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Heartbreak & Needles

RESIDENTS FEAR THE DRUG ADDICTS AND HOMELESS WHO ROAM THE HALLWAYS AT NIGHT, LEAVING BLOOD AND FECES IN THEIR WAKE

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

When the sun goes down, Susan Draus is afraid to leave her apartment.

She has covered up her peephole with duct tape and put a cover along the bottom of her door to keep the sounds and smells of her apartment hallways, and some people, out.

“I’m scared to go out at night. We’re all scared to go out at night, you can’t go out,” Draus said on Tuesday.

“I won’t even go to the store, I’m scared until the sun comes back up.”

At night, people will try any door they can, hoping to get in. She said the hallways sometimes reek of mari-

juana at night.

Then, in the morning, the 51-year-old goes on a tour of the River Valley Apartments, her home, to see at what new damage happened overnight.

She sees used condoms and needles left lying on the floor, blood and feces smeared on the walls of this 71-unit affordable housing apartment building in downtown Red Deer. She has pictures of how people discard needles next to the sprinkler valve shutoff on one of the floors.

At night, homeless people find their way in through various means. Some sleep on the stairwells or hallways.

She said they can jury-rig the doors so they don’t lock properly and they can get in.

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The homeless and drug addicts crash on the floor at River Valley Apartments. In the morning, they leave behind their trash, including used needles.

Province reverses opposition to trails near highways

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Those who have doggedly sought to link Central Alberta communities with trails have a new spring in their step.

The Central Alberta Regional Trails Society has been getting some good news lately. Last month, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the government would commit $1 for every $2 raised through public contributions to the Trans Canada Trail Foundation, which wants to create an unbroken 24,000-km national chain of trails by 2017.

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was removed when Alberta Transportation reversed its opposition to locating trails near provincial highways, which had long hindered route selections.

“It’s a 180-degree turnaround, so we’re ecstatic,” said Paul Pettypiece, trails society vice-president.

“It gives us a lot more options. Especially from Penhold to Bowden, it opens up possibilities that weren’t there before.”

Alberta Transportation has even asked to join the trails society.

Pettypiece believes the province changed its stance because it realized if trails weren’t allowed along obvious routes, people would use busy roads and their shoulders anyway, creating a bigger danger than allowing a nearby trail.

On Tuesday, the trails society won another small victory when Red Deer County council agreed to a request to forward an application on its behalf for $35,000 in funding to hire a consultant to study potential routes.

A link from Springbrook to Red Deer is project No. 1, and the consultant will also look into whether the historic Mintlaw railway bridge south of Red Deer could be incorporated into a trail. It would prove a spectacular attraction for trail users.

Council also agreed to send county representatives to sit in on meetings with area municipalities to discuss Red Deer-to-Sylvan Lake, Springbrook-toPenhold and Penhold-to-Bowden links. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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APARTMENT: Working to clean the place up The River Valley Apartments, at 5017 49th St., were completed in 2011 by Potter’s Hands Development, which is co-owned by Stan Schalk.

Schalk said they are working at improving the situation at the apartments and it has gotten better over the last six weeks as they have evicted some problem tenants.

“We are working at cleaning the place up,” said Schalk. “We have evicted several people and continue to do so. We always take risks when we rent to people because we’re working with some of the hardest to house, so there is going to be some people that make it work and some that it hasn’t worked for. We do work at evicting and keeping it clean.”

There are security cameras on each floor, but some have been ripped out of the walls and others have been spray-painted over.

Draus is on Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) and can only afford to live in affordable housing. She is unable to work. Rent in the building ranges from $400 to $600 a month, depending on the unit.

When Draus can’t sleep from the noise at night, she goes to Ted Spencer’s place.

He finds the River Valley Apartments scary as well and always brings a shovel and bear spray with

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Denis says in a news release that his memo reflects a government determined to see justice done while protecting the province’s most vulnerable.

The federal government is rewriting its rules on solicitation in light of the Supreme Court decision.

Alberta prosecutors won’t take prostitutes to court, will target johns

Four workers injured in Regina refinery explosion in 2011 file lawsuit

EDMONTON — Alberta’s prosecutors are being told it’s not in the public interest to take prostitutes to court, but the Crown should continue to hold johns accountable.

The directive comes from the office of Attorney General Jonathan Denis.

A recent Supreme Court ruling found that laws on street soliciting violate a prostitute’s charter rights to safety and security.

The directive says prosecutors still have the final

REGINA — Four workers injured in an explosion at a Regina refinery are suing the company.

Kimberly Janvier, Irene Rombaut, Shawn Farrell and Sylvan Blake were working at the Co-Op refinery on Oct. 6, 2011 when the explosion occurred.

They say in their statement of claim that they all suffered severe physical injuries in the blast and they and their family members also suffered severe emotional distress and anxiety after the explosion.

him when he goes to the building.

“It’s for self-defence,” said Spencer.

“They threaten you down there.”

Pointing to the lobby before the security door, he said it can get full of homeless people.

“You just try to come in here,” he said. “And they’ll follow you in. They’ve already threatened Susan. He said ‘I’m going to get you.’

“When we first came here, there was a table in the lobby where you had to sign your name. They said it was a drug-free building.”

When it opened, new tenants were required to sign a pledge to live a crime-free lifestyle.

Spencer said it could be a nice place to live.

“It just needs someone to take care of it.”

Another tenant, who was scared to give her name for fear of retaliation, echoed Draus and Spencer’s concerns.

“You should be safe in your own residence,” she said. “Not have to worry about the idiots in the hallway and the needles. What if you’re going down the steps and you stumble and there’s a needle? That needle pokes you and god knows what are you going to get.”

Her sons won’t come inside the building anymore.

At the bottom of one of the stairways are the oncefresh drywalled walls, covered with writing. One says “Quit doing needles here, or at least clean.”

Schalk said they had a meeting with the tenants about a week ago to listen to their concerns and try to find ways to keep the building safer and cleaner.

“One of the things we’re doing to address that is we have our keys on a fob system so only tenants can get into the building,” said Schalk. “We’re a couple of days away from having a fob on one of the side doors.”

Draus said they were told at the meeting that any increased security would mean an increase in the cost of rent.

“The homeless people that are in there, it’s not their fault. They should have a place to go,” said Spencer.

Draus’s family won’t come to visit her, because they’re scared.

“We don’t want to see the building shut down, we want to see it better maintained,” said Draus.

“I’ve never been late once on my rent, I’m always early.”

Schalk pointed out that it is hard to keep people out of the foyer.

“If people get into the building, because that can happen if someone opens the door and they grab the door to get in, they could be doing needles in the hallway or get into places and make a mess,” said Schalk. “We know that happens, and I don’t know exactly how to stop that on a permanent basis.”

He said he hopes more people in the building will raise their concerns with what happens so they know what the problems are and they can deal with it.

