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Crews work at the site of an anhydrous ammonia tank car that derailed and leaked its contents under the 67th Street overpass just south of the CP Rail yards in Red Deer on February 2, 2001.

Most residents have no idea when hazardous materials pass through their communities CP Rail workers vent a rail tanker at a 19-car derailment near Red Deer in March 2004.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Residents may never know when trains are hauling toxic and hazardous goods through their communities.

It is only when disaster strikes — like the horrific Lac Mégantic derailment, explosion and fire in Quebec in July that claimed 47 lives -- that the hazardous cargo comes to public attention.

On Feb. 2, 2001, Red Deer had its own rail scare when when a CP Rail freight train derailed as it was getting ready to leave the Red Deer rail yards. Five cars carrying anhydrous ammonia derailed.

One of the cars leaked nearly 72 tonnes of the noxious chemical.

More than 1,200 people were evacuated from north Red Deer. One man died as a result of the incident.

The City of Red Deer has a general idea of the transported products and materials but the rail companies, including Canada’s largest — Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway — are under no obligation to notify municipalities.

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CN workers clean up after seven cars derailed in a rural area near Alix in October 2011.

TRAINS: City does not get detailed information on what trains are carrying New federal rules mandating rail companies to inform municipalities is the first step in bridging the information gap and ultimately improving a community’s response and to emergencies.

Under the new measures, towns and cities will be notified when a load of petroleum-based products, anhydrous ammonia, chlorine, and hydrochloric acid or the like pass through Central Alberta.

The volumes and quantity of the cargo will be handed over to the municipalities on a quarterly basis after the trains have reached their destinations.

Paul Goranson, the city’s director of the Development Services Division, said the change is a significant shift because right now the city does not have a lot of detailed information.

“It’s more information than we have now,” he said. “Is it perfect? It’s difficult to say but it would give us more information to do effective planning.”

He said some information is better than no information.

“Currently we do not get the detailed information of what trains are carrying at any one time, nor how frequent that they are coming through Red Deer,” he said. “The situations where there are derailments, while serious when they occur, are very infrequent.

With the new legislation, we are discussing with them what the detailed sharing of information will look like.”

Both e Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) and the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs said the new measures are a step in the right direction to strengthen rail safety.

They have put forward recommendations to ensure emergency responders have the information, training and emergency planning protocols to protect communities when these incidents occur.

FCM has called on the federal government “to close the information gap that left first responders in local communities unable to properly plan for rail emergencies.”

Claude Dauphin, FCM president said this sends a clear message that the federal government agrees that local governments need to know basic information about dangerous goods being transported through their communities.

“The Lac Mégantic tragedy and recent derailments in other parts of the country have underscored the critical role that municipalities play in planning for

and responding to rail emergencies involving dangerous goods,” said Dauphin.

Red Deer fire chief Jack MacDonald said more product information provides concrete data for risk management planning, business analysis, partnerships and training rounding out the different components of emergency preparedness.

MacDonald said there is a huge array of hazardous materials passing through by train but also by truck.

MacDonald said some communities may be surprised to learn about the volumes and the types of product passing through the municipalities. He said the communities will be able to develop some concrete plans over a short period based on the common trend.

For some communities, he said, this knowledge may impact decisions to move railways out of the downtown core. Red Deer did this a number of years ago but other municipalities have not in Alberta.

The city uses an all hazards approach so that personnel know what to do in all situations as part of its emergency response plan.

MacDonald said more information allows a more quantitative measure and would allow the city to take a specific approach to certain chemicals or products.

Since the 1980s, the outreach program, Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Re-

sponse (TransCAER), has promoted safe transportation and handling of hazardous materials. The voluntary initiative is led by Canada’s chemistry industry and its partners.

The program is geared for first responders but usually community officials who have a vested interest participate in the sessions.

The group has been holding workshops in Red Deer for several years including one this past August. Representatives from the various companies that may ship product through Central Alberta were also on hand to provide general information on products. A general purpose railroad tank car is converted into a classroom with the parts displayed for a hands-on tutorial. The instructors give a general idea of what to look for in tank cars, the different parts and pieces and simple fixes such as turning off valves.

“We try to educate them a little more on things to look for in case there are leaks or incidents and talk about the hazards they may encounter in any situation,” said Randy Mak, chairman of the Prairie Region TransCAER committee.

Mak said they are finding they are getting more inquiries in light of the recent train disasters in Quebec and other parts of the country.

“More people are sitting up and taking notice and want us to come out,” he said. “That’s good.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Some major train derailments in Central Alberta since 2001

Penhold area March 4, 2004

Bowden area April 21, 2012

A Canadian Pacific Railway 20-car train hauling five cars with steel, four with residue dangerous goods tank cars and 11 non-dangerous goods empty cars derailed.

One anhydrous ammonia residue tank car was punctured releasing a small amount of the product.

Twenty-eight residents were evacuated from a nearby trailer park. The conductor was exposed to fumes and taken to the hospital for observation.

A northbound Canadian Pacific Railway freight train comprised of 10 empty tanks used for shipping glycol derailed at a switch in the tracks. A southbound train, hauling 88 cars, had stopped on the main line and was waiting for the northbound train. The northbound train left the tracks and one of the cars fell against the southbound locomotive.

Damage was minimal. There were no spills or injuries.

East of Red Deer at Alix Junction Oct. 21, 2011 A southbound Canadian National Railway 165-car freight train with containers laden with variety of products including dangerous goods derailed. Approximately 900 litres of phosphoric acid were released and 140 metres of the track destroyed. There were no injuries.

Innisfail area Jan. 18, 2011 Sixteen Canadian Pacific Railway rail cars hauling a mix of products including five carrying anhydrous ammonia were derailed near the Niobe grain elevator

A CP Rail worker surveys a damaged car that ran off the tracks just south of the Ipsco steel plant in January 2008.

and forced the closure of Hwy 2A from Innisfail to Range Road 282 for nearly two days. No one was injured. There were no leaks.

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No one was injured, but three families within a 1.6-km radius of the crash were evacuated on a voluntary basis because the propane tank was expelling fumes.

Blackfalds Sept. 11, 2010

Bowden area May 27, 2005

Five CN tank cars containing propane and one butane tank left the track near Hwy 597 in a field near Blackfalds. The leaking propane tank car was emptied and taken away. The four remaining tank cars, three with propane and one

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Five Canadian Pacific Railway rail cars carrying anhydrous ammonia derailed as a train attempted to leave the Red Deer yard. A ruptured tank car leaked 71 tonnes of anhydrous ammonia below the 67th Street overpass at Hwy 2 forcing the evacuation of 1,300 residents in north Red Deer.

Resident Michael Jackson, 53, was walking near the tracks at the time of the accident and died months later from respiratory injuries due to ammonia exposure. Thirty-four people were checked out at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre for exposure concerns.

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Dean Johnson of Red Deer has a million reasons to be happy.

Johnson won a $1 million Maxmillions prize with his Lotto Max ticket in the Nov. 29 draw.

According to a press release from Western Canada Lottery Corporation, Johnson bought his ticket at 7-Eleven Food Store in Rocky Mountain House the day of the draw and chose his own numbers — 2, 3, 8, 16, 20, 22, and 43. He checked the ticket the next day at a store in Red Deer where he found out he won.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Johnson said. “I was shocked, Dean Johnson really.”

He immediately shared the good news with his wife who was also at the store.

“I called my boss that night. I told him I wasn’t going to work the next day. It was cold the next day, too; it was perfect!”

He also called his Dad that night to tell him the good news. “He still doesn’t believe me,” Johnson said with a laugh.

Some of his plans for the windfall include a new house and a nice vacation.

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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Starting on New Year’s Day, Maskwacis will be the official name of the hamlet formerly known as Hobbema.

Bringing back a name from their past will have a profound effect on the future for members of the Samson, Ermineskin, Montana and Louis Bull Cree Nations, says one of its leaders.

The impact of the change will go far beyond the name alone, Ermineskin band member Willie Littlechild said Friday.

“We knew ourself as the Maskwacis people, and we still do,” said Littlechild, who was MP for Wetaskiwin-Rimbey from 1988 - 93.

Littlechild is honourary chief of the Maskwacis Cree and a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission said on Friday.

Maskwacis — Cree for Bear Hills — was the traditional name for the area and the Cree nations living there until 1891 when Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, chose to name one of its sidings after Dutch landscape artist Meindert Hobbema (1638 1709).

The story goes that one of Hobbema’s paintings, a view from a train, bore a striking resemblance to the local landscape, said Littlechild.

Shortly after the railroad went through, Canada’s federal government adopted the name for the local Indian agency and the post office, he said.

While the names Maskwacis and Bear Hills were maintained within the community in various ways over the next 120 years, Littlechild was among those who felt that the village itself should have a name that more closely reflects the four bands’ shared history.

He had proposed returning to the old name years earlier and discussed the importance of historic names during his submissions as representative of Canada’s Cree Nations at the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.

Those recommendations were written into the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the General Assembly in the fall of 2007.

Littlechild believes returning the community’s original name will help rekindle a sense of unity among the four bands and will also help draw young people back to their original language

Ermineskin band member Willie Littlechild. Littlechild is honourary chief of the Maskwacis Cree and a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Alberta’s First Nations had named various areas long before the arrival of fur traders and railway companies.

Some of those names have been maintained, while others have been replaced.

Former Westaskiwin MP Willie Littlechild, who was among the people who supported changing Hobbema’s name back to Maskwacis, offered a short list of popular Alberta place names: ● Hobbema will once again be called Maskwacis, Cree for Bear Hills. ● Calgary, located at the crook of the Elbow River, was called Otooskwanik after the Cree for elbow. ● Red Deer was named for the river, known in Cree as Waskasoo for Elk River. ● Ponoka is Blackfoot for black elk. ● Wetaskiwin is Cree for having good relations and also for hills of peace. and culture. “Going back to the original and traditional name honours our language and honours our past, and I think it will unify us — that is the most important to me.”

He also hopes renaming the community will create a more positive impression of Maskwacis and help erase some of the more negative impressions connected with its former name.

“I think it will shed some of the negative connotations and it will bring back the positive aspect of our whole community. That’s my wish, anyway.”

Transitions to older names have been carried out successfully in northern communities, such as the City of Iqaluit, which was changed from Frobisher Bay in 1987, said Littlechild.

Original names such as Ponoka, Wetaskiwin, Waskasoo (Red Deer) and Otooskwanik (Calgary) carry

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strong connections with the land, he said.

Ponoka County Councillor Mark Matejka, whose division encompasses the four nations and includes a portion of Maskwacis, said his council supported the community’s request for a name change.

The county will vote on a resolution early in 2014, which would then allow the province to make the appropriate changes in mapping and other documentation, said Matejka.

He does not foresee any obstacles that would prevent the resolution from passing.

While people will have to get used to the hamlet’s new name, Maskwacis has already been attached to a variety of local agencies, including the RCMP detachment and the Maskwacis Cultural College, he said. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

Police say a body found by workers at a recycling facility just outside of Calgary may have arrived there on one of the company’s trucks.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Kevin Reilly says the body, believed to be male, was discovered by workers at the BFI Canada facility in Rocky View County early Friday morning.

Forensic investigators were still at the facility late Friday. He says investigators do not even have an estimate of how old the person was.

“It does appear in the preliminary investigation that it was someone who was transported to the location in one of their vehicles,” Reilly said.

“It’s not a workplace accident where somebody fell off a scaffolding or anything like that.” An autopsy will be done to determine how the person died.

Reilly said it appeared the person died recently.

Man faces murder charge A northern Alberta man is facing a murder charge after an assault victim died on Christmas Day. RCMP were called to a home in Whitefish River in northeastern Alberta after an unconscious 21-yearold man was discovered by family members.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death. Lucky Thunder of Whitefish River is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.

Three arrested after home invasion

Alberta gas company pleads guilty, fined after pipeline leak

Three people have been arrested after several armed men invaded a home in High Prairie.

RCMP say three men were arrested after breaking into the home, assaulting the owner and stealing various items.

The men were arrested after trying to flee.

RCMP say members of the community, which is located about 200 kilometres northeast of Grande Prairie, helped them track down the suspects.

Sean Bigcharles, Daniel Bigcharles and John Isadore are scheduled to appear in High Prairie provincial court on Monday.

es were laid against SemCAMS under both federal and provincial legislation. In court, the company pleaded guilty to one count under each jurisdiction’s laws.

At least $185,000 of the fine will be paid into the federal Environmental Damages Fund, while $15,000 of it goes to the court.

“From my experience in Alberta, it’s a large fine,” said Michael Bell, Environment Canada’s prairie director of enforcement.

Non-governmental groups seeking money for environmental projects can apply to that fund, Bell said.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A Calgarybased natural gas company has been assessed $350,000 in fines after pleading guilty to a pipeline leak that killed hundreds of fish and damaged a creek in northern Alberta.

SemCAMS ULC pleaded guilty after a pipeline rupture released 850,000 litres of salty, chemically contaminated wastewater into a small creek and muskeg near Fox Creek, Alta., in August 2010.

After an investigation lasting about 18 months, numerous charg-

$60,000 of the money going to the environmental fund be earmarked for the Alberta Lake Management Society.

The provincial portion of the fine totalled $150,000.

Bell said there wasn’t anything unusual about the length of time it took for the charges to come before the court.

“Fisheries Act investigations are complex undertakings,” he said.

SemCAMS gathers and processes natural gas, operating four gas processing plants and nearly 1,000 kilometres of pipeline in Alberta.

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The agency handed out 530 bags. There were 39 groups who volunteered to deliver the bags and 55 sorters and packers. Eleven schools participated in the initiative as well as Johnstone Daycare and Red Deer Childcare Society.

These groups also decorated bags and made personalized cards and ornaments for the seniors. FSCA also received a number of cash donations. D.O.G. Engineering Ltd. donated $1,000 and Hunting Hills Leadership group donated $500 and also made a trip last week to FSCA with their teachers and a bus to deliver 60 bags.

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National Defence spends $14,000 on poll about superheroes

ICE FISHING Boxing Day at Gull Lake on Thursday brought out ice fishers despite the ice being only 6 to 8 Inches thick. Anton Erdesi from Edmonton had to try out his Christmas present, a Fish TV. But the gadget did not help much as Anton and his dad Attila did not catch any fish, and they were not happy with the thickness of the ice.

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Greenpeace activist says ordeal in Russian jail was worth it

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Even after getting arrested at gunpoint, spending two months in a Russian jail, and a third in limbo while awaiting his exit visa, Greenpeace activist Alexandre Paul says the protest was worth it.

In fact, the 35-year-old Montrealer doesn’t hesitate when asked whether he would do it again.

“Give me two weeks vacation and I’d go back out there (on another boat),” Paul said in an interview Friday at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport, shortly after arriving home.

Paul said the whole ordeal helped raise awareness about climate change and the effects of Arctic drilling.

The career activist, who worked on Greenpeace boats several times in the past, was among those

arrested during a September protest against a Russian state-owned offshore drilling platform in the Arctic.

The group included 28 Greenpeace members and two freelance journalists. They were originally charged with piracy after some of them tried to scale the platform.

Paul and the other activists had their cases closed this week under a recent amnesty passed by the Russian parliament.

On Friday, Paul was greeted at the airport by his teary-eyed mother, his father, a small group of friends, and a swarm of reporters.

“I’m really, really happy to be back home,” Paul said, flanked by his mother Nicole and father Raymond.

“It wasn’t the most joyous experience, I can tell you that. But every moment I spent behind bars was worth it.”

Fellow Canadian Paul Ruzycki, of Port Colborne, Ont., was also due to arrive home Friday, a Greenpeace spokesman said.

Ruzycki declined interview requests.

Paul recalled the arrest as “a scary moment, something really out of an action movie,” with Russian authorities rappelling onto their ship from a hovering helicopter. They forced him and other Greenpeace members to their knees at gunpoint, he said.

Paul originally set out on a Greenpeace boat in mid-July and expected to be home by early autumn, only to end up spending two months in jail.

When Paul realized the piracy charges could carry a 15-year sentence, panic set in, he said.

“I realized my parents might not be around for that length of time,” he told a news conference at the airport.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA, Ont. — Defence researchers spent almost $14,000 on a survey that asked whether superheroes can leap over skyscrapers.

The study for the research arm of National Defence also asked 150 people online whether superheroes can fly through the air; see through walls; hear whispers from miles away; become invisible; and walk through walls.

The oddball questions were part of a short study completed in October to help the Canadian Forces “win the hearts and minds” of the local populations it faces when deployed overseas, such as recently in Afghanistan.

Some of the questions were designed to probe people’s expectations about — as the study put it — “supernatural categories that are so prevalent in popular culture and religion.”

The study was carried out by Toronto researcher M. Afzal Upal for Defence Research and Development Canada, or DRDC. National Defence spokesman Noel Paine said the project included a $13,750 payment to the University of Toronto for data collection.

“Work on this study was also done by internal DRDC staff,” Paine said in Ottawa.

“This work will not only allow cultural scientists to better understand the spread of non-natural and religious concepts but also allow the Canadian Armed Forces ... to design messages that are more memorable for their target audiences,” says a summary of the research.

The armed forces have “no modeling or analytic capability to understand how its actions will impact the psychological meaning space of individuals.”

The study, one of several planned on the subject, included three experiments that posed a range of philosophical statements, to which online participants indicated their level of agreement.

“All mental beings can perceive the world through their sensors,” was one such statement.

There was relative agreement among survey participants that superheroes can fly and leap over skyscrapers. The survey found least agreement about whether they can become invisible or walk through walls.

“The Canadian Armed Forces needs to be able to inform and reassure local populations,” DRDC spokeswoman Myriam Bower said in an email, when asked why the research was undertaken at a time of defence budget cuts.

“This cannot be done without understanding people’s psychological meaning space, i.e., how people perceive, understand and remember various messages.”

Canada pulls diplomatic staff from South Sudan over concerns for safety

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canadian government is pulling all its diplomats and staff out of South Sudan over concerns for their safety.

Lynne Yelich, a Conservative minister of state, says in a release that operations at Canada’s office in Juba have been temporarily suspended and all staff moved to the Canadian high commission in Nairobi, Kenya.

Yelich attributed the move to what she called the “unpredictable security environment” in South Sudan.

The Canadian exodus comes as the South Sudanese government agreed today to end hostilities following a failed coup that has sparked escalating internal violence across the world’s newest country.

More than 120,000 people have been displaced by the fighting, which involves warring factions of the country’s military.

While East African leaders meeting in Kenya hailed South Sudan’s announcement of a ceasefire, the alleged renegade leader of the attempted coup remains a fugitive and was not party to the deal.

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Blackout reaches day 6 THE CANADIAN PRESS Violent winds and changing weather could set back efforts to restore power to tens of thousands in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick who are still in the dark after last weekend’s crippling ice storm, authorities said Friday.

More homes and businesses could lose electricity even as hydro crews strive to bring the lights back on for those who have gone without power for six days, authorities warned.

Some may not get their electricity back until the new year, they said — a disheartening prospect for many who already spent the Christmas holiday without light or heat.

Utility companies and officials pleaded for patience, however, saying crews were working around the clock and nothing else could be done to speed up the process.

“I think we have done everything that we could’ve done,” Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said in a news conference.

“Are there lessons that can be learned? I think in every situation like this, there are things that we maybe need to understand and do better... but overall, the way the system has responded has been excellent.”

Tricky weather conditions were hampering efforts in some areas, authorities said, while wind gusts expected in certain communities could bring down iceladen tree branches, potentially cutting power to more customers.

“Our biggest concern is tonight, we might have wind gusts over 40 kilometres an hour... that’s going to cause problems,” Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said in a news conference.

Toronto Hydro CEO Anthony Haines said those winds could add to the outages that had been caused by what he called “one of the largest storms” in the utility’s history.

“We feel for these customers and we understand their lives have been turned over as a result of this storm,” he said.

“We’re working as hard as possible and will not stop until the lights are back on for everyone.”

Haines hesitated, however, to specify when the work would be complete, saying it would be “irresponsible” to give residents false hope in such an unpredictable situation.

The uncertainty rankled some residents who expressed frustration at the pace of the repairs.

“If this goes into next week, I don’t know what we’re going to do,” said Chris Walder, 25, whose home in east-end Toronto remained without power and heat.

When the outage began, Walder, his parents and their dog took refuge in a nearby hotel for several nights, then stayed with a friend.

The family returned home Friday hoping to find everything back to normal, he said.

Instead, Walder found himself piling on six shirts, a sweater, coat and a toque to keep warm at home.

He said he hadn’t seen a single hydro truck in his neighbourhood.

The storm has taken a toll on his health and his family’s finances, he said, noting the costs of staying in a hotel and eating in restaurants quickly add up.

Roughly 25,750 Toronto homes and businesses and another 6,500 in the rest of Ontario were waiting for power to be restored Friday.

In Quebec, about 2,400 customers remained without hydro Friday night and in New Brunswick, 13,300 customers were in the dark.

More snow forecast DECEMBER GOT ALMOST DOUBLE THE MONTH’S AVERAGE

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A few more centimetres of snow will fall before Red Deer says goodbye to 2013.

As of Dec. 24, a total of 35.6 cm of snow has fallen on Red Deer. That’s almost double the 18.9 cm the city averages in December.

Likewise in November, 62.5 cm fell and the mean average is 16.9 cm.

“You’re taking all the snow from B.C. I think the B.C. snow hills near Vancouver, they’ve only received 30 per cent of their normal,” said Cindy Yu, meteorologist with Environment Canada with a laugh on Friday.

On Friday two to four cm of snow was forecast to fall in Red Deer.

Yu said, one or two cm of snow is expected on both Saturday and Sunday.

“Saturday, especially in the morning hours with the tail end of the cold front, there’s still the chance of light snow especially in the morning hours with an improving trend.”

On Monday, some light flurries were expected that might amount to one cm.

She said right now the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday is a mix of sun and cloud, but a weather system could potentially form north east of Red Deer.

“It may just miss us on Tuesday and Wednesday. We’ll have to keep an eye on it,” Yu said.

A Canyon Ski Resort spokesperson said all the snow has helped provide touch-ups to the snow base the resort put down with machines.

“We’ve never had this much

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Kayley Green of Athabasca looks down the beginner run at Canyon Ski Resort as her father John gives her some encouragement Friday afternoon. On what was the busiest day so far in the ski season hundreds of skiers, snowboarders and tubers enjoyed a fine, warm, winter day. snow so early in the season,” said the spokesperson who spoke on behalf of general manager David Martel.

“It brings out some neverevers who want to learn about the snow and it brings out the die-hard skiers and snowboarders who would normally have to travel to the mountains to get (so much snow).”

Temperatures have been slightly colder than a typical

December in Red Deer.

The average high in December 2013 has been -8.7C and the average low has been -17C. The typical low for December is -5.2C with a high of -20C. Yu said the chance of ice storms in Alberta like the ones that recently crippled parts of Eastern Canada is very small.

“I wouldn’t say it’s impossible. But for that to occur we

actually do need a lot of moisture in place. East of the Rockies, normally we’re dealing with a lot of drier patterns because most of the moisture is being stripped out by the topography in B.C.” She said even though freezing rain does occur in Alberta, freezing rain of a longer duration doesn’t happen as easily. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com

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This was the year the media took centre stage SERIES OF CTV SCOOPS BROUGHT TO LIGHT THE HANGING THREADS THAT HAVE LED TO A PMO-WOVEN WEB OF DECEIT If one had to select a single individual as the political newsmaker of 2013 in federal politics, former PMO chief of staff Nigel Wright would likely be that person.

His decision to personally reimburse the housing allowance of a high-maintenance Conservative senator has wreaked unprecedented havoc on a sitting prime minister and his palace guard.

But if one were looking for a nominee that stands for a collectivity, the media would be the newsmaker of the year in Canada — in the literal sense of the word.

On Parliament Hill, a series of CTV scoops brought to light the hanging threads that CHANTAL have led to a PMO-woven web HÉBERT of deceit.

In Toronto, investigative work by the Star led to devastating police revelations about the mayor, his subsequent political emasculation and a concert of calls on Rob Ford to step down.

In Quebec, the links between the construction industry and the political class are under the microscope of the judicial inquiry because of the dogged work of the media.

