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Easy does it FISH AND GAME OFFICERS RELOCATE MOOSE ON THE LOOSE IN DEER PARK

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Alberta Fish and Game officers from the left, Bryan Poll, Darren McInnes and Chris Kelly drag a young bull moose into a trailer in the front yard of 99 Denison Crescent in Red Deer Tuesday afternoon. After sedating the moose, the officers loaded it into the waiting trailer for transport out of the city. Since December the moose has been seen in the Deer Park subdivision feeding on trees and shrubs. See related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A young moose who has been lounging around a Red Deer neighbourhood for the last month is now calling the Rocky Mountain House area home.

Alberta Fish and Wildlife staff picked up the yearling bull moose from the front yard of a home on Denison Crescent in Deer Park on Tuesday afternoon.

“He’s been around for four weeks in the Deer Park area,” said Chris Kelly, an Alberta District Fish and Wildlife officer. “We had been waiting for a warm day (to relocate him) to give him the best chance for survival.”

Kelly said the moose was not injured but had patches on his skin that indicated he was infected with parasites.

They received reports that the moose was loose in the neighbourhood and they had hoped he would have left the city by now.

Kelly said moose generally have about a 50 per cent chance of survival after they are relocated

because of the stress of the move and the drugs involved.

“We try to avoid it as much as we can but right now this is his best chance because he has ticks,” said Kelly. “He’ll get very aggressive and mean so we can’t leave him here any longer. As he gets more situated and aggressive, somebody is going to get hurt.”

Deer Park residents had caught glimpses of the moose and noticed his tracks and his feces for weeks.

Lindsay Welch called Alberta Fish and Wildlife early Tuesday morning after a neighbourhood boy rang her doorbell to tell her there was a moose laying down near her car.

“He was set on staying where he was,” laughed Welch. “He wasn’t moving. He was laying down and then he would stand up eat a little bit. Then he would lay down some more.”

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Swordplay 101 FIGHT DIRECTOR PREPS ACTORS FOR PRODUCTION OF THE THREE MUSKETEERS

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Think of it as an elaborate dance — punctuated by the sound of clashing metal and occasional grunts.

Laryssa Yanchak, an award-winning fight director, practised some of her “choreography” with a dozen young actors at the Red Deer College Arts Centre on Tuesday.

What unfolded was a complicated sword fight for the upcoming RDC Theatre Studies’ The Three Musketeers play that involved rapiers, daggers and a twirling cloak.

If spectators could go back to the 1600s, when Alexandre Dumas’ swashbucking story is set, they might have witnessed a similar spectacle in real life.

Yanchak’s greatest challenge is that 21st-century audiences essentially have seen it before.

Contemporary crowds know exactly what an exciting sword fight is supposed to look like because

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Laryssa Yanchak coaches Bret Jacobs and J.P. Lord on the finer points of swordplay as they prepare for the Red Deer College production for The Three Musketeers. they’ve been tuning in to increasingly realistic and detailed virtual battles in video games, movies and television shows.

All this “accessible violence” has raised the bar

on how fights are enacted as theatrical entertainment, said Yanchak.

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Exposure killed young man from Maskwacis An autopsy has determined that a young man from Maskwacis died from exposure to the cold.

Maskwacis RCMP believe that 17-year-old Travis Rain died after he was attempting to walk home while under the influence of alcohol and became disoriented.

Rain’s body was found Saturday on the Samson First Nation in an open area about 1.5 kms south of Hwy 611 East.

Police believe Rain was last seen on Jan. 17 in

VANCOUVER — A B.C. Supreme Court judge has dismissed a civil lawsuit launched by a Colorado woman against her late-husband’s British “ski buddy.”

Mark Kennedy fell into a tree well and died Jan. 11, 2009, while skiing on a mountain near Blue River, B.C., about 580 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.

Elizabeth Ann Kennedy argued her husband’s partner or “ski buddy,” Adrian Coe, owed him a duty of care and breached an express or implied contract between the two the day of the tragedy.

But Justice Barbara Fisher says there was no duty of care because Kennedy was, in part, voluntarily engaged in a high-risk sport and knew the risks.

Veterans Affairs asked for benefit repayment after soldier suicide: report TORONTO — Veterans Affairs wrote to the husband of a retired soldier who killed herself Christmas Day saying the family would have to return of part of her monthly disability payment.

The Jan. 9 letter that arrived just days after the funeral for retired Cpl. Leona MacEachern expressed condolences but also said her benefits were payable up to the day she died.

It explained that resulted in an overpayment of $581.67 and that the family would be contacted by the ”Overpayment Unit.”

Her husband, Tom MacEachern, told CTV News in an email that the letter was ”a slap in the face.”

However, the office of Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino told the network the minister has since directed the department to not collect the money.

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SWORDPLAY: Training never stops “As we become more educated about what we’re seeing, the art of replicating fights on stage needs to change. If it doesn’t come across as convincing, it doesn’t help the story.”

To make every aspect of her stage brawls believable, Yanchak — who does stunts for the new Fargo TV series being shot near Calgary, and for the recently aired Klondike miniseries — doesn’t skimp on teaching about the gory details.

In a physiognomy lesson on punctures, for instance, she stressed there’s a reason first aid workers learn not to remove a blade from a wound.

Whether a stabbing is done with a sword, knife, or scissors, Yanchak said muscles will contract around this “foreign object” to prevent it from going deeper into the body and to minimize bleeding. “This means a sword is a lot harder to pull out than people think it is.”

She grips the blade end of an aluminum theatrical sword and makes an RDC student wrench it from her hand to demonstrate the difficulty of removing it from a body. “People are quite shocked and grossed out when they see how hard it is, but they need to be aware of the physical affects when they are trying to convey it for an audience.”

There’s also the matter of portraying intent. While

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Wayne DeAtley, left, plays Aramis, Brittany Martushuk as Sabine and J.P. Lord plays Dartagnon’s father and King Louis in the Red Deer College production of The Three Musketeers. most mild-mannered folks don’t like the idea of really physically hurting somebody, ruthless people, or those in a kill-or-be-killed situation, don’t pull their punches.

Yanchak said they revert to some pretty “animalistic” behavior, so actors have to appear to an audience as if they are not holding anything back.

This means they must be confident enough with their choreographed moves to know they are not going to actually hurt their “opponent.”

“The choreography needs to feel safe and the actors need to feel safe while performing it so they can basically let loose,” said the Toronto native, who first studied acting at Humber College and got hooked on the physical side of theatre. She has since supplemented her stage-fight training by taking occasional classes in fencing and various martial arts.

Her RDC students start practising their fight sequences at 25 per cent of regular speed, then quicken their movements as they become more comfortable with their thrusts and parries.

The approach works for actor Wayne DeAtley, who portrays musketeer Aramis in the RDC show.

He said, “She’s very accepting. If certain moves don’t work for us, she adjusts them to accommodate our needs.”

One of his most complicated sequences requires blocking a sword thrust from the Cardinal’s guard while at the same time, shielding hero D’Artagnan behind him. In another scene, Aramis fights two guards at once, using a sword and dagger.

“I love it. It’s so much fun,” said DeAtley, who doesn’t consider himself aggressive in real life, but likes the chance to play at heroics.

Constance Isaac, who plays dual roles — as

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D’Artagnan’s female love interest and as a male cardinal’s guard — finds that stage fighting helps her establish a more “manly” presence for the guard role. It also helps hone her skills on other levels: “You have to learn to notice everything around you.

It makes you really aware of your surroundings.”

Yanchak has tackled all kinds of productions since coming to Alberta in 2004, including her award-winning work on an Alberta Theatre Projects production of Treasure Island, and an exhaustive fight sequence in Romeo and Juliet for the Alberta Ballet.

She admits the latter was a huge challenge. Typical stage fights last only two minutes, but the street brawl between Romeo and Tybalt involved 18 actors (“none of whom had ever fought on stage before”) and an eight-minute Prokofiev score.

Yanchak filled up that time with thrilling stage antics — even though the only script direction she typically gets is “‘They fight’ — and I have to take it from there.”

She begins each new project by talking to the director, to get a sense of the production’s tone, whether comic, thrilling, gritty or graphic. That influences her approach and choreography.

“The fight training never stops. There’s always something new to learn because it’s a changing discipline,” added Yanchak.

The Three Musketeers runs Feb. 6-15 at the RDC Arts Centre.

Anyone interested in learning stage fighting can get information about a June 29 to July 13 Edmonton workshop held by the Academy of Fight Directors Canada by visiting www.fdc.ca. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Welch said she hopes the moose does well in his new home.

This was the first moose that Alberta Fish and Wildlife has relocated this winter.

And residents may see more deer and moose in their neighbourhoods this winter than in a typical year.

Kelly said the animals are coming into the towns and cities because it’s easier for them to move around on the paths and there’s more food available.

Kelly cautioned residents to avoid moose, give them room and keep their dogs away. The Medicine River Wildlife Centre has fielded 100 calls from Swan Hills to Pincher Creek about injured animals since November. Typically, the centre receives about 12 calls the entire winter.

Executive director Carol Kelly (not related to wildlife officer Chris Kelly) said the deep, hard-crusted snow in the fields and in the ditches is the culprit.

“People are finding injured deer and moose in their yards,” said Kelly. “I believe the deer cannot get into the ditch when they see a car coming and they are on the road. The banks are so tall that they cannot get out.”

She said they are down the road and they get clipped by the vehicles and end up in the people’s yards injured. Kelly said they cannot get out to where they normally would so they are coming into uncharted territories like people’s yards.

“I think it is harder for them to find food so they are coming into people’s yards, into bird feeders, anything that is a food source,” said Kelly. “Remember that the deer and the moose do not have to match the ground. They eat branches on the trees. Really it’s been a tougher winter so they are coming in more.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Halifax man violates liquor store ban

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A Cape Breton man who told the Parole Board of Canada that he would probably drink and drive after serving his sentence for impaired driving causing death has been charged with breaching court orders that forbid him from entering liquor stores.

Police arrested Michael Gerard Cooper on Tuesday near a Nova Scotia Liquor Corp. outlet at a Halifax mall and charged him with violating courtordered conditions of his recent release.

Cooper’s unusual case attracted attention after the parents of a teenager killed in a collision with Cooper’s vehicle in 2007 asked Nova Scotia authorities to provide his name and photo to liquor stores, bars and other licensed establishments.

The 55-year-old was released from prison a week ago on conditions including a two-year ban from entering any place where alcohol is sold or consumed as the primary source of business, as well as a two-

year order to abstain from buying, possessing or drinking alcohol.

Pictures and warnings were issued by the police to liquor store employees.

Mike Maloney, a spokesman for Nova Scotia Liquor, said an employee called police after allegedly spotting Cooper approaching the store.

Maloney said it’s not unusual for employees to receive notices telling them to alert police about people, but it’s rare to have a provincewide notification like the one involving Cooper.

“What’s unique about this is the High Risk Offender Act being invoked and the sheer scale of this particular initiative,” he said.

After Cooper’s conviction in 2007, the Parole Board of Canada said he told them he would likely continue to drink and drive, which prompted the board to deny him an early release.

During Cooper’s court appearance on Tuesday, defence lawyer John Black told the judge his client suffers from “fairly significant deficits as a result of a brain injury” he received in the 2007 collision.

Judge Barbara Beach agreed to send Cooper to the East Coast Forensic Hospital for an assessment to determine if his injury has left him incapable of appreciating the nature and quality of his actions or of knowing that they were wrong.

Outside provincial court, Black declined to elaborate on the nature of Cooper’s brain injury.

Jerry Smits, the father of the young woman killed in the 2007 crash, said in an interview he will continue to pressure public agencies to post information and warn the public about Cooper.

“I don’t think we’d be where we are at today if it weren’t for the letters we sent to the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation,” he said from his home in Sydney, N.S. Smits said he felt vindicated by Cooper’s arrest and the latest charges.

“First thing I thought of was, ‘I told you so,”’ he said.

Cooper’s next court appearance is set for Feb. 6.

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SHOOTING HOOPS

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With a break from school for the day Tuesday because of exams many Notre Dame students decided it was a good opportunity to shoot some hoops at the Collicutt Centre. Here Tyger Narong breaks past Jacob Tomusiak in the field house.

Reporter sues Furlong for defamation

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The freelance journalist who wrote an article containing allegations that John Furlong abused students while teaching in northern British Columbia is now suing the former Vancouver Olympic CEO for defamation.

Laura Robinson has filed a notice of claim, alleging Furlong defamed her in a series of comments to the media in the past year and a half, in which he cast himself as the target of a vindictive activist.

Furlong responded with a written statement that said he looked forward to confronting Robinson in court.

Robinson’s article, which was published in the Georgia Straight newspaper in September 2012, quoted several people who claimed they were physically and verbally abused while Furlong was a teacher in northern B.C. in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Furlong then held a news conference in Vancou-

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Judge issues stay on legislation that would impose contract on union EDMONTON — An Alberta judge has issued a temporary stay on legislation that would impose a contract on 22,000 government workers at the end of the month if a negotiated deal isn’t reached.

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees is challenging the Public Service Salary Restraint Act in Court of Queen’s Bench.

A union official says the Court of Queen’s Bench judge has put the legislation on hold until Feb. 14 at noon to give him time to consider all the arguments presented in the case.

The union contends the law that was passed quickly just last month amounts to unfair bargaining and breaches the union’s charter rights.

Government workers in Alberta have not had the legal right to strike since 1977, but until last month had the right to send contract disputes to binding arbitration.

The salary restraint law would impose a four-year contract with frozen wages in the first two years, followed by one per cent hikes in each of the following two.

AUPE president Guy Smith said the union was pleased with Tuesday’s court’s decision.

“While it isn’t a comment on the merits of our case, it does mean the matter is of sufficient complexity that the court needs time to write its decision.”

The stay does not permit AUPE to proceed to arbitration at this time.

“Today’s decision doesn’t mean we’ve won the day. But we have resolved to make every effort to stop this legislation and restore our members’ rights,” Smith said.

Panel on foster deaths hears review system splintered, un-coordinated EDMONTON — Alberta’s chief medical examiner says the system is too splintered and disconnected when it comes to determining why and how children die in government care.

Dr. Anny Sauvageau (SOH-VAHZHOH) told a meeting on foster care that the province needs to create a specific committee of experts with the authority and resources to examine all child deaths.

She also says her office needs a broader mandate to examine not only the manner of death, but to propose ways to prevent similar tragedies.

She says while current fatality review hearings are held to make recommendations to prevent deaths of children in care, no one in government is tasked with checking to see if the recommendations are ever acted on.

Sauvageau is one of several experts and policymakers attending a two-day conference to determine how to publicly report more information on children who die in government care.

The meeting is the result of a series of PostMedia stories late last year that found the province covered up the deaths of 89 children in care since 1999.

under construction in Calgary.

Police say two men are accused of break and enter, theft and mischief to property in the Evanston and Redstone neighbourhoods.

Charged are Carlos Alberto Vargas, who is 39, and 47-year-old Marco Antonio Aravena, both of Calgary.

Vargas also faces numerous charges of driving without a licence.

Nenshi invited to international leaders program CALGARY — Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi has been invited to take part in an international leaders program in the United Kingdom.

Nenshi is to travel to London next week where he is to join delegates from around the world to discuss social, security and prosperity issues.

The visit is also intended to showcase the relationship between the United Kingdom and the Alberta city.

The program is an initiative of U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague and is run by the Foreign Commonwealth Office.

The mayor was nominated by the British consul general in Calgary.

Nenshi attracted attention for his calm and confident leadership during floods in southern Alberta last spring that swamped much of his city’s downtown.

“Calgary is a dynamic and increasingly globally focused city and there is no more dynamic and global city than London. These two great cities have much in common and face similar opportunities and challenges,” Consul General Tony Kay said in a release Tuesday.

“We look forward to discussing and learning from the important municipal issues that shape our day-to-day lives.”

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ver denying the allegations and accusing Robinson of waging a campaign to destroy his reputation. He has repeated similar comments in subsequent written statements and media interviews, including a week-long media blitz last October.

Robinson’s notice of claim cites six instances when, she alleges, Furlong made false and defamatory comments.

They include his September 2012 news conference, when he said Robinson displayed a “shocking lack of diligence” and that the Georgia Straight didn’t contact him before running the story, as well as a written statement the following week that repeated many of his criticisms of her.

The lawsuit also cites a written statement Furlong issued last October and a pair interviews the same week with Global News and Maclean’s magazine, during which Furlong again repeated his complaints.

Lastly, the document points to a written statement issued by Furlong last December that accused Robinson of a “historic pattern of inaccuracy.”

VANCOUVER — A man who killed four people, including an RCMP officer, in a “spasm of deliberate violence” in the Vancouver area more than three decades ago will be allowed to leave prison for up to 72 hours each month, the National Parole Board has ruled.

Steven Leclair was 34 when he shot and killed three people in a Vancouver bar in September 1980.

He then hijacked a car and headed to an RCMP detachment in nearby Richmond, where he killed one officer and wounded another.

Leclair, who is now 67, was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and is serving a life sentence.

Last year, the National Parole Board granted Leclair two eight-hour day passes to visit his wife.

He recently asked the board to expand those passes to allow him to stay with his wife overnight at an undisclosed location in the Lower Mainland.

The board released a decision Tuesday saying Leclair will be permitted two overnight passes each month — one for 48 hours and another for 24 hours.

He will be allowed to visit his wife’s house, as well as places such as restaurants, movie theatres and his wife’s church.

While the board’s decision says Leclair presents a “high risk to re-offend violently,” it also notes there have been no issues with his unescorted day passes since they were granted almost a year ago. Before that, he was allowed escorted trips from prison, and those, too, happened without incident, the board says.

The decision says Leclair has a stable and positive relationship with his wife, has the support of his church, and has not seriously acted out violently while in prison.

“The board is to address the matter of risk, and whether your risk can safely be managed in the community,” which was dated Jan. 14.

“These special conditions are reasonable and necessary to protect society and to assist with your reintegration as a law-abiding citizen.”

Leclair was at a bar in Vancouver on Sept. 19, 1980, when he was thrown out for “belligerent behaviour,” the parole board’s decision says. As he was removed, he told two staff members he would be back to kill them.

A short time later, Leclair returned to the bar. He shot and killed a waiter, as well as a woman seated nearby, and then leaned over a counter and shot the bar’s manager in the head. He also fired at someone fleeing the scene, but missed.

After that, Leclair commandeered a passing vehicle, ordering the driver to take him to an RCMP detachment in Richmond, where he killed one officer and wounded another, the board says.

The violence ended when a third officer ordered Leclair to surrender, prompting the killer to throw down his gun.

The parole board says it was “among the most heinous crimes” in B.C. history.

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Issues crowd policy agenda For those who wish that the current Parliament would feature more adult conversation, this is now-ornever time.

The House of Commons reopened on Monday for the last full year before a general election.

It would be a pity, albeit not necessarily a surprise, if it CHANTAL were a wasted HÉBERT year.

A budget that will set the stage for a return to balanced federal books will be forthcoming on Feb. 11.

The government will decide the fate of the Northern Gateway pipeline — so far the most controversial of the plans on the drawing boards of the oil industry.

The clock is ticking on the prostitution laws and on the future of home mail delivery.

A road map to Senate reform will be delivered by the Supreme Court. It will also revisit the issue of assisted suicide and euthanasia and there are at least even odds that there will be major developments on that front between now and the election.

Quebec is poised to put contentious limits on the fundamental rights of those who work in the province’s public sector. The election of a majority sovereigntist government could bring the unity issue back to the fore.

Ontario is looking at taking unilateral action on pension reform that could have a domino effect across the country. An election in the province could feature a fierce discussion on some long-held union rights.

There is no lack of significant issues crowding the policy agenda. And on a majority of the items mentioned above, the position of the main federal parties is at best work in progress when it is not simply non-existent.

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With a return to balanced budgets comes the opportunity for more policy creativity. That is not the approach of the ruling Conservatives. They believe that when it comes to government, smaller is better.

But while the NDP and the Liberals routinely talk up the virtues of running activist governments, their policy proposals are strikingly short on ambition (or imagination).

Canada’s long-held energy assumptions never factored in the possibility that the United States could shift from energy importer to exporter. That change has profound implications for this country’s resources development plans.

At the same time Canada has fallen well behind the carbon emission targets the Harper government committed to in Copenhagen. Against that shifting

backdrop, the leap of faith required to take the promises of the parties to square the environment/energy circle at face value keeps getting bigger.

In the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling on prostitution, Parliament has a year to come up with more Charter-friendly laws pertaining to the sex industry or else accept a legal vacuum.

The government is dead set against legalizing prostitution. But what of the opposition parties? It is far from certain that either the NDP or the Liberals will put that option up for discussion. A motion calling on the NDP to support the legalization of prostitution was sent back for further study at the party’s 2013 policy convention.

A similar resolution is expected to be debated at the upcoming Liberal policy convention in Montreal next

month, but based on Justin Trudeau’s initial reaction it is not a position he is willing to readily embrace.

Polls show that a majority of Canadians want to see some policy movement on assisted suicide and euthanasia. But so far that is one policy parade that none of the federal parties has been eager to lead.

It remains to be seen if this Parliament will devote even one of its remaining days to the issue — unless or until the courts force its hand.

On Monday, it was not immediately obvious that MPs on either side of the House will be up to the task of bringing the same passion to the many policy issues that cry for their attention as they did to the scandal that consumed most of the last year in Parliament.

Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

Arab Spring party is over, bosses are back It has taken a little longer than it did after the 1848 revolutions in Europe, but on the third anniversary of the Egyptian revolution we can definitely say that the Arab Spring is finished.

The popular, mostly nonviolent revolutions that tried to overthrow the single-party dictatorships and absolute monarchies of the Arab world had their moments of glory, but the party is over and the bosses are back.

People in the Middle East hate having their triumphs and tragedies treated as a second-hand version of European history, but the parallels with Europe in 1848 are hard GWYNNE to resist. The Arab tyrants had DYER been in power for just as long, the revolutions were fuelled by the same mixture of democratic idealism and frustrated nationalism, and once again the trigger for the revolutions (if you had to highlight just one factor) was soaring food prices.

In many places the Arab revolutionaries had startlingly quick successes at first — Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen — just like the French, German and Italian revolutionaries did in Europe’s Springtime of the Peoples.

For a time it looked like everything would change.

Then came the counter-revolutions and it all fell apart, leaving only a few countries permanently changed for the better — like Denmark then, or Tunisia in today’s Arab world.

The disheartening parallels are particularly strong between Egypt, by far the biggest country in the Arab world, and France, which was Europe’s most important and populous country in 1848. In

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both cases, the revolutions at first brought free media, civil rights and free elections, but also a great deal of social turmoil and disorientation.

In both France and Egypt, the newly enfranchised masses then elected presidents whose background alarmed much of the population: a nephew of Napoleon in one case, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in the other. And here the stories diverge for a time — but the ending, alas, does not.

In France, President Louis Napoleon launched a coup against his own presidency, and re-emerged in 1852 as Emperor Napoleon III. It had been a turbulent few years, and by then a large majority of the French were willing to vote for him because he represented authority, stability and tradition. They threw away their own democracy.

In Egypt last year, the army allied itself with former revolutionaries to overthrow the elected president, Mohamed Morsi — and within a few months, after an election that will genuinely represent the wish of most Egyptians to trade their new democracy for authority, stability and tradition, Field Marshal Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will duly assume the presidency.

The counter-revolution is as popular in Egypt now as it was in France then.

And if you fear that this analogy is really relevant, then here’s the worst of it. After the defeat of the 1848 revolutions, there were no further democratic revolutions in Europe for 20 years. If that timetable were also to apply to the Arab world, then the next round of democratic revolutions would only be due around 2035. But it probably doesn’t apply.

There is one key difference between the European revolutions of 1848 and the Arab revolutions of 2011. The 1848 revolutions were violent explosions of popular anger that succeeded in hours or days, while those of 2010-11 were largely non-violent, more calculated struggles that took much longer to win. Nonviolent revolutions give millions of people time to think about why they are taking these risks and what

they hope to get out of it.

They may still lose focus, take wrong turns, even throw all their gains away. Mistakes are human and so is failure. But once people have participated in a non-violent revolution, they are permanently politicized, and in the long run they are quite likely to remember what they came for.

The most promising candidate to succeed Gene Sharp as the world authority on non-violent revolutions is Erica Chernoweth, a young American academic who co-wrote the study Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Non-Violent Conflict with diplomat Maria Stephan. A lot of their book is about why non-violent revolution succeeds or fails, but most interesting of all are their statistics about how often it succeeds.

Their headline statistic is that violent revolutionary struggles succeed in overthrowing an oppressive regime only 30 per cent of the time, whereas nonviolent campaigns succeed almost 60 per cent of the time. By that standard, the Arab world is certainly under-performing.

There have been only two relative successes among the Arab countries, Tunisia and Morocco (where the change came so quickly that hardly anybody noticed). There were two no-score draws: Yemen and Jordan. And there were three abject failures: Bahrain, Egypt and Syria, the latter ending up in a full-scale civil war. (Libya doesn’t count, as it was a violent revolution with large foreign participation right from the start.) So far, not so good.

But the most relevant statistic from Chernoweth and Stephan’s work for the future of the Arab world is this: “Holding all other variables constant, the average country with a failed non-violent campaign has over a 35 per cent chance of becoming a democracy five years after a conflict’s end.” The game isn’t over yet.

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

the current program” and “income-based supports like the ASDS are a poor repayment for their (seniors) efforts.”