“If people talk to us, we try to deal with it,” said Schalk. “I can’t tell you we’re solving every problem, but we’re trying to deal with it and address it.”

He said the building has improved over the last six weeks because of the people who have been evicted.

“We’re down to maybe one other person left we think isn’t going to make it. We’re trying to be a little more selective about who goes in there,” said Schalk.

“We’re doing everything we can to make the building safer.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Local agencies are applauding new employment standards that allow family caregivers to take up to eight weeks off from work to care for a loved one without having to worry about losing their jobs.

Alberta became the final province in Canada to offer compassionate care leave within its Employment Standards Code on Feb. 1.

“Albertans are taking on the duty of caring for loved ones more and more because of our growing populations,” said Angeline Webb, a Canadian Cancer Society, Alberta/N.W.T. Division spokesperson.

“Cancer rates are supposed to increase over the next 20 years so this compassionate care leave could not come at a better time. Caregivers are the backbone of the health-care system and they play integral roles, particularly with patients living with lifethreatening illnesses. So we’re happy about that.”

Webb said living with advanced cancer is a tremendous burden for any family and having job protection can alleviate some of the burden and improve the quality of life.

Under the new standards, employees can take up to eight weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave from work, to care for a gravely ill family member. They can return to the same or similar position when they go back to work.

Brenda Watts, Red Deer Hospice Society executive director, said this is a good news from both a family and hospice perspective.

Watts said families are very stressed when they are faced with a hospice situation. She said having job protection will take away one of the stresses that families deal with during a difficult time.

“I think it is important from a hospice perspective to know that when families have a good death experience that it helps with the grief afterwards,” she said. “So for families to be able to spend the time they need, and feel they have been able to without added stress of worrying about their job, can help with the grief journey after the death of a loved one.”

Last December, Edmonton-South West MLA Matt Jeneroux brought the private member’s bill to the floor.

Employees must have worked at least 52 weeks for their employer to be eligible for compassionate care leave.

Six weeks of Employment Insurance benefits are available to some employees for compassionate care. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Frack the rules!

LICENCE DATA SUGGESTS INDUSTRY AN UNREGULATED FREE-FOR-ALL IN ALBERTA: NDP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta New Democrats say newly released documents show fracking has become an unregulated free-for-all in the province with no regard for the impact on groundwater or on people’s health.

NDP Leader Brian Mason presented information Tuesday provided under freedom-of-information laws that shows the number of hydraulic fracturing licences granted by the province soared 647 per cent last year to 1,516.

Mason said the amount of water allocated and used for fracking has increased even faster.

“Most Albertans don’t realize that fracking in Alberta is almost completely unregulated,” he told a legislature news conference.

“And it is increasing on a dramatic scale without any understanding of what the potential consequences will be.”

He said the water loss alone is sobering, with more than 17 million cubic metres used in 2013.

“This is an enormous amount of groundwater. It’s pumped into the ground, it’s polluted by chemicals

and it’s never seen again.”

Fracking blasts pressurized water and chemicals into underlying rocks to release trapped natural gas and oil.

It has changed the game on North American resource extraction in the last decade — fuelling an oil and gas boom in North Dakota and delivering a 15 per cent overall production increase south of the border, according to Alberta government data.

It has also resulted in a backlash from environmentalists and from homeowners who live near fracking sites. Their main concern is polluted groundwater and aquifers.

In Lethbridge, homeowners and city council are fighting an application by Calgary-based Goldenkey Oil to drill three wells using vertical hydraulic fracturing within city limits and within one kilometre of where people live.

The legislature members for Lethbridge — Progressive Conservatives Bridget Pastoor and Greg Weadick — have told residents they are making sure concerns are heard. Mason said they two need to go farther and actively fight the development.

“They’re mealy-mouthed hedging on the whole question.”

Fracking has brought with it controversy in other

provinces. Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Quebec are re-evaluating its benefits versus the consequences of environmental damage.

Mason said it’s too late for a moratorium on fracking in Alberta.

“The horse is kind of out of the barn. It’s a mainstream activity now.”

He suggested Premier Alison Redford’s government should undertake an independent scientific review of hydraulic fracturing and use independent groundwater monitoring before further projects get approved.

Environment Minister Robin Campbell disagreed with Mason. He said in a news release that “Alberta has strict regulations that apply to all oil and gas development regardless of the technology being used.”

Campbell also said concerns of environmental damage have not been borne out.

“To date, there has not been a documented case of hydraulic fracturing fluids contaminating a domestic water well in Alberta. For anybody to claim that the water supply is at risk is completely false,” said Campbell.

“All water licence applications are carefully reviewed to ensure no significant impacts to our environment or other water users.”

Studio, soundstage slated for Calgary

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Alberta Minister of Culture and Community Spirit Heather Klimchuk (left to right), Luke Azevedo and Bruce Graham from Calgary Economic Development attend an event to announce a new film studio in Calgary, Tuesday.

CALGARY — Alberta’s burgeoning film industry is about to get another boost with a new studio and permanent sound stage slated for Calgary.

The $22.8-million studio is scheduled to be running by the summer of 2015, but no location has been announced.

With several series being filmed in the Calgary area now, including Heartland and Fargo based on the 1996 Coen brothers Oscar-nominated movie, the demand for a new facility has never been greater, says Bruce Graham, president and CEO of Calgary Economic Development.

“The creative industries sector in this city and the province has really reached a critical tipping point with terrific growth opportunities and a driving need for these purpose-built facilities,” Graham said.

The studio will feature two sound stages — one 1,800 square metres and the other 2,700 square metres — with the ability to subdivide the larger space.

It will also include warehouse space and space for a workshop.

Alberta’s film, television and digital media industry was responsible for more than $400 million in economic activity over the last five years and 80 per

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Redford $45K bill for Mandela funeral shows contempt for taxpayers: critics EDMONTON — Opposition parties say it’s time for Premier Alison Redford to stop globe-trotting in high style and walk the talk on all Albertans living within their means.

Redford is being heavily criticized for billing taxpayers $45,000 to recently attend the funeral for former South African leader Nelson Mandela.

The Wildrose party says Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil attended the same event and charged taxpayers under $1,000.

Documents released last week revealed that Redford’s communications chief receives up to $1,800 a month in taxpayer-funded air travel.

It comes at a time when Redford has negotiated new contracts with doctors and teachers that include wage freezes and minimal hikes and has also revoked the right of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees to go to binding arbitration in collective bargaining. NDP Leader Brian Mason says the profligate spending shows disrespect to the people who pay the bills.

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EDMONTON — A woman in Edmonton is facing a charge after concerned citizens alerted police about a child left alone in a cold car.

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cent of all production dollars are spent in the southern part of the province.

“Fargo is being filmed as we speak and we know every time you get series being filmed that’s the magic,” said Alberta Culture Minister Heather Klimchuk.

“We have four series happening right now in Alberta. I also know there’s many more on the table so we know the timing is absolutely critical right now to get this done.”