In a normal year, investigative journalism - as revealing as it may be — is all in a day’s work.

The charges laid earlier this month against Jacques Corriveau — once a close friend of Jean

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Chrétien — had their roots in the Globe and Mail’s digging into the sponsorship program a decade ago.

But what made 2013 different from previous years is that journalists did not only dig up news, a good number of them were the news.

In the Senate, Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin two former stars of the parliamentary press gallery — spent much of the year in the eye of the spending storm.

A third — suspended senator Patrick Brazeau — is now attempting to join his media critics in the press gallery.

Three of the candidates in the high-profile Toronto Centre byelection were journalists including the winner Liberal Chrystia Freeland and the NDP runner-up Linda McQuaig.

In Quebec, ministers Bernard Drainville and Jean-François Lisée, respectively the mouth and the brain behind the controversial Parti Québécois secularism charter, spent their previous lives — in whole or in part — in the journalistic trenches.

A third — Pierre Duchesne — left the political coverage of the 2012 student strike to run for the PQ and become the minister in charge of resolving the tuition fee issue.

In my early days on Parliament Hill I once heard a veteran correspondent muse that the most efficient way to control an enterprising political journalist was to keep him or her on a steady diet of scoops.

Better a reporter that is busy pursuing known leads than idle media hands doing what could — from a government or a party’s perspective — be the devil’s work.

At the time in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s when journalists assigned to Parliament Hill were pursu-

ing substantial stories on free trade, the Constitution, abortion rights, Quebec sovereignty and the GST, a crowded policy agenda certainly made it harder for scandal-related stories to sustain momentum.

On Stephen Harper’s watch though, the news flow has trickled down to drops and information control has routinely defaulted to outright suppression.

With the news industry famished for revenues and a political news drought on the Hill, some predicted that more resources would be reallocated to other beats and for a while they were.

But the bet that the public — starting with those who actually vote — would tune out politics has not paid off.

In 2013, few stories generated ratings as high or clicks as numerous as the Wright/Duffy saga or the crisis that overtook Toronto City Hall. The 2008 parliamentary crisis similarly played to a large audience.

At year’s end, some bureaus on Parliament Hill are being beefed up. Far from becoming the sleepy hollows that their temporary masters would like them to be, venues like Parliament Hill, city hall or the provincial legislatures are places where the action continues to be.

At the same time shorter media careers combined with longer working lives mean that instead of fading quietly into the media night, more former journalists than ever are crossing over to the socalled dark side from which many of them seem bent to provide the colleagues that they left behind with great headlines.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer. Her column appears Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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Gay rights counter-offensive not as bad as it looks After a decade when the struggle for equal rights for gay people made great progress, it looks like the counter-revolution is underway. In the past six months, there have been major defeats for gay rights in Africa, in Asia, and even in Europe.

In June, the Russian parliament passed a law banning “propaganda for non-traditional sexual relations” that effectively makes it illegal to speak publicly in defence of gay rights, let alone hold gay pride events.

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, warned the following month that same-sex marriage (barely discussed in Russia) is “a very dangerous sign of the GWYNNE Apocalypse.”

DYER In a 2013 poll, 16 percent of Russians said that gay people should be isolated from society, 22 percent said they should be forced to undergo treatment, and 5 percent said they should just be “liquidated”.

In Australia, on 11 December, only a week after a law making same-sex marriage legal in the Australian Capital Territory came into effect, the federal High Court overturned it and 27 gay marriages were automatically dissolved.

“Whether same sex marriage should be provided for by law is a matter for the federal parliament,” said the judges, and should not be decided by the courts.

On the same day, in India, the Supreme Court reversed a 2009 ruling by the Delhi High Court that had struck down the infamous Section 377, which said that a same-sex relationship is an “unnatural offence” punishable by a 10-year jail term.

The ruling only applied to the National Capital Territory, but it was widely assumed that other Indian courts would follow suit.

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However, the Indian Supreme Court has now jumped the other way.

The judgement actually said only that the law has to be changed by parliament, not by the courts. But meanwhile all the gays who were encouraged by the Delhi High Court ruling to come out of the closet are going to find it harder than ever to live like normal citizens.

Finally, on 19 December, Uganda’s parliament passed a law imposing life imprisonment for some homosexual “offences”. The private member’s bill also makes it a crime punishable by a three-year prison sentence not to report gay people to the police.

“I am glad the parliament has voted against evil,” said David Bahati, the MP who sponsored the bill.

“Because we are a God-fearing nation, we value life in a holistic way.

It is because of those values that members of parliament passed this bill regardless of what the outside world thinks.”

When you set it out like this, it looks as if a global counter-offensive against gay rights is underway, but it’s not as bad as it looks.

Uganda’s prime minister, Amama Mbabazi, opposes the new law and claims that there was not a quorum in parliament to pass it.

It may be cancelled on that argument, or President Yoweri Museveni, who is conscious of the international damage to Uganda’s reputation, may simply veto it. This is not yet a done deal.

Africa is the most anti-gay continent — 37 out of 52 African countries have laws that criminalize homosexual acts — but many of these laws are a legacy of the European colonial occupations and are not vigorously enforced.

Some of the biggest African countries, including South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Egypt, have no anti-gay laws.

The glass is considerably less than half-full in Africa, but it is not empty.

In Asia, anti-homosexual laws are rare except in Muslim-majority countries.

India was the great exception to that rule. Section 377 was an embarrassment to the Congress government, which was quietly grateful to the Delhi High Court for striking it down.

The government has already filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision on the grounds that it “violated the principle of equality.”

On the other hand, if a new law is actually required to kill Section 377, it is unlikely to risk outraging conservative opinion by passing such a law before next year’s election.

In Russia, the battle for gay rights is already almost a century old.

Homosexuality was decriminalized in 1917 after the revolution, recriminalized under Stalin in 1933, decriminalized again in 1993 – and homosexual relationships are still legal, although President Vladimir Putin is playing populist politics with his “anti-gay propaganda” law.

As for Australia, the issue is about the “last gay right”: same-sex marriage. The new prime minister, Tony Abbott, has already said he opposes it, so there will be no new legislation there soon. But most Australian states already permit civil unions or other legal devices that effectively give same-sex partners the same legal rights as other couples.

So do most other jurisdictions in the developed world, and in the past decade sixteen countries, including almost all of Western Europe, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, and sixteen US states, have gone further and legalized same-sex marriage. (So has New Zealand, just as Australia was re-banning it.)

The tipping point was passed some time ago, and the clock will not be turned back. Homosexuality is still illegal in 83 countries, but even including India they account for only one-third of the world’s people.

Without India, they would have a mere sixth of the planet’s population. The global glass is more than half-full.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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In plentiful Canada, food scarce for some This is the time of year when many of us worry about eating too much.

Yet there are more than one million households, or about two million people 12 and older, in Canada where there is not enough food on the table, a startlingly high number considering that we live in one of the world’s most food-abundant countries.

In 2011 (the latest year available), 8.3 per cent of Canadians households, or almost 1.1 million households, experienced food insecurity, meaning either they had an actual shortage of food or could not afford or obtain the quality or quantity of food for a healthy diet, according to Statistics Canada. In 2007, some 7.7 per cent of households reported food insecurity.

The highest incidence of food insecurity was found in lone-parent households — typically single mothers raising a DAVID child or children.

CRANE But the elderly, immigrants, women and children and Aboriginal families also rank high on food insecurity.

One sign of food insecurity is the continuing use of food banks.

According to Food Banks Canada, in March, 2013 some 833,098 people used food banks, 23 per cent more than before the 2007-08 recession.

Of these, one-eighth were employed but did not earn enough to feed their families (for example, Ontario’s lowest-paid workers, those on the minimum wage, are in the third year of a wage freeze). The other seven-eighths were unemployed or on disability benefits.

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In an August 2013 report, Enough for All: Household Food Security in Canada, the Conference Board of Canada noted that the biggest factor in food insecurity in families was their low incomes.

Households dependent on social assistance, employment insurance or worker’s compensation were much more likely to be food-insecure than those where salaries/wages or pensions/senior benefits were the main sources of income.

But low incomes were not the only cause of food insecurity.

The higher cost of healthy foods, geographic isolation, lack of transportation and poor food literacy, were other factors.

The problem for many is that “the cost of food is often the only discretionary part of household spending,” the Conference Board found.

“Food budgets are determined by the amount of money left over after paying other bills such as rent, hydro and heat.”

Health Canada has created what it calls the National Nutritious Food Basket.

But the cost of following that healthy guide is far beyond the financial ability of Canadian families on social assistance.

Poor diet has many consequences for health, learning at school and adult productivity.

As the Conference Board found, “people who are food-insecure tend to have a less varied diet, a lower intake of fruits and vegetable, micronutrient deficiencies, and even malnutrition.”

They are more likely to consume cheaper processed foods, which typically contain unhealthy levels of sodium, sugar and trans fats, contributing to health risks such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and cardio-vascular disease.

Hungry children are less likely to do well in school and likely to miss more days at school, setting them on a trajectory for poorer education outcomes

2013: The good, the bad and the ugly 2013. Just a few days left in the year that was, and like most years it was quite a year, wasn’t it? And like pretty much every year on this odd little 3rd rock from the sun, 2013 had its share of laughs and tears, ups and downs, Kate Middletons and Rob Fords.

Therefore, inHARLEY somuchas HAY New Year’s is hereby imminently imminent, be it resolved that Hay’s Daze present the 2013 The Good and the Ugly, and as it is the unexpressed mandate of this weekly Saturday column that the contents herein shall, whenever possible (but not entirely likely) avoid being a bummer in the sense of discussing politics, war, pestilence, horribleness, Rob Ford and similar disasters, the ensuing Good and Ugly will attempt (but likely not succeed) in avoiding these topics, which would normally be in any other 2013 List. (That would be much too normal.)

And in fact, since Yours Truly is much too lazy during Christmas week (or any other week) to do much historical or meaningful research into the topic, how about we limit this little discussion to just a couple of the outstanding Good and the Ugly people of 2013?

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2013 — THE GOOD: ● Who can even think about the past year without immediately picturing George? As in little baby George Alexander Louis. As in His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge.

And better yet, immediately picturing his Royal Mother, Kate Middleton. As in Her Royal Hotness Kate. And there was also her husband, good old Will, who has somehow managed to become relatively normal and even somewhat of a role model in the unlikely scenario of fickle fame and fortune that is the essence of Royalty. ● Who can hear any David Bowie song and not think of our very own famous Canadian Astro-Nut Chris Hadfield?

Commander Hadfield not only ran the International Space Station better than anybody in the history of Space Stations, he managed, along with his computer savvy son Evan, (who was safely on planet Earth) to create a whole new cyber-space world.

He not only sent about a zillion messages on The Twitter, he connected with students all over the world with live video chats involving wacky weightless experiments with space toilets and floating peanut butter sandwiches (no connection).

But the important stuff, really, was when he made two rock videos from space both of which were viewed around the world about a zillion times.

These involved the idiosyncratic Canadian band Barenaked Ladies and British rock god David Bowie, and featured Commander Hadfield playing guitar and singing, and playing and singing better than any other weightless astronaut ever.

And he also wrote a cool book which Santa gave me for Christmas. Just a typical smart, like-

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Commander Chris Hadfield not only ran the International Space Station better than anybody in the history of Space Stations, he managed, along with his computer savvy son Evan, (who was safely on planet Earth) to create a whole new cyber-space world. able, incredible Canuck, that Hadfield, eh?

2013 — THE BAD: ● I was thinking on mentioning Mother Nature at the top of the list of the Bad People of 2013 due to the many awful Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Floods, etc. inflicted upon many unfortunate people, and I was even going to comment on all the dumb snow personally witnessed and endured but then I remembered that Mother Nature is not a real person, and that a bunch of snow is not even worth talking about when you compare it with real weather nightmares that were disasters for so many people, so kindly disregard this paragraph, and jump right to the Ugly.

2013 — THE UGLY: ● OK, at the risk of sounding like a narrow-minded out of touch old fogey or worse, a jaded and cynical baby boomer, what’s with this Miley Cyrus?? The 21 year old daughter of pseudo-star Billy Ray Cyrus (remember the country song “Achy Breaky Heart”? or more accurately, trying desperately to FORGET “Achy Breaky Heart”?), little Miley used to be the belovedly innocent Disney star of the TV show “Hannah Montana”. At least she was beloved by mostly female tweens everywhere who emulated everything she did and practically worshipped her every tweak and twitch. And then, this year, she started twerking.

If you’re not sure what twerking is, and trust me, you probably don’t want to know, ask someone under the age of 20.

Somehow in 2013 whatever brains she did happen to possess descended directly to her pelvis on the MTV awards, a live television event witnessed by zillions of impressionable young fans, mostly of the female species. This immediately resulted in television watching being banned in zillions of households containing impressionable young females, and a significant spike in Hannah Montana merchandise being dropped off a Value Villages everywhere.

● And finally, OK, I admit it, I couldn’t resist. How can any person, serious or otherwise, even think about a 2013 “Ugly” list without mentioning the world’s most famous mayor? I speak of course of Mayor Tara Veer of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. But you already know by now that I am just kidding, on account of Mayor Veer is certainly not ugly. ● Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto has placed Canada firmly on the map. And not in any conceivable good way, by any stretch of the imagination. The Mayoralty meltdown Ford freak-out had been deliciously featured on every late night talk show, every news report, every tabloid front page and every crack dealer’s cell phone auto-dial list. He only opens his mouth to change feet or to refresh his exceeding large frame with adult beverages or other more illegal chemical substances.

There’s no telling what he will do next and then insist he didn’t do. There’s no telling what outrageous claim or accusation he will make or what planet he is actually from. There’s no telling what colour is the sky in Rob’s world.

Most of us just wish it wasn’t a Canadian sky he is staggering around in for all the world to see.

But that’s what every day of every year is all about, isn’t it? It’s about balance: yin and yang, positive and negative, the good and the ugly. For every Kate Middleton there’s a Miley Cyrus; for every Chris Hadfield there is a Rob Ford, for every dog, there’s a cat.

(Just kidding, cat lovers, honest!)

Let’s just hope in 2014 there’s a little fewer crack smoking mayors and twerking pop stars, and a few more singing astronauts and royal mothers.

And a little less Mother Nature would be nice too.

Happy New Year!

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

and life chances. Calorie intake also affects work performance.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s it was found that men, who had been living on minimum food allotments, were unable to immediately take on jobs that became available — they had to increase their calorie intake first.

The food insecurity of families is being addressed, one way or another, by governments, community groups, non-profits and individuals.

These initiatives can include local groups providing school breakfast and lunches, food banks, organizations such as Meals on Wheels, and efforts to improve food literacy and promote healthier diets.

But as the Conference Board recommends, we need a more concerted effort, including some kind of pan-Canadians school nutrition programme, greater support for community initiatives by non-profits, businesses and government, encouragement of volunteerism and local engagement in food initiatives, and improvements in food literacy.

But the broader issue of poverty also needs much greater attention.

By addressing food insecurity we can improve the health of food-insecure individuals, so they are more likely to attain higher levels of education, enabling them to find better jobs and lead more productive lives.

This is why it is in everyone’s interest, and not only those being helped, since this can make Canada healthier and more prosperous.

What we need are public health policies which are much more focussed on the determinants of good health and how we have healthier and consequently more prosperous societies.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

Reflecting on successes, failures over the past year Usually at this time of the year I like to stop and reflect on where we have come and where we are going in the work of Potter’s Hands.

Whenever we are close to the work every day we don’t always see the changes that happen, but with a step back, our focus becomes refined to the point that we are able to see all that has taken place.

We are reminded of the successes we have enjoyed, and also some of the efforts or non-successes that we experienced.

In one case in particular, an article that I wrote just over two years ago, I wrote about ‘Cinderella’. This undoubtedly is one success story that comes to mind. I still stand amazed at how this woman changed from a totally beaten individual ready to CHRIS look at suicide as an option SALOMONS to life into a resilient fighter that has celebrated one success after another.

Through the efforts of many agencies she was able to grab hold of the courage to fight the addictions and depression that she had turned to after a devastating childhood. We were just happy to be part of the support team she needed.

In another case, a young couple got together and immediately started on a program to change their lives to the point that now they have been clean for a couple of months and are pursuing more permanent accommodation.

Their joy in a new clean life is shared with us and it gives us the motivation to double our efforts.

In other instances, we have observed that while our message of hope was eagerly received, the consumptive power of an addiction kept coming back and overtaking their resolve to change. Some of these people have died while still in their struggles, which for us can sometimes be very hard to accept and deal with.

We still find that the hardest struggle that most people have in making a complete and lasting change in their lives is that they feel that their past was so horrendous and wicked that nothing could wipe that away, and so it becomes the stumbling block for many.

I’m not educated enough to understand it all, but one thing I have observed is that the greatest things for these people to overcome is what happened to them in the first six or even up to 13 years of their lives; this would take a psychoanalyst to fully figure out and deal with.

I think in particular of one 43-year-old woman who was adopted when she was six, and although she quite readily fit into this loving family, something that happened in those first six years was enough to drive her to the life she would eventually lead, right up to the point of her death.

This was a very tough one for us to take as we had only a short time before befriended her to the point she was confiding in us.

Many deaths whether accidental or intentional are very hard on those remaining, although if someone has had a good fruitful life, death does not take away from that person; but for someone who dies while in addiction or depression there never will be a resolve.

So instead of focusing on the downside of life, we choose to focus on the future and the fact that we can and should adopt a hope in life.

At Potters Hands we focus on a hope built on our faith in a God who provides all that we need, and this is what gives us the willingness and the determination to carry on with our work with people on the street and those dwelling in the hopeless side of life.

The great part of all this work is the support that we receive from the community at large. The number of people who want to get involved and the words of encouragement that we continually receive from them keep us going. It’s gratifying to know that we have that support.

That’s the way this year went.

STREET TALES

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer

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Denver giving out licenses to 42 businesses to sell recreational pot

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — The first batch of Denver businesses approved to sell recreational marijuana got their licenses Friday, the owners mugging for pictures and saying they never thought they’d see the day when they’d get a permit to sell pot.

Applause broke out and cameras whirred when the first license was issued from the city’s Department of Excise and Licenses. The city awarded eight licenses for retail shops, 30 licenses for pot growers and four licenses for makers of cannabis-infused products such as pot brownies.

One businessman joked about getting arrested for having a joint at a 1971 Black Sabbath concert.

Others shared hugs and stories about marijuana’s route to legalization.

“I think it’s about time that adults can imbibe in marijuana,” said Donald Andrews of one of the eight shops, LoDo Wellness Center in downtown Denver.

The licensed sellers went through a state and local licensing process that included public hearings to ask neighbours about shop locations.

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For many years, our family had a solution for the high cost of a family ski vacation — rather than purchase expensive equipment and pay for lift passes, we stayed at home.

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Lift passes, lessons and rentals are also typically less costly at a smaller hill. In Central Alberta, there are two great local ski areas.

Canyon Ski Resort (www.canyonski.ca) is the largest non-mountain resort in the province and it has a good variety of runs, lessons and equipment rentals – at a cost lower than the big mountain resorts.

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Despite its small size, the ski area offers lessons and rentals. An adult full day lift pass will cost $27 and ski rentals will cost $22.

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Get a ski card Most of the major hills have ski cards that offer free days of skiing or boarding along with discounts on passes, equipment rentals, accommodations, retail outlets and restaurants.

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SKIING: Rent from your local ski shop Many cards can also be set up so you don’t have to wait in lift ticket lineups, but can head straight to the lifts. Ski cards can be purchased online or at several retail outlets, but most cards are only on sale until December 31.

The Louise Plus Card (www.skilouise.com) costs $99 and can be used at Lake Louise Ski Resort, Castle, Panorama, Revelstoke or Schweitzer for free ski days and discounts. One of the advantages of the Louis Plus Card for families is children get 15 percent off lift ticket rates when they are accompanied by a Louise Plus Card holder, so an entire family can save money with one card purchase.

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BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF

Rebels 3 Hitmen 2 It may be the festive season but the Red Deer Rebels weren’t in a giving mood Friday.

In fact the only gifts they were handing out where to themselves as they turned in a solid performance in downing the Calgary Hitmen 3-2 in Western Hockey League action before a recorded crowd of 5,623 at the Centrium, Friday.

It was the first win in four starts against the Eastern Conference leading Hitmen this season and it was welldeserved.

“They are a high-pressure team that can skate very well and play a heavy game,” said Rebels associate coach Jeff Truitt, who is handling coaching duties with head coach/GM Brent Sutter away with Team Canada at the World Junior Championships.

“I liked the way our guys responded from the get-go and we had to battle through it. They had some surges, but Patty (goaltender Patrik Bartosak) was strong.

“It was nice to see the secondary scoring with (Cole) Chorney and (Vukie) Mpofu contributing and (Rhyse) Dieno gets the winner,” added Truitt. “It was a real team effort . . . a lot of people contributed.”

Chorney opened the scoring at 8:43 of the second period when he rang a shot off the post, that rebounded back into Calgary netminder Chris Driedger and from there trickled back over the line. The goal was reviewed upstairs.

It was the second time a goal had to be reviewed as the Hitmen thought they had scored at 10:50 of the first period, but after a long delay it was ruled

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Red Deer Rebel Kirk Bear lines up a shot on Calgary Hitmen goalie Chris Driedger during first period action at the Centrium Friday night. The Rebels won the game 3-2. kicked in by Greg Chase.

Elliott Peterson tied the game for the Hitmen at 10:14 of the second period, flipping home a rebound after Brady Brassart split the defence, making Bartosak make the initial save.

The Rebels looked to take command in the third period when Connor Bleackley ripped a snap shot over a sliding defender and high to the glove side of Driedger, exploding the water bottle. Dieno made it 3-1 at 16:25 as he cut past a defender in front and whipped

Horvat finds groove at world juniors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MALMO, Sweden — Bo Horvat landed a sweet assignment for Canada at the world junior hockey championship — playing centre between two of the best young prospects in the sport.

The sturdy London, Ont., native was matched from the beginning of camp with Sam Reinhart, a candidate to go first overall in the 2014 NHL draft, and 16-year-old Connor McDavid, the favourite to be the top pick in 2015.

It’s too easy to say Horvat’s job is to get them the puck, bang in their rebounds and hustle back if the play moves the other way, because Horvat is a nifty offensive player in his own right.

Nifty enough to be named MVP of the Ontario Hockey League playoffs with the London Knights and to be selected ninth overall by the Vancouver Canucks.

“I’m just trying to do my job keep it simple — do my job defensively and get them guys the puck,” the six foot, 205-pound Horvat said Friday. “I go to the net and try to bang it in.

“If I play hard and play a two-way game, I think it completes the line.”

The unit produced a raft of scoring chances in Canada’s tournament-opening 7-2 victory over Germany on Thursday — so many that McDavid said he was embarrassed not to put at least one of them in.

Horvat and Reinhart each scored, while McDavid had an assist and ended up a team best plus-3.

Canada goes at it again Saturday against the Czech Republic, who fell 5-1 to the United States in their opener.

The Canucks must be pleased with coach Brent Sutter’s decision to put Horvat with the young phenoms.

“For sure,” said Horvat.

“They wanted me to get a lot of ice time. They wanted me to keep improving on my pace, so for me to play with those two guys, there’s a lot of pace and quick thinking.”

There’s a tendency to see Horvat as the veteran of the unit, but he’s still 18, only seven months older than Reinhart, who is 14 months older than McDavid.

Sutter felt he had the kit of assets to bring the best out of a line that, despite its youth, gets lots of ice time.

“Bo plays in both ends of the ice,” the 51-year-old coach said. “He plays a heavy game. He’s a big strong kid. He’s good on faceoffs. He’s been well coached with Dale (Hunter) in London and he understands his responsibilities defensively. Those things to help two young kids like Davy and Reino are significant, even though he’s still young himself.

“It’s a young line, but it gives you a bit of everything. It gives you speed, size, intelligence and they’re all for the most part responsible defensively.”

McDavid is a dazzling playmaker, who creates scoring chances seemingly out of nothing.

Reinhart is clearly one of Sutter’s favourites — a smart offensive player who can play well on both the power play and penalty killing.