Horne stated, again in writing, that “the Alberta senior’s drug plan was put on hold. Government has no intent to make changes to the plan.” He also wrote “The government of Alberta will continue to provide premium-free coverage for prescription medications” and that the government “pays 70 per cent of the cost of each eligible prescription and seniors pay the remaining 30 per cent to a maximum of $25.”

The Alberta Seniors Drug Strategy has neither been cancelled nor placed on hold. The government appears to be pressing on with the introduction of a

policy that will base a senior’s co-payment for prescription drugs on income. No other demographic group of Albertans will be subjected to such a means test to determine the amount of their co-payment.

Why are seniors being singled out?

It appears the government is reneging on previous promises and is sacrificing seniors on the altar of budget slashing regardless of the consequences.

When promises are made they need to be honoured. Politicians need to remember: seniors vote.

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CANADA THREATENS COURT FIGHT, IMPORT TARIFFS IN DISPUTE OVER FOOD LABELLING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s agriculture minister says he’s hoping to avoid an all-out trade war with the United States over food labelling.

But Gerry Ritz warns that, if there is a war, he’s prepared to fight it.

Ritz has launched a last-minute appeal to American lawmakers to change U.S. food labelling rules through a 950-page farm bill that could Gerry Ritz come to a first vote as early as Wednesday.

“I’m hoping that cooler minds will prevail, that the pressure that the

American industry is bringing to bear in the next day or two will cause some legislators to step back,” said Ritz.

Canada has long complained that the so-called Country Of Origin Labelling provisions adopted by the U.S. government in 2008 hurt meat industries on both sides of the border.

Hopes for a settlement of the dispute were dashed Monday when U.S. lawmakers reached a deal that did not include changes to the labelling requirements.

Failing any last-minute amendments, Ritz says Canada will return the dispute to the World Trade Organization, with arguments in the case expected to begin Feb. 18.

“That’s a good thing,” said Ritz. “It starts to move it ahead.”

If the WTO rules in Canada’s favour, tariffs could be imposed by early 2015 on U.S. exports of everything from beef and pork products to grains and fresh fruits.

But that should only be used as a “last resort” measure because tariffs would be costly both to businesses and

consumers, warned Lyle Stewart, Saskatchewan’s agriculture minister.

“It’s not the ideal situation, but it’s about the only weapon if everything else fails,” Stewart said at the provincial legislature.

However, Stewart said he would support retaliation, if necessary.

“If negotiations fail, if a WTO ruling fails to change the Americans mind on this again, it’s about the only tool we have left. And so it will make some products more expensive in Canada, that’s for sure.”

In the meantime, Ritz says Canada will support industry stakeholders in the United States and Mexico in a bid to obtain a court injunction preventing the U.S. government from implementing the bill.

The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, representing more than 68,000 beef farms and feed lots across the country, said it too would support the government taking the fight to the WTO. “The (association) fully supports the government of Canada’s efforts to pur-

sue WTO approval to impose retaliatory tariffs,” the organization said in a statement.

Country-of-origin labelling rules are blamed for complicating the import of meat and livestock into the U.S., driving up the cost of business, and causing an estimated $1 billion a year in losses.

The rules require segregation of beef, pork and chicken so it can be labelled with details about the origins of the meat before being sold in U.S. stores.

For beef producers, Ritz said the requirements add about $100 to the cost of each exported animal.

Some American companies have said they can’t afford to sort, label and store meat from Canada differently than meat from domestic animals. In October, Tyson Foods Inc., one of the largest buyers of Canadian cattle in the U.S., said it would stop buying from feedlots north of the border because of the higher cost of complying with the regulations.

Muslim group wants apology from PM, spokesman

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Veteran Ron Clarke joins fellow Veterans and PSAC members as they hold a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday. The groups is asking ask the government to reconsider its decision to close Veterans Affairs district offices in nine communities.

Veterans protest impending office closures

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A group of ex-soldiers, some from the Second World War, was rebuffed Tuesday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who played down the impact of impending Veterans Affairs regional office closures.

The centres — in Kelowna, B.C., Saskatoon, Brandon, Man., Thunder Bay, Ont., Windsor, Ont., Sydney, N.S., Charlottetown and Corner Brook, N.L. — are slated to shut down Friday as part of a move to more online and remote services. A ninth office has already closed in Prince George, B.C. Seven veterans, including Roy Lamore whose service dates back to the 1940s, says he and others feel betrayed by a government that promised to take

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17 dead, 15 others missing in fire at Quebec seniors’ home

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS L’ISLE-VERTE, Que. — Firefighters and police officers, some on their hands and knees, braved bitter cold for yet another day to find more bodies in the rubble of a seniors’ home that was engulfed in flames last week.

Quebec provincial police said Tuesday that 17 people are now confirmed dead and 15 remain missing after the blaze that ravaged Residence du Havre in L’Isle-Verte in eastern Quebec early last Thursday.

“We will keep going until all 32 people have been found,” said Quebec

provincial police Lt. Michel Brunet.

Four people have been formally identified by the coroner’s office.

Authorities say they are satisfied with the progress of their work during the last six days.

Weather has been a major hurdle, forcing crews to take regular breaks to warm up from the bone-chilling cold.

Special machines also had to be brought in to melt thick ice that coated the ruins after the fire. Police have had to approach the rubble carefully, not just to avoid harming any bodies within the structure but also to preserve evidence that may allow investigators to determine a cause for the blaze.

care of them and younger soldiers.

“These closures will put veterans at risk,” Lamore, a resident of Thunder Bay, told a Parliament Hill news conference. “I hope the government is listening. Why do we, as veterans, have to beg?”

But later during question period in the House of Commons, the prime minister brushed aside the criticism and noted that veterans can still get everything they need from the less specialized 584 Service Canada offices coast-to-coast.

With the declining veterans population, Harper suggested, the Second War World-era structure had out lived its purpose.

“There are a small number of service centres that are being closed that frankly service very few people, had

very few visits,” Harper told the House of Commons.

“That’s being replaced with 600 service centres across the country, and in an increased number of cases employees will actually go and meet veterans instead of the other way around.”

Harper also pointed to increased investments the Conservatives have made under the New Veterans Charter.

NDP Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair linked the imminent cuts to the increasing number of soldiers and exsoldiers who’ve taken their lives since the fall.

“When our forces are facing a crisis of eight military suicides in two months, there’s never been a more important time to maintain those services,” Mulcair said.

Communications Security Establishment Canada — caught in the unprecedented glare of international intelligence leaks — should table an annual public report in Parliament describing its ongoing activities, says interim privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier.

Bernier also recommended Tuesday that CSEC disclose annual statistics on cases in which it assists other federal agencies with requests for interception, which can include monitoring of Canadians.

The recommendations are among several intended to bolster protection of privacy rights in national security efforts.

“In our view, the current Canadian system of intelligence oversight would

operate better if fine-tuned to new operational realities,” says Bernier’s special report.

Ottawa-based CSEC monitors foreign computer, satellite, radio and telephone traffic of people, states, organizations and terrorist groups for information of intelligence interest to Canada.

Its role has come under intense scrutiny due to leaks by Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency, CSEC’s much larger American counterpart.

The latest revelation, published this week by the Guardian newspaper, suggests CSEC helped British ally Government Communications Headquarters tap into Android smartphones.

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OTTAWA — A major Canadian Muslim group is demanding an apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his chief spokesman for a comment it says linked the organization to a terrorist group.

The National Council of Canadian Muslims has filed a notice of libel in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that accuses Jason MacDonald of acting maliciously when he made the comment earlier this month.

The council had criticized the inclusion of a controversial rabbi in Harper’s delegation that went to the Middle East last week.

“Rather than responding to our legitimate concerns, the PMO’s director of communications attacked us and attempted to smear our name by claiming NCCM had ’documented ties to a terrorist organization such as Hamas,”’ Ihsaan Gardee, the council’s executive director, told a news conference Tuesday.

“Nothing could be further from the truth. NCCM will not let the PMO’s false statement stand.”

The council says MacDonald’s comment was a deliberate attempt to discredit the group and Harper is responsible for the words uttered by his spokesman.

The libel notice is the first step in what could become a formal lawsuit.

The Prime Minister’s Office responded tersely: “As this matter may be the subject of litigation, we have no further comment.”

Further legal action is possible, said Nader Hassan, lawyer for the council.

“Whether we go through with the lawsuit is going to depend on a number of factors, namely the quality, timing and content of the public apology and retraction,” he said.

Gardee said MacDonald’s comment was “categorically false, offensive and defamatory.”

The libel notice said MacDonald’s statement was unwarranted.

“The defamatory words were stated maliciously in order to discredit and insult an organization that did nothing other than exercise its constitutional right to freedom of expression to criticize a decision made by the prime minister,” it said.

“Mr. MacDonald simply made up that statement in an effort to discredit NCCM and deflect its criticism of Mr. Harper.”

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Speech to deliver split message OBAMA TO TALK POSITIVELY ABOUT A RECOVERY THAT REMAINS ELUSIVE TO MANY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

WASHINGTON — Newly repackaged, President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address will deliver familiar content along with some targeted firsttime initiatives that both test and illustrate the limits of divided government in an election year.

His message to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday will identify measures where he and Congress can co-operate, and he will press issues that will distinguish him and Democrats from Republicans. He’ll also make a case for acting alone.

Illustrating his willingness to act on his own, the White House says Obama will announce that he will sign an executive order increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 for new federal contracts.

The measure affects only future contracts, not existing ones, and would only apply to contract renewals if other terms of the agreement changed.

As a result, the order would benefit far fewer workers than the number foreseen by advocates of

federal contract employees.

Still, the issue dovetails with what will be Obama’s broader call for an increase in the national minimum wage to $10.10 and for future increases to be tied to inflation. Obama last year had called for an increase in the minimum wage to $9.

The address will be wrapped in a unifying theme: The federal government can play a key role in increasing opportunities for Americans who have been left behind, unable to benefit from a recovering economy. Yet, at the core of the address, the president will deliver a split message.

Even as he argues that low income Americans and many in the middle class lack the means to achieve upward mobility, Obama will also feel compelled to take credit for an economy that by many indicators is gaining strength under his watch. As a result, he will talk positively about a recovery that remains elusive to many Americans.

Some Democrats are warning Obama to tread carefully.

“We hope that he does not dwell on the successes of the economy, which may be apparent in employment statistics, the GDP and stock market gains, but which are not felt by folks at the grocery store,” Democratic political analysts James Carville and Stan Greenberg wrote in a recent strategy memo.

The president will present Congress with an agenda largely unchanged from what he called for a year ago, but one that nevertheless fits neatly into this year’s economic opportunity theme. He will continue to seek an overhaul of immigration laws, an increase in the minimum wage and expanded pre-school education.

But after a year in which those proposals languished and gun control failed, the White House is eager to avoid letting Obama be defined by quixotic ambitions. As a result, he will stress success through executive actions, though their reach would be far more modest than what he could achieve through legislation.

Ukraine PM resigns as gov’t offers concessions eral plea for more human rights, less corruption and more democracy in this nation of 45 million.

The departure of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov removes one of the officials most disliked by the opposition forces whose protests have turned parts of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, into a barricaded maze.

However, Azarov’s spokesman told the Interfax news agency that deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov will assume temporary leadership of the Cabinet in the meantime. Such a move is unlikely to please the opposition, as Arbuzov is widely viewed as just another staunch ally of Yanukovych.

Other key issues remain unresolved in Ukraine’s political crisis, including the opposition’s repeated demands for Yanukovych to resign and for a new election to be held.

Azarov’s resignation came just before the opening

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — In back-to-back moves aimed at defusing Ukraine’s political crisis, the prime minister resigned Tuesday and parliament repealed antiprotest laws that had set off violent clashes between protesters and police.

The two developments were significant concessions to the anti-government protesters who have fought sporadically with police for the last 10 days after two months of peaceful around-the-clock demonstrations. The protests erupted after President Viktor Yanukovych decided to turn toward Russia for a bailout loan instead of signing a deal with the European Union, but have since morphed into a gen-

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Morsi is on trial with 130 others, including Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and militants from the Palestinian Hamas group and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, over charges related to the prison breaks at the height of the 18-day 2011 uprising against his predecessor Hosni Mubarak. After five hours, the trial was adjourned to Feb. 22.

The trial coincided with the third anniversary of one of the most violent days of that revolution that plunged the country into prolonged turmoil, and that led to the virtual collapse of the police and their withdrawal from the streets.

Morsi supporters clashed with police Tuesday in central Cairo. In two separate attacks, gunmen also killed an aide to the country’s interior minister in a drive-by shooting outside Cairo and a policeman guarding a church in a southern section of the capital.

Security forces also deployed heavily and erected checkpoints in the city as they braced for more violence with protests by Morsi supporters scheduled for later in the afternoon.

The former Islamist president, ousted in a popularly backed July 3 coup, also declared to the judges that he remains Egypt’s legitimate leader during an unaired portion of the hearing, a state television reporter inside the courtroom said. In aired edited footage, defendants chanted that their trial was “invalid.”

of a special parliament session that repealed antiprotest laws that had set off violent clashes between protesters and police.

Yanukovych earlier this month had pushed through new laws to crack down on protests and raise prison sentences for creating disorder. The laws also prohibited people from wearing helmets and gas masks, which many have done for fear that riot police would try to violently disperse protests.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a lawmaker who is one of the opposition’s top figures, hailed the parliament’s move.

“We have repealed all the laws against which the whole country rose up,” he said.

Yanukovych over the weekend had offered the premiership to Yatsenyuk, but the opposition leader refused the post.

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RED Challenge winners from the left, Sharon Poole, Janet Spafford and Ann Garrett of Career Catalysts were all smiles Tuesday as they attended a Red Deer Chamber of Commerce After Hours meeting at Red Deer College. The three women were awarded a $20,000 prize to jump start their business.

Passion about helping navigate career paths nabs entrepreneurial award RDC WORKERS AWARDED 2013 RED CHALLENGE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Ann Garrett, Sharon Poole and Janet Spafford are passionate about helping people navigate their career paths.

Now the three women’s own path has became a little smoother, after they were declared the winners of the 2013 RED Challenge.

The annual entrepreneurial competition carries a grand prize of $20,000, as well as mentoring support from Community Futures and office space at Red Deer College.

Speaking to the Advocate, Garrett and Spafford agreed that their involvement in the RED Challenge will help them develop their fledgling business, Career Catalysts of Central Alberta.

“We’ve grown together as a team,” said Garrett of the experience, which involved preparing a detailed business plan and presenting it to a panel of judges in a ‘Dragons Den’ setting.

All three work at Red Deer College: Garrett as an employment services co-ordinator, Poole as a psychologist at the counselling and career centre, and Spafford in student services at the registrar’s office.

Garrett and Spafford said they were regularly being approached outside of work for career advice.

“The whole idea was sort of born from realizing that there was a bit of a void in the community for career development counselling and employment services after hours and on weekends,” said Garrett.

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been out of the workforce and are returning,” said Garrett.

Assistance could range from help with a resumé and cover letter, to a comprehensive assessment of the client’s skills, interests and aptitude with an eye to choosing and preparing for a specific vocation or profession.

Poole, will meet with clients and do the initial assessment and testing; Poole and Spafford will discuss the results with them and explore options and strategies.

In addition to working with clients when it’s convenient for them, Career Catalysts of Cen— ANN GARRETT tral Alberta provides personalized one-on-one service, said Garrett.

Eric Kokko, director of applied research and innovation at Red Deer College, was among the judges who heard Garrett, Poole and Spafford’s presentation.

“They had a very clear business plan,” he said.

“They were able to very clearly articulate the needs that are unmet needs, and they have a broad client base beyond high school students.”

‘THE WHOLE IDEA WAS SORT OF BORN FROM REALIZING THAT THERE WAS A BIT OF A VOID IN THE COMMUNITY FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT COUNSELLING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES AFTER HOURS AND ON WEEKENDS.” “Locally, there are some organizations that do some good work, but it’s all during the week.”

They also felt that the demise in 2010 of the Central Alberta Career Prep Initiative, which helped high school students with career planning, left a hole.

Career Catalysts of Central Alberta is the result. It’s designed to assist youths who are pondering their options.

“But we also want to look at the mature workforce, who are either in a job that they hate and are looking for something more fulfilling, or they’re parents that have

The Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) is making plans to double its wealth management business with an acquisition across the pond valued at $1.3 billion.

The Canadian bank made official Tuesday a friendly deal to buy U.K.-based F&C Asset Management PLC. BMO Global Asset Management will roughly double its assets under management to US$269 billion with the addition of F&C. In a conference call with analysts, BMO chief executive Bill Downe called the purchase a “logical” step for the bank, which has focused primarily on Canada and the U.S. Midwest.

“Adding a larger fixed income and European component really helps to round out what is a broad global offering,” Downe said.

“I think it’s going to be attractive to both our investor base in the United States and in Canada but... (also) in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.”

F&C disclosed Monday that it was in advanced discussions with BMO about a deal, which still requires shareholder and other approvals. It is expected to close after May 1.

Downe said the timing was right, as the bank foresees further growth in the European market.

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City beefs up permit rules HOME WARRANTY ISSUE The City of Red Deer has modified its residential building permit requirements to reflect new provincial legislation related to home warranties.

Alberta’s New Home Buyer Protection Act requires that homes be covered by a warranty for at least one year with respect to labour and materials, two years in the case of labour and materials related to delivery and distribution systems, five years for the building’s envelope and 10 years for major structural components.

The act applies to homes for which a building permit was applied for after Feb. 1.

The city announced this week that its permit application process is being modified as a result of the new warranty requirements.

“Residential builders will now have to provide

certified proof of the warranty when submitting their permit applications; otherwise, applications will not be accepted,” said Paul Holmes, Red Deer’s inspections, enforcement and building supervisor.

The city’s new requirement, which also takes effect after Feb. 1, applies to single-family dwellings, duplexes, townhouses, condominiums, manufactured homes and recreational properties. Residential renovations that increase the size of a building by 75 per cent or more are also subject to the new rules.

“Some residential builds will be exempt, including rental apartments, hotels and homeowner builds,” said Holmes.

“However, proof of exemption must still be submitted when applying for a building permit.”

Emerging economies’ banks move on turmoil CURRENCIES DROOPING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Following a bout of market turmoil that’s weighed on their currencies, central banks in emerging economies are moving fast to contain the damage.

Late Tuesday, Turkey’s central bank raised its key interest rate to 12 per cent from 7.75 per cent to try to stave off inflation and support the national currency, which has fallen sharply in recent weeks.

The decision was taken at an emergency meeting the central bank called for after the currency, the lira, hit a record low.

The People’s Bank of China on Tuesday injected more money into the country’s financial markets to ease strained credit conditions. India’s cen-

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tral bank unexpectedly raised interest rates to prop up its ailing currency.

Much of the turmoil in global financial markets over the past week has been due to developments in emerging economies. Argentina suffered the most eye-catching fall in its currency amid concerns over the government’s economic policies.

However, there are broader worries that emerging markets, which have been some of the fastest-growing in recent years, are particularly vulnerable at the moment. Among the key risks are China’s economic slowdown and the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision to scale back on its monetary stimulus.

The Fed is expected to announce another $10 billion reduction in its monthly bond purchases to $65 billion. For the past few years, the Fed’s stimulus has helped shore up financial markets around the world.

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A specialist on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange checks a screen, Monday. Stocks are mostly higher on Wall Street as investors shrug off worries about emerging markets that tanked the market last week.

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Now that the prop of the stimulus is being taken away and the interest rates on Treasurys are starting to look more attractive, a lot of the money underpinning emerging markets is flowing out.

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RED: Tough competition Their presentation even included a testimonial by a women whom Garrett, Poole and Spafford helped return to the workforce after years as a stay-at-home mom.

“It was a testimonial that was so genuine, so real and quite impactful,” said Kokko.

He added that the competition was tough, with five finalists vying for the award.

“The sophistication of the contestants was very high, and it just seems that every year it’s better and they’re more prepared.”

Spafford said she’s enthused about helping high school students find their place in the working world — a service that should be appreciated by parents as well. “I just hope we can take away that anxiety of sending their kids to college or sending them out into the workforce.”

Garrett is also eager to lend a helping hand.

“If I can make a difference in somebody’s life, that’s the catalyst.”

The RED Challenge is organized by Red Deer College, Olds College, the City of Red Deer, Red Deer Regional Economic Development and Alberta Innovates.

Last year, Mike Kozlowski and Kristen Carlson won the RED Challenge for their Steel Pony Farm — a small-scale agricultural operation that uses natural and organic methods to grow products for direct sale to consumers.

Additional information about Career Catalysts of Central Alberta can obtained by email at careercatalystsofca@gmail.com. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

CURRENCIES: Nations move to stabilize In a move to shore up its currency, the Reserve Bank of India raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 8.00 per cent.

Though it justified the move in terms of keeping a lid on inflation pressures, protecting the rupee is widely considered to have been a key motive. Following the move, the rupee rose 0.7 per cent to trade at 62.66 rupees to the dollar.

“Although it went unmentioned in the RBI’s statement, the recent sell-off in emerging market assets may have played a part in today’s decision,” said Miguel Chanco, India economist at Capital Economics.

That said, Chanco noted that the rupee has been a little more resilient of late largely because of a substantial fall in the country’s current account deficit — the difference between what it exports and imports.

After the Argentine peso, the emerging market currency that has performed worst this year has been the Turkish lira.

After Turkey’s central bank raised its key rate Tuesday, it said its goal is to lower the country’s inflation rate, which reached 7.4 per cent in December. In a statement, it forecast that inflation will fall to its 5 per cent target by mid-2015.

Ahead of the meeting, the lira stabilized, trading 0.1 per cent higher at 2.26 lira to the dollar. On Monday, it fell to a record low of 2.39 lira to the dollar before the central bank said it would hold the emergency meeting.

BMO: Expects modest savings “I don’t think it’s going to be rapid but I think this is an opportune time from a valuation perspective and hopefully, as we close (the deal) and integrate (F&C), we’ll start to see some more economic momentum.”

Bank of Montreal is offering 120 British pence, or about C$2.21 at current exchange rates, for each share of F&C — about 28 per cent above Friday’s closing price.

F&C shares closed at 123.5 pence on the London Stock Exchange.

“F&C’s board of directors believes the offer represents an attractive valuation for F&C shareholders and a positive outcome for employees and clients,” F&C chairman Kieran Poynter said in a joint statement with BMO. The bank expects only “modest” savings in making the acquisition since F&C has already done a lot to reduce costs in recent years.

In a note, CIBC World Markets analyst Robert Sedran said the acquisition should not come as much of a surprise and reflects a “continuation” of BMO’s strategy to further focus on wealth management. In the past, it has acquired other firms including Pyrfod International and Lloyd George Management.

“The good news from the risk perspective is that the deal is hardly transformational and so the overall risk profile of the bank is little changed,” he wrote.

Nevertheless, Sedran noted F&C has been dealing with higher costs and lower assets under management, two issues that BMO expects to have reached their “inflection point.”

He said BMO is betting F&C can grow its retail and institutional investment arm as it deals with declining revenue from so-called legacy relationships.

The British firm reported that its assets fell in the fourth quarter to 82 billion pounds from approximately 90 billion pounds after one of its legacy investors pulled 10 billion pounds. Nearly 60 per cent of F&C’s assets are from legacy relationships with four pension funds.

Meanwhile, Desjardins analyst Michael Goldberg called the deal as “modestly positive” for BMO. Goldberg said the purchase could add an estimated 10 cents to BMO’s annualized earnings per share, which Desjardins projects to be $6.50 for fiscal 2014.

Dairy seminar registration deadline quickly nearing The deadline for early registrations for the 2014 Western Canadian Dairy Seminar is fast approaching.

Attendees who book their spot for the March 11 to 14 conference in Red Deer by Feb. 10 will pay $250, as compared with $300 thereafter. Discounted fees are also available for students and single-day registrants.

This year’s seminar is called Strategies to Optimize Performance, with presentations to cover production methods, consumer perceptions, health and nutrition, and economic sustainability, among other topic. Speakers will include academics from Canada, the United States and Europe; veterinarians; and industry and government experts. A pre-conference tour is scheduled for March 11.

For more information or to register, go to www. wcds.ca.

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Ford Motor Co., Executive Chairman Bill Ford addresses the media at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Ford Motor Co. enjoyed one of the best years in its history in 2013.

Ford says company saw record profits in 2013 BUT EXPECTS 2014 WILL BE TOUGHER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor Co. enjoyed one of the best years in its history in 2013, but the celebration won’t last long.

The Dearborn-based automaker posted a pretax profit of $8.56 billion — the second-highest in the past decade — and worldwide sales were up 12 per cent to 6.3 million cars and trucks.

That was a faster pace than Toyota, the industry leader, whose sales rose 2 per cent to 9.98 million.

But Ford has already warned of leaner results this year as it launches a record 23 vehicles and builds seven plants around the world. I t’s anticipating 13 weeks of expensive down time — up from five in 2013 — at its two U.S. pickup truck plants to prepare for the launch of a new aluminum-clad F-150.

And instability in South America and price competition in the U.S. are constant threats.

Ford expects pretax profit of between $7 billion and $8 billion, and says its operating margin and cash flow will also fall because of the vehicle-introduction costs.

Chief Financial Officer Bob Shanks said capital expenditures will total $7.5 billion this year and

in the next two to three years, up from $6.6 billion in 2013 and more than twice what it spent four years ago.

