480 from Red Deer. Holiday hours as follows: Dec. 27, 28, and New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. To book an appointment or for information, call 1-888-2-DONATE (1-888-236-6283) or visit www.blood.ca.

Share your holiday miracle story on www.facebook.com/ AlbertaBlood and on Twitter #giveamiracle. Encourage your workplace to Adopt a Recipient. O-negative blood especially in need. ● Gingerbread cookie campaign in support of Habitat for Humanity will be offered at both Good Earth Coffeehouse and Bakery locations until Jan. 3. Purchase a gingerbread cookie family for $6.25 each, with $1 going to Habitat in Red Deer.

SATURDAY ● Central Alberta Singles dance will be held Dec. 28 at Penhold Hall. Music by Randy Hillman. Doors open at 8 p.m. Music starts at 8:30 p.m. Members and invited guests only; new members welcome. For information, call Elaine at 403-341-7653 or Bob at 403-304-7440.

MONDAY ● Monday Melodies at Kerry Wood Nature Centre will be on Dec. 30, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Seniors invited to drop in and celebrate nature inspired music and more. Phone 403-346-2010.

TUESDAY New Year’s Eve

● Random Snowshoeing at Kerry Wood Nature Centre is available on Dec. 31 from 1 to 4 p.m. Drop in and give it a try, weather and snow-levels permitting. No high heels, please. Admission by suggested donation of $3 per person or $10 per family. Call 403-346-2010. ● Miracle on Gaetz event at Red Deer Greyhound Bus station will be held until Dec. 31 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The Red Deer Food Bank, The Red Deer Christmas Bureau, and Cosmos Community Spirit Clothing Drive will be at the bus depot collecting food, toys for children ages one to 16 years and clothing for people in need of all ages.

The public is invited to stop by and donate non-perishable food, toys, and clothing including jeans and more. Contact Brian at 403-896-7747. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre New Year’s Eve dinner and dance, Dec. 31, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Five Plus One Band.

Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403-246-3896.

THURSDAY ● First Thursdays in the Snell are free chamber music concerts from 12:15 to 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium on the first Thursday of each month. Café Noir will sponsor the series and provide free coffee and tea. Bring lunch, or purchase at the café. The Jan. 2 event features Wilmari Myburgh in an original cabaret entitled Love Stories: The Anatomy of Falling in Love. Phone 403-342-9122. Free will donation at the door. ● Newcomer Youth Learn to Skate will be held on Jan. 2 at Kinex Arena and on Jan. 3 at Bower Ponds from 1 to

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Jayden Courtemanche, 6, of Red Deer gets his skates under him and powers across the snowbank rink in Clearview Monday. Mild temperatures coinciding with the Christmas break means rinks and sliding hills around the city will no doubt be busy.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Horse Breeders and Owners Conference will be held at Sheraton Red Deer on Jan. 10 to 12. Tickets are $105, $90 for additional registrants when pre-registering at www.albertahorseindustry.ca, or for $105 at the door. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House has several upcoming events, regular card games and tournaments and special tournaments: Cribbage every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Jan. 9; Whist every Friday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Jan. 17; 500 every Monday and Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Jan. 27; Fun Contract Bridge every Wednesday at 1 p.m. Games cost $3. Tournaments cost $6. There will also be a special Cribbage tournament on Jan. 19 with a pot luck supper for a cost of $8, and participants are asked to register by Jan. 16. A regular pot luck supper will be held on Jan. 10 at 5:30 p.m. for a cost is $5. Please bring a main dish, salad, or dessert to share. There will also be a Ukraine supper on Jan. 17 at 5:30 p.m. for a cost f $12.

Phone 403-346-4043.

● Royal Canadian Legion in Sylvan Lake offers country dance lessons on Jan. 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. for $50 per person or $75 per couple. Phone 403-887-2601, or Lisa a 403-505-8601. Scrabble, Crokinole, Tile Rummy start on Jan. 24, 2 p.m. Free of charge. ● Red Deer Chamber of Commerce Key Speaker Series features Brian Burke, President of Hockey Operations, Calgary Flames Hockey Club as speaker on Jan. 13 in the Tuscany Ballroom at Sheraton Red Deer Hotel from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Chamber members $60 or $450/table of eight, or $75 or $550/table of eight for non-members. See www.reddeerchamber.com ● Red Deer River Watershed Alliance Ambassador Breakfast will be held on Jan. 17, 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at Quality North Hill Inn for a cost of $15 per person. A presentation by Jim Duncan, Clearwater County councillor and Clear Lake Landcare chairperson, will be presenting on Sasquatch and Partners Initiative. RSVP to info@rdrwa. ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379 by noon on Jan. 15.

Retailers roll out after-Christmas sales AMAZON.COM ALREADY IS OFFERING AFTER-CHRISTMAS DEALS OF UP TO 70 PER CENT OFF

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It’s beginning to look a lot like ... the day after Christmas?

On the day before Christmas, retailers turned shoppers’ attention to the day after the holiday.

Amazon.com already is offering “after Christmas” deals of up to 70 per cent off clothes and 60 per cent off some electronics.

Old Navy is running TV ads that its “after-holiday sale starts early” with discounts of up to 75 per cent off.

And CVS was selling a wine cabinet for $10 off at $39.99 and three fleece throws for $9.99 on Christmas Eve. Heather Nadler, 38, stopped by the CVS in Decatur, Ga., on Tuesday, searching for stuffed animals for her children. But she still plans to hit up sales after Christmas.

“I’ll probably start shopping for me at that point,” she said.

Stores usually wait until after Christmas to offer discounts of up to 70 per cent or more on holiday merchandise that didn’t sell.

But Americans who are still worried about the economy have held tightly to their purse strings this year, and store

sales have fallen for the past three consecutive weeks.

The pre-Christmas deals come as retailers are feeling pressure to attract Americans into stores during the final week of what’s typically the busiest shopping period of the year.

The two-month stretch that begins on Nov. 1 is important because retailers can make up to 40 per cent of their annual sales during that time.

Sales at U.S. stores dropped 3.1 per cent to $42.7 billion for the week that ended on Sunday compared with the same week last year, according to ShopperTrak, which tracks data at 40,000 locations.

That follows a decline of 2.9 per cent and 0.8 per cent during the first and second weeks of the month, respectively.

Stores had a problem even getting Americans into stores, let alone getting them to spend.

The number of shoppers fell 21.2 per cent during the week that ended on Sunday, according to ShopperTrak.

Karen McDonald, a spokeswoman at Taubman Centers, which owns or operates 28 malls, estimated that business for the week that ended Sunday was unchanged to mid-single digit per-

centage growth compared with a year ago. McDonald said business “was just OK.” Overall, ShopperTrak estimates that holiday sales at stores so far are up 2 per cent to $218.4 billion compared with the same period last year.

That’s below the 2.4 per cent forecast for the two-month period, but the company is standing by that estimate with a little over a week left before the season ends.

The National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail group, also said it’s sticking with its forecast that sales in stores and online will be up 3.9 per cent to $602.1 billion.

In order to get that growth, stores have tried all they can to lure shoppers in.

For instance, at the Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus, N.J. over the weekend, Abercrombie & Fitch, AnnTaylor and Express had 50 per cent sales.

Gap offered up to 60 per cent off.

And Steve Madden had a buy one, get the second pair at 75 per cent off.

Stores, which typically don’t discuss their discount strategy during the season, are hoping the sales will lure lastminute shoppers like Rubi Cuautle, 36,

a restaurant manager. Cuautle headed to Target in Atlanta on Tuesday to shop for toys and pyjamas for her nieces and nephews.

“It’s crunch time,” she said But some analysts doubt the discounts will be enough to save the season.

Research firm Retail Metrics predicts December revenue in stores open at least one year, a key retail metric, will rise 2.8 per cent, slightly higher than last year’s 2.6 per cent increase.

Ken Perkins, the president of Retail Metrics, said reports suggest that the final weekend before Christmas “did not generate the final crush of shoppers necessary to save the holiday season.”

At least one shopper isn’t impressed by the early deals. David Arnold, 43, who works in IT at a bank, said despite earlier “after Christmas” sales, he plans to go out after Christmas because he’s been eyeing a 55-inch TV at Wal-Mart.

“For a 55-inch, the lowest I saw of a good brand name was $1200,” he said.

“I’m pretty sure I’ll find a better deal after Christmas, I want to pay like $800.”

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Making up for the loss GOALTENDERS RETO BERRA AND KARRI RAMO TRYING TO FILL VOID LEFT BY KIPRUSOFF’S RETIREMENT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Flames goaltenders Reto Berra and Karri Ramo faced a daunting task at training camp last September.

Miikka Kiprusoff had just announced his retirement after a decade-long run in Calgary and it would be up to Berra and Ramo to fill the void.

It was a tall order and the Flames struggled at the start of the season. But there finally appear to be signs that the team may be ready to turn things around.

Berra and Ramo have helped Calgary to a 5-4-2 record in its last 11 games, with three losses coming in close games against league heavyweights Pittsburgh and Boston. Berra entered the holiday break on a high after helping the Flames to a 4-3 shootout win Monday over the surging St. Louis Blues.

He made 32 saves and stopped all three shots in the shootout to improve to 5-8-2 on the season. Berra is also a perfect 3-0 in shootouts, an area in which Kiprusoff historically struggled (23-37).

“Overall I’m happy with where I am,” he said. “For my first year over here, I’ve played solid, I’ve played calm and I’ve played my game.

“I want to have more wins but sometimes you can’t control that.”

Once described by former Flames general manager Jay Feaster as the “best goaltenders not playing in the NHL,” Berra and Ramo are still adjusting to the league since coming over from Europe.

The ice surface is smaller and there is more traffic in front of the net.

“One thing I’ve been working on is trying to track the puck and follow it with my

body,” said Berra. “Also, guys here shoot perfect shots so you can’t just go down and hope it hits you, you have to read the shot. That’s a big part of where I’m way better than at the start of the season.

“I can read the shots and where they’re coming.”

Ramo, who spent the last four seasons in the KHL, is more familiar with the North American game than his teammate. The 27-year-old native of Asikkala, Finland spent three seasons in the Tampa Bay organization after being selected by the Lightning in the sixth round of the 2004 entry draft.

“I’m trying to be quicker with my positioning so I can get set and see more pucks,” said Ramo. “If you can play a little bit more outside the crease and still be quick, that’s always better.”

Berra, a 26-year-old native of Bulach, Switzerland, said he has also noticed a big difference in the number of blocked shots. One of the trademarks of the Flames’ blue-collar style of play, Calgary has blocked 688 shots this season, second only to Montreal (725).

Individually, defencemen Kris Russell (105), Chris Butler (100) and Ladislav Smid (83) all rank in the top 10.

“I think the guys would jump face first into shots, they have so much commitment to the Flames,” Berra said with a laugh. “They play like a goalie.

Sometimes if there’s not many shots, it’s hard to get into the game and I’ll be thinking, ’Hey, let it through, I want to save something too.”’

Flames coach Bob Hartley has been pleased with how his two goaltenders have improved.

“Very happy with their progression,” Hartley said.

“They’re two great guys. They want to learn, they want to contribute to the team success.

Top: Buffalo Sabres left wing Matt Moulson battles for the puck as Calgary Flames defenceman Mark Giordano and goaltender Karri Ramo defend during an NHL game in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 14.

Right: Calgary Flames goalie Reto Berra makes a save against the Florida Panthers during NHL action in Calgary, November 22.

Photos by THE CANADIAN PRESS and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

They get along great together. We’re trying to give them streaks where if they play well, we ride them.”

Berra started 11 of 12 games in one stretch, starting with a spectacular 42-save win in his NHL debut in Chicago.

Lately it’s been Ramo’s turn, as he has started eight of the last 12 and is playing his finest hockey of the year.

Please see FLAMES on Page B6

Canada begins quests to end gold medal drought WORLD JUNIOR HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MALMO, Sweden — Ending a four-year run without a gold medal won’t be easy for Canada at the world junior hockey championship.

The quest begins with what is supposed to be an easy one, although Germany has traditionally been a stubborn opponent to Canadian teams at international tournaments.

“You’ve got to expect they’ll be structured and hard working,” coach Brent Sutter said Wednesday after a one-hour skate at the cosy Isstadion, where they face the Germans on Thursday (7:30 a.m. ET).

“They’ll be ready to play.

“That game is the biggest game to date we have.

It doesn’t matter our opponent, it’s how we have to play. Let’s make sure we’re responsible.”

Pre-tournament exhibition games against Finland, Sweden and Switzerland showed that while the Canadian squad — led by Halifax Mooseheads star

Jonathan Drouin — will be among the better teams in the 10-team event, it doesn’t have the speed and offensive flash of some of the 15 Canadian teams that won gold in the past.

The host team Sweden, with at least 10 players returning from a squad that won silver last year in Ufa, Russia, looks like the team to beat, especially after the 3-0 beating they put on Canada in an exhibition game last week.

The Swedes are in the opposite first-round group and will play at the newer, much larger Malmo Arena.

Canada has only three players back from the 2013 tournament. They include Drouin, Jake Paterson (who didn’t dress for any games in Ufa as the third goalie), and defenceman Griffin Reinhart, who is suspended for the first three games this year from a slashing incident in last year’s semifinals.

The loss in Ufa ended Canada’s 14-year run of topthree finishes at the tournament officially called the IIHF world under-20 championship.

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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This year’s squad is younger than most, and should be a showcase for three players not even eligible to be drafted by the NHL yet.

First among them is Connor McDavid, the dazzling 16-year-old playmaker and scoring star of the Erie Otters who will not be eligible for the draft until 2015.

There is also forward Sam Reinhart of the Kootenay Ice, the younger brother of Griffin Reinhart, along with big defenceman Aaron Ekblad of the Barrie Colts. They may go one-two in the 2014 draft.

Sutter has McDavid and Reinhart on the wings with centre Bo Horvat, an imposing Vancouver Canucks prospect from the London Knights. They were the only line to stay together through the team’s three pre-tournament games.