The Alberta government chipped in $5 million toward the development of the film studio.

Industry equipment maker William F. White International will be the anchor tenant and will act as the sound stage operator.

“I think this is the most underused jurisdiction in Canada,” said Paul Roscorla, executive vice-president and chief operating officer.

“You can’t do a TV series without a studio. ’Heartland’ has had to move their show three or four times and every time they move, it costs them at least $250,000,” he said.

“You can’t expect an American producer, any producer, to keep incurring that cost, so we need a home for people like Heartland.”

Some to the notable films shot in Alberta include Unforgiven, Legends of the Fall, Brokeback Mountain, Inception and The Bourne Legacy.

Monday evening after some people noticed a child as young as two who had been left in the vehicle.

The car hadn’t been running for about half an hour and the temperature at the time was -17 C. Paramedics removed the youngster, who was cold but appeared to be fine. A woman believed to be the mother has been charged under Alberta’s Child, Youth and Family Act with causing a child to be in need of intervention.

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A4 Geo-engineering hope remains

Confession is good for the soul, and my soul is certainly in need of improvement, so here is a confession: I got it wrong in my article Geoengineering appears in trouble, in the Advocate on Jan. 18. I couldn’t be happier about that.

The article said that a new scientific study, carried out by Angus Ferraro, Ellie Highwood GWYNNE and Andrew DYER Charlton-Perez of Reading University, showed that the most widely discussed geo-engineering method for holding the global temperature down would have disastrous consequences for agriculture. The method is injecting sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere; the (unintended) result would be devastating drought in the tropics.

The idea of using sulphate aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect back some incoming sunlight, thus lowering surface temperatures on Earth, has been the leading contender for a geo-

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engineering solution to runaway heating since the whole subject came out of the closet eight years ago.

And then along come Ferraro et al. (as the scientists put it) to tell us that the side-effects will be disastrous.

Thanks, guys.

So I ended the article by saying: “The sulphur dioxide technique was the cheapest and seemingly the best understood option for holding the temperature down. A great many people were glad that it was there, as a kind of safety net if we really don’t get our act together in time to halt the warming by less intrusive means. Now there’s no safety net.”

Almost immediately I got an email from Andy Parker, now a research fellow in the Kennedy School at Harvard University and previously a climate change policy advisor for the Royal Society in the United Kingdom. You’ve been suckered by the publicity flacks at Reading University, he said (though in kinder words). They have spun the research findings for maximum shock value. In other words, read the damn thing before you write about it.

Well, actually, I did read it (it’s available online), but the conclusions are couched in the usual sciencespeak, with a resolute avoidance of anything that might look like interpretation for the general public. I didn’t

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look long enough at the key graph that undercuts the dire conclusions of the publicists, presumably because I had already been conditioned by them to see something else there.

Drastic consequences would indeed ensue if you tried to geo-engineer a four-degrees C warmer world all the way back down to the pre-industrial average global temperature by putting sulphate aerosols in the stratosphere.

But nobody in their right mind would try to do that.

On the other hand, if you were using sulphates to hold the temperature down to plus 1.8 degrees C, in a world where the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere would otherwise give you plus four degrees C, then the effect on tropical rainfall would be small.

And that is a far likelier scenario, because we are most unlikely to resort to large-scale geo-engineering until we are right at the threshold (around plus two degrees C) of runaway warming.

So the correct conclusion to draw from Ferrero et al. is that geo-engineering with sulphates is still one of the more promising techniques for holding the temperature down, and should be investigated further. As Parker put it, “this does not tell us that we should do geo-engineering, but it does mean that the paper is a long way from being the nail in the coffin that

the press release implies.”

And then I got another email, this time from my old friend Amory Lovins, co-founder and chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, who took me to task for assuming that human greenhouse gas emissions “probably will not drop” fast enough to prevent us from going into runaway warning (unless we geo-engineer) later this century.

He pointed out how strongly China is committed to clean energy. Last year, renewables (including hydro electricity) accounted for 43 per cent of new generating capacity in China, as the extra coal plants ordered long ago taper sharply down. India is showing signs of moving in the same direction, and there’s even hope that Japan may decide to replace all the nuclear capacity it is shutting down with renewables rather than coal.

So I shouldn’t be so pessimistic, they were both telling me. I believe Parker is right and I hope Lovins is right, too.

But just in case Lovins is a bit off in the timing of all these turn-arounds on greenhouse gas emissions in Asia, I would still like to see a lot of research, including small-scale experiments in the open atmosphere, on the various techniques for geo-engineering.

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

Laying blame on a rodent for our weather Those who think their jobs are stressful, try being a groundhog. After weeks of bitter winter, eyes across North America were trained on a number of groundhogs emerging Sunday from their dens on Groundhog Day to predict what’s in store for the next few weeks.

A couple of groundhogs were understandably nervous when they saw their shadows, meaning six more weeks of winter. But don’t shoot the messengers — it’s a dirty job, but somebody’s gotta do it.

Groundhog Wiarton Willie from Wiarton, Ont., posted this on Twitter on Sunday: RICK “Oh dear, not sure you want to ZEMANEK hear this, but. ... ” Willie saw his shadow.

So did Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania. An angry Jay Charlie responded to Phil’s bad news over the Internet, tweeting: “I’d just like to take a moment to say (expletive) you to Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog.”

Leesa Harwood tweeted: “Tell us it ain’t so Phil.”

Phil has good reason to be stressed-out. Last year, he botched his prediction for an early spring and a prosecutor filed a criminal indictment against the fur-ball for lying. While Phil was upbeat in his prediction, there was still more than a foot of snow the first day of spring in many parts of the northeastern U.S. Wiarton Willie also missed the mark in 2013, and winter raged on despite not seeing his shadow — meaning an early spring was inevitable.

But the town defended Willie and said it was not considering criminal charges for lying. “No one can dispute that Wiarton Willie has had a challenging year in 2013,” the town said in a statement.

“Just two weeks ago spring was definitely in the air.

Then, storms from the States surged across Canada.

Although Wiarton Willie made a valiant attempt at keeping winter at bay, he couldn’t stop the inevitable.”

The town last year was bold enough to blame Phil for messing up Willie’s prediction, for failing to forecast U.S. storms that blew north to Canada.

Wiarton Mayor John Close told the media there were no death threats against Willie and no threat of legal action.

This year’s predictions have been equally controversial, exposing a communication gap between

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Rights to save seed threatened I would like to inform your readers of a public meeting to be held at Bluffton Hall on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. The meeting will present information on the threat posed to farmers and growers by the federal Omnibus Bill C-18 currently before Parliament. An integral part of this legislation would be adoption of UPOV ’91, which would speed the demise of the long-established and successful public plant breeding system in Canada in favour of a privatized, corporate controlled model.