Ford’s fourth-quarter net income totalled $3 billion, or 74 cents per share. Excluding a big tax gain, net income was 31 cents per share, 4 cents better than analyst estimates, according to FactSet. Investors initially reacted favourably to the news. Ford’s stock rose 2 per cent in morning trading, but was flat at $15.71 by late afternoon.

Buckingham Research analyst Joseph Amaturo urged investors to sell Ford stock and set a $12 one-year price target.

He noted that Ford’s fourthquarter pretax earnings fell 24 per cent even though the company reported a 3.5 per cent revenue increase.

He also estimated that the downtime at Ford’s truck plants this year could cut North American pretax profits by $800 million.

But others told investors to stick it out.

“We think Ford will reap benefits from the truck transition and growth in Asia Pacific in 2015,” said Standard and Poor’s Capital IQ analyst Efraim Levy, who has a “Buy” rating on the stock.

Here are Ford’s results by region:

● North America: Ford posted a record pretax profit of $8.8 billion in North America, thanks to big demand for pickup trucks as the economy improved.

Ford sales in the U.S. rose 11.7 per cent, the only automaker with a double-digit gain. Profitsharing payments to Ford’s 47,000 U.S. hourly workers will be about $8,800, a record. ● Asia Pacific and Africa: Ford earned a record $415 million in Asia and Africa last year. Its sales jumped 49 per cent to more than 935,000 in China, where it introduced new vehicles like the EcoSport and Kuga SUVs. ● Europe: Ford narrowed its losses in Europe to $1.6 billion.

Sales and revenue were up slightly in the struggling region, but the company incurred $856 million in charges for two plant closures. ● South America: Ford swung to a $34 million loss as it halted production in Brazil to prepare for new products and slowed production in Venezuela because of a shortage of hard currency.

“In Argentina and Venezuela there are escalating risks as both the economies are weak with unclear economic policy direction,” Ford CEO Alan Mulally told analysts and media during a conference call.

Legislation aimed at removing red tape for business coming

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — New legislation aimed at removing outdated regulations that hobble businesses — what Prime Minister Stephen Harper once called “a silent killer of jobs” — will be introduced today by the federal government.

The Conservatives introduced an internal rule in 2012 that requires the government to remove one regulation for every new one added.

The last throne speech promised to enshrine the principle in law to help small and mediumsized businesses.

Treasury Board President Tony Clement says he’ll introduce the red-tape reduction bill on Wednesday.

Progress has already been made in cutting regulations, saving small businesses about $20 million in administrative costs —accounting for 98,000 hours — by scrapping 19 regulations, Clement told a news conference Tuesday.

Those include removing a requirement for individual export permits for some Canadian products from two government organi-

zations, said International Trade Minister Ed Fast.

Canadian manufacturers, producers, distributors and purchasers of imported steel and steel products no longer need to obtain individual permits, Fast said. Instead they use a general import permit, which eliminated the need for 270,000 permits a year.

“Rules and regulations usually start with the best of intentions,” Fast said. “They’re aimed at an emerging issue, but often become obsolete and counterproductive over time.”

The so-called “one-for-one rule” is also about changing the culture in Ottawa, Clement said.

“An issue comes up and people start lighting their hair on fire trying to figure out how to solve the issue,” he said.

“And the go-to solution typically — and too often — is, ’Let’s do a regulation.”’

In some cases, such as health and safety, it may be appropriate to bring in new regulations, he said.

But the Tories want to push people to come up with solutions that don’t involve more rules.

The one-for-one rules might

sound good on paper, but it may not be doing the job it’s supposed to, said NDP consumer affairs critic Glenn Thibeault.

Looking at ways to eliminate unnecessary paperwork and save small companies time and money that they should devote to their business is a good idea, Thibeault said.

“But you can’t do it so much so that we’re starting to jeopardize the safety, the health and the environment that we live in, and we’ve seen that when we’re coming to things like rail safety, food inspections, those type of things.”

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau dismissed the rule as a “gimmick” that won’t make much of a difference in raising the quality of Canadian regulations.

“That smacks more of soundbite politics than meaningful approaches,” he said.

Clement said the government is studying a system that would look at new regulations in terms of how much time and money they will cost business. For every new rule, the government would have a deadline to remove one or more regulations with equal or higher costs.

Drought expected to affect 2014 Napa Valley grape crop

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS With California in the grips of severe drought, Napa Valley wine grape growers on Tuesday said some vines are ripening early and that farmers are planning fewer crops to save water.

Vineyard owners are pruning earlier than usual and on a shorter schedule, Domenick Bianco of Renteria Vineyard Management said.

If the Valley does not see late winter or spring rains, 2014 will yield a smaller crop.

“Water amount determines yield. If you use 80 per cent less water than last year, you could see 80 per cent of the crop,” Bianco said.

Still, unlike other areas, some Napa growers say access to water in underground aquifers will help them irrigate crops even if rains are light through

this year. While it will not make up for rainfall, it can help mitigate the loss of yield to dry weather in the short-term, said Hal Huffsmith, director of vineyard operations at Trinchero Family Estates.

Because rains may still come, it is too early to tell if the drought will affect the retail price of Napa wines, said Jennifer Putnam, executive director of Napa Valley Grapegrowers.

Meantime, growers will reduce the amount of irrigation they do to conserve water.

They will also not plant so-called “ground cover,” or smaller plants that live between vines to help with erosion, and the fields of lush green vines so many are used to seeing in the valley will be pared down.

“They’re going to be more precise about irrigation,” Putnam said. “We’re not going to grow those lush canopies.”

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MARKETS OF LOCAL INTEREST Tuesday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 98.45 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.93 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.83 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.18 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.01 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.63 Cdn. National Railway . . 57.78

Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 158.15 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.57 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.70 Cervus Equipment Corp 23.72 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 43.06 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.59 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 27.00 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.99

MARKETS CLOSE

March copper on the Nymex was off a penny at US$3.25 a pound. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) was ahead 85 cents to C$27.73 while Thompson Creek Metals (TSX:TCM) gained 18 cents to $3.03.

The tech sector rose 2.39 per cent with BlackBerry (TSX:BB) ahead 34 cents to $11.18 as the company said that it’s making several changes to its BlackBerry 10 smartphone operating system, including a revised incoming call screen.

February bullion declined $12.60 to US$1,250.80 an ounce, but the gold sector moved up about 2.29 per cent. Goldcorp (TSX:G) ran up 69 cents to C$26.62 while Franco Nevada (TSX:FNV) rose $1.72 to $52.03.

The March crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange was up $1.69 to US$97.41 a barrel.

The energy sector rose 1.05 per cent and Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) advanced 93 cents to C$36.30.

Financials also lifted the TSX as Sun Life Financial (TSX:SLF) moved up 62 cents to $36.87.

Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) is offering to buy U.K.-based investment manager F&C Asset Management PLC in a cash deal valued at $1.3 billion. BMO shares inched up eight cents to $70.54.

A major loser was Air Canada (TSX:AC.B). Its shares tumbled $1.07 or 12.3 per cent on heavy volume of 12.4 million shares after a Merrill Lynch analyst cut price and profit targets for that carrier and WestJet. Glenn Engel said they will face severe headwinds from a sharply lower Canadian dollar, which has already dropped over four cents this month.

He said the pressure will come in the form of higher prices for fuel and new aircraft. WestJet fell $1.06 or 4.09 per cent to $24.83.

In earnings news, grocer Metro (TSX:MRU) says its net earnings fell 15 per cent to $99.2 million in the latest quarter on a slight dip in sales.

Same-store sales decreased 0.5 per cent in the quarter. A djusted profits were $1.11 a share, four cents lower than forecast.

Metro is also increasing its quarterly dividend by 20 per cent to 30 cents and its shares were up $2.76 to $65.25.

Automaker Ford said net income ex-items was 31 cents per share, topping analysts’ forecast of 27 cents but its shares shed most early gains to edge up just one cent to US$15.72.

Apple shares were down 7.99 per cent to US$506.50 even as the company reported its best quarter but it also delivered a revenue forecast that fell below analysts’ predictions for the current quarter.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Tuesday after a string of sharp losses prompted by emerging market worries.

The S&P/TSX composite index ran ahead 105.37 points to 13,687.66. with gains spread across all sectors, after tumbling 400 points over the previous three sessions.

The Canadian dollar closed at a fresh 4 1/2 year low, down 0.35 of a cent at 89.64 cents US. U.S. indexes were higher as traders shrugged off a surprisingly weak durable goods orders report for December and concentrated on other data showing U.S. consumer confidence has reached its highest point since August on the strength of a brighter view of the job market and business conditions.

The Dow Jones industrials was up 90.68 points to 15,928.56, the Nasdaq composite index moved up 14.35 points to 4,097.96 and the S&P 500 index rose 10.94 points to 1,792.5.

Markets have been severely buffeted over the last few sessions on concerns about emerging markets, including slowing growth in China, the world’s second-biggest economy.

Investors have also been jittery because of currency turmoil involving the Turkish lira, the Russian ruble and the Indian rupee as investors wonder how the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy to reduce its monetary stimulus impacts on them.

Investors felt reassured after the People’s Bank of China on Tuesday injected more money into the country’s financial markets to ease strained credit conditions.

India’s central bank unexpectedly raised interest rates to prop up its ailing currency and Turkey’s central bank was expected to follow suit at an emergency policy meeting called after the lira hit a series of all-time lows.

The Fed’s massive bond purchases over the last few years has resulted in a stream of cheap money into those markets. But now the central bank is cutting back on those asset purchases.

The Fed is widely expected to further pare its bond purchases by another US$10 billion a month to $65 billion on Wednesday.

At the same time, analysts have suggested that North American stock markets are vulnerable to a correction after Fed monetary easing helped underpin a strong rally on many equity markets last year that left the S&P 500 up about 30 per cent for 2013.

That index is now down about 3.5 per cent year to date.

All TSX sectors were higher with gains paced by a 2.89 per cent rise in the base metals sector even as

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 96.92 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.45 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.47 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.91 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.69 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.42 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.54 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 58.71 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.67

WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.83 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.96 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 24.53 First Quantum Minerals . 20.36 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26.62 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.24 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.11 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 35.73 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.56 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 27.73 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 28.30 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 30.75 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 56.24 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.79 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 51.05

TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 958.63, up 6.88 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 131.44 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’14 $2.40 lower $426.40; May ’14 $2.30 lower $436.30; July ’14 $2.30 lower $445.10; Nov. ’14 $2.10 lower $460.70; Jan ’15 $2.30 lower $466.20; March ’15 $2.20 lower $471.50; May ’15 $2.20 lower $473.70; July ’15 $1.80 lower $476.00; Nov ’15 $1.80 lower $472.20; Jan. ’16 $1.80 lower $472.20; March ’16 $1.80 lower $472.20.

Barley (Western): March ’14 unchanged at $126.50; May ’14 unchanged at $128.50; July ’14 unchanged at $128.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged at $128.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged at $128.50; March ’15 unchanged at $128.50; May ’15 unchanged at $128.50; July ’15 unchanged at $128.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged at $128.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged at $128.50; March ’16 unchanged at $128.50.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 355,160 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 355,160.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canada’s largest airline and travel company stocks were hit hard Tuesday over concerns about the impact of the falling loonie.

Shares in Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) closed down 12.3 per cent, Air Transat owner Transat A.T. (TSX:TRZ.B) was off eight per cent and WestJet (TSX:WJA) fell more than four per cent — all of them in heavy to very heavy trading.

Air Canada’s shares fell $1.07 to $7.63 on volume of more than 12.3 million shares, four times its daily average.

WestJet was off $1.06 to $24.83 on some 1.4 million shares, also four times its daily average, while Transat was down 84 cents to $9.57 on 342,000 shares, more than double its daily average.

By comparison, Chorus Aviation (TSX:CHR.B) was off just three cents at $3.69 in lighter than average trading.

The sell-off for the three largest companies came following published reports citing Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu’s comments about the dollar, several analyst reports highlighting the impact of the currency devaluation and at least one downgrade.

The Canadian dollar closed Tuesday at a fresh 4 ½ year low, down 0.35 of a cent at 89.64 cents US. The decrease has placed significant pressure on airlines because fuel and airplane costs are paid in U.S. dollars, although some of the fuel is hedged to protect against fluctuations. Fuel prices, one of the largest costs for an airline, are up 8.9 per cent over the last three months in U.S. dollars, but up 13.2 per cent in Canadian currency.

U.S. consumer BUSINESS BRIEFS confidence BlackBerry launches FM radio climbs THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer confidence has risen to its highest point since August on the strength of a brighter view of the job market and business conditions.

The Conference Board, a business research group, said Tuesday its consumer confidence index rose to 80.7 this month from a December reading of 77.5. It was the second consecutive strong gain.

“Confidence appears to be back on track and rising expectations suggest the economy may pick up some momentum in the months ahead,” said Conference Board economist Lynn Franco.

Consumer confidence is closely watched because consumer spending accounts for 70 per cent of U.S. economic activity.

Amna Asaf, an economist at Capital Economics, said the January improvement was encouraging given the unseasonably cold weather during the month.

She said it probably reflected the strong stock market gains that were occurring during the survey period, which ended on Jan. 16.

But she cautioned that the confidence gauge could retreat in the February reading

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if stock prices don’t rebound from their recent declines.

For 2013, the confidence gauge averaged 73.3, the highest since 2007.

That’s above the 45.2 average in 2009 when the economy was in recession for half the year.

But it is still below the reading of 90 that economists view as consistent with a healthy economy.

The unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of 6.7 per cent in December, down from 7 per cent in November. But the improvement came for the wrong reason.

Many Americans gave up looking for work and were therefore not counted as unemployed.

Job growth also slowed in December with employers adding just 74,000 jobs.

But economists believe that slowdown was a temporary blip from what they are expecting to be a strong job performance in the coming year, reflecting increased strength in the economy.

Many analysts are forecasting that the overall economy will grow at around 3 per cent in 2014, up a full percentage point from 2013 growth.

The federal government is expected to be less of a drag on activity this year.

Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.26 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 61.80 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 70.54 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 61.88 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.23 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 36.77 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.63 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.90 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 54.14 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 67.83 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.87 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 85.12 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 69.54 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 36.87 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.15

Airline stocks hit hard on TSX over concerns about falling dollar

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Tuesday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,687.66, up 105.37 points TSX Venture Exchange — 958.63, up 6.88 points TSX 60 — 786.23, up 5.53 points Dow — 15,928.56, up 90.68 points S&P 500 — 1,792.50, up 10.94 points Nasdaq — 4,097.96, up 14.35 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 89.64 cents US, down 0.35 of a cent Pound — C$1.8496, up 0.78 of a cent Euro — C$1.5248 down 0.56 of a cent Euro — US$1.3668, down 0.04 of a cent Oil futures: US$97.41 per barrel, up $1.69 (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,250.80 per oz., down $12.60 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.641 oz., down 10.8 cents $727.91 kg, down $3.47

Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 36.30 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 19.99 Canyon Services Group. 10.92 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 29.03 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.23 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.50 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 95.65 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 48.33 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.69 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.75 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.75 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.26 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.17 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.195 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.94 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.72 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.35 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.79

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — BlackBerry (TSX:BB) has launched a new feature that it can boast even the latest iPhones don’t have: FM radio.

A new version of the BlackBerry 10 operating system, which the Waterloo, Ont.-based company says includes hundreds of enhancements and new features, started being rolled out Tuesday in Canada.

Battery efficiency is said to be improved and a new interface shows which running apps are the biggest drains on power.

Web pages can now be saved for offline reading without an Internet connection.

And users with a BlackBerry Z30, BlackBerry Q10 or BlackBerry Q5 will be able to tune into local FM radio stations without a data connection.

Those phones have built-in FM tuners, which are now activated by the new software update.

Samsung’s flagship Galaxy phones used to have FM radio tuners but the feature was discontinued with the latest Galaxy S4.

BlackBerry was up more than three per cent, or 35 cents, to $11.19 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

“We have a massive exposure to the US dollar and seeing the kind of precipitous drop that we’ve had in the last little while is significant,” Rovinescu told reporters Monday.

Air Canada Vacations, Transat and Sunwing have added $35 per passenger currency surcharges while Sunquest has raised package costs to offset higher hotel costs.

Rovinescu said the airline has not made any announcements on fare increases, which are affected by competitive market conditions.

Each one-cent change in the loonie has a $33-million impact on Air Canada’s pre-tax operating income before airplane costs (EBITDAR) and a $14-million operating impact for WestJet. Chris Murray of AltaCorp Capital said there are limits to how much of the currency impact the airlines are able to absorb over the long term.

“We expect currency may remain a headwind for 2014, which will require some adjustment, mainly in fares to relieve some of the cost pressure. Currently demand expectations and forward booking curves are remaining supportive of fare increases,” he wrote in a report.

Glenn Engel of Bank of America Merrill Lynch cut his price target for Air Canada to $8 from $9.75, and WestJet to $28 from $32.

Analyst Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said the sell-off was overdone and presented a buying opportunity for investors.

“The bottom line is that currency fluctuations, cold weather in Canada (and fat finger trades ahead of the third-quarter results) are not reasons to sell Air Canada stock, in our view,” he wrote.

cheese and dairy company says more than three-quarters of the shares of Warrnambool Cheese and Butter have now been tendered to its takeover offer.

The 75 per cent threshold triggers an automatic increase in the price per share it is paying to AU$9.40 from AU$9.20 Saputo said that as of 7 p.m.

Melbourne time on Tuesday it had a relevant interest of 77.074 per cent in Warrnambool shares.

Meanwhile, since the threshold was passed and the price increased within the last seven days of the offer period, the period for tendering has now been automatically extended under Australian law until 7 p.m. Melbourne time on Feb. 12, Saputo said in a release Tuesday.

“Other than possible automatic extensions required under Australian law, there will be no further extensions,” Saputo added.

Murray Goulburn Co-Operative, Saputo’s main competitor for Warrnambool, threw in the towel last week after the Canadian company announced in a regulatory filing that it had acquired 57.7 per cent of the target company’s shares.

Magazine sues to get information on uranium REGINA — A Saskatchewan magazine is hoping the courts can accomplish what the province’s privacy commissioner has not been able to do.

Editors from Briarpatch Magazine have been trying to get docu-

ments from the northern Village of Pinehouse on agreements it has with uranium mining companies Areva and Cameco (TSX:CCO).

Pinehouse Mayor Mike Natomagan is named as the defendant on the statement of claim filed Tuesday in Court of Queen’s Bench in Regina.

The non-profit magazine filed a freedom of information request in April 2013, and Saskatchewan privacy commissioner Gary Dickson recommended that Natomagan provide the requested material.

The statement of claim asks for the financial statements of Pinehouse Business North, a subsidiary corporation of the village; documents that show the distribution of year-end surpluses or losses to Pinehouse from its subsidiary; and copies of correspondence between the uranium companies and the subsidiary regarding payments to the village.

Valerie Zink, a plaintiff on the statement of claim and former Briarpatch editor said the village has not complied with the freedom of information request and that’s why the magazine has filed the lawsuit.

“Well, ideally, I think we would be seeing action from the province,” she said. “It shouldn’t be the responsibility of private citizens to enforce provincial legislation.”

The 11-year, $200-million agreement was signed in December 2012.

It is available online on the village’s website. But what is posted online does not include the specific information originally asked in the freedom of information request.

Warrnambool shares tendered to Saputo takeover

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B4 Burman content to wait, learn

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29, 2014

YOUNG REBELS GOALTENDER KNOWS HIS TIME WILL COME

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF A less mature goaltender may have problems handling the situation Taz Burman finds himself in with the Red Deer Rebels.

On the majority of nights the 16-year-old Vancouver native finds himself on the bench watching the Rebels outstanding goaltender Patrik Bartosak, who was just named the Canadian Hockey League goaltender of the week.

But instead of worrying about it, Burman looks at it as an opportunity to grow and prepare to hopefully filling Bartosak’s shoes beginning next season.

“I knew my role coming in,” he said.

“I’m a competitive guy and would like to play as much as possible, but Patty is an unbelievable goalie and he gives us a chance to win every night. I know what my role is and I’ll be ready when called upon. Every once in a while I

Update get a chance to go in.”

Burman has played in 10 games this season and has a 3.48 goals-againstaverage and a .896 save percentage.

The Rebels have 23 games remaining and are in a battle to grab one of

the eight playoff spots in the Eastern Conference. They head into tonight’s 7 p.m. meeting at the Centrium with the Brandon Wheat Kings tied for seventh place, just three points back of fifthplace Brandon.

“I understand why I’m not playing a lot,” continued Burman. “We’re in the stretch drive and Patty is pushing us into the playoffs and into a good position.”

Rebels owner/head coach/GM Brent Sutter knows the situation as well.

“It’s not an easy situation for any goalie, but when you have a player like Patty here he will play and especially in our situation where we’re in. We have to go with our No. 1 guy and Taz won’t get much playing time, but he’s handled it real well.”

The six-foot-one, 164-pound Burman won’t just sit on the bench the rest of the way either.

“Once we get into some four games in five days stretches he’ll play, likely in the third game,” explained Sutter.

“So he’ll start two or three more games

so it’s important for him to stay focused and ready to go.”

And he will be.

“The experience I’ve gained here, in the games I’ve played and in practice has made me a better goalie than if I would have been if I stayed in midget,” he said.

“Practice time has been huge for me. I have a real good relationship with Patty and Taylor (goalie coach Dakers). Patty gives me advise all the time and just watching him, and the way he moves, is beneficial.

“I’ve worked with Taylor on a lot of things . I think I’m a bit quicker. I was always a calmer goalie, so I had to work on being quicker, especially with the puck in close. As well I’ve worked on coming out and challenging a bit more, to take away the angles, and to read the play. I just can’t wait and see what is happening. If you do you’re behind the play. I need to see if there will be a shot or pass and be prepared.”

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Flames bring down slumping ‘Hawks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Calgary 5 Chicago 4 OT CALGARY — Bad luck for the Chicago Blackhawks in overtime continued against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday.

T.J. Brodie scored at 2:26 of the extra session to lead Flames to a 5-4 win over the slumping Blackhawks, whose overtime record fell to 0-6 this season.

“Overtime’s been a sore spot,” said Chicago coach Joel Quenneville, who’s baffled by his team’s inability to play well in OT. “I think we’ve got enough assets in there. In overtime, we’ve got to find a way to make it happen.”

Brodie picked up a rebound in front of Chicago goalie Corey Crawford before scoring a wraparound goal to emerge as the hero in front of an announced crowd of 19,289 fans at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

“It’s always nice winning, especially against a team like that,” Brodie said.

The third-year defenceman gave credit to Flames forward Lee Stempniak and Sean Monahan for setting up his goal.

“There was a battle on the red-line and Stempy won the battle and gave a pass to Mony,” Brodie explained. “Mony made a good play cutting to

the middle and got a shot off.

Crawford sort of slid out of the net from the shot. I just tried to wrap it around back out front and it ended up going in.”

Mikael Backlund scored twice for the Flames (19-27-7), who won three straight games for the first time this season.

“There was a lot of emotions out there, a lot of chances back and forth,” Backlund said. “These are fun games to play. I’m sure the coaches didn’t think that, but I enjoyed the game.”

Matt Stajan had a goal and an assist for Calgary, Lance Bouma also scored and Stempniak set up three goals.

Marian Hossa scored twice for the Blackhawks (32-10-13), who have gone 0-2-2 in their previous four games. Patrick Kane and Ben Smith also scored for Chicago.

“They’re a hard-working team so we expected them to work hard,” Kane said. “They always seem to give us a tough game in this building. We had to be ready for it. I thought we did a good job fighting back. It was just a few too many mistakes.”

Neither of the starting goalies played particularly well and both were replaced in net by their respective head coaches.

Reto Berra stopped 20-of-24 shots he faced through two periods before Karri Ramo took

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Chicago Blackhawks’ goalie Corey Crawford, left, sweeps the puck out of the net as Calgary Flames’ Sean Monahan celebrates his team’s winning goal during overtime NHL hockey action in Calgary, Tuesday. over in the Calgary net for the final frame and overtime. Ramo made nine saves to pick up the win.

Antti Raanta drew the start in net for Chicago, but was pulled after he stopped just 11-of-15 shots he faced through 1 ½ periods of play. Crawford came on in relief and stopped 13 consecutive shots before giving up Brodie’s OT goal.

The Flames held a pair of one-goal leads in the first period before the Blackhawks responded both times to tie up the game 2-2 after 20 minutes of play.

Calgary jumped out to a quick start as captain Mark Giordano rang a shot off the post 37 seconds into the game before Backlund scored his 10th goal of the season at 1:13 of the first.

Backlund took a pass Stempniak and shook off a check from Chicago defenceman Niklas Hjalmarsson before backhanding a shot that snuck through Raanta’s legs.

The Blackhawks evened the score at 5:53 when Kane converted a nice backhand pass from Kris Versteeg from behind the Calgary net.

The Flames regained their one-goal lead at 11:34 when Bouma’s weak wrist shot hit Raanta in the shoulder before bouncing up and over the Chicago goalie and into the net.

Once again, the Hawks drew even on a goal by Hossa with 3:25 remaining in the opening frame. Patrick Sharp appeared to score the goal, but his stick hit Hossa’s, which actually directed the puck into the net behind Berra, who made a great pad save to stop the initial shot taken by Jonathan Toews.