Reinhart turned 18 in November and is not a true “underage” junior, and Sutter uses him as he would a seasoned veteran. In exhibition play, he played the power play and on the penalty kill. In one instance when Canada was short-handed two men, he was the lone forward on the ice.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Swift Current 38 20 13 1 4 132 114 Regina 36 18 14 2 2 120 130 Brandon 35 18 14 3 0 129 129 Prince Albert 35 17 16 2 0 121 124 Moose Jaw 37 10 21 3 3 97 139 Saskatoon 38 10 25 1 2 109 157 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Calgary 34 22 7 2 3 119 90 Edmonton 34 23 10 0 1 129 86 Medicine Hat 35 21 11 3 0 119 100 Kootenay 37 18 16 2 1 109 109 Red Deer 35 17 16 0 2 104 108 Lethbridge 38 6 27 2 3 96 174

Pt 45 40 39 36 26 23 Pt 49 47 45 39 36 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 33 28 3 0 2 138 81 58 Victoria 38 23 13 0 2 111 94 48 Vancouver 37 17 13 5 2 122 126 41 Prince George 37 14 18 2 3 110 140 33 Kamloops 36 9 23 2 2 90 145 22 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 35 23 8 2 2 165 117 50 Everett 36 22 10 4 0 115 96 48 Seattle 35 21 10 1 3 131 121 46 Spokane 35 21 12 0 2 127 105 44 Tri-City 36 17 16 1 2 94 102 37 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Friday, Dec. 27 Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Prince George at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Nathan Burns, Sas Carter Popoff, Van Branden Troock, Sea Shea Theodore, Sea

15 10 17 13

GOALTENDING (Minimum 660 minutes played) W L Tristan Jarry, Edm 22 8 Jordan Cooke, Kel 20 1 Brendan Burke, Por 20 7 Eric Williams, Spo 18 8 Austin Lotz, Eve 16 8 Patrik Polivka, Vic 16 9 Daw. MacAuley, Reg 16 9 Patrik Bartosak, RD 15 12 Chris Driedger, Cal 14 6 Eric Comrie, TC 14 13

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OT 1 2 4 1 1 1 2 2 5 3

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GAA SO 2.11 4 2.26 2 3.10 0 2.49 2 2.37 4 2.55 4 3.29 2 2.87 2 2.30 2 2.52 1

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Boston 37 25 10 2 52 Tampa Bay 37 23 11 3 49 Montreal 38 22 13 3 47 Detroit 39 17 13 9 43 Toronto 39 18 16 5 41 Ottawa 39 15 17 7 37 Florida 38 14 19 5 33 Buffalo 37 10 24 3 23 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 39 27 11 1 55 Washington 37 19 14 4 42 Philadelphia 37 17 16 4 38 N.Y. Rangers38 18 18 2 38 New Jersey 38 15 16 7 37 Columbus 37 16 17 4 36 Carolina 37 14 15 8 36 N.Y. Islanders38 11 20 7 29

GF GA 106 77 106 87 96 84 99 108 106 113 111 126 88 123 66 105 GF GA 121 88 117 112 93 104 88 102 92 99 101 106 86 105 96 129

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 39 26 7 6 58 145 107 St. Louis 36 24 7 5 53 128 85 Colorado 36 23 10 3 49 106 88 Minnesota 39 20 14 5 45 88 96 Dallas 36 18 12 6 42 106 107 Winnipeg 39 16 18 5 37 103 116 Nashville 37 16 17 4 36 85 109 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 39 27 7 5 59 127 98 Los Angeles 38 25 9 4 54 106 76 San Jose 37 23 8 6 52 121 94 Vancouver 39 22 11 6 50 106 93 Phoenix 36 19 10 7 45 111 110 Calgary 37 14 17 6 34 95 118 Edmonton 39 12 24 3 27 101 135 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s games Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Tri-City at Portland, 8 p.m.

Kootenay at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Prince George at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games No games scheduled

Sunday, December 29 Red Deer at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

NHL Scoring Leaders Through Dec. 24

Western Hockey League Leaders CALGARY — Western Hockey League statistics (through holiday break): SCORING G A Pt Mitch Holmberg, Spo 37 37 74 Nicolas Petan, Por 20 46 66 Joshua Winquist, Eve 26 33 59 Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por 25 31 56 Leon Draisaitl, PA 18 33 51 Mike Aviani, Spo 26 24 50 Sam Reinhart, Koo 16 34 50 Graham Black, SC 17 32 49 Jaedon Descheneau, Koo 23 25 48 Nikita Scherbak, Sas 20 28 48 Taylor Leier, Por 22 21 43 Brendan Leipsic, Por 20 23 43 Colby Cave, SC 20 23 43 Boston Leier, MH-Reg 24 18 42 Chandler Stephenson, Reg 13 29 42 Conner Bleackley, RD 17 24 41

Sidney Crosby, Pit Patrick Kane, Chi Ryan Getzlaf, Anh Nic. Backstrom, Was Alex Ovechkin, Was Corey Perry, Anh Evgeni Malkin, Pit Joe Thornton, SJ Chris Kunitz, Pit John Tavares, NYI Alexander Steen, StL Tyler Seguin, Dal Martin St. Louis, TB Erik Karlsson, Ott

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32 1885 Ben Bishop T. Bay 28 1650 Antti Niemi S. Jose 32 1906 Tuukka Rask Boston 29 1729

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Corey Crawford Chic.

Jaroslav Halak StL. Carey Price Mon. Jonas Hiller Ana. Sem. Varlamov Col. Roberto Luongo Van. Mike Smith Pnx. Kari Lehtonen Dallas Steve Mason Phila.

Braden Holtby Wash.

Martin Brodeur N.J. Ondrej Pavelec Winn.

J. Gustavsson Det. Jonathan Quick LA. Craig Anderson Ott. Jonathan Bernier Tor. Sergei Bobrovsky Col. Henrik Lundqvist NYR

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2014 World Junior Hockey Championship Schedule MALMO, Sweden — Schedule for the 2014 IIHF world junior hockey championship: Round Robin Thursday, Dec. 26 Germany vs. Canada, 5:30 a.m.

Norway vs. Russia, 7 a.m.

Czech Republic vs. U.S., 9:30 a.m.

Switzerland vs. Sweden, 11 a.m.

Friday, Dec. 27 Slovakia vs. Germany, 7 a.m.

Finland vs. Norway, 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 28 U.S. vs. Slovakia, 5:30 a.m.

Sweden vs. Finland, 7 a.m.

Canada vs. Czech Republic, 9:30 a.m.

Russia vs. Switzerland, 11 a.m.

Sunday, Dec. 29 Germany vs. U.S., 7 a.m.

Norway vs. Sweden, 9:30 a.m.

Monday, Dec. 30 Czech Republic vs. Germany, 5:30 a.m.

Russia vs. Finland, 7 a.m.

Canada vs. Slovakia, 9:30 a.m.

Switzerland vs. Norway, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 31 Slovakia vs. Czech Republic, 5:30 a.m.

Sweden vs. Russia, 6 a.m.

U.S. vs. Canada, 9:30 a.m.

Finland vs. Switzerland, 10 a.m.

End of round robin Final World Junior Canadian Roster CALGARY — The final roster announced by Hockey Canada Sunday for the Canadian world junior team (with hometown and current CHL team): Goaltenders Zachary Fucale, Rosemere, Que., Halifax (QMJHL); Jake Paterson, Mississauga, Ont., Saginaw (OHL).

Defencemen Chris Bigras, Woodland Beach, Ont., Owen Sound (OHL); Mathew Dumba, Calgary, Minnesota Wild (NHL); Aaron Ekblad, Belle River, Ont., Barrie (OHL); Josh Morrissey, Calgary, Prince Albert (WHL); Adam Pelech, Toronto, Erie (OHL); Derrick Pouliot, Weyburn, Sask., Portland (WHL); Griffin Reinhart, West Vancouver, B.C., Edmonton (WHL).

Forwards Josh Anderson, Burlington, Ont., London (OHL); Jonathan Drouin, Huberdeau, Que., Halifax (QMJHL); Frederik Gauthier, Mascouche, Que., Rimouski (QMJHL); Bo Horvat, Rodney, Ont., London (OHL); Charles Hudon, Boisbriand, Que., Chicoutimi (QMJHL); Scott Laughton, Oakville, Ont., Oshawa (OHL); Curtis Lazar, Vernon, B.C., Edmonton (WHL); Taylor Leier, Saskatoon, Portland (WHL); Anthony Mantha, Longueuil, Que., Val-d’Or (QMJHL).

Connor McDavid, Newmarket, Ont., Erie (OHL); Nic Petan, Delta, B.C., Portland (WHL); Sam Reinhart, West Vancouver, B.C., Kootenay (WHL); Kerby Rychel, Tecumseh, Ont., Windsor (OHL).

World Junior Hockey Championship Medallists The top three finishers at the world junior hockey championship since 1974 (in order of gold, silver, bronze): 2013 — U.S., Sweden, Russia 2012 — Sweden, Russia, Canada 2011 — Russia, Canada, U.S.

2010 — U.S., Canada, Sweden 2009 — Canada, Sweden, Russia 2008 — Canada, Sweden, Russia 2007 — Canada, Russia, U.S. 2006 — Canada, Russia, Finland 2005 — Canada, Russia, Czech Republic 2004 — U.S., Canada, Finland 2003 — Russia, Canada, Finland 2002 — Russia, Canada, Finland 2001 — Czech Republic, Finland, Canada 2000 — Czech Republic, Russia, Canada 1999 — Russia, Canada, Slovakia 1998 — Finland, Russia, Switzerland 1997 — Canada, U.S., Russia 1996 — Canada, Sweden, Russia 1995 — Canada, Russia, Sweden 1994 — Canada, Sweden, Russia 1993 — Canada, Sweden, Czech-Slovak 1992 — C.I.S., Sweden, U.S

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Canadian Spengler Cup Roster CALGARY — Roster announced by Hockey Canada Sunday for the Canadian Spengler Cup team (with hometown and current team): Goaltenders Chris Mason, Red Deer, Ritten Sport (Italy); Allen York, Wetaskiwin, Rockford IceHogs(AHL).

Defencemen Brendan Bell, Ottawa, EHC Biel (Switzerland); Micki DuPont, Calgary, Kloten Flyers (Switzerland); Travis Ehrhardt, Calgary, Stavanger Oilers (Norway); Geof Kinrade, Nelson, B.C., SC Bern (Switzerland); Joel Kwiatkowski, Kindersley, Sask., Fribourg-Gotteron (Switzerland); Maxim Noreau, Montreal, HC AmbriPiotta (Switzerland); Travis Roche, Grande Cache, Alta., SC Bern (Switzerland); Jim Vandermeer, Caroline, Kloten Flyers (Switzerland); Derrick Walser, New Glasgow, N.S., Rapperswil-Jona (Switzerland).

Forwards Eric Beaudoin, Ottawa, EHC Biel (Switzerland); Alexandre Bolduc, Montreal, Chicago Wolves (AHL); Colby Genoway, Morden, Man., Lausanne HC (Switzerland); Alexandre Giroux, Quebec City, HC AmbriPiotta (Switzerland); Darren Haydar, Milton, Ont., EHC Munchen (Germany); Ryan MacMurchy, Regina, EHC Biel (Switzerland); Brett McLean, Comox, B.C., HC Lugano (Switzerland); Glen Metropolit, Toronto, HC Lugano (Switzerland); Jacob Micflikier, Winnipeg, HC Lugano (Switzerland); Byron Ritchie, North Delta, B.C., SC Bern (Switzerland).

Ahren Spylo, Waterloo, Ont., EHC Biel (Switzerland); Anthony Stewart, Toronto, Fribourg-Gotteron (Switzerland); Jason Williams, London, Ont., HC Ambri-Piotta (Switzerland).

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Sunday, Dec. 29 Houston at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

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

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 11 a.m.

Denver at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Chicago, 2:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 2:25 p.m.

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

Philadelphia at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

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FLAMES: Decisions He’s gone 4-2-2 in that span with a 2.06 goals-against average and .925 save percentage.

On the season, Ramo is 6-6-3 with a 2.79 GAA and a .904 save percentage.

He attended Finland’s Olympic orientation in July, but thinks there is little chance he’ll be in Sochi this February given the country’s depth at the goaltending position.

It’s unclear if Nashville netminder Pekka Rinne will be ready for the Games as he’s still recovering from a hip infection. However, Finland is still loaded with other options, including Boston’s Tuukka Rask, San Jose’s Antti Niemi and Kari Lehtonen of Dallas.

“With Finland and the goalies, pretty easy decisions for the people who are selecting,” said Ramo. “They’ve been well known for so long in Finland and played in the NHL for so long and have been so good.”

It’s a different scenario for Berra.

After a strong showing last May at the world championships, he fully expects to be in the mix on the Swiss team.

“For sure,” Berra said. “Plus I’ve made my next step personally by now playing in the NHL.” The Flames, who sit 11 points out of a playoff spot in the Western Conference, return to action Friday against the visiting Edmonton Oilers.

WJC: All-purpose “He’s an all-purpose player,” said Sutter. “He just knows how to play the game.

“He’s an intelligent player and his

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paying attention to details in all sorts of situations is very high. As a coach, you’re very comfortable playing him in whatever situation that occurs.”

Reinhart is used to the ice time with Kootenay and was a captain on Canadian under-18 teams, so he likes the responsibility Sutter has given him.

“It gives you confidence for opening night,” he said. “We took some games to find our mentality and what we’ll bring to the first one.

“We feel confident in our game right now. The focus has turned onto the first game against Germany and we’re looking forward to it.”

The exhibition games were a test for Drouin, the third overall pick of the Tampa Bay Lightning last June.

Sutter blasted him for a weak showing against Sweden, even though it was Drouin’s first game since suffering a concussion in a league game with Halifax on Dec. 8. He was moved from left wing to centre for the final exhibition against the Swiss and played better.

“Brent said some stuff,” said Drouin, who will likely centre big winger Anthony Mantha and the defensively solid Taylor Leier of the Portland Winterhawks. “I know I played bad and didn’t help the team.

“I had to step up my game against the Swiss and I think I did. I feel better. The first game was a little rough.

It’s been three weeks (since he played) and it’s different from major junior.

It’s way more fast, but I think the second game was better.”

Another question to be settled was in goal, and Sutter believes he’s found his man in Paterson of the Saginaw Spirit, who will start against Germany. The Mooseheads’ Zach Fucale will start the tournament as the backup, but Sutter expects both will see action in the tournament.

Other lines are likely to have Nic Petan of Portland between Curtis Lazar of the Edmonton Oil Kings and

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Friday

2013 Spengler Cup Schedule Round Robin Thursday, Dec. 26 Geneve-Servette (Swtizerland) vs. Rochester (AHL), 7 a.m.

Canada vs. Vitkovice (Czech Republic), 12:15 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 27 CSKA Moscow (Russia) vs. TBA, 7 a.m.