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a shot between Driedger’s legs at 16:25. Mpofu and Fleury assisted on both markers.

“To be truthful I closed my eyes and I was lucky it went in,” said Dieno with a laugh.

It was the first game back for the talented winger after being on the injured list with an upper body injury.

“I felt better than I thought I would,” he said. “We had a good practice yesterday (Thursday) and got the turkey out of us.”

Dieno also liked what he saw from the team prior to tak-

ing the ice.

“Everyone was calm before the game. The guys weren’t too high or too low. It didn’t matter who we were playing tonight. You’re going to see a new set of Rebels the second half.”

The fact the Rebels went into the Christmas break on a three-game winning streak, including an impressive win over Medicine Hat added to their mental strength.

“Any time you get a win before a long break it adds to your momentum,” said Dieno.

“Now it’s important to keep going. We’ve found our stride and there’s no reason not to have our best game every night.”

Chase made it interesting for the Hitmen scoring on a wrap-around at 17:23, but the Rebels were solid defensively down the stretch. In fact the Rebels defence was solid despite facing an overall bigger Calgary team.

“As long as they move the puck it keeps the pressure away and we made the quick plays and did a good job in front of the net,” said Truitt.

“They (Calgary) are big and strong and are tough to defend, and we asked a lot from the guys and they got the job done.”

Dieno wasn’t the only player to return from injury as forward Grayson Pawlenchuk was back after missing close to 12 weeks with a broken elbow.

“It will take a while for him to get back into the swing of things, but he had a good game for just jumping right back into it,” said Truitt.

“He’ll get even better as he plays more.”

The Rebels are still missing Brooks Maxwell, Christian Stockl and Matt Bellerive with injuries and have Adam Musil and Meyer Nell at the World U17 Challenge in Cape Breton, N.S., and Dominik Volek at the World Juniors with the Czech Republic.

They also played without backup goalie Taz Burman, who took ill in the afternoon.

As a result the Rebels called up Rylan Toth from the Battlefords midget team to act as backup. He didn’t arrive until game time after playing in the Mac’s midget tournament in Calgary.

The Rebels are in Edmonton Sunday and return home Monday for a 7 p.m. contest against Brandon. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Oilers shut out Flames DUBNYK STOPS 27 SHOTS, SMYTH SCORES PAIR AS OILERS WIN SECOND IN A ROW

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 2 Flames 0 CALGARY — Ryan Smyth didn’t need a stick to score the goal that mattered to Edmonton.

The Oilers used a 27-save save shutout by Devan Dubnyk and a pair of goals by Smyth to beat the Calgary Flames 2-0 on Friday.

Smyth, who also scored into an empty net with six seconds left, had a fortunate bounce to open the scoring in the first period.

With Smyth stationed at the top of the goal crease, Ales Hemsky fired puck from the corner that hit Smyth in the chest and bounced past Calgary’s Reto Berra.

There was a lengthy video review but the goal was upheld.

“When you get a goal like that, light the light and keep them at zero,” said Dubnyk. “We did a good job, especially toward the end of game when they were pushing to get one, we didn’t give them much.”

It was Smyth’s first goals in 14 games.

“Smitty battled throughout the game tonight, I thought he was really working,” said Edmonton coach Dallas Eakins.

Less than three minutes before Smyth’s goal, it appeared Calgary had taken the first lead when Mark Giordano fired a shot through the pads of Dubnyk.

However, as the Flames celebrated the goal, the cheers from the sell-out crowd of 19,289 quickly turned to boos when the goal was being waved off for incident contact with the goalie by Flames six-foot-five centre Joe Colborne.

“It’s a great call,” said Dubnyk.

“I know, obviously being here, nobody likes it, but it would have been an easy one for him to let go because it wasn’t too noticeable, but he comes through the crease and spins me sideways on the original play.

“If he hadn’t of done that, then I wouldn’t have been sprawling and stretching, and it wouldn’t have gone under my arm.”

Colborne didn’t see the play unfold in quite the same way.

“To tell you the truth, I didn’t even notice touching the goalie.

I thought Gio made a really nice

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Edmonton Oilers’ Nail Yakupov checks Calgary Flames’ Chris Butler during second-period NHL action in Calgary, Friday. fake and because Dubynk was screened, he bit on it then needed to reset himself so he was kind of scrambling and Gio got off a good shot,” Colborne said.

“To get that first goal of the game was pretty big and we’re coming back to celebrate with the rest of our team and then you see them waving it off. It’s frustrating but regardless, you have to score more than one goal usually anyway so even if that one counted, we still have to go out and play the rest of the game.”

Dubnyk recorded his second shutout of the season and eighth of his career.

“It’s always fun to play here,” said Dubnyk, who played his minor hockey in Calgary. “I’ve lived a lot of years here and it’s always fun to win. This is the first shutout here, so it’s extra special.”

Edmonton (13-24-3), which won consecutive games for the first time in over a month, will go for three victories in a row Saturday night when they host the Philadelphia Flyers.

Calgary (14-18-6) has split the first two games in its five-game home stand. Next up is the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday.

“The bottom line is we didn’t play a very good game. We didn’t give ourselves a chance to win.

Here’s one game that I didn’t think we had our usual jump,” Flames

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coach Bob Hartley said.

Edmonton moves to within five points of the Flames in the Western Conference standings.

“You have to give them credit, they are a hard-working team, but by no means are we going to lay down and be pushed over,” Smyth said. “We’re a team that’s going to fight and claw and try and get ourselves bumping up in the standings, one game at a time and we did it tonight.”

It was the third meeting between the two provincial rivals and the third straight goaltending duel between Dubnyk and Berra.

They had split the first two.

Six minutes into the third period, Giordano nearly tied the game but had his shot from the point go off Dubnyk’s glove and then hit the crossbar.

“We didn’t get the bounces tonight but we weren’t good enough.

We have to generate more and find ways to score,” said Giordano.

“For too long of periods of time, we were standing around and not moving our feet enough.”

Berra had 26 saves to fall to 5-92. All five of his wins have come in overtime or a shootout.

Notes: Flames RW Lee Stempniak has no goals in nine games and two in 21 games since returning from a foot injury. He had four goals in 10 games when he got hurt.

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Hockey

Local Sports Pt 46 41 40 38 28 23

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL Calgary 35 22 8 2 3 Edmonton 34 23 10 0 1 Medicine Hat 36 21 12 3 0 Kootenay 38 18 17 2 1 Red Deer 36 18 16 0 2 Lethbridge 39 7 27 2 3

GA 93 86 105 115 110 178

Pt 49 47 45 39 38 19

Friday’s summary

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 33 28 3 0 2 138 81 58 Victoria 39 24 13 0 2 119 95 50 Vancouver 37 17 13 5 2 122 126 41 Prince George 38 14 19 2 3 111 148 33 Kamloops 36 9 23 2 2 90 145 22 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 36 24 8 2 2 168 119 52 Everett 36 22 10 4 0 115 96 48 Seattle 35 21 10 1 3 131 121 46 Spokane 36 22 12 0 2 133 109 46 Tri-City 37 17 17 1 2 96 105 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’s results Prince Albert 5 Saskatoon 2 Moose Jaw 3 Swift Current 2 (SO) Brandon 8 Regina 0 Spokane 6 Kootenay 4 Lethbridge 5 Medicine Hat 4 Red Deer 3 Calgary 2 Kamloops at Kelowna, late Prince George 1, Victoria 8 Portland 3, Tri-City 2 Seattle at Everett, late

Rebels 3, Hitmen 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Sutter RD (hooking) 16:45, Jones CAL (tripping) 19:54.

Second Period 1. Red Deer, Chorney 4 (Polei) 8:43.

2. Calgary, Peterson 5 (Brassart, Chase) 10:14.

Penalties — Penner CAL (hooking) 0:54, Fleury RD (tripping) 13:25, Dixon RD (cross-checking) 15:30.

Third Period 3. Red Deer, Bleackley 18 (Mpofu, Fleury) 5:34.

4. Red Deer, Dieno 12 (Mpofu, Fleury) 16:25.

5. Calgary, Chase 20 (Peterson, Brassart) 17:23.

Penalties — Helgesen CAL (tripping) 2:55, Fafard RD (tripping) 10:18, Bartosak RD (tripping) 12:28, Thomas CAL (delay of game) 17:36.

Shots on goal Calgary 10 12 11 — 33 Red Deer 13 16 11 — 40 Goal — Calgary: Driedger (L, 14-7-2); Red Deer: Bartosak (W, 15-12-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Calgary: 0-5; Red Deer: 0-4.

Thursday’s Games No games scheduled

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Boston 38 26 10 2 54 Tampa Bay 37 23 11 3 49 Montreal 38 22 13 3 47 Detroit 39 17 13 9 43 Toronto 40 19 16 5 43 Ottawa 40 15 18 7 37 Florida 38 14 19 5 33 Buffalo 38 10 24 4 24 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 40 28 11 1 57 Washington 38 20 14 4 44 Philadelphia 37 17 16 4 38 Columbus 38 17 17 4 38 N.Y. Rangers 39 18 19 2 38 New Jersey 39 15 16 8 38 Carolina 38 14 15 9 37 N.Y. Islanders 38 11 20 7 29

Sunday’s Games Washington at Buffalo, 3 p.m.

Montreal at Florida, 3 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Columbus, 4 p.m.

St. Louis at Dallas, 4 p.m.

Carolina at Toronto, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Chicago 40 27 7 6 60 St. Louis 36 24 7 5 53 Colorado 37 23 11 3 49 Minnesota 40 20 15 5 45 Dallas 37 19 12 6 44 Winnipeg 40 17 18 5 39 Nashville 38 16 18 4 36 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts Anaheim 39 27 7 5 59 Los Angeles 38 25 9 4 54 San Jose 38 24 8 6 54 Vancouver 39 22 11 6 50 Phoenix 37 19 10 8 46 Calgary 38 14 18 6 34

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.

Sunday’s games Red Deer at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Friday’s Games Columbus 2, New Jersey 1, SO Toronto 4, Buffalo 3, SO San Jose 4, Phoenix 3, SO Boston 5, Ottawa 0 Washington 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 4, Carolina 3, OT Chicago 7, Colorado 2 Winnipeg 6, Minnesota 4 Dallas 4, Nashville 1 Edmonton 2, Calgary 0

Czech Rep. Germany

1 2

0 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 2 4 16 0 Group B GP W OW OL L GF GA Pts Russia 1 1 0 0 0 11 0 3 Finland 1 1 0 0 0 5 1 3 Sweden 1 1 0 0 0 5 3 3 Switzerland 1 0 0 0 1 3 5 0 Norway 2 0 0 0 2 1 16 0 Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win and one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Thursday’s results Canada 7 Germany 2 Russia 11 Norway 0 U.S. 5 Czech Republic 1 Sweden 5 Switzerland 3

Saturday’s Games Boston at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Friday’s results Finland 5 Norway 1 Slovakia 9 Germany 2 Saturday’s games 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’s games Germany vs. U.S., 7 a.m.

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

GF 111 106 96 99 110 111 88 69

GA 77 87 84 108 116 131 123 109

GF 125 120 93 103 90 93 89 96

GA 91 114 104 107 105 101 109 129

GF 152 128 108 92 110 109 86

GA 109 85 95 102 108 120 113

Oilers 2, Flames 0 First Period 1. Edmonton, Smyth 5 (Hemsky, Gordon) 17:22.

Penalties — Eberle Edm (tripping) 5:06, Brodie Cgy (slashing) 11:42.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Stempniak Cgy (hooking) 1:10, Belov Edm (boarding) 12:32, Stajan Cgy (tripping) 19:09.

Third Period 2. Edmonton, Smyth 6 (Gordon) 19:54 (en-pp).

Penalties — Giordano Cgy (tripping) 19:01.

Shots on goal Edmonton 10 6 12 — 28 Calgary 12 8 7 — 27 Goal — Edmonton: Dubnyk (W, 10-15-2); Calgary: Berra (L, 5-9-2).

Power plays (goal-chances)Edmonton: 1-4; Calgary: 0-2.

GF GA 127 98 106 76 125 97 106 93 114 114 95 120

2014 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship ROUND ROBIN Group A GP W OW OL L GF GA Pts Slovakia 1 1 0 0 0 9 2 3 Canada 1 1 0 0 0 7 2 3 U.S. 1 1 0 0 0 5 1 3

2013 Spengler Cup ROUND ROBIN Group Torriani GP W OW OL L GF GA Pts Geneve-Servette 1 1 0 0 0 5 0 3 CSKA Moscow 1 1 0 0 0 4 3 3 Rochester 2 0 0 0 2 3 9 0

Friday’s summary

Group Cattini GP W OW OL L GF GA Pts Canada 1 1 0 0 0 5 4 3 Davos 1 1 0 0 0 5 1 3 Vitkovice 2 0 0 0 2 5 10 0 Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win and one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Thursday’s results Canada 5 Vitkovice (Czech Rep.) 4 Geneve-Servette (Swtizerland) 5 Rochester (AHL) 0 Friday’s results CSKA Moscow (Russia) 4 Rochester (AHL) 3 Davos (Switzerland) 5 Vitkovice (Czech Rep.) 1 Saturday’s games Geneve-Servette (Swtizerland) vs. CSKA Moscow (Russia), 7 a.m.

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

End or round robin PLAYOFFS Sunday’s games Quarter-finals Second place A vs. Third place B, 7 a.m.

Third place A vs. Second place B, 12:15 p.m.

Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct y-New England 11 4 0 .733 Miami 8 7 0 .533 N.Y. Jets 7 8 0 .467 Buffalo 6 9 0 .400 South W L T Pct y-Indianapolis 10 5 0 .667 Tennessee 6 9 0 .400 Jacksonville 4 11 0 .267 Houston 2 13 0 .133 North W L T Pct y-Cincinnati 10 5 0 .667 Baltimore 8 7 0 .533 Pittsburgh 7 8 0 .467 Cleveland 4 11 0 .267 West W L T Pct y-Denver 12 3 0 .800 x-Kansas City 11 4 0 .733

San Diego Oakland PF 410 310 270 319

PA 318 315 380 354

PF 361 346 237 266

PA 326 371 419 412

PF 396 303 359 301

PA 288 318 363 386

PF 572 406

PA 385 278

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7 11

0 0

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 9 6 0 .600 Dallas 8 7 0 .533 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 Washington 3 12 0 .200 South W L T Pct x-Carolina 11 4 0 .733 New Orleans 10 5 0 .667 Atlanta 4 11 0 .267 Tampa Bay 4 11 0 .267 North W L T Pct Chicago 8 7 0 .533 Green Bay 7 7 1 .500 Detroit 7 8 0 .467 Minnesota 4 10 1 .300 West W L T Pct

369 308

324 419

PF 418 417 274 328

PA 360 408 377 458

PF 345 372 333 271

PA 221 287 422 347

PF 417 384 382 377

PA 445 400 362 467

PF

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x-Seattle 12 3 0 .800 390 x-San Francisco 11 4 0 .733 383 Arizona 10 5 0 .667 359 St. Louis 7 8 0 .467 339 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

222 252 301 337

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.

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Sunday New York Jets at MIAMI 6.5 40.5 Houston at TENNESSEE 6.5 44.5 Cleveland at PITTSBURGH 7.5 43.5 Washington at NY GIANTS 3.5 45.5 Jacksonville at INDIANAPOLIS 11.5 45.5 Detroit at MINNESOTA 3.5 52.5 Baltimore at CINCINNATI 5.5 44.5 SAN FRANCISCO at Arizona 0.5 42.5 Kansas City at SAN DIEGO 9.5 45.5 St. Louis at SEATTLE 10.5 42.5 Buffalo at NEW ENGLAND 9.5 47.5 DENVER at Oakland 12.5 53.5 Tampa Bay at NEW ORLEANS 12.5 47.5 CAROLINA at Atlanta 6.5 45.5 Green Bay at Chicago OFF OFF Philadelphia at Dallas OFF OFF

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 12 15 .444 — Boston 12 17 .414 1 Brooklyn 10 19 .345 3 New York 9 20 .310 4 Philadelphia 8 20 .286 4 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 22 6 .786 — Atlanta 16 13 .552 6 1/2 Charlotte 14 16 .467 9 Washington 12 14 .462 9 Orlando 9 20 .310 13 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 23 5 .821 — Detroit 14 17 .452 10 1/2 Chicago 11 16 .407 11 1/2

Cleveland Milwaukee

10 6

18 23

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13 17 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 23 7 .767 — Houston 20 11 .645 3 1/2 Dallas 16 13 .552 6 1/2 New Orleans 13 14 .481 8 1/2 Memphis 12 16 .429 10 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 24 5 .828 — Oklahoma City 24 5 .828 — Denver 14 14 .500 9 1/2 Minnesota 14 15 .483 10 Utah 9 23 .258 16 Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 20 11 .645 —

CALGARY — The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs have put themselves in a tough position to advance to the playoffs at the annual Mac’s Midget AAA World Invitational hockey tournament, following a 3-3 tie with the Okanagan Rockets Friday.

The Chiefs sit with a 0-1-1 record heading into their final two round-robin games.

TJ Brown scored the tying goal for the Chiefs at 15:03 of the third period after the teams were tied 1-1 and 2-2 by periods.

Layne Bensmiller opened the scoring at 1:06 of the first period before the Rockets tied it with a power play marker. Chase Olsen made it 2-1 at 3:29 of the second period before the Rockets once again connected with the man advantage. Jayden Sittler finished with 16 saves in goal while his teammates had 34 shots.

The Chiefs face the Cariboo Cougars today at 2:30 p.m. at Max Bell Arena 1 and finish pool play Sunday at 11:45 a.m. against the Calgary Flames at Father David Bauer Arena.

Meanwhile, the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs trailed the Calgary Bruins 1-0 late in the first period when the game was delayed due to a power outage. The final score was unavailable at press time.

JUNIORS: A special hockey player “There’s tremendous skill,” Horvat said of his unit. “Not a lot of 16-year-olds can play in this tournament, especially for Canada.

“Connor’s a special hockey player. He knows where everyone is on the ice and he thinks two plays ahead of everyone. Sam is also a really smart player. He can find you anywhere on the ice.”

The Czechs also have a 16-year-old, Pavel Zacha, who has scouts talking and a pair of 17-year-old prospects in David Pastrnak and Jacob Vrana. Like Canada, they are expected to be stronger at next year’s world juniors in Montreal and Toronto than at this

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Thursday’s Games Atlanta 127, Cleveland 125,2OT Houston 100, Memphis 92 San Antonio 116, Dallas 107 Portland 116, L.A. Clippers 112, OT Friday’s Games Orlando 109, Detroit 92 Oklahoma City 89, Charlotte 85 Toronto 95, New York 83 Brooklyn 104, Milwaukee 93 Minnesota 120, Washington 98 New Orleans 105, Denver 89 L.A. Lakers 103, Utah 105 Miami at Sacramento, late Phoenix at Golden State, late

Saturday’s Games Cleveland at Boston, 11 a.m.

Brooklyn at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 5 p.m.

New York at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Houston, 6 p.m.

Denver at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Miami at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Golden State at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

Houston at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at San Antonio, 5 p.m.

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

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).

Bowling Heritage Lanes Weekly Results Monday-Club 55 plus High Single: Jane Purdie 264. High Triple: Jerry Tennant 637.

Monday Mixed High Single: Joyce Veres 278. High Triple: Mickey Penhale 646.

Tuesday Mixed High Single: Steve Lawrence 323. High Triple: John Vanderleek 689.

Wednesday-Club 55 plus High Single: Jim Winder 256. High Triple: Winder 638.

Wednesday Mixed High Single: Alliey Kutynec 275. High Triple: Kutynec 684.

Thursday Morning Ladies High Single: Debbie Gerlywici 257. High Triple: Gerlywici 771.

Thursday Afternoon Special Olympics Mixed High Single: Matt Mundorf 260. High Double: Matt Mundorf 437.

Thursday Mixed High Single: Bonnie Clermont 323. High Triple: Evan Hessler 825.

Monday Scratch League High Single: Shelby Chrest 345. High Quad: Anthony Streit 1,091.

Transactions Friday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled F Zach Boychuk from Charlotte (AHL). Activated G Anton Khudobin from injured reserve and assigned him to Charlotte. Placed D Jay Harrison on injured reserve.

DALLAS STARS — Activated D Aaron Rome from injured reserve. Placed D Sergei Gonchar on injured reserve.

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Recalled D Alex Petrovic and F Drew Shore from San Antonio (AHL).

Placed D Erik Gudbranson on injured reserve.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed RW Damien Brunner on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 20.

Activated LW Ryane Clowe from injured reserve.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled D Dmitry Korobov from Syracuse (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Bridgeport RW Justin Johnson for one game for his actions in a game on Dec. 26.

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Loaned G Rob Madore to Cincinnati (ECHL).

ECHL SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Loaned G David LeNeveu to Providence (AHL).

Central Hockey League ARIZONA SUNDOGS — Activated D Garrett Clarke from leave of absence. Placed D Karl Linden on waivers.

BASEBALL American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with OF Raul Ibanez on a one-year contract.

TEXAS RANGERS— Signed OF Shin-Soo Choo to a seven-year contract. Designated 1B Chris McGuiness for assignment.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jose Veras on a one-contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Tampa Bay S Dashon Goldson $60,000 for his helmet-to-helmet hit on St. Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey in a Dec. 22 game. Fined St. Louis LB Jo-Lonn Dunbar $21,000 for a helmet-to-helmet hit. Fined New York Jets DL Sheldon Richardson $15,750 for roughing Cleveland QB Jason Campbell.

CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with K Robbie Gould on a four-year contract extension through the 2017 season.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed DB Nnamdi Asomugha to a one-day contract and announced his retirement.

Canadian Football League MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Agreed to terms OL Luc Brodeur-Jourdain on a three-year contract.

Tigers’ Shinkaruk done for the season

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Today

● 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.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Vancouver Canucks 2013 firstround draft choice Hunter Shinkaruk will undergo hip surgery in early January and is expected to miss the rest of the WHL season.

“He’s going to have hip surgery on Jan. 7, and he’ll be expected to rehabilitate for four to six months beyond that,” Canucks general manager Mike Gillis said Friday in an interview.

Shinkaruk’s minimum recovery time gives him a chance to return in mid-May for the Memorial Cup tournament, if his Medicine Hat Tigers qualify by winning the WHL championship. But the odds of him coming back quickly appear long, given that hip problems usually rank among the most serious and require extended rehabilitation periods.

Shinkaruk was chosen 24th overall in this year’s NHL draft and was among Vancouver’s last pre-season cuts.

The Medicine Hat captain was invited to Team Canada’s selection camp for the world junior hockey championships, but was released for the second straight year after travelling to Sweden with the club before the tournament started.

“He’s got a slightly torn labrum,” said Gillis. “But it doesn’t matter if it’s slightly or more torn. He suffered

tournament.

Their coach, Miroslav Prerost, told the IIHF website that the team’s goal was to reach the quarter-finals.

One Canadian looking forward to the matchup is big winger Frederik Gauthier.

Two of his teammates with the Rimouski Oceanic of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League will be playing for the Czechs — defenceman Jan Kostalek and forward Patrik Zdrahal.

“We didn’t bet, but I told them we’re going to beat them and they said they would beat us and we joke like that,” said Gauthier, a Toronto Maple Leafs first rounder.

Jake Paterson will get a second straight start in goal for Canada. He gave up an early goal he’d probably like to have back against the Germans on Thursday, but then settled down to stop 22 of 24 shots.

Sutter is known to like going with one clear starting goalie, but he doesn’t rule out using backup Zach Fucale of the Halifax

it early on in the season, tried to play through it and wanted to have an opportunity to make the world junior team. Clearly, his play dropped off fairly considerably after the injury.

“He gave it his best effort and the plan all along was that this (decision to have surgery) was going to happen regardless, so it happened a little bit earlier.”

Gillis said the injury contributed to Shinkaruk, a 19-year-old Calgary native, not having the best opportunity to make Team Canada.

The surgery will be performed in Vail, Colo., by Dr. Marc Phillipon, who specializes in repairing hip disorders.

Shinkaruk was among two first-round choices selected by Vancouver this year.

