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Red Deer College theatre studies students Chase Cownden as Athos and Megan Einarson as Milady De Winter play out a scene from the Red Deer College production of the Three Musketeers. See related story on page D1.

Senate grapples with fallout from Trudeau shake up

BY JOAN BRYDEN THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — It was business as usual in the Senate one day after Justin Trudeau shook up the upper chamber by booting all senators from the Liberal caucus.

But despite the outwardly unchanged proceedings, senators and MPs were wrestling behind the scenes Thursday with some repercussions from the Liberal leader’s move.

Some are relatively minor. For instance, the 36 Liberal MPs have to find a new room in which to hold their weekly caucus meetings. Their old meeting room in Parliament’s Centre

Block can only be booked by a senator — and none remain in the Liberal caucus.

Liberal MPs could wind up meeting off Parliament Hill entirely.

Of bigger concern to liberated Liberal senators is how they’re going to fulfil their function of giving independent sober second thought to legislation — the ostensible aim of Trudeau’s decision to cut them loose from their more partisan elected colleagues — without the research resources they used to share with their House of Commons brethren.

With only two staffers per senator, limited office budgets and only about $200,000 in annual research funds for the Senate’s official Opposition con-

tingent, Liberal senators used to rely heavily on the analysis of bills provided by Liberal caucus researchers and policy experts in various MPs’ offices.

They’re now grappling with how to restructure their own operations to fill the gap as best they can. It may mean relying more on Library of Parliament researchers and ending the practice of using the opposition research budget to fund individual senators’ special projects.

Over the longer term, some senators believe the changes will have to be even more dramatic, leading to a complete overhaul of the way the Senate conducts its business.

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AIDS network issues warning after two women kidnapped, drugged, sexually assaulted

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Allegations of two separate brutal sex assaults have been reported to Central Alberta Aids Network.

The women involved tell of kidnapping and repeated assaults over the course of a night.

Two young women, who do not know each other, reported being taken by a man early in an evening to an unknown location and being repeatedly sexually assaulted.

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Both incidents happened recently, starting at apartments near the core of the city.

CAANS hopes that by warning people that these assaults took place, they can prevent more people from becoming victims.

Both women reported that after using street drugs and leaving the respective buildings, they were snatched by a large man and thrown into the back of a vehicle.

Jennifer Vandershaeghe, Central Alberta AIDS Network executive director, said one of the women taken was a sex worker.

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“Because this was an abduction of someone who was more vulnerable, it was really important to get this information out,” said Vandershaeghe.

“This is clearly something that could happen again.”

They were taken to a location, a house or apartment, where they reported they were repeatedly sexually assaulted. One woman said there were multiple men in the vehicle that was used to abduct her and both said there were multiple men at the location where they were repeatedly assaulted.

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Hidden ice and high windrows make it a bad winter for mail carriers, with many suffering injuries from slips and falls.

Rose Johnson, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Red Deer Local 818, said some mail delivery in the Red Deer region is being delayed because of carrier vacancies on certain routes.

“There’s trouble with staffing because there are so many injuries.”

While the injured carriers are off recuperating, Canada Post management is not always replacing them, said Johnson. She isn’t sure why, but said it becomes an issue when letters don’t go out on the same day.

The remaining letter carriers are wearing cleats on their boots and doing their best to carry on, despite the snowy and icy conditions. Johnson knows of some who are working overtime to fill in on other routes.

“Yes, mail delivery has suffered,” added Johnson, who mentioned windrows and icy sidewalks as being particular hazards.

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Red Deer man wins Maxmillions

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer man is now a millionaire after buying a $6 lottery ticket from a West Park store.

David Webber purchased the winning ticket for the Dec. 20 draw but it took him a while to figure out he had won.

“I started scanning them at the ticket checker,” he said. “A $2 winner came up, which was cool David Webber — and then a $10.”

Curious about the outcome of his small winnings — so far — he took his ticket to the retailer to verify. As the clerk went through he heard the occasional winning sound, but then he heard something he hadn’t before.

“It made a different sound. Everyone in the store just stopped and gasped,” said Webber.

“I had no clue what was coming.”

The sound changed because Webber’s ticket had won more than $1,000.

He had matched all seven numbers for one of the 50 Maxmillions draws.

“I said ‘Are you kidding me? Please tell me your machine isn’t broken.’ ” He had won $1 million. He said he plans to put his winnings in the bank and take some time to decide what to do with this windfall.

The ticket was bought and checked at West Park Foods, at 3722 57th Ave.

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Patricia Cargill of Red Deer has been told by Canada Post that until she and her husband clear the snow and ice from in front of their Glendale home mail will not be delivered to her mailbox on her house.

MAIL: Carriers can refuse to deliver to addresses with unsafe walkways Canada Post carriers have the right not to deliver mail to addresses with unsafe walkways, but this sometimes creates hardship, especially for older residents.

Patricia Cargill, 61, of Glendale, said she uses a cane and can’t shovel the walk. Her husband usually does the job, but he recently had surgery and can’t manage it either.

This week, the local letter carrier told Patricia that their mail would not be delivered until her walkway was clear.

The Cargills feel caught in a dilemma. Patricia said some of her neighbours are away and can’t help out, while her husband is unwilling to pay someone to do the job on principle. “He said all the streets are a mess.”

The Golden Circle matches seniors with people willing to shovel their walks for $15 an hour. But the organization often itself gets caught between residents and the city on the issue of snow clearing.

According to City of Red Deer bylaws, it’s the residents’ responsibility to clear sidewalks in front of their homes, but many seniors balk at this. They believe sidewalks are public property, so clearing them is a city obligation, said the Golden Circle’s executive director Monica Morrison. “Sometimes we feel stuck in the middle.”

While the Golden Circle has linked some 300 seniors to people willing to shovel their walks for a fee (subsidies are available for those who can’t afford it), Morrison said few volunteers are on hand do this service for free.

In preparation for next winter, she plans to contact local groups, such as the Scouts, to see if more youths will sign on as volunteer shovellers.

Ideally, people should be looking out for their neighbours and offering to help older people clear sidewalks and walkways, said Barb Lilly, vice-president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Red Deer Local 818, While she has some sympathy for those who are unable to keep their properties clear of snow, she said, “We can’t be sending workers into unsafe conditions.”

Community mail boxes are another matter: Johnson said Canada Post hires contractors to clean snow from around these boxes to make access easier for residents and mail carriers, but it’s been “a very slow process.”

A Canada Post spokesperson was unavailable to comment on Thursday. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Sen. George Baker said he and the other 31 turfed senators have agreed for now to continue designating themselves Liberal senators in order to maintain funding for research and an opposition leader’s office, as well as membership on Senate committees.

But he maintained that’s only a “stop-gap” measure until Senate rules — which are entirely geared to having two political parties in the chamber — can be adapted to suit the new reality that Liberal senators are now independent.

“Senate rules and procedures and customs are based on the two-party system,” Baker said.

“It’s a work in progress. Over a period of time, this will work itself out. It’s got to work itself out or the Senate can’t operate.”

For instance, he said senators should not have to belong to a recognized political party to be entitled to research funds or to participate in Senate committees.

The turfed senators’ decision to continue sitting as Liberals contradicted Trudeau’s assertion Wednesday that “there are no more Liberal senators” and gave fodder to his political rivals to mock his move as a meaningless stunt.

And it meant that once the dust settled, proceedings in the Senate appeared unchanged.

“Business as usual,” said Claude Carignan, the government’s Senate leader.

“We started the week with 32 Liberal senators and we’re ending with 32 Liberal senators also. So it’s not changing anything.”

One liberated senator, Dennis Dawson, suggested Trudeau could have avoided the confusion and embarrassment over the status of Liberal senators by consulting with them before announcing his unilateral decision to turf them from caucus.

While he agrees with the decision to reduce partisanship in the Senate, Dawson told The Canadian Press, “It was done in a clumsy way” — saying publicly what a number of his colleagues are muttering privately.

Whatever lingering resentment over being blindsided by Trudeau’s announcement and whatever hurdles they face scrutinizing legislation with a much-reduced research capacity, Liberal Senate leader James Cowan said Liberal senators are determined to make the most of their new independence.

“There’s an enthusiasm to make this work and to demonstrate that we really are an effective opposition and that we are going to act independently and that we are going to do the job we were sent here to do.”

Carignan doubted being cut loose from Liberal caucus will make much difference to the behaviour of Liberal senators, who have demonstrated in the past that they don’t take direction from Trudeau.

Trudeau urged Liberal senators last fall to abstain on a vote to suspend three senators who allegedly made fraudulent expense claims. But Carignan noted only a handful did as their leader asked, the vast majority of Liberals opposed the suspension motion.

WARNING: Abductor described as a large black man in his 20s, 30s Both said they felt they were further drugged and have little or no recollection of the events. Both were left in front of the same downtown location the following morning.

“Kidnapped and then taken to someone’s place, kept there overnight, continued to be drugged,” said Vandershaeghe, adding both these reported instances are especially violent.

“And organized, so that is pretty scary.”

The abductor is described as a large, tall black man in his 20s or 30s. He has black hair and dark eyes. He was wearing a leather jacket.

Bad Date Book Red Deer allows anyone to fill out a report if they have come in harm’s way or has knowledge of a dangerous situation. That includes sex workers, outreach workers or anyone who experiences or hears of a bad date.

Vandershaeghe said they don’t need a first person account, they just want the story so they can warn people. Bad date reports can be filed through the CAANS website, www.caans.org, or by calling CAANS at 403-346-8858. There is also a Facebook group as well, called Red Deer Bad Date Book.

Red Deer City RCMP said they have been notified of the bad date report.

However, neither woman wanted to talk with the RCMP and, as a result, no police files have been created.

The Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre was unable to comment or confirm the assaults. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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A man holds incense as he prays on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing Friday. Millions across China are celebrating the arrival of the Lunar New Year, the year of the horse.

Adult-themed theatre not permanently closed

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LETHBRIDGE — A southern Alberta adultthemed theatre company that said it was being forced out of business by homophobic neighbours now says it’s not being permanently shut down.

Theatre Outre describes itself as having “a bodypositive and sex-positive mandate through our work, designed to challenge gendered and sexual norms.”

On its Facebook page earlier this week, the company said fellow tenants in its new building had sent ignorant and hateful emails to the landlord and complained to the City of Lethbridge about the theatre company’s club called Bordello.

The city said the troupe needed a development permit to continue operating and the theatre operators said they would have to shut down the club.

“It is with great pain and sadness that Theatre Outre announces the closing of Bordello,” the operators wrote on the website. “Unfortunately, in the span of just the past few days, ignorant and homophobic neighbouring tenants in the McFarland Building have made it clear in various ways that we are not welcome in their midst.”

But in an update posted later in the week, the theatre company said it had met with the city and the situation had improved.

“We want to make it clear that we are NOT being kicked out by our landlord. We have NOT BEEN PERMANENTLY closed by our city. These would be false claims,” it reads.

“Our major hurdle is NOT the City of Lethbridge.

We understand there is a licensing process and a discussion has to be had around what we do in order to properly process our new venue.”

None of the operators — Richie Wilcox, Jay Whitehead or Aaron Collier — responded to numerous requests for an interview about the situation.

Theatre Outre said Lethbridge is a good place to live and work.

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Non-lethal weapons, recording devices urged JURY MAKES 9 RECOMMENDATIONS AT INQUEST INTO RCMP SHOOTING OF EX-SOLDIER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A coroner’s jury looking into the RCMP shooting death of a former soldier wants to see emergency-response-team members trained in the use of non-lethal weapons and wear recording devices during confrontations.

Those are among nine recommendations made by the jury Thursday as an inquest closed into the death of Greg Matters.

The 41-year-old veteran was shot and killed by RCMP during a standoff in September 2012 outside the rural home near Prince George, B.C., that he shared with his mother.

The jury classified the death as a homicide, which carries no legal responsibility and doesn’t imply fault, but its a finding that another person contributed to his death and intended to cause injury.

An emergency response team had been deployed to the house to arrest Matters for assaulting his brother.

A 15-year military veteran who served in Bosnia, he was in treatment at the time for post-traumatic stress disorder.

The jury made two recommendations specifically aimed at mental-health issues, including that a qual-

ified mental-health professional be made available to ERT members during deployment situations.

“Mental health training be required for RCMP members and be completed within the first year of active duty,” the recommendations stated. “Such a program would include ongoing training and requalification.

After four hours of deliberating, the jury has also recommended that: ● RCMP police dogs be training and utilized in apprehending armed subjects. ● RCMP cellphones issued and used during a critical incident have all data collected and preserved. ● ARWEN gun, or anti-riot weapon, be included in the RCMP’s less-lethal weapons.

Two of the jury’s recommendations were aimed specifically at the Minister of National Defence, the Canadian government and Veterans Affairs.

It called for programs to be developed to monitor the physical, emotional and financial health and well-being of all members of the Canadian Armed Forces — including veterans.

It also recommended adequate support and education for PTSD be made available to families and loved ones of members and veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces.

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The inquest, which was originally scheduled for just one week, began in early October, was adjourned in December and resumed on Monday.

The seven men and women heard from 30 witnesses.

Matters was honourably discharged from the military in 2009.

The jury heard had several run-ins with police, beginning with RCMP in New Brunswick when he was based at CFB Gagetown. Matters said officers ultimately broke into his home and woke him at gunpoint on a purported “wellness check.”

After returning to British Columbia, Matters’ former therapist complained to police about threatening emails, and he was charged and acquitted of assaulting his brother.

He was jailed for threatening the head of the RCMP public complaints commission over the New Brunswick incident, and later threatened to kill the Crown lawyer in that case.

The jury also heard Matters was unable to work due to his mental health struggles and a back injury suffered in Bosnia in 2001.

The jurors heard that Matters pleaded for help in the years prior to the standoff with RCMP.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta government has been ordered by a judge to not release the names and salaries of its Crown prosecutors pending a full hearing into the matter.

Justice Doreen Sulyma of Court of Queen’s Bench agreed Thursday with an injunction application that said releasing that kind of information to the public could put prosecutors at further risk of violence or identity theft.

“I do see a difference between (the release of) generic information versus the very personal information that is set to be published (by the province),” Sulyma told the lawyers at the injunction hearing.

“The plaintiff has identified people who might do her harm and has in doing so identified a risk should this publication occur.”

No date has been set to hear the merits of the case.

The injunction was brought forward by a Crown prosecutor, whose name is currently under a publication ban, one day before Premier Alison Redford’s government was to place online the names and salary details of every government employee who makes $100,000 a year or more.

The salary details follow up on a promise made last month by Redford after her office was harshly criticized for refusing an order from the privacy commissioner to disclose the severance paid to Redford’s former chief of staff, Stephen Carter.

Carter later announced on Twitter he received $130,000 severance after being on the job for six months, ending in 2012.

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Teen girls charged in car prowling that led to human ashes dumped on street CALGARY — A car prowling that ended in human ashes being dumped onto the street has led to the arrest of three teenage girls.

Colleen Ransom kept her daughter Emma’s ashes in a green velvet pouch in her truck. But in the early hours of Aug. 2, someone opened the unlocked vehicle in southeast Calgary, stole the pouch and emptied it onto the street.

Ransom says she’s relieved that charges have been laid.

“I feel horrible for the parents as I’ve raised four daughters and I know it’s a difficult job,” Ransom said in an email to the Calgary police Thursday.

“I just hope it will make the girls think a little bit about personal space and belongings and how they’re actions may affect someone else.”

A 15-year-old and a 13-year-old are charged with theft, while another 15-year-old has been charged with theft and property damage.

Emma Ransom, 19, was killed along with two other women in 2009 when the car they were in lost control, crossed the median and slammed into an oncoming car.

Tips from the public led police to lay the charges

in the dumping of her ashes.

“It’s like most criminals. They tend to want to talk about stuff, regardless of what they’ve done, and they’re teenage girls . . . of course they’re going to talk,” said Det. Theresa Garagan.

Province extends bargaining deadline with civil servants to March 31 EDMONTON — The Alberta government has extended its bargaining deadline with the union representing civil servants.

Deputy Premier Dave Hancock said Thursday the cabinet passed an order in council that extends the deadline to March 31.

The Conservative government passed a law last month forcing a four-year deal on the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees if an agreement wasn’t reached by Friday.

Hancock said the government extended the deadline because it is — quote — “keen” to reach a negotiated settlement with its 22,000 employees.

The deputy premier also says the government will have a new negotiating team and a new mandate when it gets back to the negotiating table, although there are no dates set yet.

AUPE president Guy Smith says the union is ready to get back to the table if the government does come with a new mandate.

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The Senate straitjacket “There are no more Liberal senators.”

With that wake-up call on a dreary Ottawa morning, Justin Trudeau won the early news cycle in the capital in any number of categories — drama, decisiveness, some would even say daring.

But the Liberal leader merely won the day, nothing more, because this game of political poker over the disgraced Senate has many more hands to be played and Trudeau just laid down his TIM best cards.

HARPER Trudeau boldly broke out of his Senate straitjacket, and he sought to remove the stains on his lapel that go by the names of Raymond Lavigne or Mac Harb or Colin Kenny, Liberal problems both past and present. The latter was appointed by the leader’s father.

This is a man who had been stuck in the middle as the face of the Senate status quo in a nation that no longer wanted the status quo, with Conservatives waiting for guidance from the Supreme Court on one side and the NDP under Tom Mulcair, blissfully senator-free, campaigning to abolish the Upper House.

But the timing of this sudden declaration of Senate Independence Day is curious.

Trudeau is a leader who once suggested Harb would be happily welcomed back into the Liberal fold as long as he wasn’t in handcuffs, serenely watched his Liberal senators drag out debate on Senate expulsions last autumn to the government’s discomfort, and voted against an NDP motion that would have essentially done what Trudeau announced himself Wednesday.

The other two parties hinted broadly that Trudeau was trying to cynically get ahead of an imminent report on Senate expenses by auditor general Michael Ferguson that may have some bad news regarding sitting Liberal senators.

There is no doubt that both the New Democrats and Conservatives were counting on that, the NDP so Mulcair could ramp up his anti-Senate attack by wrapping both parties in the same cloak of corruption and Stephen Harper so it would at least remove a line of attack from his Liberal opponent. The Liberals deny any advance word, any signal, even any foyer gossip about whom Ferguson may have in his sights, despite well-known nervousness in the ranks, but the argument misses the mark anyway.

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America, you deserve to keep Justin Bieber

BY CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Now that 100,000 people have signed a petition on the White House website demanding Justin Bieber’s deportation, forcing a review and official response, I’d like to point out a few things about my fellow Canadian.

First, America, you made him this way.

Bieber was just a regular kid from Ontario until he was discovered and signed by a U.S. label. And now look at him: throwing eggs at the neighbours, abusing antidepressants and walking around with his shirt off.

If this new Justin Bieber walked into any Canadian hockey arena tomorrow, he would be ripped apart and eaten. You’ve taken a perfectly good Canadian and turned him soft.

Second, did I get the hierarchy wrong for major offences in the United States?

You can’t go a few days in this country without reading about a shooting, and suddenly some kid driving his Lamborghini at 55 mph in a 30-mph zone is an unacceptable threat to public safety? It’s not like Bieber shot somebody for throwing popcorn at him.

Third, Americans, could you stop making summary deportation the default remedy for people you decide you don’t like?

In what universe does it make sense for somebody to be deported just because 100,000 people sign a petition? The same universe where a Democratic administration deports a record 400,000 people a year to look tough on enforcement, in the hopes of persuading Republicans to agree to immigration reform, that’s where.

Please stop treating us as props for whatever populist whimsy catches your flitting glance.

Better just to let immigrants get back to the job of founding your startups, repopulating your broken cities, dominating your legislature and even dictating what you find funny.

And if that isn’t enough to earn Bieber some leeway, look at it this way: You can’t send him back to Canada now. He’d never survive.

Christopher Flavelle is a member of Bloomberg View’s editorial board.

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Should Ferguson finger any senator now known officially as a former Liberal senator, Wednesday’s cleansing was not going to somehow magically stop any critic from pointing out that the abuse happened while they were representing the Liberal party.

Trudeau said he was acting now, rather than making a campaign promise later, but one can’t reform the Senate by performing an exorcism.

If elected prime minister, he says he would only appoint independent senators nominated in a nonpartisan process with public input.

Trudeau says he wants to avoid 10 years of constitutional wrangling that would be necessary before real reform or abolition can happen, something for which he believes Canadians have no stomach.

He tried to smoke out Mulcair, who has really not been challenged on the intricacies of his Roll Up the Red Carpet campaign.

So Mulcair emerged from his caucus room to challenge Trudeau to roll up his sleeves and do the hard work necessary, instead of trying to change things with a lazy snap of the fingers.

In the meantime, the NDP leader accused the Liberals of stealing his idea, a lament likely first heard around here while they were building the Peace Tower.

Harper mocked Trudeau’s reforms, saying the country now has “unelected senators who just happen to be Liberals.”

This game of one-upmanship on the future of the Senate is fascinating for political observers, but the last card will still be played by the Conservatives.

Harper has built his own cell by asking the court if he can impose term limits, set up “consultative elections” for the Senate or abolish the place on his own. The majority of the provinces maintain that any such overhaul would need the permission of seven provinces with 50 per cent of the population. Even Trudeau concedes he has gone as far as he could pending the court guidance.

Harper the reformer has lost credibility on the Senate issue, but as a majority prime minister, that will be forgotten once he hears from the court.

Only when that court guidance comes back will we really be in the realm of Senate reform, and, in the meantime, there are still 32 unelected, unaccountable senators roaming the red-carpeted chamber, whether they call themselves independents, independent Liberals, Liberal independents or the Marx Brothers.

Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer. He can be reached at tharper@thestar.

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Canadian values deteriorating Interesting how values change when money enters the picture.

A healthy economy used to include low unemployment and available jobs across the country.

Now that has changed. CEOs across Canada are encouraged to abandon Canadian workers and youth in preference of outsourced labour from foreign countries, and to increase the temporary foreign workers (TFW).

A multimillion-dollar bonus cheque awaits the CEO as he hands out pink slips to Canadian workers.

In some cases, Canadian workers are asked to train these foreign workers to take their jobs, as in RBC’s recent case, just before they are laid off.

Canadian values used to include a sense of what is local, loyalty and what is Canadian; without that workers are pressured by competitive forces and downsizing, and employment is precarious.

This is further undermined by the deterioration of full-time work to part time, which allows the decrease in workers benefits, such as health care, and of the general abandon of the defined pension plans by employers, with the exception of the public employees benefits, pensions and age of retirement, which remains unchanged.

The whole concept of TFW is questionable. The program is inherently exploitative of the workers, who signed a contract with one employer.

That leaves doors open for abuse of workers rights; they cannot complain out of fear to be sent back.

Furthermore, instead of sending the work to foreign cheap labour countries, the TFW program brings the cheap labour here.

The program has tripled since 2000 and by December 2012, we had over 338,000 temporary foreign workers in Canada.

The whole scheme is looking somewhat less ‘temporary.’

This is detrimental for all Cana-

dian workers and their families, but the effect on our Canadian youth is devastating, with 14 per cent unemployed officially, but the real number thought to be much higher as many are not registered or have given up finding work after years of searching.

We keep being told Canadian kids are not willing to do this kind of work. That goes against the nature of the fact that young people are eager to start their independent life after graduation. They, as generations before them, start long-term relationships and are looking forward of owning their own living quarters, a dream that will not become reality for many of them who are plagued with large student loan debts and unable to find work.

The focus of the employers seems to be always: highest short-term profit. What they are missing is that unemployed or underemployed Canadian youth are unable to become active consumers to keep the economy going in the future.

What if we paid Canadian kids and trained them to take those jobs?

What if large employers would take Canadian kids as apprentices again, instead of preferring a foreign trained worker, because they’re not willing to put the apprentice through the four-year training period, or put up with the two months they have to attend school?

Are changes needed in the apprentice program, such as adopting different models from Europe where apprentices go to school one day per week?

In any case, losing values in the name of more and more profit has brought down many nations in history. Are we finally ready to learn from that?

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Groups not holding their Tories blame breath for action in budget unions, soldiers OTTAWA — Don’t expect a pile of goodies or any big new spending programs when Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivers his budget Feb. 11 — right in the middle of the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Experts say the timing signals a stay-the-course fiscal plan aimed at bridging the gap between a $5.5-billion deficit and an anticipated surplus in 2015, and groups seeking federal help appear to be adjusting their expectations accordingly.

Be prepared for a budget containing little new money, if at all, and plenty of policy announcements that won’t cost anything, observers say.

“The budget is supposed to be the biggest policy statement that the government makes during the course of the year,” said Peter DeVries, an economics professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University.

“So if there’s going to be significant things in it, they want to make sure that they get the most publicity for those that they can possibly get, and they sure wouldn’t want that to be overtaken by events such as the Olympics.”

Advocates for help on diverse health, social and business issues say they’re seeing positive signs from the government, but aren’t holding their breath for action in this year’s budget.

Tackling Alzheimer’s disease and dementia is one issue that has gained traction, with widespread support from all three major political parties and many Canadians who are coping with the illnesses.

There have been encouraging signs from the government, including a throne speech promise to renew funding for health research of dementia and helping people who care for their older family members, said Mimi Lowi-Young, chief executive of the

Alzheimer Society of Canada. All three parties have shown their support.

Health Minister Rona Ambrose also attended a G8 ministers’ meeting on dementia, which drew attention to the importance of a national dementia plan.

The Commons finance committee has recommended that the government “move expeditiously” on creating and implementing a strategy. The three major parties have backed the call and petitions supporting the move have been introduced in the House.

But research funding isn’t enough, Lowi-Young said.

The Alzheimer Society wants $3 million in seed money to bring various experts together to build a plan, she said. Caring for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s already costs Canada $33 billion a year in both direct and indirect costs, a number that’s projected to reach a whopping $293 billion by 2040.

That should resonate with a government that’s trying to be fiscally responsible, she said.

“What we’re highlighting to government is saying, look, this is another economic pressure that you need to be concerned about, and let’s work together in trying to put things in place that can really make a difference.”

But it’s unlikely that the money will come this year, said Phil Upshall, national executive director of the Mood Disorders Society of Canada, which belongs to the same umbrella group of neurological health charities.

“I’ve had a bunch of meetings with the feds, and the backgrounds I’ve been getting indicate that there’s going to be no significant money made available in this current budget,” Upshall said.

“So don’t have your expectations high on anything with regard to mental health or the brain or anything else.”

Woman strangled after clothing gets caught in subway escalator

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — A woman was strangled Thursday after her scarf and then her hair got caught in the mechanism of a Montreal subway escalator as the moving staircase rolled toward the platform.

A spokesman for the city’s ambulance service said he’s never seen anything like it in his 30-year career.

“We see accidents in escalators, but I don’t recall a situation like this where somebody was physically trapped in the mechanism,” said Bob Lamle, a division chief for Urgences-sante.

The ambulance service has received several calls about people falling in the subway, he noted.

Police say the victim was a 48-year-old woman.

Firefighters were first on the scene, followed by paramedics.

“By the time our people arrived, it had stopped and she was at the bottom of the escalator,” Lamle told reporters outside the Fabre subway station in the city’s north end.

“What they found was a woman. . . who was clearly trapped,” he said. “She was lying on her back.”

He said firefighters and paramedics immediately tried to revive her but were unsuccessful. A doctor

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Pope Francis reaches out to L’Isle-Verte in wake of deadly fire in seniors’ home VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is offering his spiritual support to an eastern Quebec community devastated by a fire at a seniors’ home that has left 19 people confirmed dead.

Thirteen people are still missing following the early morning blaze at Residence du Havre in L’IsleVerte on Jan. 23.

The Pope’s sympathies follow those of the Queen, who offered her condolences in a message released the day after the fire.

Vatican Secretary of State Archbishop Pietro Parolin wrote today that Pope Francis was immediately touched by the tragedy upon learning of it.

He says Pope Francis has imparted a special apostolic blessing to those affected by the tragedy.

then declared her dead on the scene.

The accident happened at around 9:15 a.m., during the morning rush hour.