Davos (Switzerland) vs. TBA, 12:15 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 28 CSKA Moscow (Russia) vs. TBA, 7 a.m.

Davos (Switzerland) vs. TBA, 12:15 p.m.

End or round robin

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Today

● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Mac’s tournament — Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs. Notre Dame Argos, 10 a.m., Father David Bauer Arena. ● Major midget girls hockey: Calgary Mac’s tournament — Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Fraser Valley Phantoms, 4:30 p.m., Max Bell Centre 2.

Thursday’s Games Atlanta at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 6 p.m.

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

L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Detroit at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

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

Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Denver at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

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

Miami at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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

Kerby Rychel of the Gueph Storm; and captain Scott Laughton of the Oshawa Generals with Frederik Gauthier of the Rimouski Oceanic and Josh Anderson of the Knights. Charles Hudon of the Chicoutimi Sagueneens may slot in the Drouin line.

The defence will likely be rearranged when Griffin Reinhart returns Dec. 31 against the Americans. Sutter has been trying various combinations for a group that includes Ekblad, Matt Dumba of the Minnesota Wild, Chris Bigras of the Owen Sound Attack, McDavid’s Erie teammate Adam Pelech, Josh Morrissey of the Prince Albert Raiders and Derrick Pouliot of Portland.

Without a high-powered attack, there has been much talk of playing “Boston Bruins hockey,” which despite popular perception does not mean hammering everyone who moves, but rather working the puck up the ice in tight, five-man units and playing a controlled two-way game.

“It is the makeup of our team,” said Sutter, who won gold with a similar group in 2006. “We have to support each other.

“We can’t be a spread-out team that’s playing one zone and two zones ahead. We have to be coming out of zones together and using each other.

When one guy has the puck, the other four have to be options and be available for plays. And we have to be smart when we’re hitting the red line. We can’t have turnovers.”

The game against Germany is a chance to see flashy forward Leon Draisaitl, who is Morrissey’s teammate in Prince Albert. Draisaitl is a projected top-10 pick in 2014.

They played against one another at the under-18 championship, and Morrissey said they have been joking about meeting again at the world juniors.

“He’s a really skilled player,” the Calgary native said. “We’ve become

● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Mac’s tournament — Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs. Okanagan Rockets, 11:45 a.m., Father David Bauer Arena. ● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Major midget girls hockey: Calgary Mac’s tournament — Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Calgary Bruins, 8:30 p.m., Max Bell Centre 2.

Saturday

● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Mac’s tournament — Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs. Cariboo Cougars, 2:30 p.m., Max Bell Centre 1. ● Major midget girls hockey: Calgary Mac’s tournament — Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Peace Country Storm, 3:30 p.m., Max Bell Centre 2.

Sunday

● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Mac’s tournament — Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs. Calgary Flames, 1:45 a.m., Father David Bauer Arena. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Edmonton Oil Kings, 4 p.m. (The Drive).

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Claimed RHP Liam Hendriks off waivers from the Chicago Cubs.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Claimed OF Jerry Sands off waivers from Pittsburgh.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with INF Munenori Kawasaki on a minor league contract.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Jamey Wright and Chris Perez on oneyear contracts and LHP J.P. Howell on a two-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Brooklyn F Paul Pierce $15,000 for making excessive and unnecessary contact with Indiana G George Hill during Monday’s game.

FOOTBALL National Football League DENVER BRONCOS — Signed LB Brandon Marshall. Placed LB Von Miller on injured reserve.

Signed WR Nathan Palmer to the practice squad.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed CB Johnathan Joseph and RB Deji Karim on injured reserve.

Signed FB Toben Opurum from Kansas City’s practice squad and RB Ray Graham.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed DT Montori Hughes on injured reserve. Released LB Darin Drakeford from the practice squad. Signed LB Alan Baxter to the practice squad.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed WR Jerrell Jackson, RB Eric Kettani and LB/DE Ridge Wilson to the practice squad. Released WR Fred Williams.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Released WR Nathan Palmer from the practice squad. Signed WR Reggie Dunn to the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed LB Nick Barnett on injured reserve. Signed LB Adrian Robinson; LB Will Compton from the practice squad; and TE Gabe Miller to the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Assigned D Maxime Fortunus to Texas (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Reassigned G Jacob Markstrom and D Alex Petrovic to San Antonio (AHL). Activated G Tim Thomas from injured reserve.

WINNIPEG JETS — Agreed to terms with G Eric Comrie on a three-year, two-way, entry-level contract.

American Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMEN — Released F Paul Chiasson from his three-game tryout. Signed F Corey Tamblyn.

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Cincinnati F Tony Turgeon two games and Utah LW Kris Hogg indefinitely and fined them undisclosed amounts.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Loaned M Clint Dempsey to Fulham (Premier League-England).

Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with 3B Juan Uribe.

FOOTBALL National Football League DALLAS COWBOYS — Released WR/KR Micheal Spurlock. Signed QB Jon Kitna.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Placed S Cooper Taylor on injured reserve. Signed G Eric Herman from the practice squad and CB Travis Howard to the practice squad.

almost best friends on our team.

“He’s got phenomenal vision. I think he plays like (Anze) Kopitar. He likes (Pavel) Datsyuk a lot. All I can say is he’s an unreal player.” ● Jake Paterson will be in goal when Canada opens the world junior hockey championship against Germany.

The Saginaw Spirit goalie was expected to be named the starter after playing in the team’s final two exhibition games against Sweden and Switzerland.

“Paterson will start Game 1 and we’ll make a determination after that game’s over who will start in Game 2,” coach Brent Sutter said after a onehour practice Wednesday morning.

Canada opens the 10-country tournament against the Germans on Thursday.

Zach Fucale of the Halifax Mooseheads will serve as back-up, but may get to play later in the tournament.

“Let’s see how Game 1 goes,” said Sutter. “You’ve got to assume when you’re playing a lot of games in a short period of time that you’ll need both goalies, but we’ll start with Patty and make a determination after that who will play in Game 2.”

The 19-year-old Paterson was thrilled.

He was at last year’s world juniors in Ufa, Russia as the third goalie, but never got to dress for a game. Now he will finally wear a Team Canada jersey on the ice.

“It’s really exciting,” the Mississauga, Ont. native said. “(Goalie coach) Fred Braithwaite came up and told me I was going in and then Brent came up after practice and said I was playing. It was really exciting to hear the news.”

Canada will likely have to play an extra game this year. In the past, a team that finished first in its openinground group got a bye to the semifinals. Now the top four in each group all have to play in the quarter-finals.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013 B7

Bosh, Wade lead Heat over Lakers Breakout year for Brad Jacobs tops Canadian curling stories in 2013 in NBA Christmas matchup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HEAT 101 LAKERS 95 LOS ANGELES — Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade had 23 points apiece, and the Miami Heat beat the Los Angeles Lakers 10195 on Wednesday for their sixth straight win.

Bosh also had 11 rebounds in the Heat’s fifth consecutive victory against the Lakers on Christmas Day. LeBron James added 19 points and Ray Allen had 12.

Miami improved to 7-0 against the Western Conference this season with its 19th straight overall win against West opponents.

Nick Young scored 20 points for the Lakers, who were tied four times in the fourth quarter. Los Angeles was hurt by a poor shooting night in its third straight loss.

THUNDER 123 KNICKS 94 NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 29 points, Russell Westbrook had a triple-double by the middle of the third quarter, and Oklahoma rolled past New York, which played without Carmelo Anthony.

The Durant-Anthony showdown between the NBA’s top two scorers was cancelled because of Anthony’s sprained left ankle, so the Thunder had the Christmas spotlight to themselves while winning for the 10th time in 11 games. The 29-point victory was the largest for a road team on Christmas.

Westbrook finished with 14 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists in his first tripledouble of the season and

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Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant shoots against New York Knicks forward Kenyon Martin, center, as guard J.R. Smith, left, and forward Amare Stoudemire (1) watch during an NBA game at Madison Square Garden, Wednesday, in New York. seventh of his career. Serge Ibaka added 24 points on 10-of-14 shooting.

Amare Stoudemire scored a season-high 22 points, and Tim Hardaway Jr. had 21 for the Knicks, who also were missing starting point guard Raymond Felton. J.R. Smith scored 20 points, but shot 8 for 22 and was booed when he left the court for good.

BULLS 95, NETS 78 NEW YORK (AP) — Taj Gibson scored 20 points

and Jimmy Butler added 15 to help Chicago rout Brooklyn.

Trailing 50-49 early in the third quarter, the Bulls took over behind Butler.

He keyed a 21-5 run that gave Chicago control. Butler, who sat out the last game because of a right ankle injury, started the burst with a 3-pointer and had a three-point play that made it 57-52.

Deron Williams scored 18 points for Brooklyn. The Nets have lost four straight.

TORONTO — The Brad Jacobs rink started the year by winning its first Tim Hortons Brier and ended 2013 by qualifying for the Sochi Games.

It was a breakout effort that signalled the team was no flash in the pan. Jacobs and his teammates are young, powerful and appear ready for a long run at the top.

Their emergence as one of the country’s top rinks was one of the top Canadian curling stories in 2013.

“We want to be known as one of the best teams ever and I think that’s what drives us,” said Ryan Fry, who plays third on the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.-based team.

Jennifer Jones will join them in Sochi after locking up the women’s spot with a victory over Sherry Middaugh at the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings in her hometown of Winnipeg.

An Olympic win is the one prize that has eluded Jones over her illustrious career. The 39-year-old has won four national titles and reached the world championship podium twice — taking gold in 2008 and bronze in 2010.

Rachel Homan’s rink out of Ottawa also enjoyed a strong season.

She beat Jones in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts final and then took bronze at the world championship in Riga, Latvia.

Homan dropped an 8-7 decision to Scotland’s Eve Muirhead in the semifinal. Muirhead then beat Sweden’s Margaretha Sigfridsson for the gold.

Homan struggled at times during the Olympic trials before settling for third place. Her team still made big strides in 2013 and is expected to be a force on the women’s side for years to come.

It’s an interesting time on the men’s scene with top skips like Kevin Martin, Glenn Howard and Jeff Stoughton still playing at a high level as they enter the twilight

of their careers.

Jacobs topped all three veterans en route to a perfect 8-0 record at the Olympic trials. His team of Fry and brothers E.J. and Ryan Harnden defeated John Morris 7-4 in the championship game.

“Brad Jacobs might be the hottest curler in the world,” said Russ Howard, a two-time world champion and curling broadcaster.

“They were very impressive. To go through the Olympic trials 8-0, that’s a pretty tough bonspiel.”

Jacobs added a silver medal in his first appearance at the world championship, dropping an 8-6 decision to Sweden’s Niklas Edin. Fry said the team learned a lot about preparation and focus from that event.

“We spent a lot of time reading press clippings,” he said. “We didn’t do the right things to prepare ourselves for worlds. We went into it on a high and when the carpet came out from under us, we really had to refocus to be able to even pull it back to get to the final.”

Fry added that their international experience and strong results against tough competition have them feeling confident ahead of Sochi.

Morris was at the centre of a big off-season story as he left the Martin rink last spring after seven seasons. Morris felt the team had run its course after an impressive run that included a world title, two Brier victories and Olympic gold at the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

Dave Nedohin replaced him on the Martin rink while Morris later teamed up with Jim Cotter. Morris handled skip duties while throwing third stones and did well to guide the team to the final of the Trials.

Jacobs and Jones will both be playing at the Winter Games for the first time. The Olympic curling competition begins Feb. 10 at the Ice Cube Curling Center.

The 2014 Scotties will be held Feb. 1-9 in Montreal and the Brier is set for March 1-9 in Kamloops, B.C.

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THURSDAY, DEC. 26, 2013

DOWNTOWN PRIDE

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

LACOMBE — This city’s charming historic downtown quite literally rose from the ashes.

After a devastating fire in 1906 reduced much of the community’s heart to smoking ruins the council of the day took action.

It was decreed that all remaining wooden structures must be faced with brick and new buildings had to be built entirely of brick.

More than a century on, the legacy of that decision is a mother lode of Edwardian architecture and the community’s bragging rights to being one of Alberta’s prettiest.

Lacombe’s unusually well preserved downtown is a source of local pride, and has not gone unnoticed by outsiders.

In November, the Canadian Institute Photos by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff of Planners included Lacombe among Marie PÈron, executive director of Lacombe Regional its list of five Great Places, chosen from nearly 70 nominees from across the Tourism outside the iconic Flatiron building in Lacombe. country.

Judge Gary Noble noted that in Lacombe “the heritage Edwardian buildings are seen as a valuable community resource not only to be appreciated but to be used.”

He pointed out the downtown’s vitality has been supported by city programs that have made it the centre of community activities year round.

City of Lacombe planner Jennifer Kirchner was the one who got the ball rolling on the successful nomination after getting a reminder of the contest from the planning association.

“I thought, ‘You know what, this year I’ll nominate something.’ Main Street just popped out as the perfect nomination.”

Kirchner couldn’t be more pleased that her city did so well.

Marie Péron, executive director of the Lacombe and District Historical Society, is also thrilled, particularly since the other hat she wears is heading up Lacombe Regional Tourism.

Being chosen as one of Canada’s Great Places can only help boost the city’s profile.

“It’s a true boon to Lacombe,” says Péron, who works out of Lacombe’s distinctive 1904 Flat Iron Building, one of only two in the province and the oldest by nine years to the other in Edmonton.

“It’s wonderful news for Lacombe Regional Tourism. Hopefully, it will shine a light on our community.”

The honour will be front and centre of an updated tourism marketing strategy that will be rolled out next year with new logos, brochures and website.

Historic buildings offer entry points into the past and attract what the tourism industry calls “cultural explorers,” who are the kinds of visitors who seek authentic experiences and love to get to know a new place.

“Heritage is a key component of the kind of tourism we can offer,” says Péron.

A historical walking tour guide available at the museum lists two dozen historic buildings, packed into less than two square blocks.

It is estimated that at least 3,000 to 4,000 tourists visit local historical sites yearly based on counts at the Flatiron Museum and Interpretive Centre, Michener House and Museum and Blacksmith Shop Museum. Likely many other visitors come and go uncounted.

Kirchner says the city has long recognized its unique heritage collection. In December, the city capped off a four-year quest to designate its first historically significant building.