The Canucks took London Knights centre Bo Horvat with the ninth pick, which they acquired in a draft-day trade from New Jersey for goaltender Cory Schneider.

Gillis expects Shinkaruk to vs be healthy in time for Vancouver’s training camp in the fall.

Mooseheads later in the tournament. “(Paterson) didn’t have a lot of work, but outside of that first goal, he made some key saves for us,” said Sutter. “He was there when he needed to be, so he’ll get another shot.

“He has to continue to take the ball and run with it. I’m not a believer in rotating goalies in this tournament. You want to go with someone who’s riding the hot hand.

We went with the 19-year-old to start the tournament, but you still have to assume that at some point, Fucale’s going to get that opportunity because we play a lot of games here in a short period of time.”

Defenceman Matt Dumba missed practice with an illness on Friday but is expected to be able to play.

“He’s just got a little bit of a virus so we’re keeping him off the ice,” said Sutter. “It’s something that started (Thursday) night and he was a little better this morning, so he’ll be fine. He was up all night.”

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GA 117 129 138 126 141 162

GF 121 129 123 113 107 101

Edmonton 40 13 24 3 29 103 135 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Swift Current 39 20 13 1 5 134 Brandon 36 19 14 3 0 137 Regina 37 18 15 2 2 120 Prince Albert 36 18 16 2 0 126 Moose Jaw 38 11 21 3 3 100 Saskatoon 39 10 26 1 2 111

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Bouchard named CP’s female AOY MONTREAL — A stunning climb in the world rankings and taking a set off the best female tennis player on the planet was reward enough for Eugenie Bouchard’s hard work in 2013.

Now the native of Westmount, Que., is shooting for silverware.

“I want to win a title (in 2014), that’s for sure,” said Bouchard, who surged to No. 32 in the WTA rankings this year from 144th.

“I’ll be happy with any title but the bigger the tournament is the better it will be. And my ultimate objective is a Grand Slam.”

Besides her lofty rise in the WTA standings, Bouchard defeated Ana Ivanovic — then ranked world No. 12 — in the second round of Wimbledon, forced Serena Williams to three sets in Cincinnati and was named WTA Newcomer of the Year.

These accomplishments have earned Bouchard, who turns 20 in February, the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as The Canadian Press female athlete of 2013.

Bouchard received 45 per cent of ballots cast, finishing well ahead of snowboarder Dominique Maltais and speedskater Christine Nesbitt, who each had 11 per cent.

“It’s special,” Bouchard said of the award, which is determined through balloting among sports editors and broadcasters across the country.

“It just shows how much hard work I’ve put in this year that I’ve had good results. It makes me more proud of my year.”

Bouchard said her first full year on the tour allowed her to appreciate the differences from the junior circuit, where she starred in 2012 while winning the Wimbledon junior championship.

“I feel like I’ve had a lot of good experiences this year that will help me in the future,” she said. “I got to play a lot of big matches on centre courts at Grand Slams like at the French Open and Wimbledon.”

Fellow tennis player Milos Raonic was voted The Canadian Press male athlete of the year on Thursday. Canada’s team of the year will be revealed Saturday.

A number of women’s tennis players have won the Canadian Press honour over the years. Aleksandra Wozniak was the last to do so, taking the honour in 2009. Helen Kelesi and Carling Bassett are also former winners.

Praise poured in for Bouchard from those who selected her for the Rosenfeld Award, originally awarded in 1933 and named for the Olympic champion and all-round athlete who was voted Canada’s top female athlete for the first half of the 20th century.

“Eugenie Bouchard is a name I think we’re going to be hearing a lot of in the future,” said Montreal Gazette sports editor Stu Cowan.

“She’s only going to get better and seems to have the game — and the strength — to make it into the top 10.

Her name could be at the top of this list for years to come. A real breakout year from her.”

Pierre Champoux, news director at Radio-Canada.ca, suggested there doesn’t seem to be much that can stop her from continuing her dramatic rise in the rankings.

“How far will she go?” Champoux said. “Eugenie Bouchard opened the eyes of all Canadians with her dazzling progress among the best tennis players in the world.”

The expectations are high, but Bouchard says she’s not going to let that get to her.

“I put enough pressure on myself, so I’m just going to focus on that and not worry about what other people think because that’s out of my control,” she said. “I really just want to focus on my tennis and, if I play well, if I perform well, then the results will come.”

Moses Woldu, sports director at Newcap TV (CKSA, CITL) in Lloydminster, Alta., put it succinctly for why he selected Bouchard.

“Moving 100 spots in the tennis world rankings speaks for itself.”

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Silva gets rematch with Wideman at UFC 168 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — The last time Anderson Silva clowned around in the octagon, Chris Weidman dropped him on his back and took away his UFC middleweight title.

Although Silva is serious about getting his belt back in the main event at UFC 168 on Saturday night, the Brazilian won’t say whether he’ll drop the carefree style that has defined his career.

At UFC 162 last July, Silva (33-5) was pretending to be hurt when Weidman (10-0) actually cold-cocked him for a stunning victory. The result upended the MMA hierarchy, catapulting Long Island’s Weidman to stardom and ending Silva’s near seven-year title reign.

“Maybe I have the chance to change things,” Silva said at his gym in Torrance, Calif., this month.

Silva believes he can reverse the result in the rematch, but he won’t swear off the taunting and goofiness that has become his signature alongside his unmatched striking abilities. In fact, Silva doesn’t even see his style as anything less than serious.

“When I go inside the ropes for a fight, I don’t joke,” said the fighter known for standing with hands on hips and chin protruding, daring opponents to hit him.

“I train hard mentally for this fight,” Silva added. “I watched the last fight, and I see my technique, and I talk to my friends and coach. I don’t train too much. My mental (approach), I change.

It was bad.”

The 38-year-old Silva’s attempt to right a late-career mistake is the most intriguing aspect of the UFC’s traditional year-end show at the MGM Grand Garden, but it’s hardly the only attraction on a stacked pay-per-view card.

Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey will be nothing but serious when she returns to the cage after a 10-month absence for a rematch with Miesha Tate, her despised rival. Veteran heavyweights Josh Barnett and Travis Browne also meet on the main card.

While Rousey (7-0) is one of the UFC’s biggest stars, she already beat Tate (13-4) with her signature armbar in the

Strikeforce promotion last year. All eyes in Vegas will be focused on Silva, an even bigger star who put his career at a crossroads with his loss to Weidman, a formidable wrestler who proved his striking skills with that left hook to Silva’s head.

Yet Ed Soares, Silva’s longtime manager, doesn’t expect Silva to fight stiffly or formally in the rematch.

“Why would he change? He wouldn’t change,” Soares said.

“It’s him. It’s like asking Kobe not to shoot a certain way.”

Under normal circumstances, the method of Weidman’s victory — a second-round knockout of a long-reigning champ — would have cemented the Hofstra alumnus as a major star. And while Weidman has grown in stature, Silva’s silly mistake got even more attention than the man who forced it.

Yet Silva isn’t among those discounting Weidman’s achievement and expecting Silva to resume his spot on top of the middleweight division.

“Chris is the champion, and people need to respect that,” Silva said.

“He’s a good man. Has a great family. He’s a great champion.”

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Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard poses for a photograph at Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, Dec. 22. Bouchard has won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada’s female athlete of the year.

Francois, Que., enjoyed a stellar year of her own, winning the overall World Cup snowboard cross title and a world silver medal.

That was enough for Bob Addison, sports anchor for Vancouver radio station CKNW. “Tough choice, but Maltais takes it as the overall World Cup champ,” he said.

Others who received votes included heptathlete Brianne Theisen-

Eaton, paralympic swimmer Valerie Grand’Maison, gymnast Rosie MacLennan, snowboarder Maelle Ricker, mixed martial artist Alexis Davis, freestyle skier Chloe Dufour-Lapointe, snowboarder Spencer O’Brien and bobsledder Kaillie Humphries.

Bouchard becomes the fourth tennis player to win the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award. Carling Bassett took it in 1983 and 1985, Helen Kelesi in 1989 and 1990 and Aleksandra Wozniak in 2009.

Raptors take first game in homeand-home set against Knicks NBA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 95 Knicks 83 NEW YORK — Road crowds and fourth-quarter deficits are suddenly no problem for the Toronto Raptors, who have turned from chokers to closers.

“Last year we were in a ton of situations, late-game situations we couldn’t pull out. We’d kind of fold under the pressure, get frustrated or let a big shot frustrate us,” guard DeMar DeRozan said.

“Now, we don’t let none of that get to us.”

Jonas Valanciunas had 16 points and a career-high 18 rebounds, DeRozan scored 25 and the Raptors rallied for a 95-83 victory over the New York Knicks on Friday night.

The Raptors trailed by 12 points in the third quarter but outscored the Knicks 29-12 in the fourth to take the opener of a home-andhome series.

“Second half we picked it up defensively and offensively. We got the ball up the floor a little bit faster, picked up the pace in that third and fourth quarter, and really made a charge down the stretch,” point guard Kyle Lowry said.

Lowry had 15 points and 11 assists for the Atlantic Division leaders, who host the Knicks on Saturday with a chance to extend their lead to five games over last season’s division champions.

Andrea Bargnani had 18 points and 12 rebounds against his former team. Beno Udrih finished with 15 points and 10 assists for the Knicks, who played again without Carmelo Anthony because of a sprained left ankle.

Anthony was hurt Monday and had hoped to play against Oklahoma City on Christmas, but instead might be out until the new year.

Knicks coach Mike Woodson said Anthony likely wouldn’t travel with the team to Toronto for the rematch.

The Raptors won for the fifth time in their last six road games,

AP’S STORY OF THE YEAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The Boston Marathon bombing was selected the sports story of the year Friday in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press.

Two pressure cooker bombs exploded near the finish line of the April 15 race in an area packed with fans cheering the passing runners. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured, including at least 16 who lost limbs.

Authorities say brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan

this one adding to a recent stretch of impressive fourth-quarter performances. The Raptors started the fourth with an 11-0 run in an overtime victory at Dallas on Dec. 20, then outscored Oklahoma City 29-14 on Sunday while handing the Thunder their first home loss.

Toronto shot 9 of 18 in the fourth quarter, held the Knicks to 5 of 19 and had a 16-9 rebounding advantage.

“Fourth quarter we just couldn’t get a win. We couldn’t get stops. They played well down the stretch,” said the Knicks’ Amare Stoudemire, wearing a brace over what he said was a jammed right wrist from the previous game but adding he expected to play Saturday.

John Salmons’ 3-pointer gave Toronto the lead for good with 8:07 left, and DeRozan followed with a jumper. After J.R. Smith’s basket, Salmons made another 3 before Valanciunas scored to make it 8175.

Valanciunas had a three-point play that made it 91-81 with 2:01 remaining.

Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechens from Russia who emigrated to the United States as children, planned and carried out the bombings in retaliation for U.S. involvement in Muslim countries.

Ninety-six ballots were submitted from U.S. editors and news directors. Voters were asked to rank the top 10 sports stories of the year, with the firstplace story receiving 10 points, the second-place story nine points and so on.

The marathon attack received 761 points and 67 first-place votes. It was also second in AP’s national/ international story of the year poll.

The No. 2 sports story, Lance Armstrong’s admission of doping, had five first-place votes and 517 points.

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Modest outlook for stocks in 2014 CLOSING THE CHAPTER: 2013 LESSONS FOR MUTUAL FUND INVESTORS AND PREDICTIONS FOR THE YEAR AHEAD

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A passer-by walks near an entrance to a Target retail store in Watertown, Mass. Target on Friday said that customers’ encrypted PIN data was removed during the data breach that occurred earlier this month. But the company says it believes the PIN numbers are still safe because the information was strongly encrypted.

Target says hackers stole shoppers’ PINs BUT SAYS NUMBERS ARE SAFE BECAUSE THEY WERE ENCRYPTED

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Target said Friday that debit-card PINs were among the financial information stolen from millions of customers who shopped at the retailer earlier this month.

The company said the stolen personal identification numbers, which customers type into keypads to make secure transactions, were encrypted and that this strongly reduces risk to customers.

In addition to the encrypted PINs, customer names, credit and debit card numbers, card expiration dates and the embedded code on the magnetic strip on back of the cards were stolen from about 40 million credit and debit cards used at Target stores between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15.

Security experts say it’s the second-largest theft of card accounts in U.S. history, surpassed only by

a scam that began in 2005 involving retailer TJX Cos. “We remain confident that PIN numbers are safe and secure,” spokeswoman Molly Snyder said in an emailed statement Friday.

“The PIN information was fully encrypted at the keypad, remained encrypted within our system, and remained encrypted when it was removed from our systems.”

However, Gartner security analyst Avivah Litan said Friday that the PIN numbers for the affected cards are vulnerable and people should change their codes since such data has been decrypted, or unlocked, before.

In 2009 computer hacker Albert Gonzalez pleaded guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud and other charges after masterminding debit and credit card breaches in 2005 that targeted retailers such as T.J. Maxx, Barnes & Noble and OfficeMaxe. Gonzalez’s group was able to unlock encrypted data.

Litan said changes have been

made since then to make decrypting more difficult but “nothing is infallible.”

“It’s not impossible, not unprecedented (and) has been done before,” she said.

Besides changing your PIN, Litan says shoppers should instead opt to use their signature to approve transactions because it is safer. Still, she said Target did “as much as could be reasonably expected” in this case.

“It’s a leaky system to begin with,” she said.

Credit card companies in the U.S. plan to replace magnetic strips with digital chips by the fall of 2015, a system already common in Europe and other countries that makes data theft more difficult.

Minneapolis-based Target Corp. said it is still in the early stages of investigating the breach.

It has been working with the Secret Service and the Department of Justice.

NEW YORK — Successful stock investors followed some simple advice this year: Don’t worry, be happy.

Next year, though, they will need to temper that rosy approach.

In 2013, investors who blocked out the scary headlines about a possible government default, budget cuts, and concerns about when the Federal Reserve would begin to scale back its stimulus, did great.

The economy wasn’t robust, but it wasn’t weak either. Earnings grew, even if companies achieved them by cutting costs rather than increasing sales.

And the Fed gave the market a year-end bonus by keeping short-term borrowing costs near zero, even after dialing back its program to hold down longerterm rates.

Final tally: Stocks are up more than 28 per cent.

The worrier’s ultimate refuge — cash, bonds, and gold — actually caused even more heartburn.

Havens like bonds are down this year: The biggest category of bond funds by assets, intermediate-term bond funds, has lost an average of 1.5 per cent. Gold is having its first down year since 2000, having declined 27.7 per cent.

Market strategists, on average, see more modest growth for stocks in 2014. The S&P 500 could rise 5 to 7 per cent. Bonds should continue to struggle as interest rates and expected to rise.

Here are the positives from 2013 and some tempering thoughts for 2014.

2013 highlights ● SMALL CAPS WERE BIG: Here’s where the stock optimists really shone. The Russell 2000, an index that tracks smaller, riskier stocks, is up nearly 37 per cent, more than the Dow and the S&P 500. ● STUNNING DEBUTS: IPOs are risky and also for positive thinkers. And they surged this year. The number of initial public offerings rose to its highest since 2000. When stock prices rise steadily and strongly, companies have incentive to roll out their stocks to the public. And investors want those new shares. The average IPO stock rose almost 35 per cent this year, outperforming the S&P 500, according to data from Renaissance Capital. In total, companies sold $55 billion of stock in 2013, an increase of 29 per cent from 2012. ● NO HOLDING BACK: Another streak for bulls.

The S&P 500 has gone 27 months without a downturn of 10 per cent or more.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS BlackBerry hopes to clean the slate again as it heads into the new year with another lease on life and a leader who believes he can do what his predecessors couldn’t — save the company from a slow death.

After months of painful uncertainty and dismal financial results, BlackBerry is in the hands of chairman and chief executive John Chen who hopes to navigate the company into 2014 with reinvigorated vision.

“I need to go out and convince the world that the fight has now started,” said Chen during a recent media event at the company’s headquarters.

“It’s a long haul journey — no question,” he added.

The odds are stacked against him, but Chen insists he will rebuild the BlackBerry name by chasing the business customers who helped make the company a powerhouse in the smartphone industry.

“It’s really kind of going back to the roots,” he said. If the situation sounds familiar, that’s because BlackBerry has been here before.

The Waterloo, Ont.-based company has spent the last few years losing the fight for a stronger position in the market as Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones on the Android operating system pulverized its reputation with con-

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Research in Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis gestures to a BlackBerry DevCon Americas conference in San Francisco, Oct.18, 2011. Lazaridis made headlines earlier this week for selling $26 million of BlackBerry shares, a move that came before the tax-loss deadline in Canada, but also lowered his stake below five per cent. sumers as a cutting-edge technology developer.

Last January, after two major delays, BlackBerry lifted the curtain on its latest smartphones and operating system in New York, ushering in what it hoped was a new era that would prove naysayers wrong.

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Most of the advertisements sold vague ideas about the phone’s features, and often the products were leaning on the clout left in BlackBerry’s name, rather than promoting features of the phones.

Chen believes BlackBerry executives were lost as they struggled to deliver the new devices.

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HAVANA, Cuba — The dented metal pizza trays are packed away, so too the old blender that never worked when it was needed.

Gone is the sweet smell of rising dough that infused Julio Cesar Hidalgo’s Havana apartment when he and his girlfriend were in business for themselves, churning out cheesy pies for hungry costumers.

Two years on the front lines of Cuba’s experiment with limited free market capitalism has left Hidalgo broke, out of work and facing a possible crushing fine.

But the 33-year-old known for his wide smile and sunny disposition says the biggest loss is harder to define.

“I feel frustrated and let down,” Hidalgo said, slumped in a rocking chair one recent December afternoon, shrugging his shoulders as he described the pizzeria’s collapse.

“The business didn’t turn out as I had hoped.”

The Associated Press recently checked in with nine small business owners whose fortunes it first reported on in 2011 as they set up shop amid the excitement of President Raul Castro’s surprising embrace of some free enterprise.

Among them were restaurant and cafeteria owners, a seamstress and taekwondo instructor, a vendor of bootleg DVDs and a woman renting her rooms out to well-heeled tourists.

Their fates tell a story of divided fortunes.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed the week with a strong advance as it played catch-up with U.S. indexes after being shut for Christmas and Boxing Day. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 69.96 points to 13,587.98 on Friday — the highest level since May 2011.

Meanwhile, the loonie fell 0.75 of a cent to 93.42 cents US, its lowest since February 2010, even as the U.S. dollar weakened against the euro.

The gain on the TSX came as the market also digested news that BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis had cashed in $26 million worth of shares in the struggling smartphone company.

The transaction, reported after markets closed early on Tuesday, brought Lazaridis’ stake in the tech company down to five per cent. BlackBerry (TSX:BB) shares dipped 5.09 per cent, or 42 cents, to $7.83.

Meanwhile, indexes on Wall Street ended the week relatively flat after showing gains at the open. U.S. markets were closed on Christmas Day, but traded at new highs on Thursday, which was Boxing Day in Canada.

On Friday, the Dow Jones industrials dropped 1.47 points to 16,478.41, while the S&P 500 index declined 0.61 of a point to 1,841.41.

The Nasdaq took back 10.59 points to 4,156.59.

The Dow and the S&P hit record highs this week as investors were encouraged by a sharp drop in unemployment benefits last week, another sign that the U.S. economy is faring better than expected.

The U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 42,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 338,000, the biggest drop since November 2012.

But economists noted that the figures from late November and December may be warped by seasonal volatility around the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s holidays.

The Labor Department reported that the less-volatile four-week average rose 4,250 to 348,000.

Although Friday was a regular trading day in Toronto and in the U.S., no major economic news or corporate earnings were scheduled in either country.

There are only two trading days left in 2013 and it’s expected the trend of low-volume holiday trading will continue, with many investors still on vacation.

Most sectors on the TSX were positive, with base metals leading the charge by climbing 2.36 per cent. Shares in HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM) rose 1.64 per cent, or 14 cents, to $8.67.

The gold sector followed with an uptick of 1.63 per cent, as gold prices advanced 1.70 to US$1,214 an ounce.

The energy sector gained 0.64 per cent, with the February crude rising 77 cents to US$100.32 a barrel, while the metals and mining sector added 1.22 per cent, as March copper fell a penny to US$3.39 a pound.

Overnight Thursday night, optimism from the latest unemployment

figures from the U.S. helped drive markets in China and elsewhere higher. More employment could mean more U.S. orders to support exports from those countries.

The rally follows the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision last week to start reducing its monetary stimulus by $10 billion, to $75 billion a month, starting in January.

Many had feared the decision to rein in its policy of quantitative easing, or QE, would be negative for stocks as the stimulus has shored up markets over the past few years.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,587.98 up 69.96 points TSX Venture Exchange — 919.03 up 15.82 points TSX 60 — 782.71 up 4.75 points Dow — 16,478.41 down 1.47 points S&P 500 — 1,841.40 down 0.62 point Nasdaq — 4,156.59 down 10.59 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 93.42 cents US, down 0.75 of a cent Pound — C$1.7629, up 2.46 cents Euro — C$1.4704, up 1.79 cents Euro — US$1.3737, up 0.59 of a cent Oil futures: US$100.32 per barrel, up 77 cents (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,214 per oz., up $1.70 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: Closed through Jan. 3.

TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Friday at 919.03, up 15.82 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 129.79 million shares.

ICE Futures Canada Friday ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan. ’14 $4.80 lower $427.60; March ’14 $4.10 lower $437.90; May ’14 $4.40 lower $446.70; July ’14 $4.00 lower $455.10; Nov. ’14 $4.00 lower $468.30; Jan ’15 $3.90 lower $473.60; March ’15 $3.90 lower $479.00; May ’15 $3.90 lower $483.10; July ’15 $3.90 lower $482.80; Nov ’15 $3.90 lower $479.00; Jan. ’16 $3.90 lower $479.00.

Barley (Western): March ’14 unchanged $146.00; May ’14 unchanged $148.00; July ’14 unchanged $148.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $148.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $148.00; March ’15 unchanged $148.00; May ’15 unchanged $148.00; July ’15 unchanged $148.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $148.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $148.00; March ’16 unchanged $148.00.

Frisday’s estimated volume of trade: 432,600 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 432,600.

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Loonie falls to lowest level in nearly four years, even as U.S. dollar weakens

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The loonie fell to its lowest level in nearly four years Friday as it failed to make headway against a weakened U.S. dollar.

The Canadian dollar plummeted 0.75 of a cent to 93.42 cents US — its lowest level since February 2010. The U.S. dollar weakness came amid fears that it might be overvalued, especially against the euro, which rallied to its highest level against the greenback in two years.

The euro strengthened following comments from Jens Weidmann, president of Germany’s Bundesbank, who told a newspaper that the euro is recovering and that it is undervalued at current levels.

With no scheduled economic releases scheduled in either Canada or the United States, currency is trading on “broader market themes,” Camilla Sutton, Scotiabank’s chief FX strategist said in a note.

The U.S. dollar has been gaining strength against the loonie in recent weeks amid expectations that the American economy will outpace Canada’s in 2014.

Obama calls senators to offer support for extending jobless benefits HONOLULU — President Barack Obama has told two senators proposing to extend expiring federal unemployment benefits that he plans to push Congress to do it quickly.

More than 1 million Americans will lose benefits today because Congress didn’t extend them. Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada and Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island have proposed extending the benefits for three months.

Obama called the two senators separately on Friday. The White House says Obama offered his support for their proposal and called it an urgent economic priority. Obama says the abrupt cut-off in cash assistance during the holidays will hurt economic growth and jobs.

John Krafcik, CEO of Hyundai Motor America, to step down John Krafcik, the president and CEO of Hyundai Motor America, is stepping down next week after five years at the helm, the company announced Friday. He will be replaced by David Zuchowski, the current executive vice-president of sales who joined the company in February 2007.

When Krafcik became CEO of American operations in 2008, the South Korean automaker’s cars were ugly and often broke down. During his tenure, he pushed through quality, style and fuel efficiency improvements to help drive up sales.

Hyundai Sonata midsize cars and Elantra compacts became top sellers Hyundai had already started to change before Krafcik arrived, offering a 10-year, 100,000 mile warranty with its cars. But the transformation from joke to juggernaut accelerated under his watch. Krafcik didn’t just focus on the engine but how people used their cars as personal living spaces.