David Jones made a nice play to set up Stajan for his ninth goal of the season at 3:21 of the second before Backlund converted a feed from Stempniak for a short-handed marker at 10:25 to put the Flames up 4-2. The Hawks pulled back to within one when Smith’s

long wrist shot bounced off of Berra’s catching glove and into the net. Hossa then tied the game at 4-4 when he swatted a rebound past Berra at 17:33 of the second while Chicago was killing off a penalty.

The Blackhawks outshot the Flames 9-7 in the third period, in which neither Ramo nor Crawford surrendered any goals.

Notes: The Flames are in the midst of a five-game homestand, which equals their season high... They also played five straight games at home from Dec. 23 to Jan. 3 when they went 1-4... The Flames will also host the San Jose Sharks on Thursday and the Minnesota Wild on Saturday...

It was Backlund’s first multigoal game since Oct. 21, 2010 when he scored both times for Calgary during a 4-2 loss to the Red Wings in Detroit... With an assist on Backlund’s second goal, Giordano extended his point-scoring streak to seven games, a career high.

Kuhr making strong contribution to volleyball team Karissa Kuhr has to smile when asked about being the forgotten member of the RDC Queens volleyball team.

She’s not, as she plays an important role with the fourth ranked team in the country, but on occasions she gets overlooked when it comes to team awards.

“I just think it’s the position” said the third-year player right side hitter from Fort McMurray.

“I don’t get as many digs as the left side as teams have a tendency to hit cross-court and I don’t get as many balls set to me. But I do get the odd block, which is awesome.”

But all one has to do is look at the team statistics to realize Kuhr’s role with the 16-0 Queens.

DANNY She is tied for second in RODE kills with Brooke Sutter with 105, behind only Amber Adolf, and is second on the team with eight aces, back of Sutter.

He also has 20 stuff blocks, which is tied for

COLLEGE

the most on the team with middle blocker Megan Schmidt and is fourth in digs with 121.

“I think I’m having a decent season,” she said.

“I can see improvement in myself every year, and I see that in the other athletes as well, which is how we’ve developed as a team and consistently got better.”

The Queens need to win three of their final four matches in the regular season to secure first place heading into the playoffs, which are set for Grande Prairie this year.

Last year the Queens were also first with the playoffs at RDC, but finished fourth.

“I think we’re even more confident this year,” said Kuhr.

“We know each other even better than last year and we’ve been training hard on the court and in the gym.

“As well we learned a lot from that situation last year. We didn’t handle the pressure as well as we should have, but we welcome that pressure this year.

We feel it’s a privilege to be where we are and a lot of teams wish they were in the same situation. We’re there and we’re mentally ready for it.”

The Queens have a new starting setter this year with Bronwyn Hawkes, replacing Kirsten Sorensen.

Kuhr likes how Hawkes moves the ball around.

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“She has a different style than Kirsten, most setters do, and it’s worked out that Bronwyn’s style and my style suit each other.

“We seem more connected.”

Kuhr joined the Queens as a left side hitter, but didn’t mind moving across the court.

“I high school I played right side until halfway through my Grade 11 season and then switched to left side,” she explained.

“I came here as a left side hitter, but the second year I saw there was an opening on the right side and asked to move over and its’s worked out. I feel comfortable in both positions.”

Kuhr is taking kinesiology and is in her final year.

She’ll move to the University of WInnipeg next year and play with the Wesmen.

RDC faces SAIT in a home and home series this week — Friday in Calgary and Saturday at RDC. The women get underway at 6 p.m. with the men to follow.

The SAIT women come in with a 10-6 record while the Kings, ranked No. 1 in Canada, are 14-0 with the Trojans at 10-4.

RDC finishes their regular season against Grant MacEwan.

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Local sports

Hockey NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 52 34 15 3 71 159 115 Tampa Bay 53 31 17 5 67 157 131 Toronto 55 28 21 6 62 158 170 Montreal 53 28 20 5 61 131 134 Detroit 53 23 19 11 57 135 149 Ottawa 53 23 20 10 56 150 167 Florida 53 21 25 7 49 129 164 Buffalo 52 14 30 8 36 101 152 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 53 37 14 2 76 171 128 N.Y. Rangers 54 28 23 3 59 139 138 Philadelphia 54 26 22 6 58 147 158 Carolina 53 24 20 9 57 134 150 Columbus 53 26 23 4 56 154 151 Washington 53 24 21 8 56 153 158 New Jersey 54 22 21 11 55 127 135 N.Y. Islanders 55 21 26 8 50 157 185 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 52 36 11 5 77 180 119 Chicago 55 32 10 13 77 194 154 Colorado 52 33 14 5 71 153 137 Minnesota 55 29 20 6 64 133 135 Dallas 53 24 21 8 56 154 157 Nashville 55 24 23 8 56 136 166 Winnipeg 55 25 25 5 55 155 162 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 55 39 11 5 83 184 134 San Jose 53 34 13 6 74 165 126 Los Angeles 55 30 19 6 66 133 116 Vancouver 54 27 18 9 63 137 138 Phoenix 53 25 18 10 60 154 160 Calgary 53 19 27 7 45 124 169 Edmonton 55 17 32 6 40 144 190 Today’s Games N.Y. Rangers vs. Islanders at Bronx, NY, 5:30 p.m.

San Jose at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Montreal at Boston, 7 p.m.

Florida at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Washington at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Colorado, 9 p.m.

San Jose at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Buffalo at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Philadelphia at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

SUMMARIES TUESDAY Flames 5, Blackhawks 4 (OT) First Period 1. Calgary, Backlund 10 (Stempniak) 1:13.

2. Chicago, Kane 25 (Versteeg, Leddy) 5:43.

3. Calgary, Bouma 5 (Stajan) 11:34.

4. Chicago, Hossa 22 (Toews, Keith) 16:35.

Second Period 5. Calgary, Stajan 9 (Jones) 3:21.

6. Calgary, Backlund 11 (Stempniak, Giordano) 10:25 (sh).

7. Chicago, Smith 7 (Bollig, Oduya) 13:12.

8. Chicago, Hossa 23 (Hjalmarsson, Saad) 17:33 (sh).

Third Period No Scoring.

Overtime 9. Calgary, Brodie 4 (Monahan, Stempniak) 2:26.

Shots on goal by Chicago 10 14 9 0 — 33 Calgary 8 10 7 4 — 29

Goal — Chicago: Crawford (LO, 19-8-9); Calgary: Ramo (W, 10-10-4). Power plays (goal-chances) Chicago: 0-1; Calgary: 0-2.

Coyotes 3, Kings 0 First Period 1. Phoenix, Ekman-Larsson 7 (Vermette) 15:57.

Second Period 2. Phoenix, Ekman-Larsson 8 (Doan, Boedker) 3:16 (pp).

Third Period 3. Phoenix, Vermette 19 (Boedker, Korpikoski) 8:47.

Los Angeles 13 8 9 — 30 Phoenix 11 12 6 — 29 Goal — Los Angeles: Quick (L, 15-10-2); Phoenix: Greiss (W, 7-3-1). Power plays (goal-chances)Los Angeles: 0-2; Phoenix: 1-3.

Canadiens 3, Hurricanes 0 First Period 1. Montreal, Prust 5 (Gorges, Bourque) 6:11.

2. Montreal, Gallagher 14 (Desharnais, Pacioretty) 18:44.

Second Period 3. Montreal, Pacioretty 22 (Markov, Gallagher) 1:41.

Third Period No Scoring.

Carolina 13 15 8 — 36 Montreal 10 11 9 — 30 Goal — Carolina: Khudobin (L, 11-4-0); Montreal: Price (W, 23-16-4).

Power plays (goal-chances)Carolina: 0-3; Montreal: 0-2.

Predators 4, Jets 3 First Period 1. Nashville, Jones 5 (Del Zotto, Smith) 3:48.

2. Winnipeg, Thorburn 1 (Stuart, Trouba) 4:10.

Second Period 3. Nashville, Josi 7 (Smith, Legwand) :42.

4. Nashville, Spaling 10 (Gaustad, Sissons) 17:18.

5. Winnipeg, Scheifele 11 (unassisted) 18:13.

6. Winnipeg, Wheeler 22 (Scheifele, Trouba) 18:40.

Third Period 7. Nashville, Fisher 14 (Hornqvist, Weber) :42 (pp).

Nashville 7 10 8 — 25 Winnipeg 7 9 11 — 27 Goal — Nashville: Hutton (W, 12-8-2); Winnipeg: Pavelec (L, 16-21-4).

Power plays (goal-chances)Nashville: 1-3; Winnipeg: 0-2.

Blues 3, Devils 0 First Period 1. St. Louis, Steen 27 (Schwartz, Backes) 3:25.

Second Period No Scoring.

Third Period 2. St. Louis, Morrow 8 (Bouwmeester, Berglund) 9:42 (pp).

3. St. Louis, Lapierre 7 (Paajarvi, Berglund) 17:52 (en).

New Jersey 8 10 5 — 23 St. Louis 9 5 11 — 25 Goal — New Jersey: Schneider (L, 9-10-7); St. Louis: Halak (W, 23-7-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)New Jersey: 0-4; St. Louis: 1-4.

Bruins 6, Panthers 2 First Period 1. Boston, Lucic 14 (Iginla, Krejci) 7:41.

2. Boston, Chara 13 (Krug, Krejci) 15:26.

Second Period 3. Boston, Lucic 15 (Iginla, Bartkowski) 1:46.

4. Boston, Smith 18 (Soderberg, Eriksson) 14:54 (pp).

5. Florida, Boyes 14 (Bjugstad) 19:27.

Third Period 6. Florida, Kulikov 5 (Bergenheim, Gomez) 4:00 (pp).

7. Boston, Thornton 4 (Campbell) 8:14.

8. Boston, Krejci 11 (unassisted) 17:51.

Florida 8 12 10 — 30 Boston 19 10 12 — 41 Goal — Florida: Thomas (L, 14-15-3); Boston: Rask (W, 24-12-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)Florida: 1-2; Boston: 1-5.

Senators 3, Blue Jackets 2 First Period 1. Ottawa, Da Costa 1 (Michalek, Karlsson) 8:06 (pp).

2. Ottawa, Da Costa 2 (Spezza, Conacher) 6:24.

3. Columbus, Atkinson 16 (Calvert, Wisniewski) 12:00 (pp).

Third Period 4. Columbus, Wisniewski 5 (Atkinson, Johnson) 7:16 (pp).

5. Ottawa, Spezza 14 (Greening, Methot) 15:02 (pp).

Ottawa 11 9 8 — 28 Columbus 13 13 10 — 36 Goal — Ottawa: Anderson (W, 17-10-7); Columbus: McElhinney (L, 8-9-1).

Power plays (goal-chances)Ottawa: 2-4; Columbus: 2-5.

Flyers 5, Red Wings 0 First Period 1. Philadelphia, Hartnell 13 (Timonen, Giroux) 13:42 (pp).

Second Period 2. Philadelphia, Hartnell 14 (Giroux, Streit) 8:08.

3. Philadelphia, Hall 3 (Raffl, Gustafsson) 11:02.

Third Period 4. Philadelphia, Giroux 16 (Hartnell, Voracek) 10:22.

5. Philadelphia, Couturier 9 (Streit) 16:09.

Detroit 7 10 16 — 33 Philadelphia 8 12 8 — 28 Goal — Detroit: Gustavsson (L, 13-4-3); Philadelphia: Mason (W, 20-13-5).

Power plays (goal-chances)Detroit: 0-4; Philadelphia: 1-2.

Capitals 5, Sabres 4 (OT) First Period 1. Washington, Ovechkin 37 (Backstrom, Brouwer) 3:49 (pp).

2. Washington, Ovechkin 38 (Green, Johansson) 4:42.

3. Buffalo, Ehrhoff 4 (Moulson, Ennis) 13:45.

Second Period 4. Buffalo, Hodgson 13 (Moulson, Ennis) 1:41 (pp).

5. Washington, Green 6 (Orlov, Beagle) 10:09.

6. Buffalo, Varone 1 (Foligno, Flynn) 11:11.

7. Washington, Brouwer 10 (Erat, Ovechkin) 16:57 (pp).

Third Period 8. Buffalo, Hodgson 14 (unassisted) 6:48.

Overtime 9. Washington, Green 7 (Ovechkin, Erat) 1:00.

Washington 13 16 5 1 — 35 Buffalo 10 4 13 0 — 27 Goal — Washington: Holtby (W, 15-12-2); Buffalo: Enroth (LO, 1-10-5).

Power plays (goal-chances)Washington: 2-3; Buffalo: 1-2.

Maple Leafs 3, Lightning 2 First Period No Scoring.

Second Period 1. Toronto, Kadri 13 (unassisted) 1:49.

2. Toronto, Kadri 14 (Lupul, Gunnarsson) 9:47.

3. Tampa Bay, Carle 2 (Palat, Kucherov) 13:13.

4. Tampa Bay, Barberio 4 (Palat, Crombeen) 17:12.

Basketball

Bowling Heritage Lanes Weekly Resuts Monday-Club 55 plus High Single: Harold Saint 271. High Triple: Saint 692.

Monday Mixed High Single: Matt Mundorf 338. High Triple: Joyce Veres 731.

Tuesday Mixed High Single: Bruce Watson 301. High Triple: Ashley Ehret 655.

Wednesday-Club 55 plus High Single: Don Knowler 291. High Triple: Lorne Fowler 688.

Thursday Morning Ladies High Single: Judy Waisanen 280. High Triple: Waisanen 658.

Thursday Afternoon Special Olympics Mixed High Single: Anthony Kubasek 264. High Double: Kubasek 433.

Thursday Mixed High Single: Mike Sabbe 298. High Triple: Sabbe 780.

Monday Scratch League High Single: Shelby Chrest 342. High Quad: Terry Ell 1,123.

Sunday Fun League High Single: Shelby Chrest 351. High Triple: Chrest 814.

Youth Bowling of Canada (YBC) Bumpers High Single: Rogan Clark 98.

Bowlasaurus High Single: Heather Hort 99.

Peewees High Single: Rune Molander 111. High Double: Brandt Herron 167.

Bantams High Single: Kennedy Chrest 189. High Triple: Chrest 486.

Juniors High Single: PJ Clubine 217. High Triple: Alyssa Durette 576.

Seniors High Single: Anthony Streit 273. High Triple: Streit 725.

NBA

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L 21 23 27 32 31

Pct .523 .465 .400 .319 .311

GB — 2 1/2 5 1/2 9 1/2 9 1/2

Southeast Division W 32 23 21 19 12

Miami Atlanta Washington Charlotte Orlando

L 12 21 22 27 34

Pct .727 .523 .488 .413 .261

GB — 9 10 1/2 14 21

Pct .791 .500 .400 .356 .182

GB — 12 1/2 17 19 26 1/2

Central Division W 34 22 18 16 8

Indiana Chicago Detroit Cleveland Milwaukee

L 9 22 27 29 36

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W 33 30 26 23 19

Pct .733 .638 .565 .535 .432

GB — 4 7 1/2 9 13 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct

GB

San Antonio Houston Dallas Memphis New Orleans

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BURMAN: Showed he was best prospect There was talk prior to the season that Burman, a second-round draft pix in the 2012 Bantam Draft by the Rebels, would be sent back to midget this season to give him more playing time. But he showed during training camp he was the best prospect in the system.

“It’s a tough situation to put a 16-yearold in, but in our situation we didn’t have a choice,” said Sutter.

“He was the next best goaltender in our system and a guy we’re grooming to be an important part of our team after this season.”

With the 20-year-old Bartosak leaving after this season, Burman will be a strong contender to take over.

“I’m still growing and I still have a lot of things to work on so that I can get better every day and get where Patty is.

“But that’s not going to be easy,” Burman said.

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Pct .681 .600 .591 .356 .341

GB — 4 4 1/2 15 15 1/2

Pacific Division L.A. Clippers Golden State Phoenix L.A. Lakers Sacramento

W 32 27 26 16 15

L 15 18 18 29 29

Tuesday’s Results New Orleans 100, Cleveland 89 Detroit 103, Orlando 87 New York 114, Boston 88 Houston 97, San Antonio 90 Memphis 98, Portland 81 Washington at Golden State, late Indiana at L.A. Lakers, late Today’s Games Oklahoma City at Miami, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Houston at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Denver, 7 p.m.

Chicago at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Memphis at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Games Phoenix at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at New York, 6 p.m.

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

Sutter hired Dakers this year to spend as much time as he could working with Burman, as well as the other netminders in the system.

“We have two other younger goalies in the system, who have played well, so we’re starting to get some depth, something we lacked,” Sutter said, who realizes the majority of coaches know little about goaltenders.

“It’s the most important position on the team, but coaches and assistant coaches spend the least amount of time with them.

Goalies think the game differently and you almost have to be a goalie to be in their heads and in their mind set. That’s another reason we hired Taylor, to have him spend more time with our goalies here and with the guys in our system. He also helps the scouts evaluate possible draft picks.”

That’s important as after this season CHL teams can’t draft European netminders.

“So we need our home grown goalies to develop and that starts at the peewee and bantam level,” added Sutter.

Bartosak received the Vaughn CHL goaltender of the week award for the period ending on Sunday.

He won all three road games last week, posting two shutouts, a 0.67 goals-againstaverage and a .984 save percentage. He

Rebels vs. Brandon Wheat Kings Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium The Wheat Kings sit fifth in the Eastern Conference and second in the East Division with a 26-18-5-0 record. They come in after a 4-2 loss to the Edmonton Oil Kings Tuesday and have a 6-3-10 record over their last 10 games . . . Team scoring leader John Quenneville (21-24-45) is out with an upper body injury, leaving C Jayce Hawryluk the team’s top active point leader with 44 points on 14 goals and 30 assists. Ryan Pulock is third in team scoring with 15 goals and 27 assists for 42 points and is seventh in league scoring for defencemen.

His 15 goals is tied for second most in the

Today

● WHL: Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium

Tampa Bay 11 18 13 — 42 Toronto 8 8 10 — 26 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 26-7-4); Toronto: Bernier (W, 18-15-5). Power plays (goal-chances) Tampa Bay: 0-3; Toronto: 0-3.

Thursday

● College women’s hockey: NAIT at RDC Queens, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Senior men’s basketball: Woodys vs. Alken Basin, 7:15 p.m.; Bulldog Scrap Metal vs.

Wells Furniture, 8:30 p.m., LTCHS.

Wild 4, Ducks 2 First Period 1. Minnesota, Pominville 21 (Granlund, Parise) 7:57.

2. Anaheim, Penner 13 (Getzlaf, Perry) 18:13.

Second Period 3. Minnesota, Granlund 4 (Parise, Suter) :13 (pp).

Third Period 4. Minnesota, Parise 16 (Scandella, Prosser) 6:35.

5. Minnesota, Haula 2 (Pominville, Scandella) 8:21.

6. Anaheim, Perreault 10 (Selanne) 10:53 (pp).

Minnesota 11 11 11 — 33 Anaheim 11 4 18 — 33 Goal — Minnesota: Kuemper (W, 6-3-1); Anaheim: Hiller (L, 24-7-4).

Power plays (goal-chances)Minnesota: 1-5; Anaheim: 1-3.

Friday

● Gymnastics: Exelta Cup, women’s artistic, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

College basketball: St. Mary’s at RDC, women 6 p.m., men to follow. ● Peewee AA hockey: Okotoks at Sylvan Lake, 6:15 p.m. ● WHL: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

AJHL: Drumheller at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Steel Kings, 7:30 p.m., Colicutt Centre. ● Midget AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Elks, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Ponoka, 8 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Bentley, 8:30 p.m.

WHL All Times Pacific EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Swift Current 51 25 18 2 6 172 151 58 Brandon 49 26 18 5 0 188 179 57 Regina 51 25 21 3 2 169 187 55 Prince Albert 49 23 23 2 1 159 172 49 Moose Jaw 50 13 29 3 5 129 196 34 Saskatoon 51 14 33 1 3 145 204 32 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Edmonton 49 35 13 0 1 205 127 71 Calgary 49 31 12 3 3 183 133 68 Medicine Hat 48 28 17 3 0 163 134 59 Red Deer 49 26 21 0 2 150 144 54 Kootenay 49 25 20 2 2 154 147 54 Lethbridge 52 9 38 2 3 124 244 23 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 49 40 7 0 2 211 121 82 Victoria 51 33 16 0 2 156 120 68 Vancouver 51 24 19 5 3 173 173 56 Prince George 52 19 26 2 5 164 220 45 Kamloops 50 11 34 2 3 130 208 27 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Portland 50 33 12 2 3 222 160 71 Seattle 51 31 15 2 3 176 178 67 Spokane 49 30 15 2 2 169 140 64 Everett 50 25 17 7 1 148 145 58 Tri-City 50 24 21 2 3 129 136 53 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Tuesday’s results Edmonton 4 Brandon 2 Spokane 6 Kamloops 3 Today’s games Prince George at Saskatoon, 5:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Calgary, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Lethbridge, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Red Deer, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Kamloops at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Saturday

● Gymnastics: Exelta Cup, women’s artistic, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Aero Equipment vs. Calgary Canucks, 11:30 a.m.; Red Deer Northstars vs.

Calgary Gold, 2 p.m., Arena.

GOLDEN BEAR OPEN TRACK

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Toronto Brooklyn New York Boston Philadelphia

Third Period 5. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 21 (Kessel, Bozak) 15:57.

Eight-year-old Sarah McDonald won all four of her events and captured the overall title in the girls’ tyke division at the Golden Bear Open during the weekend.

McDonald won the 60-metres in 11.17 seconds, the high jump clearing one-metre, the long jump with a leap of 2.60m and the shot put with a throw of 3.46m.

Meanwhile, Quinn Eberts was ninth overall in the peewee boys’ division.

He finished eighth in the 60m (10.51 seconds), ninth in the 150m (25.82) and long jump (2.77m) and 10th in the high jump (0.8m) and the shot put (4.80m).

Maria McDonald was 23rd in the bantam girls’ category.

Her best finishes were a 16th in the 60m hurdles (14.38) and a 19th in the high jump (1.0m).

Track and Field Red Deer Titans Track and Field Golden Bear Open Youth Female Tiana Lemon: 13th, long jump (4.12m); 27th, 60m (8.90); 31st 200m (31.27).

Dacia Gramlick: first, long jump (5.27m); second, high jump (1.55m); fifth, shot put (9.95m); 10th, 60m (8.37); 12th, 200m (28.63), 16th, 60m hurdles (10.87).

Emily Lucas: first, 3000m (11:08.26).

Youth Male Nick Boomer: fifth, 60m (7.27); sixth, long jump

(5.63m); 11th 200m (24.79).

Jeremiah Huo: fourth, shot put (10.68m); 10th, 400m (56.88); 16th, 60m (7.80).

Brayden Posyluzny: first, pole vault (2.70m), long jump (6.17m), shot put (13.46m); third, 400m (563.77); fourth, high jump (1.65m).

Cody Knight: ninth, long jump (4.83); 18th, 200m (25.80).

Midget Male Austin McLeod: fourth, high jump (1.60m); 10th, 200m (27.74), 800m (2:25.78).

stopped 123 shots in the three games. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

COLLEGE: More action

● The basketball teams face St. Mary’s University College Lightning Friday at RDC and Saturday in Calgary. Queens tip off at 6 p.m. with the men to follow.

The Queens 7-9, have a chance to even their season record against the 0-16 Lightning.

The Kings, who slipped to seventh in the national rankings after losing to Briercrest on Saturday, are 14-2 with St. Mary’s at 6-10. ● The hockey Queens return to action against NAIT, who they host at 7 p.m. at the Arena Thursday and visit Friday.

Last week the Queens defeated the then first-place Grant MacEwan Griffins twice, helping NAIT move back into first place with 18 points, one ahead of the Griffins and four up on RDC. ● The hockey Kings are in Fort MacMurray for a weekend doubleheader — Friday and Saturday afternoon.

The Kings are third in the conference with 33 points, one ahead of Augustana, one behind SAIT and two back of NAIT. Keyano is 4-17-1 for nine points. ● The men’s and women’s curling teams are back in action this league just one behind Shea weekend at NAIT. ● Volleyball dominated the BosTheodore of Seattle. Rounding out the top five scorers ton Pizza RDC athlete of the week are RW Richard Nejezchleb voting.

Left side Tim Finnigan played a (25-16-41) and LW Rihards major role in the Kings taking both Bukarts (18-19-37) . . . Rookie netminder Jordan Papirny ends of a weekend doubleheader has been the best of the two from Briercrest.

He had 36 kills, four aces, 25 digs Brandon goaltenders, with a 3.33 goals-against-average and three stuff blocks in the two and a .892 save percentage. matches.

Adolf received the female award Veteran Curtis Honey is at after finishing with 19 kills, three .379 and .894.

Injuries: Brandon — C aces, 29 digs and four blocks in a John Quenneville (upper weekend sweep at Briercrest.

Other athletes considered for body, week-to-week). Red Deer — C Wyatt Johnson the award were basketball Kings (upper body, indefinite), LW Ashaunti Hogan, hockey Kings Mike Vukie Mpofu (upper body, Marianchuk, basketball Queens day-to-day), Lucas Sutter Sarah Williamson and soccer Queens Tatiana Aspillaga. (upper body, indefinite). ● The basketball Queens reSpecial teams: Brandon — Power play, first, 25.5 per cent. Penalty kill, 17th, 74.1 per cent. ceived the Breathing Room team of Red Deer — Power play, 16th, 19.6 per cent. the week award. drode@reddeeradvocate.com Penalty kill, sixth, 83 per cent.