St. Andrew’s United Church, built in 1908, made the grade and others are to follow.

Eight other buildings in town have been designated as historically significant by the province.

So how is it that Lacombe has managed to hold on to its history?

The simple answer was the brick edict of 1906, the wisdom of which was reinforced by a second bad fire in 1913.

“That really set the course for what our community looks like today,” says Péron.

But other factors worked in the community’s favour as well.

Lacombe also benefitted from its early prosperity.

When the town was booming in the early 1900s, Red Deer was seen as the poorer cousin. With the money flowing in Lacombe, those who were building, built big and built well.

A testament to that wealth can be seen in the rows of historic homes that lines the main road into town.

In later years, Lacombe’s steady but unspectacular growth insulated it from the kind of tear-it-down mentality that followed economic booms in so many Alberta communities.

Both Péron and Kirchner also believe there has long been a recognition among Lacombe residents of the city’s unique historical heritage. Many of the old homes, which in a lot of communities would have been left to decay to the point where they are unsalvageable, have been meticulously maintained.

Historical building owners downtown also saw little value in knocking down historical gems for the sake of new.

A case in point is the local Home Hardware store. Owned for the last 27 years by the Nowochin family, the main store features 10-metre ceilings covered in decorative pressed tin and original lighting. A mezzanine wraps around three sides of the space that is little changed from a century ago.

Tyler Nowochin is the third generation of his family to operate the hardware store.

“It’s got it’s ‘Wow’ factor, I’ll put it that way,” he says.

However, owning a building that is more than a century old has its challenges, he says. “It’s expensive to repair,” he says.

It took months to find parts for the heating system, and that is a newer system not original to the building.

The quality of construction can’t be denied though. The building was inspected recently and passed with flying colours thanks to the kinds of large, solid timbers that have disappeared from modern construction.

“The guy who came in could not believe how good a shape it was in.”

Nowochin can’t resist showing off the old boiler for the steam-heated building. The six-metre long iron monstrosity lurks in the basement. Silent for decades, it is an impressive piece of Victorian ingenuity.

Other fascinating glimpses of century-old industry can be found on the second floor of the former M & J Hardware store at 4910 50th Ave. The Gallery on Main, a 2,300-square-foot art gallery featuring original works from a large number of Alberta artists, is located on the second floor.

In the print room, a 750-square-foot space at the back of the building a handoperated freight elevator can be found, a fascinating reminder of the building’s mercantile past.

A steep set of stairs leads browsers to the gallery prompting the slogan: “Our stairs are good for your heart, our art is good for your soul.”

For more information on Lacombe go to www.lacombe tourism.com pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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

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Columnist misses fishing, continues writing

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF If there is one thing awardwinning outdoors writer Bob Scammell wishes he could get up and do at any given time, it would be to hit the sparkling turquoise waters of Cuba and drop a line.

For the 76-year-old Red Deer man who has fished and hunted all over the world, Cuba is his own personal Mecca in the fishing world.

“It’s a different kind of fishing than what we do around here. It’s saltwater flyfishing and fishing in shallow water. Incredible quarry there, too. I’d head out tomorrow if I could. It’s just an amazing place.”

Unfortunately, Scammell, who has been writing a column for the Red Deer Advocate since May 1966, can no longer embark on the adventures he was once used to.

Four years ago he was diagnosed with a rare muscle disease called inclusion body myositis (IBM) that has made it extremely difficult to get around.

The disorder brings on chronic, progressive muscle inflammation accompanied by muscle weakness and has primarily affected Scammell’s legs.

Now, he said he can feel it starting to creep into his hands.

“It’s frustrating because otherwise I’m really healthy.

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Bob Scammell, an avid outdoors columnist, wrote his first piece for the Red Deer Advocate in May, 1966. He continues to write about his passion for wildlife and the land, despite an increasingly demobilizing disease connected to muscle atrophy. and I feel great, I just can’t get around,” he said. “I can still write for now at least . . . It was hardest to give up trout fishing.”

Scammell not only writes for various publications across the globe; he is also a photographer, activist and organizer and practised law in Red Deer for 38 years before retiring.

Earlier this year he was awarded the 2013 Bell Memorial Award and was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.

“I’ve always had a great in-

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“One of the reasons I approached the Advocate was because fundamentally I wanted to keep writing.

“I didn’t want to quit — I couldn’t quit, most likely because I still can’t.”

Scammell’s passion for writing most likely stemmed from his mother Elsie, who was a “stringer” for the Calgary Herald or what is also known as a regular freelance writer that was paid by the inch.

His appreciation for the great outdoors came from his

father, Harry.

“My dad loved to fish and hunt and I accompanied him.

He was approaching genius when it came to gardening so I got that from him as well,” Scammell said.

“My mother was also a considerable outdoors girl herself, going on digs in the Badlands with some of the legendary paleontologists before it became a dinosaur park. And she was extremely interested in birds, moths and butterflies and got me started collecting them as a kid.”

He grew up as an only child on 3rd Street heading west in Brooks.

“It was the last street. As I always said, you just had to step across the street and there it was: all the great outdoors.”

Scammell attended the University of Alberta for a degree in French and English and became editor in chief of the school’s newspaper.

He went on to take a summer job as a reporter with the Calgary Herald and covered the Robert Raymond Cook murder story.

Cook, the last man to hang in Alberta, was accused of butchering seven family members in Stettler.

Scammell then changed speeds and set out for law school at Dalhousie University in Halifax where Brian Mulroney was a classmate in first year.

He put himself through school working the summers as a welder’s helper for the

Alberta Gas Trunk Line Company, now Nova Chemicals.

He wrote four books, publishing three of them, met and married his wife Barbara, who worked as an editor for the Advocate for a period of time, and the couple have two children.

Along the way, Scammell cast his lines in Belize, Greece, Italy and all over the United States, fishing for octopus as well as squid, and hunted elk for three seasons on the Bull Mountains in Montana.

That being said, the vast majority of his fondest outdoor moments come from under 100 km outside of Red Deer, he said.

“Barbara grew up on a ranch that Pincher Creek runs right through. That’s my favourite trout stream out of all of them.”

However, the biggest thing for Scammell, an avid volunteer in organizations such as the Alberta Fish and Game Association and Canadian Wildlife Federation, when he took up the pen was addressing the numerous ways public land is being “disrespected and abused,” leading to situations such as the endangered sage grouse, he said.

“I’ll go to my grave up in arms over this,” he said.

“My father owner several small farms and he had a great land ethic and he drummed it into me. Look after the land and it’ll look after you.” rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate. com

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RECEIVE EARLY RELEASE FROM PRISON, DISCUSS JOINT HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KRASNOYARSK, Russia — Two members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were reunited on Tuesday after spending nearly two years in prison for their protest at Moscow’s main cathedral, and said they want to set up a human rights organization.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina were granted amnesty on Monday, two months short of their scheduled release, in what was seen as the Kremlin’s attempt to soothe criticism of Russia’s human rights record before the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February.

Alekhina flew into the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk early Tuesday to meet Tolokonnikova. They have said the amnesty and their release was a publicity stunt by the Kremlin before the Olympics.

Tolokonnikova has also called for a boycott of the Olympics.

Alekhina, still dressed in a dark green prison jacket, hugged Tolokonnikova and then shook hands.

Both women reiterated their Monday statement that they would like to focus their future work on helping prisoners, and that they will discuss setting up a human rights organization.

Their release came three days after President Vladimir Putin pardoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the onetime oil tycoon who had been behind bars more than 10 years in a case that critics said was Kremlin revenge for Khodorkovsky’s political involvement.

Khodorkovsky, who flew to Germany on Friday, issued a brief statement congratulating Alekhina and Tolokonnikova.

“I know that the last months have been a living hell for you and I am happy to learn that this torture, unworthy of a European country in the 21st century, has ended,” he said.

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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, left, speaks to the media after leaving prison in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. The third member of the Russian punk bank Pussy Riot left a prison colony in the eastern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Monday, hours after another band member, Maria Alekhina, right, was released in another region.

A third band member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was released on a suspended sentence shortly after the three were found guilty of hooliganism and sentenced to two years in prison in 2012 for their protest at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.

The women have denied the accusations that they

Jimmy Stewart museum in Pa. rebounds from adversity

DRUMMER RICKY LAWSON

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CELEBRATES MANY ASPECTS OF STAR’S LIFE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANA, Pa. — For a time it looked like the Jimmy Stewart Museum wasn’t going to make it.

It’s in the actor’s hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania — an hour’s drive from Pittsburgh and off the radar of many fans who might want to attend. And the pool of fans is shrinking as those who grew up during the era of Stewart’s films die out.

The number of tour buses that made special trips to the museum began to decline in 2009 and 2010, said Timothy Harley, the museum’s director.

“The situation became very dire. That caused some pretty considerable concern, he said.

But the outlook has improved, at least of the next few years he said, thanks to loyal fans who began sending donations as the word got out about the plight of the museum.

It turned out that many people still had warm feelings for the star of It’s a Wonderful Life, the 1947 Christmas classic that featured Stewart considering suicide, but being talked out of it by a guardian angel named Clarence.

The donations ranged from small to substantial, Harley said.

One was in an envelope containing a single dollar bill and a return address of “Clarence.” And last year, Ken and Carol Schultz, a San Diego couple originally from western Pennsylvania, began making yearly $25,000 donations, which matches what the Stewart family gives.

Harley said the donations have stabilized funding problems for the small museum with a limited staff and budget. But they’re not a long-term fix, he said.

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A framed plaque with a photograph of a scene from the 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life starring Jimmy Stewart, left, and a Hollywood star are on display at the Jimmy Stewart Museum in Indiana, Pa. The museum isn’t fancy, which is partly why Stewart gave his blessing to the project before he died in 1997.

It’s full of displays not just about movies, but about Stewart’s service as a bomber pilot in World War II, his well-to-do ancestors, and his family life.

Stewart flew more than 20 combat missions over Europe even though he was initially too thin to qualify for the military. Harley said Stewart’s no-nonsense military service resonates with many young people who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Stewart was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, The Air Medal, and the French Croix de Guerre, and by the time the war was over, he had risen from pri-

were driven by hatred of religion, and said their performance was aimed at raising concern about the close ties between the church and state.

Russia’s parliament passed the amnesty bill last week, allowing the release of thousands of inmates, including the two Pussy Riot members.

vate to the rank of Colonel.

Pauline Simms, president of the museum’s board of directors, said the displays that go beyond Hollywood are part of the attraction.

“The museum isn’t just about the man, it’s about the whole era. If fact, it’s why some people come,” said Simms, a native of the town who remembers getting Stewart’s autograph at the end of World War II. Still, there’s plenty in the museum to satisfy movie fans. Harley notes that Stewart didn’t just play the nice guy in some early films.

“He played the heavy or the gangster” in some of the 1930s films, Harley said, and the museum has dozens of movie posters on display.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Studio drummer Ricky Lawson, a collaborator with musicians including Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and Whitney Houston, has died at a suburban Los Angeles hospital following a brain aneurism. He was 59.

Lawson’s uncle, Paul Riser of Detroit, said Tuesday that Lawson was removed from life support 10 days after the aneurism diagnosis and died around 7 p.m. Monday.

Lawson was being treated at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in Long Beach, California, about 25 miles (40 kilometres) south of Los Angeles.

The Detroit native learned to play drums at age 16 and jumped into the music business even before graduating from Cooley High School, developing into one of the nation’s top studio musicians in the 1980s.

His work appears on Houston’s version of I Will Always Love You. He also performed with Al Jarreau, George Benson, Bette Midler, Quincy Jones and many others.

A founding member of the Yellowjackets, Lawson won a Grammy Award in 1986 for R&B instrumental performance for the jazz-fusion group’s hit And You Know That.

He became disoriented during a performance on Dec. 13 and was diagnosed with an aneurism.

Drummer Questlove Jenkins of The Roots called Lawson “the master” on Twitter Dec. 18 in a message saying, “praying for his recovery.”

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E-cigarettes take social scene by storm POSE HEADACHES FOR REGULATORS

You may not have known what an e-cigarette was at the start of 2013. But chances are, you do now.

Leo DiCaprio and Katherine Heigl puff on them. Talk show host Jenny McCarthy and actor Stephen Dorff hawk them. For that matter, so does Santa Claus (at least in one controversial billboard).

A telltale sign of the burgeoning popularity of e-cigarettes: Internet searches for the products have grown exponentially in recent years.

A study by U.S. researchers showed a several hundred-fold increase in searches for the devices over other smoking alternatives such as nicotine patches between 2008 and 2010.

“It’s far outpacing anything else in many parts of the world,” says senior author Dr. John Brownstein, an associate professor at Harvard University.

Another U.S. study suggested that in 2012, eight per cent of people in the general population had tried an e-cigarette, an activity that’s called vaping (it rhymes with taping). About a third of smokers reported having tried the devices.

With their glowing tips and exhaled mist, ecigarettes are designed to simulate smoking. Depending on what kind of fluid cartridge — juice in e-cigarette jargon — they are loaded with, some deliver a hit of tobacco’s addictive component, nicotine, while others use non-nicotine laced fluid in a raft of flavours including chocolate, mango and banana cream.

You might think anything that would entice or help smokers to quit would be wholeheartedly embraced by the public health field. But in this case, you would be wrong.

Addiction treatment specialists, public health officials and tobacco control advocates are divided over whether e-cigarettes are useful smoking cessation aids or Big Tobacco’s latest attempt to retain, regain and expand market share by getting a new generation of customers — teenagers — hooked on nicotine.

Should the devices, like cigarettes, be barred from restaurants, workplaces and other indoor settings? Or are they sufficiently different — and sufficiently safe for users and the people around them — to merit more lax regulatory treatment? Would less stringent rules for e-cigarettes “renormalize” smoking, undoing decades of anti-tobacco efforts by rendering the act of smoking — or simulated smoking — cool again? Will youth who start by vaping graduate to smoking cigarettes?

There are no immediate answers.

E-cigarettes are “hugely controversial,” says Jessica Pepper, a doctoral candidate in health behaviour at the University of North Carolina. Pepper, who specializes in tobacco control policies, has been researching the devices.

“You have some parts of the scientific community saying ‘E-cigarettes are bound to be safer than regular cigarettes so if e-cigarettes help smokers quit, we’re going to be saving a ton of lives.’