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groundhogs. While Willie and Phil saw their shadows, two other groundhogs elsewhere in Canada did not, calling for an early spring. “No shadow! I repeat, No shadow!” the jubilant Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie Sam tweeted early Sunday morning.

And groundhog watchers in Manitoba are rejoicing. Winnipeg Willow did not see her shadow as well.

Willow’s handlers at the Prairie Wildlife Centre say Manitobans “can expect a warm transition into springtime after a record-breaking frosty winter.”

Backing Willow’s prediction, Merv the groundhog at Manitoba’s Oak Hammock Marsh agrees spring will be early.

Meanwhile, Environment Canada cautions that we need to be leery of groundhog predictions.

Legend has it that groundhogs emerging from their dens on Feb. 2 have an uncanny sense of telling what’s in store for the rest of winter. Senior climatologist David Phillips makes his own predictions.

While admitting Canadians can be forgiven for seeking hope from a groundhog, since the country has been gripped in near-historic low temperatures for months, winter is here for a few more weeks.

“I wish there was always a certain allotment of winter days. If that was the case, we would have used them all up (by now) and we’d be nicely coasting to-

wards a warmer than normal spring,” said Phillips.

“Well, that’s not the case. This looks like a continuation of what we’ve seen for several weeks now.”

Chris Scott, chief meteorologist with the Weather Network, also as little faith in groundhog-predictions, telling Canadians to take the findings “with a grain of salt.”

“I think we’re being overly optimistic when we look at the groundhog and say, ‘Please, give us a sign of spring.’ We don’t see that on the horizon,” said Scott.

The first documented North American reference to Groundhog Day was on Feb. 4, 1841, by storekeeper James Morris of Morgantown, Pa. German settlers there established the tradition based on the shadow theory.

It eventually evolved into a time to party and forget winter, as the timeless and hilarious 1993 movie Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray, aptly portrayed.

Who really cares if the groundhogs are accurate in their predictions?

Groundhog Day is meant for comedic relief in coping with winter that challenges our patience.

Laughter is a cure-all. We sure need it this winter.

A farmers right to retain and use seed from a crop he has grown on his own land would be removed. He would instead be granted a mere privilege to retain and use the seed — a privilege that could be withdrawn by government at any time without any public consultation.

This would force farmers to buy new seed every year, which in itself would increase their input costs, but coupled with the reduced seed supply this would allow seed companies to increase prices exponentially. We only have to look to the canola sector where patented seed for the glyphosate tolerant (RR) varieties costs over $500 a bushel compared to a farmer’s selling price of canola of around $10 a bushel. By comparison, barley seed typically costs $8 a bushel yet the farmer can get around $4 for selling

the barley he produces from that seed. No wonder the seed companies are lobbying to bring about these changes!

The new legislation, if passed, would not only affect the grain and oilseed sector but would extend to all seed including forages. A farmer or rancher seeding timothy or alfalfa could potentially be charged an “end-point royalty” by the seed company every time he harvests a hay crop.

If these proposed changes concern you or you want to find out more, I urge you to attend our meeting. Although this meeting is being organized by the National Farmers Union, it is open to everyone from farmers to consumers.

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Disgraced senators charged MAC HARB, PATRICK BRAZEAU ACCUSED OF FRAUD, BREACH OF TRUST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Mac Harb and Patrick Brazeau have been charged with fraud and breach of trust — the first criminal charges to emanate from the Senate expenses scandal but likely not the last.

Harb, a former Liberal senator who resigned from the upper house last summer, and Brazeau, a former Conservative senator who was suspended from the Senate last fall, face one count each of fraud and breach of trust in relation to their travel and living expense claims, the RCMP said Tuesday.

The Mounties continue to investigate allegedly fraudulent expenses claimed by suspended senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin.

They are also investigating Nigel

Wright, who was Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff when he personally gave Duffy $90,000 to reimburse the Senate for disputed living expenses.

Assistant commissioner Gilles Michaud, the commanding officer of the RCMP’s national division, said each case is unique and the time taken to complete each investigation depends on a variety of factors.

“National division has undertaken these files with diligence and professionalism,” Michaud told a packed news conference in Ottawa.

“I can assure you that we continue our work on other significant files.

RCMP investigators continue to explore multiple leads, to ascertain all the facts and collect the evidence in support of these facts.”

Given the explosive political nature of the investigations, Michaud took

Elections law changes would register robocalls, raise spending caps

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government is introducing legislation to toughen up parts of Canada’s election law, while loosening the rules that govern political donations and party spending.

The bill includes a mandatory public registry for automated election calls and jail time for anyone convicted of impersonating an elections official, said Pierre Poilievre, the junior minister in charge of democratic reform.

“It closes loopholes to big money, imposes new penalties on political impostors who make rogue calls and empowers law enforcement with sharper teeth, a longer reach and a freer hand,” Poilievre said.

The legislation would move the office of the commissioner of elections under the mantle of the public prosecutor’s office. The commissioner is responsible for enforcing the elections law.

Yves Cote, the incumbent commissioner, has more than five years left in his term.

In future, the commissioner would be appointed by the director of public prosecutions to a non-renewable, seven-year term. And the legislation bars former political candidates, political party employees, ministerial or MP staffers or employees of Elections Can-

ada from being named commissioner.

The changes would also raise the individual political donation limit to $1,500 from $1,200 and increase party spending limits by five per cent. Union and corporate donations are still banned.

The legislation would also tighten ID requirements for voters. Having someone vouch for another’s identity at the polling place will no longer be permitted. And it would also lift a long-standing ban on the premature transmission of election results, allowing voters in Western Canada to know what’s happening before going to the polls.

Poilievre said the bill will make laws stricter, but also easier to follow.

“The Fair Elections Act will ensure everyday citizens are in charge of democracy by putting special interests on the sidelines and rule-breakers out of business.”

NDP critic Craig Scott, who responded immediately after Poilievre’s news conference, said the legislation demands a close examination.

“Do we trust this government without reading every word as carefully as possible?” Scott said. “We have to see exactly what the wording is.”

Scott said he fears the bill may be salted with obscure provisions that would serve to help the Conservatives in the next election.

pains to emphasize that his division was created in 2013 specifically to carry out “sensitive investigations into significant threats to Canada’s political, economic and social integrity.”

During the course of its investigation of Harb, the RCMP at one point alleged in court documents that the former senator had engaged in mortgage fraud. However, Michaud said the force ultimately concluded the evidence did not support those allegations.

Tuesday’s charges stem from allegations that Harb declared two largely unused country homes as his primary residences, allowing him to claim a Senate housing allowance and living expenses for his supposed secondary residence in Ottawa — where he had lived for years prior to his 2003 appointment to the Senate and where he continued to spend most of his time.

Although he has always denied any wrongdoing, Harb repaid the Senate $231,649.07.

Harb’s lawyer, Sean May, said the former senator and one-time MP will defend himself “vigorously.”