Scouting report

Skiing Red Deer Ski Club Results Cam McTaggart Memorial Race Nancy Green Slalom (At Sunridge Ski Hill) Male U7: Gavin Johnson, second; Hudon Turcotte, fourth.

U9: Adam Johnson, sixth, sixth; Mauicio Ortiz Romo, eighth.

U11: Logan Johnson, seventh, sevcenth.

U12: Seath Becker, first, first.

Female U8: Ava Vis, fifth, eighth; Danica Papez, ninth.

U10: Kennedy Brinkhurst , ninth.

U11: Oleandra Burton, fourth.

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Canada can maintain the gain in Sochi BUT WINNING OVERALL MEDAL RACE TOUGH

BY DONNA SPENCER THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The goal is the same, but it will be harder to achieve without the advantage of home ice and snow.

Winning more medals than any other country is Canada’s objective at the Sochi Olympics, as it was four years ago in Vancouver.

Canada’s 26 medals was good for third overall in 2010, but winning the gold-medal count with a record 14 raised the stakes for Sochi.

Canadians know now their country can be the best in the world in winter sport. The pressure is on to at least “maintain the gain.”

“We want to be a contender for the total medals championship and to be number one,” Canadian Olympic Committee president Marcel Aubut says. “We have tried to do everything to get prepared for this incredible and ambitious goal. We love ambitious goals.”

A host country beating its medal count at the following Games is rare.

The boycotts of the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics, the dissolving of the Soviet Union and reunification of Germany skews statistics, but never in the history of the Summer Games and only three times has a Winter Games host country won more medals at the next Games.

The last country to do so happens to be Canada with five medals in Calgary in 1988, followed by seven in Albertville, France, in 1992.

But 221-member Canadian team could very well beat its 2010 medal count because there are 36 more medals to be won in Sochi than there were in Vancouver.

Of the 12 events making their Olympic debut in Sochi, Canada is a medal contender in men’s and women’s freestyle halfpipe and slopestyle, snowboard slopestyle, the luge relay and the figure skat-

ing team event.

Because of the new sports, it’s conceivable Canada could bring home more medals home from Sochi, but not win the overall medal race.

“I would expect Vancouver medal count or even better based on Own The Podium funding that’s gone in and other sports performing this year,” Canadian flag-bearer Hayley Wickenheiser says.

“It is the Olympic Games and anything can happen. I expect to have a dominating performance from Canada again.”

The United States topped the overall medal count with 37 in 2010. Germany did it with just 29 in 2006. What it will take to be No. 1 in Sochi is a moving target. One source has said Own The Podium’s internal goal is 32 medals, including 13 gold.

The United States, Germany, Norway and host Russia will be Canada’s chief rivals in the medal race. After a dismal performance by their own standards in 2010, Russia intends to win the goldmedal race and finish top three overall.

“The trends are really clear.

They’re getting better and better every year in many aspects of their performance,” Own The Podium chief executive officer Anne Merklinger says. “We expect they’ll be the real deal.”

Canada and the U.S. tied for second in medals won in 2013 winter sport world championships with 29 apiece.

Norway collected 34 medals, including 17 gold, to top both columns. Germany earned 26 world championship medals and the Russians 23. Canada and Russia tied for fourth in gold medals with seven each.

While the Canadian men’s hockey team will have a huge following at home as it attempts to defend the gold medal, it will be the freestyle skiers, short-track speedskaters and snowboarders driving the medal count in Sochi.

The sight of Regina snowboarder Mark McMorris fracturing his rib at the recent X Games is chilling for Canada. McMorris is a goldmedal favourite in the new sport of slopestyle.

He still intends to compete in Sochi.

Unlike the U.S., Canada doesn’t have a deep well of medal contenders across all sports. Any injuries in these final days of competition and training will dent Canada’s medal prospects.

“The issue is if an athlete goes down, we’re really thin in terms of having another athlete ready to go,” Merklinger says.

“In the United States, when Lindsey Vonn has an injury they have another one who just emerges. We don’t have that.”

Canadian taxpayers are biggest funder of their Olympians’ exploits. Cognizant of the country’s sport euphoria coming out of 2010, the federal government hasn’t just maintained, but has augmented sport funding.

Own The Podium, the $117-million business plan to get Canada’s athletes on the podium in Vancouver, continues to oversee athletes’ competitive lives between Games.

Snowboard cross champ Maelle Ricker needs wrist surgery

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ASPEN, Colo. — Defending Olympic snowboard cross champion Maelle Ricker needs surgery after suffering a wrist injury Tuesday.

The West Vancouver, B.C., native was injured during pre-Olympic training, putting her appearance at next month’s Winter Games in Sochi, Russia in doubt.

Steven Hills, Canada Snowboard’s executive director, couldn’t say whether or not the injury was a break or fracture and expected to release further details Wednesday.

He added he expects Ricker, the defending world champion, would still be able to compete at the Olympics.

“While the timing of this injury is very unfortunate, we know that Maelle is an incredibly resilient athlete that has battled back from several injuries

over her career to accomplish great things for Canada,” said Hills in a release.

“We hope that Maelle’s surgery is successful and believe that she will have every opportunity to join Team Canada in Sochi with the goal of competing in the snowboard cross event on February 16.”

Carle Brenneman of Whistler, B.C., would replace Ricker if she cannot compete at the Olympics.

The 35-year-old Ricker became the first Canadian woman to win Olympic gold on home soil at the 2010 Vancouver Games.

She made her Olympic debut in 1998 on Canada’s halfpipe team at Nagano, Japan.

Ricker returned to the Games in 2006 at Turin, Italy, with the snowboard cross team. But the event ended in a crash during the final that forced her to be airlifted to a hospital.

Four years later she made up for the disappointment in Italy with a gold medal in Vancouver.

Protective cap for pitchers approved THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Big league pitchers might feel safer on the mound this season.

Major League Baseball has approved a protective cap for pitchers, hoping to reduce the damage from line drives to head that have brought some terrifying and bloody scenes in the last few years.

The heavier and bigger new hat was introduced Tuesday and will be available for testing during spring training on a voluntary basis. Major leaguers and minor leaguers won’t be required to wear it — comfort is likely to be a primary concern.

“Obviously, it’d be a change,” two-time Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers told the MLB Network.

“I’m definitely not opposed to it.”

“I think it’d take a lot of getting used to,” he said. “You don’t look very cool, I’ll be honest.”

The safety plates made by isoBLOX are sewn into the hat and custom fitted.

They weigh an extra six to seven ounces — a baseball weighs about five ounces, by comparison — and offer protection to the forehead, temples and sides of the head.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This product image released by Vizion Group on Tuesday shows the isoBLOX protective caps, for professional baseball players, left and right, and a youth level protective skull cap, center, for under a standard fielder’s cap.

They’ll make the hats about a half-inch thicker in the front and around an inch wider on the sides.

Several pitchers have been hit in the head by line drives in the recent seasons. Brandon McCarthy sustained a brain contusion and skull fracture after being struck in 2012 and Doug Fister was hit during the World Series that October.

Toronto’s J.A. Happ and Tampa Bay’s Alex Cobb were sidelined after being hit last year.

McCarthy tweeted that he had already tried out the fortified cap and that it was “headed in right direction but not game ready.”

Said star closer Grant

Balfour: “I am always appreciative of anything that will make the game safer. That being said, I may try it. Just not sure yet until I see it. Has to fit with a cap and be comfortable.”

“We talked to a lot of guys who had been through this, and they provided a wealth of information to help us,” said Bruce Foster, CEO of the 4Licensing Corporation, parent company of isoBLOX. “We went through a myriad of different designs to develop this.”

Foster said the cap went through extensive testing and provided protection from line drives up to 90 mph in the front of the head and 85 mph

on the side.

Line drives in the majors have been clocked at even faster rates.

While the hat is “slightly bigger” than a regular baseball cap, Foster said: “It’s not going to be a Gazoo hat.”

Several years ago, MLB introduced larger batting helmets that offered increased safety.

But big leaguers mostly rejected them, saying they looked funny and made them resemble the Great Gazoo, a character on the The Flintstones cartoon series.

In recent seasons, pitchers have said they would try padded caps, provided they weren’t too cumbersome.

“You see guys get hit with line drives. I know in the last couple of years there have been several of them. So it happens. You want to be wary of it,” All-Star closer Glen Perkins of the Minnesota Twins said.

“Player safety is important. I think finding a solution is good.”

“But by the sounds of what they have, I don’t know if that’s entirely feasible to go out there with basically a helmet on your head and pitch.

Without seeing it or trying it on, I hate to make a blanket judgment. But just thinking out loud, that seems a little bit much.

Just the bulkiness,” he said.

Sochi-bound NHL players trying not to worry

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PHILADELPHIA — The NHL’s Olympic break is less than two weeks away but the threat of terrorism is keeping the situation volatile.

After deputy commissioner Bill Daly said the league would consider pulling out of Sochi if something “significant” happens before players arrive, those set to participate are trying not to worry about that scenario.

“Between the NHL and the NHLPA and the Olympic people, in communication obviously with the people in Russia, they’re going to advise us if we shouldn’t go,” Ken Holland of Canada’s management team said Tuesday. “I’m looking at the lead of the NHL. “Until they tell us we’re not going, I’m going to Newark and going to jump on a plane and go to Sochi.”

A Hockey Canada spokesman said the organization had no official comment, adding nothing has changed about the situation.

Charter planes are scheduled to leave for Sochi on Feb. 9, two days after the opening ceremony. Security concerns are keeping athletes on edge well before that, though Daly said in an email to the Associated Press he doesn’t expect the plan to change.

“Obviously, if something significant were to transpire between now and February 9 that causes us to question that conclusion, we will re-evaluate,” Daly told the AP. Forward Tomas Tatar, who will represent Slovakia, read about that Tuesday morning before the Detroit Red Wings’ morning skate.

“There would (have to) be a good reason if something happens before,” Tatar said. “Obviously that would be not everything’s OK there, so I would probably agree with the people here — why we should go there if something is not good? Hopefully nothing will happen and I think everything’s in good hands.”

Olympic teammate Andrej Meszaros, a defenceman for the Philadelphia Flyers, said that possibility is in the back of his mind even if he doesn’t want it to be.

“It would be disappointing, that’s for sure, but safety first,” Meszaros said. “There’s nothing you can do about it.

“Unfortunately, the world is like it is with the threats and there’s nothing you can do about it.

People are (ticked) off. We’ll see what happens in the next few days.”

Mark Streit, who represented Switzerland in Salt Lake City in 2002, Turin in 2006 and Vancouver in 2010, is trying to keep his focus on the Flyers’ upcoming schedule and not the off-chance NHL players won’t go to Sochi.

“The NHL will do what they think is the best for the players and for our safety and for the families’ safety,” Streit said.

“That’s out of (our) control. I’m not really worried about that.”

Jakub Voracek of the Czech Republic is hoping the Russian government has spent enough money to keep everyone safe.

“I think the security, it’s very tight there,” the Flyers winger said. “Obviously it’s going to be a pain, probably, for the people that want to watch the games or something. But it’s what you got to do.

“In today’s world you never know what happens.

You go into the mall right here and there’s a shooting. You go to the movie theatre, you get shot. A lot of crazy people running around in the world today. It’s not only in Russia. You’ve got to make sure that the security’s very tight.”

CFL

BRIEFS Jones’ coaching staff features many former Argo assistants

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Head coach Chris Jones is taking many of his former Toronto Argonauts assistants with him to the Edmonton Eskimos.

Jones unveiled his staff Tuesday and included are four assistants he worked with last season with the Argos and another two who were associated with the franchise’s ’12 Grey Cup-winning squad. Jones took over as Edmonton’s coach after serving as Toronto’s defensive co-ordinator, assistant head coach and assistant GM in 2012-’13.

Steve McAddo, Toronto’s former offensive line coach, will serve as Edmonton’s offensive co-ordinator.

Jason Shivers, a defensive assistant last year with the Argos, is the Eskimos defensive backs coach while Ed Philion is the defensive line coach — a position he held in ’13 with the Double Blue.

Craig Davoren, a defensive assistant and quality control assistant the last two seasons with Toronto, is now an offensive assistant with the Eskimos.

Also joining Jones’ staff are Craig Dickenson (special-teams co-ordinator), Jarious Jackson (quarterbacks coach, passing game co-ordinator, player development) and Kez McCorvey (receivers coach).

Jackson was a backup quarterback with Toronto’s 2012 Grey Cup squad while McCorvey was a receivers coach with that team as well.

Dickenson spent last season as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ special-teams co-ordinator. He held the same post the two previous years with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Regina city council outlines game plan for stadium loan REGINA — Regina city council is going very long on a $100-million loan to help build a new football stadium for the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Councillors have given formal approval to borrowing the money and repaying it over the next 31 and a half years with an interest rate of 3.99 per cent.

The rate will remain in effect over the life of the loan, with the city making semi-annual payments of just over $2.8 million. A $12 surcharge will be added to tickets for football games, concerts and other events to help cover the loan.

Mayor Michael Fougere says the city had to move now because of fears that interest rates may rise.

The Saskatchewan government is contributing $80 million dollars to the stadium project, while the Roughriders are putting up $25 million.

LOCAL FRONT JOHNNY CASH, ELVIS IMPERSONATORS The man in black and the king of rock and roll may be long dead, but the next best thing, impersonators, will highlight an East Coast-themed night.

March 1 is Atlantic Storm night at the Sylvan Lake Legion. Starting at 6 p.m. at the Legion, at 4916 50th Ave., there will be a steak and lobster supper followed by a “screeching in” to become honourary Newfoundlanders.

After that, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash impersonators take the stage. Tickets cost $45 and can only be purchased in advance. There is a limited quantity so to purchase tickets call 403-887-2601 or 403-505-8601, or visit the Sylvan Lake Legion.

MENTAL HEALTH GROUP OFFERING COURSE An eight-week course aimed at helping people who feel lonely or isolated to learn and practise skills that help make and keep friends is being offered by the Canadian Mental Health Association in Red Deer.

The Art of Friendship, for people who have a tough time making friends for whatever reason, starts on March 5 and runs weekly through April 23, with both evening and daytime course offerings.

One course goes from 1 to 3 p.m. on Wednesdays starting on March 5 at the CMHA Red Deer office, at 5017 50th Ave. The other takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays, starting March 6 at the Dawe Branch of the Red Deer Public Library, at 56 Holt St. For more information, call the CMHA at 403342-2266. There is a $25 fee for the course and financial assistance may be available for people with limited incomes.

Chef proves piping hot

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Dora Cote has made a living out of solving problems in hot (and cold) water. She’s cleaned out the slimiest of clogged drains and is up for tackling any piping system pickle.

She’s now also proving to the country she’s an ace when it comes to knowing her way around the hardware in the kitchen.

The Rocky Mountain House plumber is one of the top 16 contestants selected to move onto another round of head-to-head competition on the MasterChef Canada cooking game show, the red and white version of the Gordon Ramsay series.

She is joined by others across Canada including a make-up artist, chemical engineer and freelance journalist. Cote, who grew up in Edmonton, is one of only two Albertans who made the cut to 16 from 26 after the show’s Monday night episode.

“The whole thing is surreal,” Cote, 37, said. “I’m such a huge fan of the American show so I had to keep reminding myself I was living it and not watching it on TV . . .

I was very intimidated, too. I don’t come in with a whole fancy background. I cook for my family and friends and that’s it. I’ve never worked in a restaurant, not even something like McDonald’s.”

Cote first started dabbling in making tasty treats from scratch with her father when she was six years old. They would bake cookies together and pretty soon she was the only one in the family allowed to make the gravy.

“My mother still can’t cook to this day,” Cote said with a her signature full-bellied laugh. “She is improving though. But largely, I do all the cooking and baking.”

Through the years, she’s dubbed her oven-baked ribs, with apple pie for dessert, or a deconstructed blueberry pudding cake with caramel sauce as her secret cuisine weapons.

MasterChef Canada, starring three prominent Canadian chefs and restaurateurs — Michael Bonacini, Alvin Leung and Claudio Aprile — premiered on Jan. 20.

Everything was prerecorded and Cote, who is back at work in Rocky, has been sworn to secrecy over the results.

“They took our cell phones away the minute we arrived in Toronto and we only got 10 minutes a week to talk to family. I’ve never

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Losing the “Old Barn,” a 40-year-old rink steeped in hockey history, was a blow to Central Alberta.

The ice community felt the loss of memories and tradition when the Sylvan Lake Arena’s roof partially collapsed under a heavy load of snow on Jan. 20.

But the community is bouncing back with its efforts to score the Kraft Hockeyville 2014 crown for the Medican Multi-plex.

Kevin Putnam, a former arena player, staff member and coach, now living in the Yukon, is one of the organizers behind Sylvan Lake’s campaign to win the prize of $100,000 in arena upgrades, a pre-season NHL game and visit from CBC. Putnam said people have always looked at Sylvan Lake as a “hockeyville” with its rich hockey tradition and the quality players who came through over the years.

LOCAL

BRIEFS Bail hearing in February

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Rocky Mountain House plumber Dora Cote is one of the top 16 contestants selected to move onto another round of head-to-head competition on ‘MasterChef Canada.’ gone that long without talking to my son so no wonder my nerves were going crazy,” said the former carnival worker who also boasts a substantial collection of sugar skulls and enjoys crocheting in her spare time.

Cote’s winning ticket started with a simple strawberry rhubarb pie, presented in Calgary during her first audition last July.

“I love pie. I can make anything into a pie. It’s the all-perfect food but I really felt out of my league because I just showed up with a pie. This fellow beside me was doing this big thing that looked like it could be served on a space station and I’m thinking oh my god.”

She went on to stay in the top 16 with her hearty chicken pot pie after sweating it out in the bottom two during the judge’s deliberations.

“I was so worried. The others present such diversity, such ethnic choices. I’m not wildfire like that. I’m just solid, good old yummy food. But then you think well maybe my simplicity will be the thing that will win them over.”

The art of plating is Cote’s biggest fear.

“I’m so used to the quick process of serving a hungry family so to have that validation, when Claudio Aprile called my food elegant, that was one of my most important moments at this point of the competition.”

Meanwhile, she’s actively pursuing dreams of opening up her own modest diner somewhere around Rocky.

The next episode of MasterChef airs Sunday on CTV following the Super Bowl. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

Sylvan Lake going after Kraft Hockeyville crown DESPITE LOSS OF ARENA

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“With the rink collapsing last week, now seemed liked the perfect time to go for it,” said Putnam.

“What we would really like to do is go to the Kraft Hockeyville’s website and submit their stories under Medican Multi-plex community,” said Putnam. “And to vote for all the other (Sylvan Lake) stories.”

The Heart of Our Town ... Gone Forever is one of the highest ranked stories on the website.

Putnam said there are more than 4,000 people on the Sylvan Lake Hockeyville 2014 Facebook page but the numbers are not translating on the Hockeyville website.

Putnam said the arena meant the world to residents and those who came to Sylvan Lake every summer for the hockey camps.

Arena operator Graham Parsons said losing the well-played rink was heartbreaking. Parsons had operated a long-running hockey school out of the rink for many years.

“I’ve been in there every day for about 28 years,” said Parsons.

“It was the busiest rural rink in rural Western Canada, especially in the 1980s and 1990s be-

cause there wasn’t much spring or summer ice around. All sorts of people came to skate here.”

Parsons gave a laundry list of NHL players and figure skaters who touched the ice over the years, including the Sutters, Chris Phillips, Curtis Glencross, Craig Berube, Chris Mason, Sean Burke, Ryan Smyth, Jarome Iginla and Kurt Browning.

“All different kinds of personalities have skated at this ... little rink,” said Parsons.

He said winning the Hockeyville title would mean a great deal for Sylvan Lake.

What remains of the arena is expected to be demolished some time next week.

The arena was due for demolition in a couple of years to make way for a new multiplex.

The town already has concept plans in place for a new multiplex with an arena to be built on the same site beginning in 2016.

The adjacent multiplex remains closed until after the demolition because of the arena is structurally unsafe and there’s the chance of the roof collapsing into the multiplex. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Bail will be addressed on Valentine’s Day for a man accused of breaking into two homes, assaulting the occupants and robbing one of them.

Tyler Alexander Coombs appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday via closedcircuit TV from the Red Deer Remand Centre, where he is being held in connection with two incidents alleged to have occurred in Red Deer late last year.

In charges read for Judge Bert Skinner, Coombs is accused of forcing his way into a woman’s home on Dec. 13, armed with an airsoft rifle.

He is further alleged to have used the rifle to assault, sexually assault and rob the woman.

He is also accused of entering another home and using a propane tank to attack and then confine a man inside on Nov. 24.

Charges against Coombs include two counts of unlawful confinement — one from each of the two incidents — and single counts of forcible entry, assault, sexual assault, unlawful use of an imitation weapon, assault with a weapon, robbery using an imitation firearm, possession of a stolen vehicle worth more than $5,000 and possession of marijuana.

He will remain in custody until Feb. 14, when he is scheduled to return to court with defence counsel Craig Paterson for a bail hearing.

Public schools town hall meeting The Red Deer Public School Division will host its annual town hall meeting on Thursday to provide input into the district’s three-year education plan.

The hope is that the meeting can provide input into developing priorities and initiatives for the plan.

The board hopes to have a broad and diverse range of stakeholders participating in this to develop a comprehensive plan.

Priorities include literacy, inclusion of all students and high school completion and transitions.

For more information, contact Clint Saunders or Averill Wright at 403347-5660, or contact the school division’s office at 403-342-3713.

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BY SETH STEVENSON ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES NEW YORK — In mid-December, Apple named Duolingo — a piece of language-learning software — its 2013 iPhone app of the year. Since then, I swear every native English speaker of my acquaintance has suddenly begun guten tag-ing, buongiorno-ing, and comment ça va-ing.

I myself have been habla-ing Español for the past three weeks, with Duolingo as my guide. Verdict so far? ¡Excelente, mis amigos! Until we genetically engineer the Babel fish that Douglas Adams envisioned in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Duolingo may be our best bet for a global uptick in inter-lingual understanding.

The app currently teaches Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese to English speakers, and teaches English to speakers of those languages plus Dutch, Russian, Hungarian and Turkish, with more on the way.

As with all else that manages to hold the attention of post-millennial America — Foursquare, Instagram, The Bachelor — the key to Duolingo’s success lies in gamification.

Whether it’s vying to become the virtual mayor of a taco joint, racking up likes for our vacation photos, or battling viciously to wed a homophobe we’ve just met, we clearly enjoy turning the stuff of life into bite-sized, recreational competitions.

Duolingo recognizes that humans are wired this way. It also recognizes that the key to learning a new tongue is repetition. So the app transforms language study into an amusing diversion, replete with points, leaderboards and video game “lives.”

At the end of each successfully completed round, we’re rewarded with a trumpet fanfare and a delicious sense of accomplishment.

This is the most productive means of procrastination I’ve ever discovered. The short lesson blocks are painless and peppy, and reaching the next level (and then the level after that) becomes addictive. I’ve lost track of time as I’ve buzzed through tutorials on Spanish conjunctions and prepositions.

A co-worker likes to crank out French modules on his subway commute. One friend confided that she’s stayed up for hours past her bedtime learning German — ja, this Fräulein simply can’t put Duolingo down. As I recall, these are not the sorts of giddy emotions that were stirred in Mrs. Gonnerman’s 10thgrade French AP class.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Duolingo: It doesn’t cost a cent. It’s free to download and, according to 34-year-old co-founder Luis von Ahn, it will be free forever. When von Ahn gushes about his creation, he’s less excited by the idea of yuppie professionals in Manhattan brushing up on their Italian and more enthused about folks in Latin America attempting to improve their socioeconomic status.

“The majority of people in the world who want to learn a language are learning English because it might get them a better job,” says von Ahn. “And learning a language usually requires money. You need to attend a good middle school that has a foreign languages department, or buy a program like Rosetta Stone that can cost hundreds of dollars.”

Von Ahn himself grew up in Guatemala but went to a school with English classes.

“I was one of the wealthy few,” he says. He came to the United States to attend college and graduate school, then went on to become a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon and eventually a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.

If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service.

At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article.

Seth Stevenson writes for Slate.

Gregory Kloehn occupies his “dumpster home,” in the Red Hook neighbourhood of New York’s Brooklyn borough. The artist purchased a new dumpster and retrofitted it to be his dwelling when he stays New York City, loading it with steel appliances, an outside shower, a barbecue, a toilet and a padded area where he can lie down.

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Mixed breeds get slice of U.S. dogdom’s biggest spotlight

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — When the nation’s foremost dog show added an event open to mixed breeds, owners cheered that everydogs were finally having their day.

They see the Westminster Kennel Club’s new agility competition, which will allow mutts at the elite event next month for the first time since the 1800s, as a singular chance to showcase what unpedigreed dogs can do.

“It’s great that people see that, ’Wow, this is a really talented mixed breed that didn’t come from a fancy breeder,”’ said Stacey Campbell, a San Francisco dog trainer heading to Westminster with Roo!, a high-energy — see exclamation point — husky mix she adopted from an animal shelter.

“I see a lot of great dogs come through shelters, and they would be great candidates for a lot of sports. And sometimes they get overlooked because they’re not purebred dogs,” Campbell said.

Roo! will be one of about 225 agility dogs whizzing through tunnels, around poles and over jumps before the Westminster crowd. And, if she makes it to the championship, on national TV. Animal-rights advocates call the development a good step, though it isn’t ending their long-standing

criticism that the show champions a myopic view of man’s best friend.