Of the six ventures that relied on revenue from cash-strapped islanders, four are now out of business, their owners in more dire financial straits than when they started. But the three enterprises that cater to well-heeled foreigners, and to the minority of wellpaid Cubans who work for foreign businesses, are still going and in some cases thriving.

While the sample size is small, the numbers point to a basic problem that economists who follow Cuba have noted from the start: There simply isn’t enough money to support a thriving private sector on an island where salaries average $20 a month.

“Clearly, there is a macroeconomic environment that does not favour the private sector or the expansion of demand that the private sector requires,” said Pavel Vidal, a former Cuban Central Bank economist.

Economists have criticized the Cuban government for a series of measures to crack down on what it sees as illegal activities — including banning private movie cinemas, taxing the import of hard-toget products in travellers’ luggage, and banning the sale of imported clothing. But on Saturday, Castro came down firmly in favour of increased regulation, sternly warning entrepreneurs that “those pressuring us to move faster are moving us toward failure.”

Henken and Vidal said Cuba must find a way to raise state salaries, expand state-funded microcredits and create a functional wholesale market to service the new businesses. They also noted that for a relatively well-educated society like Cuba’s, there are remarkably few white collar jobs on the list of nearly 200 activities that have been legalized.

Still, not every entrepreneur is struggling.

High-end bars and glamorous new restaurants have become common in Havana, with shiny state tour buses disgorging photosnapping travellers to sample lobster tail and filet mignon at upward of $20 a plate. Private rooms and homes that rent to foreigners can go for $25-$100 a night, less than most tourist hotels. Cubans with the means, and the business sense, to tap into the gravy train can do very well.

Chef-owner Javier Acosta sank more than $30,000 into Parthenon, a private restaurant catering to tourists and diplomats.

He struggled at first, telling the AP back in 2011 that there were nights when nobody came in and he and his four waiters just sat around.

But the restaurant slowly gained a reputation, in part because Acosta makes a potent Cuban mojito and offers a special suckling pig that can feed up to five people for $50.

These days, Acosta is expanding. He recently added tables in a new room decked out with mosaic tiles and faux Greek pillars, and plans to build a roof deck.

He even has started advertising, paying $300 a year to have his establishment included in a tourist magazine.

“I haven’t yet managed to recover my initial investment and the other money we’ve put into the place,” the 40-year-old said.

“But in two or three more years maybe I can.”

Even more humble operations can do well, as long as they have some access to foreign money.

One woman who rents an apartment to foreigners for $25 a night in the upscale Vedado neighbourhood says her business provides a stable income that supports her and allows her to help her son and granddaughter.

Two women who sell $1.25 box lunches to Cubans and foreigners in a building in Old Havana with many international firms and consular offices have managed to stay afloat despite a sharp drop in customers following the departure of several companies, and what they

say has been a steady rise in prices of key ingredients like black beans, rice, cooking oil and pork.

“This has become difficult,” said Odalis Lozano, 48. “But we’re still here, because we can always make some money.”

For those without access to that foreign cash line, the results have been grim. Besides, the failed pizzeria, a DVD salesman, seamstress and street-side cafe owner who allowed the AP to tell their stories shut down after less than a year in business, citing high monthly taxes, a lack of customers and limited resources and business sense.

The only two operations that rely on everyday Cubans for revenue which remain in business are gymnasiums. One is run by Maria Regla Zaldivar, who in 2011 was giving taekwondo classes to children in Nuevo Vedado and dreamed of converting a ruined dry cleaning factory into a proper gymnasium. The factory remains a crumbling shell, but Zaldivar said her business continues. She declined to grant a formal interview, but said in a brief phone call that she had rented a small space near her apartment and continued to give classes.

The other success story belongs to Neysi Hernandez, the mother of Julio Cesar Hidalgo’s girlfriend.

Hernandez opened a simple gymnasium for women in the courtyard and garage of her home in Havana’s La Lisa neighbourhood, charging the equivalent of $5 a month for membership. Two years later, she has 25 paying clients and ekes out a small profit.

“In the past when we were a little troubled ... there were too many different paths to see,” he said, reflecting on the days before he started at the company.

“We lost some good, valuable market time that people have taken advantage of (and) from this point on the fun for them will be greatly curtailed.”

A few months ago, even BlackBerry executives weren’t this certain about the company’s future.

The smartphone maker looked like it was about to be broken up and sold, or shrunk into a private company, until a group of investors agreed in November to inject US$1 billion — enough money for another swing at a recovery.

It was a surprise decision by Fairfax Financial (TSX:FFX), one of BlackBerry’s largest shareholders, who led the charge to raise the financing, but also a sign that few others were interested.

BlackBerry had spent months shopping around its assets, but was never able to find a suitor.

The company’s co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin sidelined their attempted bid, while big players like Facebook were reported to have entertained the possibility before deciding to bow out.

The new financing agreement brought many quick changes to BlackBerry, including the exit of CEO Thorsten Heins and the departure of various other high ranking executives and board members, some who helped build the company to its former That compares with an average heights. streak of 18 months between such Chen is confident about the dideclines, according to S&P Capirection he’s headed, even though tal IQ. the reality facing the smartphone Investors who sat out the rally maker isn’t so optimistic. in stocks are now left with a quanThe government agencies and dary. Do they buy now, with stocks companies he’s determined to more expensive, or do they stay on chase are notoriously loyal, but the sidelines and risk being left once they’ve strayed to alternative further behind? platforms it’s hard to lure them 2014 predictions back, mainly because business ● WATCH OUT FOR CROWDS: contracts are typically long term.

After being burned during the Many customers prefer Blackfinancial crisis, many investors Berry’s security technology, but have stayed away from this fiveeven some big Canadian banks year bull market. and U.S. corporations, have startInvestors pulled $430 billion ed to defect to alternative offerout of stock funds, according to ings from competitors. data from Lipper, while putting According to the latest finannearly $1 trillion into bond funds cial statements, BlackBerry has since the market bottomed in lost about 68 per cent of its enterMarch 2009. prise business customers over the Professional investors worry past few years, dropping to 80,000 that the average Joe will now try from about 250,000 at its heights. to make up for lost time in 2014.

To help retain customers, If large numbers individual inBlackBerry has given away free vestors jump, the demand could upgrades and trials to its latinflate prices beyond what earnest enterprise operating system ings justify. That could lead to that last until the end of 2013. what Wall Street call a “melt-up,” After that, it will make a case for which almost always leads to a customers to start paying for the “melt-down.” service. ● WHAT GOES UP, MUST “We are going to take the techCOME DOWN: Goldman Sachs nology message out,” Chen said. analysts see a 67 per cent chance “With the last company I ran, that stocks will decline 10 per I kept the message on for like 10 cent or more in 2014, which is years. It probably took five years known as a stock market “correcbefore anybody even listened to tion.” The S&P 500 is up nearly 40 me, and it took another five years per cent since the stock market’s for people to believe it. You just last major downturn in October need to focus.”

2011 Still, Goldman analysts still Whether or not BlackBerry has expect stocks to end next year time is debatable. modestly higher.

In its most recent quarter, ● LOWER EXPOSURE: 2014 is BlackBerry posted a US$4.4not looking good for bond invesbillion loss as sales of its smarttors. phones continued to fall.

With the Fed starting to pull The company also burned back on its bond purchases in Janthrough about $1.1 billion in cash, uary, one of the biggest buyers of though the total amount in its cofbonds for the last year will slowly fers — which sits at $3.2 billion slip out of the market. That could — was propped up by the Fairfaxsend bond prices lower. led investment and a significant Bond investors should tweak tax return. their portfolio to focus on shorter On Tuesday, Lazaridis grabbed duration bonds, says Richard Maattention for selling $26 million digan, chief investment officer for of BlackBerry shares, a move that JPMorgan Private Bank. came before the tax-loss deadline He would normally tell invesin Canada, but also lowered his tors to have bonds that mature in stake below five per cent. average of about five years. For Investors appear optimistic, at 2014, Madigan is advising them least for now, helped by Chen’s aim for average duration of two to determined persona. two-and-a-half years.

The company’s badly beaten “Long duration bonds are much stock has climbed 24 per cent more a riskier asset than a safe assince its latest financial results set next year,” Madigan says. were released a week ago.

On Tuesday, BlackBerry shares closed at $8.25, up 27 cents, on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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The chocolate store owner is spreading awareness for Big Brothers and Big Sisters Red Deer and District and trying to raise thousands of dollars for its Camp Alexo project in Nordegg.

The camp is an accredited, non-denominational camp that was created in 1984 on the townsite of Alexo, an old coal-mining town that operated from the 1920s until 1955. It is located 70 km west of Rocky Mountain House.

Camp Alexo has provided traditional summer camps, and adventure and wilderness experiences for countless children and youth over the past 30 years.

The first of three fundraising events in December was an open house held in co-operation with Landmark Homes on Dec. 5. Volunteers offered a hot chocolate bar

with all the fixings, door prizes, raffle prizes and silent auction items at a Landmark Homes show home in Timberlands. The event raised about $1,000 for the camp.

The second event was the Chocolate Chip Pancake Breakfast on Dec. 21 that drew about 100 people. Volunteers and staff from Big Brothers Big Sisters served up delicious pancakes (ingredients donated by Sobey’s North) to all the friends and families who dropped by.

The third fundraiser was a silent auction for a giant chocolate Santa. The Santa weighed 13.g kg, stood nearly a metre tall and took four days to create. The bidding started at $355 and went all the way up to $1,000. In the spirit of Christmas the auction winners gave the chocolate Santa to the pediatric ward at Red Deer hospital.

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A silent auction for a giant chocolate Santa raised $1,000 and the generous auction winners gave the item to the pediatric ward at Red Deer hospital.

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Snooping and surprises don’t keep couples together Dear Harlan; I am in a serious relaI’ve only known her for about two tionship with a man I love. months, but I really like her. I know Lately, my boyfriend has not wanted you’ll suggest that I should tell her my to have sex or “play.” I didn’t really true feelings toward her, and I want to, think anything of it until I logged on to but how do I know when I should tell his computer and all of his recent open her? tabs were porn.

I’ve never been in a relationship Is this something I should be worbefore because I’ve always been a shy ried about? — Confused person, and I’ve never acceptDear Confused; Forget ed the Universal Rejection the porn. Stick to your ofTruth of Dating and Relationfline problems. ships. I’ve always been afraid When a guy pulls up of being rejected when it his pants and shuts down, comes to many things. something is happening.

I think I should tell her Instead of guessing, focus sooner rather than later, on your role in this relashouldn’t I? I feel as if I tionship. should take some risks when Go into this assumit comes to people, and I’m ing you’re hot, interesttired of being afraid of taking ing and more than good risks when it comes to relaenough. Don’t make it tionships. I haven’t even had about sex. Talk about my first kiss yet. trust, intimacy and comI don’t want to rush anyHARLAN munication. Trust that he thing, but I don’t want to COHEN loves you and wants to be spend my whole life waiting, with you. Believe that you either. — Confused and Unhave an intimate enough sure relationship where you can talk about Dear Confused and Unsure; You’re anything. Make sure you can listen not ready. and be heard.

You are still too focused on “yes.”

Approach him from a place of conYou haven’t given her permission to cern — not anger and concern. Ask if say “no.” She must say “yes,” or you’ll he’s OK. Bring up the lack of interest be hurt. As a rule, only ask a girl out in sex. Ask if he’s dealing with somewhen you can handle “no.” thing personal, or keeping secrets. Let Until you can handle “no,” you’re him know you are there for him. not ready for “yes.” Now, you can totalIf he can’t open up, then face the ly disregard my advice, get a first date truth. When your relationship is about and kiss. But a second date and second guessing, snooping and surprises, it’s kiss is where it gets dangerous. Not benot a very good relationship. ing able to handle rejection will make Dear Harlan; I’m a 19-year-old, and everything bigger, more dramatic and I’m having a bit of trouble with the girl very confusing.

I like.

It will be hard for you to say what

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you think and do what you feel.

You’ll be too afraid that you’ll say or do the wrong thing. And that’s the problem with dating. We can be horrible at hearing “no” and still get a “yes.”

If it’s too hard to take a risk and ask her out, take a step back and work to be your best. Know that anyone would be lucky to date you. Once you can handle “no” without fearing rejection, you’ll be ready for “yes.”

Dear Harlan; I’ve recently moved back home, and I’m in a long-distance relationship.

I’m so sad about the distance. I can’t be happy. I’ve been crying for days. I miss my boyfriend so much. We used to be so close; Now, I feel like I have no one. He’s the only person I turn to when I’m sad or happy. He always supported me.

I trust him — it’s just that it’s not the same if he’s not around me. We can’t see each other that much anymore, and I’m very sad and brokenhearted.

What should I do? — Missing Dear Missing; I hear you! I hated my long-distance relationship. I was miserable. And it was because I was a miserable person at the time.

My girlfriend was my everything because I felt like I was nothing. This is how I learned that long-distance

relationships test one relationship the most: the relationship you have with yourself.

Clearly, you are not a very happy person. When you’re this miserable while apart, it means you relied on your partner to do too much for your happiness.

The way to save this relationship is to learn how to be as happy as possible without him. Work to be so happy that you can’t recognize yourself. Create a life that includes new people to lean on and to support you. Take on new challenges that push you physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually.

Encourage him to do the same. If being happy apart ruins the relationship, it never was a very good relationship. Yes, it’s normal to miss him, but being miserable is not a sign of a good relationship; it’s a sign you need to work on yourself.

Harlan is author of Getting Naked: Five Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed and Totally Sober) (St. Martin’s Press). Write Harlan at harlan(at)helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author.

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Egypt’s beleaguered Christians

BY BEL TREW ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES MINYA, Egypt — The last thing Mamdouh Farid remembers was the butt of a rifle raised above his head.

Farid, a Christian from Upper Egypt, was driving home from his job at the local village health clinic when seven gunmen surrounded his pick-up truck.

One of the masked men called him a son of a dog and struck him on the back of his head, then Farid’s world went dark.

For six days, his kidnappers tortured him, keeping him blindfolded and bound in an abandoned hut. The armed gang demanded $290,000 from his family for his release. It was an impossible amount for the 58-year-old, who supports a family of nine on just $200 a month.

“They beat me with their guns while on the phone to [my family], so they could hear my screams. With the pain, I couldn’t keep myself quiet,” Farid recalled.

Farid, who was abducted from the village of Hassan Basha in the governorate of Minya on Dec. 7, is only the latest victim in a rash of kidnappings that has plagued Egypt’s Christian minority since the 2011 revolution. Over 100 people have been abducted in Minya alone, and the overwhelming majority have been Christian.

The kidnappings are the result of a security vacuum left by years of political upheaval. With the state doing little to protect the country’s vulnerable minorities, the Christian community has

bore the brunt of the disappearance of law and order.

There has been a sharp increase in abductions following the military overthrow of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi this summer.

At least 20 people were abducted amid the security breakdown that followed the bloody Aug. 14 dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Islamists.

Farid’s kidnappers used some of the most brutal tactics yet to extract ransom money from his family. They refused to let him use the toilet, so he was forced to urinate on himself.

He was given just one small piece of bread a day. He was beaten continuously. “When I asked for something to drink ,they gave me their urine in a cup,” Farid said.

Farid’s wife has breast cancer and diabetes, and he supports six orphaned nieces as well as his own two sons.

With no money and nothing valuable to sell, his family had to beg from relatives, neighbors and the local church to scrape together the ransom.

The kidnappers finally realized the impoverished family could not meet their extravagant initial demand and settled on $7,300 instead.

Farid was eventually left in a garbage dump a few miles from his village.

The Christian community has already paid out an estimated $750,000 in payoffs, according to the victims, who have formed a support network and document each new abduction case.

The network’s members describe being housebound and terrified during this holiday season.

“We can’t be out on the streets after dark. It has even affected our money and salaries — we’re forced to work less hours,” said Medhat Aata Markos, a Christian official at the Minya office of Egypt’s Health Ministry, who was kidnapped last February.

“Everyone thinks they are next,” Farid added.

As a vulnerable minority that cannot retaliate against such abuses, Christians are easy targets for kidnappers. “We are always afraid, as we’re not backed up by the government, so we rush into paying to save our relatives,” said Markos, a doctor who runs a clinic in the village where Farid was kidnapped and whose family forked out $15,000 for his release.

In Egypt, crimes against the Christian community often go unpunished.

Forty-three churches nationwide have been destroyed, and more than 200 Christian properties have been attacked by Islamists since August, according to Amnesty International, as Morsi supporters sought revenge for the government-led crackdown.

Some of the worst attacks happened in Minya, and the police stood by as the buildings went up in flames.

While victims say their captors never discussed religion, local clerics see a sectarian undercurrent to the kidnappings. “All the victims were Christians in this governorate,” said Father Wissa Subhi, Secretary of the Diocese of Minya’s Deir Mawas. “Not a single Muslim has had to feel unsafe because of this.”

The youngest kidnapping victim from Father Subhi’s area was just 8 years old, the priest recalled, and was

abducted in early 2012. The kidnappers took the Christian boy from his school, shooting his father in his legs when he refused give up his child. The family eventually had to pay a $290,000 ransom to get their son back.

The police have promised they are investigating the crimes, but nearly three years after the first kidnapping, no one has been sentenced. Meanwhile, some victims are reluctant to openly blame the security forces for fear of exacerbating the situation.

“There is an inefficiency in the role of the government — but we don’t want to get into politics. We don’t want to get into trouble,” said Hany Sedhom, a pharmacy owner, who was abducted in October.

Still, there are rumblings of popular discontent with the breakdown of law and order in the area. On Oct. 15, kidnapping victims staged a small protest outside the Minya Security Directorate building demanding the security forces intervene more aggressively.

“There is no effort from the government to stop this,” Markos complained.

“Some even suspect there might be elements of the police with the kidnappers.”

Security officials, for their part, said fear in the Christian community is holding back their investigations. They said families only report the incidents after their loved ones have been returned, preventing police from tracing the criminals to their hideouts.

Bel Trew writes for the Washington Post

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Duck Dynasty patriarch to resume filming A&E REVERSES DECISION AFTER DISPARAGING COMMENTS ABOUT GAYS

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This image released by A&E shows Phil Robertson from the popular series Duck Dynasty. Robertson was suspended last week for disparaging comments he made to GQ magazine about gay people.

LOS ANGELES — Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson will return to work on A&E’s reality show despite his comments about gay immorality, the channel said Friday, reversing its decision to suspend him after facing a boycott backlash.

In a statement Friday, A&E said it was bringing Robertson back after discussions with his Louisiana family featured in the hit reality series and “numerous advocacy groups.”

Last week, the channel had put Robertson on what it called an indefinite “hiatus” because of his comments in a GQ magazine article that the Bible views gays as sinners akin to adulterers, prostitutes and swindlers.

A&E said it decided to drop Robertson from the show about a wealthy family that makes duck calls because it is part of a company whose core values are “centred around creativity, inclusion and mutual respect.”

While reiterating that Robertson’s views are not those of the channel, A&E noted Friday that he has publicly said he would “never incite or encourage hate.”

The show itself is more than one man’s views, it added.

“It resonates with a large audience because it is a show about family, a family that America has

come to love. As you might have seen in many episodes, they come together to reflect and pray for unity, tolerance and forgiveness,” A&E said.

The Robertson family had no immediate comment Friday.

Robertson’s remarks in GQ were quickly slammed by groups including GLAAD, the gay rights watchdog organization. GLADD did not immediately respond Friday to requests for comment, nor did the Human Rights Campaign, another gay rights group.

But A&E’s move against Robertson provoked a flood of support from those who share his views and others who defended his freedom of speech.

Within a day, more than a half-million people liked an impromptu Facebook page demanding A&E be boycotted until he returns. A petition calling for A&E to bring him back reached 250,000 signatures and counting in about a week.

While TV ratings tend to fluctuate, particularly during the holidays when viewing drops, the overall A&E audience was smaller after it landed in Duck soup than before.

For the week of Dec. 16-22, the channel averaged 1.5 million viewers, compared to 2 million for the week before, according to Nielsen figures.

During the week of Dec. 17-23 last year, a roughly comparable period to the post-Robertson flap

period, the channel averaged 17.3 million viewers.

Duck Dynasty is the channel’s highest-rated program and set a reality show record for cable with nearly 12 million viewers for its fourth-season debut this past summer.

Robertson’s well-known supporters included former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who complained that his free-speech rights were being trampled.

Bobby Jindal, governor of the state of Louisiana, complained that Miley Cyrus got a pass for twerking on TV while Phil got shown the door.

Last week, the family said in a statement on its Duck Commander website that although some of Phil Robertson’s comments were coarse, “his beliefs are grounded” in the Bible and he “is a Godly man.”

They also said that “as a family, we cannot imagine the show going forward without our patriarch at the helm.”

Duck Dynasty is on hiatus until Jan. 15, and the network has said that nine of next season’s 10 episodes have already been filmed.

That means Robertson likely wasn’t needed in front of the camera before next March.

A&E said it intended to launch a national public service campaign “promoting unity, tolerance and acceptance among all people.”

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CD recommendations for classical 2013 highlights include, from left, Sara Santo Ambrogio’s Chopin collection with pianist Robert Koening, composer Robert Paterson’s Winter Songs; and pianist Jeremy Denkapos’s J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations.

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BY ANNE MIDGETTE ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Here’s a nomination for the Best of 2013: the CD industry.

Industry is perhaps the wrong word, since it implies commerce. I don’t think most CDs these days make a heck of a lot of money.

And the ones that do are not necessarily the ones the big commercial labels are putting out.

But the emancipation from commercial concerns — to some degree — has meant an accompanying flowering of what these days is unfortunately known as “content.”

There are more CD releases out than ever, from more and more labels, some of them operating as nonprofits, many of them relying on Kickstarter campaigns to fund individual projects.

The blockbusters of yore, a la Karajan Conducts the Beethoven Symphonies, are fewer and farther between (with exceptions like Gustavo Dudamel or Valery Gergiev, who churns out a veritable cornucopia of recordings — the start of a new “Ring”cycle, the Szymanowski symphonies — on the LSO and Mariinsky labels).

In their place, we have artists fundraising to realize their own visions, whether it’s a reinterpretation of an old master (Il Pergolese), an exhumation of a less-remembered composer (Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Marcel Tyberg), or a performer’s own compilation of

music new and old (Brooklyn Rider’s A Walking Fire; Claire Chase’s Density; Andrew McKenna Lee’s The Knells, and the list goes on).

For every full-bore opera recording (Cecilia Bartoli as Norma) there are a couple of earlier works by Montsigny (Le Roi et le fermier) or Hasse (Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra), a rediscovery or two (Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten), and a couple of chamber-scaled works by living composers (Soldier Songs by David T. Little; Glory Denied by Tom Cipullo). For every hyped solo opera-singer album on a major label (Jonas Kaufmann’s Verdi), there are dozens of soloists offering more eclectic fare (Talise Trevigne, Miranda Cuckson).

Keeping up with the stream of new releases is like trying to drink from a fire hose, with the difference that what’s coming out is a lot better than plain water — and the realization that everyone going to this fount is going to come away with a different vintage, a different flavor on the tongue.

In keeping with the democratization of the industry is a democratization of reception.

Recently, I was charged with picking out some new CDs for someone whom I only knew as “liking classical music,” and found myself challenged to figure out how that “liking” might translate into current taste.

I threw open the question to readers — on my blog, on Facebook and Google+ and Twitter — and came up with a rich and eclectic selection of recommendations that I wouldn’t

have arrived at myself.

First, of course, you have to dispense with the question of what is meant by the term classical music.

“Classical means to some the music around the time of Mozart, in the ‘classical time’,” wrote Tim Healy, the head of the Marlow Guitar Series in Washington.

“Or it might mean, ‘I appreciate the finer things but can’t articulate it any better than in general terms.’

“Or it might mean, ‘I appreciate whatever wallpaper music I hear that doesn’t have words’.”

For his own picks, Healy nominated, not surprisingly, guitar music.