“There were people who saw this and tried to help,” Lamle said.

A Montreal police spokesman said the woman was travelling down the escalator toward the subway platform when her scarf was trapped.

“She took the escalator to descend toward the metro (subway train) and, at a certain point, her scarf got caught in the mobile escalator,” Jean-Pierre Brabant said.

“She was going down the escalator, her scarf remained stuck, and she tried to pull on the scarf to try to get it out and her hair also got stuck.”

There were media reports the woman was wearing a hijab, but that was denied by Brabant.

“A lot of people are talking about a hijab, (but) the information that I have is that it’s a scarf that got caught.”

Brabant said investigators will review videos from cameras inside the subway station to find out more.

This is not the first tragic accident in the Montreal subway system in the past year.

In April 2013, a young woman died because she may have been distracted by her cellphone.

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OTTAWA — The Harper government delivered a full-throttle defence of its planned closure of eight veterans affairs offices and the siege-laden military mental health system, blaming anti-Tory government unions and a reluctance of soldiers to step forward to seek treatment.

Julian Fantino, the embattled veterans affairs minister who came under pressure to resign this week following a testy meeting with former soldiers, said he had no plans to step down and that the closures would proceed.

“I’m not leaving,” Fantino said during a special House of Commons debate focused on the escalating chorus of complaints from Canadian veterans across the country.

The minister also implored those suffering with mental illness to reach out for help.

“We have to overcome the stigma that is still too often associated with mental illness. We have to do everything to encourage men and women in crisis to seek the care they need,” he said.

“We have to reach out in every way to those are suffering in silence and we have to demonstrate to veterans and still serving members in the Canadian Armed Forces that true courage is admitting you need help.”

Long-time Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant, whose Ontario riding includes Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, put an even finer point on the government’s message.

The widely held belief among soldiers that admitting to post-traumatic stress can jeopardize their careers is little more than a figment of their imaginations, she told the House.

Any treatment they received at the military’s new operation stress injury clinics is considered “completely confidential,” Gallant said.

“The chain of command does not have access to their medical records. And the stigma that has to be overcome is a stigma within themselves.”

Gallant’s remarks stand in contrast to a 2012 report by the military ombudsman, which showed that while senior officers had grown more tolerant, a negative attitude towards mental illness remains ingrained in military culture.

“The investigation was made aware of instances in recent years of members being denigrated or openly ostracized as a result of mental health injuries,” Pierre Daigle wrote.

“Incidents like this are probably still occurring.

Additionally, well-worn notions like the walk of shame appear to persist in some quarters, though these seem increasingly isolated.”

Thursday’s debate, prompted by an NDP motion, bundled together increasing concern about a series of military suicides and National Defence’s chronic inability to fill out its ranks of psychiatrists and social workers with the impending closure Friday of regional Veterans Affairs offices. A vote on the motion is scheduled to take place Monday.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said it’s not a good idea to be shutting down services to veterans when at least eight soldiers have taken their own lives in last few months — a remark that drew a rebuke from Fantino during question period.

“We are deeply saddened by the suicides, but I think it’s patently unfair to connect those unfortunate circumstances to the office closures,” he said.

the “whims” and “charity” of officials.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford sticks up for Justin Bieber, says he’s only 19 TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is sticking up for another headline-grabbing Canadian — Justin Bieber.

Ford was asked about the pop singer when he spoke by phone Thursday to hosts on the Washington, D.C.-based Sports Junkies radio show.

Ford said Bieber is only 19 and asked the radio personalities, who called Bieber “Canada’s worst export,” to think back to when they were that age.

On Wednesday, Bieber was charged in Toronto with assault.

Ford, who has become internationally known for his many headline grabbing moments in recent months, says he’s never met Bieber and is not a fan of his music, preferring Rush and Led Zeppelin.

Bieber has a court date on March 10 in connection with allegations the pop star hit a limousine driver in the back of the head when he was in Toronto on Dec. 30. Bieber is also facing charges of driving under the influence, resisting arrest and driving with an expired licence in Florida.

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TORONTO — A federal court judge is questioning whether provincial governments have truly filled in the gap left by cutbacks to health-care coverage for refugee claimants announced 18 months ago.

Justice Anne Mactavish is hearing a legal challenge launched by Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.

Government lawyers have argued refugee claimants can still access health care through other programs, including those put in place by some provinces to reinstate access to essential and emergency care.

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Regime razed neighbourhoods: rights group

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — The Syrian government used controlled explosives and bulldozers to raze thousands of residential buildings, in some cases entire neighbourhoods, in a campaign that appeared designed to punish civilians sympathetic to the opposition or to cause disproportionate harm to them, an international human rights group said Thursday.

The demolitions took place between July 2012 and July 2013 in seven pro-opposition districts in and around the capital, Damascus, and the central city of Hama, according to a 38-page report by Human Rights Watch. The New York-based group said the deliberate destruction violated international law, and called for an immediate end to the practice.

“Wiping entire neighbourhoods off the map is not a legitimate tactic of war,” Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher for HRW, said. “These unlawful demolitions are the latest additions to a long list of crimes committed by the Syrian government.”

Human Rights Watch said many of the demolished buildings were apartment blocks, and that thousands of families have lost their homes because of the destruction.

It said government officials and media have described the demolitions as part of urban planning or an effort to remove illegally constructed buildings.

But Human Rights Watch said its investigation determined that military forces supervised the demolitions, which in each instance targeted areas that had recently been hit by fighting and were widely understood to be pro-opposition.

There also is no indication, HRW said, that progovernment districts have been targeted for similar controlled destruction.

The neighbourhoods targeted were Masha al-Arbayeen and Wadi al-Jouz in Hama, and Qaboun, Tadamoun, Barzeh and the Mezzeh military airport in Damascus as well as Harran al-Awamid outside the capital.

The report includes satellite images of the neighbourhoods before and after the demolitions, providing a window on the scale of the destruction.

Buildings in the Hama neighbourhood of Masha al-Arbaeen, a wedge-

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This combination of two satellite images released by Human Rights Watch shows Six-storey residential building on fire likely from artillery shelling in the Tadamoun neighborhood of Damascus, Syria on July 16, 2012, left, and Sept. 22, 2012, right, and a six-storey residential building demolished with controlled explosives, as visible on September 22, 2012. shaped district bordered by highways on three sides, are clearly visible in a photo dated Sept. 28, 2012. In a second photo from Oct. 13, the buildings have been pulverized into a white smudge, while the adjacent neighbourhoods remain untouched.

Residents told Human Rights Watch that the government bulldozers directed by the military moved in after the rebels retreated from the area in the face of an army offensive.

Another Hama neighbourhood, Wadi al-Jouz, faced a similar fate.

HRW cited one woman who lived near Wadi alJouz, who said the army came to her district afterwards and announced over loudspeakers “that they would destroy our neighbourhood like they destroyed Wadi al-Jouz and Masha al-Arbaeen should a singled bullet be fired from here.”

In the cases of both Hama neighbourhoods, local residents told Human Rights Watch opposition fighters had used the districts to enter and leave the city because of their location on the outskirts.

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The United States on Thursday criticized Syria for its slow pace in moving chemical weapons out of the country for destruction, ratcheting up pressure on President Bashar Assad to co-operate with an unprecedented international chemical disarmament mission.

Speaking in Warsaw, Poland, U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said Damascus needs to speed up the operation.

“I do not know what the Syrian government’s motives are, or if it was incompetence,” he said.

“What we do know is they are behind,” he added, and “they need to fix this.”

At a meeting Thursday of the executive council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, U.S. representative Robert P. Mikulak said Syria has only moved around 4 per cent of the most toxic chemicals in its stockpile. All of the most toxic chemicals were supposed to have been out of the country by Dec. 31.

Mikulak said the Syrian effort to move chemicals has “seriously languished and stalled.”

In a note prepared last week for the behindclosed-doors meeting of the executive council, Director-General Ahmet Uzumcu said he spoke to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Jan. 18, “and they both agreed that it was necessary for the removal process to pick up pace.”

Under a timeline drawn up last year, the most toxic chemicals in Syria’s 1,300-metric-ton stockpile were to have been removed from the country by Dec. 31, but that deadline was missed due to poor security in war-torn Syria and other factors.

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Cleanup begins in Deep South after winter storm

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Police and the National Guard helped people reunite with their abandoned cars Thursday as the logjam on Atlanta highways eased and the roads thawed, two days after a winter storm hit the Deep South.

The cleanup could take all day. At the peak of the storm, thousands of cars littered the interstates in Georgia and in Alabama. Some people ran out of gas, some were involved in accidents and others simply left their car on the side of the road so they could walk home or to someplace warm. Across much of the South, the sun was out, temperatures were rising and snow was beginning to melt.

About 1,600 students in Alabama who spent two nights at schools were finally home, and all of the state’s highways were reopened. Still, officials warned drivers to be extremely cautious and to be on the lookout for icy patches. Schools and government offices were still closed in several states.

At least eight people died from traffic accidents

and six people were killed in fires blamed on space heaters. The latest was in Savannah, where two children were killed early Thursday as temperatures hovered below freezing. In the Midwest, an 86-yearold woman died of hypothermia outside her suburban Chicago home.

Savannah Fire and Emergency Services spokesman Mark Keller said all evidence indicated an electric space heater caused the fire.

North Carolina still faced icy conditions, with dangerous roads in much of the state as bone-chilling temperatures overnight refroze any snow that had melted.

Still, there is much cleanup to do. The Georgia State Patrol said more than 2,000 cars were abandoned along the freeways.

Crystal Paulk-Buchanan, a spokeswoman with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, said it was critical vehicles were removed from highways Thursday because the emergency shoulders will be needed when normal traffic returns on Friday. “We ask that all motorists be extremely cautious as they’re driving today and give these abandoned

cars room so that folks who may be trying to get their car back, that they are able to do that safely,� she said.

The Patrol responded to more than 1,460 crashes between Tuesday morning and Wednesday evening, including two fatal crashes, and reported more than 175 injuries.

Ukraine leader takes sick leave amid demands for his resignation KYIV, Ukraine — In the midst of Ukraine’s unending political crisis, its embattled president went on sick leave Thursday, leashing a tidal wave of conspiracy theories since protesters have been demanding his ouster for months.

Was the 63-year-old Viktor Yanukovych really sick? Or was he feigning illness in preparation for something else, like dodging responsibility for a violent police crackdown on the protesters? Maybe he was ready to give in and hand over power to the opposition but hardliners in his government wouldn’t let him?

No one but the president himself knew the answers.

Yanukovych has an acute respiratory illness and a high fever, according to his presidential website.

There was no indication of how long he might be on leave or how much work he would be able to do during that time. He was still in charge of the country, his press office said, adding that Yanukovych has taken sick leave twice before.

The president is not known to have serious health problems and the announcement of the leave sparked speculation he was looking for an excuse to avoid further discussions with opposition leaders, which have done nothing to resolve the tensions.

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Police target NYC prostitution ring NEW YORK — New York law enforcement authorities cracked down Thursday on a prostitution ring that they said advertised on TV, took credit cards and used text messages to market “party packs� of cocaine and sex to clients.

Eleven people were under arrest Thursday, including a Long Island woman who authorities said went by the codename “Beige� and was the primary ringleader.

Seven more suspects were being sought.

Many of the people involved with the organization were Asian immigrants, authorities said.

In some intercepted conversations, the suspects used “Soojaebi,� a Korean noodle and vegetable soup, as a code-word for cocaine.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the gang had been under surveillance for 11 months, but authorities decided to act now in the hope of disrupting any parties that might have been in the works for the upcoming Super Bowl football championship weekend.

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The final decision was made by Attorney General Eric Holder and was announced Thursday.

The twin blasts in April killed three people and wounded more than 260 in one of the most prominent terrorist attacks in the U.S since 9-11.

Prosecutors allege that Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, ethnic Chechens from Russia who had lived in the Boston area for about a decade, planted two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a shootout with police.

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FRIDAY, JAN. 31, 2014

Flames keep on rising GIORDANO SCORES WINNER TO LIFT FLAMES TO FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Calgary 4 San Jose 1 CALGARY — Two weeks after a franchise record seven-game losing streak on home ice, the Calgary Flames appear to be turning their fortunes around.

Mark Giordano scored the gamewinner and Karri Ramo made 27 saves as the Flames knocked off the San Jose Sharks 4-1 on Thursday night for their fourth consecutive victory — all of them at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

It comes two nights after Calgary knocked off the reigning Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks.

“I would say tonight, by far, is probably our best team win of the season,” said Flames coach Bob Hartley.

“As a coaching staff, we cannot be more happy than we are right now.

Those guys deserve the credit. We beat quite a hockey club tonight. From Karri Ramo to the six D to the four lines, everyone is chipping in.”

Leading 1-0 after the first period, the Flames grabbed a two-goal lead at 3:38 of the second.

Mikael Backlund’s shot missed the net but the puck caromed sharply off the end boards and out the other side where Giordano rifled it in the short side as goaltender Alex Stalock scrambled across.

“There wasn’t much room for Backs and I knew he was going to shoot it so you’re just trying to read the rebound and with the new nets with them being a bit shorter, it comes out at different angles and the goalie doesn’t really have a chance to get across,” Giordano said.

“It was a good bounce and I just tried to fire it as hard as I could on net.”

The ninth goal of the season for Giordano extends his career-high scoring streak to eight games (four goals, four assists).

“I wouldn’t have believed it (was possible).

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

San Jose Sharks goalie Alex Stalock, centre right, keeps his eyes on the puck as Calgary Flames’ TJ Galiardi crashes into him during first-period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Thursday.

“It just seems like I’m getting a couple of bounces. I’m trying to be aggressive and it seems the puck’s coming to me at the right spot,” said Giordano.

Lee Stempniak, rookie Sean Monahan also scored for Calgary (20-27-7) and Jiri Hudler added an empty-net goal.

Backlund and Dennis Wideman each had two assists.

The Flames, who are enjoying their longest winning streak since reeling off five victories in a row in March 2012, are 4-0-0 with one game to go on a five-game homestand.

“Sometimes it goes this way. The main thing is we kept working and nobody gave up when things were bad.

Everybody learned from those and we

started to do the right things,” Ramo said.

Eriah Hayes, with his first NHL goal, was the lone Shark to solve Ramo.

San Jose (34-15-6) has lost three straight.

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SUPER BOWL

Move over Peyton Manning, Russell Wilson is coming too

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

NAIT Ook Samantha Dyck makes a desperate dive attempting to knock the puck away from Red Deer College Queen Laura Salomons during ACAC hockey action at the Arena in Red Deer Thursday.

Queens fall short against Ooks

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Ooks 3 Queens 2 It’s been an all to familiar theme for the RDC Queens this season.

They don’t get a 60-minute effort and in the end come away with a narrow defeat.

That was the case again Thursday as they dropped a 3-2 decision to the NAIT Ooks in Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League action at the Arena.

“They have a good team, no doubt, but we’ve also defeated them 7-2,” said Queens head coach Bob Rutz.

“I bet you can look at almost every article written this season in that we talk about not having all 20 players going and we not playing 60 minutes.

“I had to shuffle the lineups and shorten the bench to try to get things going and that’s a tough game to play in.”

What upset Rutz more than anything was the team’s play in their

COLLEGE WOMEN’S HOCKEY own zone.

“We dominated at times and I think we outskated them, but for whatever the reason we were outworked in our zone,” he said.

“We take pride in keeping our goals against down, in fact we’re the best in the league, but I honestly can’t explain what happened in our zone tonight.

“Sure they’re a big, physical team, but we work so much on our zone play and tonight we had too many breakdowns and that was the difference.”

As it was Queens netminder Camille Trautman kept the game close, finishing with 38 saves. But two of the mistakes cost them the game.

The first was a scramble in front of the RDC net which saw Karli Reeve bang in the game’s opening goal at 9:43 of the second period.

The second costly miscue came at 1:50 of the third period when Renata Mastna shovelled in a re-

bound.

“That was a mistake by all five players,” said Rutz. “We didn’t get to the point nor did we tie up the player in front.”

Reeve also scored the Ooks second goal while on the power play at 11:52 of the middle stanza when her screened shot from the left point went through half -a-dozen bodies and found the corner.

Queens veteran winger Jade Petrie kept the RDC squad in the game as she beat Jill Diachuk at 19:04 of the second period and at 11:27 of the third, both times when she was in alone and picked the corner.

Petrie also had a break in off the wing later in the third period, but just couldn’t lift her shot over the NAIT netminder’s glove.

Queens assistant captain Laura Salomons understands what the team has to do to have success against the first-place Ooks.

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

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The captain was a few minutes late, though no one seemed to mind.

Russell Wilson is usually worth the wait, and no more than on this day, his final one speaking about the game before he actually plays The Game.

Peyton Manning is supposed to be the star of this Super Bowl, but a minor league second baseman who refused to listen to those who said he was too small to play quarterback in the NFL may have something to say about that.

Proving people wrong is almost as fun for Wilson as winning football games, and he’s done both with great regularity since being drafted with the 75th overall pick two years ago by the SeRussell Wilson attle Seahawks.

“For all the kids that have been told, no, that they can’t do it, or all the kids that will be told no,” Wilson said.

“That’s one of the reasons that I left playing baseball, to be honest with you. I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people — I shouldn’t say so many, a handful of people — said I couldn’t do it.

Richard Sherman will be the player most remembered from the win that got Seattle here.

But if not for a gutsy play on an equally gutsy call, the Seahawks would not be in position to win their first Super Bowl title.

Wilson found Jermaine Kearse in the end zone for the touchdown on a fourth down against San Francisco in the NFC championship game, giving the Seahawks the lead for the first time.

It was the kind of play a veteran star like Manning might make when it counts most. The kind of play Wilson prepared for meticulously every day for the past two years.

The kind of play that can win a Super Bowl.

“I don’t think I’ve seen too many people have the knack to want be great.

He wants to be a great quarterback,” receiver Percy Harvin said.

“He just doesn’t want to be average or All-Pro. He wants to be talked about as a great quarterback and I don’t think he’s going to stop until he does.”

Wilson can take a big step in that direction should he join an elite group of quarterbacks (Brady, Kurt Warner and Ben Roethlisberger) who have won a Super Bowl in just their second year. He’s certainly not overwhelmed by the moment, and seems to embrace the challenge, even when it comes to answering the same questions over and over during the pregame buildup.

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Maxwell’s play important to Rebels

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

BRINGS SPEED, SMARTS AND LEADERSHIP

Dexter Bricker suited up for 18 games with the Red Deer Rebels during the 2011-12 season, picking up a single assist and recording 17 minutes in penalties. The Saskatoon native played one game with the Dexter Regina Pats the following Bricker season — registering seven minutes in penalties in the process — before joining the Nipawin Hawks of the SJHL. He scored eight goals and garnered 15 points in 44 games with the Hawks, then was dealt to the Melfort Mustangs during the off-season.

In 29 games with the Mustangs this winter, the 18-year-old winger has scored twice and added five assists, to go along with 38 penalty minutes.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

WHO’S HOT Kootenay Ice C Luke Philp is riding an 11-game points streak dating back to Dec. 30.

The 18-yearold Canmore native has produced 18 points Luke Philip (6g,12a) during that span and sits 26th in league scoring with 53 points (19-34) in 50 games.

WHO’S A SPECIALIST Spokane Chiefs C Mike Aviani has sniped a leagueleading 18 power-play goals. The 20-year-old product of North Mike Aviani Vancouver is 12th in league scoring with 60 points (30-30) in 49 games.

THEY SAID IT “It’s kind of weird coming back. You think back to a few memories and you kinda reminisce and think Klarc that this is where it Wilson all started.

When you’re 16 it feels like you’ve got a long time left but when you’re my age now, you blink and you’re in your last few games here. It goes by quick, but I’m just trying to make the best of it here with my last few games.”

— Prince George Cougars 20-year-old forward Klarc Wilson, to Rob Henderson of the Brandon Sun following a 6-3 loss to the Wheat Kings last weekend, on making one final return to the city in which his WHL career started.

When Brooks Maxwell was out of the Red Deer Rebels lineup for a lengthy spell with a broken finger, he was truly conspicuous by his absence.

The veteran forward returned to the club last week, suiting up for the first time in 12 games against the host Prince Albert Raiders. To say he was missed would be a vast understatement, considering the speed, smarts and quiet leadership he brings to the team.

“There are elements of Brooks’ game that are important to our team,” Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter said Thursday, prior to a practice session in advance of tonight’s Western Hockey League meeting with the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes.

“He’s somewhat of an under-rated player. He’s a really good teammate and he’s very coachable. You know what you’re going to get out of him every night — he’s going to play hard and he’s going to compete.

He’s a smart, responsible player and he’s got speed that goes with his game. There are certain things that we need to work on with him to improve, but he’s been a very dependable player and I don’t think he gets enough credit for that.”

Maxwell started the season on a line with Lukas Sutter and Rhyse Dieno and the trio was firing on all cylinders very early.

But then came an extensive cooling-off period that coincided with the rebuilding club’s overall struggles.

“We got off to a hot start and that was nice, but then we kind of took some steps back,” said Maxwell. “But now all of us, including the younger guys who we don’t even classify as rookies anymore, have to take big steps in the second half.

“We’ve all grown and we’ve come out of our little slide and we’re playing more as a team with everyone contributing. We have some pretty solid lines now and that helps.”

The Rebels have indeed caught fire over the past two weeks with five consecutive victories and Maxwell played a large part in Wednesday’s 4-3 win over the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings, including potting the shootout winner.

“I actually felt good the first game I came back (from his injury) and I feel like I took another step last night,” said the Raymond native. “I felt better and had my legs. I was a little stronger out there and made some plays, so my game is slowly coming back,

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Prince Albert Raider goaltender Cole Cheveldave makes a save against Red Deer Rebel Brooks Maxwell during first-period action at the Centrium Wednesday. but it is coming back.”

The 19-year-old Raymond native is in his third season with the Rebels. His rookie season was limited to 54 games due to a broken wrist and concussion and last winter he was 100 per cent healthy while recording 39 points — including 10 goals — in 71 regularseason games.

Maxwell was particularly effective last spring — scoring four goals and collecting eight points in nine playoff outings — and this season has 23 points (10-13) in 38 games.

As Sutter stressed, Maxwell’s contributions to the Rebels stretch well beyond his offensive output.

“We recognize as coaches how important he is to our team and we know when he’s not in the lineup,” said the Rebels boss.

“He’s a smart player who understands defensive responsibilities and you can play him at right wing or center.

“He has some areas he has to work on during the summer, like getting stronger and continuing to grow that way, but we’re certainly glad we have him. If he doesn’t turn pro at the end of the year then he’s going to be a very good 20-year-old for us next season.”

While the Rebels have picked up their pace in recent games, much of their success

has been due to the outstanding play of netminder Patrik Bartosak, a fact that doesn’t elude Maxwell.

“It would be nice to not have Patty have to make 40 saves a night,” said the six-foot, 182-pound forward.

“If he made 20 saves it would probably feel like a night off for the guy. Our goal is to keep the shots against to under no more than 30. If we reduce the opposition’s scoring chances we’ll have the puck more and create more scoring chances of our own.”

As an assistant captain, one of Maxwell’s duties is to help prevent the Rebels from experiencing and displaying extremely high and low levels of emotion, regardless of the situation.

“You never want to get too high,” he noted.

“We’re on a five-game win streak but you can always win more. But the mood around the team is really good now and that’s great because you have to play with confidence.

If you don’t, most nights you’re not going to win.

“You need that confidence where you go into every single game thinking you’re going to win. I think we have that right now and it’s helping us have success.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Blades’ defenceman still fuming over Macklin’s attack on Scherbak Saskatoon Blades overage defenceman Cougars head coach Mark Holick expressed MacKenzie Johnston was still steaming mad sympathy for Scherbak but didn’t feel Macklin Thursday morning, less than 24 hours after a was out to injure the Russian.

10-6 home-ice loss to the Prince George CouHe also said he wouldn’t issue a complaint gars. with the WHL regarding Johnston’s post-game No doubt Johnston wasn’t exbehaviour. actly thrilled with the final score, Richard Doerksen, the WHL but it was an incident in the final vice-president, said suspensions to minute of the contest that had him Macklin and Johnston are unlikely. heated to the boiling point. ● Boston Leier didn’t let a mere The villain in question — at skate-cut to his face ruin his sense least in Johnston’s eyes — was Couof humour. gars forward Aaron Macklin, who “It’s not a big deal,” the Regina yanked Blades star rookie Nikita Pats forward told Greg Harder of Scherbak to the ice and landed a the Regina Leader-Post Wednesday, punch to the Russian forward. while sporting three stitches from Johnston approached the Coua cut to the left side of his jaw. “It’s gars dressing room following the not on my good side.” game and called out Macklin, laLeier’s face was sliced when GREG belling him a “coward”, reported Red Deer Rebels captain Conner MEACHEM Daniel Nugent-Bowman of the SasBleackley delivered a heavy hit katoon StarPhoenix. along the boards during Saturday’s Johnston was held back by 4-0 win over the host Pats. BleackBlades head coach Dave Struch ley’s skate came up and caught and hurriedly escorted to the Saskatoon dress- Leier in the jaw. ing room.

“I put an open palm to my face and my hand One day later, Johnston wasn’t about to was covered in blood so I didn’t know what to apologize to Macklin. In fact . . . do,” said Leier.

“I’m still upset about it,” he told Nugent“I kind of assumed the worst and came to Bowman. “I can’t really say I slept on it. There the bench as fast as I could. It’s not as bad as it wasn’t a whole lot of sleeping going on. It’s looked. I probably overreacted a little bit but I something that really rubs me when guys do didn’t know because I couldn’t really pinpoint stuff like that. where it was that I got cut. Worst-case scenario “I’m going to say it, I think it’s a coward’s it’s your neck. thing to do. (Scherbak is) a 175-pound Russian “Some of the guys were a little bit freaked goal scorer, skilled guy. out but then they saw it was just a little cut so “It’s not the same type of player on the it’s not a big deal.” other end. To do what he did (was) classless, Leier knows the injury could have been gutless, cowardly — whatever you want to call much worse. it. It’s something I hate.

“There are (injuries from) sticks and pucks “I’ve played the game honestly for five but definitely a skate is the worst fear,” he years in this league; never gone out to hurt told Harder. anyone. To see something like that at the end “My leg has been cut by a skate. It seems of a 10-6 game, I don’t think there’s a place for more common nowadays. I don’t know why. that.”

You see film of when (NHL goalie) Clint MaScherbak, who leads the Blades with 25 larchuk got cut (in the throat in 1989). Richard goals and 64 points, did not practise on Thurs- Zednik got cut (in the neck in 2008). It’s a pretday and was wearing a sling over his right ty scary situation.” shoulder. He’s listed as day-to-day. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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The ‘Canes sit a distant 12th in the Eastern Conference with a 10-38-2-3 record and are 2-8-0-0 in their last 10 games . . . LW Riley Sheen is the ‘Canes leading scorer with 33 points (12-21) in 43 games. Rounding out the top six point producers are RW Brady Ramsay (12-19-31), RW Tyler Wong (1413-27), D Macoy Erkamps (5-19-24), LW Jamal Watson (13-10-23) and C Reid Duke (9-14-23) . . . Since G Teagan Sacher (3.63 goals-against average, .901 save percentage) went down with an injury, Lethbridge has gone with rookies Jonny Hogue (4.91, .878) and Jarrod Schamerhorn (5.17, .861).

Injuries: Lethbridge — LW Steven Alldridge (upper body, 1-2 weeks), LW Josh Derko (lower body, 4-6 weeks), G Teagan Sacher (upper body, 1-2 weeks), RW Tyler Wong (upper body, week-to-week). Red Deer — C Wyatt Johnson (upper body, indefinite), LW success After our highly Vukie Mpofu (lower body, day-to-day), C Lukas Sutter (upper body, indefinite).

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QUEENS: Use speed “They are a big team and we know they’ll come out and play a physical game, but we just have to push back and compete tougher,” she said. “But we can’t use their size as an excuse, who have to use our own size and our ability to battle and win those battles along the boards, especially if we want to be successful.”