Westminster’s focus is still on the nearly 190 breeds — three of them newly eligible — that get to compete toward the best-in-show trophy; more than 90 per cent of the agility competitors are purebreds, too.

But Westminster representatives have made a point of noting the new opening for mixed breeds, or “all-American dogs,” in showspeak.

“It allows us to really stand behind what we say about Westminster being the show for all the dogs in our lives” while enhancing the 138-year-old event with a growing, fun-to-watch sport, said David Frei, the show’s longtime TV host.

Over the years, mixed-breed enthusiasts have nosed around for recognition for their pets, be they carefully crossed goldendoodles or anyone’s-guess mutts. And they haven’t turned only to gag events like “Great American Mutt” shows with categories such as “longest tongue” and “looks most like owner.”

A 36-year-old group called the Mixed Breed Dog Clubs of America awards titles in various sports and has even had best-in-show-style competitions, where dogs were judged on their overall look, movement and demeanour, said President Kitty Norwood of Redwood, Calif.

Some dog organizations have allowed mixes to compete in obedience, agility and other sports for years, and the prominent American Kennel Club — the governing body for Westminster and many other

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events — followed suit in 2009. I t has since enrolled some 208,000 mixes and dogs from non-recognized breeds as eligible competitors.

One of the nation’s oldest sporting events, the Westminster show had a few mixed breeds in its early days but soon became purebred territory.

This year, more than 2,800 pedigreed, primped dogs are due to be judged on how well they fit breed standards that can specify everything from temperament to toe configuration.

That has long made Westminster a flashpoint for the purebred-versus-mixed-breed debate.

Proponents say breeds preserve historic traits and help predict whether a puppy will make a good police dog or hiking companion, for instance, facilitating happy pet-owner matches.

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RECIPIENTS WILLING TO SNEEZE FOR SCIENCE — FOR $3,000 EACH

BY LAURAN NEERGAARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BETHESDA, Md. — Forget being sneezed on: Government scientists are deliberately giving dozens of volunteers the flu by squirting the live virus straight up their noses.

It may sound bizarre, but the rare type of research is a step in the quest for better flu vaccines. It turns out that how the body fends off influenza remains something of a mystery.

“Vaccines are working, but we could do better,” said Dr. Matthew Memoli of the National Institutes of Health, who is leading the study that aims to infect up to 100 adults over the next year.

W a i t a m i n u t e : Dr. Matthew Flu is sweeping the country, so why not Memoli just study the already sick? That wouldn’t let scientists measure how the immune system reacts through each step of infection, starting with that first exposure to the virus.

It’s not an experiment to be taken lightly. After all, the flu kills thousands of Americans a year. For safety, Memoli chose a dose that produces mild to moderate symptoms — and accepts only volunteers who are healthy and no older than 50.

And to avoid spreading the germs, participants must spend at least nine days quarantined inside a special isolation ward at the NIH hospital, their health closely monitored. They’re not released until nasal tests prove they’re no longer contagious.

The incentive: About $3,000 to compensate for their time.

“I received a very scolding email from my mother” about signing up, Daniel Bennett, 26, said with a grin.

“Their standards are so high, I don’t believe I’m in danger,” added Bennett, a restaurant worker from College Park, Md. “I don’t get sick that often.”

A masked and gloved Memoli had Bennett lie flat for about a minute.

“It will taste salty. Some will drip down the back of your throat,” Memoli said, before squeezing a syringe filled with millions of microscopic virus particles, floating in salt water, into each nostril.

Sure enough, a few days later Bennett had the runny nose and achiness of mild flu.

The best defence against influenza is a yearly vaccine, but it’s far from perfect. In fact, the vaccine is least effective in people age 65 and older — the group most susceptible to flu — probably because the immune system weakens with age.

Understanding how younger adults’ bodies fight flu may help scientists determine what the more vulnerable elderly are missing, clues to help de-

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Above: Daniel Bennett, 26, of College Park, Md., has live flu virus sprayed into his nose as part of a study at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Right, Dr. Matthew Memoli handles doses of live flu virus before administering it to a research participant. velop more protective vaccines for everyone, Memoli explained.

Here’s the issue: The vaccine is designed to raise people’s levels of a particular flu-fighting antibody. It targets a protein that acts like the virus’ coat, called hemagglutinin — the “H” in H1N1, the strain that caused the 2009 pandemic and that is causing the most illness so far this winter, too.

But it’s not clear what antibody level is best to aim for — or whether a certain amount means you’re protected against getting sick at all, or that you’d get a mild case instead of a severe one.

“As mind-boggling as it is, we don’t know the answer to that,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

“We made some assumptions that we knew everything about flu.”

Just targeting hemagglutinin probably isn’t enough, Memoli added. Already, some people in his study didn’t get sick, despite remarkably low antibody levels, meaning something else must be protecting them.

Could it be antibodies against the “N” in flu’s name, the neuraminidase protein? Specific T cells that are activated to fight infection? Genes that switch on and off when a virus invades?

To begin finding out, Memoli first developed a laboratory-grown copy of the H1N1 flu strain and sprayed dif-

ferent amounts into volunteers’ noses until he found the right dose to trigger mild flu. He hopes eventually to test the harsher H3N2 strain, too.

Now he’s infecting two groups — people with low antibody levels and those with high levels. Some were recently vaccinated, and some weren’t.

He’ll compare how sick they get, how long they’re contagious and how the immune system jumps into action.

Called a human challenge study, this kind of research hasn’t been performed with flu viruses in the U.S. for more than a decade, before scientists had ways as sophisticated to measure what happens.

“It’s all going to add up to a better understanding of what you need to have to be protected against the flu,” said Dr. John Treanor, a flu specialist at the University of Rochester Medical Center who is closely watching the work.

So far, Memoli’s patients are becoming contagious a day or two before they start feeling bad, one reason the flu spreads so easily. He sees a range of symptoms, from sniffles to a few days of moderate fever, fatigue and congestion.

Bennett’s flu was pretty mild, and he passed the time studying, watching TV and playing games with the four other study participants infected this month.

“All I had to do was read and watch

movies, so it wasn’t that terrible,” Bennett said. “It was a really cool experience” to see how research is done.

Conversation about mental health should be year-round, advocates say Marli Brown was in kindergarten when the first signs of anxiety emerged: she lost most of her hair and was gripped by panic attacks that led to seizures and knocked her out cold.

In high school, she binge drank and banged her head against a wall in private while maintaining a perfect facade as an honour roll student, student council president and yearbook editor.

“I learned that I had to keep that other part quiet because it was considered to be weird,” said Brown, now 36 and living in rural Manitoba.

“It was almost like a double life.”

The secrecy lasted much of Brown’s adult life as she sought help for mental health issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder and postpartum depression, including a stint on a psychiatric unit during university.

She told family and close friends about seven years ago, but it was only last year that Brown, a social worker and mother of three, felt comfortable going public with her struggle.

The fact that mental health was increasingly being discussed openly — if largely through awarenessraising campaigns — made it much easier to come clean, she said.

“You’d see the commercials, you’d hear people talking about it, and that was a way that I could get a sense of are people OK with this or not OK with this?” said Brown.

Roughly one in five Canadians experience mental illness and efforts to eliminate the lingering stigma have multiplied over the years, with several days and weeks devoted to the cause.

One of the most high-profile events, Bell Let’s Talk Day, marked its fourth year Tuesday.

The campaign encourages people to talk about mental health issues and raises money for mental health programs: for each text sent from a Bell phone that day, the company donates five cents.

The telecommunications giant committed to investing $50 million in mental health programs over five years, and while it has already surpassed its target by $12 million, a spokeswoman said no decision has been made about possibly extending the campaign beyond next year’s deadline.

There is no doubt such efforts spur conversations on what’s traditionally been a taboo topic, said Peter

‘IT OPENS UP OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE A DIALOGUE ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN WORKPLACES.’

to last,” he said, and it’s up to everyone to keep it on the radar year-round. Brown agrees.

“This doesn’t go away,” she said. “For people who are affected by mental illness and mental health... it never does end.”

— PETER COLERIDGE, CEO OF THE CANADIAN

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION Coleridge, CEO of the Canadian Mental Health Association, which organizes the annual Mental Health Week in May. “It opens up opportunities for people to have a dialogue about mental health, mental health issues in workplaces,” Coleridge said.

On social media and on the job, “people are saying, ‘Yeah, it provided me with an opportunity to have that discussion, and without that campaign or that trigger on that day, I may not have felt comfortable talking to my coworker or my friend about the fact that I was struggling a little bit,”’ he said.

Arthur Gallant, 24, said events such as Let’s Talk Day provide a much needed platform for mental health advocates like him.

The Burlington, Ont., resident has dealt with mental illness all his life — his mother struggled with it, and he himself was diagnosed with depression and anxiety at 13.

Long shunned by his peers and feeling increasingly isolated, Gallant nonetheless decided to speak publicly about his experience through various initiatives and eventually signed on with Let’s Talk Day. “Do I think it necessarily decreases the stigma? I think it’s hard to measure,” he said.

But Canadians would be worse off without these kinds of efforts to regularly remind them that mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, he said.

He recalled a recent encounter with a colleague at a new job, in which she casually mentioned having forgotten to take her anxiety medication that day.

“For her not to know me and sort of put that out there, it makes it seem like people just have no shame anymore and that’s kind of cool,” Gallant said.

Still, it’s what happens in between these campaigns that matters most, he said.

The positive effect “will only last if people want it

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Coworking the happy medium

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Matthew Dobbie works at a desk in Workplace One. When Dobbie worked from home as a lawyer, often asking his neighbours or the condo’s security guard to act as witnesses, he found it bothered some clients that they were meeting in his living room. and easily distracted working from home.

In 2011, he became a tenant at Toronto’s first coworking space, the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) in Chinatown, allowing him to get his social fix, and work done.

“Since everyone is there to work on their own stuff, office politics are not a problem,” says the 40-year-old.

“No one is interested in taking your job, and ... everyone is there to network and make friends.”

Some tenants even found love.

Edward Nason, 36, and Saara Siddiqi, 35, met at CSI in 2008.

On his first day, Nason introduced himself to all the tenants via an email sent from his “hot desk,” CSI’s name for a temporary desk with unassigned seating. Siddiqi was the only person to respond.

“I think it’s just because I sent

a picture around,” he joked.

Three years later, they got married and threw their wedding reception at CSI. Dobbie, the lawyer, has been at Workplace One for just three months, but he has already picked up some business from other tenants in the building and plans to extend his six-month contract.

Private offices there range from $525 to $2,000 per month.

Coworking on the ground floor costs $225.

These two options can also be rented by the day.

By comparison, gross rent for office space in the downtown area ranges from $35 to $60 per square foot.

Workplace One has about 300 members across three locations totalling 75,000 square feet.

A new locations on King Street West is due to open in May.

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Travel can offer you life-changing exWednesday, Jan. 29 periences and even transform your viCELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS sion of life.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Exercise caution when it comes to your belongings. You should watch over your assets and items that you consider precious. Relationships with your brother or sister will improve greatly.

You are instilling more trust and faith in each other.

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today and to not let yourself get carried away by subjective situations.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you’ve been holding on to some secret or a phobia within you, now you can release yourself from that emotional excess. Once you let go of that unwanted energy, you will feel a tremendous relief within yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You may experience more intensity with your female friends. It is possible that one of them is going through some crisis and you will have to take care of their needs. Be careful of acquaintances that might turn out to be too manipulative or controlling.

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When Matthew Dobbie worked from home as a lawyer, often asking his neighbours or the condo’s security guard to act as witnesses, he found it bothered some clients that they were meeting in his living room.

“It was awkward,” he said. “I probably lost some clients because the setting didn’t seem overly professional.”

So, when his sister heard about a company that offered coworking spaces for rent, Dobbie looked it up. Soon after he joined Workplace One. The five-storey building, located in downtown Toronto, is one of 20 establishments that offer fully furnished private offices or private desks in open-concept spaces, with shared access to printing services, conference rooms, kitchens and other common social areas included in the rent.

“I get all that at a lower cost than if I were just renting an office on my own,” the 33-year-old lawyer said.

“It presents a better front. And it’s a nice bonus that I have people to talk to.”— In a fast-changing economy, coworking is a shared working environment that meets the needs of freelancers, start-ups, work-at-home professionals, independent contractors, or mobile workers.

According to the Global Coworking Census, conducted last February by Deskwanted.com — a Berlin-based online portal for finding shared workspaces — the number of coworking spaces worldwide in 2013 had reached 2,498.

Europe topped the list with 1,160. Canada had 80. By July, the global count had reached 3,000.

Online coworking magazine Deskmag says the first official coworking space opened in San Francisco in 2005.

Ashley Proctor, 32, manager of Toronto coworking space Foundery, thinks coworking is a “happy medium” between the traditional office and the isolation of home.

“You get the best of both worlds — the comforts of home without the distractions of home,” she said.

“That’s the beautiful part.”

One of the founding members of CoworkingToronto, a collective established to raise the profile of coworking by working together, said community is the most important aspect of shared workplaces.

“Coworking is not about desk rentals or venue rentals but rather the connections people make with other members and guests in the space,” said Rachel Young.

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Pete Seeger performs on stage during the Farm Aid 2013 concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, on Sept. 21, 2013. The American troubadour, folk singer and activist Seeger died Monday at age 94.

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Stars line up to pay tribute to The Beatles LOS ANGELES — There’s an easy way to give pop music’s most performance-hardened stars a case of the butterflies: Ask them to perform in front of The Beatles.

Many of today’s top artists gathered Monday night to honour The Beatles’ legacy, with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in attendance and late members John Lennon and George Harrison always in mind, at The Recording Academy’s taping of The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles.

John Legend and Alicia Keys sang Let It Be. Katy Perry performed Yesterday, while her boyfriend, John Mayer, teamed with Keith Urban on Don’t Let Me Down. And Brad Paisley and Pharrell Williams took on the challenge of Here Comes the Sun, a song well known to millions of music fans.

“We are honouring the most important band of all time, and trying to do justice to their song while two of them sit there,” Paisley said before his performance. “We know, going in, we’re not going to sing like them, and we’re going to try to do our own thing with it. But . . . there’s reasons why people get blasted when they cover Beatles songs in any situation. But here we are, we’re all doing that tonight. So, I guess it’s an even playing field in that sense.”

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PETE SEEGER 1919-2014

FIVE ESSENTIAL SONGS ● If I Had a Hammer: An all-time singalong cowritten in 1949 by Seeger and Lee Hays and released a year later by the Weavers under the title The Hammer Song. Popularized in the 1960s by Peter, Paul and Mary, the song was performed countless times, all over the world, from union halls and folk festivals to the Kennedy Center in Washington. ● Waist Deep in the Big Muddy: An anti-war song written in 1967 about a platoon and its doomed, gung-ho captain in Louisiana in the 1940s. A blunt allegory about the Vietnam War, Waist Deep was censored by CBS producers when Seeger performed it on The Smothers Brother Comedy Hour in September 1967. CBS soon backed down and let the song air when Seeger returned to the program in February 1968. ● Turn! Turn! Turn!: Seeger adapted language from the book of Ecclesiastes for this plea for peace that became a No. 1 hit for the Byrds in the 1960s. ● The Bells of Rhymney: Adapted by Seeger from a Welsh poem about a mining accident and again covered by the Byrds, with a guitar riff the Beatles’ George Harrison openly drew upon for If I Needed Someone. ● Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: An anti-war anthem inspired in the 1950s by words Seeger came upon in a Cossacks folk song. Additional lyrics were written by Joe Hickerson in 1960. Among those who covered it: Marlene Dietrich, Harry Belafonte, Dolly Parton and U2.

‘Thank you, thank you, this is beautiful,”’ RodriguezSeeger said. “That really did it for me. The cops recognized what we were about. They wanted to help our march. They actually wanted to protect our march because they saw something beautiful. It’s very hard to be anti-something beautiful.”

That was a message Seeger spread his entire life.

With The Weavers, a quartet organized in 1948, Seeger helped set the stage for a national folk revival. The group — Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman — churned out hit recordings of Goodnight Irene, Tzena, Tzena and On Top of Old Smokey.

Seeger also was credited with popularizing We

arm-in-arm singalong of hits Hey, Jude, Sgt. Pepper and Yellow Submarine that prompted movie stars and Grammy Award-winning musicians alike to sing along like giddy kids.

The telecast will air Feb. 9 on CBS, 50 years after The Fab Four made their first appearance in front of an American TV audience on The Ed Sullivan Show.

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Shortly before 9 p.m. local time Monday night, Joel and his band came out to thunderous applause and launched into Miami 2017, a song Joel wrote in the early 1970s about post-apocalyptic New York City. That officially launched an unusual run at the famed venue, home of the NBA’s Knicks, NHL’s Rangers and one of America’s biggest music venues.

Throughout the evening, Joel seemed to touch on at least one song from most of his studio albums. The only notable omission was 1989’s Storm Front.

While he didn’t hold back on the classics like New York State of Mind and Allentown, Joel also performed the lesser played tracks The Entertainer and Zanibar that included a sultry trumpet solo by Carl Fischer.

Joel performed the acapella The Longest Time,and after he finished said: “It sounds better in a men’s room.” And when he introduced Everybody Loves You Now, as a song from his first album, Cold Spring Harbor, he told the audience: “I doubt you have it. I don’t have it.”

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Buoyed by his characteristically soaring spirit, the surging crowd around him and a pair of canes, Pete Seeger walked through the streets of Manhattan leading an Occupy Wall Street protest in 2011.

Though he would later admit the attention embarrassed him, the moment brought back many feelings and memories as he instructed yet another generation of young people how to effect change through song and determination — as he had done over the last seven decades as a history-sifting singer and ever-so-gentle rabble-rouser.

“Be wary of great leaders,” he told The Associated Press two days after the march. “Hope that there are many, many small leaders.”

The banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage died Monday at the age of 94. Seeger’s grandson, Kitama CahillJackson, said his grandfather died peacefully in his sleep around 9:30 p.m. at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been for six days. Family members were with him.

“He was chopping wood 10 days ago,” Cahill-Jackson recalled.

With his lanky frame, use-worn banjo and full white beard, Seeger was an iconic figure in folk music who outlived his peers. He performed with the great minstrel Woody Guthrie in his younger days and wrote or co-wrote If I Had a Hammer, Turn, Turn, Turn, Where Have All the Flowers Gone and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine. He lent his voice against Hitler and nuclear power. A cheerful warrior, he typically delivered his broadsides with an affable air and his fingers poised over the strings of his banjo.

In 2011, the canes kept Seeger from carrying his beloved instrument while he walked more than three km with hundreds of protesters swirling around him holding signs and guitars. With a simple gesture — extending his friendship — Seeger gave the protesters and even their opponents a moment of brotherhood the short-lived Occupy movement sorely needed.

When a policeman approached, Tao RodriguezSeeger said at the time he feared his grandfather would be hassled.

“He reached out and shook my hand and said,

Shall Overcome, which he printed in his publication People’s Song in 1948. He later said his only contribution to the anthem of the civil rights movement was changing the second word from “will” to “shall,” which he said “opens up the mouth better.”

“Every kid who ever sat around a campfire singing an old song is indebted in some way to Pete Seeger,” Arlo Guthrie once said.

His musical career was always braided tightly with his political activism, in which he advocated for causes ranging from civil rights to the cleanup of his beloved Hudson River. Seeger said he left the Communist Party around 1950 and later renounced it. But the association dogged him for years.

He was kept off commercial television for more than a decade after tangling with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in 1955.

Repeatedly pressed by the committee to reveal whether he had sung for Communists, Seeger responded sharply: “I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American.”

He was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal.

Seeger called the 1950s, years when he was denied broadcast exposure, the high point of his career. He was on the road touring college campuses, spreading the music he, Guthrie, Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter and others had created or preserved.

“The most important job I did was go from college to college to college to college, one after the other, usually small ones,” he told The Associated Press in 2006. “. . . And I showed the kids there’s a lot of great music in this country they never played on the radio.”

His scheduled return to commercial network television on the highly rated Smothers Brothers variety show in 1967 was hailed as a nail in the coffin of the blacklist.

But CBS cut out his Vietnam protest song, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, and Seeger accused the network of censorship.

He finally got to sing it five months later in a stirring return appearance, although one station, in Detroit, cut the song’s last stanza: “Now every time I read the papers/That old feelin’ comes on/We’re waist deep in the Big Muddy/And the big fool says to push on.”

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ARCHER Clifford Ernest 1935-2014

Clifford Archer passed away at the Lacombe Nursing Home on Sunday, January 26, 2014 at the age of 78 years. Born in Taber, AB on December 1, 1935, our beloved father, grandfather, brother, and uncle is survived by his son James Archer (Melody) and Carolyn Strand of Calgary, AB, daughter Debbie Salmon (Brent) and being most proud of his grandchildren Tyler and Jenna Salmon all from Lacombe, AB. He will be lovingly remembered by brothers, Phil Archer (Karen) of Red Deer, AB; Don Archer (Louanne) of Killam, AB; Rob Archer (Chris) of Taber, AB; sister-in-law Myrna Archer of Innisfail, AB, in-laws Douglas and Leslie Brown, and Bunty and Peter Clark all of Glasgow, Scotland as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews. Cliff was predeceased by his wife Betsy Archer in 2011, parents Esther and James Archer, brothers Ray and Grant Archer, and nephews Kevin and Dan Archer. Cliff was a genuine man who had dedicated himself to his work and family. He enjoyed life, fishing, golfing, softball, hockey and camping, and a highlight was attending a family reunion. He had a big heart, was selfless and could strike up a conversation with anyone, and would meet a new friend everywhere he went. He was most rewarded with time spent with family and friends. He will forever be remembered as an honest, fun-loving man. A Funeral Service will be held at St. Andrew’s United Church, 5226-51 Avenue, Lacombe, AB, on Friday, January 31, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. A private family interment service will follow at the Lacombe Fairview Cemetery.

Memorial Donations can be sent directly to the Lacombe Fish and Game Association, Box 5573, Lacombe, AB, T4L 1X2 or the Lacombe Palliative Care Society, Box 5576, Lacombe, AB, T4L 1X2.

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HOUGHTON It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Jack Houghton on January 24, 2014 at the Red Deer Healthcare Complex, Red Deer, AB. Jack was 76 years of age. Jack was born Edward John Houghton on March 24, 1937 to Ted and Clara Houghton.

Jack’s younger years were spent in Two Valley View and the Rumsey area. Jack met the love of his life Lauretta and the two were wed on March 31, 1959 in Trochu, Alberta.

The family settled in Red Deer until Jack and Lauretta retired to the Scollard area in 2001. In 2008 Jack and Lauretta returned to Red Deer to be close to their children and grandchildren.

Jack was predeceased by his parents, Ted and Clara Houghton. Jack is survived by his loving wife of 54 years, Lauretta, daughters, Tammi (Dave), Phyllis (Les) and son, Jerry (Lena), special grand daughters, Alice and Calina, grandsons, Dustin and Jesse, great grandchildren, Aspen, Clara, Chance, Jaxson and Charley.

Funeral services for Jack will be held Thursday January 30, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. from the Rumsey Community Hall, interment to follow in the Rumsey Cemetery. If friends so desire memorial donations may be made to Red Deer Hemodialysis Unit, or S.T.A.R.S. Courtney-Winter’s Funeral Homes are in care of the arrangements.

FOSSEY David 1939 - 2014 David Fossey of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on January 26, 2014 at the age 74 years. David was born on May 2, 1939 in Melville, Saskatchewan, to Harold and Jesse Fossey. David leaves to cherish in his memory his wife of 49 years, Sheila; children Susan (Jim), Brent (Leah), and Tarah (Mike); grandchildren, Vincent, Jack and Gretchen. He was predeceased by his parents, Harold and Jesse, sister Lynn, brother Walter. A Celebration of Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer on Friday, January 31, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. If friends desire, donations may be made in his honor to the Parkinson Society of Southern Alberta, 102, 5636 Burbank Crescent S.E. Calgary, Alberta T2H 1Z6. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Lenore Jacobson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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MURRAY Leane Michelle (Elson) 1973 ~ 2014 With great shock and sadness we announce the sudden passing of Leane Michelle (Elson) Murray in Mexico on January 12, 2014. Leane was born in Calgary, graduated from Eckville High school and later as a single parent, obtained her registered nursing degree from RDC. Leane is survived by her two sweet children Andrew and Erin Williams of Red Deer, AB and her loving husband of 18 years Glenn Murray of Warman, SK; her parents Dwayne and Shelley Elson as well as her sister Dayna (Greg) Pimm; brothers Michael (Tammy) Elson and David Elson; her grandparents Margaret and Hugh Linden; her aunts and uncles: Liz and Ernie Pucci, Kent (Ellen) Linden, Gene and Loree Sears as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. She is also survived

by Sandra (Clare) Turner, Cliff (Marilyn) Sawa and Michelle (Dale) Lauf Mike (Gwen) Sawa, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by her grandparent’s Verner and Jennie Elson. Leane will always be remembered for her sweet generous spirit, her heartwarming laugh, her love for family and all animals (except strangely for monkeys). A memorial service for Leane will be held at the Eckville Community center on Saturday February 1, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made to a scholarship at Red Deer College School Of Nursing that will be set up in memory of Leane.