“He’ll be pleading not guilty and maintaining his innocence and taking the matter to trial,” May said in an interview, predicting that the trial is “a year or more away.”

The Mounties allege that Brazeau fraudulently claimed his father’s home in Maniwaki, Que., as his primary residence, although he was rarely seen there and lived primarily just across the river from Ottawa in Gatineau, Que. Brazeau had no immediate comment. But, like Harb, he has maintained that he did nothing wrong and was tripped up by ambiguous Senate rules.

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cluded using Jeffrey’s story as a case study for training children’s aid workers, implementing better information sharing across agencies involved with child protection and starting a public awareness campaign about people’s duty to report suspected child abuse or neglect — can help prevent deaths like Jeffrey’s in the future, Witkin said.

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Agencies can learn from starved boy’s tragic death, inquest told TORONTO — A five-year-old boy who starved to death in his grandparents’ Toronto home didn’t just slip through one crack, but through a whole institutional safety net, lawyers at a coroner’s inquest suggested Tuesday.

The jury at the inquest into the death of five-year-old Jeffrey Baldwin heard dozens of proposed recommendations aimed at various ministries and agencies during closing submissions.

The suggestions, which the jury can choose whether to adopt as part of its verdict, pointed to more than just one reason that Jeffrey died severely malnourished, unable to lift his own head, locked in a cold, putrid bedroom.

Rather, they indicate a constellation of institutional and personal failures.

“Jeffrey Baldwin received far more attention after his death than he ever did in his life,” said coroner’s counsel Jill Witkin as she presented 74 recommendations jointly suggested by various groups with standing at the inquest.

“Tragically, as you know, he was not given the freedom and opportunities that children in our society deserve.

He died as a child neglected by his caregivers and shielded from the organizations out there that could protect him.”

The recommendations — which in-

Groups petition Ottawa to spare foreign aid in upcoming budget

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TORONTO — A crusading farmer and his supporters are taking their self-professed right to drink unpasteurized milk, which the government calls a “significant public health risk,” to Ontario’s top court this week.

Raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt is arguing that by making the sale and distribution of unpasteurized milk illegal, the province is infringing on both his and his customers’ basic freedoms.

The charter includes “the right of individuals to make decisions pertaining to their own bodies and their own health,” Schmidt’s lawyers write in arguments filed with Ontario’s Appeal Court.

“The appellant’s long-standing efforts to make unpasteurized milk available to non-farmers have been an important and fundamental life choice, having demonstrably profound psychological, economic, social and ethical consequences for him.”

But the province doesn’t see it that way. The law is meant to protect public health and infringes neither Schmidt’s nor his customers’ charter rights, the government argues.

“Consumers of unpasteurized milk do not have a liberty or security of the person ’right’ to consume unpasteurized milk,” government lawyers say in their written arguments.

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In 2012, the Conservatives announced they were cutting almost $380 million, or 7.5 per cent, from Canada’s $5.3-billion annual aid budget. That included $290 million in unspent funds that were returned to the treasury.

The government didn’t make any further cuts in last year’s budget, but it did merge the work of the Canadian International Development Agency with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

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A coalition of non-governmental organizations, including the Canadian chapter of Engineers Without Frontiers and the Canadian Council for International Co-operation, has launched an online petition urging the government to spare foreign aid.

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IOC upset Olympics used as a stage for political dissent

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOCHI, Russia — Stroking a Persian leopard sprawled on his lap, tough-guy President Vladimir Putin showed his softer side Tuesday as he prepared to welcome the world to his budget-busting Winter Olympics.

Basking in the glow of support from International Olympic Committee Chairman Thomas Bach, Putin began his stay at the Sochi Games by promoting a cuddly image, visiting a group of endangered Persian leopard cubs born last summer in the mountains above the Black Sea resort.

“We’ve decided to restore the population of the Persian leopard because of the Olympic Games,” Putin said. “Let’s say that because of the Olympic Games, we have restored parts of the destroyed nature.”

Putin entered the cage and petted the leopard on the head. “We liked each other,” he said.

Some journalists accompanying him weren’t so lucky. They apparently upset the big cat, which scratched one of them on the hand and bit another on the knee, Russian news agencies reported.

In Putin’s presence later, Bach used an IOC gathering to criticize politicians for attacking the Sochi Olympics “on the backs of the athletes” and to slam world leaders who snubbed the games. He said sports should not be “used as a stage for political

Hunt on for shadowy Iraqi terrorist leader

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — He has commanded a relentless bombing campaign against Iraqi civilians, orchestrated audacious jailbreaks of fellow militants and expanded his hard-line Islamist organization’s reach deep into neighbouring Syria.

While his may not be a household name, the shadowy figure known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has emerged as one of the world’s most lethal terrorist leaders. He is a renegade within al-Qaida whose maverick streak eventually led its central command to sever ties, deepening a rivalry between his organization and the global terror network.

Al-Baghdadi’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is the main driver of destabilizing Abu Bakr violence in Iraq and until re- al-Baghdadi cently was the main al-Qaida affiliate there. Al-Qaida’s general command formally disavowed the group this week, saying it “is not responsible for its actions.”

Al-Baghdadi took over leadership of al-Qaida’s main Iraq franchise following a joint U.S.-Iraqi raid in April 2010 that killed the terror group’s two top figures inside Iraq at their safe house near Tikrit, once Saddam Hussein’s hometown. Vice-President Joe Biden at the time called the killings of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri a “potentially devastating blow” to al-Qaida in Iraq.

But as in the past, al-Qaida in Iraq has proved resilient. Under al-Baghdadi’s leadership, it has come roaring back stronger than it was before he took over.

The man now known as al-Baghdadi was born in Samarra, about 95 kilometres north of Baghdad, in 1971, according to a United Nations sanctions list.

That would make him 42 or 43 years old.

Al-Baghdadi is a nom de guerre for a man identified as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai. The U.S. is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to his death or capture.

He is believed to have been operating from inside Syria in recent months, though his current whereabouts aren’t known. Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan Ibrahim said authorities believe he was in Iraq’s Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad, as recently as three weeks ago, but he moves around frequently so as not to be captured.

What little else that is known publicly about alBaghdadi comes from a brief biography posted in July to online jihadist forums.

According to that account, al-Baghdadi is a married preacher who earned a doctorate from Baghdad’s Islamic University. The biography linked him to several prominent tribes and said he comes from a religious family, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist sites.

He rose to prominence as a proponent of the Salafi jihadi movement, which advocates “holy war” to bring about a strict version of Shariah law, in Samarra and the nearby Diyala province.

The biography linked him to Samarra’s mosque of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal, which according to one resident, speaking anonymously for fear of retribution, was a key hub for al-Qaida decision-making in 2005 and 2006.

Samarra, like Diyala a hotbed for al-Qaida activity, was the scene of the 2006 bombing of the Shiite al-Askari shrine. That attack was blamed on al-Qaida and set off years of retaliatory bloodshed between Sunni and Shiite extremists.