The Queens may have more speed than the Ooks and created a number of chances, using that speed to get behind the NAIT defence.

“We’re a fast team and when we move the puck we can use our speed to get behind their defence and generate things,” said Salomons.

“On the nights when don’t move it we don’t get our speed going.”

The Queens created their share of breakaways in the first period, in fact captain Rachael Hoppins had two of them, but couldn’t beat Diachuk.

The Queens also looked as if they would have all the momentum heading into the third period after Petrie’s first goal, but instead came out in the third and got caught.

“It was one of those things were we should have all the momentum, instead we let them score early and then we’re back battling to regain that momentum,” said Salomons. “Still it was a close game, in fact all the games in this league are a battle. We just have to be prepared for tomorrow.”

The Queens visit the Ooks tonight.

The RDC squad occupies the third and final playoff spot in the league, five points up on SAIT, who now has a game in hand. RDC has three games remaining with the final two against SAIT, including a meeting next Thursday at the Arena.

The Queens finished with 31 shots on Diachuk. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

SHARKS: Cause for concern The Sharks entered the game on two straight shutouts after losing 1-0 to Jonathan Quick and the Los Angeles Kings on Monday, and 3-0 in Edmonton on Wednesday, thanks to Ben Scriven’s record-setting 59 saves.

“It’s a big concern of ours right now. In our last eight games, we’ve only scored 13 goals and 10 have them have come from three players,” said Sharks coach Todd McLellan. “Obviously with injuries and every team goes through them, you need others to pick up the slack and we’ve got to find that.”

San Jose was held to eight shots in the first period but racked up 13 in the second, including multiple chances to score on Ramo. In one mad scramble around the Flames net, Hayes nearly scored only to have the puck cleared off the goal-line by Giordano.

The Sharks finally cashed in 46 seconds into the third as this time Hayes would not be denied. After Chris Butler lost the puck in front of his net, a quick passing sequence with Tommy Wingels and Patrick Marleau set up Hayes less than 15 feet away and he buried a quick shot over Ramo’s glove.

“We’re getting tons of chances, great opportunities right in front like that. It’s a little frustrating right now that the bounces aren’t going our way.

Once the bounces start going our way, we’re going to be scoring a lot of goals,” said Hayes, playing his 13th NHL game after being recalled from Worcester (AHL) on Jan. 4.

That goal ended a stretch of a 160 minute, 36 second scoreless drought for the Sharks, who racked up 103 shots on goal before Hayes connected.

“I think we just need to get back to finishing,” said Sharks captain Joe Thornton. “We haven’t finished particularly well in the last three games and it’s definitely shown on the scoreboard. You’ve just got to concentrate in that last half-second to see where you’re going to shoot and put it in.”

Some struggle on way to the Super Bowl

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERSEY CITY, N.J. — They are former kids who played in their backyards and dreamed of scoring the winning touchdown, making the big play on defence and somehow sharing in the spotlight of helping a team win the Super Bowl.

Not all dreamers get to the NFL, and certainly, many who get to football’s highest level don’t get the chance to play in the Super Bowl.

There are at least a dozen who will be participating for the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks in Sunday’s Super Bowl who toiled for at least eight years in the NFL before getting a chance to play for the title.

Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey is the poster child.

He waited 15 years.

The other includes the last XFL player still in the NFL, a couple of Chargers who got close, a Canadian who lost the NFC title in overtime a couple of years ago, and a number who played on very bad teams before finding their way to ones of the cusp of greatness.

Bailey is philosophical about being at his first Super Bowl.

“If I was supposed to be here, I would have been here a long time ago,” Bailey said Thursday as players held their final interviews before the first Super Bowl in an outdoor stadium in a cold-weather city.

“Things do take time, and I finally got with the right group of guys, as a whole. I played with some great players, but this is definitely the best team I’ve been on.”

Denver defensive end Jeremy Mincey played on a lot of bad teams in Jacksonville and was heading nowhere late in the season when the Jaguars released him in December for missing a meeting. The Broncos picked him up.

“Dude, this is what we play for, man,” said Mincey, who has played six seasons, missed another with a thumb injury, and had another as a practice squad player.

“This is why we keep playing.

A lot of us go through a lot in this league, especially guys like me and Mike Adams who have been with so many different teams, different situations. It feels good to actually have this opportunity and for things to land in sync.”

Ironically, Mincey had refused to go to any previous Super Bowl unless he was playing one. This

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Not all dreamers get to the NFL. Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey is the poster child. year, he told his fiancee that he intended to buy tickets and go.

“But I ended up being here buying more tickets for people to come see me play in it,” he said.

Adams, a Broncos safety in his 10th season, is so excited to be playing in the Super Bowl that he has vowed to walk the 12-mile trek home to Paterson if Denver wins.

“My friends and family will be right in the stands, (so I can) go ahead and hug them, and then maybe if I decide to walk home, they can all walk home with me,” he said. “I don’t know if they’ll like it, but they will.”

Seattle guard Paul McQuistan played with Oakland and Cleveland before coming to Seattle.

As much as he wanted to play in the Super Bowl, he never worried whether he would get there.

It wasn’t a career breaker.

“This is a team game,” he said.

“Getting here is icing on the cake.

Every kid dreams of getting there and playing in the big game. It’s an awesome opportunity, but if I didn’t get there it would take away from what I’ve done.”

The odds of playing in the Super Bowl aren’t good. The average career length is less than four years and only 106 players out of close to 1,700 make it each year.

Seattle tackle Tony McDaniel played three seasons with Jacksonville and four with Miami before joining Seattle this season.

“In the off-season, when I used to watch playoff games, the Super Bowl was always in the back of my mind,” McDaniel said.

“I’m here now and it’s amazing.”

Seahawks punter Jon Ryan was with Green Bay in the 2007 season when it lost to the Giants in the NFC title game in overtime.

“That was a heartbreaker and when I went to Seattle after that we had a couple of lean years, where we won four and five games,” the Canadian said. “After eight years, I’m finally getting a chance to play in the game, It’s every kid’s dream. In the backyard, you’d be (John) Elway or (Joe) Montana passing to (Jerry) Rice or whoever.

“As you get older, it seems to become a pipe dream, but now I am so thankful to be here.”

Broncos cornerback Quentin Jammer and defensive end Shaun Phillips got close to the big one playing a decade in San Diego.

Jammer admitted doubts crept in.

“You go 11 years and you didn’t make it and you start to come toward the end of your career and you know you’ve only got a few more years left in you,” he said.

Phillips never doubted.

“I wouldn’t say it’s surreal because it’s something I always believed I could do,” he said. “It just happened to take 10 years.”

Denver linebacker Paris Lenon had the craziest trip. He worked for the U.S. Postal Service after college, played in the XFL and later for Amsterdam in NFL Europe.

“It’s been a winding road,” he said. “But it’s been a fun one.”

Collaros signs multi-year deal with Ticats

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CFL

HAMILTON, Ont. — Zach Collaros wasn’t a free agent for long.

The 25-year-old quarterback signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Tuesday, a day after being released by the Toronto Argonauts. Collaros’ deal is through the 2016 season.

“Zach is a very talented quarterback with a great future in front of him,” Hamilton coach and GM Kent Austin said in a statement.

“He’s a dedicated, proven winner and a natural leader with tremendous character.

Stampeders re-sign veteran Chevrier

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders re-signed veteran long-snapper Randy Chevrier on Thursday.

Chevrier, a 37-year-old Montreal native, was slated to become a free agent Feb. 15.

Chevrier played in all 18 regular-season games last year without making an errant snap while registering nine special-teams tackles. He also played in Calgary’s 35-13 loss to Saskatchewan in the West final.

Chevrier has appeared in 157 career games with Calgary.

“Randy has always been a reliable performer at one of the more underrated roles on a football team,” head coach/GM John Hufnagel said in a statement. “In addition to his important work on special teams, his work ethic and experience makes him one of our leaders in the locker room.”

Chevrier joined the Stampeders in 2005 after two seasons with Edmonton.

“I’m excited to be remaining with the Calgary Stampeders,” said Chevrier.

“I think this team has an excellent chance to win it all and I’m looking forward to getting back on the road to the Grey Cup.”

“We are very excited that he has chosen to join our football team.”

Hamilton and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were the two leading suitors for Collaros, who posted a 5-2 record last season as a starter subbing for the injured Ricky Ray. The six-foot-two, 216-pound Collaros completed 190-of-287 passes (66.2 per cent) for 2,316 yards with 14 TDs and six interceptions. He also ran 59 times for 246 yards and five touchdowns and was scheduled to become a free agent Feb. 15

“I’m very excited to join the TigerCats,” Collaros said. “This team has all the pieces in place for success now and in the future.

“I can’t wait to work with the players, coaches and staff in Hamilton and play in front of an outstanding fan base at Tim Hortons Field.”

Collaros, entering his third CFL season, played collegiately at Cincinnati.

He completed 485-of-783 passes for 6,272 yards and 51 touchdowns. He ran 268 times for 1,240 yards and scored 16 TDs.

The signing of Collaros ends veteran Henry Burris’s time in Hamilton as he was released Thursday.

Burris guided Hamilton to a Grey Cup berth last season and was slated to become a free agent next month.

Burris is expected to garner a lot of attention from the Bombers, who used three different starters last season in posting a league-worst 3-15 record.

Collaros will join a Hamilton squad with youngsters Dan LeFevour and Jeremiah Massoli along with former NFLers Brian Brohm and Stephen McGee under contract.

Esks grant veteran QB Joseph release THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Edmonton Eskimos released veteran quarterback Kerry Joseph on Thursday.

That paves the way for Joseph to sign with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, then announce his retirement after 11 CFL seasons.

Joseph enjoyed his best campaign with the Riders in ’07, being named the league’s outstanding player before

leading the team to a Grey Cup victory in Toronto.

“I will speak to media about my future plans once I am officially released by the ESKS,” Joseph said via Twitter on Wednesday.

“I have ask for my release because I would like to retire as a member of the ROUGHRIDERS in the near future.

“Please be patient with me over the next few days and then I will give a detailed statement of why I

came to this decision. I know mentally and physically I can still play this game but other factors have pushed me away as a player! I will truly miss football as a player but I have so much to give as a coach!”

Joseph spent four seasons in Edmonton, completing 189-of-319 passes (59 per cent) for 2,660 yards with 14 touchdowns and 13 interceptions.

He also ran for 384 yards and scored 13 TDs.

“Kerry and I had several conversations throughout the week about the future direction of the club,” Eskimos GM Ed Hervey said in a statement.

“At that time, he asked for and was granted a release.

“Kerry is a consummate professional. We value his contributions to the team, on and off the field, and wish him the very best in his future endeavours.”

Saskatchewan Roughriders release slotback Dressler so he can sign NFL deal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — The Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan Roughriders released allstar slotback Weston Dressler on Thursday.

The move wasn’t a surprise. Dressler, 28, was scheduled to become a free agent Feb. 15 and was exploring his NFL options.

This allows Dressler, who earlier this month worked out for the Kansas City Chiefs, to sign an NFL deal immediately.

Riders assistant GM Jeremy O’Day said that could happen very soon.

“Weston and his agent were very up

front they were going to go through the process and we were made aware of a possible situation coming up in the next couple of days where Weston was more than likely going to get an opportunity,” O’Day told reporters.

“From our standpoint it’s tough to lose such a good player that’s been here for a long time, is a leader in the lockerroom.

“But again, you’ve got to feel happy for him that he gets that opportunity.

“He hasn’t gone through the process of being in the NFL and as any competitor you just want to see how you compare with the best available players. We wish him the best.”

The five-foot-eight, 179-pound native

of Bismarck, N.D., has spent the past six seasons in Regina, having registered 442 catches for 6,531 yards and 43 TDs. He has surpassed the 1,000-yard receiving plateau five times in his career, including the last four years.

Dressler had five catches for a gamehigh 81 yards and a touchdown in Saskatchewan’s 45-23 Grey Cup victory over Hamilton.

Dressler is a two-time CFL all-star and was the league’s top rookie in ’08.

“For the team obviously it’s not great news,” O’Day said.

“But it’s our job to find good players and hopefully we’ll be able to replace him.”

SCOREBOARD Hockey EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP 53 54 56 54 54 53 54 53

W 34 31 29 29 24 23 21 15

L OT Pts GF 16 3 71 160 18 5 67 160 21 6 64 164 20 5 63 135 20 10 58 155 19 11 57 135 26 7 49 132 30 8 38 104

GA 119 136 173 135 170 149 170 154

Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh N.Y. Rangers Columbus Philadelphia Carolina New Jersey Washington N.Y. Islanders

GP 54 55 54 55 53 55 54 56

W 38 29 27 26 24 23 24 21

L OT Pts GF 14 2 78 175 23 3 61 141 23 4 58 159 23 6 58 150 20 9 57 134 21 11 57 130 22 8 56 155 27 8 50 158

GA 129 139 153 163 150 137 163 187

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Chicago St. Louis Colorado Minnesota Dallas Nashville Winnipeg

GP 56 52 53 56 54 55 55

Anaheim San Jose Los Angeles Vancouver Phoenix Calgary Edmonton

GP 56 55 56 55 54 54 56

W 33 36 34 29 24 24 25

L OT Pts GF 10 13 79 199 11 5 77 180 14 5 73 158 21 6 64 137 21 9 57 156 23 8 56 136 25 5 55 155

GA 156 119 141 140 160 166 162

Pacific Division W 40 34 30 27 25 20 18

L OT Pts GF 11 5 85 189 15 6 74 166 20 6 66 134 19 9 63 139 19 10 60 156 27 7 47 128 32 6 42 147

GA 137 133 120 143 163 170 190

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Today’s Games N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Washington at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

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

Tampa Bay at Montreal, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Colorado, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 2 p.m.

Ottawa at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Florida at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Nashville at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

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

SUMMARIES THURSDAY Flames 4, Sharks 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Stempniak 8 (Backlund, Wideman) 9:41.

Penalties — Pavelski SJ (holding) 10:53.

Second Period 2. Calgary, Giordano 9 (Backlund, Hudler) 3:38.

Penalties — Brodie Cgy (cross-checking) 5:59, Wingels SJ (goaltender interference) 14:35.

Third Period 3. San Jose, Hayes 1 (Marleau, Wingels) :36.

4. Calgary, Monahan 15 (Colborne, Smid) 13:00.

5. Calgary, Hudler 14 (Wideman) 18:14 (en).

Penalties —None.

Shots on goal by San Jose 8 13 7 — 28 Calgary 12 8 10 — 30 Goal — San Jose: Stalock (L, 7-4-0); Calgary: Ramo (W, 11-10-4).

Power plays (goal-chances)San Jose: 0-1; Calgary: 0-2.

Attendance — 19,289 at Calgary.

Sabres 3, Coyotes 2 First Period 1. Buffalo, Ennis 12 (Moulson, Girgensons) 6:08.

2. Phoenix, Vermette 20 (Boedker, Yandle) 18:30 (pp).

3. Phoenix, Moss 6 (Halpern, Michalek) 18:48.

Penalties — Hodgson Buf (holding) 16:52.

Second Period 4. Buffalo, Ott 8 (Leino, Sulzer) 6:38 (pp).

Penalties — Bissonnette Phx (holding) 4:40, Hodgson Buf (slashing) 16:25.

Third Period 5. Buffalo, Girgensons 5 (unassisted) 1:52 (sh).

Penalties — Hodgson Buf (slashing) 1:30, Hanzal Phx (roughing) 2:29, Vrbata Phx (roughing) 2:29, Ott Buf (roughing) 2:29.

Buffalo 12 11 5 — 28 10 9 — 40 Phoenix 21 Goal — Buffalo: Miller (W, 14-20-3); Phoenix: Greiss (L, 7-4-1).

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

Devils 3, Stars 2 (OT) First Period 1. New Jersey, Zubrus 10 (Jagr, Zidlicky) 10:59.

Penalties — Fayne NJ (holding) 4:30, Volchenkov NJ (Illegal Check to Head Minor) 5:15, Cole Dal (holding) 12:48.

Second Period 2. New Jersey, Zajac 9 (Brunner, Elias) 9:50 (pp).

3. Dallas, Benn 21 (Seguin, Nichushkin) 10:52.

Penalties — Henrique NJ (slashing) 2:32, Dillon Dal (roughing) 2:32, Garbutt Dal (interference) 8:49, Zajac NJ (tripping) 18:22.

Third Period 4. Dallas, Seguin 24 (Cole, Chiasson) 19:08.

Penalties — Jagr NJ (hooking) 18:21, Benn Dal (diving) 18:21.

Overtime 5. New Jersey, Elias 10 (Zajac, Jagr) :40 (pp).

Penalties — Benn Dal (tripping) 0:28.

New Jersey 7 7 8 2 — 24 Dallas 4 6 6 0 — 16 Goal — New Jersey: Schneider (W, 10-10-7); Dallas: Lehtonen (LO, 20-15-9).

Power plays (goal-chances)New Jersey: 2-3; Dallas: 0-3.

Blue Jackets 5, Capitals 2 First Period

1. Columbus, Mackenzie 6 (Umberger, Tyutin) 12:18 (sh).

2. Columbus, Johansen 20 (Jenner, Atkinson) 16:56.

Penalties — Jenner Clb (goaltender interference) 6:41, Ovechkin Wash (tripping) 7:37, Foligno Clb (fighting) 10:19, Wilson Wash (fighting) 10:19, Foligno Clb (instigator) 10:19, Foligno Clb (misconduct) 10:19, Tyutin Clb (holding) 18:55, Backstrom Wash (slashing) 19:00.

Second Period 3. Columbus, Dubinsky 12 (Murray) :24.

4. Columbus, Johansen 21 (Johnson, Tyutin) 12:14.

5. Washington, Ward 14 (Carlson, Holtby) 18:19 (sh).

Penalties — Brouwer Wash (roughing) 1:10, Laich Wash (hooking) 8:48, Calvert Clb (hooking) 14:15, Chimera Wash (holding) 17:25, Erskine Wash (holding) 19:44.

Third Period 6. Washington, Fehr 9 (Orlov, Wilson) 3:18.

7. Columbus, Atkinson 17 (Calvert, Dubinsky) 4:22.

Penalties — Jenner Clb (fighting) 3:25, Brouwer Wash (fighting) 3:25, Wisniewski Clb (crosschecking) 5:12, Dubinsky Clb (delay of game) 6:55, Erskine Wash (Illegal Check to Head Minor) 10:09, Tropp Clb (hooking) 13:40.

Washington 7 5 20 — 32 Columbus 5 17 7 — 29 Goal — Washington: Holtby (L, 15-13-2); Columbus: Bobrovsky (W, 18-13-2).

Power plays (goal-chances)Washington: 0-7; Columbus: 0-7.

Senators 5, Lightning 3 First Period 1. Ottawa, Methot 5 (Zibanejad, Spezza) 1:49.

2. Ottawa, Karlsson 13 (Spezza, Michalek) 19:34.

Penalties — Hedman TB (hooking) 2:34, Ceci Ott (holding) 7:57.

Second Period 3. Tampa Bay, Killorn 13 (Kucherov, Hedman) 3:10.

4. Ottawa, Smith 10 (unassisted) 6:25.

5. Ottawa, Turris 18 (Ryan) 18:40.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 6. Ottawa, Ryan 20 (Turris, MacArthur) 6:55.

7. Tampa Bay, Johnson 17 (Palat) 12:54 (sh).

8. Tampa Bay, Hedman 11 (St. Louis, Palat) 17:08.

Penalties — Ryan Ott (goaltender interference) 4:35, Barberio TB (high-sticking) 11:53.

Tampa Bay 7 8 23 — 38 Ottawa 12 10 6 — 28 Goal — Tampa Bay: Lindback (L, 5-11-1); Ottawa: Anderson (W, 18-10-7).

Power plays (goal-chances)Tampa Bay: 0-2; Ottawa: 0-2.

Canadiens 4, Bruins 1 First Period 1. Montreal, Emelin 1 (Markov, Briere) 2:16.

2. Montreal, Pacioretty 23 (Gallagher, Desharnais) 14:32.

3. Boston, Hamilton 5 (Eriksson, Soderberg) 15:38.

Penalties — Marchand Bos (boarding) 9:18.

Second Period 4. Montreal, Gionta 9 (Plekanec, Subban) 11:54 (pp).

5. Montreal, Briere 8 (Gallagher) 13:46.

Penalties — Bourque Mtl (holding) 1:12, Desharnais Mtl (roughing) 11:43, Marchand Bos (roughing) 11:43, Subban Mtl (tripping) 17:40.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Eller Mtl (stick holding) 12:26, Hamilton Bos (roughing) 14:56, Lucic Bos (roughing) 18:17.

Montreal 14 7 12 — 33 Boston 13 12 10 — 35 Goal — Montreal: Budaj (W, 6-4-1); Boston: Rask (L, 24-13-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)Montreal: 1-4; Boston: 0-3.

Maple Leafs 6, Panthers 3 First Period 1. Florida, Bjugstad 12 (Upshall, Shore) 1:39.

2. Florida, Bergenheim 13 (Boyes, Gomez) 13:50.

3. Toronto, Franson 4 (Kadri, van Riemsdyk) 16:49.

Penalties — Gleason Tor (cross-checking) 3:05, Gleason Tor (delay of game) 7:51.

Second Period 4. Toronto, Raymond 14 (Bodie, Gleason) :27.

5. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 22 (Kessel, Phaneuf) :58 (pp).

Penalties — Gomez Fla (high-sticking) 0:49, Bodie Tor (tripping) 5:53, Gomez Fla (holding) 15:41.

Third Period 6. Toronto, Kulemin 8 (Lupul, Kadri) 4:00.

7. Toronto, Lupul 16 (Kadri, Rielly) 6:22 (pp).

8. Florida, Kulikov 6 (Goc) 14:29.

9. Toronto, Bozak 10 (Kessel) 18:37.

Penalties — Phaneuf Tor (boarding) 1:16, Campbell Fla (hooking) 4:27, van Riemsdyk Tor (holding) 9:14, Gilbert Fla (roughing) 19:41, Holland Tor (slashing) 19:41.

Florida 11 15 12 — 38 Toronto 9 12 11 — 32 Goal — Florida: Clemmensen (L, 6-5-1); Toronto: Bernier (W, 19-15-5).

Power plays (goal-chances)Florida: 0-5; Toronto: 2-3.

leskey Ana (interference) 12:38, Perreault Ana (tripping) 15:27.

Second Period 4. Anaheim, Perry 29 (Getzlaf, Fowler) 10:29.

Penalties — Downie Pha (fighting) 1:22, Getzlaf Ana (fighting) 1:22, Downie Pha (interference) 19:11.

Third Period 5. Philadelphia, Read 14 (Streit, Couturier) 5:48.

6. Anaheim, Winnik 2 (Koivu) 12:26 (sh).

7. Anaheim, Koivu 9 (Cogliano) 19:36 (en).

8. Philadelphia, Raffl 5 (Schenn, Read) 19:50.

Penalties — Lindholm Ana (high-sticking) 11:26.

Philadelphia 10 9 11 — 30 12 11 — 28 Anaheim 5 Goal — Philadelphia: Mason (L, 20-14-5); Anaheim: Andersen (W, 14-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Philadelphia: 1-4; Anaheim: 0-1. s Avalanche 5, Wild 4 First Period 1. Colorado, O’Reilly 20 (Duchene, McGinn) 4:41.

2. Minnesota, Parise 17 (Heatley, Suter) 6:16 (pp).

Penalties — McLeod Col (fighting) 5:40, Stoner Minn (fighting) 5:40, Landeskog Col (hooking) 5:50, Haula Minn (interference) 10:09, Brodin Minn (tripping) 13:37, Stoner Minn (tripping) 15:47.

Second Period 3. Colorado, Mitchell 6 (Guenin, Duchene) 1:43.

4. Colorado, Stastny 16 (Johnson, Landeskog) 9:17.

5. Colorado, Talbot 6 (Mitchell, MacKinnon) 15:26.

Penalties — Barrie Col (hooking) 2:15, Mitchell Minn (holding) 16:48.

Third Period 6. Minnesota, Parise 18 (Pominville, Granlund) 7:47.

7. Minnesota, Granlund 5 (Parise, Ballard) 12:51.

8. Colorado, MacKinnon 19 (Benoit, Barrie) 17:35.

9. Minnesota, Pominville 22 (Granlund, Parise) 17:46.

Penalties — McGinn Col (fighting) 2:54, Prosser Minn (fighting) 2:54, Talbot Col (slashing) 3:53, Landeskog Col (roughing) 6:49, Cooke Minn (roughing) 6:49, Brodziak Minn (high-sticking) 6:49, Cooke Minn (misconduct) 6:49, Guenin Col (misconduct) 6:49, Guenin Col (roughing) 6:49.

Minnesota 7 11 17 — 35 Colorado 10 18 4 — 32 Goal — Minnesota: Backstrom (L, 5-11-2); Colorado: Varlamov (W, 27-9-5).

Power plays (goal-chances)Minnesota: 1-3; Colorado: 0-4.

WHL All Times Pacific EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION Brandon Swift Current Regina Prince Albert Moose Jaw Saskatoon

GP 50 51 51 50 50 52

W 26 25 25 23 13 14

L OTL SOL 18 5 1 18 2 6 21 3 2 24 2 1 29 3 5 34 1 3

GF 191 172 169 161 129 151

GA 183 151 187 175 196 214

Pt 58 58 55 49 34 32

GF 205 184 169 154 156 127

GA 127 137 136 147 153 246

Pt 71 68 61 56 54 25

GF 216 156 178 174 133

GA 127 120 176 226 213

Pt 83 68 58 47 27

GF 230 176 175 149 133

GA 161 178 145 153 137

Pt 73 67 66 58 55

CENTRAL DIVISION Edmonton Calgary Medicine Hat Red Deer Kootenay Lethbridge

GP 49 50 49 50 50 53

W 35 31 29 27 25 10

L OTL SOL 13 0 1 13 3 3 17 3 0 21 0 2 21 2 2 38 2 3

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION Kelowna Victoria Vancouver Prince George Kamloops

GP 50 51 52 53 51

Portland Seattle Spokane Everett Tri-City

GP 51 51 50 51 51

W 40 33 25 20 11

L OTL SOL 7 0 3 16 0 2 19 5 3 26 2 5 35 2 3

U.S. DIVISION W 34 31 31 25 25

L OTL SOL 12 2 3 15 2 3 15 2 2 18 7 1 21 2 3

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 Today’s games Prince George at Moose Jaw, 5 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 5 p.m.

Saskatoon at Regina, 5 p.m.

Tri-City at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Calgary, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Kootenay, 6 p.m.

Lethbridge at Red Deer, 6 p.m.

Kelowna at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Portland, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 7:35 p.m.

Penguins 4, Kings 1 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Malkin 15 (Jokinen, Neal) :57.

2. Los Angeles, Kopitar 16 (Doughty, Voynov) 9:32 (pp).

3. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 27 (Jokinen, Crosby) 10:50 (pp).

4. Pittsburgh, Jokinen 16 (Malkin, Niskanen) 11:47 (pp).

Penalties — Kunitz Pgh (hooking) 9:16, Stoll LA (hooking) 10:05, Brown LA (slashing) 10:05, Crosby Pgh (hooking) 13:40, Doughty LA (tripping) 17:03.

Second Period 5. Pittsburgh, Glass 4 (Niskanen, Maatta) 11:44.

Penalties — None.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Glass Pgh (slashing) 6:11, Sutter Pgh (tripping) 10:11.

Pittsburgh 7 12 3 — 22 Los Angeles 8 11 12 — 31 Goal — Pittsburgh: Zatkoff (W, 9-2-1); Los Angeles: Quick (L, 15-11-2).

Power plays (goal-chances)Pittsburgh: 2-3; Los Angeles: 1-4.

Saturday’s games Prince George at Swift Current, 5 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Regina, 5 p.m.

Brandon at Saskatoon, 5:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Red Deer, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Kootenay, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 6:30 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Spokane at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Ducks 5, Flyers 3 First Period 1. Anaheim, Maroon 5 (Beauchemin, Perreault) 10:38.