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ROBERTS Violet Frances Born: Nov. 27, 1921, Knee Hill Valley Died: Jan. 24, 2014, Lacombe Beloved wife of Rev. James Roberts passed away at the age of 92. Vi’s greatest love was her family: husband, Jim; daughter Fran Lees; son, Jim Roberts (Bev), grandchildren, Linda (Mike); Audrey; Maureen (Lawrence), Ron (Brenda); Hollie (Dan) along with her great grandchildren Kodi, Tyler, Kassidy, Wayde, Shannon, Curtis, Scott, Dawson and Crosby.

Vi is also survived by her sister, Mary Winchester (Allan). Vi was predeceased by her parents, Mary Ann and James McCabe; brothers, Charles and James as well as son-in-law Bill Lees. Vi’s zest for life forged many lasting friendships with the communities and church families which she touched in her career as a minister’s wife. She was a wonderful wife, mom, grandma and great grandma and will live in our hearts forever. A very special thank you to the Nurses, Doctors and staff from the Royal Oak; Lacombe and Red Deer Hospitals as well as the Lacombe EMS for your compassionate care given to Vi, through-out her journey.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at the Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of your choice.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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RUNGE Victor (1929 - 2014) Victor Runge of Innisfail, Alberta, passed away on January 26, 2014 at the age of 84. He was survived by Caroline, his wife of 57 years, Also by his children, Grant (Sharon), David (Myriam), Tracy, and Marcia (Blair) and by seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren also by his brother, Ernest, John and Donnie and sister Helen. Vic was predeceased by his parents, John and Annie, his sister Mary and brothers George, Bill, and Charlie. Vic grew up in the Pine Lake area, later moving with his wife to southeast Saskatchewan, Vic was employed in the oil industry for most of his life.

Moving in 1974 to the Peace River country where he continued working until his retirement then returning to the Red Deer area. He enjoyed travelling and playing his guitar. A memorial service will be held at 1:00 pm at the Innisfail United Church on Saturday, February 1st. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Heart and Stoke Foundation.

Arrangement made by Heartland Funeral Services.

COUSINEAU Margaret Oct. 19, 1921 - Jan. 23, 2014 After a brief illness Margaret died, as she lived, with quiet dignity and grace. Margaret Mary Waterhouse Hildreth Cousineau was born on October 19, 1921 on her parent’s farm south of Castor.

She was the eldest of four daughters born to Herbert and Elizabeth Waterhouse.

She attended Cowan and Corinne country schools before taking her high schooling in the old sandstone school in Castor. After graduating from high school she enrolled in Normal at the King Edward School in Calgary, where she obtained her teaching certificate.

Margaret served three and a half years in C.W.A.C. (Canadian Women Army Corps) before returning to Castor. July 10, 1948, Fred Hildreth and Margaret were married and raised three children: Lily, Douglas and Graham.

Margaret first taught in the country schools of Corine, Sullivan Lake, Lauderdale and Paintearth before securing a position in the Castor school. She taught various grades but grade two was her favourite. Her entire teaching career spanned thirty years. She was a long time active parishioner of All Saints’ Anglican Church as well as a life time member of the Castor Legion Auxiliary, Castor Ladies Book Club and I.O.D.E. Margaret was a passionate lover of books, card games, performing arts and an avid curling fan. She was always up for a game of Scrabble. She loved to travel and was fortunate to do so.

Fred was tragically killed in 1981 after thirty-three years of marriage. Margaret married Harry Cousineau and they had twelve years together.

Margaret then decided to move to Red Deer in 2002 and thoroughly enjoyed her home in Parkvale Estates as well as Parkvale Lodge, forming new friendships along the way. Margaret was predeceased by her husband Fred; son Douglas; sisters and brothers-in-law Velma and Bob Sutton, Lois and Fred Marsh and Harry. Left to mourn her passing is her family: daughter Lily (Breland); son Graham and three grandchildren: Rachel (Colin) Ballendine, Ryan and Daniel Breland. She also leaves her sister Joy (Jim) Ross; sisterin-law Alta Hildreith as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral service will be held at All Saints Anglican Church in Castor on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice or the Castor Museum for the Church restoration.

HOLLOWAY Thomas Macgregor May 20, 1926 - January 24, 2014 On Friday, January 24, 2014, Thomas “Tom” passed away in the Lacombe Hospital & Care Center with his family by his side. Born in Red Deer, most of his life was spent on his farm NW of Leslieville, on which his father homesteaded since 1905. Farming was Tom’s greatest passion. In 2007, realizing farming was too tough for him to continue, sold out in early 2008 and moved with his wife into Red Deer wherein his love of gardening was carried out in that a rented garden plot beside an old barn just south of Red Deer was a delight to be at. In 2013, he and Lauree moved to Lacombe, however, his being hospitalized since June 4th, 2013 prohibited him from enjoying life in a smaller setting.

Tom is survived by his beloved wife Lauree, step-children Len (Karen), Lee (Sharon), and Shelly (Trevor), step-grandchildren; Tanya, Kyle, Tanner, Tyler and Clayton (CJ), step-great grandchildren; Mackenzie Lee and Sheldon. Also survived by brother George (Madeline) and family as well as sister Margaret, niece Cathe (Greg), nephew Ian (Loree), great nephews Shane (Colleen), Jeffrey, great nieces Christie (Jamie) and Melissa (Chris).

Tom is also survived by four great-great nephews Dylan, Wade, Logan and Maks as well as numerous cousins and extended family. Many thanks go to Dr. Matthew Unger and the medical staff of the Lacombe Hospital for the care given Tom during his long sad journey. Also, thank you to all who extended their prayers, kind words and help.

Cremation has taken place at Wilson’s Crematorium in Lacombe.

At Tom’s request, there will be no funeral service. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to the Lacombe Hospital and Care Center.

Expressions of sympathy may be left in Tom’s online guestbook at thomas.holloway.muchloved.com or www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL and CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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SZOKE Gwen Nov. 21 1930 - Nov. 14 2013 Gwendolyn Blanche Szoke passed away peacefully in Beechy Saskatewan on November 14, 2013 at the age of 83 years. Born in Lacombe Alberta, Gwen was the third daughter born to John and Ivy Neal. She attended school in Rimbey and Bentley. In July of 1949, she married Mike Szoke and they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in July of 2009 with family and friends in Beechy. Gwen worked for a time at The Bentley Red And White grocery store before they moved to High Level in 1972 where she worked as a cook at the hospital. They later moved to Revelstoke BC, Okotoks Alberta and Nanton Alberta before retiring to Beechy Saskatchewan.

Gwen loved her family, enjoyed camping and traveling.

Gwen was an excellent cook and many had the privilege of eating her baking and the great meals she always prepared. Gwen was predeceased by her husband Mike (2010) youngest son Stanley (2012) and her oldest daughter Beverly on Oct 1, 2013. She will be missed and for ever loved by her son Allan Szoke (Helen) of Brooks, daughter Linda Tuplin (Allan) of Beechy Saskatchewan and daughter in law Debbie Szoke of Brooks, her beloved 7 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, her sisters, Joan Dickau of Bentley, Daizie Williamson (Ted) of Ottawa Ont, Shirley Szoke of Rocky Mountain House, brother Howard Neal(Jean) of Calgary, sister in laws, Helen Psenak of Cambridge Ont, Lorraine Neal of Lacombe and brother in law Harry Lawson of Rocky Mountain House. She will also be missed and fondly remembered by many nieces, nephews and friends. The family will be hosting a Memorial Come and Go Tea in Remembrance and Celebration of Gwen and Beverly’s Life’s on February 1st between 1:30 and 4:30 at the Bentley Senior Centre.

In Memoriam IN MEMORY ALLEN GARTH RADFORD May 26, 1947 - Jan. 29, 2012 “They whom we love and lose Are no longer where They were before.

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Yellow-green eyes & a torn, healed ear. Tattooed. With the temperature dropping, we are starting to fear the worst. He normally only spends time outside sunning on the deck so his disappearance is very alarming. Reward for his safe return. Anyone w/information can contact Hayley at 403-506-7446 any time of day.

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ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs. $14/hr. Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

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Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Team in Hinton.

Alstar has been serving the oil and gas construction industry since 1969.

Modular Assembly Experience is an Asset

ment drug screen. We offer exceptional wages and benefits for exceptional people. Fax resume and abstract to 403-314-2340 or email to safety@ providencetrucking.ca Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

If you have a Desire to be Part of a Growing Company Please apply on our Career Section on our website www.alstaroilfield.com “Committed to enriching the lives of our workforce, while Providing quality energy construction solutions”

Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

FLUID Experts Ltd.

Fluid Experts of Red Deer is seeking experienced

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MICROAGE MicroAge is again looking for dynamic individuals to assist with offering our customers a positive and timely response to their IT issues. We require and administration assistant to work with dispatching, shipping/receiving/ and some minor bookkeeping responsibilities. We need someone with an upbeat personality and willing to assist with a variety of tasks. Must be able to work in a team environment.

Please send your resume to hr@microage.cc

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JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Day Supervisors, Night Operators, and Helpers. Must have valid Class 5 drivers license. RSP’s and benefits pkg. incentives. Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com LOCAL Testing company seeking experienced Well Testers.

Positions available immediately.

Day/Night Supervisors & Assistants.

MUST HAVE valid H2S and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits.

Email resumes and tickets to: ken@ darkstarproduction.com

requires OPTICAL ASSISTANT Training provided.

Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB.

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Trades

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CARPENTERS and laborers with exp. in farm buildings. 403-318-6406 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Business Opportunities

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY!

Food/Lounge Services at the Penhold Regional Mulitplex.

MILLWRIGHTS & WELDERS for work in Red Deer.

Please fax resume to 1-403-229-4079

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Truckers/ Drivers

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The Multiplex is comprised of an indoor ice arena, fitness center, running/ walking track, gymnasium, dance & motion studio, library, meeting rooms and the Town Office.

A fully equipped concession/ food service kitchen.

OPPORTUNITIES: 2 Year Signed Lease for A) Lounge Operation Only B) The Café Operation Only C) Joint Use of both Café & Lounge For Detailed information regarding this opportunity please visit our website @ www.townofpenhold.ca

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ACADEMIC Express

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk (Reliable vehicle needed) ROSEDALE AREA Reichley St., Reinholt Ave., Robinson Cres. Area 100 Papers $540/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING DNR Powerline Start your career!

Construction requires See Help Wanted Journeyman/ WINTER START Apprentices/Labourers for Celebrate your life various projects in Alberta. with a Classified GED PREPARATION A Division of Long term employment.

ANNOUNCEMENT Feb. 10 START CORDY ENVIRONMENTAL Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent BLACKFALDS Motor Inn EXPERIENCED SPRING START benefit packages. Fax -Housekeeping Supervisor Vacuum & Water resume to 403-742-5759 Req’d. 1 F/T, $19 - $20 hr., Truck operators • Community Support or email: dnrwelding1 1 yr. exp. req’d. Fax req’d. to start immed.

Worker Program @dnrwelding.ca Attention: resume: 403-885-5868 NEWSPAPER $450/per day Noel. No Phone calls Attn: Jenny CARRIERS CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q • Women in the Trades please. Drug and Alcohol All oilfield safety tickets REQUIRED Program JJAM Management (1987) program in effect. req’d.

Clean drivers Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s DNR Pressure Welding abstract. Must comply with • Math and Science for Requires to work at these To deliver requires B-Pressure drug and alcohol policy. the Trades Program Red Deer, AB locations: 1 day a week in Welder Crew Foreman, References Req’d.

5111 22 St. lead hands, labourers for Exc. salary & benefits.

Gov’t of Alberta Funding 37444 HWY 2 S BOWDEN various projects in Alberta.

Fax resume to: may be available.

37543 HWY 2N Long term employment.

403-742-5376 700 3020 22 St. Please call Debbie Excellent opportunity for doug.reinhart@cordy.ca 403-340-1930 Food Service Supervisor 8 apprenticeship. Excellent at 403-314-4307 Vacancies, 1-2 yrs. exp. www.academicexpress.ca BUSY Central Alberta benefit packages. Fax req’d. P/T & F.T. SHIFT Grain Trucking Company resume to 403-742-5759 WORK, $9.95 - $13.50/hr. looking for Class 1 Drivers or email: dnrwelding1 Apply in person or fax and/or Lease Operators. resume to: 403-314-1303 @dnrwelding.ca. Attention: We offer lots of home time, Ryan. No Phone calls benefits and a bonus JJAM Management (1987) please. Drug and Alcohol ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED program. Grain and super program in effect.

Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s For delivery of B exp. an asset but not Requires to work at these DNR Pressure Welding & Flyers, Express and Sunday Life necessary. If you have a Red Deer, AB locations: Powerline Construction clean commercial drivers 5111 22 St. ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in requires Journeyman abstract and would like to 37444 HWY 2 S Heavy Duty Mechanic with start making good money.

37543 HWY 2N CLEARVIEW AREA experience in fleet maintefax or email resume and 700 3020 22 St. nance for Heavy & Light comm.abstract to Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres.

Food Counter Attendant duty trucks. Excellent 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net 8 Vacancies P/T & F.T. $146/mo. benefit packages. Email SHIFT WORK, $9.95 resumes to Harold@ $10.98/hr. Apply in person dnrwelding.ca or fax CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 (403)742-5759 No Phone Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., calls please. Drug and LUAU Investments Ltd. alcohol program in effect.

Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. (o/a Tim Hortons) Food Counter Attendant $190/mo.

Experienced Siders FT and PT positions Needed Call 403-588-3210 available for day, night, DEERPARK AREA F/T COMMERCIAL evening and weekend shifts. $9.95 to $11.25 per GLAZIER 74 to 129 Blosk of Dunning Cres., hour depending on experi- Journeyman & apprentices Depalm St. and ence/availability. Apply in We offer competitive CENTRAL AB based truckperson at any of these wages. Full benefits after approx. 3 blocks of Douglas St. ing company requires locations 4217 - 50 Ave 90 days. Must have valid $108/mo Owner Operators 6721 - 50 Ave drivers licence. Email resume & Company Drivers 7111 - 50 Ave to: d.generationglass in AB. Home the odd GRANDVIEW AREA 62 Carleton Ave @platinum.ca night. Weekends off. Late or email timhire@telus.net or Fax: 403-886-5224 model tractor pref. or Call 403-886-5221 40A, 41 and 42 Ave. between 39 St. 403-586-4558 X-STATIC and 44 St. GOODMEN is now accepting Buying or Selling $111/mo. applications for P/T ROOFING LTD. your home?

Requires MALE SEARCH Check out Homes for Sale MICHENER AREA & SECURITY in Classifieds SLOPED ROOFERS East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., PERSONNEL LABOURERS Apply in person after 3 F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Michener Cres., Green, etc. to & FLAT ROOFERS Minimum Class 5 with air Michener Ave. & Blvd. and clean abstract. Exp. Valid Driver’s Licence $303/mo.

Sales & preferred. In person to Key preferred. Fax or email Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Distributors info@goodmenroofing.ca Red Deer.

ROSEDALE AREA or (403)341-6722 ELEMENTS is looking 5 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. Beauty Treatment Operators.

JOURNEYMAN H.D. $87/mo.

Selling seasonal gift MECHANIC req’d immed. packages & personal care for very busy heavy equip. products in Parkland sales lot in Innisfail.

ALSO Mall-4747 67th St Red Wage range $25. - $35/hr Deer, $14.55/Hr. Plus to start, depending on exp.

West half of bonus & commission, F/T, Preference will be given Beauty certification req’d Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., PROFESSIONAL to those with previous email resumes: & Ryan Cl. Area.

Truck Driver equipment rental service, elementsreddeerbto@ lifts and off road $84/mo.

Position Available gmail.com construction equipment www.ads-pipe.com experience. Fax resume Advanced Drainage ELEMENTS is looking for TIMBERLANDS AREA Systems, Inc., the world’s 5 retail sales reps. selling to 403-227-5701 or email: bouvier9@telus.net largest and most innovaseason gift packages and Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. tive manufacturer of HDPE personal care products in REQUIRED: $113/mo. drainage products is Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. CARPENTER/DRYWALLER expanding and are ALSO Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + for restoration company. currently accepting bonus & comm. FT. No This is a F/T position. Must Timberstone Way, Talson Place, applications for a certified exp. req`d. Please email have a valid drivers license.

Thomas Place, Trimble Cl., Class 1 Driver, with a elementsreddeer@gmail.com Duties: Carpentry, drywall, minimum of two (2) years Traptow Cl. & Thompson Cres. painting & finishing work.

Classifieds B-train trailer experience.

Fax or email resume to $307/mo.

Your place to SELL ADS Drivers are required 403-347-4037 or crr@telus.net Your place to BUY or contact Al @ 403-347-4001 to safely operate company equipment and provide a Call Jamie 403-314-4306 high level of customer Truckers/ service, delivering our products within central Drivers Alberta. ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and maintain legal transportation paperwork and driving practices. This position requires a valid FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS Class 1 License, with previous off road forklift ROUTES IN: experience a definite asset. We offer quarterly ANDERS AREA cash safety bonuses as Requires experienced, responsible and mature well as a comprehensive Anders St. / Armstrong Close medical plan.

Benefits include: Addinnell Close / Allan St. Company provided Group Canadian Benefits Abbott Close / Anders St. Voluntary dental Life insurance Anders Close Short-term and long-term disability Retirement Savings Plan INGLEWOOD AREA Candidates must: (RSP) and Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) - Have at least three years experience loading Paid Vacation Isherwood Close Safety Bonus and unloading all types of equipment Issard Close All applicants are subject - Jeep and Trailer experience to a pre-employment - On road/off road experience physical and MVR check.

LANCASTER AREA Interested Applicants may - Gravel Hauling (end dump) submit a resume, along - Basic Truck Maintenance Law Close / Lewis Close with a current drivers abstract to: If you have a positive attitude and are Langford Close Advanced Drainage committed to providing the best customer Systems Canada Inc. Lamont Close 4316 Gerdts Ave. service, then we are looking for you!

Blindman Ind. Park Lund Close Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8 Fax: We offer competitive wages, Year Round Work, (403) 346-5806 MORRISROE AREA Blue Cross Benefits and Room for Advancement.

E-mail ken.mccutcheon@ ads-pipe.com Contact: Vista Village Position closing date: Feb. 6, 2014

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SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS & DERRICK HANDS

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

ALCOHOLICS Bearspaw offers a Class 1 Operators ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 very competitive salary to haul clean fluids for the and benefits package Oil & Gas Industry. Home COCAINE ANONYMOUS along with a steady every night, company 403-396-8298 work schedule. benefits with exceptional THE GENTLEMAN that Please submit resumes: pay structure. Must be able attended the JUSTICE Attn: Human Resources to work on their own with FILM FESTIVAL this past Email: minimal supervision. weekend - I would like to hr@bearspawpet.com Compensation based on meet with you over a coffee Fax: (403) 258-3197 or experience. Fax resume if you are unattached. I am Mail to: Suite 5309, w/all tickets and current an active 64 year old 333-96 Ave. NE drivers abstract to: Female. Reply to Box Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 403-346-3112 or email to: 1076, c/o RED DEER roger@fluidexperts.com ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Global Tubing Canada is Ave., R. D., AB T4R 1M9 currently looking for employees for our growing service company. We are looking for permanent/ fulltime employees with Coil Tubing experience or without. Lots of room for advancement for the entry TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid level employee. Work full Haulers for Central time in Red Deer, no CLASSIFICATIONS Alberta. Oilfield tickets travelling. Call 403-346700-920 req’d. Competitive wages 9231 for more information and benefits. or drop resume off at 7754 admin@tankmaster.ca or 47th Avenue Close, Red fax 403-340-8818 Computer Deer, Alberta.

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NEW IMPRESSIONS SALON & SPA Seeking F/T& P/T Hair Stylist Drop off resume to 190 Northey Ave.

Janitorial

Get in the best shape of your life. Lose weight, relieve stress and learn self defense.

Classes starting now.

(403)347-9020 www.cheneykarate.com

Sales & Distributors

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & bath in Ponoka county, supplies products $14.55/hr. + oilfield septic containment bonus & comm. Beauty & disposal throughout AB. TRIUMPH Well Service is cert. req’d. Location now accepting applications We require Driver Parkland Mall - 4747 67th for all positions.

Operators for small vac St. Red Deer. email Experience req’d. Tickets trucks. Oilfield exp. is an premierjobrdbto@ and drivers license asset. Must have H2S, gmail.com required. Top wages and First Aid, TDG, clean benefits with contracted SOAP Stories is seeking 5 driver’s abstract & Class 5 work. email dmorin@ retail sales reps. Selling license, drug testing. triumphwellservice.com soap & bath products. $20/ hr. to start, home $12.10 hr + bonus & comevery night, benefits. mission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Fax resume to Dan Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. 403-704-1127 or email: Professionals Red Deer. email resume to dan@ premierjobrd@gmail.com langansiteservices.com

JUST CUTS is looking for F/T - P/T HAIRSTYLIST No clientele necessary.

Christie 403-309-2494 FUN AND FRIENDS PLAYSCHOOL ** CELEBRATION SALE ** February - June classes Ages 3 -5. Call 403-342-5450

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Oilfield

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all positions! Immediately.

All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, (No GDL licenses) and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits.

Please include 2 work reference names and numbers.

Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. www.treelinewell.com You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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NOW HIRING

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CARRIERS NEEDED

HEAVY EQUIPMENT HAULERS To Join Our Team!

Email: info@graysonexcavating.com or

Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring for the following positions:

Fax: 403-782-6846

• Coil Tubing Rig Managers • Coil Tubing Operators • Crane Truck Operators • Nitrogen Pump Operators • Fluid Pump Operators

Truckers/ Drivers

860

SUNNYBROOK AREA Somerset Close Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Sherwood Cres.

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Competitive Wages and Benefits. Priority given to applicants with relevant experience, Class 1 Drivers License and Valid Oilfield Tickets

VANIER AREA Viscount Drive

Pidherney’s requires experienced Drivers:

Vickers Close

CLASS 1 & 3 DRIVERS

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.

Pidherney’s is busy and requires Water Truck, Gravel Truck and Lowboy Drivers. The majority of the positions available are based out of camp.

H2S, First Aid, and the capacity to pass a pre-access Drug and Alcohol test are considered assets.

For more information see Please Forward All Resumes to jobs@wiseisi.com or by fax to 403-340-1046

Please reply by fax: 403-845-5370 or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

354296A30

www.wiseisi.com

We offer competitive wages, benefits package, and opportunities for advancement.

Volks Place / Vanier Drive Vanson Close / Visser St. Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

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LANGAN SITE SERVICES LTD.

ADAM & EVE UNISEX In the Parkland Mall is seeking P/T / F/T HAIR STYLISTS Please call Laurie 403-350-4341

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Class Registrations

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355748A31

Hair Stylists

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 MERCEDES Benz CLS 500 lthr., sunroof, 115057 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 HUMMER H2 $24,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

2006 PONTIAC Solstice 26080 kms., 5 speed,

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 KIA SORENTO, silver, 147,000 km.

$19,888.

2005 LEXUS ES 330 FWD, lthr., 41,100 kms,

$15,888. SOLD

348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 GMC Yukon XL

2011 CHEV Silverado LTZ 6.2 L, lthr.,

$33,888.

2007 PONTIAC G5.

Manual, 130,000 km. Great cond. Winter & Summer tires. Well. maint. N/S.

$5,550.

403-342-4318

2007 TOYOTA Tacoma V6

2006 Range Rover Sport HSE Sport & Import 7652 50 Ave

4X4, 114903 kms.,

$25,888

ALL WHEEL DRIVE 2007 530 XI BMW. Original Owner, 143,000 km. Exc. Cond. Regularly Maintained,

403-348-8788

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

$19,888.

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

$10,000.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Denali AWD

$19,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

348-8788 Sport & Import

348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 Audi A4 2.0T $19,888.

Sport & Import 348 8788

2008 VW GOLF CITY $9888 Sport & Import 348 8788

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 FORD FIESTA. $8200, 5 spd, 11,000 km.

Exc. cond. Great on gas.

Medical reasons.

Ask for Doug 587-272-2543

2011 GMC Sierra 1500 Hybrid 4X4, 6.0L, lthr., 81735 kms.,

Fully Loaded!

Call 403-350-4323

2002 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta GLS 1.8L,

2006 34’ Gulf Stream Yellowstone. Sleeps 4, 3 slides, new awning, washer, dryer hookup, equipped w/Arctic & Sub Arctic pkgs, custom skirt & more! $34,900. 403-8878405

$10,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 ACURA RSX Premium auto 57,000 km $12,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

2003 DODGE Durango SLT Plus, 4X4,

2006 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV platinum, mint $21,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

2007 CHRYSLER 300 103198 kms., 348-8788 Sport & Import

348-8788 Sport & Import

$25,888.

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 COLORADO, 28RK, Dutchman, 32’, slideout, back kitchen, shower, king bed, TV, stereo, air. loaded

2008 BMW X5 3.0si

2009 RANGER XLT 4x4, 70,000 kms.,

348-8788 Sport & Import

TRADES CONSIDERED 403-598-0682

348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2009 VW GOLF, manual, 90,000 km.

Winter pkg,

2012 CHEV Silverado 2500 LTZ, diesel, lthr., tonneau cover,

403-391-1770

348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 FORD F-150 Lariat 4X4, htd. lthr., sunroof,

2008 Escalade ESV. Nav. Dvd camera 6 pass $32,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

2010 ACURA MDX tech package 91,000 km $30,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

2012 INFINITI G37X $27,888 Sport & Import 348-8788

2008 FORD F-250 XL

2010 CHEV 1500 4x4 8 cyl. Kuhmo Tires.

$26,888.