Al-Baghdadi’s leadership of the Iraqi al-Qaida operation coincided with the final year and a half of the American military presence in Iraq. The U.S. withdrawal in December 2011 left Iraq with a precarious security vacuum that he was able to exploit.

“Al-Baghdadi has managed a remarkable recovery and re-growth in Iraq and expansion into Syria.

In so doing, Baghdadi has become somewhat of a celebrity figure within the global jihadist community,” said Charles Lister, an analyst at the Brookings Doha Center.

dissent or for trying to score points in internal or external political contests.”

Without naming any individuals, Bach’s comments appeared directed at President Barack Obama and European politicians who have taken stands against Russia’s law banning gay “propaganda” among minors.

“People have a very good understanding of what it really means to single out the Olympic Games to make an ostentatious gesture which allegedly costs nothing but produces international headlines,” said Bach, a German lawyer and Olympic gold medal winner.

The buildup to the Olympics has been overshadowed by Western criticism of the anti-gay law and Russia’s record on human rights and other issues, making Sochi among the most politically charged games in years.

Obama and key European leaders are shunning the Olympics. Obama, in a clear message against the anti-gay laws, has sent a delegation to Sochi made up of three openly gay athletes — tennis great Billie Jean King, 2006 Olympic hockey medallist Caitlin Cahow, and figure skater Brian Boitano.

Speaking to the same IOC meeting, Putin said nothing about the hard issues confronting the Sochi Games — cost overruns, unfinished hotels and an uproar in some countries over gay rights.

But he boasted that Russia had undertaken the monumental effort of starting from scratch in Sochi

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Russian President Vladimir Putin pets a snow leopard cub at the snow leopard sanctuary in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Tuesday. and completing the needed construction in a short time, something he said it took other countries decades to prepare.

“We realize what a difficult decision this was to hold the games in a city that barely had 10 to 15 per cent of the necessary infrastructure,” Putin told the IOC. “You believed in us, you believed in the Russian character which can overcome all difficulties.”

Sea survivor’s family thought he was dead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GARITA PALMERA, El Salvador — A Salvadoran fisherman’s account of his survival after more than 13 months and about 6,500 miles in an open boat has proved a double miracle for his mother and father, who lost touch with him eight years ago and thought he was dead.

Comments by Jose Salvador Alvarenga’s joyful, sometimes tearful parents about their son may help explain how he survived, but they did little to dispel continued doubts about his tale.

His father, Jose Ricardo Orellana, 65, who owns a store and flour mill in the seaside Salvadoran town of Garita Palmera, described a strong, stocky young man who went to sea at age 14. “The sea was his thing,” Orellana said.

His mother, Maria Julia Alvarenga, 59, broke into tears after recounting a phone call with her son from the Marshall Islands. He told her he was well, staying at a hotel and getting food and medicine — but told his mother he didn’t know where he was.

“We hadn’t heard from him for eight years, we thought he was dead already,” said Alvarenga. “This is a miracle, glory to God.” Alvarenga’s 14-year-old daughter, Fatima, said she didn’t remember ever seeing her father, who left

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Convicted U.S. killer captured after prison escape IONIA, Mich. — A convicted killer captured in a stolen car after a daring one-day escape from a

El Salvador when she was just over a year old.

“I’m so very happy to know he’s alive,” said Fatima. “He’s alive and I’m going to see him.”

The parents said he was known in his hometown as “Cirilo,” a nickname that coincides with the first name of a man registered as missing with civil defence officials in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. The civil defence office said a small fishing boat carrying two men, named Cirilo Vargas and Ezequiel Cordoba, disappeared during bad weather on Nov. 17, 2012, and that no trace of them or the craft was found despite an intense two-week search.

Alvarenga said his fellow fisherman, who he identified only with the first name of Ezequiel, died after about a month at sea and he tossed his body overboard. Alvarenga said he survived on raw fish, birds, bird blood and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands atoll of Ebon, 6,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean from the fishing hamlet of Costa Azul, Mexico, where he set out.

There was no immediate explanation of the discrepancy in dates given by Alvarenga and Mexican authorities or the survivor’s different names. Alvarenga said he set sail on Dec. 21, 2012, but fisherman in the Chiapas hamlet of Costa Azul said an overweight Central American man known as “La Chancha,” or “the pig,” had been lost since November 2012. Alvarenga may have used multiple nicknames, and seems fuzzy about details of his voyage. prison has been charged with kidnapping and other crimes, officials said Tuesday.

The charges were filed in Michigan while police were hunting for Michael David Elliot, who was arrested Monday night in Indiana, more than 240 kilometres from the Ionia Correctional Facility.

Elliot, 40, was charged with escape, kidnapping and carjacking, according to the Ionia County District Court. He is accused of escaping through two prison fences Sunday night and then stealing a Jeep with a woman inside while armed with a box cutter.

The woman escaped when they stopped for gas.

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Chamber promoting farm sector TO SHOWCASE TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AT FEB. 18 EVENT

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Sometimes lost in the shadow of Alberta’s drilling rigs and pumpjacks are the province’s crops and livestock.

The Red Deer Chamber of Commerce wants to change this.

It’s agriculture and environmental policy committee is planning to showcase some of the technology and innovation in the agricultural sector at a Feb. 18 event in Red Deer.

Among the presenters will

be Rob Saik, president and CEO of the Agri-Trend Group of Companies. He’ll discuss how agriculture is likely to be shaped by technology — from robotics to artificial intelligence.

Also speaking will be Chris Thrall, president and CEO of BioRefinex Canada Inc. Thrall will describe his company’s plans to use thermal hydrolysis to convert organic waste and animal byproducts into renewable energy and organic fertilizer — technology that it plans to demonstrate at a proposed

$37-million plant in Lacombe.

Trevor Nickel, general manager of Himark BioGas Inc., will talk about the Growing Power Hairy Hill project north of Vegreville.

There, raw biomass products like municipal solid waste are processed into fuel, power and fertilizer.

And sharing his insights into aquaponics, and the benefits that come from integrating fish and plant production into the one operation, will be Nick Savadov, a research scientist in the bio-industrial op-

portunities branch of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development.

Finally, author Cami Ryan will discuss how “mythological rhetoric” about issues like genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can undermine the pursuit of objectives like food security and innovation.

Richard Bradford, chair of the Chamber’s agriculture and environmental policy committee, said agriculture and agribusiness will become increasingly important as the world’s population grows and its reliance on Canada as a source of

food increases.

“When we look at what it’s going to take to feed the world down the road, it means we’ve got to learn how to manage our resources effectively and preserve them,” said Bradford, adding that technology and innovation are keys to meeting these challenges.

He said the Chamber’s agriculture and environmental policy committee’s mandate includes policy development and education.