2. Philadelphia, Lecavalier 12 (Gustafsson, Downie) 14:35 (pp).

3. Anaheim, Getzlaf 26 (Lindholm, Palmieri) 19:24.

Penalties — Fistric Ana (interference) 3:38, Be-

Wednesday, February 5 Medicine Hat at Brandon, 5 p.m.

Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Calgary at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Seattle at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday, February 4 Medicine Hat at Regina, 5 p.m.

Swift Current at Prince Albert, 5 p.m.

Saskatoon at Kootenay, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE d-Indiana d-Miami d-Toronto Atlanta Chicago Washington Brooklyn Charlotte New York Detroit Cleveland Philadelphia Boston Orlando Milwaukee

W 35 32 24 23 23 22 20 20 19 18 16 15 15 12 8

L 10 13 21 21 22 23 23 27 27 27 30 31 33 35 37

Pct .778 .711 .533 .523 .511 .489 .465 .426 .413 .400 .348 .326 .313 .255 .178

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Boston Tampa Bay Toronto Montreal Ottawa Detroit Florida Buffalo

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GB — 3 11 11 12 13 14 16 16 17 19 20 21 24 27

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WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Oklahoma City 37 10 .787 —

d-San Antonio Portland d-L.A. Clippers Houston Phoenix Golden State Dallas Memphis Minnesota Denver New Orleans Utah L.A. Lakers Sacramento d-division leader

33 33 33 31 28 27 26 24 23 22 19 16 16 15

13 13 15 17 18 19 21 20 22 22 26 29 30 30

.717 .717 .688 .646 .609 .587 .553 .545 .511 .500 .422 .356 .348 .333

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Thursday’s Games Phoenix 102, Indiana 94 New York 117, Cleveland 86 L.A. Clippers at Golden State, late Today’s Games Milwaukee at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Memphis at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Brooklyn, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Denver, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

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

Saturday’s Games Brooklyn at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Washington, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Houston, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Chicago at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

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

Miami at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Portland, 8 p.m.

Utah at L.A. Clippers, 18:30 p.m.

Curling 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Schedule At Montreal Round-robin schedule for the 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women’s curling championship, Feb. 1-9 at Maurice Richard Arena (all times Eastern): Saturday’s games First Draw, 2 p.m.

Nova Scotia vs. Newfoundland & Labrador; New Brunswick vs. Quebec; B.C. vs. P.E.I.; Yukon/NWT vs. Alberta.

Second Draw, 7 p.m.

Alberta vs. B.C.; Canada vs. Manitoba; Quebec vs. Newfoundland & Labrador; Ontario vs. Saskatchewan.

Sunday’s games Third Draw, 9 a.m.

Manitoba vs. Saskatchewan ; P.E.I. vs. Yukon/ NWT; Canada vs. Ontario; Nova Scotia vs. New Brunswick.

Fourth Draw, 2 p.m.

Quebec vs. Canada; Ontario vs. Newfoundland & Labrador; Saskatchewan vs. Alberta; Manitoba vs. B.C. Fifth Draw, 7 p.m.

Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Yukon/NWT; Alberta vs. Nova Scotia; New Brunswick vs. B.C.;

P.E.I. vs Quebec.

Monday, Feb. 3 Fourth Draw, 2 p.m.

P.E.I. vs. Ontario; New Brunswick vs. Saskatchewan; Manitoba vs. Nova Scotia; Canada vs.

Yukon/NWT. Seventh Draw, 7:30 p.m.

New Brunswick vs. Alberta; Newfoundland & Labrador vs. P.E.I.; Yukon/NWT vs. Quebec; B.C. vs. Nova Scotia.

Tuesday, Feb. 4 Eighth Draw, 9 a.m.

Saskatchewan vs. Quebec; B.C. vs. Ontario; Alberta vs. Canada; Newfoundland & Labrador vs.

Manitoba.

Ninth Draw, 2 p.m.

Yukon/NWT vs. B.C.; Nova Scotia vs. Quebec; Newfoundland & Labrador vs. New Brunswick; Alberta vs. P.E.I. Draw 10, 7:30 p.m.

Canada vs. Nova Scotia; Manitoba vs. Yukon/ NWT; P.E.I. vs. Saskatchewan; New Brunswick vs.

Ontario.

Wednesday, Feb. 5 Draw 11, 9 a.m.

Alberta vs. Newfoundland & Labrador; P.E.I. vs. New Brunswick; Nova Scotia vs. Yukon/NWT;

Quebec vs. B.C. Draw 12, 2 p.m.

Quebec vs. Manitoba; Canada vs. B.C.; Ontario vs. Alberta; Saskatchewan vs. Newfoundland & Labarador Draw 13, 7:30 p.m.

Ontario vs. Yukon/NWT; Saskatchewan vs.

Nova Scotia; New Brunswick vs. Manitoba; P.E.I. vs. Canada.

Thursday, Feb. 6 Draw 14, 9 a.m.

Quebec vs. Alberta; B.C. vs. Newfoundland & Labrador.

Draw 15, 2 p.m.

Nova Scotia vs. P.E.I; Ontario vs. Manitoba; Saskatchewan vs. Canada; Yukon/NWT vs. New Brunswick.

Draw 16, 7:30 p.m.

B.C. vs. Saskatchewan; Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Canada; Quebec vs. Ontario; Manitoba vs. Alberta.

Friday, Feb. 7 Draw 17, 9 a.m.

Canada vs. New Brunswick; Yukon/NWT vs.

Saskatchewan; Manitoba vs. P.E.I.; Ontario vs.

Nova Scotia.

End of round robin

Today ● 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. ● Mixed martial arts: Havoc Fighting Championship 4, 7 p.m., Sheraton Events Centre. ● 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.

Saturday ● Gymnastics: Exelta Cup, women’s artistic, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Skiing: Regional Red Deer GS, races at 10:10 a.m. and 1:25 p.m., Canyon Ski Hill. ● 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. ● WHL: Tri-City at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Peewee AA hockey: Foothills vs, Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m.,

Kin City A; Medicine Hat vs.

Lacombe, 1:30 p.m., Clive; Okotoks vs. Red Deer Parkland, 4:45 p.m., Colicutt Centre. ● Bantam AA hockey: Southwest vs. Red Deer Steel Kings, 3 p.m., Kin City A; Taber at Sylvan Lake, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockjey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena ● College volleyball: SAIT at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.

Sunday ● Gymnastics: Exelta Cup, women’s artistic, 9 a.m. start, Collicutt Centre. ● Skiing: Regional Red Deer GS, races at 10:10 a.m. and 1:25 p.m., Canyon Ski Hill. ● Bantam AAA hockey: Red Deer Rebels Black vs, Calgary Royals, noon, Arena. ● Bantam AAA female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund vs.

Sherwood Park, 12:45 p.m., Kin City B. ● Peewee AA hockey: Medicine Hat vs. Red Deer Parkland, 12:45 p.m., Colicutt Centre.; Wheatland vs. Red Deer TBS, 1:45 p.m., Kin City A. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Northstars vs.

Rockyview, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Okotoks at Sylvan Lake, 2:45 p.m.; Foothills vs. Red Deer Indy Graphics, 5:30,p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Taber vs.

Red Deer Ramada, 4 p.m., Kin City A.

Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Purchased the contract of 1B Carlos Diaz from the Mexico City Reds.

Signed 3B Jomar Reyes and assigned him and Diaz to the Gulf Coast League.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Extended the player development contract with the Mahoning Valley (NYP) for two seasons through 2016.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Released LHP Andrew Albers.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Added Kendall Carter, Brandon Duckworth, Joe Espada, Dan Giese and Dennis Twombley to the major league/ professional scouting department.

American Association SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed INF Mark Sobolewski.

Frontier League GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed INF Tommy Richards.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed RHP Seth Webster to a contract extension. Signed RHP Erik Shannahan and RHP Anthony Smith.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Announced the board of governors approved the appointment of Mark Tatum to deputy commissioner and chief operating officer. Promoted Bill Koenig to president, global media distribution; Sal LaRocca to president, global operations and merchandising; and Danny Meiseles to president and executive producer, content.

HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled G Isaiah Canaan from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).

NEW YORK KNICKS — Recalled C Cole Aldrich, G Toure’ Murry and F Jeremy Tyler from Erie (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League TENNESSEE TITANS — Named Nick Eason assistant defensive line coach.

Canadian Football League CALGARY STAMPEDERS — Re-signed LS Randy Chevrier.

EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Release QB Kerry

Joseph.

SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS — Resigned DB Macho Harris and DB Troy Stoudermire.

Released SB Weston Dressler.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CALGARY FLAMES — Assigned C Blair Jones to Abbotsford (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Activated G Cam Ward from injured reserve and assigned him to Charlotte (AHL) for conditioning.

DALLAS STARS — Recalled F Dustin Jeffrey from Texas (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled F Christian Thomas from Hamilton (AHL).

NHL Players Association NHLPA — Announced the retirement of LW Jay Pandolfo.

ECHL SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Traded D Brendan Rempel to Las Vegas for future considerations.

SOCCER Major League Soccer LA GALAXY — Signed MF Stefan Ishizaki.

PHILADELPHIA UNION — Signed MF Vincent Nogueira.

SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC — Sold F Fredy Montero to Sporting Lisbon (Portugal).

SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Signed D Chance Myers.

COLLEGE METRO ATLANTIC ATHLETiC CONFERENCE — Named Glenn M. Wong legal counsel.

CHOWAN — Named Ashley Wells assistant to the director of athletics.

GEORGETOWN — Announced the resignation of football coach Kevin Kelly to become the defensive co-ordinator at Ball State.

MINOT STATE — Named Todd Hoffner football coach.

NOTRE DAME — Promoted Mike Denbrock to offensive co-ordinator.

ST. SCHOLASTICA — Announced the retirement of football coach Greg Carlson.

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Avalanche give Varlamov extension

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche have signed goaltender Semyon Varlamov to a five-year extension that goes through the 2018-19 season.

The 25-year-old Varlamov is thriving under first-year coach and Hall of Fame goaltender Patrick Roy, posting a 26-9-5 record with a 2.43 goalsagainst average.

He’s second in the league in saves (1,199) this season and his 26 wins already match a

career high.

Joe Sakic, the team’s executive vice-president of hockey operations, says that Varlamov is “entering the prime years of his career and he wants to be part of this franchise moving forward. We are very excited to have come to terms with him.”

Varlamov was a first-round pick by Washington before being acquired by Colorado on July 1, 2011.

He will represent Russia at the Sochi Olympics next month.

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No pain, no gain for Phil BACK PAIN GONE, MICKELSON STRUGGLES WITH GAME

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHOENIX OPEN

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — From the moment Phil Mickelson set foot at TPC Scottsdale early Thursday morning, it was clear that the back pain that sidelined him last weekend was gone.

It also was quickly evident that his game was a little off.

“My back is fine. My game was a little rusty,” Mickelson said after opening his Phoenix Open title defence with an even-par 71.

After effortlessly hitting his opening drive 300 yards down the middle on the par-4 10th, Mickelson dumped a 90-yard wedge shot into the left greenside bunker.

He blasted 10 feet past the hole and sighed in relief when his par putt slid in.

A few minutes later on the par-3 12th, Mickelson found the water hazard along the right side of the green. His chip from the fringe stopped about 15 feet short and he twoputted for a double bogey. He three-putted twice, once for par and another for bogey.

“I threw away a lot of shots,” Mickelson said. “I made some careless swings. Hitting it in the water on 12 was just pathetic.”

He was seven strokes behind leaders Bubba Watson and Y.E. Yang.

“I got off to a poor start, played a couple over, and finished poorly,” Mickelson said.

“In the middle of the round, though, I hit a lot of good shots

and had a good little run, but it just wasn’t quite sharp. I wasn’t quite focused on every shot the way I need to be and let way too many shots slide.”

Mickelson first felt soreness in his back two weeks ago in Abu Dhabi, and pulled out of his hometown event in San Diego after making the 36-hole cut at Torrey Pines. He flew to Georgia to see back specialist Tom Boers and was told his facet joints locked up.

“It’s fine. Honestly, it’s no big deal,” Mickelson said. “It was a five-minute fix. I just have to be careful for a week or two as it heals up. It’s fine.

Mobility is back. It’s just not a big deal. ... It happens every now and then. Last time was about four years ago.”

After the double bogey on 12, he rebounded with 20-foot birdie putts on the next two holes, but three-putted for par on the par-5 15th after hitting a hybrid pin-high from 245 yards.

“Fifteen really stung,” Mickelson said. “It was only a 12- or 15-footer, and I am thinking eagle. I roll it 6 feet by and I miss it coming back. That was costly.

Mickelson got to 3 under with birdies on Nos. 17, 1 and 4, then bogeyed three of his last five holes. He three-putted the par-4 fifth — missing from 5 ½ and 3 ½ feet — and failed to get-up-down for par after finding greenside bunkers on

Nos. 7 and 9.

“Playing the last five holes at 3 over ... that was really bad,” Mickelson said.

He hit five of 14 fairways, 11 greens in regulation and had 30 putts.

“I wasn’t as sharp as I need to be, for sure,” Mickelson said.

In his victory last year, he opened with a 60 — lipping out a birdie putt on the final hole — and matched the tournament record at 28-under 256.

The 43-year-old former Arizona State star is making his 25th appearance in the event that he also won in 1996 and 2005.

“It’s fun to be back here,” Mickelson said. “I love playing here.”

Watson and Yang shot 64.

Watson birdied four of the final six holes. The 2012 Masters champion had eight birdies and a bogey in the afternoon session.

“This golf course, if your ball-striking is good, you can shoot some good numbers here,” Watson said after hitting 17 greens in regulation.

“Hit a lot of greens, didn’t make too many mistakes, didn’t miss too many fairways.

Just played solid.”

Yang birdied the final two holes. The 2009 PGA winner also had eight birdies and a bogey, playing the back nine in 6-under 30 in his morning round.

“I think you have to be aggressive,” the South Korean player said through a translator.

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Phil Mickelson reacts to a missed putt on the 16th hole during the first round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open golf tournament on Thursday, in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Maurice says Byfuglien continues to impress

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Winnipeg Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien (33) takes Chicago Blackhawks centre Jonathan Toews (19) down after Toews’ shot on goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, in Chicago.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

WINNIPEG JETS

WINNIPEG — Dustin Byfuglien may have to scratch for things he likes about playing forward but his coach is certainly sold on the way the former Winnipeg Jets defenceman is performing when he’s on the ice.

“I really like the way he’s into the game on the bench, he’s finishing checks, he’s engaged in what he’s doing,” Paul Maurice said Thursday as the Jets prepared to host the Vancouver Canucks.

“He doesn’t at all look like a player who’s waiting for this experiment not to work and ‘I’m going to go back to where I want to.’ ” Moving Byfuglien to the wing was one of former coach Claude Noel’s last acts as he tried to reverse a five-game slide that ultimately cost him his job.

Maurice left Byfuglien there and suggests it’s working so well it’s not even something he thinks about.

“He’s put up big numbers, scored overtime goals, done the things, so he’s impactful in our game,” Maurice said.

The Chicago Blackhawks also tried Byfuglien at forward, although he has made it no secret that he prefers defence. He hasn’t quit cold turkey and still covers the blue-line when the Jets have a power play and Byfuglien is still the third-highest scoring defenceman in the league with 40 points.

When Winnipeg’s power play works (which isn’t often, ranking 24th in the NHL) it’s usually Byfuglien who’s partly responsible. He has a team-leading 19 power-play points.

While forward might not be his first choice, he says it’s his job to do what he’s asked to help the Jets win.

“I don’t know if I’m really comfortable yet but getting there,” he said after practice Thursday. “Playing with the same line helps and getting to know where they go, it’s better.”

He plays right wing on what is nominally the team’s third line with Olli

Jokinen in the middle and Devin Setoguchi on the left side.

It has largely done what Noel hoped to accomplish, given the Jets three legitimate scoring lines that opposition teams have to be concerned about.

Byfuglien has had six points in the nine games since the change, more than his linemates combined.

The shift has meant rookie defenceman Jacob Trouba, just 19, is now getting a lot of ice time and defence partner Mark Stuart has nothing but praise for the way he’s handled himself.

“He’s a kid who’s got tremendous skill and he’s going to be such a good player in the league, he already is,” said the veteran, whose own play seems to have taken off lately.

Stuart had points in each of the team’s last two games and is seeing almost as much ice time as Trouba.

“I think we complement each other,” he said.

“He’s such a good skater, he plays with the puck really well, he love’s skating it up.

“I’m more of a stay back (defenceman) a lot more, I think defence first.”

Trouba has seven points over the last seven games and has moved into 14th spot on the rookie scoring list, despite having played only 38 games this season due to injuries.

After losing 4-3 to the Nashville Predators on Tuesday, the Jets host Western Conference rival Vancouver on Friday night at the MTS Centre.

January hasn’t been kind to the slumping Canucks, who have won just four of the 14 games they’ve played this month. They’ll arrive here having lost two straight to Edmonton and Chicago.

But they’re still clinging to the eighth and final playoff spot in the conference. The Jets were 12th going into Friday’s game and need to gain a lot of ground if they hope to avoid missing the post-season once again.

UFC crashes Super Bowl party, finds bright lights of NYC

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Regis Philbin wore a UFC championship belt around his waist and tossed a challenge at Ricardo Lamas.

“Ricardo, good luck! You’re not going to get this until you win,” the 82-year-old TV personality said.

“And then you’ve got to go through me!’

Lamas would have an easier time with Reege than he will with champion Jose Aldo.

When the UFC piggybacked on Super Bowl weekend, the usual promotion for Saturday’s pay-per-view event went out on the window — and landed on the NFL’s media day.

And radio row. And, well, just about any hot spot this week where NFL or major media outlets were camped out, so was the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

The UFC even hit Madison Square Garden on Thursday

to promote the card — a venue the promotion can’t run because of New York’s MMA ban.

The UFC didn’t just crash the Super Bowl party, it became the life of the bash.

UFC correspondent Megan Olivi brought a championship belt to the Super Bowl circus known as media day, where Philbin proclaimed himself the champ, and players couldn’t wait to hoist the strap over their shoulder or pose with it for a picture.

Lamas, one of several UFC stars who attended, ran his fingers though Pittsburgh defenceman’s Brett Keisel’s bushy beard.

UFC heavyweight Alistair Overeem wore a Peyton Manning jersey and the 135-pound champion Renan Barao countered with Russell Wilson’s No. 3 when the fighters lined up for a post-press conference photo opp at MSG. The week of media tours has been almost as rugged as

MMA five rounds in the octagon for the fighters.

“The amount of media I’ve done this week is incredible,” Lamas said.

“My head was spinning from all the questions being asked.

I’d love to get to do stuff like this even more because I’d love for this to be a big problem in my life.”

Lamas might find out if he can defeat Aldo for the championship. Barao defends his title against Urijah Faber and Overeem takes on Frank Mir in Saturday’s three biggest bouts.

The UFC will hold its Super Bowl weekend show at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., just a few miles from MetLife Stadium, where the Super Bowl will be played Sunday.

The UFC switched its traditional Super Bowl show from Las Vegas to New Jersey at

the request of broadcast partner, Fox. “I wasn’t really sure how it would all go, but it couldn’t have gone better,” UFC President Dana White said.

White referenced the movie Groundhog Day, as he again explained New York’s beef with MMA. While he would surely love for UFC to run MSG — or at any arena in the state — he’s comforted by the 49 other states and numerous countries around the globe clamouring for MMA’s global leader to come to town.

“Us not being in New York has been a great thing for New Jersey,” White said. “It’s been great for New Jersey and it’s been great for us.”

With New York closed to MMA, UFC 169 is already the fifth card the Las Vegasbased promotion has run in the building since it opened in 2007.

“Can we become Las Vegas East for MMA? I certainly hope so,” said Scott O’Neil,

CEO of the Prudential Center.

The show is an expected sellout — White said he was forced to deny a ticket request for actor-rapper Ice-T. The New York Assembly has blocked legalization for years, and has shunned MMA almost since the company’s inception, when UFC 12 in 1997 was booted after the event was denied sanctioning rights.

New York is the lone state that does not hold regulated MMA cards.

The opportunity is there on Saturday for the UFC to attract even more fans, and maybe sway some New York lawmakers.

The issue for several years split a Republican-controlled Senate and Democrat-dominated Assembly. However, the bill passed the Senate now ruled by a bipartisan coalition, and backers claim there is enough support among Assembly Democrats to pass it if their leaders permit the floor vote.

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Canucks’ Santorelli has shoulder surgery

Leroux always emotional when U.S. women face Canada in showdown

BIEKSA OUT UNTIL AFTER OLYMPIC BREAK

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The struggling Vancouver Canucks can’t seem to catch a break on the injury front.

The team announced Thursday that centre Mike Santorelli has undergone surgery to repair a torn labrum and will be out five to six months, effectively ending his season.

The news came after assistant coach Mike Sullivan told reporters defenceman Kevin Bieksa won’t accompany the Canucks on their five-game road trip that leads into the Olympic break.

“It’s more than (a maintenance day),” said Sullivan of Bieksa’s absence from practice. “He is not going to join us on the trip.

“We don’t know the details of it yet.

When we get more information we’ll update you.”

On top of that, fellow defenceman Christopher Tanev is out with what’s believed to be a broken hand. Captain Henrik Sedin has missed the last five games with an upper-body injury, although Sullivan expects him back soon.

“He’s still day-to-day, but I believe he will join us on this trip and we are hopeful that we’ll get him at some point here,” said Sullivan.

It all adds up to a very busy sick bay for a team that has just four wins in its last 15 games (4-8-3), including just two victories in regulation.

The loss of Santorelli hurts up front as the Canucks have been held to two goals or less in nine of their last 10 games.

The 28-year-old, who was injured Jan. 16, had 10 goals and 18 assists in 49 games this season. A native of nearby Burnaby, B.C., Santorelli impressed head coach John Tortorella in training camp and became one his most trusted players the first half of the season.

“After consultation with our team physicians, we determined Mike would

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require a procedure on his shoulder,” Canucks general manager Mike Gillis said in statement. “The surgery was successful and we expect a full recovery.”

Santorelli — who can become an unrestricted free agent in July — had been a journeyman in the league until appearing to find a home with the Canucks. He was put on waivers by the Florida Panthers last season and picked up by the Winnipeg Jets before signing with Vancouver.

The loss of Bieksa, who has four goals and 15 assists in 55 games this season, is also a significant blow. To take the 32-year-old’s place on the blue-line, the Canucks recalled defenceman Frank Corrado of the American Hockey League’s Utica Comets.

The 20-year-old played six games for Vancouver earlier this season but has yet to register a point.

Meanwhile, Tortorella still has one game to go in his six-game suspension for trying to get into the Calgary Flames’ locker-room after that infamous first-period line brawl Jan. 18.

The fiery head coach, who had been on his best behaviour since coming to Vancouver prior to that incident, will sit out Friday game’s against the Winnipeg Jets before returning Monday against the Detroit Red Wings.

What he will find is a team with a 27-19-9 record that’s in a dogfight for one of the two Western Conference wild-card spots, a position the Canucks aren’t accustomed to after winning division titles five of the last six years.

“We have to be a resilient group.

We understand the circumstance, everybody’s looking for the result,” said Sullivan.

“Resilience and attitude is a big part of having success in this league, because inevitably, most teams go through adversity where they lose a few games or things don’t go their way, they hit the injury bug, whatever it may be — sometimes it’s all of the above.”

FRISCO, Texas — Sydney Leroux gets emotional each time the U.S. women play Canada.

There was that incredible comeback victory in the semifinals of the 2012 Olympics before the U.S. team won its fourth gold medal.

Then in Toronto last summer, Canadian-born American citizen Leroux got booed after scoring a goal in stoppage time of a 3-0 victory and then popping the team logo on her jersey.

Leroux, Abby Wambach and the top-ranked Americans open their 2014 season against Canada on Friday night at the home stadium of FC Dallas.

“We’re super excited.

For me, it’s a little different, our first game in 2014 is against Canada and is in the United States, which is awesome,” Leroux said.

“It’s obviously emotional for me, but in a good way. ... I love to play them, and especially what happened there, and now the fact that we get to play them on our turf is like really, really cool.”

The Americans have a 77-game unbeaten home streak (67-0-10) since their last loss in the United States against Denmark at Philadelphia in November 2004.

Overall, they’ve gone 39

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WOMEN’S SOCCER games in a row overall without losing (33-0-6) and outscored opponents 130-29 in that nearly twoyear span.

“I don’t even think that we ever talk about the fact that we have an unbeaten streak at home,” Leroux said.

“It’s just like we go out every game, and we expect the best out of each other, and we expect to win.

“I’ve never seen that attitude so strong.”

In a year that will end with World Cup qualifying, second-year coach Tom Sermanni’s team will start with three matches in a two-week period.

After Canada, they play Russia twice — Feb. 8 in Boca Raton, Fla., and four days later in Atlanta. The two teams haven’t faced each other since 2002.

“It’s good. We need to play more games,” said Sermanni, 13-0-3 his first year.

“You don’t find out things, you can do all you want in training, play 11 vs. 11, do everything possible.

“Until you actually go out into that arena and play an international game, you don’t know what you need to do or what you need to work on, or how your team’s going to show up.”

Canada, ranked sev-

enth in the world, is led

by Christine Sinclair.

Second among active international scorers behind Wambach’s record 163, Sinclair’s 147 career goals are 85 more than the total goals scored combined by the rest of the Canada’s roster.

Sinclair scored three goals in that last Olympic meeting, all giving Canada one-goal leads.

Wambach scored the last tying goal before Alex Morgan, who is out of this opening three-match stretch still recovering from a left ankle injury, scored the winner in a 4-3 victory.

“She definitely poses a problem for us,” Wambach said of Sinclair.

“Any time she gets the ball, we all have to be focused and making sure she doesn’t get too much space because she’ll take advantage of us like she did in the Olympics.”

This is the 55th meeting between the border nations, a series the Americans lead 46-3-5.

“I think there will always be something about playing Canada. ... We always have a healthy rivalry going,” Wambach said.

“I think that (2012 Olympic game) made the rivalry even more intense, emotional.”

P R O F I L E

The Pidherney Centre Not Just A Curling Rink!

When the Red Deer Curling Club opened it doors in 1953 the population of Red Deer had reached 9,164, Paul Crawford and Harry Halladay shared the Mayor’s duties, Ernest Manning was in his tenth year as Premier of Alberta, Queen Elizabeth was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth at Westminster Abbey, four passenger trains a day still served the CPR’s downtown station, gas was twenty cents a gallon and Ab Gowanlock skipped his Manitoba rink to a Brier win in Sudbury, Ontario.

The ground breaking for that eight sheet ice facility on July 13, 1953, represented the culmination of years of planning and fundraising by Red Deer’s Curling Community. The event was highlighted by having then Prime Minister, Louis St. Laurent turn the first sod for the new facility.

Red Deer has been a curling hotbed since the first official match was held on the Red Deer River on Boxing Day, 1898 and with the opening of the newly expanded, state of the art Pidherney Centre in 2013, Red Deer curlers have

a facility that will support that history and their love of curling for years to come. “We’re not just a curling rink any more”, says Wade Thurber, Pidherney Centre Manager. “Our expansion has allowed us to take on a number of other roles”.

Expanded from eight to twelve sheets of ice as part of the 8.2 million dollar 2012 renovation, the Pidherney Centre is now a world class curling facility with a membership increase of 43 teams since construction. “We are busy 7 days a week with curling and event bookings”, says Thurber. “And it is our extended range of services that truly sets us apart from other facilities”. Not only can the Centre now offer 27,000 square feet of fully equipped trade show and concert space tied with a working agreement to accommodations at the nearby Red Deer Lodge, they can also accommodate everything from small group meetings to fully catered banquets and receptions.