“Then you have the other side of the debate where people are saying ‘Well, what if smokers decide not to quit because e-cigarettes keep them addicted? What if smokers don’t quit because they think it’s OK to maybe just cut back a little on smoking and add e-cigarettes?”’

In the face of the un-

certainty — and exploding sales — governments have been forced to respond. But the international regulatory approach to e-cigarettes resembles a patchwork quilt.

Last week New York City passed a bill that bans e-cigarette use in restaurants, bars and clubs.

In the U.S., where this fall 40 state attorneys general called for tighter regulation of ecigarettes, the Food and Drug Administration plans to treat the devices like tobacco products.

In Britain, e-cigarettes will be regulated as a medicine, which will likely set a higher bar for manufacturers seeking approval for the products.

But the European Union, which had intended to regulate them as medical devices, has steered away from that path.

Last week the European commission announced it will set safety and quality standards for the devices and refills, impose stricter rules on advertising and require the products to be sold with safety warnings.

Health Canada would not give The Canadian Press an on-the-record interview about how ecigarettes are regulated in this country.

But two officials involved with the file did outline the legislative lay of the land, speaking on the proviso that their names not be used.

In Canada, e-cigarettes that are sold with nicotine and/or in packaging that makes a health claim fall under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drugs Act, they say. And under that act, a manufacturer must apply to Health Canada for authorization to bring a new product to market.

A health claim might be wording that asserts that the device can help a person quit smoking or is safer to use than tobacco cigarettes.

To date, Health Canada has not approved any e-cigarettes under the Food and Drug Act, say the officials, which means that it is not legal to sell e-cigarettes with juice that contains nicotine in Canada.

Some proponents of e-cigarettes contest that assertion, suggesting ecigarette juice containing nicotine is governed by the Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations of 2001.

Health Canada disagrees. “That is wrong,” one of the officials declares. “Definitely nicotine is regulated under the Food and Drugs Act.” The other Health Canada official said the department has taken “hundreds” of actions related to sales of e-cigarettes and nicotine, seizing some products, writing letters to inform merchants they must stop selling the combined products and working with Canada Border Services to stop importations of products.

But vapers boast online that e-cigarettes with nicotine are easy to obtain here.

Experts acknowledge that e-cigarettes may well help smokers quit.

But in order to be able to claim that in marketing materials, a manufacturer would have to provide evidence generated by well-done clinical trials.

And to date there isn’t much in the way of data.

A study published in September suggested e-cigarettes may be slightly more effective than nicotine patches or a placebo e-cigarette (without nicotine); 7.3, 5.8 and 4.1 per cent of subjects stayed off cigarettes for six months by using those alternatives respectively.

But so few people actually quit smoking that the authors could

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A person holds an electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette. You may not have known what an e-cigarette was at the start of 2013. But chances are, you do now. not conclude if any one method was more effective than the others.

E-cigarettes that aren’t sold with nicotine or which don’t make health claims can be sold legally in Canada, the Health Canada officials say. These devices are regulated under the Canada Consumer Products Safety Act, one of the officials says.

The two-pronged treatment of e-cigarettes creates the odd scenario where an e-cigarette delivering nicotine could not be advertised in Canada, but one without nicotine could be.

In the United States, both kinds can be advertised, a reality the attorneys general complained about in their letter to the FDA. “We haven’t had smoking advertising ... at least in the U.S., for so long. ... It’s jarring to see the commercials on TV,” Pepper says.

Dr. Richard Hurt, who runs the nicotine dependence center at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., suggests the expansion of the e-cigarette industry and market is turning back the clock on tobacco control.

“In the absence of any regulation, they’re going to push the envelope as far as they can,” says Hurt, who says his program won’t use the devices until they’ve been proven to work in randomized controlled trials.

“That’s the way the cigarette manufacturers did in the 50s and the 60s and the 70s until someone said ‘Enough already.’ And they’re going to push the envelope because if they push the envelope, they’re going to make more money.”

But Kirsten Bell believes e-cigarettes ought to be given a chance.

A professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Bell has researched the public health responses to the devices. She feels e-cigarettes aren’t being given a fair shot.

“They were sort of being condemned without trial by the majority of people in mainstream tobacco control in public health,” Bell says.

“You have this sort of unquestioning extension of smoke-free legislation to cover e-cigarettes when of course an e-cigarette isn’t a cigarette. It’s not a combustible product.”

She thinks there’s a sort of moralistic agenda at play, one that equates nicotine use with smoking, even though the dangers of cigarettes relate to how they deliver nicotine, not the compound itself.

“I’m not sure that I buy this idea that because you see people vaping e-cigarettes it’s going to make you go out and try cigarettes,” Bell says.

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Among the global advertising and marketing company’s predictions for the new year is a march to “mindful living,” with more consumers actively trying to shut out distractions and focus on the moment.

But as trend reports often go, this one is mixed, for Mindful Living is listed with The Age of Impatience in JWT’s Top 10 for next year.

In the peace-of-mind department, look no further than the Slow Food Movement broadening, simply, to Slow; the rise of the digital detox like Camp Grounded in Northern California’s Anderson Valley; and Silicon Valley’s infatuation with all things Zen, said Ann Mack, the company’s director of trend-spotting.

Google already offers employees meditation as part of a “Search Inside Yourself” course, along with regular silent “mindful” lunches, for instance.

And there’s an app or three, including Headspace for on-the-go meditators who are prompted to check in with themselves, Mack said.

The mind-calming, mind-blowing concept goes like this, according to Mack: “You’re enjoying what you’re doing in the here and now and not on social media broadcasting or seeing what everybody else is doing.”

WOW. As for JOMO, as opposed to FOMO, Mack credits tech blogger Anil Dash for coming up with the former when he realized after a month unplugged following the birth of his son that he happily hadn’t missed anything at all. While some people work on their downward-facing dogs at yoga class, the on-demand economy will churn away in 2014, said the ninth annual JWT report.

To satisfy the need for all things instant, binge viewing and same-hour delivery bubbled up to satiate all age segments, especially hyperconnected Millennials who expect things can be achieved, acquired and enjoyed with the help of mobile technology in real time. Even they’re pushing back some on how they perceive technology, Mack said in a recent interview.

“I think the real surprise is the fact that as we get more immersed in technology we’re starting to question its siren call, although we’re not resisting it entirely,” she said.

“There’s a Jekyll and Hyde quality that we speak about in raging against the machine. You know, we are still very much embracing it but resisting it simultaneously,” Mack added.

“Over the past several years we’ve let technology rule us and now we’re ready to rule it and find a balance in our lives because we realize technology is here to stay but it’s fundamentally changing our relationships, our behaviours, perhaps even our brains.”

Which leads to another JWT prediction: the rise of Telepathic Technology.

Google Glass? So yesterday.

The report said brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, will push further into the commercial mainstream next year.

Currently nascent, mind-controlled cars to art exhibits rely on the brainwave activity of consumers. As traditional EEG systems have been pared down, they’re no longer the domain of health providers alone.

Applications at a lower cost have proliferated for commercial consumption, the report said.

A Silicon Valley company called NeuroSky is looking ahead, partnering with Mattel to create mind-powered toys, for example, while another company has come up with a headset that can read a wearer’s mood to provide the perfect playlist, according to the report.

“Researchers and programmers from Egypt to the U.K. and the U.S. are refining the ability to get computers to read human emotions through a practice known as affective computing,” the report said. “As emotion recognition advances, tech manufacturers will start building it into devices, enabling gadgets to recognize and react to how users are feeling.”

Other JWT predictions for 2014: ● IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES Nabbing the minds and attention of consumers will be an increasingly multisensory affair. Outbreak Missions in Manila is among the companies offering Zombie runs, in its case a 5K called Zombie Apocalypse where victims must find a cure for an outbreak or un-die trying. In New York, lines were hours-long at the Museum of Modern Art for the chance to experience the Rain Room. Falling rain paused when a human body approached. Watch next year for Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that makes players feel like they’re inside the game screen. ● SPEAKING VISUAL With the rise of photos, emojis and video snippets, “visual” has become a language of its own that savvy companies will embrace in a big way. Taco Bell and the frozen yogurt chain 16 Handles have sent disappearing 10-second coupons and new product teasers using Snapchat, JWT said. And Sony took to Pinterest for “Pin It to Give It,” where the company donated a dollar to charity with every re-pin. ● THE END OF ANONYMITY Big Bro has technology on his side.

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DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN to date and avoid secondhand smoke as if it were poison — it contains arsenic!

And if you’re slated for statin therapy, remember these drugs can slash heart-attack risk by 50 percent even in people with normal LDL cholesterol levels and higher-than-healthy hsCRP scores.

If you’re worried about side effects, ask your doc about taking a statin every other day and a daily dose of 200 mg CoQ10.

This important enzyme seems to be depleted by statins, and taking it seems to restore exercise tolerance and muscle endurance.

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But remember, these are not substitutes for eating only healthful food, getting physical activity and managing stress.

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

BOULDER, Colo. — A tenured Colorado professor has run into trouble after a lecture on prostitution featured a skit in which students dressed up as prostitutes, sex slaves and escorts.

University of Colorado sociology professor Patty Adler said the lecture earlier this semester was meant to show students lifestyles that lead to prostitution, but administrators didn’t see it that way.

She said they gave her a choice: Take a buyout and retire after 26 years, or have her course reviewed by the sociology department, the Daily Camera newspaper reported (http://bit. ly/1hp3HqK).

She hadn’t made a decision, the Camera said.

More than 500 students enrolled in Adler’s “Deviance in U.S. Society” course this term. Adler said she never had complaints before about the course from university administrators.

Steven Leigh, dean of CU’s College of Arts and Sciences, said Wednesday that his main concern was that students were photographed or filmed without their consent during the skit.

Adler said all students know they are being videotaped, and they often ask for copies.

Provost Russell Moore told the

university in an email Monday that some students may have “felt there would be negative consequences for anyone who refused to participate in the skit.”

Moore added that CU’s commitment to academic freedom doesn’t protect anyone who may “violate the university’s sexual harassment policy by creating a hostile environment for their teaching assistants, or for their students attending the class.”

Moore said he had evidence of complaints from more than one student, the Camera reported. He didn’t elaborate.

Students have rallied in Adler’s support, creating a Facebook group and an online petition.

Caitlin McCluskey, a senior, told the Camera she performed as a prostitute in the skit.

No one was forced to participate, she said.

“I never felt pressured in any way,” McCluskey said.

The Colorado chapter of the American Association of University Professors issued a statement Wednesday urging CU to respect Adler’s judgment in the classroom. Other faculty protested the university’s actions in a Wednesday meeting with administrators.

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At the heart of the controversy is the lessthan-perfect risk calculator they use, as well as their resulting recommendations for taking statins, such as Lipitor — or what we call atorvastatin.

The risk calculator (it’s available at www. heart.org; search for “2013 prevention guidelines tool”) assess your risk of cardiovascular disease by including factors such as age, race, gender, blood pressure, total and HDL cholesterol levels and diabetes.

The way they have weighted those factors has the potential of doubling the number of Americans taking inflammation-cooling, cholesterol-lowering statins.

And most surprising to many folks, that number includes more than 45 million Americans who don’t currently have cardiovascular disease.

We say, recognizing ALL your risk factors for cardiovascular disease — and then talking to your doctor about how to reduce each of them — is at the heart of the new guidelines.

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(By the way, the RealAge calculator at realage.com is an accurate way to spot your risks and learn you what you can do to reduce them, and to make yourself younger.)

The AHA and ACC also released new guidelines to help folks manage heart-risky obesity and to adopt hearthealthy lifestyles, to be used along with the new guidelines on cholesterol management.

In them, they lowered the heart-risky BMI from 30 to 25 with one co-risk (diabetes is an example).

They also suggest using behavioral counseling for at least six months to help people stick with exercise and diet programs.

If you do use the new AHA/ACC risk calculator, cross-reference those results with the Reynolds Risk Score (www.reynoldsriskscore.org).

It factors in family history and hs-CRP (Creactive protein) level, which measures bodywide inflammation and the target is 1.0 or less, making it more precise for women and catching hidden risks in some men, too.

You can get a test for hs-CRP the next time you have blood drawn for your cholesterol check; it’s a must-know heart health number for everyone.

Here’s where we disagree with the cholesterol management guidelines.

They don’t recommend tracking changes in your cholesterol levels.

We think you should.

It’s helpful to know if your efforts with a healthy lifestyle (and any statin you might take) are working.

So we say: Get your LDLs below 100 and your HDLs over 50, and keep track of how they go up, down or stay the same with a periodic blood test.

If it turns out you’re at risk, or you just want to stay in the clear, adopt a heart-healthy diet (none of the Five Food Felons): every day enjoy veggies, a handful of walnuts, fruits and only 100 percent whole grains.

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HOROSCOPE Thursday, Dec. 26 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: While the Moon is positioned towards the Scales, our self-awareness for fairness kicks in. Indecision and co-dependency could prove to be challenging. Once the Sun and Mercury make a favourable alliance with Neptune, we are less likely to judge and criticize one another. We learn to trust our intuition and to let it guide us throughout our decisionmaking process. Words and inspirational messages get to us on a ASTRO deeper level.

DOYNA HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, the upcoming year foresees changes on the professional front. Your goals for the future are likely to vacillate and you may have to deal with the outside world more frequently. You express a greater initiative in your ambitions. Success will follow in your footsteps.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are less likely to fight like a soldier today. In truth, you are more willing to put your guard down now and accept defiance even in scenarios where you are the winner. You are simply not interested in any type of confrontations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When it comes to your hopes and wishes, you are an avid dreamer. During this time, your aspirations are more spiritual and mystical. One of your friends will show you so much unconditional support that you will be more drawn into him or her.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your intuition and your sensitivity to the mystical world are heightened. You are able to read other people’s body language and to grasp the slightest messages. Be ready to embark on a psychic journey where the unknown welcomes you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Relationships become sacred. You may even consider renewing your vows with someone special or simply celebrate the holy connection you both share. Your empathy and your reciprocity towards one another are simply enviable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your personal ambition is not on your priority list. You want to take it easy for now and live in the moment without having any high expectations. Keep an eye on your health situation. You may bump into a familiar face while running you usual errands.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your manifestation for love and romance, in general, is heightened for you. You may express your amorous predisposition through music, dancing or even poetry. You become more lenient and forgiving with your loved one.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your sense of belonging is finely tuned. You can expect lots of support from the members of your family or your parental figures. If you are in the middle of some real estate dealing, postpone any contractual signing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are in the mood for love and your expression of it can come through romantic gestures such as poetical writings or by declaring your most heartfelt desires. The study of occult and metaphysics could become one of your hobbies.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A tendency to become overly lenient towards your expenses and your shopping habits could prove costly. Be vigilant when you use your credit cards and whom you are lending money as your generous spirits may be too high for your own good.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Stimulate your skill by learning some musical instrument. You feel intuitively those around you able to read between the lines. You do not need words today to understand what is really going on around you.