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Canada’s Ambassador to the U.S. Gary Doer, second right, stands with Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., second left, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., left, and American Petroleum Institute (API) President and CEO Jack N. Gerard, right, in Washington, Tuesday, regarding the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Unusual U.S. coalition backs Keystone pipeline DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, LABOUR, BUSINESS JOIN FORCES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — An unusual coalition that includes Republicans, Democrats, labour leaders, business leaders, veterans groups and Canada’s ambassador to the United States joined forces Tuesday to push for quick approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Five Democrats joined Republicans at a news conference to urge President Barack Obama to approve the pipeline following a State Department report last week that raised no major environmental objections.

The $7 billion pipeline would carry oilsands bitumen from the oilsands in western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast. The project has lingered for more than five years and has become a symbol of the political debate over climate change.

Canadian Ambassador Gary Doer also spoke at the news conference, along with labour union officials and a retired Navy admiral.

Environmental groups that oppose the pipeline have been making a lot of “noise,” Doer said, but polls show most Americans remain in favour of the project.

Pipeline opponents, including many Democratic lawmakers, say the pipeline would carry heavy oil that contributes to global warm-

ing. They also worry about a spill.

Doer urged Obama to “choose blue-collar workers over Hollywood celebrities” and accept crude oil from Canada — the closest U.S ally — over oil from Venezuela. Robert Redford and Daryl Hannah are among scores of celebrities that have spoken out against the pipeline.

Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Democrat from Louisiana, said the time to build the pipeline “is now,” adding that pipelines are safer and more environmentally friendly than oil that is transported by trains or trucks.

Keystone XL, proposed by Calgary-based TransCanada Corp.

(TSX:TRP), not only would create jobs and boost her state’s economy, it also would “connect two of the strongest allies in the world,” Landrieu said.

“I would swap Canada for Venezuela any day of the week and twice on Sunday,” added Representative John Barrow, a Georgia Democrat, and another pipeline supporter.

A report released Friday by the State Department cited no major environmental objections to the 1,179-mile pipeline (1,897 kilometres). It would carry oil through Montana and South Dakota to a hub in Nebraska, where it would connect with existing pipelines to get the oil to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Pipeline supporters say it will create thousands of jobs and move the U.S. toward North American energy independence.

Foes say the pipeline would carry “dirty oil” that contributes to global warming.

The State Department report says oil derived from oilsands in Alberta generates about 17 per cent more greenhouse gas emissions than traditional crude.

But the report makes clear that other methods of transporting the oil — including rail, trucks and barges — would release more greenhouse gases than the pipeline.

Joining Landrieu and Barrow at the news conference Tuesday were Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Landrieu and Pryor face re-election this year in energy-producing states where the pipeline is popular and Obama is not.

Republican Mitt Romney easily carried Louisiana and Arkansas in the 2012 presidential election.

Landrieu, who is expected to become chairwoman of the Senate Energy Committee later this month, said she is “open to whatever needs to be done” to approve the pipeline, including use of the project as a bargaining chip with Republicans in upcoming talks over raising the federal debt limit.

EcoLiving Fair + Workshops and Seedy Saturday returns to Red Deer on March 1, with Green Drinks added for good measure.

First held last April, EcoLiving Fair + Workshops and Seedy Saturday are intended to raise the public’s awareness about ways they can reduce their impact on the earth.

“The whole idea of the event is to showcase sustainable living, green technology and be environmentally friendly,” said Rene Michalak, project lead with ReThink Red Deer, which is organizing the event.

Exhibitors will demonstrate green products and services, and workshops will provide information about topics like urban homesteading, eco-friendly building, alternative energy and zero-waste practices.

“We’re crowdsourcing the desired workshop topics and then we’ll either use the workshops that the exhibitors put forward, or we’ll go out and find additional presenters to ask them if they’d be willing to do it for a free booth.”

In fact, any exhibitor

that delivers a 45-minute “green-living” workshop will be excused from paying an exhibit fee.

Otherwise, the cost is $100 in the case of forprofit organizations and a “pay-what-you-can” contribution from nonprofit entities.

Seed distributors taking part in the event will pay $30, and the cost for attendees to participate in the workshops is $5 for one or $20 for all.

Michalak said it’s important to bring greenminded businesses, organizations and individuals together.

“The more info we share, the more ideas we present and the more aware people become of the fact that the Canadian Federation of Independent Business ranked us fourth in the country for entrepreneurial activity — it’s a hotspot for innovation and an opportunity to start new businesses in this theme.”

Green businesses are more common in Calgary and Edmonton, simply because of the larger populations in those cities, said Michalak.

“I do think it is building momentum in Central Alberta and it’s just a matter of how many people are awake and aware of why these types of businesses are important.”

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Red Deer ranked fifth in adult toy sales Sex toy capital of Canada?

Not quite, but Red Deer shouldn’t be embarrassed by its ranking among Canadian cities when it comes to purchases of adult toys — or perhaps it should, depending on your point of view.

In a list issued by PinkCherry Sex Toys Canada, Red Deer held down the number 5 spot when it came to the online retailer’s most common delivery destinations. The rankings were based on PinkCherry’s sales per capita in 2013, with its products including adult novelty items and lingerie.

Topping the 25-city list was Victoria, followed by Grande Prairie and then the New Brunswick communities of Fredericton and Moncton. Medicine Hat trailed Red Deer at number 6, with Lethbridge 10th, Edmonton 11th and Calgary 15th.

Based in Oakville, Ont., PinkCherry is a division of TBMBM Inc. It has Canadian and American online stores, as well as a wholesale division.

Re-balancing: you and your portfolio may need it

PATRICK O’MEARA

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It’s the beginning of a new year and hopefully 2014 will be better than 2013, both for you and your portfolio.

This is not to say that 2013 was a bad year to be in the markets.

In fact, it was probably one of the best years in recent memory, thanks in part to the great rotation of cash into bonds and stocks.

As the “good times” in the financial asset markets return we all need to keep locked away

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in our financial memories the lessons of the 2008-09 financial crash which, at least on paper, wiped out billions, perhaps trillions, of dollars in wealth.

It is very tempting for us to look at markets or sectors of the markets that have vastly outperformed Canadian equity markets and think, “Hey, I want a piece of the action!”

Herein lies the challenge to our individual and collective financial futures.

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We tend to focus on the winners, ignoring the oftenunseen potential of individuals, investments, or for that matter sports teams, that are currently not showing a hint of performance.

Witness the Toronto Maple Leafs a perennial loser in the race for Lord Stanley’s Cup, but reversion to the mean tells us that eventually losers become winners and those now winning will revert to a more normal pat-

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tern of winning and losing.

Go Leafs!

The same is true of investment assets.

Those securities that have been high flyers will eventually produce more normal returns.

So buying stocks, bonds, ETFs or mutual funds that have performed well in the past may not be the best strategy.