“We were very involved in last year’s Allan Cup, hosting many of the office festivities in conjunction with our partners at Blue Sage Catering”, adds Thurber. “We now have full commercial food and catering facilities and are

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Blazers, Rockets each get 2 All-Star reserves

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The Portland Trail Blazers and Houston Rockets each had two players picked as reserves for the NBA All-Star game, while the Indiana Pacers had to settle for just Roy Hibbert despite the league’s best record.

LaMarcus Aldridge and Damian Lillard made it from the Trail Blazers, who have been among the Western Conference leaders all season.

Dwight Howard, who was passed late in fan voting for a starting spot, was chosen Thursday along with Houston teammate James Harden.

Old reliables Chris Paul, Tony Parker and Dirk Nowitzki round out the West reserves for the Feb. 16 game in New Orleans.

Nowitzki earned his 12th selection, tying him for

sixth all-time with nine players.

The rest of the East reserves are: Miami’s Chris Bosh, Washington’s John Wall, Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan, Brooklyn’s Joe Johnson, Chicago’s Joakim Noah and Atlanta’s Paul Millsap.

DeRozan, who missed the Raptors last two games with a sprained ankle, leads the team in scoring with 21.8 points a game.

This will be his third appearance at NBA All-Star Weekend, but first in the actual game. DeRozan participated in the Sprite Slam Dunk in 2010 and 2011 and played in the 2011 T-Mobile Rookie Challenge.

The Pacers hoped Lance Stephenson, who leads the NBA in triple-doubles, would also be selected to join Hibbert and Paul George, who was voted to start.

The reserves were chosen by the coaches from each conference, who had to vote for two guards, three frontcourt players and two regardless of position.

They were not allowed to vote for their own players.

The West ones went for veterans with their choices at guard in Paul, last year’s All-Star game MVP from the Los Angeles Clippers, and the Spurs’ Parker. That left first-time hopefuls Goran Dragic of Phoenix and Mike Conley Jr. of Memphis home.

The starters were announced last week: Miami’s LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, New York’s Carmelo Anthony and Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving were voted to start along with George.

The fans voted for NBA scoring leader Kevin Durant of Oklahoma City, the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant, Golden State’s Stephen Curry, Minnesota’s Kevin Love and the Clippers’ Blake Griffin.

Bryant is injured and not expected to play. Adam Silver, who will become commissioner Saturday, will choose replacements for Bryant and any other injured players.

NASCAR overhauls Chase format

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NASCAR CEO Brian France speaks to the media during a news conference at the NASCAR Sprint Cup auto racing Media Tour in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday.

Busch around Watkins Glen and declined to aggressively move his rival out of the way. Keselowski settled for second, racing for a good points day and declining to inflame his touchy relationship with Busch. But in doing so, he failed to win a regular-season race and missed the Chase, making him ineligible to defend his title.

Under the new format, a winless Keselowski would have no choice in that same situation but to bang fenders with Busch and go after the win.

That’s exactly what France wants to see on the track each week.

“This is pretty clear: You have to win, you have to compete at a higher level, you have to take more chances,” France said.

France said he expects contact among cars.

“Obviously there are some limits, but that’s always part of NASCAR, to have some version of contact late in the race,” he said. “Will this bring more of that? I’m sure it will.”

The changes were lauded by Julie Sobieski, vice-president of league

sports programming for ESPN, which will broadcast all 10 Chase races this year.

“We have long felt that there was a greater opportunity within the Chase and are in favour of an elimination format, which has been most effective in American sports,” she said.

Teams and drivers were briefed by NASCAR on the changes, and reaction was mostly positive.

“This took guts, this is a big deal,” said team owner Joe Gibbs, who saw his three Cup drivers combine for a seriesbest 12 wins last season.

Busch, who won four races and finished fourth in the standings, wasn’t as effusive.

“I don’t like to always be the Debbie Downer ... but some of the things they are doing, I’m not in agreement with,” Busch said, declining to be specific because he spoke before NASCAR unveiled the format.

He noted that Keselowski would have had incentive to wreck Busch at Watkins Glen, and said there are other scenarios NASCAR must now consider. He referred to last season, when, Kenseth

Royals agree with Bruce Chen

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Left-hander Bruce Chen got his wish Thursday, agreeing to a $4.25 million, one-year contract to return to the Kansas City Royals, where he’s spent the past five seasons.

Chen became a free agent after last season, but he made it clear that he wanted to return to the Royals.

He’ll do so on a deal that pays $3.25 million this season with a mutual option at $5.5 million for 2015 with a $1 million buyout. The deal is subject to a physical, likely to take place today.

He’ll also be eligible for performance bonuses this season of $125,000 for each start from 16 through 25, a sign the Royals may view him primarily as a long-reliever with the ability to step in as a spot starter in the case of injuries or ineffectiveness.

That’s similar to the role Chen had last season, arguably the best of his 15-year career. He went 9-4 with a 3.27 ERA while making 15 starts and 19 appearances out of the bullpen.

One of the most popular players in the clubhouse, the 36-year-old Chen has seemingly gotten better with age. He won 35 games for the Royals from 201012, when he was almost exclusively a starter, and

then helped stabilize the rotation the last 2 ½ months of last season.

Chen’s been successful despite a fastball that rarely breaks 85 mph. He instead relies on a beguiling mix of sliders, curveballs and cutters, and often jokes about his lack of velocity.

The front end of the Royals rotation is set with James Shields, Jeremy Guthrie and recently signed Jason Vargas. Talented left-hander Danny Duffy, who came back from Tommy John surgery last season, is in line for one of the remaining spots, leaving the fifth job up for grabs.

Hard-throwing youngster Yordano Ventura pitched well during a September call-up and is widely expected to join the rotation at some point this season. It’s possible that Chen could serve as a stopgap out of spring training if Ventura isn’t quite ready to step into the rotation.

Former starter Luke Hochevar, who flourished in the bullpen last season, and Wade Davis, who has also been much better as a reliever than a starter, could also compete for the job.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Say goodbye to the NASCAR era when a driver, fresh off a satisfying, top10 finish, climbs from the car and raves about what a good points day it was.

Winning is all that matters under the latest and most radical change to the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

NASCAR’s overhauled championship format announced Thursday is a 16-driver, winner-takeall elimination system designed to reward “the most worthy, battle-tested” driver at the end of the season.

“Riding around and being pleased because the (previous) format rewards consistency, those days are going to be pretty much over,” NASCAR Chairman Brian France said.

The field, expanded from 12 to 16 drivers, will be whittled down to a final four through eliminations after every three races of the 10-race Chase. The remaining four drivers will go into the season finale with an equal chance to win the championship: The first of the four to cross the finish line will be crowned Sprint Cup champion.

“No math. No bonus points. It’s as simple as it gets,” France said.

It’s the fourth change to either the points or championship format since France created the Chase in 2004. For 28 years prior to the Chase, consistency reigned as the champion was the driver with the most points at the end of the season.

That ended a year after Matt Kenseth won the 2003 title with a single victory, and France began his pursuit of creating “Game 7 moments.”

Along the way, he has pushed his agenda of wanting aggressive drivers chasing wins.

He’ll get that under the new format, which makes settling for points pretty much pointless.

Why? Because a win in the 26-race regular season virtually guarantees a berth in the Chase. Then, eliminations begin, and a driver can guarantee a trip to the next round with a victory.

Last August, Brad Keselowski chased Kyle

opened the Chase with a win at Chicago, where Busch followed his teammate across the finish line for a 1-2 finish for Gibbs.

They again went 1-2 at New Hampshire the next week. But in the new format, that’s not necessarily good enough. Busch would instead be looking to win in such a scenario to ensure a trip to the next round.

“I’m chasing him down to try to get to him, and if I got to him, I could have moved his (butt) out of the way to get a win and knock me into the next round of playoffs. Matt didn’t need it,” Busch said. “Those situations are what NASCAR is looking at. They are not wanting, ’Let’s just race to the checkered and not cause any drama and have a good points day.”’

Another twist: In the Kenseth-Busch scenario, it would have been in the best interest of Joe Gibbs Racing for Busch to win and, because the points reset after each round, meaning multiple victories by a driver in the Chase has no benefit — the team would have incentive to orchestrate a Busch victory over Kenseth.

“That would be a NASCAR grey area that they’d have to make a judgment call on,” Busch said.

NASCAR last year issued severe sanctions against Michael Waltrip Racing for trying to manipulate the finish of the last race of the regular season. The scandal led France to angrily warn teams they must all give 100 per cent at all times, and laying down to help a teammate or technical partner would not be tolerated.

NASCAR President Mike Helton said nothing will change in race control and how officials enforce the rules.

“We’ll officiate the sport the same way,” Helton said. “We get the fact that this puts pressure on us officiating, and we feel like we’re capable of stepping up to it.”

France said extensive research done by NASCAR showed the new format appealed to fans because it eliminates points racing.

“The avid fans like it because they don’t particularly care for points racing, even though they understand it,” France said.

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The children became fast friends. Anthony learned as a young baby to be “good” and compliant. He was older than Mary and took care of her.

The sad day arrived when The year is 1952, the place an American couple, a doctor is Ireland and the story tells and his wife, came looking for of young Philomena Lee, who a little girl to adopt.

They were rich and well con(as the forward says) fell pregnected. When they nant out of wedlock. saw the love beIn the innocence of tween Anthony and the time, she had Mary, they decided been warned against to take two children kissing, but had litback to America. tle idea that it could They arrived in lead to babies.

America after a terIn this more enrifying journey; Irelightened age, we land is forgotten, read about the great and the children shame of the situagrow up as Michael tion and wonder that and Mary Hess. It no one celebrated is an affluent life the birth of a child, PEGGY and Mary is a cute but only concentratFREEMAN girl and Michael is ed on the sin and unquick in his studies forgivable peril of it and very handsome. all.

Many studies Philomena was show that adopted shipped off to Sean Ross Abbey, Roscrea, County Tipper- children feel a loss they canary. She was to be at the con- not explain and so it was with vent until her baby was born, Michael.

The remaining story, a whopand because she was poor, ping 452 pages in total, details she would stay for the following three years working in the their life in America. Michael convent laundry, to pay for her discovers he is gay, in the America of President Ronald keep.

This biography makes it Reagan, with the religious right clear that in 1953 the church blaming the gay community for was above the law in Ireland almost everything bad.

He is by turns promiscuous and the sisters at the abbey and loyal, but he thinks often of were very unforgiving, and downright mean, so her stay Ireland and his roots and feels he belongs nowhere. was far from happy.

He enters politics and beThe young women at the comes, at 32, a powerful memconvent were not allowed to ber of the Republican National use their own names, and when their babies were born, they Committee.

The telling of this story is signed a document that forfeited their knowing where the overly long, I think, but the children were sent for adop- details of Philomena’s search for Michael/Anthony and his tion.

Margaret was also a young search for her is very poimother at the convent who gnant.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead first read George Eliot’s Middlemarch at age 17, when she was an ambitious schoolgirl studying for entrance exams to Oxford.

She recalls identifying “completely” with the novel’s earnest heroine Dorothea Brooke and Dorothea’s yearning for a “more significant existence.”

Over the years Mead returned to Eliot’s masterpiece for more inspiration and guidance, rereading the 850-page novel at roughly five-year intervals.

“This book, which had been published serially in eight volumes almost a hundred years before I was born, wasn’t distant or dusty, but arresting in the acuteness of its psychological penetration,” she writes.

“Through it, George Eliot spoke with an authority and a generosity that was wise and essential and profound. I couldn’t believe how good it was. And I couldn’t believe how relevant and urgent it felt.”

In 2011, Mead wrote about this love of hers for The New Yorker, and now that essay has grown into a book, My Life in Middlemarch.

It’s partly a memoir — Mead describes her early life growing up in provincial England (like Eliot), aspiring to “metropolitan pre-eminence” (like Eliot) and eventually becoming a successful journalist and writer (like Eliot).

It’s also a minibiography of the great Victorian writer, who was born Mary Ann Evans but adopted a male pen name to distinguish her work from what she called “silly novels by lady novelists.”

Mead is particularly interested in Eliot’s scandalous relationship with the married critic George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for more than 20 years, helping to raise his three sons.

Again, Mead sees a parallel to her own life for she, too, set up house with a man with three sons, although unlike Eliot and Lewes, they married and had a child together.

My Life in Middlemarch has a third major theme as well — the enduring power of literature. “Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book,” Mead writes.

“But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.”

Anyone who agrees with that sentiment is likely to enjoy this engaging book.

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The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress

By Ariel Lawhon Doubleday The disappearance of New York State Supreme Court Judge Joseph Crater in 1930 led to tabloid headlines and gossip about underworld ties that made his vanishing act the most compelling mystery of the era.

In time, it would become a national joke: “Judge Crater, call your office” was a comic punch line for many years.

The case was such a sensation that theories of what happened to the judge on the night of Aug. 6, 1930, persist to this day. Ariel Lawhon, a Nashville, Tenn., writer, is the latest to bring Crater and his lively cast of cohorts back to life for another shot at solving this epic whodunit.

Her telling of the Crater story is a gripping, fast-paced noir novel, The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress.

It captures a New York City period full of high-kicking showgirls, mob-linked speakeasies and Tammany Hall political scandal. Crater was no stranger to this high-living, precarious life, and it’s commonly assumed he paid dearly for it.

Lawhon brings fresh intrigue to this tale, making the final outcome a guessing game for the reader as events unfold.

Her version is built colorfully around many of the actual places and people who were key figures in the case, including Crater’s wife, Stella, and his presumed mistress, the showgirl Sally Lou Ritz, known as Ritzi. She testified that she had dinner with Crater at a Manhattan chophouse before he possibly got in a cab for an uncertain destination.

Sections of the novel open with quotes from Vanishing Point, a probe of the Crater case published in 2004 by Richard Tofel, who is now the general manager of ProPublica, and The Empty Robe, a memoir by Stella written with The Untouchables author Oscar Fraley and published in 1961.

Lawhon uses creative license to help bring to life many of the characters, including the Crater’s maid, a little-known woman who is named Maria Simon in the novel. Stella, Maria and Ritzi are central to Lawhon’s tale and give it a depth of emotion that is often missing from crime thrillers.

There are quirks in the timeline that can be troublesome, but generally the story moves forward with momentum, thanks to well-crafted scenes and fluid dialogue. Also, despite the many decades since Judge Crater went missing, the mystery of his disappearance is still a powerful magnet for its fictional retelling.

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Sylvan wants investors BUDGETS FOR AN INVESTMENT ATTRACTION STRATEGY

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

HEART MONTH KICK-OFF AT REBELS GAME ON SATURDAY The Heart and Stroke Foundation will kick off heart month in Red Deer at the Rebels game on Saturday. Fans are encouraged to come to the game at the Centrium dressed in red to show support for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

The game starts at 7 p.m. There will be prizes, races and information about upcoming events.

Canvassers will go door to door in Central Alberta in February to raise money to fight heart disease and stroke. For more information, check www. heartandstroke.ca.

EXTREME NATURE GAMES The Kerry Wood Nature Centre is hosting an extreme nature games day on Saturday. Drop-in games will be offered at the centre from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The games each have a nature theme. The cost is $4 per person or $10 per family. For more details, call 403-3462010. The nature centre is located at 6300 43th Ave. in Red Deer.

WORKSHOP ON KIDS LEARNING, DEVELOPMENT A registered psychologist will be heading a workshop on how to support children and adolescents in learning and development at the Red Deer Public Library on Feb. 10. Chantel Walker will discuss how to enhance and use your own Emotional Intelligence to support young learners and how to foster EQ (emotional quotient) in youth. Hosted by the Red Deer chapter of the Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta, the session is free to all members and $15 for nonmembers. It runs from 7 to 8:15 p.m. For more information, contact 403340-3885.

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

Sylvan Lake is looking for ways to woo investment.

Town council has budgeted $47,000 for an investment attraction strategy to identify at least three viable industry sectors that can be promoted to potential investors.

“What we do hope to achieve here is really to prepare the community to become investment ready,” said Vicki Kurz, the town’s economic development officer.

“It’s about identifying the target sectors that are best suited to this community and the ones we should be going after if we’re going to attract some investment. It’s really about focusing in on what our value is to the outside investor.”

Kurz said part of the job for consultants will be building a database listing the number of businesses in different sectors and providing other basic information that is

lacking.

The goal is to create a community people “There are a lot of things that need to be can live, work and play in, he added. done to bring us up to speed and identify “The truth is when you’re able to work where our strengths and weaknesses are.” inside a community, you’re more able to A request participate for proposin everything als has just that communigone out and ty has to offer. consultants “The resiwill be picked dents who around midhave been March with here for years adoption by know that council schedSylvan Lake uled for Octois so much ber. more than a Attracting bedroom cominvestment is — VICKI KURZ, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICER munity. What high on counwe’re doing cil’s priority now is alignlist, said Mayor Sean McIntyre. ing our policies and strategies with that “Basically the investment strategy is part idea.” of a specific direction from council to help diversify our tax base,” said McIntyre.

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‘THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE TO BRING US UP TO SPEED AND IDENTIFY WHERE OUR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ARE.’

MURDER

Case drags on for victim’s family

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Frustrating, but not surprising is how the mother of a woman murdered almost three years ago describes the latest delay in court proceedings against the man accused of the killing.

Jenna Cartwright, 21, disappeared from her Red Deer home in March 2011.

Her partially-clothed body was found early in May 2011 in a ditch near Olds.

On June 20, 2011, police arrested Bashir Gaashaan of no fixed address in Thunder Bay, Ont. He was charged with first-degree murder, unlawful confinement and committing an indignity to human remains.

Gaashaan, 31, was returned to Alberta, where he remains in custody awaiting trial.

He had asked to be tried by judge and jury in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

He has been represented by Red Deer defence counsel Will Willms and jury selection was scheduled for Monday morning.

However, the trial was scuttled on Thursday, when Gaashaan went before the court to announce that he had fired his lawyer.

Cartwright’s mother, Lynda Cartwright, said from her home later in the day that she had been anticipating the move.

“Eventually, it will go to trial ... I’m realistic.

I know these things can happen,” she said.

Gaashaan and Willms had made a number of court appearances in the months following the arrest and had negotiated a guilty plea to be dealt with early last year.

However, Willms announced in court on Feb. 19, 2013, that his client had changed his mind.

Gaashaan entered a plea of not guilty, and was subsequently arraigned in the Court of Queen’s Bench, with his trial scheduled for Feb. 4 to 21 of this year.

Regardless of what happens to Gaashaan, nothing will bring Jenna back, said Cartwright.

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Red Deer Museum thematic researcher, oil and gas, Rod Trentham, holds a five imperial gallon drum that once contained White Rose oil.

Oil and gas workers to tell stories of industry RED DEER MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY TO GATHER ORAL HISTORY

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s oil and gas history will be captured through stories told by the people who worked in the industry.

Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery’s Rod Trentham will be collecting oral stories from the service industry starting from the early days in 1948, through the various booms to today. It will be part of the Remarkable Red Deer exhibit.

Trentham, now an exhibits programs co-ordinator at the museum, worked in the oil and gas industry in the 1980s.

“This will be the missing link in Remarkable Red Deer,” said Trentham, who was re-assigned from his educational programs co-ordinator position with the city.

“I think in 1958 we were the fastest growing city in Canada. A lot of that was oil service industry. It was a pretty sleepy little place.”

Trentham worked in the industry from 1979 to 1985. He said the mixture of people “shook up” old Red Deer.

“People were coming from all over Canada,” remembered Trentham.

“It’s an interesting milieu that really changed Red Deer.”

While there’s a small component of oil and gas and agriculture in MAG’s permanent exhibit, this addition will delve deeper into the history.

An interactive component of how to build a pipeline will also part of the project.

“It’s such a huge part of our economy here,” said Lorna Johnson, MAG executive director.

“We have people who have

worked in those industries since the beginning.”

She said they are looking to talk to people who started in the early days and those who work there today.

“We want to talk to people who started with a truck in 1950 and now they have a major service company,” said Johnson. “We would be interested in hearing those kind of stories. ... It’s just such a big part of our fabric here.”

The details are still being worked out.

Trentham is expected to begin interviewing in the next few weeks.

The project should to be up and running by the end of 2014.

To submit your story or for more information, contact Trentham at rod.trentham@reddeer. ca. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Sylvan Lake fire hall tenders delayed

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Sylvan Lake’s fire hall isn’t expected to be ready until July 2015 — eight months later than originally anticipated.

Tenders for the $4.6-million fire hall are expected to be ready next month, says an update that went to town council recently. Construction is expected to start in April and take 12 to 14 months to complete.

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Joanne Gaudet said there were a number of issues that needed to be finalized, which led to delays, including site grading and servicing issues, landscaping details and a traffic impact assessment.

“It’s a growing area.

“We’ve got new residential around it and the Memorial Trail (which was upgraded last year with paving). The traffic impact assessment was fairly significant, to make sure we get that right. “(And) some of the grading and servicing issues took longer than anticipated.”

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

Originally, the project was to have been tendered last fall.

The fire hall will be built on a site next to the town’s new RCMP station on Beacon Hill Drive and 50th Street.

The fire hall is part of council’s program to upgrade key facilities in the fast-growing town, where the population has topped 13,000.

A new RCMP station opened in 2012 and a new town administration building opened last year. A multiplex is in the planning stages. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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LOCAL

BRIEFS Bus seats removed over safety concerns Red Deer bus riders may have to work a little harder to grab a seat on a city bus.

The city has removed four seats on 49 of its 53 buses in response to safety concerns with the first row of forwardfacing flip-up seats. These are the seats that are flipped up in order to accommodate wheelchairs.

“There’s no barrier in the forward facing ones,” said Steve Parkin, transit operations superintendent.

“In 21 years and millions of miles there have been three incidents in the United States that resulted in someone being ejected from that position.”

The bus manufacturer, New Flyer Industries, recently contacted the city after receiving several incident reports.

As a safety measure, the seats are locked in the upright position so riders will no longer be able to flip them down to sit on them.

Parkin said the city is working with the manufacturer in order to find a solution to make up for the lost seating.

Third snow storage site open A third snow storage site is now open to registered private contractors operating in Red Deer.

Contractors began hauling snow to the site on Wednesday night.

Due to limited remaining capacity at the two original snow sites, they will remain closed to private contractors.

The city worked closely with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development to narrow down the potential temporary sites and to ensure all environmental regulations are being met.

The third site is accessible from 40th Avenue onto 78th Street Crescent in north Red Deer.

Unregistered private contractors operating within city limits can fill out the necessary forms at Public Works.

Call 403-342-8238 for more information.

Collicutt Centre water park undergoing repairs Areas of the Collicutt Centre’s water park will be closed for unexpected repairs to its main circulation pump on Monday.

The pump controls the circulation for the wave pool, water slide and the lazy river. These areas will be closed for the day. The hot tubs, interactive play area and steam room will remain open.

Collicutt Centre supervisor Denis Delemont said the part is usually re-

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SYLVAN: Tax freeze proposed as business incentive In its proposed 2014 budget, a tax freeze for non-residential properties is included as a business incentive.

McIntyre said they hope that sends a message to existing local businesses and potential newcomers that the community is open for business.

Also topping town council to-do lists is annexing more land, especially for commercial and industrial development.

Heavy industrial property, especially, is not available.

The town also recently met with local developers and property owners to get feedback on how to streamline the development approval process.

A facade improvement program will also be rolled out this year.

All of these efforts put together are aimed at evening out a tax base that is weighted heavily to residential.

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Addressing concerns by New Flyer Industries over safety, modifications have been made to several buses in the city’s transit fleet. paired or maintained during the threeweek shutdown in September.

Last September there was no work done because it was functioning well.

He said it is best to fix it now as opposed to waiting until September.

All swimming lessons that day will be cancelled and patrons will be reimbursed for the missing lesson in the form of a refund or credit on their account.

The park is expected to reopen on Tuesday.

Census planned at Lacombe City of Lacombe is planning a head count this spring.

The fast-growing community will begin its census on April 7 and expects to wrap it up by the end of June.

Numbers will be collected by doorto-door census workers, phone and online.

Mayor Steve Christie says in a statement that collecting census data is important because some federal and provincial grants are per capita based.

Knowing how many people live in the city is also important when council is making decisions on what infrastructure or facilities are needed.

Notices with secure personal identification numbers will be mailed to residents in early April and can be used to answer census questions online.

Information can also be phoned in.

Those unable to complete the census online will be visited by an enumerator who will log the data on an iPad. I

Only 13 per cent of taxes come from non-residential sources and the town is aiming to boost that to 30 per cent.

In the meantime, the town will continue its relationship with regional economic development initiatives, such as Central Alberta: Access Prosperity.

At the same time, annexation will move forward and it’s hoped to have an application before the province by the end of the year. It can takes months — and sometimes years — to get provincial approval. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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f residents aren’t home, contact information will be left at the door.

Census data is expected to be delivered to Alberta Municipal Affairs by Sept. 1.

The latest Statistics Canada census showed a population in Lacombe of 11,707 in 2011.

A municipal census was done most recently in 2012 but the results were scrapped after the city estimated as many as 2,400 people were missed.

One of the reasons tagged by staff as contributing to the poor response was the inclusion of a series of questions asking people to rate municipal services, public transit use and affordable housing.

Those queries extended the length of doorstep interviews.

police, three counts of failing to stop while being pursued, driving while disqualified, resisting or obstructing a police officer and mischief under $5,000.

Crime prevention centre seeks funds

A Red Deer man sought on a Canada-wide warrant has been arrested.

On Jan. 23, Red Deer City RCMP issued a bulletin asking for information that would help them find Cody Feil, 26, who was described as potentially dangerous with an extensive criminal history.

Police issued a second bulletin on Thursday announcing that Feil had been arrested near Eckville on Tuesday afternoon after allegedly leading police on a series of pursuits that started in Red Deer.

Feil is charged with two counts of possessing the proceeds of crime worth less than $5,000, six counts of possessing proceeds over $5,000, failing to stop or remain stopped for

Red Deer city council will consider a $30,000 operating request from the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre on Monday.

The centre is looking for the funding to offset the operational cost of the centre for March 1 to Aug. 1. The suggested funding source is the Safety Charter.

The centre has been up and running since March 2012 as a collaborative initiative with Red Deer Neighbourhood Watch, Crime Stoppers and Citizens on Patrol.

There are a number of areas that the centre would like to expand, including response to community inquiries, Crime Prevention Week events, abatement program and community presentations.

A bylaw that will set the Business Revitalization Zone tax rate at 0.99518 per cent for 2014 will also be considered by city council.

The tax rate fluctuates from year to year due to a change in either the BRZ tax revenue requirements and the amount of total business assessment.

The levy would bring in $331,433, up from $309,750 in 2013.

The council-approved Downtown Business Association budget is to be collected through the 2014 BRZ levy.

date.

He is also scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Red Deer provincial court on Feb. 28 on other charges, including assault, flight from police, drugs, weapons and breaching release

conditions.

Preliminary hearings may be requested by the defence to test part or all of the Crown’s case against an accused person before going to trial. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Thousands of Canadian retail workers have been told they’ll be getting pink slips as both Sears Canada and Best Buy Canada make dramatic cuts to their workforces this month.

It’s a sign of intensifying competition in the retail sector, which is already under pressure from a weaker Canadian dollar and the fallout of lacklustre sales over the holiday season.

And the job cuts could intensify in the coming months if the retail market doesn’t show improvement, analysts suggest.

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to continue to increase profits,” said Daniel Baer, a retail analyst at Ernst and Young.

It comes back to costs, he said, including labour costs.

Best Buy Canada said Thursday that about 950 full-time employees would lose their jobs as it tries to rework its operations.

The job reductions would reduce layers of management at Best Buy and Future Shop locations across the country, though the company said it wouldn’t close any stores.

Earlier in the week, Sears Canada delivered its own bad news to employees, increasing the number of layoffs it has announced this month to more than 2,200. The retailer is making massive cuts to management, call centres and warehouses, as it tries to res-

cue money-losing operations by lowering expenses and selling off leases.

While the situation at Best Buy is nowhere near as dire as Sears Canada, the two companies illustrate a Canadian retail landscape that will be under massive pressure this year.