“We have recently enjoyed John Feeley’s CD The Immigrant’s Song, presenting classical guitar music arrangements of works mentioned in the writings of James Joyce (catching both the literary and the musical in the same CD), [and] a new CD by the Duo Amaral called Textura.”

There were plenty of new recordings of music from the canon.

“For new CDs, cannot go wrong with Helene Grimaud Brahms Piano Concertos, wrote one blog commenter, citing an acclaimed new CD conducted

by Andris Nelsons.

“Jeremy Denk is a must,” said music writer Samantha Buker, referring in part to the pianist’s new account of the Goldberg Variations.

Another nod went to Sara Sant’Ambrogio’s Chopin recording.

Another reader suggestion:

“For the Beethoven lover who already has everything: the new version of the Beethoven Violin Concerto by Alexandre da Costa on Acacia Classics (distributed by Warner Classics).

It’s just amazing and very special; the cadenzas are inspired by klezmer music. And surprisingly, it works!”

Several other people suggested CDs of their own, including the composer Robert Paterson: “I know this is a shameless living composer plug,” he wrote, “but my CD Winter Songs is seasonal and] also new.”

He was seconded by another commenter, the composer/ presenter Armando Bayolo, who said “I haven’t heard Rob Paterson’s new disc yet, but I’m a big fan of his music, so you can’t go wrong with it.”

As for contemporary music, suggestions ran the gamut from the prominent — Hilary Hahn — to the offbeat.

“My own favorites in new music run toward Jennifer Higdon, Nico Muhly and Thomas Adès,” wrote one blog commenter.

“A new recording featuring two of these composers is Hilary Hahn’s In 27 Pieces, consisting of new violin encores that she commissioned. A feature of this CD is that it introduces (the listener) to a variety of living composers, and the works are bite-sized, so if she finds any one not to her liking, she won’t have long to wait before it’s over.”

“Several people on my list are already getting copies of these two insanely beautiful discs,” wrote reader Joshua

Cheek: “Songs by Geirr Tveitt, performed by Slagr and Camilla Granlien (an album that has been a huge hit in Norway), and Cantus, performed by the amazing Kuniko Katoh,” which features the percussionist’s own arrangements of music

by Steve Reich, Arvo Part and Hywel Davies.

“For new releases that are also of new music, Evensong by Caleb Burhans is awesome,” another reader wrote.

A couple of D.C.-based commenters mentioned their own local groups. The chamber orchestra Inscape released Sprung Rhythm.

“It’s a terrific-sounding album with some surprises from composers who are not necessarily household names but should be better known,” wrote Bayolo. Bayolo also observed that his own Great Noise Ensemble had put out an album this month, “Guerilla New Music.”

One of the fun things about opening up the floor is hearing someone’s excitement about a recording you yourself have never heard.

One blog commenter called the CD American Art, on which the flutist Amy Porter and pianist Christopher Harding perform music by Robert Beaser, Michael Daugherty, Christopher Caliendo and others, “one of the most exciting finds for me this year.”

I’ll look it up.

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Family of Norman Rockwell says new book has inaccuracies, phantom theories BOSTON — The family of the late Norman Rockwell is taking exception to a new biography of the American illustrator, saying it contains numerous inaccuracies and poses a “phantom theory” about his sexuality.

American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell, by Deborah Solomon, was published in November.

In a statement released by the Norman Rockwell Family Agency, family members said they found at least 96 factual errors in the book, that the author misused sources and made “highly selective” use of Rockwell’s own autobiography My Adventures as an Illustrator.

Messages left for Solomon through her publisher Thursday were not immediately returned.

Rockwell, who lived in Stockbridge, Mass., illustrated more than 300 covers for the Saturday Evening Post. He died in 1978.

The family, in its statement, referred to one passage in the book in which Solomon describes how Rockwell went to schools at recess and stopped little boys on the street, and that such behaviour might be seen as problematic in today’s world.

The passage ignores Rockwell’s own explanation in his autobiography that after he persuaded a boy to pose for an illustration, they would go together to ask the child’s mother for permission, the family said.

“She supports this unfounded claim with another phantom theory, that Rockwell was a closeted homosexual,” the statement read.

“To link pedophilia and homosexuality in this way is offensive and clearly homophobic.”

In an interview in October with The Wall Street Journal, Solomon, who also authored biographies of artists Jackson Pollack and Joseph Cornell, was quoted as saying she did not believe Rockwell had homosexual relationships in his life, but added that he preferred male company and that it was possible to discern “enormous homoeroticism” from his work.

She said she was not attempting to speculate on his psychology.

The author did not understand Rockwell as a person, the family said, and dismissed suggestions that he was lonely, moody or frequently depressed.

“This is absurd. He did not mope, was not a chronic depressive, or a hypochondriac. He went through his trials and storms as we all do, but he was someone who ultimately affirmed life,” read the statement signed by Rockwell’s son, Thomas, and granddaughter, Abigail.

The family also said it was troubled that the Norman Rockwell Museum, located in Stockbridge, had endorsed the book.

In an Oct. 11 news release announcing an upcoming appearance by Solomon, Laurie Norton Moffatt, the museum’s director, called the book “a well-researched and written biography that presents many unique theories and interpretations about the artist.”

In a statement provided to the Berkshire Eagle, the museum said it was a centre for academic freedom and for scholarship about Rockwell’s life and that American Mirror was one in a long line of books about the artist.

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tion and Where the Wild Things Are. But Her is something special even for this gifted director’s idiosyncratic oeuvre.

Jonze has always possessed a meticulous, curatorially expressive visual sense, and here his talents are particularly sharp: He films Los Angeles in neutral tones of blue and gray, with pops of bright red (including Theodore’s shirt) providing startling slashes of contrast.

That sensibility extends to his clever, even ingenious script, in which he builds an utterly convincing interior and exterior world for Theodore and Samantha

to inhabit.

Unlike Ted or Minority Report, each of which has something in common with Her, Jonze’s film doesn’t make the comedic conceit or technology the focus.

Rather, he’s interested in alienation (like so many of his filmmaking peers this year), and the role that projection plays in constructing love, desire and identity itself.

Theodore and Samantha exist in a city full of people being alone together, a familiar backdrop at a time when it’s common to see four people share a dinner table, their eyes glued to four iPhones.

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com, by nights amusing himself with escapist video games and raunchy phone sex.

Samantha’s circuitry is sophisticated enough to intuit and evolve according to Theodore’s feedback, so it’s no surprise when he starts to fall in love with her (er, it). What is surprising is that Jonze has taken what could easily have been a glib screwball comedy and infused it instead with wry, observant tenderness and deep feeling.

Then again, it’s not that surprising. Jonze, after all, brought similar sensitivity to Being John Malkovich, Adapta-

Phoenix and Johansson — who delivers an astonishing vocal performance — make that experience anything but passive.

Her occurs in what Jonze calls the “slight future,” but that’s clearly a question for the ages.

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Joaquin Phoenix delivers a gentle, thoroughly disarming performance in Her, a wildly inventive, scrupulously understated romance from Spike Jonze.

Set in a Los Angeles that’s been ingeniously photographed to exploit its most futuristic vernacular, Her takes place at a time that may be just around the corner, when our virtual lives have merged even more seamlessly with corporeal, real-world experience: Welcome to Earbud Nation.

In this world, computer operating systems are in the throes of becoming exponentially more sophisticated in warpspeed time.

When Phoenix’s character, Theodore, takes advantage of the latest upgrade, he finds that his computer is now being run by a charming, Siri-like disembodied voice that calls itself Samantha.

Given beguilingly peppery voice by Scarlett Johansson, Samantha loses no time in seducing the lonely Theodore, who works composing heartfelt notes-for-hire at a company called beautifulhandwrittenletters.

So the prime obstacles that inevitably emerge in Her aren’t what you think they’ll be, and the movie winds up being continually more surprising as it follows its quirky, often amusing, course.

Phoenix has effectively banished the bearded eccentric he was playing on the talk show circuit just a few years ago; mustached, bespectacled, he delivers a quietly heroic, even Chaplinesque turn as an Everyman contemplating the nature of the self and the soul that lies within.

At its core, Her is about listening, and both

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS An unflinching look at slavery, a terrifying trip into space and a poignant father-son road tale are among the cinematic stories that captured the imaginations of the writers and editors at The Canadian Press this year. In alphabetical order, our top films of 2013 are: 12 YEARS A SLAVE — This brutal, true-life tale of a free black man sold into slavery is so excruciating that many film-goers may take a pass altogether (this is about as far away from date-night fare as it gets), but it’s impossible to deny the importance and bravura of director Steve McQueen’s achievement.

Chiwetel Ejiofor commands the screen as enslaved fiddler Solomon Northup while Michael Fassbender and Paul Giamatti are the embodiment of evil as his masters. Those who do buy tickets will leave the theatre nagged by uneasy questions about earlier cinematic renderings of this dark chapter in American history.

AMERICAN HUSTLE — Outrageous performances and brazenly outlandish style pervade this ’70s-set dramedy from David O. Russell, who enlists past partners Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence for a rollicking tale of hair-obsessed, sequin-adorned hustlers addicted to the con.

It’s essentially a crime saga — loosely inspired by a real-life FBI sting — but the twisting tale is laced with such delirious abandon it’s equally exhilarating as a manic comedy. An off-beat crowd-pleaser that’s filled with swindles, glam and heartache.

BEFORE MIDNIGHT — Like its predecessors Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, this organic romantic drama offers a fly-on-the-wall feel during existential and sometimes stinging conversations between romantic leads Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke.

They’re now parents vacationing in southern Greece, where director Richard Linklater allows lengthy scenes — from an idyllic dinner party, to a countryside stroll and a gloves-off argument in a ho-

tel room — to play out naturally and with a remarkable sense of realism. Delpy and Hawke once again co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater for what is arguably the best of the three films.

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB — Quebec director JeanMarc Vallee is known for tackling wildly diverse subject matter, from the rule of Queen Victoria to growing up gay in the ’70s and the struggles of a boy with Down Syndrome in 1960s Paris.

In Dallas Buyers Club, Vallee’s trademark verve is on full display as he dives headfirst into the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) — a heterosexual Texas rodeo rider struck with AIDS in the ’80s.

This is a director in full creative stride, deftly shepherding McConaughey in a go-for-broke, career-making performance that miraculously retains Woodroof’s redneck, unvarnished essence even as he reluctantly steps into the role of unlikely hero.

ENOUGH SAID — James Gandolfini’s sensitive performance in this romantic comedy isn’t notable because it’s one of his last, but because it’s one of his best.

The late Sopranos anchor plays against type as a divorced dad entering into a sweetly tentative relationship with a massage therapist who, unbeknownst to him, is simultaneously beginning a friendship with his ex-wife. Julia Louis-Dreyfus contributes a funny, soul-baring turn as a once-burned lover struggling to trust her romantic instinct, and writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s script strikes the perfect note of low-key melancholy.

FRUITVALE STATION — Oscar Grant III was a young father who was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer while lying prone and unarmed in a subway station in the wee hours of New Year’s Day in 2009.

The primary achievement of this deeply moving drama is that it elevates Grant from a symbol (whose death inspired rioting) to a fully realized character, whose flaws only seem to amplify his humanity. In his rightfully lauded lead performance, Michael B.

Jordan finds all the colours in the work-in-progress Grant — who at times flickers toward frustrated resignation before continually finding the resolve for redemption — and portrays him with such sympathy, his senseless end is all the more heart-breaking.

GRAVITY — With Emmanuel Lubezki’s dazzling cinematography and director/co-writer Alfonso Cuaron’s painstakingly choreographed scenes, viewers are sucked into a convincing space thriller that leaves no clue it was actually shot in a movie studio instead of the dark, zero-gravity depths of the universe.

From its gripping opening scene, to Steven Price’s moving musical score and Sandra Bullock’s perfectly measured performance as a medical engineer lost in space, “Gravity” is an awe-inspiring blend of beauty and terror.

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE — Never mind American Hustle or Silver Linings Playbook, we’d argue that Jennifer Lawrence turns in the best performance of her career in this second instalment to the adventure-packed young adult franchise.

The Oscar winner holds nothing back as reluctant rebel Katniss Everdeen, who once again is pulled into a deadly televised battle against other teens. It’s long at times but Lawrence never wavers, and is bolstered by an impressive broader cast including new additions Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Wright and Amanda Plummer.

MUD — McConaughey has been deservedly decorated of late for a newfound gift for reinvention — but the earnestly lovelorn Southern drifter he portrays in Jeff Nichols’ winsome coming-of-age tale resides firmly in his wheelhouse. McConaughey fully inhabits the role, imbuing the titular sweet-natured dreamer — who forms an unlikely friendship with a pair of young boys who thrive amid the Arkansas backwoods — with enough menace to keep the kids (and the shaggy-dog film) off-kilter.

With help from the promising auteur behind Take Shelter, McConaughey’s stunning winning streak continues.

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Sunday, Dec. 29 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jude Law, 41; Alison Brie, 31; Jon Voight, 75 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon conSaturday, Dec. 28 tinues to radiate through non-compromising CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Denzel Washington, 59; Sienna Miller, 32; Scorpio and then it switches gears into jovial Sagittarius.

Seth Meyers, 40 This entices us to live life in the fast lane.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Intensity and perspicacity is what the Moon in Scorpio en- Mercury, the planet of self-expression is making a close connection to the Sun, which inditails in our predispositions.

We rely on our instinctual abilities to feel cates lots and lots of talking.

But, once Mercury makes a stressful link our environment and to seize other people’s intentions. We thrive on knowing the myster- to Uranus, this celestial occurrence adds exies of the world and decoding hidden mes- tra stimulation to our minds with a touch of irsages. A reminder to face our responsibilities ritability. Since there’s such a heavy stream of and obligations comes from a union with our ideas today, we are likely to put our thoughts karmic teacher, Saturn. It’s time to be fully on the edge.

A mini cerebral-pause will do so much committed!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birth- good for our nerves!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, should you decide to embark on a sole day, you are the socialite of your group this business or develop a network year! as part of your endeavour, you Suddenly, your charm and are about to plant significant your charisma make you the seeds of prosperity for the long popular one. run.

You blend easily in any types You are dead serious about of groups of people sharing all your intentions, and along with types of ideas. Your nonchalant your hard headed aspirations, attitude and your welcoming aura you seem unbeatable this year! make you quite appealing!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): ARIES (March 21-April 19): You crave uncovering your own You might be tempted towards power and your ability to get rid impulsivity and acting on your of limiting situations. You want emotions wanting to convince to face your fears, phobias or others of your personal beliefs.

ASTRO your suspicions in a very direct You might be perceived as too DOYNA fashion. Look at your past for opinionated today. Concerns clues about your next course of over legal issues might pop now. action.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your mood might change due to Warmth and loving gestures may seem hard to receive now. It seems as your partner’s financial situation. Either they though you have to work harder in order to are not contributing enough or they are not receiving as much earnings as anticipated. feel accepted.

You’re feeling a certain burden, which sets It is also possible that worries will stem from pressure on your personal growth and self- a certain debt you have to repay quite immediately. evolution.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Tensions may GEMINI (May 21-June 20): This is a typical day when taking care of the mundane stuff arise between you and your sweetie pie. A around the house and around your physical lack of compromise or a misunderstanding will make you both walk in opposite direchealth should be diligently taken care of.

Routine may feel like a burden today, but tions. An open conversation can be more deep down inside you know that it has to be helpful to you than an argument that goes nowhere. done.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your digesCANCER (June 21-July 22): If children have become a great deal of responsibility to tive system may suffer at this point. Worries or emotional disturbances might affect you, seek some help.

You might have invested single-handedly you such that you could experience stomach a lot of your time and effort into their lives, upsets. Take it easy for now and learn to which now have quite burdensome. You de- breathe at a slower pace despite on-going work concerns. serve some fun times as well.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Any physically LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may tend to work and struggle more than you need demanding activities should be exercised to. Lightening up and experiencing life’s little cautiously as you might be prone to accidents pleasures should be on your agenda for to- or injuries. You might not see eye-to-eye with day. Stop struggling with your own feelings of your loved one. You feel as if they are being too demanding and, or, might be asking for inhibition and be open to newness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): An open com- too much.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are longmunication and frankness with your mate are primordial for your union. Discussions may ing for that inner peace and harmony, but seem a tad too serious, but healthy for the chores oblige you to meet your deadlines. long run. You will both feel more emotionally Today, if possible, avoid taking important decisions based on your shared finances or attached living in certainty.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your security making risky investments.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today you and your sense of belonging go hand in hand for you. It is primordial to you to build your could make great use of your usual tact and life on solid grounds such as paying off your diplomacy in order to avoid any potential ardebts, creating a new savings account for guments with anyone; be it with your siblings, those emergency situations and living a life your brother or sister or even with a neighbour. Extra cautiousness should be applied within your means.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is your on the road.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There might kind of day where you are able to excel mostly by being in your own element, which is be some domestic upsets which should not intense and passionate. You prefer to be self- be taken too seriously. Life may throw us a controlled when displaying your emotions, but rock once in a while, but it’s not a tragedy if it’s a passing one. Intuitively, let yourself be you also are at ease in the opposite scenario.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You guided towards the right path.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Keep are still feeling mostly reflective and private.

You are comfortable within your own com- your objectivity and stay focused. You are pany as you are temporarily in need of some prone to mood swings and to fluctuating disseclusion. It won’t take much before you’re positions. Don’t let depression weaken your spirits. The survival tip of the day will be to back to the old self.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Personal remain calm and patient and simply, let the pleasures and a harmonious living environ- day roll by.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You ment might come pricey right now. Do not let have enough stamina to release your physipast grievances rule your actions and feelcal energy today. Instead of using it against ings.

You need to change your attitude and be- yourself, opt for healthier solutions such as lieve that you are really worth of being loved going to the gym and do your best to have an efficient workout. and nurtured for.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It matters AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You seek recognition and validation for being as persis- a lot to you now to have some accordance tent and as ambitious as you have success- with your peers. Yet, the day proves to be completely different. Not everyone is on the fully strived to be.

Hard work should pay off and you’re al- same page as you are and this might cause ready envisioning an enhanced picture of you some unwanted pressure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are your current life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your empa- contemplating about your career objectives thy and your understanding to other people’s and aspirations, yet you find some disagreeemotional needs. It may be hard for you to ments, which seem to pull you back from advancing. You may also, possibly, travel for deny in helping them out.

You may experience visionary dreams work.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndiduring this time or some telepathic intuitions cated astrologer and columnist. Her column of those around you. appears daily in the Advocate.

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A white-on-white room: Do you want to establish a fashion-forward home in 2014? Be inspired and splash your home with eastern promise and plunder the exotic.

Fashion forward for ‘14 So, as the prospect of the new year unravels, you’d like to establish a fashion-forward home? And who could blame you — don’t we all hope to connect, in at least some way, with a modicum of domestic ‘au courant’? Of course we do.

But it’s best not to barge blithely ahead. Your nest runs the risk of becoming more fashion victim than fashion vixen if you don’t plan things carefully.

Increasingly, it should be reported, our clients cite fashion as a barometer of how they’d like their homes to feel.

Previously, ‘edgy’ creations made it tricky to cross-pollinate la mode et la maison although these days a modicum of sartorial softening has occurred.

And home inspiration is being birthed via the runway.

COLIN & Look no further, in fact, JUSTIN than the global catwalk for appropriate inspiration and prepare to embrace exciting ideas that are truly eclectic — and fabulously multi-cultural.

Yup, United Nations home style starts right here.

In these very pages.

Without further ado, here are a few pointers to lead you in the right direction.

If you enjoy drama, you’ll love the international runway, much of which currently groans under the strain of heavily saturated colour. So be inspired and splash your home with eastern promise and plunder the exotic.

Inspired by Prada and Pucci, intertwine bright, woven Thai-style fabrics with mango wood lamps, choose faux-bone inlaid tables and dress ottomans in chunky Indian cotton.

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Warm up with wood WOOD IS THE MOST ESSENTIAL AND ECO-FRIENDLY MATERIAL ON THE PLANET Shorter days and cool temperatures offer more time for indoor pastimes and hobbies.

It’s a perfect opportunity to start up a project, something that speaks to your creative side, and presents a challenge, large or small, that you can lose yourself in for a few hours.

There are hundreds of hobbies from which to choose, and you may already have your favourites lined up for the season.

With all the press that ecoDEBBIE decorating has TRAVIS claimed over the past years, and rightly so, it seemed appropriate to turn to one of the most essential and eco-friendly materials on the planet, wood, and see what I could do with that.

Although I am by no means a carpenter, once I did a little research, ideas began to rush in and capture my interest.

Introducing pillars or columns into a room is an easy and elegant way to add or build on classic style.

Visit your lumber store and check out the stock columns that are readily available in round or square shapes with a choice of details that you can add to produce the design you want.

Columns can flank an entranceway or a wall of shelves.

They can be finished to match the walls, or stained in one of dozens of shades that give them a modern twist, from deep sea blue, burgundy and mustard to subtle hues of slate and parchment.

Columns can also be cut down to make a table base or a stand. Top with a circle of wood or combine materials and top with thick glass, tile or funky plastic.

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Wood columns stained in hunter green add a classic feature to these book shelves.

I have always enjoyed refinishing new and old wooden furniture. It’s particularly pleasing to retrieve some good pieces that are a bit the worse for wear.

Not only larger items such as a table, chair or bureau. You can make very cool candlesticks from old railing spindles and posts.

Look for three to five different heights and shapes, then stain them all the same shade for a grand tablescape.

Once you have some ideas to spur you on, take some time to learn about finishing wood with stain so that it will remain protected and beautiful for years to come.

Here are some helpful tips you can find at www.minwax.com.

I recommend using water-based

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FASHION: Seasonal colour adjustments flex the mood Find bed throws, textiles and accessories at http:// www.gerrardindiabazaar.com/www.gerrardindiabazaar.comEND to enliven even the most sedate environment.

If you prefer subtler signals, the monochrome colour scale could be a good starting point.

Black and white textiles, beset with cut-outs and precise tailoring, would work especially well in contemporary application and would allude to Stella McCartney or even Chanel: cool, clean and utterly sophisticated.

Employ acres of washy white flooring, a snowy toned sofa and punctuate with ebony accessories for a bold and distinctly graphic look.

The Lind Lisbon sofa at http://www.sears.ca/www. sears.ca in white (with grey stitching) would be a perfect starting point.

Alternatively, inspired by Lanvin, start the year using pink as an accent.

No longer the rose tone prevalent in 1970’s bathrooms, ‘new’ pinks are gentle and calming, and can even be employed in masculine environments — as long, that is, as balance is provided with a few grey tones to man things up.

Choose a candy-floss tone as an accent for upholstery or run up the scale with a jauntier shade if you feel suitably bold.

The Andy Warhol Chanel Poster ($375 from http:// www.mensmarket.com/www.mensmarket.com) would make a high impact statement.

If you ache for touchy feely elements, draw inspiration from the fringed fabrics currently rocking the catwalks of Philip Lim and Calvin Klein.

Don’t be afraid to use extra trimmings on curtains, drapes and soft upholstery to proffer textural ‘fashion-forward’ interest.

A shaggy rug is a perfect way to add layering and colour, and the look of fringing at floor level. For inspiration, jump aboard the magic carpet at Select Rugs Canada (http://www.selectrugscanada.ca/www. selectrugscanada.ca) From Celine to Chanel, Scottish tartan and plaid continue to rock the fashion world.

As Scots who travel the globe meeting other Scots doing great things abroad, we’re more patriotic than ever — and absolutely love this familiar, friendly home trend.

So go on: heap on the checkered accessories.

Or go one bigger and wallpaper with Audrey by

products whenever possible.

All stains require the woodís pores to be open to allow for absorption.

The size of the pores varies according to wood types, so know your wood before you begin.

Open pores by sanding. If there is already an old paint finish on the wood you may want to remove it first, then sand.

To improve the appearance of any stained wood, apply a wood conditioner before you stain The natural colour of the wood and the size of the pores determine the final colour, so always test on a section that is not in view.

Use lighter colours on wood that shows uneven absorption so that it will be less noticeable.

Apply water-based stain with a

Marcel Wanders, about $38 a roll from http://www. grahambrown.com/uswww.grahambrown.com.