Even stillness speaks to you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Daydreaming steals you away into a world of fantasy and surrealist artworks. Where you have escaped exactly, nobody can really seize that. Artistic inclinations and a finely tuned imagination will sway you into a subliminal journey of your psyche.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Individuals who express gratitude and compassion towards you will be considered much closer to you. You embody with those who share common interests and alike visions as you do. Your ability to synthesize a crowd’s intention is quite shrewd.

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Dear Annie: You often print letters from older mas cards, but I hope to have them all done before parents dealing with rejection from their adult chil- the holiday season is over. dren. This is literally an epidemic everywhere. AnWhat is the proper etiquette when writing Christger and hatred are destroying families. mas cards to families with children over 18 still livMy husband and I have three adult children who ing at home? Can I send one card to them all, or do I were the delight of our lives. We had a typical lov- need to send the kids their own? — Hurrying Before ing family, with vacations, birthday parties and spe- the New Year cial celebrations that included friends Dear Hurrying: It is perfectly OK to send and extended family. We had anxious one holiday card to the entire family if they times during illnesses, surgeries and acare all living in the same house, although it cidents, but we made it through. would be nice to put all of their names on All three of our children have grown the envelope. to be successful, well-liked and respectDear Annie: “Speaking for Another Lost ed adults. Sadly, over the past 22 years, Veteran” said her 55-year-old bipolar niece they all have chosen to shut us out of is hanging onto her stepfather’s ashes intheir lives. stead of allowing him to be buried next to We’ve had minor disagreements at his late wife in a military cemetery. times, but never any major battles that When we knew that my late husband was might justify their choices. None of them dying, he said he would like his ashes to be will tell us why they are angry. They rescattered on the ocean. I was heartbroken fuse to have any contact or open dialog because I wanted to be buried with him.

MITCHELL that might heal our relationship. I know And being a Vietnam veteran, he deserved & SUGAR you’re probably thinking “there must be a military funeral with full honors. something.” If so, we don’t know what it When he died, the funeral director is. placed some of his ashes in three tiny urns, My husband is 81, and I am 78. We unone for each of his grown children and one derstand there is a real possibility that we will never for me. hear from our children before we die. We do our The remainder was divided in half. One half was best to focus on the great times we had and to hold buried at a national cemetery with full honors, and onto the many precious memories of their growing- the other half was placed in a container made for up years. scattering ashes at sea.

Holidays are the hardest, but with God’s help, we Our family set it afloat on the ocean that had given make it through. We have forgiven our children and him so much joy through the years. In this way, I bewill always pray for them. We will always thank God lieve I satisfied everyone’s wishes, most of all, his. — for choosing us to be their parents. -— Joining the Found a Loving Solution Letting Go Club Dear Found: Thank you for a sympathetic comproDear Joining: Your letter is heartbreaking. mise.

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deBOON Joanne 1933 - 2013 District Manager Arie deBoon was called to his eternal home to celebrate Christmas in heaven on December 21, 2013 at the age of 80. Arie is survived by Marion his beloved wife of In Memoriam fifty-five years, four sons and their spouses. Cor and Connie, Sid and Leanne, Andy and Lynne, Jim and Shelley, eight granddaughters Brittany, Denai, Heather, Mackenzie, Ashley, Trisha, Morgan, and Alexis and one grandson Tyler. He was predeceased by his parents and two brothers, survived by three brothers and one sister also predeceased by his in-laws Mr. and Mrs. Van der Meer, four brothers-in-law, and four sisters-in-law, survived

by Marion’s five brothers and five sisters and their families.

Arie was born in Hardinxveld, Holland. He came to Canada in 1951. Arie enjoyed singing praises to his Lord and was RAY MARSH in the men’s choir for many Oct. 4, 1928 - Dec. 25, 2012 years. He also enjoyed In loving memory of fishing and camping with the Ray Marsh grandchildren and their Not a day goes by without parents. We thank the Lord thinking of you. for every day He gave us.

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Marion would like to thank Forever in our hearts.

Dr. David Elliot, Dr. Bailey Shirley, Lee, Kim and Barb and Dr. Nogareda. Funeral services to be held at Woody Nook Christian Reformed Church on December 27, 2013 at 1 p . m . w i t h R e v. B a r r y Beukema officiating. Internment Births to follow in the Woody Nook Cemetery. Donations may be made to the Lending Cupboard (5406-43 Street Red Deer, Alberta 403-356-1678) Redeemer URC building fund, or the charity of your choice.

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Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or RONCO OILFIELD HAULING journeyman instrument Sylvan Lake is looking for mechanic and possess a P/T Admin. Assistant. strong mechanical skills, Email resume be quick learners, motivated tom@roncooilfield.ca and hard working and live or fax. 403-887-4892 or be willing to relocate within a 20 minute commute to workplace location. This position offers a challenging Dental work environment, attractive benefits with competitive BOWER Dental req’s F/T pay and significant room RDA. Must be a member for promotion.

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BUSBY Louise Anne Louise Anne Busby was born in Innisfail, Alberta on October 12, 1942. Louise passed away December 20th, 2013 at the University of Alberta after a lengthy illness. She is survived by her two sons, Michael (Stephanie) of Red Deer and Rob of Fort McMurray; brother Robert (Ila) Sloan and brother Barry (Sylvia) Sloan. Louise was predeceased by her loving husband John in 2010.

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TANKMASTER RENTALS requires Labour Crew supervisor for Central Ab. Pipe fitting & light picker exp. would be an asset .

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DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino

PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET is now accepting applications for a full time Parts Person.

Must have good communication and computer skills and have the ability to work independently.

Excellent company benefits.

Please email resume along with wage expectations to: philparts@gmail.com or fax to 403-347-3813

CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume to canpak@xplornet.ca or call 403-341-9300

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.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Kilburn Ave. & Krause Cres.

Misc. for Sale

2 MATCHING suitcases like new $25; antique oak student chair $75; Kenmore microwave oven, 1200w, $30; 3 wool accent matching carpets, clean, will sell seperate, $50, David Winters collectors house in original box $25 403-352-8811

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

Howarth St. & Haliburton Cres.

Kentwood

Central AB based trucking company requires

880

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In the towns of:

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Wanted To Buy

1930

WANTED: de-humidifier in working order 403-347-4390

SAFETY

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery (By 6:30 a.m.)

Monday - Saturday in: Highland Green

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

CLASSIFICATIONS EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316 DISPATCHERS req’d.

Day/Night. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential. Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

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. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Household Furnishings Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

1720

SEARSOPEDIC Comfort Plus dbl. bed, mattress, box spring and frame, clean, no stains, $200 403-352-8811

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

INNISFAIL Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

2190

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

1500-1990

Firewood

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

2000-2290

Grain, Feed Hay

stuff

BOWER AREA

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rentals

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

3 BDRM. 3 bath in Sylvan Lake, heated garage, hot tub, fenced yard, close to school, rent $2000 $2000 DD 403-358-2857

3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 30 tenants.

No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1500, D.D. $1500. 403-341-4627 SPLIT level house in newer part of Anders, 4 bdrm. 2 baths, laundry, parking in back, fenced backyard & deck, n/s, no pets, $1650/mo., + utils & d.d., close to mini mall. 403-357-0320

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

2 BDRM LACOMBE CONDO Ground flr, 45+ bldg, 5 appl, N/S, no pets. $1000/mo.

RENTED

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ANDERS AREA Anders St. / Armstrong Close Addinnell Close / Allan St. Abbott Close / Anders St. Anders Close

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

INGLEWOOD AREA

Siding Helpers Needed Call 403-588-3210

Isherwood Close Issard Close LANCASTER AREA Law Close / Lewis Close

850

Langford Close Lamont Close Lund Close

Qualifications: • Knowledge of Heavy Duty Tractor/Trailer parts, maintenance and repairs • Knowledge of Safety Manuals, safety practices, safe work methods and safety regulations pertaining to the work • Proficient skills level in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & Outlook) • Able to prioritize tasks in a dynamic and challenging environment • High School Diploma or GED equivalent • Purchasing systems experience would be an asset • Mechanically inclined and willing to learn • Valid Class 5 license (abstract required)

MORRISROE AREA

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd, a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for a full time Millwright/Mechanical trade position.

Somerset Close

The position includes maintenance inspections, lubes, PM’s and repairs to all types of equipment in order to maintain the safe operation and fulfill production requirements of Rahr Malting. The position is rated under the Heavy Job classification.

Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close

Springfield Ave.

Applicants must have a valid trade certificate for work in Alberta. This position will work in co-ordination with the Operations group and is accountable to the Maintenance Supervisor.

Experience in manufacturing or factory environment is preferred.

Sherwood Cres.

VANIER AREA Viscount Drive Vickers Close

3130

Industrial

BAY FOR RENT, 1800 sq. ft., drive through bay in heavy industrial area.

780-674-3711

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Roommates Wanted

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Houses For Sale

3090

1 furnished, 1 unfurnished rooms available to quiet, mature people. Rent is $500/$450 + DD Call 403-872-5169 for more details

880

4020

BRAND NEW 1340 sq. ft. bungalow, 2 bdrm., den, dbl. att. garage. $384,900.

Call Glen 403-588-2231 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

MASON MARTIN HOMES Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

3080

3 ROOMS for rent in Lacombe. $500. per room plus split bills, or $1300 for all 3. No smokers or pets.

Avail. Jan. 1. 403-782-3461

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HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

NEW CONDO

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW AREA Cardinal Ave & Cosgrove Cl. $97/mo.

ALSO East side of Cosgrove Cres. $91/mo.

ALSO Cole Street $61/mo.

ALSO Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $146/mo.

CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.

DAVENPORT PLACE AREA Danielle Dr., Dorchester Ave., & Doncaster Ave. $185/mo.

MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $282/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/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.

ALSO Timberstone Way, Talson Place, Thomas Place, Trimble Cl., Traptow Cl. & Thompson Cres. $307/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

Open House Directory

Tour These Fine Homes

Volks Place / Vanier Drive

Application Closing Date: January 10, 2014.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

Vanson Close / Visser St.

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113 Alix, Alberta T0C 0B0 FAX: (403)747-2660 EMAIL : mlyle@rahr.com NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** 340587A10

We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

ROOM, Avail. immed. $600. + dd 403-505-4777

GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed.

403-346-1458

SUNNYBROOK AREA

MAINTENANCE POSITION

342566A2

Please reference: Ad #PP-1213-BLK

FURN. room, all utils. and cable incld, $425/mo.

403-506-3277

Vista Village

Ferus offers a competitive compensation package including a competitive base salary, bonus incentive plan & an excellent Benefits Package, including a Group RSP Savings Plan.

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, please email your resume by January 15th, 2014 to humanresources@ferus.com or fax 1-888-879-6125.

3060

Suites

3090

Rooms For Rent

3 BDRM. in Sylvan. 4 appls., fenced yard. No pets. All utils. incl. 403-347-6033

CARRIERS NEEDED

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Rooms WANTED • 3250-3390 For Rent

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

BEAUTIFUL Comfortable 3 bdrm. townhouse in Oriole Park. Super location for access to all major arteries without being bothered by noise.

Att. garage, 1-1/2 bath, 5 appls., #23 6300 Orr Dr. N/S, avail. Jan. 1. $1425/mo.

Hearthstone Property Management 403-896-8552 or 403-396-9554

CLASSIFICATIONS

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

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 30 w/references & quiet living.

Avail. Nov. 1st for $1300/mo. $1300 D.D. 403-341-4627

CLASSIFICATIONS

Horses

wegot

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

3030

AGRICULTURAL

403.341.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

Condos/ Townhouses

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

TRAINING CENTRE

WESTPARK AREA

Requires

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Red Deer.

Full time, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Parts Person. Good wages, great benefit package RESPONSIBILITIES: Serving walk in clients, answering phones, inventory control, order parts, etc.

Fax resume to 403-343-1325

Trades

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

F/T PAINTERS

MILLENIUM Mechanical Services Ltd. is currently looking for full-time service plumbers with some HVAC knowledge to provide service to the Red Deer area. Residential and commercial experience is required. Please fax resume to (780)986-2109 or email your resume to customerservice@ milleniummechanical.ca

880

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WELDER NEEDED for small shop based out of Lacombe. To start in the new year. Must be dependable, have valid drivers licence & reliable vehicle. Call 403-318-9445 8-4:30 Mon. - Fri.

Exp. Req’d. One of Alberta’s largest painting companies with offices in Edmonton & Calgary is now hiring for

PART-TIME UNIT CLERK INSTRUCTOR

Academy of Learning, Red Deer Apply at: resumes @academyoflearning.ab.ca

850

Experienced Siders Needed Call 403-588-3210

Email: drew@ calibregroup.ca Company website: ELEMENTS is looking for 5 retail sales reps. selling www.calibrecoatings.ab.ca season gift packages and personal care products in FLUID EXPERTS LTD. Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Is looking for experienced Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + TRUCKING DISPATCHER to start immed. bonus & comm. FT. No Good Verbal, Writing, exp. req`d. Please email Texting and Computer elementsreddeer@gmail.com skills. Company Pickup, SOAP Stories is seeking 5 benefits, above avg. salary F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, and great atmosphere. selling soap & bath Clean Class 1 drivers products $14.55/hr. + license and abstract. bonus & comm. Beauty Completed Basic Training cert. req’d. Location Courses. Will train the Parkland Mall - 4747 67th right individual.

St. Red Deer. email Fax Resume w/all tickets premierjobrdbto@ and Drivers Abstract to gmail.com 403-346-3112 or email to roger@fluidexperts.com SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling Something for Everyone s o a p & b a t h p r o d u c t s . Everyday in Classifieds $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d. IMMEDIATE F/T POSITION For Year Round Work.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to JOURNEYMAN premierjobrd@gmail.com PICKER OPERATOR In Sundre, AB. StoreSmart Self-Storage Competitive wages, seeking P/T Customer Service guarantee for right applicant.