“A lot of these retailers have certain sales expectations and they have a cost base that lines up with those sales,” said Brian Yarbrough, research analyst at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

“If those sales don’t start materializing — and it happens quarter in and quarter out — at some point they feel like there’s an opportunity to become more efficient.”

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Congress pours cold water over Trans-Pacific trade talks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Countries negotiating a monster trade deal that would cover more than one-third of the world’s economy may now have a new obstacle to contend with: resistance in the U.S. Congress.

President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies in the Senate are making it increasingly clear that they won’t grant him so-called “fast-track” authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, involving a dozen countries including Canada.

That means the other countries negotiating with the U.S. might now be left wondering whether the deal they’re working out could subsequently be gutted by Congress, scuttling the whole process.

“I’m against fast track,” Senate Speaker Harry Reid, who controls the floor schedule in the chamber, said this week.

“Everyone knows how I feel about this . . . And I think everyone would be well advised just to not push this right now.”

That more vocal resistance comes after Obama included in his state of the union speech a request for a fast-track bill — or what’s formally known as Trade Promotion Authority, which would force Congress to vote on a deal without amendments. The American constitution actually gives Congress, not the president, power to approve trade deals unless a fast-track bill says otherwise.

The White House has stated its desire to wrap up a deal in 2014. Canada and Mexico joined the talks in 2012, and the estimated size of the new trade zone would represent almost 800 million people in countries with a combined GDP of $27.5 trillion.

The Canadian government declined to weigh in Thursday on developments in Congress, saying fasttrack legislation is an issue for American lawmakers to decide. In a statement, it added that it remained committed to opening new markets throughout the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region.

Big decline in small business confidence

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A small business advocacy group is reporting declining levels of confidence among Alberta entrepreneurs.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business reported on Thursday that a recent survey of its members revealed a 3.5-point drop in confidence in Alberta, as compared with the results of a December poll, and a five-point decrease from November. The Alberta index is now down to 67.1 out of a possible 100.

“There has been a significant decline in small business confidence levels in Alberta over the past two months,” acknowledged Richard Truscott, CFIB’s Alberta director, in a release. “But to put it into perspective, its also almost exactly where things sat in January of last year.”

The CFIB survey indicated a national confidence index of 64, which was 1.7 points higher than in December. Small business operators in British Columbia were the most confident, with an index of 71.8, followed by Newfoundland (68.1), Alberta, Ontario (65.4), Saskatchewan (63.7), Manitoba (62.6), Prince Edward Island (58.8), Nova Scotia (58.1), New Brunswick (56.6) and Quebec (56.2).

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Payroll earnings up 2.5 per cent on annual basis in November: StatsCan OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $928 in November, up 0.9 per cent from October.

It says earnings were up 2.5 per cent on a yearover-year basis.

On that annual basis, average weekly earnings rose more than the national average in six of the 10

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Work continues at a new building being developed in Red Deer’s Village Mall for a Noodlebox outlet and another restaurant that has yet to be named.

Noodlebox confirmed for Village Mall

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Work continues on a Village Mall building that’s slated to house a pair of restaurants.

Originally announced as the location for both a Noodlebox and a Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill, the site now has only one confirmed tenant: Noodlebox. Costa Vida recently announced that it is not proceeding with its plans, said Ron Schletz, senior leasing manager for Western Canada with property owner First Capital Realty Inc. “We are searching for a replacement use and hope to have something soon,” said Schletz in an email to the Advocate.

Noodlebox plans to commence operations in Red Deer this spring, said Jesse Penner, who looks after the restaurant chain’s marketing department.

It currently has six outlets in the Victoria area, two in Vancouver and one each in Calgary and Airdrie. Two more in Vancouver are about to open.

“We are growing very fast as a business,” said Penner.

“We’re slowly making our way east.”

The Noodlebox menu offers a variety of East Asian foods, including Singapore cashew curry, Malay-style fried rice, Thai-style chow mein, Panang

red curry, Burmese naan, Cambodian spring rolls and Vietnamese cucumber salad.

“It’s kind of a fusion idea,” said Penner, describing how Noodlebox’s founders were inspired while travelling through Southeast Asia.

“They came back and they decided to start this Asian concept with this food cart,” he said, adding that the food cart evolved into the first Noodlebox restaurant in Victoria’s Chinatown district in 2001.

Today, the restaurant emphasizes fresh and natural ingredients in made-to-order dishes, said Penner.

“We make all of our sauces in-house; we bring all of our ingredients in fresh every two days, so nothing is ever frozen.”

Noodlebox is also big on environmental sustainability, added Penner, with virtually everything used in its operations either recycled or composted.

“If you walk into a Noodlebox, the only thing you’re going to find in there that is actually thrown into the garbage are straws.”

Recycled and reclaimed materials are also used in the construction of Noodlebox stores, said Penner, with pine beetle-blemished wood commonly used.

Although some Noodlebox locations are franchised, the Red Deer store will be corporate-owned.

Village Mall is located southwest of the intersection of Gaetz Avenue and 67th Street. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Drilling forecast improves based on brisk activity at the close of 2013

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Petroleum Services Association of Canada has upgraded its industry outlook for 2014, due in part to brisk drilling activity in Central Alberta late last year.

The national trade association, which represents the service, supply and manufacturing sectors within the upstream petroleum industry, said Thursday that it’s now anticipating there will be 10,930 wells drilled in Canada this year.

That’s 130 more than PSAC was predicting as of Oct. 30, 2013, but a 1.5 per cent decrease from the 11,097 wells drilled and released in 2013. largest industrial sectors, led by wholesale trade and health care and social assistance.

Average weekly earnings in wholesale trade increased 4.1 per cent to $1,100 year-over-year, while earnings in health care and social assistance rose by 3.9 per cent to $858.

Year-over-year earnings of non-farm payroll employees increased in eight provinces, with the highest growth in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Earnings declined in Quebec over the same period, while they were little changed in Nova Scotia.

Liberal government announces minimum wage hike for Ontario TORONTO — Ontario’s Liberal government will raise the minimum wage to $11 an hour starting June 1, and will tie future increases to the rate of infla-

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“We are adjusting our numbers slightly upward due to stronger-than-expected activity levels at the close of 2013, specifically in Central Alberta and various regions in Saskatchewan,” said Mark Salkeld, PSAC’s president and CEO, in a release.

“Still, our forecast remains pretty constant yearover-year because we are seeing a continuing trend towards multi-well pads with multilateral and more complex completions, and we expect this trend to continue even beyond 2014, given that advances in technologies are making such wells more logistical and economical for the producers.”

Please see DRILLING on Page C4 tion, but critics say it’s not enough.

Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the 75-centan-hour hike Thursday — the first minimum wage increase in the province since 2010 — calling it a “fair adjustment” that reflects the rise in the Consumer Price Index.

“I think the vast majority of people in Ontario understand that it’s very difficult to make ends meet living on minimum wage, and that there needs to be a fair way of allowing minimum wage to keep up with the cost of living.” she said.

Anti-poverty activists and unions have been demanding an immediate increase to a $14-an-hour minimum wage, but Wynne said that was too big of a jump for businesses to absorb all at once.

The Ontario Convenience Stores Association admits some members won’t like the $11 dollar minimum wage, but says it’s better than an immediate jump to $14, and can be absorbed by owners.

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MARKETS

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

Consumer Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.65 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 95.28 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.45 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.19 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.77 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market racked up a solid gain Thursday amid data showing improving economic growth in the United States.

The S&P/TSX composite index ran ahead 92.06 points to 13,735.28.

But the market was held back by gold stocks that fell alongside bullion prices following the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest tapering move and data showing U.S. economic growth came in at an annualized rate of 3.2 per cent.

The data raised confidence that growth in 2014 could come in at three per cent or better after growth for last year came in at only 1.3 per cent.

The Canadian dollar gained 0.1 of a cent to 89.56 cents U.S. New York’s Dow industrials rose 109.82 points to 15,848.61, the Nasdaq climbed 71.7 points to 4,123.13 and the S&P 500 index was ahead 19.99 points to 1,794.19.

The Fed moved Wednesday to cut its bond purchases by another US$10 billion to $65 billion a month, the central bank’s second such move to cut back on the stimulus program that has keep long-term rates low.

Investors have also been focused on quarterly earnings and outlooks over the past couple of weeks on hopes that a strong corporate showing will help stocks. Last year, the Fed stimulus helped the S&P 500 charge ahead about 30 per cent.

On Thursday, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX:POT) shares lost 69 cents to C$34.89 as quarterly profit dropped 45 per cent from a year ago to US$230 million or 26 cents a share, five cents less than expected.

Revenue of US$1.54 billion beat expectations of $1.4 billion.

Imperial Oil’s profit amounted to $1.24 per share, well above analyst estimates of 89 cents per share under standard accounting but its shares headed 27 cents lower to $45.52.

In New York, Facebook jumped

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The industrials sector led TSX advancers, up 1.84 per cent as Canadian National Railways (TSX:CNR) ran ahead $1.26 to $59.34 ahead of earnings which were posted after the close. Net profits increased by four per cent to $635 million or 76 cents per share. CN also upped its quarterly dividend by 16 per cent to 25 cents.

Financials ran up 0.7 per cent as Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) gained 37 43 cents to $20.87 .

The energy sector was ahead 0.47 per cent as the March oil contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose 87 cents to US$98.23 a barrel.

The gold sector fell about 2.43 per cent as the April bullion contract lost $19.70 to US$1,242.50 an ounce.

Goldcorp (TSX:G) fell 71 cents to C$26.93.

Metal prices were lower with the March copper contract down one cent to US$3.23 a pound and the base metals sector was down 1.02 per cent. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) fell 53 cents to C$27.21.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close of Thursday Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,735.28, up 92.06 points TSX Venture Exchange — 952.88, down 5.88 points TSX 60 — 788.69, up 5.38 points Dow — 15,848.61, up 109.82 points S&P 500 — 1,794.19, up 19.99 points Nasdaq — 4,123.13, up 71.70 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 89.56 cents US, up 0.10 of a cent Pound — C$1.8402, down 0.96 of a cent Euro — C$1.5132 down 1.32 cents

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RETAIL: Cost of imports to rise Retailers have had it good for several years in Canada, operating through the economic downturn with fewer pressures than in the United States.

But, as the loonie slides further from parity, the cost of importing goods will become more expensive.

Two economists now expect the Canadian dollar to slip as low as 85 cents US, a level it hasn’t reached since mid2009.

TD Economic chief economist Craig Alexander is predicting an 85 cents US dollar by mid-year if the current economic environment persists, while BMO Capital Markets economist Benjamin Reitzes believes it will fall to 87 cents this year.

Regardless of how deep the decline, a weaker currency is certain to be felt at cash registers.

“Either pricing will have to go up, or cost cutting measures will have to continue to make up for the lower Canadian dollar,” said Baer.

“I don’t think we’ll see a buoyant retail market in the next little while at least,” he added.

Also biting into each retailer’s market share is the entry of Target Corp. into Canada and the rapid expansion of superstores operated by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that stock everything from electronics to groceries.

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. has also started to build its operations north of the border.

Retailers like Best Buy have responded with a selection of health products on its website under the Viva brand and a wider selection of kids’ toys.

Best Buy Canada’s president, Ron Wilson, emphasized the momentum behind the company’s website business in the layoff announcement.

“We have seen our online sales grow by more than 50 per cent in the past year and new services, such as in-store reserve and pickup, more than doubling,” he said in a release.

“These changes in the way our customers are interacting with us have led us to look at how to best deploy our staff to meet those evolving needs.”

Last year, Best Buy Canada closed at least 15 underperforming big-box locations across the country and laid off about 900 employees.

While the troubles at retailers may appear negative to outsiders, they can also offer companies an opportunity to better themselves, said Mark Satov,

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ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’14 $2.20 higher $426.00; May ’14 $2.00 higher $435.90; July ’14 $1.90 higher $444.80; Nov. ’14 $1.80 higher $460.60; Jan ’15 $1.80 higher $466.10; March ’15 $1.70 higher $471.40; May ’15 $1.70 higher $473.90; July ’15 $1.80 higher $475.90; Nov ’15 $1.80 higher $472.10; Jan. ’16 $1.80 higher $472.10; March ’16 $1.80 higher $472.10.

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

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 420,000 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 420,000.

founder of management consulting firm Satov Consultants Inc. “When you have financial pressures on the topline they force you to be more efficient in the operations,” he said.

“They cut fat that otherwise wouldn’t get cut.”

DRILLING: Most wells oil-focused PSAC is forecasting an Alberta well count of 6,642 this year, which marks an 87-well increase over the figure it announced in October. Saskatchewan is expected to produce 3,229 wells, up 33 from the earlier forecast; while in British Columbia the tally is now anticipated to hit 560, an increase from the previous number of 550. Manitoba is expected to add 480 wells, which is unchanged.

About 85 per cent of the wells drilled this year will be oil-focused, said PSAC. That percentage has been consistent in recent years.

The updated forecast is based on average natural gas prices of C$3.50 per thousand cubic feet, oil prices of US$95 a barrel for West Texas intermediate crude, and a Canadian dollar trading at US$0.95.

PSAC represents nearly 250 member companies, with these employing approximately 70,000 people and contracting almost exclusively to oil and gas exploration and production companies.

CONFIDENCE: Drift down a concern CFIB said that index levels normally range between 65 and 75 when the economy is growing at its potential.

Despite the decline in business confidence in Alberta, 44 per cent of respondents described the general health of their business as good, compared with eight per cent who said it was bad. Thirty per cent said they planned to hire full-time employees in the next three months, versus seven per cent who said they were expecting a reduction.

“Although there is no cause for alarm, the downward drift is a bit concerning,” said Truscott. “We’ll certainly be watching the Alberta numbers closely over the next couple of months to see where 2014 takes us.”

CFIB has more than 109,000 members in every sector nationwide.

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North-american actress Mia Farrow shows her gloved hand covered with oil during a visit to the Aguarico field in the Ecuadorean Amazonia region, Aguarico, Ecuador, Tuesday. Farrow is in Ecuador to support government’s campaign against the multinational oil company Chevron Corp., which has been fighting in multiple courts on three continents litigation that began two decades ago for contamination caused by a Texaco-led consortium in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest between 1972 and 1990.

Majority counting on CPP for retirement: survey

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A majority of Canadians recently polled say they are relying on the Canada Pension Plan, many of them heavily, to get through retirement.

The Bank of Montreal survey found that 89 per cent said they would have to rely on the CPP or the Quebec Pension Plan when they stopped working.

Nearly a third — 31 per cent — said say they will count “heavily” on the government pension plan.

Meanwhile, 88 per cent of respondents said they would use personal savings like RRSPs or tax-free savings accounts to help fund retirement, while 59 per cent said they would likely take a part-time job.

Other options included the 49 per

cent of respondents who planned on selling their homes or property for some cash.

Less than half — 40 per cent — were counting on an inheritance, while 34 per cent hoped to win a lottery. Twenty-eight per cent say they expect to get financial assistance from their children or other family members.

The online poll of 1,003 adults was conducted by Pollara between Nov. 18 and Nov. 22.

Chris Buttigieg, a senior manager of wealth planning strategy at BMO, advises against relying solely on government pension plans in retirement, given that the average monthly CPP payment is less than $600 and the maximum tops out at not much more than $1,000.

Canadian dollar will fall to 85 cents this year, says TD Economics

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Watch for the loonie to lose more of its luster this year, according to two well-known bank economists.

Craig Alexander, chief economist for TD Economics, warned Thursday that consumers could see the Canadian dollar slide as low as 85 cents US by mid-year — a level it hasn’t closed below since May 2009 — if the current environment continues.

He said factors that have impacted the currency so far this year, from an increasingly dovish tone from the Bank of Canada to tapering of monetary

stimulus by the U.S. Federal Reserve, will continue to drag down the loonie.

“TD Economics expects that the factors which have taken the Canadian dollar lower are unlikely to shift over the next year or so,” wrote Alexander in the report, titled The Call of the Loonie.

“Canada’s economy is forecast to underperform the United States, interest rate hikes remain quite a ways off and the outlook for commodity prices is pretty flat, on average.”

The report noted that a strengthening U.S. greenback and Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz’s perceived stance on a weakened loonie have led the currency’s fall to a four-year low.

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Fossil bits of Neanderthal DNA hide in human genome

BY SETH BORENSTEIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Next time you call someone a Neanderthal, better look in a mirror.

Many of the genes that help determine most people’s skin and hair are more Neanderthal than not, according to two new studies that look at the DNA fossils hidden in the modern human genome.

About 50,000 years ago, modern day humans migrated out of Africa north to Europe and East Asia and met up with furrow-browed Neanderthals that had been in the colder climates for more than 100,000 years.

Some of the two species mated.

And then the Neanderthals died off as a species — except for what’s left inside of us.

Scientists isolated the parts of the modern human genetic blueprint that still contain Neanderthal remnants.

Overall, it’s barely more than 1 per cent, said two studies released Wednesday in the journals Nature and Science.

However, in some places, such as the DNA related to the skin, the genetic instructions are as much as 70 per cent Neanderthal and in other places there’s virtually nothing from the species that’s often portrayed as brutish cavemen.

The difference between where Neanderthal DNA is plentiful and where it’s absent may help scientists understand what in our genome “makes humans human,” said University of Washington genome scientist Joshua Akey, lead author of the paper in Science.

The studies mostly examined the genomes of people whose ancestors left Africa at some point.

People whose ancestors have all stayed in Africa have almost no Neanderthal DNA because there was little interbreeding.

Harvard University researcher Sriram Sankararaman, the lead author of the Nature study, said the place where Neanderthal DNA seemed to have the most influence in the modern hu-

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Photo shows a replica of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, western Germany. The genes that help determine most people’s skin and hair are much more Neanderthal than not, according to two new studies. man genome has to do with skin and hair. Akey said those instructions are as much as 70 per cent Neanderthal.

“We’re more Neanderthal than not in those genes,” Akey said.

However, Sankararaman cautions that scientists don’t yet know just what the Neanderthal DNA dictates in our skin and hair.

Sarah Tishkoff, a professor of genetics and biology at the University of Pennsylvania who was not part of either study, theorized that the Neanderthal DNA probably helped the darker humans out of Africa cope with the cooler less bright north.

Living in the cooler Europe means less ultraviolet light and less vitamin D from the sun.

Darker skin blocks more of those needed rays, so lighter skin is more advantageous in the north and it seems that humans adopted that Neanderthal adaptation, she said.

Another area where we have more Neanderthal DNA is parts of genetic codes that have to do with certain immune

system functions, Sankararaman said.

Again, scientists can’t say more than that these Neanderthal genes seem connected to certain diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and Crohn’s disease and lupus, but they are there.

Tiskhoff and Akey said one of the most interesting parts in comparing human and Neanderthal genomes is where we don’t see any caveman influence.

That, Tiskhoff said, is “what makes us uniquely human” and those regions of genetic code “you just can’t mess with.”

One of those areas has been heavily connected to genes that determine speech and communication and there’s nothing Neanderthal there, Akey said.

This fits with theories that lack of communication skills hurt Neanderthal and speech ability was a distinctly human advantage, he said.

And the study in Nature found something that may help explain why the brutish and virile cavemen haven’t influenced humans much:

They may have made babies, but the male hybrids of Neanderthals and humans weren’t very fertile.

Scientists figured that out because the genes associated with the testicles in humans and the X chromosome were unusually empty of Neanderthal influence.

While Neanderthal males themselves were likely good at breeding, their half-human sons weren’t and “they must have been disappointed in their sons,” said Nature co-author Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute in Germany.

The Nature paper found that people of more East Asian descent had slightly more Neanderthal than Europeans, indicating that there may have been a second wave of interbreeding in Asia, researchers said.

The Nature study found Beijing residents with Han Chinese ancestors had the highest Neanderthal DNA rate: 1.4 per cent. Los Angeles residents of Mexican descent had 1.22 per cent Neanderthal DNA. In Europe, Finns had the highest Neanderthal DNA rate with 1.2 per cent. Utah residents with northern and western European roots came in at 1.17 per cent. And Puerto Ricans had only 1.05 per cent Neanderthal in them.

All these people still can trace far more of their genetic roots to early humans in Africa than they can to Neanderthals in ancient Europe.

Three outside scientists praised the two studies, which used different techniques to reach similar conclusions. And those conclusions were so close to each other and standard evolution theory that it all fits together in a scary way for scientists used to findings that surprise, said New York University anthropology professor Todd Disotell.

Disotell recently had his genome tested by a private company and found he’s got more Neanderthal DNA than most people, about 2.9 per cent: “I’m quite proud of that.”

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Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On January 22, 2014, the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decision for development permit applications: Discretionary Use Approvals: Parkvale Gilles Allard – discretionary use of a new secondary suite to be located in a single family dwelling at 4313 45A Avenue.

You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on February 14, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

Development Officer Approvals On January 28, 2014, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Discretionary Use Clearview Ridge 1. Landmark Homes (Red Deer) Inc. – a temporary structure, to be used as a walkway between two single family dwelling show homes, until July 1, 2015, located at 242 Carrington Drive.

2. Landmark Homes (Red Deer) Inc. – a temporary structure, to be used as a walkway between two single family dwelling show homes, until July 1, 2015, located at 246 Carrington Drive.

Riverlands 3. National Neon Displays Limited – a new 3.83m2 fascia sign, to be located at 200, 5440 45 Street.

Rosedale 4. Urban Edge Family Hair Studio – the use of a home based hair salon business, to be located at 898 Ramage Crescent.

Sunnybrook 5. Healthy Cell Therapy – the use of a home based massage therapy business, to be located at 501, 10 Stanton Street.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on February 14, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8399.

UrtheCast says two cameras installed on space station, and sending data

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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In an image made from NASA TV, the helmet camera of flight engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy shows commander Oleg Kotov this week as they install a Canadian-made high-resolution camera outside the International Space Station.

The astronauts had hooked up both Earth-observing cameras during a spacewalk right after Christmas.

But ground controllers received no data from either camera, and the spacewalkers had to haul everything back in. The problem was traced to indoor cabling.

Larson said work still has to be done before the cameras are completely functional.

“We’re going to spend three months basically getting the cameras fully commissioned and calibrated,” he said.

While still cameras are not unique in space, all eyes will be on the high resolution video camera that Larson hopes to have operating by the end of July or August.

“The video camera is entirely unique, it’s full colour, will have a 90-second video clip, will take 150 of those a day and that’s at onemetre resolution,” he said.

“It’s one-metre big so you can see buildings, cars, planes, buses, groups of people, things like that (but) you’ll never see the guy mowing a lawn.”

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A top official with the Vancouver-based firm that developed a pair of cameras for the International Space Station says they have been connected during a spacewalk by two Russian astronauts and are working as expected.

Scott Larson, the CEO of UrtheCast Corp. (TSX:UR) also says both cameras — one that shoots photos, the other video —were successfully installed and data was being received from them.

“We were able to confirm that the cables were working and that we could communicate with the cameras,” he said in an email to The Canadian Press.

“We will be continuing to update internal software on the ISS (International Space Station), but we are certainly moving from the installation phase of the company, to the commissioning and calibration phase.”

It had earlier been reported that Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy successfully installed one of two cameras for Earth observations, a task requiring multiple power connections outside the space station, but that the second, medium-resolution camera did not provide good data to ground controllers.

Larson said that there was a small connection issue, but the camera eventually started to send data down.

“I don’t think anyone here is too worried about it,” he said.

“This is kind of what happens.”

All the external camera connections are believed to be solid, Russian Mission Control told the astronauts, and it was suggested that some files might be to blame.

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Sometimes you need to find new friends Dear Annie: I have two girlfriends I’ve been very close to for several years.

We are all in our 40s. Recently, we have grown apart.

I’ve seen Facebook postings of things they are doing and pictures of activities they’ve done together, and I haven’t been invited to any of them.

I mentioned this to one of them, who assured me they weren’t trying to hurt me.

But I recently saw pictures of them celebrating on New Year’s Eve. The same friend told me it was a spur-of-the-moment thing, that they had no plans to celebrate, but circumstancMITCHELL es allowed it when their shifts & SUGAR ended.

When I asked the other friend, she gave a flippant remark as if it didn’t matter.

Am I being oversensitive?

Is it too much to think they could have called or texted me to join them?

I sat at home, ringing in the New Year alone. My gut tells me to move along.

What do you think? — Afterthought Dear Afterthought: Your gut is right.

These friends are no longer interested in making the effort to include you.

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Please search for friendships elsewhere.

There’s no reason to sit home alone because others don’t call.

Make your own plans.

Get involved in activities that will allow you to meet others and become more interesting in the process.

Dear Annie: I have a question regarding the appropriateness of a grandfather sleeping with a 5-yearold granddaughter during visits to her family home.

In this case, the grandmother and grandfather take turns sleeping in the same bed with the granddaughter.

I feel this is most inappropriate and sends very mixed messages to the child.

I have read some research that suggests it shouldn’t be done after the age of 8, or at reaching puberty.

What is your take? — Concerned Cousin Dear Cousin: Unless one of the grandparents is molesting the child, this is nothing to be alarmed about.

The grandparents don’t live with the family and don’t sleep with the girl on a regular basis.

We suspect this arrangement has more to do with the lack of beds during a visit and the desire to spend extra time with a young grandchild.

If the girl objects (and if she doesn’t now, she will later), other arrangements should be made — such as a sleeping bag or an air mattress.

Dear Annie: This is in response to the letter from “Massachusetts,” who is having an affair with “Harry,” her childhood sweetheart, even though both of

them are married to others.

I have been married to the same woman for 35 years, and it has not always been a bed of roses.

My job placed a lot of stress on our marriage. But we persevered.

I have always told my kids, their friends and anyone I know that marriage is the hardest “job” they would ever have.

It takes a lot of effort and commitment from both sides to make it work, but anything worth having is worth working as hard as you can to achieve it. The benefits far outweigh the bad parts.

I could have cheated numerous times, but when I pledged my vows, I meant every word.

Obviously, “Massachusetts” and “Harry” were not quite so sincere.

Those two have not only betrayed their spouses, but also their children.

You want to mess around? Get a divorce first.

I have no idea what either of your spouses has done to deserve the blatant disrespect you two have shown, but I hope they can find happiness with someone else after your divorce.

What absolutely floors me is that you would write to Annie’s column, which is published across the country, asking her for suggestions to help you cheat.

The only feeling I have for you is absolute contempt. —You Disgust Me Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

HOROSCOPES Friday, Jan. 31 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Justin Timberlake, 33; Kerry Washington, 37; Jonathan Banks, 67 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Mercury moves into Pisces today. Our minds will be inclined to think more intuitively and emotionality will prevail in our thoughts.

Sympathy and care for others will arise in us a more compassionate nature.

The Moon’s transit through Sagittarius sets a more adventurous mood to the day. Opportunities will abound ASTRO through today’s DOYNA cooperative energies.

H A P P Y BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, you have great potential to realize what you want this coming year. You have a great sense of direction and you are led by this natural flow. Your need to be part of a collective or a group of activities will bring in you a more explorative, adventurous side. You crave personal freedom and independence within all your actions this year.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You want to escape your everyday life as routine may prove too boring at this time. You seek to liberate yourself more in your subconscious mind. Even though you are not feeling at your best, do not get discouraged. Retire and get some rest.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You search for personal freedom and develop a strong urge to break free from a certain co-dependency. At the same time, you are struggling to do what you can in order to regain that independence.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Follow through the small elements and maintain a sharp mind and you should be able to focus on the road ahead. Make sure you do not disregard any details if you want to succeed or you will easily get lost in its way.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Do not accomplish more than you are capable of. If you are given a number of projects or assignments to execute, ensure these are within your limits. Otherwise, you risk of being inundated with too many tasks at once.

SUN SIGNS

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Just go with the flow today. Your personal life and your objectives are in tune with your need for self-expression. A sweet harmony resides in all your relationships.