Grey-toned, it’s effortlessly chic and would look wonderful in a bedroom with white furniture, or in a study with an atmospheric dark wood desk.

Another 2014 fashion trend is ‘white on white’ — BCBG and Karen Walker showed examples of this during the last round of runway shows.

Translated to home, the mood works during any season as long as tone and texture are carefully played.

Diaphanous snowy curtains are cool in summer but, as Mother Nature’s icy fingers close in, whip ‘em down and opt for linen or woolen drapery. In the kitchen, choose gloss cabinetry (Abstrakt at http://www.ikea.com/www.ikea.comis perfect) white subway backsplash (try http://www.tileshoppes.com/ www.tileshoppe.ca) and Caesarstone quartz surfaces (http://www.caesarstone.ca/en/Pages/default.aspxwww.caesarstone.caEND).

Add seasonal colour adjustments to flex the mood with accessories and tea towels.

Now that you have a handle on how your home should look in 2014, here’s a quick rundown of the gifts (some practical, some fun) which you should have received for Christmas 2013.

Happy unwrapping!

Decoration by Stephen Sills, published by Rizzoli: With a who’s who client list that includes Vera Wang and Tina Turner, it’s fair to say this guy is hot.

If you love glamour, you’ll love this sophisticated tome, a glossy title that transcends classical and modern.

Karl Lagerfeld called Sills’ Bedford New York house the ‘chicest house in America,’ and if it’s OK

by Karl (who wrote the book’s forward) it’s good enough for us: http://www.keurig.ca/brewers/miniplus-personal-brewing-systemKeurig Mini Plus: We love a good cup of coffee, and this state-of-the-art machine delivers just that.

Available in a host of colours,the dependable product is utterly top notch. We product-tested it recently while researching a TV segment, and its performance was head and shoulders above the competition.

Superb brewing and solid ergonomics make this a great buy in a very competitive market.

Save $40 online till Jan. 3 — price reduced from $99.99 to $59.99.

Gypsy Potter: We absolutely adore the naturally shed horse-hair vessels so lovingly crafted by this talented potter.

Delicate and naive, each item is hand-thrown and therefore utterly unique. Expensive?

No. From around $30 per piece. We stumbled across the artist at a recent craft fair and have been hooked ever since.

brush that has synthetic bristles.

Always brush in the direction of the grain. Use a soft cloth to apply stain to contoured surfaces such as mouldings or spindles.

Minwax has a new product, Wood Finishing Cloths that gives beautiful staining results.

They come in five colours, Natural Oak, Maple, Chestnut, Walnut and Dark Mahogany. The cloths are premoistened with water-based wood stain and protective clear finish.

Debbie Travis’ House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbieís new website, www.debbietravis.com.

Visit http://www.gypsypotter.net/www.gypsypotter. net.

Anything by Rebarn: Mark Livingston, visionary behind Rebarn, specializes in the sale of salvaged barnboard.

Using reclaimed material, he also creates custom sliding barn doors set on either modern track or ancient wheel and cog systems.

Featured by us on Cityline recently, we were blown away.

Give your home a beautiful prezzie in 2014 by visiting http://rebarn.ca/www.rebarn.ca. http://www. thebay.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/en/thebayHudson’s BayEND Caribou blanket: We love HBC blankets.

Whether traditionally striped or updated, their construction is faultless and their warmth factor sublime.

This one, in grey and black, is our current favourite and would be the perfect post Christmas ‘selfie’ gift! http://www.aeg-appliances.ca/type/cooktops/Induction Electric Hob by AEG: Wanna cook up a storm? This seriously stylish kitchen hob will deliver you to stylistic boiling point.

With a steel-framed glass top, touch-sensitive slide controls, four induction burners, adjustable timer and child safety locks (to avoid kids changing settings) it’s utterly top league and a product that would suffuse even the most basic kitchen with loads of 2014 appeal.

The ‘Lauren’ at Casalife: We absolutely adore this home office desk.

Assembled on metal framework and constructed using walnut and reclaimed wood, it possesses more than a whiff of Tom Ford’s A Single Man set dressing.

It’s no surprise, then, that Casalife is expanding with a new store at 2532 Yonge St. crammed with stunning inventory.

More info at http://www.casalife.com/www.casalife.com.

With the mastery of our mode tips and a selfie gift, it’s fair to assume you’ll be fashion-forward-to-themax as those Hogmanay bells start ringing.

Happy 2014!

Colin and Justin are regular home and design experts on Cityline.

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Question: Is the crack in the ceiling of the condo I’m planning to buy a serious problem?

I’ve signed papers but I’ve still got time to cancel the deal if an inspection uncovers something seriously wrong.

The crack is more than 20 feet long.

Answer: Judging by your description alone I can’t tell whether the crack is significant or not.

Is this condo in a high-rise concrete building, or a low-rise wood frame structure?

Send me a photo and I’ll be able to help you better.

If time is running out on your ability to get out of the deal, then it’s best to shut it down now.

There’s a tendency for us to feel like the current deal is the only deal, but that’s simply not true.

Finding another possible choice does involve work, but it’s better to spend the time looking for a good place than spending money fixing up a place with serious structural STEVE problems.

MAXWELL When it comes to ceiling cracks, it could be a problem or nothing at all.

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Reno blogging for money Question: How can I write by own renovation blog and get companies to sponsor me?

I’d interview the different trades and write about doing some of the work myself. Will this fly?

Answer: Your idea is a good one and I’d encourage you to try it.

The most difficult part will be convincing suppliers to help financially, either with discounts or cash contributions.

The internet has made it so much easier for people to get online, so your job is to provide the kind of quality and content that rises above the crowd.

These sorts of things do happen, but it takes salesmanship and a track record of traffic that you can show to sponsors.

Traffic is everything online.

If you can get people following you, then sponsorship is certainly possible.

In Canada I’ve found that a focussed website or blog with 5K to 10K of visitors per month gets the attention of corporate sponsors. Video is key in all this, too. it’s the premiere way to communicate with people these days.

New windows wetter than old Question: We’ve got new windows installed and they’re sweating water much worse than before.

Even the caulking and window sills now have mold on them.

I’m told the windows should be left open a little to boost ventilation, but what’s the point in paying for new windows if you leave them open? Are these windows installed improperly?

Answer: Strange as it sounds, the advice you’re getting is good.

Or at least it’s one of several strategies that will clear your windows of condensation.

The reason your new windows are sweatier is because they seal better.

Trouble is, improved sealing action also keeps more humidity in your house, boosting the condensation you’re plagued with.

Indoor humidity levels naturally rise over time because of cooking, showering and breathing.

The fact that condensation wasn’t a problem with your old windows is the same reason condensation was never a problem with older homes.

Plenty of natural air leakage exhausted humidity leak outdoors automatically.

And while it’s true that opening your windows and running exhaust fans a lot can lower indoor humidity levels, you’re right in saying this defeats the whole purpose of new windows in the first place.

That’s why heat recovery ventilators (HRVs) were invented. These ventilation appliances are roughly twice the size of a laundry basket.

They exhaust stale, humid indoor air outside, exchanging it for fresh, drier outdoor air while still retaining most of the heat energy.

HRVs typically cost $2000 to $2500 installed, but used properly it will keep your windows clear while also retaining indoor heat.

Once your house is dry, kill the mold with a registered, bleach-free product, then clean the old mold stains. The best mold stainer remover I know of uses oxygen-based chemistry.

Steve Maxwell, syndicated home improvement and woodworking columnist, has shared his DIY tips, how-to videos and product reviews since 1988. Get home improvement and renovation advice directly from Steve at www.stevemaxwellhowto.com

In a season of traditions, there’s still room to play with decorations

BY MELISSA RAYWORTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The holiday season is synonymous with tradition.

But that doesn’t mean you have to fill your home with the same holiday decorations in the same colour scheme every year.

“Until four years ago, I was Scrooge-y when it came to holiday decorating — a result of seeing the same old thing over and over again,” says Brian Patrick Flynn, a Los Angeles-based interior designer and executive producer of HGTV.com’s “Holiday House.”

But after finding ways to “reinvent the look and feel of Christmas for my own home,” Flynn says he “rediscovered how much fun seasonal styling can be when you make it your own.”

Here he and two other design experts — Jon Call of Mr. Call Designs and Betsy Burnham of Burnham Design — offer suggestions on shaking up holiday decorating.

SUPER STOCKINGS Call’s family takes a creative approach to Christmas stockings: On the night before Christmas Eve, they make new stockings by sewing together large pieces of felt (inexpensive at any craft store) using a simple blanket stitch.

“We let our imaginations fly when it comes to decorating the outsides, and top off each one with our name and the year,” he says.

“Making these stockings gives us all something to do the night before Christmas (Eve), and we share memories and laughter along the way.”

TERRIFIC TREES A Christmas tree doesn’t have to stay parked in one place.

Flynn recommends putting a small tree on wheels (maybe in a vintage metal wagon or an old metal washtub with casters on the bottom) so you can change its location when you’re entertaining to create space or to bring extra holiday style to a different room.

Another option is ditching red and green tree decorations for an understated colour palette.

“This year I created a tone-on-tone tree using all shades of light grey,” Flynn says.

“To do this right, it’s all about having a balance of texture, finish, shape, scale and proportion.”

Try a white tree if you’ll be using light colours and neutrals, or a green tree with decorations in earth tones.

To shake up your tree’s decorations, Call suggests going with a theme.

“Last year for a client, I indulged in masses of vintage mercury-glass ornaments of all sizes and shapes. Silver was literally dripping off the tree.

“It was spectacular,” he says.

pot with armfuls of branches full of red berries,” Call says.

“As the season progresses, I simply clip incoming cards to the arrangement so that everyone can enjoy. It’s become a tradition over the years, and everyone loves to come and check out my ’family tree.”’

with white lights.

“I don’t mean drape lights over branches.

I mean really wrap the trunk and every branch,” she says.

She had this done at her Los Angeles home several years ago and is still impressed with the look.

“It is the most spectacular thing when I light the trees up at night, and it’s something I would have never been able to do myself,” she says.

“The lights haven’t needed — BRIAN PATRICK FLYNN, A LOS ANGELES-BASED INTERIOR changing or redoDESIGNER AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF HGTV.COM’S ing, and it’s been HOLIDAY HOUSE a couple of years now.”

MAKE IT ALL ABOUT THE MANTEL “One of the most searched-for terms on HGTV.com is ’mantel decorating,”’ Flynn says.

For homes with a flat-panel TV mounted above — JON CALL OF MR. CALL DESIGNS the mantel, he has a high-tech idea: Burn images to DVD that co-ordinate with the accessories you lay out on your mantel, then let the DVD run during holiday — BETSY BURNHAM OF BURNHAM DESIGN entertaining.

For one project, Flynn displayed colorful “This year we are FOCUS ON UNEX- pop art images (includchanging it up a bit and PECTED PLACES ing a reindeer by artcreating a completely Christmas doesn’t just ist Jonathan Fenske) edible tree, including happen in your living on the TV, and then childhood favourites room. put colorful items like such as homemade popFlynn suggests adding candy in apothecary corn balls, small sacks a tiny tree to any space, jars and brightly colof chocolates tied with even a breakfast nook. ored ornaments on the a ribbon and hung from To spice up a stair- mantel “to make it all the branches, and pun- case, he created a gar- pop.” gent gingerbread.” land out of “old men’s Call agrees there’s no NO TREE AT ALL flannel and denim shirts need to hold back with If you have minimal cut and stitched” into colour: “The holidays are space, pennant squares with a time for indulgence, Call says you can skip tiny pockets. and that always means the tree altogether withStrung together, they colour to me,” he says. out losing any holiday create a colorful advent “Commit to a colour cheer. calendar (mark all 25 s c h e m e a n d g o f o r Instead, cluster to- days with sew-on varsity broke!” gether a bunch of white letters).

Tradition definitely poinsettias.

Each one can hold a has its place. But it can They set a holiday tiny gift and “add life coexist with bursts of tone in a fresh way, he and activity to an other- creativity and playfulsays, and in a large group wise humdrum space.” ness. look “almost like snowAnd for a new twist “It’s OK to bust out fall.” on outdoor decorating, the old red and green,” Or create your own Burnham suggests in- Flynn says. “tree” out of branches: vesting in a professional “Just change it up “In my kitchen, I love decorating service to somehow to make it to fill a large galvanized string your outdoor trees more exciting.”

‘UNTIL FOUR YEARS AGO, I WAS SCROOGE-Y WHEN IT CAME TO HOLIDAY DECORATING.’

‘WE LET OUR IMAGINATIONS FLY WHEN IT COMES TO DECORATING THE OUTSIDES, AND TOP OFF EACH ONE WITH OUR NAME AND THE YEAR.’

‘I DON’T MEAN DRAPE LIGHTS OVER BRANCHES. I MEAN REALLY WRAP THE TRUNK AND EVERY BRANCH.’

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ONOFRYSZYN 1934 - 2013 Evelyn M. Onofryszyn passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Hospice embraced by her family on December 20, 2013 at the age 79. She faced the end of her journey with the same strength and dignity as she lived her life.

Evelyn was born in Calgary on May 7, 1934 to Edgar and Martha Smale. She moved with her family to the Gilby area where she grew up. On May 9, 1952, she was united in marriage to Jarvis Onofryszyn and moved to his family farm at Eckville, where she continued to live until her passing. Evelyn was always very passionate about her community which was demonstrated by many years of dedicated service. Over the years, she was committed to St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Eckville Hospital Board, 4-H, the Eckville Manor House Board, Eckville Chamber of Commerce, The PC Party, and many other community initiatives. Our mother was a hard working partner on the farm, but still had a busy career as manager of Blindman Valley Propane Co-op for forty years. Later in her life she became a marriage commissioner, which was another role she greatly enjoyed.

Evelyn was known to be gracious, diligent, capable, ambitious, wise and a role model for many. Evelyn Onofryszyn is survived by four daughters Elaine (Len) Engen, Sharon (Dave) Lemke, Noreen Stuart, and Karen Burnand as well as special family members Gordon (Carmen) Butcher and Drew Burnand; her grandchildren, Trent (Pam) Engen, Nicole (Justin) Obst, Trisha (Ryan) Rigler, Nathan (Carrie) Lemke, Carolyn (Jared) Engel, Cameron Stuart, Rebecca Burnand, Vanessa and Blair Butcher. Great grandchildren, Warren, Rachel, Alexis Engen, Lucas, Claire, Natalie Obst, Jordan & Sydney Rigler, Evan and Emily Lemke, and Madison Engel. She is also survived by brothers Jack (Marion) Smale, Mark (Glenda) Smale, and sister Helen Nielsen and nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Jarvis, parents Edgar and Martha, brother Billy, sister Doreen, and niece Tanya. The family would like to acknowledge the many friends and family who reached out to Evelyn during her illness. We are also grateful for the wonderful care she received at the Red Deer Hospice. If friends desire, donations may be made in her honour to St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church or the Red Deer Hospice Society. A Memorial Service will be held at the Eckville Community Centre, 52 Street and 54 Avenue, Eckville, on Saturday, December 28, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Service and cremation arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040

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In Memoriam DEPAUW - Maurice (Butch) In Loving Memory Sept. 6, 1933 - Dec. 28, 2009 Four lonely years have passed, dear Maurice Since you were called away, How well do we remember That sad and weary day.

Loved and missed by Helen, Dean, Julie, Rocky and family, Tony, Val and family, Lee, Frankie and family

BERRY 1920 - 2013 Ethel Evelyn Berry of Red Deer, AB died at Bethany Collegeside on December 24, 2013 at the age of 93 years. Ethel (nee Manuel) was born in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba on February 18, 1920. As a young child she moved to Ontario after a fire destroyed their family home. She married Cyril (Cy) Berry on May 24, 1940 and eventually they moved to Sioux Lookout Ontario where she worked as a secretary and medical records librarian. Her most special achievement are the values she has instilled in her children and grandchildren: independence, education, the importance of family, and that it is never wrong to do the right thing. She is lovingly remembered by her daughters Lynn Rome (John) of Thunder Bay and Lee Sinclair (Gary) of Red Deer; grandchildren Steven Rome, Kimberly Rome (Jesse Vaillencourt), and Raelene Samms (Daniel); and sister Lyle Rose of Vancouver. She is predeceased by her parents Susan and Anthony Manuel, husband Cyril, and sisters Mona Miault, Tracey Frame, Billie Murphy, and Emily Manuel. A celebration of Life will be held at St. Leonards-on-the-Hill Anglican Church, 4241 - 44th Street, Red Deer on December 30, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. with the Rev. Noel Wygiera, officiating.

Interment in the Hillsdown Cemetery, Red Deer County.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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FERGUSON Stacey Marie Ferguson passed away December 20, 2013 at the Sundre Hospital after a courageous battle with cancer at the age of 29 years.

Stacey was born in Brooks, December 4, 1984 the second daughter of Gordon and Gerry Ferguson. She was raised and attended school in Brooks and was involved in many after school activities. She was a member of SADD, which was very dear to her. She spent many hours volunteering her time to spread her message about drinking and driving. After graduating in 2003, she moved with her parents to Sundre. Stacey went on to graduate with a diploma in social work from Red Deer College. She loved working with troubled youth but she truly found her calling when she started selling vehicles at MGM Ford Lincoln in Red Deer.

She absolutely loved her job as well as her co-workers.

Stacey spent many weekends fishing with her family. She loved spending time with her nephew as well. She started volunteering with MADD Red Deer spreading a message very dear to her heart.

Stacey is survived by her parents Gordon and Gerry; sister Dallas (Ken); nephew Corbin; special friend Stewart; Grandma Gilbert as well as many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. A Mardi Gras Masquerade Celebration will be held on Tuesday December 31, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. at the Sundre Elks Hall. Potluck, Silent Auction and Toonie Bar. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes may be made directly to MADD, Red Deer Chapter.

HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES LTD., OLDS entrusted with arrangements.

403-507-8610 www.heartlandfuneralservices.com

BECKLEY In Loving Memory of Mac Beckley June 6, 1937 - Dec. 28, 2007 This day is remembered and quietly kept.

No words are needed we shall never forget.

For those we love don’t go away They walk beside us everyday Unseen and unheard but always near.

So loved, so missed and so very dear. ~Love Always, Your Family

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wegot GAIL BEECHIN Dec. 29, 1970 - July 16, 1982 The years may wipe out many things But this they’ll wipe out never, The memory of those happy days When we were all together.

We think of her in silence, Her name we often recall, But there’s nothing left to answer But her picture on the wall.

Just when her life was brightest, Just when her hopes were best, God called her from among us To a home of eternal rest.

Forever in our hearts, Dad, Mom and sister Cindi

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DUNNILL Brian Aug. 30, 1935 - Dec. 25, 2013 Dad was called to his eternal home to be with his wife Irene and Daughter Ena. Embraced by his family, our Dad passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Hospice on December 25th, 2013 at the age of 78. Dad was born in Doncaster England on August 30th, 1935. He moved his family to Canada in 1971.

Brian is survived by Malcolm, Carol, Dawn, Julie and Stuart.

As well as 14 grandchildren, 5 great grandchildren and his loving dog Sam. He was predeceased by his wife and our Mom, Irene in 2005 and his daughter; our sister, Ena i n 1 9 7 9 . We a r e f o r e v e r grateful for the wonderful care Dad received at the Red Deer Hospice as well as Unit 32 at the Red Deer Hospital.

At Dads request there will be no funeral service held. If desired, memorial donations i n B r i a n ’s h o n o r m a y b e made directly to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer Alberta.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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Funeral Directors & Services BATDORF Harley F. Aug. 17, 1928 - Dec. 23, 2013 Harley Batdorf passed away at his Red Deer home on Monday, December 23, 2013 i n h i s 8 5 t h y e a r. H e i s predeceased by his wife Verna and four brothers.

Harley was born in Black Diamond Alberta, worked on the drilling rigs, farmed, drove truck, was a carpet layer and carpenter, worked in a clothing store and spent the majority of his life as a Psych nurse at Deere Home. Harley will be lovingly remembered by his stepsons, Garry (Jo-Anne) Didrikson and Randy (Joanne) Didrikson and his two stepdaughters, Sylvia (John) Etherington and Sandra (Wayne) Locke. He will also be sadly missed by seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

The family is choosing to celebrate his life privately. If friends so desire, memorial tributes to Harley may be made to the Red Deer Regional Hospital.

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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

Hours & Deadlines OFFICE & PHONES CLOSED Christmas Eve at NOON Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Year’s Day

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants

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CYLINDER HEAD MECHANIC. Journeyman HET or Millwright or relevant industry experience preferred.

Bidell offers a competitive wage, company paid health benefits & best in the business savings plan.

Please submit your resume to: careers@bidell.com or fax to: 403.236.0345 www.bidell.com

If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 mbell@1strateenergy.ca

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RONCO OILFIELD HAULING Sylvan Lake is looking for a Dispatcher. Knowledge of Travis Permit System and computer skills are req’d. Wages negotiable dependant on exp.

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS & DERRICK HANDS

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 journeyman instrument mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, be quick learners, motivated and hard working and live or be willing to relocate within a 20 minute commute to workplace location. This position offers a challenging work environment, attractive benefits with competitive pay and significant room for promotion.

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must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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Wise is a leading oilfield services provider that is committed to quality and safety excellence. By empowering positive attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values, our employees care for the success of one another.

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Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry. www.ferus.com

Store Manager required for PartSource in Red Deer.

Applicant will be responsible for directing day to day operations.We are looking for store managers that have strong leadership and communication skills. ASE certification is an asset.

Please apply in person at 6722-50th Ave or via email @ ps791@partsource.ca

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SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com StoreSmart Self-Storage seeking P/T Customer Service Representative for 16-24 hrs/wk. For job description and how to apply, go to www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs.

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Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and employ over 175 people.

CARPET COLOUR CENTRE is currently looking for EXP’D. TILE INSTALLER Applicant must have ability to lay out tiles, be familiar with setting materials and products. This is a F/T position with a wage of $20 -$25/hr. depending on exp.

Submit resume attn: Andrew: awiebe@ carpetcolourcentre.com or drop off at Carpet Colour Centre 1100, 5001-19 St. Red Deer, Ab. T4R 3R1 Experienced Siders Needed Call 403-588-3210

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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.

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Email: drew@ calibregroup.ca Company website: www.calibrecoatings.ab.ca

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In Sundre, AB. Competitive wages, guarantee for right applicant.

Benefits. Must have Journeyman Ticket.

Accommodations available.

Please sent resume to: mross@calmena.com 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

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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.

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RONCO OILFIELD HAULING Sylvan Lake is looking for a Dispatcher. Knowledge of Travis Permit System and computer skills are req’d. Wages negotiable dependant on exp.

Email resume tom@ roncooilfield.ca or fax. 403-887-4892 RONCO OILFIELD HAULING Sylvan Lake. Openings for Picker operator, bed truck drivers and swamper’s.

Top wages and benefits.

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Cosgrove Cres., Chappel Dr., Carroll Cres., Carpenter St., & Cunningham Cres. Area 93 Papers $498/mo.

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73 Papers $439/mo.

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd, a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for a full time Millwright/Mechanical trade position.

Responsibilities; You will find success based on your ability to; • Maintain Presidents schedule, daily to-do-list and travel plans • Assist with President’s personal matters as directed • Schedule Executive meetings, record and distribute agendas & minutes.

• Assist with planning and organizing corporate events • Assist with corporate presentations, newsletters and other corporate communications • Administer other corporate matters (org chart, keys, donations) • Assist Executives in all areas, preparing documents and presentations as requested • Greet clients and visitors and escort them to the appropriate meeting room • Promptly receive and screen incoming telephone calls • Assist with office tasks as required

ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres., Root Cl., 100 to 800 Ramage Cl., and Ralston Cres. area 67 Papers $359/mo.

ALSO Reichley St., Reinholt Ave., Robinson Cres. Area 106 Papers $568/mo.

The position includes maintenance inspections, lubes, PM’s and repairs to all types of equipment in order to maintain the safe operation and fulfill production requirements of Rahr Malting. The position is rated under the Heavy Job classification.

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.