Representative for 16-24 Benefits. Must have hrs/wk. For job description Journeyman Ticket. and how to apply, go to Accommodations available. www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs.

Please sent resume to: No phone calls please. mross@calmena.com

Teachers/ Tutors

Trades

278950A5

Restaurant/ Hotel

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Out Of Red Deer

4310

SERGE’S HOMES 17 VINTAGE CLOSE BLACKFALDS Dec. 28 & 29 Sat. & Sun. 1 - 5 1980 sq. ft. 2 storey walk out. Contact Robert @ 403-505-8050

CALL CLASSIFIEDS

309-3300

TO ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY HERE!

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013 D3

FAST TRACK PHOTOS Call 403-309-3300 to get your vehicle pictured here

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 MERCEDES Benz CLS 500 lthr., sunroof, 115057 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2004 DODGE RAM 1500 4x4, quad, gold , c/w topper, 2 sets of tires. Exc. cond. $6000 firm. 403-304-2118

2006 PONTIAC Solstice 26080 kms., 5 speed, $19,888.

348-8788

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 LEXUS ES 330 FWD, lthr., 41,100 kms, $15,888. SOLD

2006 Range Rover Sport HSE $25,888 Sport & Import 7652 50 Ave 403-348-8788

2006 34’ Gulf Stream Yellowstone. Sleeps 4, 3 slides, new awning, washer, dryer hookup, equipped w/Arctic & Sub Arctic pkgs, custom skirt & more! $34,900. 403-8878405

ALL WHEEL DRIVE 2007 530 XI BMW. Original Owner, 143,000 km. Exc. Cond. Regularly Maintained, Fully Loaded!

Call 403-350-4323

Sport & Import

Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2002 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta GLS 1.8L, $10,888.

2006 CADILLAC Escalade

348-8788 Sport & Import

AWD, lthr., $15,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 COROLLA CE. exc. cond. 78,000. kims.

Offers. 403-392-5628

2003 DODGE Durango SLT Plus, 4X4, $8888.

403-348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 PONTIAC G5.

Manual, 130,000 km. Great cond. Winter & Summer tires. Well. maint. N/S. $5550. 403-342-4318

2008 FORD F150. $10,000.

403-741-6844

2010 CHEV 1500 4x4 8 cyl. Kuhmo Tires. $17,900.

403-346-9816

2007 TOYOTA Tacoma V6 4X4, 114903 kms., $19888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 GMC Acadia SLE AWD, 8 passenger, 90485 kms, $19,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2010 CHEV Silverado 1500 LT, 4X4, Z-71, cold air intake, 62629kms, $20888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 BMW 328 xi sunroof, lthr., 66,382 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 GMC Yukon XL

Denali AWD $18,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 BMW 535xi $29,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

2008 JEEP Rubicon 4X4, $20,888 7652 Gaetz Ave, Sport & Import 348-8788

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 CHRYSLER 300 103198 kms., $10,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 BMW X5 3.0 $31,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

2008 LAND ROVER LR2 SE 4X4,.sunroofs, $18,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2011 CHEV Silverado LTZ 6.2 L, lthr., $27,888.

2007 COLORADO, 28RK, Dutchman, 32’, slideout, back kitchen, shower, king bed, TV, stereo, air. loaded

2008 BMW X5 3.0si AWD, htd. lthr., panaroof,

2008 SANTA FE. 3.3L, 5 spd. auto.

Heated seats & mirrors. $6900 obo. **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 GMC Sierra 1500 Hybrid 4X4, 6.0L, lthr., 81735 kms., $28,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2009 RANGER XLT 4x4, 70,000 kms., $15,900. trades cons.

403-598-0682

2011 KEYSTONE Alpine $54,900. Top of the line. Satellite dish, built in Cummins Onan generator, Sub-zero insulation pckg. 403 357 6950

2009 VW GOLF, manual, 90,000 km.

Winter pkg, $10,500.

403-391-1770

2012 CHEV Silverado 2500 LTZ, diesel, lthr., tonneau cover, $39,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

$27,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

$22,900. 403-784-2482

2003 HONDA Odyssey EX-L V6. Loaded.

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

Sport & Import

2006 Jetta TDI 73,699 km $16,888 AS&I 403-348-8788

VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

2008 CHEVY Colorado Vortec 3.7 L, 4wd, good tires & brakes, Linex box liner & undercover. 403-783-2064

2007 FORD F-150 Lariat 4X4, htd. lthr., sunroof, $12,888, 348-8788

2006 GMC C4500 4X4, new Duramax, 170,000 kms, $39,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

One owner. $7800.

Call 403-396-0722.

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 LAND ROVER Range Rover supercharged, 4X4, nav., sunroof, lthr., $33,888 348-8788, Sport & Import

2008 FORD F-250 XL 4X4, 6.4L, 92754 kms., $26888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

348-8788 Sport & Import

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Down! 2 2012 VW

Down! 2 2013 VW

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Stk #V34406. execline diesel with every factory option, only 15,000 kms

$

62,990 or 388/b.w. $

0

$

19,990 or 147/b.w. $

0

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GOLF GO WAGON

Stk #VP4670. 2.5, auto, loaded, VW certified, only 58,000 kms

$

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0

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22011 TOYOTA 4RUN 4RUNNER UN N LIMITED 4X4 Stk #VP4662. fully loaded,

2011 GMC 1500 DENALI CREW 4X4 Stk #V44696A. every option, topper,

39,990 or 289/b.w.

$

only 33,000 kms

GARY MOE

VOLKSWAGEN

$

nav. & moonroof

32,990 or 268/bw. $

0

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3rd row seat, tow pkg., only 25,000 kms

$

47,990 or 345/bw. $

$

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15,990 or $113/b.w.

Gasoline Alley South, (west side) Red Deer

403.342.2923

Locally Owned & Family Operated

Visit garymoe.com

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D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013 y,

4090

Manufactured Homes

RENOVATED MOBILE HOMES FOR SALE

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

Starting at $20,000 To book a viewing Or more information Please Contact Terrie at 403-340-0225

Commercial Property

5030

Cars

at www.garymoe.com

4110

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

wegot

wheels Locally owned and family operated

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5030

Cars

5050

Trucks

2012 CHEV Silverado 2500 LTZ, diesel, lthr., tonneau cover, $39,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 CHRYSLER 300 103198 kms., $10,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2011 GMC Sierra 1500 4X4, 6.0L, lthr., ALL WHEEL DRIVE Hybrid 81735 kms., $28,888.

2007 530 XI BMW. Original Owner, 143,000 km. Exc. Cond.

Regularly Maintained, Fully Loaded!

Call 403-350-4323

348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 TOYOTA Tacoma V6 4X4, 114903 kms., $19888 348-8788 Sport & Import 2006 PONTIAC Solstice 26080 kms., 5 speed, $19,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 FORD F-150 Lariat 4X4, htd. lthr., sunroof, $12,888, 348-8788 Sport & Import 2006 MERCEDES BENZ CLS 500 lthr., sunroof, 115057 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2006 GMC C4500 4X4, new Duramax, 170,000 kms, $39,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

5190

2002 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta GLS 1.8L, $10,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Auto Wreckers

2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville 4 dr., saftied. 403-352-6995

Public Notices

6010

Onsite Auction Conducted by:

AB STORAGE

,

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Misc.

Automotive

5240

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

If you think an ad with a

LARGE HEADING grabs your attention

the REVERSE is also true

Take notice that miscellaneous goods and chattels belonging to the following person(s) and stored at AB Storage (North) will be sold due to unpaid charges: Shamus Miner Glen Envik Hailey Zibell

Lacey Noskiye Andrew Boudreau

The sale will be on Friday, January 10, 2014 at AB Storage (North), 4904 79 Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4P 2V2.

The goods may be viewed at 10:00 am. All bids are sealed and are for the entire contents of the storage unit. Payment can be made with cash, debit card or credit card.

343496L31

Onsite Auction Conducted by:

AB STORAGE Take notice that miscellaneous goods and chattels belonging to the following person(s) and stored at AB Storage (South) will be sold due to unpaid charges: Riley Thiessen

Levon Caddy

The sale will be on Saturday, January 11, 2014 at AB Storage (South), 88 Petrolia Drive, Red Deer County, Alberta T4E 1B4.

CALL

309-3300

Activists in Saudi Arabia describe 2013 as one of the worst years for human rights United States, warned that if the monarchy doesn’t address calls for change, the demands could escalate and destabilize the country.

“If we wait another seven to 10 years, we will be in a more dangerous situation than Egypt and Syria,” he told The Associated Press. “What we need to do is fix it before it’s too late.”

He said that while 2013 was bad for activists — “one of the worst years we are facing in Saudi Arabia” — it was ultimately “much worse for the government” because Saudis are more informed and aware of the needs for better governance.

“The government has no option but to reconcile with its own people,” he said.

“They do not want to overthrow the royal family. They are saying we need reform where human rights are respected and where there is accountability and transparency within government.”

ment, said people are terrified of the “security state.”

“Everyone expects a revolution in the kingdom. We don’t DUBAI, United Arab Emirwant one because the people ates — With global attention are divided. The only thing focused on upheaval elsewhere uniting us is repression,” she in the Middle East, Saudi said. She spoke on condition of Arabia quietly intensified its anonymity for fear of retribuclampdown on dissent in 2013, tion against her family, saying silencing democracy advocates security officials warned that and human rights defenders her parents could face arrest with arrests, trials and intimifor her activism. dation in what reformists say The United Nations High was one of the darkest years evCommissioner for Human er for their efforts in the powRights over the weekend voiced erful U.S.-allied Gulf state. its “deep concern” about what The clampdown reflects it said was the “intimidation the highly delicate times that and prosecution of individuthe world’s top oil producer is als in Saudi Arabia for exercispassing through. ing certain fundamental freeThe monarchy is trying to doms.” modernize the country’s econHuman Rights Watch reomy to reduce its reliance on leased a report last week sayoil revenues and create a more ing Saudi authorities have rediverse private sector to prodoubled their harassment of vide jobs for a grumbling popuactivists since early 2011. lation. To manage the shifts, Repeated calls by the AP to activists say it has manipulated Saudi Arabia’s Interior Minthe divisions in Saudi society, istry spokesman for comment playing on tribal sentiments were not anand shifting swered. between Sau‘EVERYONE EXPECTS A REVOLUTION IN THE The rights dis who seek a more liberal KINGDOM. WE DON’T WANT ONE BECAUSE THE group HASEM was formed in lifestyle and the ultracon- PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED. THE ONLY THING UNITING 2009 to challenge detenservative WahUS IS REPRESSION.’ tions of people habi clerics — FEMALE ACTIVIST held for years who traditionSPEAKING ON CONDITION OF ANONYMITY without trial ally give the FOR FEAR OF RETRIBUTION AGAINST HER FAMILY or kept imprisroyal family oned far belegitimacy. yond their senAs it navitences. Since gates those then, it became currents, the Saudi Arabia is one of the one of the most vocal organizamonarchy is blunting calls for political reform, fearing an Ar- world’s last absolute monar- tions in the kingdom, though it was never given a license to ab Spring-style upheaval that chies.

All decisions are centred in operate. would rattle the ruling family’s the hands of 89-year-old King There are two licensed hugrip on power.

This year, at least nine Abdullah, who has the sole man rights bodies in the kingprominent reformers were giv- power to ratify new laws. There dom but unions and most independent civil society groups en lengthy jail sentences for is no parliament.

There is little written law, are not allowed to operate. offences including “breaking and judges — implementing Two years ago, HASEM and allegiance with the king.”

A leading rights lawyer was the country’s strict Wahhabi in- other rights advocates were forced to flee the kingdom for terpretation of Islam — have strong enough to pressure the fear of arrest. One of the king- broad leeway to impose ver- government to shelve a version of the anti-terror law dom’s most prominent rights dicts and sentences.

A Specialized Criminal that was recently approved organizations — the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Court created in 2008 for ter- by Cabinet. Last year, HASEM Rights, known in Arabic by its rorism cases has tried reform- challenged a law that says citacronym HASEM — was shut ers and activists. Offences such izens must pledge allegiance down. A tough anti-terror law as “disobeying the ruler” can to the king in accordance with Islam and the Qur’an. HASEM was approved by the govern- result in years in prison.

More than a half dozen Sau- posted an online petition arment, defining acts as vague as “defaming the state’s reputa- di rights activists interviewed guing that Islam requires rulby the AP say they seek a con- ers to be responsible toward tion” as terrorism.

More than 200 protesters, in- stitutional monarchy with an their people, “rather than cluding women and children, elected parliament and want people being the ruler’s livewere detained in Buraydah, accountability in government, stock and property, inherited north of the capital Riyadh, for particularly to know how the continuously by the ruler’s family.” demanding the release of im- vast oil revenues are spent.

When Saudis do speak out, Now around a dozen memprisoned relatives.

A Saudi man was sentenced they say their phone calls and bers of HASEM are in detenthis week to 30 years in prison emails are monitored and that tion, on trial or under investifor his role in leading protests they are tailed by security of- gation.

One of them, 23-year-old by the country’s Shiite minor- ficers.

The kingdom has aggres- Umar al-Saeed, was sentenced ity, who complain of discrimisively monitored social media in December to four years in nation.

At least five women were websites like Facebook and prison and 300 lashes.

The verdict came in a sedetained for several hours for Twitter, where jokes about the flouting a driving ban, and a aging monarchy are rife and cret, surprise session of his Saudi male writer supportive anger over corruption, poverty trial without his defence lawof their push was detained for and unemployment is palpable. yers or family present, and the One female activist, who was court has not announced what almost two weeks.

Abdulaziz Alhussan, the recently put under house ar- charges he was convicted on, rights lawyer who fled to the rest and banned from Twitter al-Saeed’s lawyer Abdullah alfor her criticism of the govern- Shubaily said.

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Israeli construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, captured territories claimed by the Palestinians as parts of a future state, have been a major source of tension in Mideast peace efforts.

More than 550,000 Israelis live among 2.5 million Palestinians in these areas, raising fears that the growing numbers will soon reach a point of no return that will make it impossible to partition the land.

For years, the Palestinians refused to negotiate with Israel while settlement construction continued, saying it was a sign of bad faith. But under heavy U.S. pressure, the Palestinians reluctantly agreed to resume talks with Israel last summer.