Any recent struggles between you and your significant other should decrease now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your relationships and your career need some balancing right now. Do not overdo or try to impress by accomplishing something out of your own reach. Use your great verbal skills in order to strengthen the bond between your alliances and your higher ups.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your intentions are clear and sincere. You want to use them towards achieving your main objectives. You appear as a frank individual who wishes the same kind of treatment from others. Today you are like an open book.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A harmonious vibe resides in your own living space. A Zen-like atmosphere prevails, which sets you in a more than comfortable environment. This is also a great time to measure the value of your assets.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Discipline may not be your strong quality today. Relationships with women, in special, might prove a bit more challenging than usual. Avoid being too demanding or too trying with your partner. Diplomacy should smooth over any disparity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Despite recent financial challenges, today you feel a personal gratification knowing that your assets mirror your main purpose. It wouldn’t hurt for you to re-evaluate your basic needs and recalculate your financial situation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Pursuing a new vision or seeking the truth is exactly what you long for today.

You are enchanted to know that you can relate to others on a very positive note and that your hopeful needs are met. You are more than willing to take chances right now in terms of your dreams.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Facing career obligations can be tiring when you know that household obligations are setting temporary blockages. You feel that you want to go further in life, but you realize that you need to find the equilibrium between your professional and your personal life first.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Streamed concert to benefit veterans PepsiCo Inc. is making a $1 million donation and streaming a live concert today to benefit injured military veterans and their families.

The company said it would stream a show featuring comic Jon Stewart and country star Blake Shelton online at 9:45 p.m. EST. The show will take place at a temporary venue built for the company in Manhattan’s Bryant Park in connection with Super Bowl festivities.

The PepsiCo Foundation is making the donation to the Bob Woodruff Foundation, the organization that aids injured veterans. The event will be streamed at www. pepsi.com. Viewers can click a button on the site to donate to Woodruff’s foundation.

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1980 — Ontario to rebate up to $700 in sales tax for purchasers of 1979 model cars; to help slumping car sales.

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ACTION-PACKED ROMANCE ARRIVES JUST IN TIME FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Get set for heroism, treachery, loveat-first-sight moments — and plenty of sword fighting — as the swashbuckling tale of The Three Musketeers unfolds at the Red Deer College Arts Centre.

The action-packed romance, written

by Alexandre Dumas and adapted by Ken Ludwig, opens on Thursday, Feb. 6, on the mainstage, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The RDC Theatre Studies production should have all the elements to hold an audience in thrall — for director Thomas Usher believes Dumas had no greater goal than giving the people what they want when he originally penned The Three Musketeers as a magazine serial in 1844.

“He wrote it for the masses,” said Usher. “If someone didn’t like a scene, he would change it to make it more exciting . . . .”

You could say that Dumas came up with the perfect tale for the attentionchallenged 21st century. “Audiences back then weren’t much different — they would go see a play if it had a good sword fight!” said Usher, who noted the story is based on historical characters and Romantic literature.

“It’s melodramatic, there are escapes and rescues, and we can cheer for good to overcome evil in the world . . . . Everybody needs a hero.”

The Ludwig stage version stays true to the book’s fast-moving plot, with overlapping scenes, but introduces a new character. Instead of having the farm boy D’Artagnan set off for Paris to fulfil his dream of becoming a musketeer with a male servant, he is accompanied by his sister.

This adds a female voice to what’s otherwise a male-heavy story, said Usher.

The “fun, light-hearted” script follows Dumas’s familiar trajectory. It throws D’Artagnan in with the three musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and the four join forces (“all for one and one for all!”) to defend the honour of the Queen of France against the evil Cardinal Richelieu.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS What: RDC Theatre Studies presents: Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, adapted by playwright Ken Ludwig When: 7:30 p.m., Feb. 6 to 15 (1 p.m.

Saturday matinees) Where: RDC Arts Centre, Mainstage Tickets: $26.25 ($21.25 students/ seniors) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre The cast of 12 second-year theatre students, who play upwards of 30 roles, had to learn about life among the upper classes in the play’s 17th-century setting.

To make their characters sound more authentically historic, the actors practised precise diction — although Usher noted there are anachronistic references in speeches that will appeal to a contemporary audience.

The young actors also had to learn about the code of chivalry — how gentlemen behaved towards each other and the fairer sex. “There’s this ideal of service to a greater cause, and the purity of love. And the idea of trying to do the right thing, no matter the cost, and putting duty above yourself,” said Usher.

Of course, sword fighting instruction was needed, so Laryssa Yanchak, Canada’s first female award-winning, certified fight director, was brought in to teach lunges, parries and deflection tactics.

The 17th century spirit will also be invoked in the play’s costumes and sets.

Costume designer Lindsay RossParama, a Springbrook resident who studied at RDC, is pulling together an eclectic mix of garments that reference the 17th century’s full skirts and frilly frock coats, but also mirror some of the script’s anachronisms.

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TOP AND ABOVE: All for one and one for all! From the left, Red Deer College theatre studies students Tyler Johnson, as D’Artagnan, Chase Cownden as Athos, Wayne DeAtley as Aramis and Bret Jacobs as Portos on stage at the Arts Centre.

Ian Martens, of Calgary, designed a set that mimics both the winding streets of old Paris, and the script’s twists and turns. Usher said much of the play’s action will take place on

stairs resembling M.C. Escher’s famous graphic of the optical illusion staircase that turns in on itself. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Travel inspires Kings’ latest, largely acoustic CD

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Success takes a lot of toil and planning — except for when things just fall into place.

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings reaped much cross-border success and radio play with the 2011 album Kings and Queens.

But it took tons of effort to line up duets for the release with such esteemed — and busy — female singers as Emmylou Harris, Roseanne Cash and Lucinda Williams. “It took us about three years” to get all the guest artists to commit to the project, recalled group member Stephen Fearing. “We had to record some songs, then guess who else was going to be singing on them . . . . ” The latest Blackie and the Rodeo Kings album, South, came about much quicker and more organically.

Fearing said there was never any pressure to try to measure up to Kings and Queens, since the new release was made informally, outside a recording studio. “We just thought we’d record some songs and covers for fun, then maybe press it onto vinyl as a collector’s item for our hardcore fans.”

But something unexpected happened when the three Blackie singers — Fearing, Tom Wilson and Colin Linden — gathered around a kitchen table and began harmonizing into microphones: a warm and spontaneous vibe emerged.

“We thought, there’s something really special here. ... We need to take this further,” Fearing added.

The group that performs Sunday, Feb. 9, at The Hideout, south of Red Deer, threw out the cover songs that

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Blackie and the Rodeo Kings (from left, Tom Wilson, Colin Linden and Stephen Fearing), perform on Sunday, Feb. 9, at The Hideout. had been slated for the release and reconceived it with original new tunes instead.

Wilson strongly argued that the largely acoustic CD should be called South because the album came together in Nashville. But he later forgot this reasoning and wrote a new song for it called North, said Fearing.

Linden bailed out the original concept by writing the title track — which

is why the album contains the songs North and South. They may point in different directions, but both tunes are about travelling, Fearing added.

North was inspired by Wilson’s Mohawk heritage and the regular migration that happens between reserves in Quebec and New York City.

Many Mohawk workers have helped build skyscrapers — everything from the Empire State Building to Free-

dom Tower. They are called skywalkers, said Fearing, because they have a fearless “head for heights. They feel comfortable walking high above the ground on steel girders.”

Linden wrote the song South about the journey many Canadians make to better weather and greater opportunities in the U.S. Some were expelled from this country, like the Acadians, and others made a personal choice, like becoming snowbirds.

Nova Scotia-based Fearing contributed three tunes: a light, romantic ballad, co-written with Erin Costello, called Try, Try, Try Again; a heavier love song, I’d Have to be Stone (to forget you) co-written with Wilson; and Everything I Am, written for his wife and stepdaughter.

So far, he’s delighted with the critical reaction South is garnering. “It’s been really, really well received.”

But as for whether Blackie and the Rodeo Kings will continue making inroads into the U.S., now that the group has American management and a booking agent, Fearing believes it will depend on more than the sum of one or two albums.

“For us, it’s always been about steadily growing . . . I think people have heard about us and heard about us, and now they’re finally paying attention. So it’s about tending the fire and making a concerted effort. ... When everyone’s pulling in the same direction, it can be pretty potent stuff.”

He’s looking forward to playing some of the new tunes for a Central Alberta audience, saying “With this kind of music, Alberta is the place to be.”

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show, presented by the Central Music Festival Society, are $32 from www.centralmusicfest. com. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY WILLA PLASKIN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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Viviane Mehr’s piece Coronet VII is a mixed media collage. It is part of an exhibit on display in the library at Red Deer College. The Alberta Foundation of the Arts is supporting the travelling exhibit, which features collage works by several artists.

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LIVE DATES ● Fratters Speakeasy Venue will host Lindsay May on her Girl with Grit tour on Feb. 9. Enjoy May’s folk tunes as she sings about strong women in songs from her latest album and more. ● Billy Bob’s welcomes Gord Bamford on Feb. 4 for Gord Bamford #1 Party Edition. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:15 p.m. and the show at 7 p.m. Autographs and photos to follow. ● The Hideout has Scotty Hills on stage on Feb. 2 for the premiere of R&B /roots tunes from his forthcoming album, and the debut of a new stripped-down drum/guitar show that will tour the 2014 summer festival circuit. The Wilderness of Manitoba will be on stage at The Hideout on Feb. 8 singing some new folk tunes. ● The Centrium hosts Hedley on April 6 with Classified and USS as special guests. ● The Memorial Centre welcomes back Jesse Cook on Feb. 28 on his Blue Guitar Tour. John McDermott will be at the Memorial Centre on April 4 as part of his Twentieth Anniversary Tour. Tickets available from Black Knight Ticket Centre, 403-755-6626.

To have your establishment’s live bands included in this space, fax a list to Club Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341-6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate.com.

Set visits from Veronica Mars backers highlight of shoot: actor

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The best thing about filming the crowd-funded Veronica Mars movie was meeting some of the passionate fans who donated cash to the project, says co-star Enrico Colantoni.

The Canuck actor says last summer’s shoot was a great chance for the defunct TV show’s cast to reunite, but he was most excited about meeting the devoted followers who responded to a Kickstarter campaign last year.

Colantoni notes that several donors showed up on set after earning the privilege as a perk of donating.

“What was really exciting was how many of those Kickstarter fans showed up on set,” says Colantoni, who portrays the father of a sassy crime-solver played by Kristen Bell.

“That was the best part, it was the best part — to see how passionate these people were and how easy it was for them to just write a cheque.”

Last year, series creator Rob Thomas launched a crowd-sourcing campaign to raise $2 million for the

film, reaching that goal in less than a day.

The final tally soared to $5,702,153, thanks to 91,585 backers who each contributed as little as $1 and as much as $10,000.

Each gift came with a perk for generous fans — the nearly 6,000 backers who offered $1 or more were granted updates throughout production, 50 backers who dished out $600 or more got a personalized video greeting recorded by Bell, while three backers who each ponied up $8,000 or more got to name a character and be a featured background extra.

The right to pledge $10,000 or more was limited to just one person, and that was snapped up along with a speaking role in the movie, an invitation to the premiere and after-party, a signed movie poster, T-shirt and other goodies.

Colantoni says everything about the production has been geared towards satisfying a surprising demand for more Veronica Mars. The cult favourite was cancelled in 2007 after three seasons.

Bieber pleads not guilty to Florida charges

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — Justin Bieber has pleaded not guilty to drunken driving charges, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license in Florida.

Court records show that Bieber’s attorney filed the written plea Wednesday in Miami-Dade County.

Bieber has an arraignment set for Feb. 14, but Florida law doesn’t require him to be present.

Defence attorney Mark Shapiro says a decision on whether Bieber will attend has not been made.

Bieber and R&B singer Khalil Amir Sharieff were arrested last week in Miami Beach during what police described as an illegal street drag race between a Lamborghini and a Ferrari. Neither has been charged with drag racing.

Police say Bieber cursed at an officer and admitted to smoking marijuana, drinking and taking a prescription medication.

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● Disappearing Sentinels by Kristina Steinbring will be featured at Gallery on Main in Lacombe from Feb. 1 to 21.

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The exhibit is open until Feb. 15. ● The Best of the West Travelling Studio Art Quilts Associates Trunk Show is showing at Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch Dec. 31 to March 2. ● Unfiltered: Waskasoo Park Through A Photographer’s Lens Group Show is up at Marjorie Wood Gallery at Kerry Wood Nature Centre Feb. 15. ● Expedition Arctic: 1913-1918 is a traveling exhibit from Canadian Museum of Civilization in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Nature and features over 250 outstanding artifacts, including many on display for the first time, now open at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until Feb. 17. Phone 403-309-8405. ● Steps Through Time is a look back on the evolution of select sports footwear now on at Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Explore the progression and evolution of various equipment, glimpse the history and the modifications,

NEW YORK — Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond begins with a quote from Ian Fleming himself: “Everything I write has a precedent in truth.”

This heavily massaged four-part miniseries about the war years of James Bond’s creator, which begins this week on BBC America, seeks to prove that Fleming (played by Dominic Cooper) should be taken at his word. Fleming, though a disclaimer notes that events have been altered for “dramatic effect,” makes the case that Ian Fleming was the proto-Bond, the man who first liked his martini shaken.

This makes for an action-packed, boudoir-filled miniseries that incidentally enervates Fleming’s imagination: so thoroughly highlighting an author’s kinship with his creation suggests that his fiction is mere autobiography. But Fleming, who valued excitement in a story as much as anyone, probably would not mind Fleming’s implicit diss of his creativity, since the show goes out of its way to make him seem pretty damn swashbuckling.

As the series begins, Fleming is a dashing dilettante and aristocrat with mommy issues, bedding women and making a mess of his work as a financial investor. He is hired to work for Naval Intelligence precisely because he has no truck with authority, and he soon puts his raffish nature and creativity to good use in espionage.

The mischief he manages against the Axis powers sounds like James Bond plots (one scheme in particular prefigured Operation Mincemeat) while putting him in proximity to all sorts of Bond regalia: trick pens, high-stakes card games, shootouts. The phrase “license to kill” is dropped into conversation.

Even the trusty M shows up, in the form of a naval assistant named Monday (Anna Chancellor, on her way to becoming the ultimate British TV utility player).

But Fleming is not just purely Bond-lite. It’s equal parts 007 and Merchant Ivory, a British period romance that takes breaks for explosions.

Cooper has a dark, cocksure swagger, and his libidinous Fleming initially takes up with a loose but well-born sweetheart named Muriel (Annabelle Wallis) — she goes by Mu, in the fine tradition of ridiculous upper-class names — who knows that the right way to win a man like Ian is not to like him too much, but can’t stop herself anyway.

Having no trouble with Ian’s pathologically preferred tango of spite and sex is Ann O’Neill (in real life named Ann Charteris; she is played by Lara Pulver), a married woman also having a high-profile affair with another man. She and Ian spend the entire miniseries torturing each other, sometimes romantically — a kiss as the Blitz blows out windows beside them — but more often cruelly. What turns Ann on, sexually speaking, is a fellow willing to take her almost by force — not so much The Spy Who Loved Me as The Spy Who Spanked Me. The Bond stuff is, on the whole, more enticing than Ann and Ian’s psychological pas de deux, which skirts up against real issues — and rape fantasies — before giving them a gauzy gloss of true love.

The climax of their story involves them both running for each other on the eve of her wedding to another man, a sequence that would be a lot more dramatic if the entire miniseries’ framing device was not their eventual honeymoon. In real life, Ann did get married to the other man, kept having an affair with Fleming, and only ended up with him when she found herself pregnant with his baby. They both had affairs for the duration of the marriage.

Now that is the sort of sordid saga Fleming might tell if it were trying to do justice to Ian Fleming and not Fleming-as-Bond. But James Bond, needless to say, does not get caught up in long, messy relationships, and so in this version of his creator’s life — the creator as doppelgänger — neither does he.

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Documentary Irony-free adaptation as chronicles mushy as an overripe peach Romney family’s pain Labor Day Two stars (out of four) Rated: PG

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It’s there, between the 2-for-1 racks and the soda pop, that prison hospital escapee Frank, bleeding from appendix surgery and limping from a leg injury, convinces Adele and Henry to let him into their car, home and lives, in that swift order.

In just about the time it would take Mae West to order Beulah to peel her a grape, Frank proves himself a handyman of the hearth and heart. He fixes a squeaky door, waxes the floor, repairs the masonry, teaches Henry how to hurl a baseball and exhibits kitchen skills that could shame Martha Stewart.

He bakes not only the aforementioned peach pie, but also a breakfast muffin that elicits an orgasmic reaction from Adele of a kind not seen since Sally met Harry in the diner.

What woman wouldn’t swoon for a man like this, even one who is sought by police and who is supposed to doing 18 years hard time in jail for murder? A killing, by the way, that is tediously revealed through flashbacks — but don’t believe everything you read in the papers!

Cue strings and flutes and quote Henry’s admiring voice-over: “He did laundry, he ironed, and in return, my mom taught him to rumba.”

Killjoy cops and nosy neighbours, natch, wouldn’t look so kindly upon this cosy setup, judging it to be a toss-up between a kidnapping and harbouring of a fugitive. At no point does the movie convince us that Frank is the least bit dangerous. Fatally, neither does it make us care about whether he and Adele will go from doing the rumba in the living room to the horizontal mamba in the bedroom.

At this point I should admit that I liked Labor Day better, and rated it higher, when I first saw it at TIFF last September. Somehow it didn’t seem quite as corny, or ring so falsely, as it did upon a repeat viewing.

Reitman reminds us of the type of movie he usually makes in scenes where the nerdy Henry gets chatted up by the town’s new girl (Brighid Fleming), a pistol from Chicago. She’d have been right at home in Juno, as would Reitman.

Alberta Screenwriters Initiative deadline is March 10 Original feature film scripts of any genre can be submitted to a contest sponsored by the Alberta Association of Motion Picture and Television Unions (AAMPTU).

This is the eighth year of the Alberta Screenwriters Initiative, which seeks to facilitate the development of screenwriting in this province by recognizing local screenwriters.

Submitted scripts must be up to a maximum of 250 pages long and be written by Alberta writers. The submission deadline is March 10.

Prizes will be given for first place ($1,000 and a professional workshop, with input from an experienced story editor or screenwriter), second place ($500) and third place ($250). Second and third place winners also receive story notes and editorial feedback.

For more information on this initiative, which is handled by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and was created by the Alberta Film Partners and AAMPTU, call 780-422-8174 or visit www.writersguild.ab.ca.

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Although my colleagues who cover politics rushed last week to unwrap the Netflix documentary Mitt like kids who never get to have a birthday party, I remain unconvinced that the rest of us ever clamored for an inside, intimate portrait of the Republican who lost the 2012 presidential election. When the voters speak, they say a number of things, and all along they seemed to say pretty clearly — in both the 2008 primaries and the 2012 race — that Mitt Romney isn’t anyone’s idea of must-see TV. Even people with Romney stickers still clinging to their bumpers will fidget through the stultifying middle chunk of director Greg Whiteley’s sympathetically observant but journalistically incurious Mitt, the product of six years of friendly, unfettered access to Romney and his family.

The film, which is available for streaming via Netflix, is a departure from similar, wonkier projects that have taken us into campaign war rooms and built their stories around the political machinery in action. Mitt is more about a tight-knit family that has been variously affected by a loved one’s incurable disease — in this case, the husband/father’s addiction to running for office — and how they bravely cope with an onslaught of related symptoms, mostly having to do with how misunderstood he is.

Mitt, therefore, is barely a documentary about politics and is instead an up-close look at the beneficial uses of group delusion, especially if one dreams of living in the White House.

The daunting task here is how to winnow six years of film into a meaningful 90-minute portrait. Whiteley’s solution is fairly bold: He has neatly excised the idea that the Romney presidential campaign involved the work of a staff.

Instead, like some recent television dramas (Political Animals comes to mind) and a persistent notion about the Kennedys, Mitt suggests that the familial circle is innermost and strategically savviest, calling the shots every step of the way. The film opens in late 2006, as Mitt and his wife, Ann, sit in a cozy living room and poll their adult sons and daughters-in-law about whether or not Dad should seek the Republican nomination. It’s a crucial moment, in which the Romneys could have avoided so much distastefully hard work and pain. Together they chose pain.

From that point on, viewers are never meant to forget how awful it is to run for president. Life with the Romney clan is warm and inviting. There is constant snacking. Jokes abound; conversations meander; grandchildren cavort. It’s nice except for all the complaining.

The first half hour follows the 2008 primary season, which, if nothing else, establishes the fatal flaw in any Romney campaign: he seems to know what he’s running against, but he’s not terribly convincing in describing what he’s for — or getting a filmmaker to include it in the final edit. Fairly soon he’s out of the race — and free and rich enough to do whatever he likes. But the Romneys are caught up in yet another presidential race, lured either by the tantalizingly inept field of 2012 GOP hopefuls or pushed into the fray by the hand of God. Ann Romney suffers especially on her husband’s behalf, consoled only by her horses. “These aren’t tears of sorrow, these are tears of gratitude,” she unconvincingly informs the gang, stressed out before her husband goes off into debate. Backstage, the smile disappears and she joins Romney’s devoted sons (who, if memory serves, are named Tagg, NotTagg, Almost-Tagg, Probably-Not-Tagg and Definitely-Not-Tagg) in grimly enumerating the ways the media, other Republicans and the voting public have failed to see Dad’s obvious brilliance.

The Romneys we see here are alien creatures visiting a reality-TV planet; none of their responses or actions seem quite like all the other humans who have allowed a camera to follow their daily lives.

Perhaps because they can never be comfortable with a camera, even if it sticks around for six years, the Romney Bunch seethes with the friendliest sort of outrage and exasperation; they dread every last minute of the race, but it’s a fun and upbeat sort of dread. They’d slouch and moan and chain-smoke if only they knew how. Instead, you never saw such hale and optimistic expressions of pain; even their gallows humor lacks a sharp blade.

Thus, what seemed like such exciting inside access turns out to be more of a sleep aid than a documentary. At some point, Mitt might have been better served if, as a fly on the wall, Whiteley had done a little more buzzing — such as the moment he asks one of the Romney sons (Not-Tagg, I think), about what it’s like to see his father endure the rigors of stumping, debating, campaigning. Not-Tagg, who is exhausted at the end of another day, reflexively launches into spin. Whiteley then presses him for “the translation.”

Less guardedly, NotTagg starts over: “[People] say, ‘Why can’t we just get someone good to run for president?’ And this is why. This is why you don’t get good people running for president. What better guy is there than my dad? . . . We’re in this and you just get beat up constantly. [It’s] awful.”

When Election Day at last arrives (a caption in the version of Mitt I’ve watched informs us that this was Nov. 7, 2012, but for sticklers about fact, it was Nov. 6), the Romneys calmly but bitterly face the news that Americans could not see what the family saw so clearly.

Mitt is best in its final moments, as the candidate and his relieved wife accept their last ride home from the Secret Service, capturing that moment when they are finally alone and have nothing to do but sit quietly and think about how much it hurts. You can almost sense the work beginning anew. Starting with this film.

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You know a movie is in trouble when you spend most of its running time wondering why on Earth the director wanted to make it.

Such is the curious case of Labor Day, a glossy melodrama by Jason Reitman, who normally treats weepers the way Justin Bieber does career counselling.

Reitman typically goes in for the smart and sassy, not the naïve and sappy. Labor Day’s lonely single mom (Kate Winslet) getting her groove back through the Mr. Clean ministrations of an escaped PETER convict (Josh Brolin) is the HOWELL kind of eye-rolling scenario he’d typically mock. And the laughs would be welcomed, not the unintended kind that this film frequently summons.

You can just imagine, say, how Juno’s teen cynics Ellen Page and Olivia Thirlby would react to the squishy scene where Brolin’s Frank seduces Winslet’s Adele by the manly way he makes and bakes a peach pie.

Is this for real? Like, for real for real?

Unfortunately, yes, honest to blog.

It brings no pleasure to report this, because Reitman is a skilled and savvy filmmaker, one who has already demonstrated a facility for drama by way of Up in the Air, a multiple Oscar nominee.

And Labor Day has him working with two fine actors, Winslet and Brolin, who normally could draw empathy from a stone. They’re defeated by Reitman’s screenplay, his irony-free adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s 2009 novel. It’s as overripe as those peaches that Frank sexily folds into his homemade pie crust.

Set in 1987 (but so 1950ish) in a small New Hampshire town, the kind of place where everybody knows your name and noses into your affairs, the movie clangs like a broken bell almost from the get-go.

Adele is struggling to keep her life together and raise her 13-year-old son Henry (Griffith). She was abandoned by her self-centred ex-hubby (Clark Gregg), who split to marry his secretary.

Almost a recluse, timid as a newborn lamb, our gal barely manages to make it to the local discount shop, to buy a pair of new trousers for Henry, who needs them for the impending start of school.

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GLASIER Candace Joy Glasier passed away January 23, 2014 at Coronation, Alberta. Candace is survived by her children: Evania Jorquera and Kris Glasier; parents Connie and Wayne Glasier; as well as numerous other relatives and many friends.

Funeral services will be held Sunday, February 2, 2014 at Coronation Community Hall, Coronation, Alberta at 2:00 PM. Memorial donations may be made to Alberta Mental Health-Red Deer Clinic or to purchase a memorial tree. Sympathies may be forwarded to the family by signing the guestbook at www.parkviewfuneralchapels.com PARKVIEW FUNERAL CHAPELS & CREMATORIUM, 403-578-3777 entrusted with the care and funeral arrangements.

MCKINNEY George January 27, 2014 George leaves his wife, Helen, after 63 years of marriage with enough happy memories and laughter shared together to last a few lifetimes. He also leaves his daughters, Valerie (Vanja) Lugonja and Judy Swainson, grandchildren Ragan Rodgers, Denver (Sara) Swainson and Lauren (Aaron) Andersen as well as his favourite little fluffy furry friend, Penny.

Born September 19, 1929 to Michael and Mary McKinney in Bengough, Saskatchewan, George left home at 17 years arriving in Red Deer soon to meet his life long sweetheart as well as his life long career: 45 years of accident free bus driving. George exemplified commitment. Possessing the highest degree of integrity and a fathomless work ethic, George excelled at his life long list of hobbies and interests. Artistically, George was a gifted musician, found solace in sketching, and a deep personal satisfaction in construction and hand crafted wood working. His love of golf and bridge matched his enthusiasm for country music and square dancing. He thrived during the years he and Helen spent wintering in Arizona traveling throughout the world. Yet, he cherished his family the most and was always the first one up every Christmas morning.

His grandchildren brought him endless joy, coupled with more projects, and his shadow was always a 4-legged furry little friend. Therefore, in lieu of flowers, George has asked that donations be made, in his name, to the SPCA. Please join us in a celebration of his life on Saturday, February 8, 2014 at The Vanier, 9820-165 Street, Edmonton, Alberta.

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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 grandparents, 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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CHABOT 1961 - 2014 We were forced to say “See You Later” to our dearest Richard (Reg) Robert Chabot of Red Deer when he passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at the age of 52 years.

Richard was born in 1961 to Paul and Therese Chabot in Arborfield, Sask. It was there that he resided and attended school. Richard played a variety of sports of which he excelled. His favorite sports were hockey, lacrosse and football. He moved to Nipawin, Sask. in his senior year to play goal for the Nipawin Hawks. It was there that he met his future wife, Tracy. In 1980, he began post secondary school at the University of Saskatchewan and in 1984 received his Bachelor of Commerce. Later Richard would complete his Certified General Accounting Designation. Richard and Tracy were married that same year. Joy filled their lives with the birth of three sons, Tanner, Christian and Lucas. Tanner would eventually bring a “daughter from another mother”, Tracy Carrier, into their lives. Richard’s professional life culminated in 2001 when he and Tracy moved to Red Deer so Richard could join his brother Ron in the music store (53rd Street Music). They maintained an incredible working and personal relationship until they sold the store and retired in October, 2011. Over the years, Richard was very involved with the boy’s sports as well as his own. Over a span of many years, he played and coached hockey as well as lacrosse. He met many amazing friends both young and old through these pursuits. He also loved fishing, skiing, lake time, travel and the pleasure of being with family and friends and was always the life of the party with his unabashed sense of humor and laughter. Richard leaves a large family to mourn his loss, wife Tracy; sons Tanner (Tracy Carrier), Christian and Lucas all of Red Deer; four brothers Fern (Florence) of Saskatoon, Dan (Marg) of Calgary, Lionel (Kathy) of North Battleford, Ron (Pat) of Red Deer; one sister Gloria (Lyle) Thompson of Beaumont; mother-in-law Rose Marie (Gary) Nyholt; brother-in-law Scott (Kate) Fryer of Calgary, sisters-in-law Shelly (Lee) Ostberg of Panama and Lana (Rus) Prescott of Unity, Sask. Also to cherish Richard’s memory are numerous nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, and the many friends he made over the years.