403-346-9816

$10,888

2008 BMW 328 xi sunroof, lthr., 66,382 kms.,

AWD, htd. lthr., panaroof,

$27,888.

$22,900. 403-784-2482

$8,888.

403-348-8788 Sport & Import

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 DODGE RAM 1500 4x4, quad, gold , c/w topper, 2 sets of tires. Exc. cond.

2006 GMC C4500 4X4, Duramax, 170,000 kms.

DO YOU HAVE VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

$39,888.

$6000 FIRM.

348-8788 Sport & Import

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$27,888.

$18,888.

$12,888.

$15,900.

$10,500.

$28,888.

$36,888

348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 H2 hummer, mint condition, 59,000 kms, new tires & rims, original rims and tires to buyer. Call Art 403-304-0727.

4X4, 6.4L, 92754 kms.

348-8788 Sport & Import

$17,900.

8th Annual Red Deer Collector Car Auction & Speed Show.

Mar 14 - 16. Westerner Park, Red Deer. 150,000 sq.ft. indoor show. Exhibitors space avail.

Consign today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGAuctions.com

2009 HYUNDAI ELANTRA GL SPORT

2008 PONTIAC G6 GT

2012 HONDA CIVIC EX

Stk #H35364A. 16” Alloy Wheels, ABS, CD, Air, Tilt, Cruise, Heated Seats, Sunroof, Spoiler, 72,209 kms

Stk #H45584A. 17” Alloy Wheels, ABS, CD, Keyless Entry, PW, PDL, Local Trade, 121,483 kms

Stk #H35630A. 16” Alloy Wheels, ABS, Bluetooth, Keyless Entry, MP3, PB, PDL, PM, PS, Sunroof, Tilt, Telescopic Steering, 34,847 kms

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$

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15,990

2013 HYUNDAI GENESIS COUPE 2.0T PREMIUM

2012 HYUNDAI VERACRUZ GLS/AWD

2012 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER LS/V6

Stk #HP5597. “Like New”, 18” Alloy Wheels, ABS, Bluetooth, MP3, Keyless Entry, Leather, Heated Seats, Sunroof, Nav., 11,073 kms

Stk #HP5701. 18” Alloy Wheels, ABS, Bluetooth, CD Player, Keyless Entry, Leather, Heated Seats, 3rd Row Seating, Roof Rack, 22,063 kms

Stk #HP5703, 16” Alloy Wheels, ABS, Bluetooth, CD Player, Tilt, Cruise, Fog Lamps, Keyless Entry, Heated Seats, 53,880 kms

$

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2008 GMC Acadia SLE AWD, 8 passenger, 90,485 kms,

2008 FORD F150.

348-8788, Sport & Import

348-8788 Sport & Import

403-347-0461

403-741-6844

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 LAND ROVER Range Rover supercharged, 4X4, nav., sunroof, lthr.,

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014

Number implicated in nuke missile cheating probe has doubled

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The cheating scandal inside the U.S. Air Force’s nuclear missile corps is expanding, with the number of service members implicated by investigators now roughly double the 34 reported just a week ago, officials said Tuesday.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the additional 30-plus airmen suspected of being involved in cheating on proficiency tests are alleged to have participated in the cheating directly or were involved indirectly.

Regardless, a doubling of the number implicated means that approximately 14 per cent of the entire Air Force cadre of nuclear missile launch control officers, which numbers about 500, has been removed at least temporarily from active missile duty. It was not clear Tuesday how that affects the mission, beyond requiring the remaining crew members to bear a bigger share of the work.

The officials who disclosed the higher number cheating suspects spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the information by name while the investigation is ongoing.

The Air Force announced on Jan. 15 that while it was investigating possible criminal drug use by some airmen, it discovered that one missile officer at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana

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stuff ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer (Reliable vehicle needed.)

ANDERS AREA INGLEWOOD AREA MORRISROE AREA SUNNYBROOK AREA VANIER AREA

Call Prodie: 403-314-4301 for more info ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

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CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Building Supplies

1550

Concrete forming equipment Dura-Form 4’ x 2’, 5’x2’, 7’x2’, 8’ x 2’, lots of inside corners and Àllers, most of forms are in cages.

To view call Randy 403-843-1099 cell 587-679-2334. For pics and detailed equipt. list emai: thepelletiers@ xplornet.ca

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, ofÀce, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS Johnstone Crossing Semi loads of pine, spruce, Jepsen Cres. & Jordan Pkway Kentwood Kendrew Dr. Also Kennings Cres. & Kirby St. Mustang Acres 63 Ave. & 69 St. Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

Collectors' Items

1870

2 NATIVE Blackfoot medicine and war shields (keepsake) $80/ea.

403-347-7405 CREE native Medicine Men shields, approx. 20” x 36”, must sell now $85 403-347-7405

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s salamander-like axolotl may have disappeared from its only known natural habitat in Mexico City’s few remaining lakes.

It’s disturbing news for an admittedly ugly creature, which has a slimy tail, plumage-like gills and mouth that curls into an odd smile.

The axolotl is known as the “water monster” and the “Mexican walking fish.”

Its only natural habitat is the Xochimilco network of lakes and canals — the “floating gardens” of earth piled on reed mats that the Aztecs built to grow crops but are now suffering from pollution and urban sprawl.

Biologist Armando Tovar Garza of Mexico’s National Autonomous University said Tuesday that the creature “is in serious risk of disappearing” from the wild.

Describing an effort last year by researchers in skiffs to try to net axolotls in the shallow, muddy waters of Xochimilco, Tovar Garza summed up the results as “four months of sampling — zero axolotls.”

Some axolotls still survive in aquariums, water tanks and research labs, but experts said those conditions aren’t the best, because of interbreeding and other risks.

Growing up to a foot long (30 centimetres), axolotls use four stubby legs to drag themselves along the bottom

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had shared test questions with 16 other officers. It said another 17 admitted to knowing about this cheating but did not report it.

The 34 officers had their security clearances suspended and they were taken off missile launch duty.

Lt. Col. John Sheets, a spokesman for Air Force Global Strike Command, which manages the nuclear Air Force, said he could not comment on the number of additional officers implicated in the cheating investigation since last week, but he said all are launch control officers at Malmstrom and all have been removed from performing that duty pending the outcome of the investigation.

The Air Force has 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, on alert at all times, with a contingent of about 500 launch control officers, some number of which are unavailable on any given day due to illness or other reasons. So the number temporarily unavailable for duty because of the cheating scandal is substantial — about 14 per cent of the total if the number of those who have been decertified is now double the original 34.

Each day, a total of 90 officers work in pairs inside 45 underground launch control centres, with each centre monitoring and controlling a group of 10 ICBMs. They work 24-hour shifts in the missile field and then return to their base. They generally do as many as eight of these shifts per month.

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The Mexican Academy of Sciences said in a statement that a 1998 survey found an average of 6,000 axolotls per square kilometre, a figure that dropped to 1,000 in a 2003 study, and 100 in a 2008 survey.

Tovar Garza said it is too early to declare the axolotl extinct in its natural habitat. He said that in early February, researchers will begin a threemonth search in hopes of finding what may be the last free-roaming axolotl.

The searches “on almost all the canals have to be repeated, because now we are in the cold season, with lower temperatures, and that is when we ought to have more success with the axolotls, because it is when they breed,” Tovar Garza said.

Alarmed by the creature’s falling numbers in recent years, researchers built axolotl “shelters” in Xochimilco.

Sacks of rocks and reedy plants act as filters around a selected area, and cleaner water is pumped in, to create better conditions.

The shelters also were intended to help protect the axolotls from non-native carp and tilapia that were introduced to the lake system years ago and compete with axolotls for food.

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Where do birds sleep?

NOT IN THEIR NESTS, BUT THEY DO ROOST IN SAFE, WARM SPOTS

BY NICHOLAS LUND ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — When I talk to people about birds, one misunderstanding comes up again and again, one thing that everyone seems to get wrong: Birds don’t sleep in their nests.

They don’t.

The mental image is a cute one — a little bird, tuckered out after an early morning of worm-getting, peeling back a tiny leaf blanket in its cozy little nest — but it’s just not the case.

Nests (for birds that even make nests — many of them don’t) are for keeping eggs and chicks in place.

When nesting season is over, nests are a mess — splattered in the droppings of the fledglings and, in some cases, a dead chick.

These messes can attract parasites and predators, and birds just don’t need the nests anymore.

So where do birds sleep?

Lots of places.

When birds settle down to sleep, it’s called “roosting,” and the main things they’re looking for are safety and warmth.

Songbirds have to keep off the ground to avoid cats and things, and out of the open to avoid owls.

Dense brush or foliage does fine.

Bigger birds have more options and can sleep on the water, on a branch, or even just right on the ground.

Few roosts are completely safe, though, so some birds have developed the ability to literally sleep with one eye open.

The eyes of most birds (unlike in humans) send information to only one side of the brain.

Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep (USWS) allows birds to slide one hemisphere of their brain into a deep sleep while leaving the other hemisphere awake and alert.

Birds can turn USWS on and off depending on how safe their roost is: For example, when a large flock of ducks is roosting on an open lake, the birds in the safety of the center of the flock may shut down completely, while the more vulnerable birds at the edge of the flock may enter USWS to stay alert.

What’s more, scientists suspect that some birds use USWS to sleep while in flight.

OK, so birds don’t sleep in their nests.

Let’s get more specific than that.

There are a lot of different kinds of birds, and they roost in different ways.

So you’ll be able to really dazzle ‘em at your next cocktail party, here’s how a bunch of different families of birds really do prefer to roost.

Geese and ducks A coyote would love nothing more than to run up on a big, fat, delicious, sleeping goose.

Their bigness and fatness,

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A common sparrow’s nest. Nests (for birds that even make nests — many of them don’t) are for keeping eggs and chicks in place. along with their webbed feet, make it impossible for waterfowl to sleep in the safety of a tree.

Most of the time, geese and ducks sleep at night right on the water.

Eagles and hawks aren’t a threat because they also sleep during the night, and any predator swimming after the birds would send vibrations through the water, waking them up.

Small islands work, too.

Waterfowl also sleep on the shore, usually standing on one leg (tucking the other one up into the warmth of its feathers).

Herons and egrets These big wading birds really have only equally large predators to worry about: alligators and eagles. Sometimes herons and egrets roost in the shallows, relying on vibrations in the water to warn them of reptiles, but they’re most often seen roosting in large flocks in waterside trees.

Shorebirds Spending most of their time out on open beaches, birds like sandpipers and plovers are vulnerable to dive-bombing raptors even when they’re awake.

Not being equipped to sit in trees or float on the water, sleeping is an even more dangerous proposition.

Shorebirds simply do the best they can, roosting on open beaches in large flocks (to help raise alarm) and almost certainly using USWS to keep alert.

Hawks, eagles and owls You know that old joke about where the 800-pound gorilla can sit?

Well, hawks and eagles follow the same rule: anywhere they want to.

Big raptors don’t have to worry about predators so long as they’re off the ground, so they’ll usually just find a tree branch somewhere.

Owls also sleep in trees, usually during the day, either in dense foliage (to keep the light out) or, for certain species, in tree cavities.

Grouse and quail Sleep is perhaps most dangerous for these guys — all fat and juicy and, typically, with a poor ability to fly. Everything eats them.

They sleep in the safest places they can find and use USWS and camouflage in their defense.

Birds that live where there are trees, like spruce or ruffed grouse, will fly up and sleep on tree branches.

Where there aren’t trees but only smaller vegetation,

birds like willow ptarmigan will sleep in the vegetation.

Where there’s nothing at all, no trees or bushes, say, and the land is covered in snow, birds like white-tailed ptarmigan will trust in their all-white plumage and nestle down right there in a snowy hillside.

Woodpeckers Most woodpeckers roost in tree cavities, either ones they’ve used as nest holes or sometimes ones they’ve chiseled out just for sleeping.

Lots of birds roost in tree cavities, or really any hole or covered area, for that matter.

Humans have helped, creating lots of protected nooks under roofs, bridges, barns and ledges.

Crows, swallows, swifts, starlings These birds aren’t closely related, but they share some incredible communal roosting behaviors.

Some species, for social or safety reasons or for warmth, choose to sleep together — sometimes in gigantic flocks.

The spectacle of these flocks gathering at dusk is amazing to some people, eerie to others, but impossible to look away from.

Check out these videos of hundreds of crows in Maryland, thousands and thousands

of tree swallows in Florida, these chimney swifts wheeling into a middle school in Wisconsin, and this famous viral video of a starling “murmuration” in the United Kingdom: http://slate.me/1jFJn5J. Pretty much everything else.

The bulk of the remaining birds — more than half of all bird species — are perching birds from the order Passeriformes.

Classic bird-birds: sparrows, warblers, cardinals, jays, buntings, etc.

For the most part, all these perching birds use dense vegetation — bushes, hedges, trees — to sleep.

They just fly in at dusk, grab hold of an appropriately sized twig, and conk out.

How do perching birds stay perched on their perch while they’re asleep, you might ask?

Evolution, of course.

Passerines have developed “flexor tendons” in their legs that involuntarily clasp shut when a bird squats on a perch.

The tendons won’t relax until a bird straightens its leg, so a bird physically can’t leave until it’s ready.

The grip is so tight that some birds, including hummingbirds, have been seen sleeping upside down.

Looks plenty comfortable to me, and no nest required.

Nicholas Lund lives and birds in Washington, D.C., and writes for the Birdist. You can follow him on Twitter at @TheBirdist

Will the THC-Hawks get smoked?

POT PUNS PACK THIS SUPER BOWL BETWEEN CITIES WITH LEGAL WEED

BY GENE JOHNSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — The way Bryan Weinman sees it, he and his friends already won their Super Bowl bet.

Two weeks ago, the nightclub DJ and a few buddies were sitting at a sports bar in Denver, joking about how funny it would be if the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos — the NFL teams from the two states that have legalized marijuana — made it to the big game.

They decided to plunk down a $44 wager — the fee for registering the Internet domain www.stonerbowl. org — just before the Seahawks and Broncos won their conference championships.

It paid off.

They’re now using the site to hawk T-shirts and hats celebrating the coincidence.

One shirt features the Vince Lombardi Trophy, reserved for the game’s victors, refashioned into a bong. Another features a spoof of the league’s logo, with the letters “THC” — for marijuana’s active compound — replacing “NFL.” From weed-themed Super Bowl parties to a Denver company’s “Stoner Bowl” tours of recreational pot shops, this year’s Super Bowl offers a twist on a sporting event better known for its beer commercials.

Thanks to the recreational marijuana laws passed by voters in 2012, sales of taxed pot to adults over 21 be-

gan at Colorado pot shops Jan. 1 and are due to begin in Washington later this year.

There have been a slew of predictable, ready-made puns, most of which have to do with “bowl” being the part of the pipe where pot goes.

Some fans have issued not-quiteserious calls for a cannabis-friendly musician — say, Willie Nelson or Snoop Dogg — to sing the national anthem.

“I’m staying home and will be watching the Super Bowl while I light up my own Super Bowl,” well-known stoner Tommy Chong, of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong, wrote on its Facebook page.

The pair released a publicity photo doctored to show Chong in a Seahawks headband and Cheech Marin in a knit Broncos hat.

The Washington chapter of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said it would be rooting on the “THC-Hawks.” It made a friendly bet with Colorado NORML for what they’re calling “Bud Bowl XLVIII.” If Denver wins, the Washington chapter has to dress in Broncos colours and sing John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High.”

If Seattle wins, the Colorado chapter must dress in Seahawks colours and sing “Purple Haze,” by Seattle native Jimi Hendrix. Video evidence is to be posted on the winner’s Facebook page for at least a week.

In deference to the importance of good officiating, High Times magazine

offered a guide to spotting “Stoner Bowl” party fouls, including the offence of “holding”: “When the violator takes, two, three, maybe eight hits before passing the joint.”

On Twitter, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals promoted its recipe for vegan “Colorado catnip” brownies, with caveats: “Note: This recipe is for humans only. Also note: This recipe is for legally obtained marijuana.

PETA does not condone the purchase or sale of illegal drugs.”

At the sports bar, Weinman, 35, and his friends scribbled down their Tshirt ideas — first on coasters, and then paper.

Their motto: “One team and a lot of fans are gonna get smoked.”

“There’s so many easy jokes,” he said.

“I hope the average person finds comedy in what we’re doing.”

Even if the average person might, it’s not clear the NFL does. “We do not have any response,” league spokesman Greg Aiello wrote in an email.

Derek Franklin, president of the Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention, said all the attention about the “Weed Bowl or the Bong Bowl, what have you, it drives home the wrong public health message.”

He noted that Washington NORML’s Facebook page featured a cartoonish version of the Seahawks logo, with bloodshot eyes and a joint in its beak.

“That’s the kind of thing that for

kids, it’s going to stick in their heads,” he said.

This Super Bowl is “incredible for the ’Hawks, but tough for those of us in prevention.”

Medical marijuana advocates also suggested the joking over the big game underscores a serious issue: The NFL doesn’t allow its players, even those in states that have approved medical or recreational marijuana, to use it to ease the pain from the beatings they take on the field.

Commissioner Roger Goodell said Thursday the league could reconsider that.

“I’m not a medical expert,” he said.

“We will follow science. We will follow medicine. If they determine this is a proper method, we would consider it. Our medical experts are not saying that right now.”

Among those hoping to make a buck on the Denver-Seattle matchup is Matt Brown, co-founder of My 420 Tours in Denver.

The company is offering a threenight “Stoner Bowl” package starting at $1,409.

It includes tours of local marijuana shops and indoor gardens, lots of free samples, a cannabis cooking class and a private viewing party for the game.

Brown, who grew up in Kansas City and has mixed loyalties between the Chiefs and the Broncos, said he expected about 50 customers.

“We’ve been joking about the ’Stoner Bowl’ for a couple weeks now,” he said.

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The Cling Monster

HOW TO HANDLE — AND LEARN TO EMBRACE — A CLINGY CHILD

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So there I was last week — sick with an endless cold, exhausted from a cross-country holiday trip, and pregnant, when my two-year-old turned into a 16-kg leech.

Every waking moment he demanded that I hold him in my arms — standing, never sitting, as if my love weren’t real unless my biceps were burning. When I would run downstairs to get him a glass of milk or grab my iPhone, he would insist on being ferried along on my hip.

Awesomely, my husband wasn’t allowed to help. I was apparently the only person on Earth who could read to my son, sing to him, change his diaper, give him a bath, make his dinner, hand him his water, and strap him into his car seat.

My son does this sometimes — becomes a Cling Monster. It’ll last a few days, even up to a week. And I never know whether I should indulge his every demand or whether, at some point, I should give him a pat on the back, tell him to man up, and grit my teeth through the screamy consequences. I wonder whether there is anything I can to do make the neediness stop once it starts. I wonder: Is there something wrong with him? And then, of course, I wonder: Is there anything wrong with me? Is there anything I am doing to cause all this?

As I like to do when something parenting-related (or in this case, my child) is nagging me, I did some research and called a handful of child psychologists.

And as it turns out, periodic clinginess is very normal — in fact, it’s a sign that you and your child have a healthy relationship. Some kids are also just more temperamentally needy than others.

But the way parents handle clinginess can have a big impact on how long it lasts and how bad it becomes. And sometimes, yes, we do actually cause it ourselves.

Here’s how to avoid becoming that parent: First, the reassuring stuff. Clingy behaviour, as renowned University of Minnesota attachment researcher Alan Sroufe explained to me, is absolutely natural. Evolutionary even. Back when our ancestors were climbing trees and jumping across rocks and escaping predators as hunter-gatherers, their babies and toddlers literally clung on to them for support and protection. “Clinging in primates, especially nomadic primates, is a very important behaviour to have,” Sroufe says.

Clinginess is ultimately a sign that your child considers you what attachment researchers call “a secure base.”

Babies and toddlers who have developed secure attachments with caregivers — who have come to trust, through experience, that these adults are available and sensitive to their needs — use these caregivers as mother ships from which to explore the world.

“Knowing that you have someone to return to in times of trouble fosters the ability to go out and explore and do things,” says Jude Cassidy, a psychologist and attachment expert at the University of Maryland. When things get scary or unpredictable, your toddler comes back to you and essentially says, ‘Hey, I need a little extra support here.’

Securely attached toddlers waffle between these two extremes of independence and dependence, which is why your kid will be latching on to you one second and then telling you to go away the next. Children who do not have secure attachments with their caregivers, on the other hand, feel they can’t rely on them when needed; research suggests that these babies and toddlers are

actually less clingy in scary situations.

Ultimately, then, periodic clinginess is a sign that your child trusts you — that you’re doing things right.

An aside: Every attachment researcher I talk to brings up the fact that “attachment parenting,” a trendy approach popularized by Dr. Sears and crew that involves carrying your kids constantly, co-sleeping with them, and not traditionally disciplining them, is not supported by research. “It drives attachment researchers crazy because it’s not really consistent with attachment theory,” says UC-Davis developmental psychologist Ross Thompson.

So don’t think you have to give up your bed to raise a securely attached kid.

The “scary” situations that I’m referring to for a toddler can be hard to identify, because they’re often not very scary to us. Anything a child perceives as unpredictable can spark it, whether that’s a minor transition or a major shift in home life. Did your daughter switch schools? Start in a new play group?

Have you been travelling as a family?

Are you travelling more for work? Some kids even get clingy when, in the morning, you ask them to put on their shoes, because they are able to think through the steps: Putting on shoes means I’m going to school, which means I’m going to have to say goodbye to Mommy soon, so I better start holding onto her right now.

As Tovah Klein, director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development, explains in her wonderful book How Toddlers Thrive, “a transition is a move from the familiar-and-known (whatever I am doing now) to the newor-unknown (even if I have done it before, it is new for this moment).” Entering into this new-or-unknown situation “cuts to their core and lays bare a strong vulnerability.”

And when vulnerability hits, your toddler will attach himself to you like glue. “He holds tight to that secure base, that safe haven, because that is where he can find the support he needs in circumstances he could not otherwise manage or control himself,” Thompson explains. It’s clear to me

now that my son’s clinginess stems from our cross-country travels, during which we stayed in three different places; it may have gotten worse after returning because he was thrown back into his old routine, which suddenly seemed new again, and because, Thompson says, sometimes kids become clingy after something crazy has happened in an attempt to “emotionally refuel.”

So when kids get clingy, should you indulge their every needy demand?

Assuming that their requests aren’t insane, yes. If it’s stress making them clingy, “far and away the best thing to do is let them be clingy,” Sroufe says.

“They will cling as [much as] they need, and then they’ll want to get back to exploring and playing and being with other toddlers and all of that.”

Put another way, parent sensitively instead of threatening a time out if the wee one won’t let go of your leg.

“Respect why the child is feeling this way, accept it as being justified, and help the child function as well as she can,” Thompson says. This isn’t to say that you can’t reassure your child and tell her, for instance, that the monsters on Sesame Street are actually quite friendly and that your neighbour’s dog isn’t really going to bite her. But reassure her without invalidating her feelings, and don’t reject her need to be close to you, because doing so can undermine your relationship. Or it can make her more needy. “One thing that I’ve seen a lot of times with children who want to cling is that the parents try to push them away, and then the child wants to cling all the more,” Sroufe says.

Indeed, some parents handle situations in ways that make things worse.

Take this common occurrence: A mother takes her kid to his new preschool, waits until he is distracted for a few minutes, and then slips out without saying goodbye. When you do this, “you essentially tell the child, ‘OK, when you’re in an unpredictable setting, don’t relax, because the person you count on may suddenly disappear,’ ” Thompson says.

“Now you’ve added another layer of unpredictability, which is, how long is mom or dad going to be with me?”

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Periodic clinginess is very normal — in fact, it’s a sign that you and your child have a healthy relationship.

Some kids are also just more temperamentally needy than others.

But the way parents handle clinginess can have a big impact on how long it lasts and how bad it becomes.

And sometimes, yes, we do actually cause it ourselves.

A better approach?

Explain to your kid at school that you have to leave in five minutes, and then in two minutes, and then tell them when you’ll be returning. Try to tie it to a concrete event, like I’ll come back to get you after art class, sweetie. Then “you’re not only giving predictability to when mother’s leaving but you’re also giving predictability to when she’s coming back,” Thompson says.

We all know how tough it is to see your kid crying and clawing for you, but by communicating your departure and return clearly, you’re giving your child the conceptual tools to manage and understand the situation, he explains — you’re giving him the semblance of some control, and that’s precisely what he needs.

When clinginess happens — because, yes, it inevitably will — reassure your child; hold him; let him be needy. Do some clever environmental engineering to make things easier on you. If your kid demands that you stay in the playroom with him but you really need to clean the kitchen, set up a mini play area in the kitchen so he can do his own thing while keeping you within eyesight, Thompson says.

Neediness is hard. It’s exhausting.

But life is really scary as a toddler, and it’s pretty amazing that we as parents have the power, with a quick swoop of our arms, to make everything right in their hearts again.

Especially since doing so gives them the confidence to go back out into the world and tackle its unknowns, eventually without our help.

Moyer is a science writer and is DoubleX’s parenting advice columnist. Go to http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x. html.

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Cur C urtis i James Broks Curtis April 15, 2013 Son of Tyler & Kathy Broks

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Hayden Shae Clark February 24, 2013 Daughter of Gord & Alisha Clark

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