Under a U.S.-brokered package, Israel agreed to release 104 long-serving Palestinian prisoners. The releases, taking place in four stages, have caused an uproar in Israel because the prisoners have been convicted in deadly attacks on Israelis. Next week’s release would be the third stage.

While Israel did not agree to halt settlement construction, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has urged restraint.

During one visit to Israel, he questioned Israel’s commitment to peace in light of the ongoing construction. Because of the Christmas holiday, there was no immediate American reaction Wednesday.

The international community considers Israeli settlements to be illegal or illegitimate.

The European Union said last week it had asked Israel not to announce new construction in connection with the prisoner release, warning Israel would be held responsible for a resulting failure in peace talks.

The Israeli official said Israel is “strictly abiding by understandings reached in the framework of this round of negotiations.”

The talks are scheduled to last for nine months, until late April, with the goal of reaching a “framework” agreement.

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Ministers resign over corruption scandal TURKEY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANKARA, Turkey — Three Cabinet ministers resigned in Turkey on Wednesday, days after their sons were taken into custody in a sweeping corruption and bribery scandal that has targeted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s allies in one of the worst political crises of his more than 10 years in power.

Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan and Interior Minister Muammer Guler announced their resignations in statements carried by the state-run Anadolu Agency. Environment and Urban Planning Minister Erdogan Bayraktar gave his resignation from both the Cabinet and Parliament in a live interview with the private NTV television during which he also urged the prime minister to step down.

All three ministers denied any wrongdoing.

Caglayan’s and Guler’s sons, along with the chief executive officer of the state-run bank Halkbank, are among 24 people who have been arrested on bribery charges. Bayraktar’s son, Abdullah Oguz, was detained as part of the probe but later released from custody.

Media reports said police have seized $4.5 million in cash that was stashed in shoe boxes in the home of the bank’s CEO, while more than 1 million dollars in cash was reportedly discovered in the home of Guler’s son, Baris.

Erdogan has denounced the corruption probe as a plot by foreign and Turkish forces to thwart his country’s growing prosperity and discredit his government ahead of local elections in March.

Critics accuse Erdogan of becoming increasingly authoritarian, but his government has won three successive elections since 2002 on the strength of the relatively robust economy, a clean image and a promise to fight corruption.

The probe is one of the biggest political challenges Erdogan has faced since his Islamic-based party narrowly escaped closure in 2008 for allegedly undermining Turkey’s secular Constitution. This summer, the government also weathered a wave of anti-government protests sparked by a development project that would have engulfed a beloved Istanbul park.

Wednesday’s resignations came as a surprise. Erdogan was expected to remove ministers implicated in the scan-

dal quietly, through a Cabinet reshuffle that was planned even before the corruption allegations erupted. The planned reshuffle aimed to replace three other ministers who are standing for mayoral positions in the March local elections.

Turkish commentators believe the probe is fallout from an increasingly public feud and power struggle between Erdogan’s government and an influential U.S.-based Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, whose followers are believed to have a strong foothold within Turkey’s police and judiciary.

The two men, without naming each other, have been engaged in a war of words since the corruption probe was launched on Dec. 17.

Gulen has denied being involved in the investigation. He left Turkey in 1999 after being accused by the thensecular government of plotting to establish an Islamic state. He was later cleared of that charge and allowed to return to his homeland, but he never has and is living in Pennsylvania.

In an address to his party’s provincial leaders, Erdogan distanced himself from the ministers who resigned by emphasizing his party’s record and determination to fight corruption. But he also repeated a claim that his government was the target of an international plot involving the media and “gangs” inside Turkey — a tactic he has also used during the summer’s anti-government protests to deflect criticism.

“There are media institutions, organizations and gangs in Turkey who think of others’ interests rather than their own country’s interests, and are working as spies in a treasonous manner,” Erdogan said.

In a veiled attack on Gulen, Erdogan said: “They speak of the Qur’an and of Allah but are remembered for ... plots.”

Last week, Erdogan threatened to expel ambassadors from Turkey after four pro-government newspapers accused U.S. Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone of scheming against the government.

One newspaper, Sabah, pressed ahead with that allegation Wednesday by claiming that a U.S. diplomat had prodded a business group to join an “anti-government lobby.”

That prompted a new rebuttal from the U.S. Embassy.

“Allegations targeting U.S. Embassy employees published in some media organs do not reflect the truth,” the embassy said in a statement in Turk-

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In this photo taken late Tuesday, Turkey’s Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan, right, Interior Minister Muammer Guler, centre, and EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis speak at the Esenboga Airport in Ankara, Turkey. Guler and Caglayan resigned from their posts on Wednesday, days after their sons were arrested in a massive corruption and bribery scandal that has targeted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s allies and has become the worst crisis in his decade in power.

Caglayan and Guler both stepped down on Wednesday, despite denying any wrongdoing. ish. “To repeat once again: No one should endanger Turkey-U.S. relations through such intentional slander.”

As he resigned Wednesday, Caglayan again questioned the legitimacy of the investigation, which is focusing on alleged illicit money transfers to Iran and alleged bribery for construction projects.

“It is clear that the operation is a dirty conspiracy against our government, our party and our country,” he said in a brief statement. “I am leaving my position at the Economy Ministry to spoil this ugly plot, which has involved my colleagues and my son (Salih Kaan), and to allow for the truth to be exposed.”

In a telephone interview with NTV television, Bayraktar also denied any wrongdoing, complained of being pressured into resigning by Erdogan and insisted “a great proportion” of construction projects that are allegedly under investigation were approved by the prime minister himself.

“I want to express my belief that the

esteemed prime minister should also resign,” Bayraktar said.

Guler, the interior minister, told reporters on Tuesday that he is the victim of a political plot and that there is nothing his family could not account for. He also said alleged wiretap recordings of a conversation with his son — reportedly used as evidence by police for the arrests— were tampered with, and that the cash discovered in his son’s house was money earned from the sale of a luxury villa.

The opposition had long called for Caglayan and Guler to resign, claiming their sons were taking bribes on behalf of their fathers, and insisted they should not remain in positions where they were able to influence the probe.

The government already has dismissed dozens of police officials either involved in the investigation or thought to be linked to Gulen. Journalists have been barred from entering police buildings, fuelling accusations from critics that the government is trying to impede the probe.

String of attacks on activists anger Ukrainian people PROMINENT CIVIC ACTIVIST AND JOURNALIST BRUTALLY BEATEN IN LATEST ATTACKS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — A prominent Ukrainian civic activist and journalist was brutally beaten outside Kyiv Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks on activists and opposition members amid weeks of protests calling for the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych and his Cabinet.

Hundreds of journalists and opposition activists gathered outside the Interior Ministry headquarters in Kyiv on Wednesday, demanding the resignation of Interior Minister Vitali Zakharchenko after the attack on Tetyana Chernovil.

Some held pictures of Chernovil, who has also been one of the leaders of mass demonstrations that have rocked the Ukrainian capital for more than a month since Yanukovych decided to scrap a deal with the EU in favour of forging stronger ties with Russia.

Chernovil has written for Ukrainska Pravda, as well as other pro-opposition news outlets.

“Shame! Shame!” yelled the demonstrators, some of whom held pictures of Chernovil’s battered, bruised and swollen face.

Chernovil, 34, was attacked as she was driving home. Her car was cornered by a sports utility vehicle. When

she tried to flee, she was beaten by several men. Chernovil sustained a concussion, as well as fractures to her nose and face, said her husband Mykola Berezovy.

The attack took place hours after Chernovil published an article on a posh suburban residence which she claimed was being built for Zakharchenko.

The protesters have been demanding Zakharchenko’s resignation after a violent crackdown on a small rally last month left dozens injured. They have also accused Zakharchenko and other members of Yanukovych’s inner circle of profiting while other Ukrainians suffer.

Yanukovych is accused of illegally appropriating a giant estate outside Kyiv and building a palatial complex in what critics have called an example of corruption.

He denies owning the estate and says he only occupies a small house on its territory.

Chernovil unsuccessfully ran for Parliament on the opposition ticket last year.

In the run-up to the election last summer, she also broke into Yanukovych’s heavily guarded palatial residence in an attempt to expose corruption there.

Yanukovych condemned the attack

on Wednesday and ordered a thorough investigation.

“We express our concern at a strikingly similar series of events over the last few weeks, targeting individuals, property, and political activity ...,” the U.S. Embassy said in a statement.

World boxing champion and opposition leader Vitali Klitschko accused the authorities of trying to intimidate opposition activists and called for nation-wide boycott of the government.

“They want to paralyze people with fear. This is not going to happen.”

Klitschko said.

The attack on Chernovil has been the latest in a series against activists.

On Tuesday, Dmytro Pylypets, an organizer of opposition protests in the eastern city of Kharkiv was beaten and stabbed by unknown assailants.

Members of the watchdog group Road Control, which has accused Ukraine’s traffic police of corruption, also say they’ve been subjected to more attacks since they started helping protesters in the sprawling protest encampments in Kyiv.

In recent weeks, two of their activists were arrested, one was beaten and another one was shot after he refused to disclose information on the group.

The group has posted videos which they say show officers extorting and accepting bribes. It also claims to have

exposed a scheme during which police tow cars to private parking spots purportedly owned by people affiliated with police. After the car owners spend days trying to contest fines, they are reportedly slapped with huge parking bills.

“They want to destroy us — either jail us, or chase us away abroad or just kill us off one by one,” claimed group spokesman Yehor Vorobyov.

Authorities have denied waging a campaign against the group.

“There has been no so-called hunt,” Interior Ministry spokesman Serhiy Burlakov said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“We only act within the framework of the law.”

Burlakov said police are investigating cases of alleged bribe-taking, but he denied the existence of the parking scheme.

Oleksandra Matveichuk, head of the Center for Civic Freedoms, said the harassment of activists goes to the heart of the anti-government protests spreading through Ukraine.

“Here we are witnessing clear politically motivated persecution in various ways,” Matveichuk said.

“If people who defend human rights are attacked ... it means we can no longer speak of any democracy. The line has been crossed.”

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Caribbean island of St. Vincent KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent — At least eight people have died in heavy rains and floods on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent, officials said Wednesday.

The government’s National Emergency Management Organization said that one of those who died is an 18-yearold college student. One man was reported missing.

The rains and flooding prompted Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves to cut short a family vacation that had taken him to England and Rome, and he was due to return home Thursday. Photos posted by the Vatican showed that Gonsalves had met with Pope Francis.

People also lost their homes. In the heavily hit

area of North Leeward in northwest St. Vincent, where a family of five died when a house crashed into their home, about 40 people showed up at a school converted into a shelter. Nicole Bonadies-Baker from the Education Ministry said that she expected more people to seek refuge there.

There was also extensive flooding and damage elsewhere in the eastern part of the Caribbean.

Police in the nearby island of St. Lucia say that a man died there when a wall fell on him.

Traditional Christmas Eve midnight religious services were cancelled and several churches in the capital of Castries opened their doors to stranded people.

“It’s the worst Christmas I will ever spend,” said Jude Francis, his clothes soaked from the

rains.

St. Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony described the damage as an emergency and a major setback for the country.

“I don’t think I can recall when we have had such heavy rainfall on the eve of Christmas,“ he said.In the nearby island of Dominica, dozens of homes and at least two hotels were evacuated and several roads were blocked by mudslides.

The cluster of thunderstorms came as the small islands were crowded with holiday tourists.

Showers were expected to linger over the British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic throughout Wednesday.

Associated Press reporter Guy Ellis contributed reporting from Castries, St. Lucia.

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Cuba lifting automobile restrictions ELIMINATING SPECIAL PERMIT THAT RESTRICTED NUMBER OF PEOPLE ALLOWED TO BUY VEHICLES FROM STATE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA, Cuba — Cuba is opening its automobile market and its roads to thousands of late-model cars by eliminating a special permit that sharply restricted the number of people allowed to buy vehicles from the state, the government announced Thursday.

The communist government has a monopoly on the sale of imported vehicles.

It has long required any potential buyer to obtain a special card from the Transport Ministry authorizing the purchase of a car.

Potential buyers have been required to prove they obtained the cash for a car through approved means like working overseas as a stateemployed doctor, musician or artist.

Money from relatives abroad, a source of disposable income for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, didn’t merit a card.

Even for successful applicants, the cards took months or years to obtain, creating a black market in which people

with ready cash would buy permits for more than the price of vehicles themselves.

The government had slowed the issue of cards to a trickle in recent months as it came up with the regulations it plans to make public in coming weeks.

The government lifted restrictions on the sales of used cars between individuals two years ago but the artificial shortage of imported cars raised the prices of all vehicles on the island, meaning even Cuba’s iconic, decadesold American-made jalopies sell for tens of thousands of dollars despite their often decrepit condition. Cuba has no car factories.

President Raul Castro has been slowly allowing private enterprise into Cuba’s statecontrolled economy and reducing the number and complexity of economic regulations in recent years, often opening a sector but imposing new restrictions when officials start to feel changes are happening too quickly or creating unexpected problems.

“It’s become clear that while private sales of cars between individuals has devel-

oped smoothly, the sale of cars using ’authorization cards’ has been inadequate and obsolete,” the Communist Party newspaper Granma declared.

“The card, apart from being overly bureaucratic, became a source of speculation and illicit self-enrichment.”

In coming days, Granma said, “steps will be taken to eliminate restrictions that lost their reason for being with the passage of time. Administrative shackles that created opportunities for illegal activity will also disappear.”

Foreign workers and Cubans with disposable income had been growing increasingly frustrated with the paralyzing wait for cars in recent months, some resorting to bribing government workers in order to move up the lists of those waiting for permits.

“It’s the best thing they could have done for us Cubans.

This way everyone can have better transportation. It’s the best thing they’ve ever done,” said Virgen Ruiz, a 24-yearold manicurist seated outside Havana’s Peugeot dealership, which has cars on display but only sells them to the govern-

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A vintage automobile drives by a parking lot of modern vehicles in Havana, Cuba, Dec. 19. According to official media the government is opening the automobile market by eliminating the special permit that strictly limited the number of people allowed to buy vehicles from the state. ment, which then adds taxes and fees and sells them on to private clients.

“That is what we Cubans have been hoping for a long time, that the law be for everyone and not just some privi-

leged people whom travel such as sailors,” said Rafael Garcia, 47, a merchant marine.

“I imagine the prices won’t be accessible for all, but at least there’s a chance at something better,” Garcia added.

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