Richard was predeceased by his parents Paul and Therese Chabot, father-in-law Elroy Fryer and sister-in-law Toby Gossard. Family and friends are invited to an informal Celebration of Richard’s life being held at Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, 1935 - Gaetz Avenue, Red Deer on Sunday, February 2, 2014 between the hours of 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm., with the sharing of memories and a video tribute occurring at 3:00 p.m. All ages welcome. In keeping with Richard’s wishes, a private interment of his urn will take place at a later date. Memorial donations may be directed to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation (R.D.R.H.C. Unit 32), 3942 - 50A Ave, Red Deer AB T4N 4E7, to the Canadian Cancer Society (Gastric / Esophagus Cancer Research), 200, 325 Manning Road NE, Calgary AB T2E 2P5 or to debbiesdream.org.

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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.

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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.

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TERNES Terry Joseph April 6, 1945 - Jan. 26, 2014 Terry passed away Sunday, January 26, 2014 at the age of 68 years. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 33 years, Donna; son, Justin (fianceé Melanie), and his children, Jadyn, Raylin and Jordyn; daughter, Kristine (fiancé Alain), and her children Alexis and Hunter; many close friends; and hunting and fishing buddies. At Terry’s request there will be no Service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Terry’s memory to Red Deer & District S.P.C.A. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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NATHAN Daniel Howard (1990-2014) It is with great sadness that the family of Nathan Howard announces his passing on January 28, 2014, Nathan’s 24th birthday. Nathan’s life began and ended in Australia, but for 21 years Nathan lived in Alberta, including 12 years in Sylvan Lake. Nathan was a graduate of H.J. Cody High School in 2008, and an accomplished hockey player having played for several local teams in Sylvan Lake and Red Deer. Nathan is predeceased by his daughter, Emery Natalyn Howard, who passed away in August 2012 at the age of 12 weeks.

Nathan is survived by his father and mother, Graeme and Janice Howard, of Sylvan Lake and by brothers, Jordan and Logan, and his sister Mikayla, grandparent Henry and Erna Wilson, of Red Deer and Annette Howard of Australia. His also is missed by all his aunts, uncles, cousins and many friends.

Nathan was a soft soul who struggled with addictions in his adult years, but by the grace of God found his way back to his savior in his last weeks in Australia and it is with the hope of eternal life from a gracious God that his family bids farewell saying “Nathan, we love you and we will see you again”. A memorial service will be held at Gospel Chapel, Sylvan Lake, at 10:00 am on Saturday, February 1, 2014 with Pastor Jamie McDonald officiating.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to YWAM International (Sydney Base).

Card Of Thanks WILSON, ERIC Our family would like to thank everyone for the phone calls, cards, flowers and gifts of food and donations made in Eric’s name. We would especially like to thank Rev. Gary Sinclair of St. Leonards on the Hill Anglican Church for making Eric’s celebration so meaningful for our family, friends and work colleagues.

Your heartfelt prayers and generosity on the passing of Eric has helped to ease our pain and help us remember what a kind and caring young man he was. Also special thanks to Joelle of Parkland Funeral Home for your care and attention. Thank you, Terry McBride, Nancy Wilson, Mary Corrigan and family.

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ADS Drivers are required to safely operate company equipment and provide a high level of customer service, delivering our JOURNEYMAN H.D. products within central MECHANIC req’d immed.

Alberta. ADS Drivers are for very busy heavy equip. required to be drug free sales lot in Innisfail. and maintain legal transWage range $25. - $35/hr portation paperwork and to start, depending on exp. driving practices. This Preference will be given position requires a valid to those with previous Class 1 License, with equipment rental service, previous off road forklift lifts and off road experience a definite construction equipment asset. We offer quarterly experience. Fax resume cash safety bonuses as to 403-227-5701 or email: well as a comprehensive bouvier9@telus.net medical plan.

Benefits include: Company provided Group Canadian Benefits Voluntary dental Life insurance Short-term and long-term disability Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) and Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) Vacation MILLWRIGHTS & Paid Safety Bonus WELDERS All applicants are subject for work in Red Deer. to a pre-employment Please fax resume to physical and MVR check.

1-403-229-4079 Interested Applicants may submit a resume, along with a current drivers Required Immediately abstract to: PARTS PERSON Advanced Drainage Parts person required for Systems Canada Inc. rapidly expanding HD 4316 Gerdts Ave. Parts Supply Store.

Blindman Ind. Park Must be able to work Red Deer County, AB. unsupervised in a fast T4S-2A8 Fax: paced environment.

(403) 346-5806 Have experience in the heavy truck/trailer industry. E-mail ken.mccutcheon@ ads-pipe.com Must possess strong Position closing date: customer service skills.

Feb. 6, 2014 Above average wages, benefits package.

Apply with resume @ Artic Truck, Email: ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com Fax: 403-348-5198 JOURNEYMAN Automotive Technician Eckville based mechanic and car wash shop looking for full time Journeyman Automotive Technician.

We offer competitive wages for the right applicant. Full benefit package available after 3 months. Mon-Fri, weekends optional.

Please send resume to 403.746.2594

REQUIRED: CARPENTER/DRYWALLER for restoration company.

This is a F/T position. Must have a valid drivers license.

Duties: Carpentry, drywall, painting & finishing work.

Fax or email resume to 403-347-4037 or crr@telus.net or contact Al @ 403-347-4001

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Award Winning, High Volume, Ford Dealership in Central Alberta is seeking a motivated Auto Body Technician or Apprentice Excellent pay plan, pay commensurate with experience, benefits and opportunity to grow.

Apply by fax to: Jeff Denham (403) 227-4544 or email: jdenham@fourlaneford.com

If you have a positive attitude and are committed to providing the best customer service, then we are looking for you!

We offer competitive wages, Year Round Work, Blue Cross Benefits and Room for Advancement.

Contact: Email: info@graysonexcavating.com or Fax: 403-782-6846

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Successful Applicant will have good computer, phone & people skills. Willing to train the right person.

Please email applications to: info@hpman.ca Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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A Division of DNR Pressure Welding CORDY ENVIRONMENTAL requires B-Pressure EXPERIENCED Welder Crew Foreman, Vacuum & Water lead hands, labourers for Truck operators Has Opening for all various projects in Alberta. req’d. to start immed. positions! Immediately.

Long term employment. $450/per day All applicants must have Excellent opportunity for current H2S, Class 5 with CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q apprenticeship. Excellent Q Endorsement, (No GDL All oilfield safety tickets benefit packages. Fax licenses) and First Aid. req’d. Clean drivers resume to 403-742-5759 We offer competitive Truckers/ abstract. Must comply with TOO MUCH STUFF? or email: dnrwelding1 wages & excellent benefits. drug and alcohol policy.

Let Classifieds @dnrwelding.ca. Attention: Drivers Please include 2 work References Req’d.

Ryan. No Phone calls help you sell it. reference names and Exc. salary & benefits. please. Drug and Alcohol BUSY Central Alberta numbers.

Fax resume to: ELEMENTS is looking for program in effect.

Grain Trucking Company Please fax resume to: 403-742-5376 5 retail sales reps. selling looking for Class 1 Drivers 403-264-6725 doug.reinhart@cordy.ca season gift packages and DNR Pressure Welding & and/or Lease Operators.

Or email to: Powerline Construction personal care products in We offer lots of home time, tannis@treelinewell.com Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. requires Journeyman benefits and a bonus No phone calls please.

Minimum Class 5 with air Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + Heavy Duty Mechanic with program. Grain and super www.treelinewell.com and clean abstract. Exp. bonus & comm. FT. No experience in fleet mainteB exp. an asset but not preferred.

In person to Key nance for Heavy & Light exp. req`d. Please email necessary. If you have a Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. duty trucks.

Excellent elementsreddeer@gmail.com clean commercial drivers Red Deer. benefit packages. Email abstract and would like to Professionals SOAP Stories is seeking 5 resumes to Harold@ start making good money.

F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, dnrwelding.ca or fax fax or email resume and Central Alberta’s Largest selling soap & bath (403)742-5759 No Phone EYEWEAR comm.abstract to Car Lot in Classifieds products $14.55/hr. + calls please.

Drug and 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net LIQUIDATORS bonus & comm. Beauty alcohol program in effect. requires cert. req’d. Location OPTICAL ASSISTANT Parkland Mall - 4747 67th DUE TO A LARGE Truckers/ Training provided.

St. Red Deer. email INCREASE IN BUSINESS, Apply in person with Drivers premierjobrdbto@ PIKE WHEATON resume to: 4924 59 St. gmail.com Red Deer, AB. CHEVROLET SOAP Stories is seeking 5 is currently seeking Reporting to the CFO, the retail sales reps. Selling SERVICE ADVISORS. Junior Accountant will be soap & bath products.

We offer competitive responsible for all of the $12.10 hr + bonus & comwages, a great working accounting functions (i.e. mission. Ft No exp. req`d. environment, and a great inputting of supplier Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. benefit package. invoices, quarterly Red Deer. email resume to Please email resume to preparation of GST premierjobrd@gmail.com Joey Huckabone returns to be reviewed by joey@pikewheatonchev.ca Requires experienced, responsible and mature Looking for a new pet?

CFO, preparation of monthly financial reporting Check out Classifieds to Experienced Siders find the purrfect pet. package, payments of Needed Call 403-588-3210 supplier invoices, bank reconciliations, etc.). This position plays a role in Trades establishing financial policies, procedures, internal controls and reporting systems, ensuring Candidates must: that systems are in place to produce accurate and - Have at least three years experience loading timely reporting of financial results. Candidate must and unloading all types of equipment have University degree or Jeep and Trailer experience college diploma, with 3-5 - On road/off road experience years of relevant work Visit our website at: www.fourlaneford.com experience. Email: locally owned & operated - Gravel Hauling (end dump) dsmith@wiseisi.com

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

NOW HIRING

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

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TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive wages and benefits. admin@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

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NOW HIRING WAREHOUSE LEAD HAND

Key Responsibilities: -Ensure accurate data and material transactions by applying the best, safe and efficient practices.

-Lead the Warehouse Team in Continuous Improvement initiatives.

-Maintain cross-training activities of key Warehouse Team roles.

-Track and review performance of team and ensure timely performance evaluations.

-Ensure efficient product flow and continuous improvements in all facets of warehouse operations.

-Comply with all health/safety/security programs to ensure safety of all personnel, equipment and property.

-Provide leadership and training to all material handlers to ensure high levels of inventory accuracy.

-Perform root cause investigations when an inventory inaccuracy is identified and implement necessary corrective actions.

Credentials & Experience: -1-3 yrs experience in inventory control; leading and supervising the work of others -Strong understanding of WMS with regard to material transactions is essential.

-Strong skills in Microsoft Office Suite.

-Strong communication, customer service, analytical and problem solving skills.

-Forklift certification an asset.

Work Environment: -7:30am - 4:00pm, Monday - Friday; with flexibility to work outside regular hours when necessary.

Apply with resume to careers@chatters.ca Or fax 403-347-7759

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk (Reliable vehicle needed)

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Community Support Worker Program Women in the Trades Program Math and Science for the Trades Program Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer (Reliable vehicle needed.)

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Jepsen Cres. & Jordan Pkway Kentwood Kendrew Dr. Also Kennings Cres. & Kirby St. Mustang Acres 63 Ave. & 69 St. Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

BUD HAYNES AND WARD’S GUN AUCTION. Sat., Feb. 8th. 10 am Start

Custom made pub style dining table, 4 chairs.

Tobacco colour for table top and chair seats with black legs and trim. Built in storage and hidden leaf to accomodate seating for 2 more. High quality table purchased from Sim’s. Mint condition. $1650 obo.

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WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 IMMIDIATE OPENNING: Mac’s store, 2 Jewell St. Red Deer. Apply in person or call 403-340-0169.

CARRIERS NEEDED ANDERS AREA Anders St. / Armstrong Close Addinnell Close / Allan St. Abbott Close / Anders St. Anders Close INGLEWOOD AREA Isherwood Close Issard Close LANCASTER AREA Law Close / Lewis Close

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Sylvan Lake, 3 bdrms., 2.5 baths, large family room, 3 rd level walk out covered deck, oversized dbl.. garage, RV parking, close to schools. $329,000. 403-887-3966 DEER PARK fully finished 1450 sq. ft. bungalow FanSuites ta home, 5 bdrms,3 bath, Listed on kijiji 403-343-1683 2 BDRM. balcony, blinds, FREE Weekly list of $1000 rent no pets avail. properties for sale w/details, Mar. 1. 403-343-8387 prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

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PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET is now accepting applications for a full time Parts Person.

Must have good communication and computer skills and have the ability to work independently.

Excellent company benefits.

Please email resume along with wage expectations to: philparts@gmail.com or fax to 403-347-3813

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WOODEN ROCKING HORSE. $25.

CHILDS ROCKING CHAIR, $20.

STUFFED ROCKING HORSE, $10.

WOODEN TIME OUT CHAIR, $10.

NEW GRACO TRAVEL CRIB, 2-stage basinet. Converts to play pen. 32”X23”. $65.

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino

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AQUARIUMS, (2) 90 gal. $1200. both 403-505-4777

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2 BDRM. main floor of House. Newly reno’d.

403-872-2472 3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 30 tenants.

No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1500, D.D. $1500. 403-341-4627 5 BDRM home in Ander’s available for immed. possession for one year.

No pets, N/S Rent $2650/mo., D/D $2650.

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SYLVAN LAKE main fl., clean 3 bdrm., garage incl., N/S, small pets ok. $1500 incl. utils. 760-399-0224

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SYLVAN LAKE 2 bdrm. fully furn. dishes, linen, cable & utils. incl’d. $1200.

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Teeny Tiny Morkies extra fluffy and extremely cute! Condos/ Non shedding, shots done Townhouses R H2S Alive (ENFORM) 587-987-3422 or email: R First Aid/CPR LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, wendyschedel@gmail.com 32 HOLMES ST. R Confined Space tamarack, poplar.

1 1/2 blocks west of mall, R WHMIS & TDG Price depends on location. bi-level, blinds, lg.

3 bdrm.

R Ground Disturbance Collectors' Lil Mule Logging balcony, 4 appls, no pets, R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. 403-318-4346 n/s, rent $1245 SD $1000 Items R D&C (LEL) Avail. Feb. 15th. #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner 2 NATIVE Blackfoot (across from Totem) (across from Rona North) BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / medicine and war shields HALMAN Heights Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 (keepsake) $80/ea.

3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 403-347-7405 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, no pets, n/s, rent $1445 Employment STARTER comic book SD $1000 avail. Feb. 15.

Training collection, graphic novels, 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 50 comic books $200 Tim 403-340-8215 KITSON CLOSE newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 Travel YOUR CAREER IN sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced Packages in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 TRAVEL ALBERTA SD $1000. n/s Web Designer Alberta offers Avail. immed.

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5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, Wanted concrete patio, blinds, Financial Assistance available To Buy front/rear parking, no dogs, to qualified applicants. n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 WANTED: SNOWBLOWER Avail. immed.

403-886-5194 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

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39027 RR10 MERIDIAN EST. CA0028280 $915,000 AVAIL. - 1 bdrm. w/full 3 Acres, Close to Sylvan bath, $600/mo. incl. all Lake & Red Deer. utils. + cable, washer & Beautiful Home, Move in dryer. Call 403-343-3361 Ready. 3060 sq ft. 40x60 Shop, fully finished 9 Appl., 5 Bed/4 Baths, Rooms Hot Tub Rm, Rec Rm For Rent w/pool table, White colonial cabinetry, hardwood flrs. $450 MO/D.D. incl. everyMature yard. A MUST SEE thing. 403-342-1834 or TO APPRECIATE! Call 587-877-1883 after 2:30 Margaret Comeau 403.392.3399 to view.

CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $575. 403-346-7546 ROOM FOR Rent, access Income to kitchen. 403-343-0421 Property ROOM in Westpark, n/s, no pets. Furnished. TV & 12 UNIT apartment buildutils incl. 403-304-6436 ing located in quiet Red Deer neighborhood.

ROOM, all utils. and cable Contact Mike Dandurand incld, $450/mo.

Sundance Realty & 403-506-3277 Management SMALL BDRM. Furnished.

403-343-6655 391-7945 $450. 403-342-4604 LAST 2 remaining full duplex lots in desirable Warehouse neighborhood in Central Alberta. Very well priced Space with 4 plex as a discretionary use. Contact SMALL / LARGE SPACES Mike Dandurand -Free standing - fenced yards Sundance Realty & For all your needs.

Management 400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615 403-343-6655 391-7945

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Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

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4th All Around Canadian Auctioneer Championship Competition Saturday, February 1, 2014 - 1 pm Black Knight Inn, 2929 - 50 Ave. Red Deer, AB 21 Members of the Auctioneers’ Association of Alberta will be competing for the Championship Belt Buckle.

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

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ENTERTAINMENT Centre, New Location!! solid cherry. $50.

11802-145 St. Edmonton.

Grain, Feed 403-342-4442 To consign: Hay MASON MARTIN Call Linda 403-597-1095 www.budhaynesauctions.com LIKE new black leather HOMES SMALL SQUARE HAY and www.WardsAuctions.com chair and matching foot Custom new homes straw 403-340-3061 stool $90 403-986-1720 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious planning service.

TIMOTHY & Brome square suites 3 appls., heat/water Kyle, 403-588-2550 Building incld., Oriole Park.

SOFA & loveseat, Sklar bales, great for horses, apMUST SELL prox. 60 lbs. put up dry 403-350-1620 Gloria Peppler, beautiful, like Supplies New Home. 1335 sq.ft. and covered, $5/bale new, $500. 403-342-4442 BACHELOR suite avail. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

Sylvan area. 403-887-2798 Concrete forming equipimmed. $775 + power.

403-588-2550 ment Dura-Form 4’ x 2’, 403-872-3400 WANTED 5’x2’, 7’x2’, 8’ x 2’, lots of www.laebon.com Antiques, furniture and GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. inside corners and fillers, Laebon Homes 346-7273 estates. 342-2514 apartments, avail. immed, most of forms are in cages. rent $875 403-596-6000 To view call Randy Condos/ 403-843-1099 cell LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. Stereos 587-679-2334. For pics SUITES. 25+, adults only Townhouses TV's, VCRs and detailed equipt. list CLASSIFICATIONS n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 emai: thepelletiers@ NEW CONDO 42” SAMSUNG flat screen tv. FOR RENT • 3000-3200 xplornet.ca 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath.

Plasma. Exc. working cond. WANTED • 3250-3390 $192,000. 403-588-2550 $350 obo. 403-341-6345 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Children's Adult bldg. N/S No pets Items Houses/ 403-755-9852 Acreages Misc. for

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

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WESTPARK AREA

VANIER AREA

Call Prodie: 403-314-4301 for more info

CLASSIFICATIONS

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ROSEDALE AREA Reichley St., Reinholt Ave., Robinson Cres. Area 100 Papers $540/mo.

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

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COFFEE table set, 3 piece glass & wood. $100.

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Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

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They will be selling tools, art work, sports memorabilia, household items, collectibles and other items.

Bid on numerous new items!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW AREA Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $146/mo.

CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.

DEERPARK AREA 74 to 129 Blosk of Dunning Cres., Depalm St. and approx. 3 blocks of Douglas St. $108/mo

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2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres.

Lacombe. 403-588-8820 BRAND NEW 1340 sq. ft. bungalow, 2 bdrm., den, dbl. att. garage. $384,900.

Call Glen 403-588-2231

8TH ANNUAL RED DEER COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION & SPEED SHOW. Mar 14 - 16. Westerner Park, Red Deer. 150,000 sq.ft. indoor show.

Exhibitors space available.

Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event.

Consign today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGAuctions.com

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GRANDVIEW AREA

Lamont Close

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

40A, 41 and 42 Ave. between 39 St. and 44 St. $111/mo.

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

Lund Close MORRISROE AREA Vista Village SUNNYBROOK AREA Somerset Close Springfield Ave.

MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $303/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

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VANIER AREA Viscount Drive Vickers Close Volks Place / Vanier Drive Vanson Close / Visser St. Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

ALSO Timberstone Way, Talson Place, Thomas Place, Trimble Cl., Traptow Cl. & Thompson Cres. $307/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

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DAMON INTERIORS

Drywall, tape, texture, Fully licensed & insured.

Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

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Escorts WCB HELP If you have been cut off benefits or feel you have not received the LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car benefits you are entitled.

Call Norman Zubot consulting(29yrs WCB Handyman exp) Ph: 587-521-4691.

Services Cell: 780-982-9822 norman.zubot@shaw.ca ALL TRADES Home Maintenance 28 yrs. exp.

Retired electrician. Call Rick 403-318-4267 Contractors

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DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 INSTALL your operators & doors. Repairs. 391-4144

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

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FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

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Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk of the town. www.viimassage.biz

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

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Good Earth Services Bus: 403-318-6573 Central Vac Service Call Home & Bus. Maintenance and cleaning.

Personal Services

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REIKO’S Finest Asian Massage

In call only. 587-377-1298 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 5003-50 St.

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in home or facility family business est. 1999 bondable staff, great rates, gift certificates avail.

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2011 FORD Fiesta. $8200, 5 spd, 11,000 km. Exc. cond.

Great on gas. Medical reason.

Ask for Doug 587-272-2543

2008 VW Golf City $9888 Sport & Import 348 8788

2008 Audi A4 2.0T $19,888.

Sport & Import 348 8788

2007 H2 hummer, mint condition, 59,000 kms, new tires & rims, original rims and tires to buyer.

Call Art 403-304-0727.

2006 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV platinum, mint $21,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

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FLORENCE, Italy — More than two years after Amanda Knox returned to the U.S. apparently home free, an Italian court Thursday reinstated her murder conviction in the stabbing of her roommate and increased her sentence to 28 ½ years in prison, raising the spectre of a long extradition fight.

Knox, 26, received word in her hometown of Seattle. The former American exchange student said she was “frightened and saddened by the unjust verdict” and blamed “overzealous and intransigent prosecution,” ”narrow-minded investigation“ and coercive interrogation techniques.

“This has gotten out of hand,” Knox said in a statement. “Having been found innocent before, I expected better from the Italian justice system.”

Lawyers for Knox and her 29-yearold ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who was also found guilty, vowed to appeal to Italy’s highest court, a process that will take at least a year and drag out a seesaw legal battle that has fascinated court-watchers on both sides of the Atlantic and led to lurid tabloid headlines about “Foxy Knoxy” and her sex life.

It was the third trial for Knox and Sollecito, whose first two trials in the 2007 slaying of British exchange student Meredith Kercher produced flipflop verdicts of guilty, then innocent.

After the acquittal in 2011, Knox returned to the U.S., where she evidently hoped to put herself beyond the reach of Italian law. But Italy’s supreme court soon ordered a third trial.

On Thursday, the panel of two judges and six lay jury members deliberated 11 ½ hours before issuing its decision, stiffening Knox’s original 26-year sentence, apparently to take into account an additional conviction for slander, while confirming Sol-

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Legal experts said it is unlikely Italy will request Knox’s extradition before the verdict is final. In Italy, verdicts are not considered final until they are confirmed, usually by the supreme Court of Cassation.

The final decision of whether to hand Knox over to the Italians would rest with the U.S. State Department, and the issue is likely to stir debate over whether she is a victim of double jeopardy, because she was retried after an acquittal.

“Many Americans are quite astonished by the ups and downs in this case,” said Mary Fan, a former federal prosecutor who teaches at the University of Washington Law School in Seattle.

Nevertheless, Fan said U.S. courts

have previously held that being acquitted and then convicted of a crime in another country is not a legal bar to extradition.

Kercher, 21, was found dead in a pool of blood in the bedroom of the apartment she and Knox shared in the town of Perugia, where they were studying. Kercher had been sexually assaulted and her throat slashed.

Knox and Sollecito denied any involvement in the killing. After initially giving confused alibis, they insisted they were at Sollecito’s apartment that night, smoking marijuana, watching a movie and making love.

Prosecutors originally argued that Kercher was killed in a drug-fueled sex game gone awry — an accusation that made the case a tabloid sensation.

tigators aren’t sure. The mother and children were all found together; the ninth person was found between 10 and 15 feet away, Recke said.

He wasn’t. The execution began at 10:11 p.m., and Smulls was pronounced dead at 10:20 p.m.

Joseph Luby, an attorney for Smulls, said he received an email at 10:30 p.m. from the Supreme Court, saying the stay application was denied at 10:24 p.m. — four minutes after Smulls was pronounced dead.

“It’s just troubling and fundamentally lawless,” Luby said.

Missouri executing inmates Eight children, mother killed before appeals are resolved ST. LOUIS — By the time the U.S. in Kentucky house fire Supreme Court refused a last-minute GREENVILLE, Ky. — The bodies of eight children and their mother were found huddled together in or near a master bedroom, victims of an early-morning fire Thursday from which only the father and an 11-yearold daughter escaped after it ripped through a modest home in western Kentucky.

The fire started accidentally with combustible material against an electric heater in a bedroom, said Kentucky State Police Trooper Stu Recke.

The side and roof of the small, white-wood frame house with three bedrooms and an enclosed porch collapsed, leaving a lone chimney standing. Fire investigators pored over the melted and burned remnants of household goods and charred beams that lay scattered on the ground.

Recke identified those killed as 35-year-old LaRae (Nikki) Watson, 15-year-old Madison Watson, 14-yearold Kaitlyn Watson, 13-year-old Morgan Watson, nine-year-old Emily Watson, eight-year-old Samuel Watson, six-year-old Raegan Watson and four-year-old twin brothers Mark and Nathaniel Watson.

Recke said the fact that all the victims were near each other could be an indication that they were trying to escape through a window, but inves-

request to stay the execution of Herbert Smulls, the Missouri inmate was already dead. His attorneys said Thursday that it was the third straight case in which Missouri has moved ahead with an execution while the case was still in court.

While Missouri says it’s perfectly legal to carry out executions before all appeals are exhausted, legal experts say the practice is rare. And the concerns from defence attorneys come as the death penalty in general is getting increased scrutiny amid separate questions about the drugs states are using to execute inmates.

Smulls, 56, was put to death late Wednesday after a protracted legal battle that lasted more than two decades, a legal fight that extended to his final day of life. Smulls was scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, but various appeals pushed the case deep into the evening.

Attorneys for Smulls made one final push just before 10 p.m. for a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court, which had already ruled on other appeals that the execution could proceed.

Timing was becoming a factor because the death warrant expired at 11:59 p.m. A new execution date would be required if Smulls was still alive at midnight.

Panama orders release of crew of N. Korean ship seized for hidden weapons PANAMA CITY — Panama’s judicial authorities have ordered the release of 32 of 35 crew members of a North Korean ship detained in July for carrying hidden arms from Cuba and they were working Thursday on the paperwork needed to leave.

Prosecutor Nahaniel Murgas said the captain and two other crew members would remain to face arms trafficking charges.

He said a search of the ship turned up documents showing “that the ship’s captain, first officer and political officer had been given instructions about what to do if the illegal shipment was detected.”

“Together with that were the statements by the rest of the crew, who said they were employees on the vessel, but not responsible” for the shipment, Murgas said. “It was based on that we decided to free the other 32.”

Panama’s top prosecutor, Ana Belfon, said the 32 crew members had been turned over to immigration officials, who would decide whether to repatriate them or deport them.

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