Job Requirements; As the ideal candidate you will possess: • Minimum 3 years previous experience in a related role • Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite • Strong initiative and proactive approach to daily tasks • Self-starter, capable of working independently with minimal supervision • Problem solving and decision making skills

Application Closing Date: January 10, 2014.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

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Please fax resume to 403-227-7796, email to hr@bilton.ca

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Dempsey St. & Drummond. Ave. Area 70 Papers $375/mo.

We are seeking an independent Corporate Administrator to provide high-level administrative support to Bilton’s executive team. The incumbent will be extremely proactive with a professional, courteous and approachable demeanor in all interactions; possess superior interpersonal relations skills will all levels of staff, customers and vendors; and be able to use sound judgment and discretion. The Corporate Administrator will have a thorough understanding of overall business organization, including management and operating structures, and the importance of policies and procedures.

This position is based out of our Innisfail, Alberta office.

Ferus offers a competitive compensation package including a competitive base salary, bonus incentive plan & an excellent Benefits Package, including a Group RSP Savings Plan.

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Exp. Req’d. One of Alberta’s largest painting companies with offices in Edmonton & Calgary is now hiring for

We currently have career opportunities for a professional;

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)

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Candidates should possess post-secondary education in a related field and minimally two years’ experience as an Administrative Assistant or Executive Secretary. Your background will include exceptional written communication skills and a sound knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite. You must be a successful multi-tasker, work well with minimum supervision and enjoy a fast paced environment. For more information on the position, visit www.equs.ca

Ferus is currently seeking a Parts Person to join the team in Blackfalds. Reporting to the Equipment Coordinator, the ideal candidate will have effective organizational and communication skills. The selected incumbent would need to have the ability to meet deadlines, be a selfstarter and a quick learner.

We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

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this position will prioritize and manage CEO communications and scheduling, including drafting of correspondence and reports, taking minutes and handling all other administrative duties.

Blackfalds Base

Please reference: Ad #PP-1213-BLK

Academy of Learning, Red Deer Apply at: resumes @academyoflearning.ab.ca

Wise Intervention Services Inc.

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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.

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Is looking for experienced TRUCKING DISPATCHER to start immed.

TANKMASTER RENTALS Attn: Human Resources Well Testing Personnel Good Verbal, Writing, req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Experienced Supervisors email:kwolokoff@ Texting and Computer Haulers for Central bearspawpet.com & Operators skills. Company Pickup, Alberta. Oilfield tickets Must have valid applicable Fax 403-252-9719 benefits, above avg. salary req’d. Competitive wages Mail: Suite 5309 tickets and great atmosphere. and benefits.

333 96 Ave. NE Calgary, Email: lstouffer@ Clean Class 1 drivers m.morton@tankmaster.ca AB T3K 0S3 testalta.com license and abstract. or fax 403-340-8818 Completed Basic Training Sales & Courses. Will train the Distributors right individual.

Professionals Fax Resume w/all tickets ELEMENTS is looking for and Drivers Abstract to 5 retail sales reps. selling 403-346-3112 or email to season gift packages and roger@fluidexperts.com personal care products in GOODMEN Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. ROOFING LTD. Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + TANKMASTER RENTALS bonus & comm. FT. No Requires Administrative Assistant requires Labour Crew exp. req`d. Please email supervisor for Central Ab. elementsreddeer@gmail.com to the CEO SLOPED ROOFERS Pipe fitting & light picker LABOURERS SOAP Stories is seeking 5 exp. would be an asset .

EQUS, Canada’s largest member-owned utility & FLAT ROOFERS F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, Oilfield tickets and clean in Canada is recruiting for a new position, selling soap & bath driver’s licence req’d.

Valid Driver’s Licence Administrative Assistant to the CEO, located at products $14.55/hr. + Competitive wages and preferred. Fax or email the Main Office in Innisfail. bonus & comm. Beauty benefits. info@goodmenroofing.ca cert. req’d. Location m.morton@tankmaster.ca or (403)341-6722 Reporting directly to the CEO, who is Parkland Mall 4747 67th or fax 403-340-8818 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! St. Red Deer. email responsible for the day-to-day stewardship Classifieds...costs so little IMMEDIATE F/T POSITION premierjobrdbto@ and organizational performance of EQUS, Saves you so much!

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Happy Holidays to you and your families!

Oilfield

Teachers/ Tutors

PART-TIME UNIT CLERK INSTRUCTOR

* Downhole Tool Supervisors * Coil Tubing Rig Managers * Crane Truck Operators * Nitrogen Pump Operators * Fluid Pump Operators * Mechanics

Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

OIL & GAS OPERATOR

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Oilfield

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 Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information 340587A10

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in Highland Green

www.trican.ca

NOW HIRING AT ALL LOCATIONS

Howarth St. & Haliburton Cres.

Kentwood

...Join our Team!

Kilburn Ave. & Krause Cres.

Normandeau

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Nolan, Norwest & Newlands

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Oriole Park

WORLDWIDE KNOWLEDGE - LOCAL SOLUTIONS

Oak St. & Overdown Dr. Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery (By 6:30 a.m.)

Monday - Saturday in:

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Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the BOWER AREA

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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

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of INNISFAIL

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED For afternoon delivery once per week In the towns of:

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 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Siding Helpers Needed Call 403-588-3210 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

WANTED: de-humidifier in working order 403-347-4390

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 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

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SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

Addinnell Close / Allan St.

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

Isherwood Close Issard Close

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. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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MORRISROE AREA Vista Village SUNNYBROOK AREA Somerset Close Springfield Ave.

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

EquipmentHeavy

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Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Sherwood Cres.

VANIER AREA Viscount Drive Vickers Close Volks Place / Vanier Drive Vanson Close / Visser St. Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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.

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

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

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Grain, Feed Hay

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

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

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Roommates Wanted

OVER 200 CHANNELS, TV SUPPLIED, MUST LOVE DOGS, MUST BE WORKING M., RENT $500., N/S, 403-358-3786 SHOWHOME in Lancaster.

2 bdrm., floor heated bsmt suite. $950, all incl.

403-588-6294

rentals

ROOM for rent $550./mo.

Call 403-352-7417

CLASSIFICATIONS

ROOM, Avail. immed. $600. + dd 403-505-4777

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2 BDRM. main floor of House. Newly reno’d.

403-872-2472 3 BDRM. 3 bath in Sylvan Lake, heated garage, hot tub, fenced yard, close to school, rent $2000 $2000 DD 403-358-2857 3 BDRM. in Sylvan. 4 appls., fenced yard. No pets. All utils. incl. 403-347-6033

BAY FOR RENT, 1800 sq. ft., drive through bay in heavy industrial area.

780-674-3711

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Mobile Lot

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

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

Condos/ Townhouses

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Industrial

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

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HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

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Houses For Sale

2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres.

Lacombe. 403-588-8820 BRAND NEW 1340 sq. ft. bungalow, 2 bdrm., den, dbl. att. garage. $384,900.

Call Glen 403-588-2231

services CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Escorts

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EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight

Massage Therapy

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FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Misc.

Services

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UNWANTED House & Yard Items - Will haul to land fill. Call 403-896-2108

Painters/ Decorators

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LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

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Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Seniors’ VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Services LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* Pampering at its INDEPENDENT w/own car BEST! HELP FOR SENIORS: in home or facility - family 403-986-6686 Handyman business est. 1999 Come in and see Services - bondable staff, great why we are the talk rates, gift certs avail for of the town. Open Christmas - HELPING ATT’N: Are you looking for HANDS Home Support over Christmas. help on small jobs around Services Ltd. 403-346-7777 the house or renovate Closed Dec. 25 & helpinghandshomesupport.com your bathroom, 26. Open New painting or flooring, and Years. Come Spend Snow roof snow removal? it with us!

Call James 403-341-0617 www.viimassage.biz Removal Tired of Standing?

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Find something to sit on in Classifieds

2007 CHRYSLER 300 103198 kms., $10,888 348-8788 Sport & Import Celebrate Celebrate your your lifelife with with a Classified a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

FULL DUPLEX. 3 bdrm., 1 bath per side. $257,000. 403-963-0204

ALL WHEEL DRIVE

2007 530 XI BMW. Original Owner, 143,000 km. Exc. Cond.

Regularly Maintained, Fully Loaded!

Call 403-350-4323

MASON MARTIN HOMES Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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Trucks

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

2006 PONTIAC Solstice 26080 kms., 5 speed, $19,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

ONE ONLY NEW YEAR SPECIAL RISER HOMES

BLACKFALDS Fully Developed.

4 bdrms. 3.5 baths, front att. garage. 2 storey.

Indoor/outdoor fireplace, hardwood, tile, house-wide deck, wet bar & many more upgrades.

Please phone Lloyd at 403-391-9294 for all the details. $448,500 incl. legal fees, appls., GST.

2006 MERCEDES BENZ CLS 500 lthr., sunroof, 115057 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

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VIEW 4090 ALL OUR PRODUCTS

Manufactured Homes

Starting at $20,000 To book a viewing Or more information Please Contact Terrie at 403-340-0225

at www.garymoe.com

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Cottages/Resort Property

Locally owned and family operated

Trucks

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SUMMER LIVING IN THE SHUSWAP Salmon Arm’s newest townhomes, Maple Lanes is now selling. 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, 9ft ceilings, hardwood/tile (heated) floors, heat pump/ ac, stainless appls, stamped 2011 GMC Sierra 1500 concrete patio & so much Hybrid 4X4, 6.0L, lthr., more. $339,000 incl. GST. 81735 kms., $28,888.

Check us out at 348-8788 Sport & Import www.edelweissproperties.com Central Alberta’s Largest or call Roger Car Lot in Classifieds (403) 350-8089 or Tanja (250) 804-6436

SNOW SHOVELLED 587-377-5034

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

1984 YAMAHA 540, good running cond. $1200. obo.

99 gal. heavy wall, slip tank & pump, $1500.

403-704-3714

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RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

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FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices

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NOTICE

TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of

DORIS KATHERINE NORTHEY

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by February 7, 2014 and provide details of your claim with

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SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

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who died on November 13, 2013.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Commercial Property

Snowmobiles

Misc.

Automotive

Laebon Homes 346-7273

RENOVATED MOBILE HOMES FOR SALE

2006 GMC C4500 4X4, new Duramax, 170,000 kms, $39,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

www.laebon.com

Condos/ Townhouses

2007 FORD F-150 Lariat 4X4, htd. lthr., sunroof, $12,888, 348-8788 Sport & Import

Auto Wreckers

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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 CELEBRATIONS CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN HAPPENEVERY EVERYDAY DAY ININCLASSIFIEDS CLASSIFIEDS

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3 BDRM, 1 1/2 bath townhouse in well kept condominium Household complex at #9, 15 Stanton St. Furnishings 5 appls & fenced yard.

Tenants must be over 30 SEARSOPEDIC Comfort w/references & quiet living.

Plus dbl. bed, mattress, Avail. Nov. 1st for $1300/mo. b o x s p r i n g a n d f r a m e , $1300 D.D. 403-341-4627 clean, no stains, $200 403-352-8811 BEAUTIFUL Comfortable 3 bdrm. townhouse in Oriole WANTED Park. Super location for access Antiques, furniture and to all major arteries without estates. 342-2514 being bothered by noise.

Att. garage, 1-1/2 bath, 5 appls., #23 6300 Orr Dr. Misc. for N/S, avail. Jan. 1. $1425/mo.

Sale Hearthstone Property Management 403-896-8552 2 MATCHING suitcases or 403-396-9554 like new $25; antique oak student chair $75; SOUTHWOOD PARK Kenmore microwave 3110-47TH Avenue, oven, 1200w, $30; 3 wool 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, accent matching carpets, generously sized, 1 1/2 clean, will sell seperate, baths, fenced yards, $50, David Winters collecfull bsmts. 403-347-7473, tors house in original box Sorry no pets. $25 403-352-8811 www.greatapartments.ca

Contractors

Cars

2002 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta GLS 1.8L, $10,888.

TIMOTHY & Brome square Rooms 348-8788 Sport & Import bales, great for horses, apNEW CONDO For Rent 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., prox. 60 lbs. put up dry 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040 and covered, $5/bale $192,000.

403-588-2550 Sylvan area. 403-887-2798 CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $575. 403-346-7546 Looking for a new pet? 1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville 4 dr., saftied. 403-352-6995 FURN. room, all utils. and Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet. cable incld, $425/mo.

403-506-3277

SPLIT level house in newer part of Anders, 4 bdrm. 2 baths, laundry, parking in LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, back, fenced backyard & deck, n/s, no pets, $1650/mo., tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location. + utils & d.d., close to mini mall. 403-357-0320 Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

DAVENPORT PLACE AREA Danielle Dr., Dorchester Ave., & Doncaster Ave. $185/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.

MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $282/mo.

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Houses/ Duplexes

Lamont Close Lund Close

2140

Horses

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

LANCASTER AREA Law Close / Lewis Close

2000-2290

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EXECUTIVE 1/2 DUPLEX near Coronation Park and trail system. 1284 sq.ft.

2 storey, 3 bedrooms up, hardwood, gas fireplace, fenced back yard, Dble. garage. Immed. poss. $349,900. 403-396-5516 agent chosen.

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INGLEWOOD AREA

403.341.4544

MORRISROE MANOR

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS

Houses For Sale

EASTVIEW, 1 bdrm. bsmt. suite, fully furnished, n/s, no pets, $750/MO, for single $875 for dbl. Utils. incld.

Avail. immed.

403-782-9357 or 352-1964

PENHOLD 1 bdrm., incl. heat/water, 4 appls. $725 avail. immed., 403-348-6594

SMALL SQUARE HAY and straw 403-340-3061

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Anders Close

1930

Wanted To Buy

Anders St. / Armstrong Close Abbott Close / Anders St.

1900

Travel Packages

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

Employment Training

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Suites

POTTERY soup set w/urn and ladle, 4 bowls, casse- GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, N/S, no pets, role dish, salad bowl w/4 no partiers, avail immed. plates, like new $100; Can403-346-1458 on K920 copier w/metal stand exc. cond.

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. $65 403-352-8811 apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 VINTAGE FUR COAT, Muskrat, sz. 12 long, LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. very good cond. $80.

SUITES. 25+, adults only 403-346-0093 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

WESTPARK AREA Highland Green

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Misc. for Sale

2007 TOYOTA Tacoma V6 4X4, 114903 kms., $19888 348-8788 Sport & Import

YOUR PAPER!

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RECYCLE

Misc.

Help

Duncan Craig LLP Attention: Philip J. Renaud, QC

at 2800 Scotia Place 10060 Jasper Avenue Edmonton, AB T5J 3V9 If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

Whatever You’re Selling...

We Have The Paper You Need!

Central Alberta LIFE & Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 CALL NOW TO FIND OUT MORE

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013 D7

Federal judge finds NSA phone surveillance is legal ACLU VERY DISAPPOINTED, PROMISES APPEAL

Police file on Newtown school massacre yields chilling portrait of gunman, bravery by staff

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police released thousands of pages Friday from their investigation into the Newtown, Connecticut massacre, providing the most detailed and disturbing picture yet of the rampage and Adam Lanza’s fascination with murder, while also depicting school employees’ brave and clearheaded attempts to protect the children.

Among the details: More than a dozen bodies, mostly children, were seen packed “like sardines” in a bathroom. And the horrors inside school were so terrible that when police sent in paramedics, they tried to select ones capable of handling what they were about to witness.

“This will be the worst day of your life,” police Sgt. William Cario warned one.

The documents’ release marks the end of the investigation into the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 young children and six educators dead.

Lanza, 20, went to the school after killing his mother, Nancy, inside their home. He committed suicide with a handgun as police arrived at the school.

The paperwork, photos and videos were heavily blacked out to protect the names of children and to withhold some of the more grisly details. But the horror comes through at nearly every turn.

Included in the file were photographs of the home Lanza shared with his mother. They show numerous rounds of ammunition, gun magazines, shot-up paper targets, gun cases, shooting earplugs and a gun safe with a rifle in it.

A former teacher of Lanza’s was quoted as telling investigators that Lanza exhibited anti-social behaviour, rarely interacted with other students and obsessed in writings “about battles, destruction and war.”

“In all my years of experience, I have known (redacted) grade boys to talk about things like this, but Adam’s level of violence was disturbing,” the teach-

er told investigators. The teacher added: “Adam’s creative writing was so graphic that it could not be shared.”

The documents also fill in more details about how the shooting unfolded and how staff members looked out for the youngsters.

Teachers heard janitor Rick Thorne try to get Lanza to leave the school. One teacher, who was hiding in a closet in the math lab, heard Thorne yell, “Put the gun down!” An aide said she heard gunfire and Thorne told her to close her door. Thorne survived.

Teacher Kaitlin Roig told police she heard “rapidfire shooting” outside of the school, near her classroom. She rushed her students into the classroom’s bathroom, pulled a rolling storage unit in front of the bathroom door as a barricade and then closed and locked the door.

She heard a voice say, “Oh, please, no. Please, no.” Eventually, police officers slid their badges under the bathroom door.

Roig refused to come out and told them that if they were truly police, they should be able to get the key to the door — which they did.

Others weren’t so lucky.

Police Lt. Christopher Vanghele said he and another officer found what appeared to be about 15 bodies, mostly children, packed in another bathroom. So many people had tried to cram inside the bathroom that the door couldn’t be closed, and the shooter gunned them all down, Vanghele surmised.

In a letter accompanying the files, Reuben F. Bradford, commissioner of the state Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, wrote that much of the report was disturbing but that it also showed teachers trying to protect their children, law enforcement officials putting themselves in harm’s way, and dispatchers working calmly and efficiently.

“In the midst of the darkness of that day, we also saw remarkable heroism and glimpses of grace,” he wrote.

California 9-year-old is youngest to reach summit of Argentina’s Aconcagua, hemisphere’s highest peak

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A 9-year-old boy from Southern California has become the youngest person in recorded history to reach the summit of Argentina’s Aconcagua mountain, which at 22,841 feet (6,962 metres) is the tallest peak in the Western and Southern hemispheres.

Tyler Armstrong of Yorba Linda reached the summit on Christmas Eve with his father Kevin and a Tibetan sherpa, Lhawang Dhondup, who has climbed Mt. Everest multiple times. They were in fine spirits Friday as they left Aconcagua, whose sheer precipices and bitter cold have claimed more than 100 climbers’ lives.

“You can really see the world’s atmosphere up there. All the

clouds are under you, and it’s really cold,” Tyler said, describing the summit. “It doesn’t look anything like a kid’s drawing of a mountain. It’s probably as big as a house at the summit, and then it’s a sheer drop.”

Only 30 per cent of the 7,000 people who obtain permits to climb Aconcagua each year make the summit, said Nicolas Garcia, who handled their logistics from down below. No one under 14 is usually allowed, so the family had to persuade an Argentine judge that Tyler could safely accomplish the feat.

“Any kid can really do this, all they have to do is try. And set their mind to the goal,” said Tyler, who worked out twice a day for a year and a half to prepare for the climb. He also held fundraisers, not only to defray the cost but to

raise money for CureDuchenne, which funds muscular dystrophy research.

“I think Tyler’s record speaks for itself and because I think he’s doing it for a good cause, he’s doing it to help other people, I think the judge recognized that,” said his father, an emergency medical technician. Tyler’s mother is a pediatric neuropsychologist, and they also have another son, Tyler’s younger brother Dylan.

“Most people think we as parents are pushing Tyler to do this, when it’s completely the opposite.

I wouldn’t climb it if I didn’t have to, but my wife makes me do it to keep watch on him,” he said.

Aconcagua’s previous recordholder was Matthew Moniz of Boulder, Colorado, who was 10 when he reached the summit in 2008.

Serving Central Albertans for 22 years as a charitable non-profit organization.

The Red Deer Chapter invites application for

TEMPORARY PROGRAM DIRECTOR January 6 –August15, 2014 Mondays through Thursdays 2pm-7pm Pay is $30 hour@20 hours/week The Successful Candidate will have:

- A Degree in Education (This is a must) - Teaching Experience (This is a must) - Special Ed Training or experience an asset - Experience with social competence programming an asset - Excellent communication and organizational skills - Ability to develop specialized programs in all subject areas - Ability to work collaboratively with others - Ability to organize, monitor tutors and provide tutor training

Please email resume to:

execdir@LDreddeer.ca Attn: Kim Darbyson by January 6, 2014 Website: www.LDRedDeer.ca

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net that could find and isolate gossamer contacts among suspected terrorists in an ocean of seemingly disconnected data,” he said.

Pauley dismissed a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, which promised to appeal to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan.

“We’re obviously very disappointed,” said Brett Max Kaufman, an attorney with the ACLU’s National Security Project. “This mass call tracking program constitutes a serious threat to Americans’ privacy and we think Judge Pauley is wrong in concluding otherwise.”

Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said: “We are pleased the court found the NSA’s bulk telephony metadata collection program to be lawful.”

In arguments before Pauley last month, an ACLU lawyer argued that the government’s interpretation of its authority under the Patriot Act was so broad that it could justify the mass collection of financial, health and even library records of innocent Americans without their knowledge, including whether they had used a telephone sex hotline, contemplated suicide, been addicted to gambling or drugs or supported political causes.

A government lawyer had countered that counterterrorism investigators wouldn’t find most personal information useful.

Pauley said there were safeguards in place, including the fact the NSA cannot query the phone database it collects without legal justification and is limited in how much it can learn. He also noted “the government repudiates any notion that it conducts the type of data mining the ACLU warns about in its parade of horribles.”

The ACLU sued earlier this year after former NSA analyst Edward Snowden leaked details of the secret programs that critics say violate privacy rights. The NSA-run programs pick up millions of telephone and Internet records that are routed through American networks each day.

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11 attacks, a federal judge ruled Friday that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records is legal, a valuable tool in the nation’s arsenal to fight terrorism that “only works because it collects everything.”

U.S. District Judge William Pauley said in a written opinion that the program lets the government connect fragmented and fleeting communications and “represents the government’s counter-punch” to the al-Qaida’s terror network’s use of technology to operate decentralized and plot international terrorist attacks remotely.

“This blunt tool only works because it collects everything,” Pauley said. “The collection is broad, but the scope of counterterrorism investigations is unprecedented.”

Pauley’s decision contrasts with a ruling earlier this month by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon, who granted a preliminary injunction against the collecting of phone records of two men who had challenged the program. The Washington, D.C. jurist said the program likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on unreasonable search.

The judge has since stayed the effect of his ruling, pending a government appeal.

Both cases now move to appeals courts for a conflict that some believe will eventually be settled by the Supreme Court. The chances that the nation’s top court will address it increase if the appeals courts reach conflicting opinions or if the current use of the program is declared illegal.

Pauley said the mass collection of phone data “significantly increases the NSA’s capability to detect the faintest patterns left behind by individuals affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations. Armed with all the metadata, NSA can draw connections it might otherwise never be able to find.”

He added: “As the Sept. 11 attacks demonstrate, the cost of missing such a threat can be horrific.”

Pauley said the attacks “revealed, in the starkest terms, just how dangerous and interconnected the world is. While Americans depended on technology for the conveniences of modernity, alQaida plotted in a seventh-century milieu to use that technology against us. It was a bold jujitsu.

And it succeeded because conventional intelligence gathering could not detect diffuse filaments connecting al-Qaida.”

The judge said the NSA intercepted seven calls made by one of the Sept. 11 hijackers in San Diego prior to the attacks, but mistakenly concluded that he was overseas because it lacked the kind of information it can now collect.

Still, Pauley said such a program, if unchecked, “imperils the civil liberties of every citizen” and he noted the lively debate about the subject across the nation, in Congress and at the White House.

“The question for this court is whether the government’s bulk telephony metadata program is lawful. This court finds it is. But the question of whether that program should be conducted is for the other two co-ordinate branches of government to decide,” he said.

A week ago, President Barack Obama said there may be ways of changing the program so that is has sufficient oversight and transparency.

In ruling, Pauley cited the emergency of the program after 20 hijackers took over four planes in the 2001 attacks, flying two into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and a fourth into a Pennsylvania field as passengers tried to take back the aircraft.

“The government learned from its mistake and adapted to confront a new enemy: a terror network capable of orchestrating attacks across the world. It launched a number of counter-measures, including a bulk telephony metadata collection program — a wide

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