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BUBBLE: Example of reversion While I admit that my example of the Leafs might not be a popular or even good example of reversion to the mean, the 1999-2000 tech bubble, and its effects on stock market performance, is an excellent example of reversion to the mean.

So how should one approach investing his or her 2013 registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) or tax-free savings account (TFSA) contributions?

First, start by shunning the urge to invest in that which was hot last year.

This can be done easily by simply choosing an appropriate long-term weighting between cash, bonds and stocks in your investment accounts, and then re-balancing your portfolio at least annually.

An example should help us to better understand how re-balancing works.

Let’s assume that you have accumulated $10,000 in a TFSA, and that you want to maintain over the long term an asset allocation of 50 per cent bonds and 50 per cent stock.

If your bond investments rose by five per cent and your stock investments by 20 per cent, excluding interest or dividend payments, your TFSA would now be valued at $11,250 — growth of 12.5 per cent.

Most investors would certainly think that this was a great return on investment.

However, the problem is that now your asset allocation is out of alignment with your long-term objective of 50 per cent stocks and 50 per cent bonds. Your TFSA is now weighted 47 per cent bonds and 53 per cent stocks.

This might not seem to be a serious problem over a period of a year or two, but unchecked over the long term, growth in a single asset class can lead to very substantial over-weightings in an investment account.

This could result in potentially higher losses if the over-weighted asset class drops in value.

One solution is to regularly rebalance your portfolio, perhaps annually.

Re-balancing is the process of selling a proportion of investments that have risen in value so that your investment portfolio is re-balanced to its proper long-term asset allocation.

In our example, we would need to re-balance the TFSA so that $5,625 was held in bonds and $5,625 was invested in equities.

To re-balance, we would sell $375 of equity and invest the proceeds in bonds.

Yes, I know what you are thinking. “What, you want me to sell winners in my TFSA?” The answer is yes.

Winners can eventually become losers through reversion to the mean. And the goal of rational investors is to maximize wealth over the long term while minimizing risk.

So resist the temptation to keep last year’s winners, and rebalance your portfolio.

Re-balancing has two other important benefits.

First, it forces you and your account manager to think about new investments that should added and ask the critical question, “Does the current asset weighting make sense for my circumstances?”

Second, by cashing in current winners and investing in potential future winners, rebalancing can reduce your average cost through effective dollar cost averaging.

So take hold of your financial future in the next few weeks. A great way to start is to ask, “Do I need to re-balance my investment mix?”

Remember you are in control of your financial future.

Easy Money is written by Patrick O’Meara, a former instructor at Red Deer College’s Donald School of Business, who is now chair of finance and accounting programs at Centennial College in Toronto. He can be reached at theinnovativescholar@gmail.com.

EVENT: Chamber supports farming sector interests The Feb. 18 event will help it fulfil its obligations with respect to the latter.

“The other thing that we’re trying to do is send a clear message to the agricultural community — farmers and processors and agri-business — that the Chamber is really there to support their business interest.”

Bradford praised the Chamber’s board and its executive director Tim Creedon for supporting this initiative.

He said to his knowledge, no other chamber in Canada has sought to become a common voice for agriculture.

The Chamber’s agriculture and environmental policy committee includes the likes of Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen, Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency president and CEO Gordon Cove, Alberta Beef Producers chair Doug Sawyer, and former Alberta Milk chairman and Canadian Dairy Commission commissioner Hennie Bos. “I feel absolutely blessed to be working with people of this calibre,” said Bradford.

Entitled Technology & Innovation — Key to Competitive Advantage in Agri-Business, the Chamber event will take place at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel, with registration at 12:30 p.m. and presentations starting at 1 and continuing until 5 p.m. Cost to attend is $35 for Chamber members and $45 for nonmembers.

For more information or to register, go to the Chamber website at www.reddeerchamber.com or contact Shelley Hanlan at the Chamber office at 403347-4491. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

FAIR: Some new features this year New this year will be Green Drinks Red Deer, where exhibitors and show-goers will be able to get together in a social setting after the fair.

“It’s been successful in Edmonton and Calgary for encouraging that type of economic development to bring those professionals together and network,” said Michalak.

The fair will also mark the launch of a community seed bank for Central Alberta.

EcoLiving Fair + Workshops and Seedy Saturday will run from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Cenovus Learning Common area of Red Deer College.

Michalak said a presenting sponsor for the event has been tentatively confirmed, but a marketplace sponsorship is still available at a cost of $500.

The deadline for exhibitors to register is Feb. 14.

For more information, go to www.rethinkreddeer. ca/events/2014/03/01. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Facebook.com founder Mark Zuckerberg smiling at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. On Tuesday, Facebook celebrated 10 years since Zuckerberg created a website called Thefacebook.com to let his classmates find their friends online.

Facebook turns 10 BORN IN A DORM ROOM, EYEING WORLD DOMINANCE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — It has been 10 years since a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg created a website called Thefacebook.com to let his classmates find their friends online.

They did. And in the decade since, so have more than a billion people, not just American college students but also farmers in India, activists in Egypt and pop stars in South Korea.

Facebook has transformed how much of the world communicates.

Zuckerberg’s insistence that people use real identities, not quirky screen names, helped blur, if not erase entirely, the divide between our online and offline worlds.

Long-lost friends are no longer lost. They are on Facebook.

From its roots as a website with no ads, no business plan and a hacker ethic, Facebook has grown into a company worth $150 billion, with 6,337 employees and sprawling headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Born in the age of desktop computers, three years before the iPhone’s debut, Facebook is now mainly accessed on mobile devices. Many of these mobile users never had a PC. “People often ask if I always knew that Facebook would become what it is today. No way,” Zuckerberg wrote — where else — on his Facebook page Tuesday.

“I remember getting pizza with my friends one night in college shortly after opening Facebook.

I told them I was excited to help connect our school community, but one day someone needed to connect the whole world.”

Facebook has had plenty of stumbles along the way, from privacy concerns to user protests when Facebook introduced new features, not to mention a rocky public stock debut in 2012. Even its origin was the subject of a lawsuit and a Hollywood movie.

So far, though, Facebook has trudged on.

As Facebook enters its second decade, the company faces a new set of challenges in reaching the next billion users, the billion after that, and the one after that, including the majority of the world without Internet access.

It must also keep the existing set interested even as younger, hipper rivals emerge and try to lure them away.

There are 1.23 billion Facebook users today, or roughly 17 per cent of the world’s population.

Although that’s far from connecting the whole world, Facebook is here to stay. It’s reached critical mass.

“One of the things Facebook has been good at is that it’s very easy to use and understand,” said Paul Levinson, professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University.

“It’s a much friendlier system

than any email system.”

Javier Olivan joined Facebook Inc. as vice-president of growth and analytics in 2007.

It was a different time. Myspace was the dominant online hangout with 200 million members. Facebook had 30 million.

Facebook’s user base had been accelerating steadily, Olivan said, as it expanded from Harvard’s campus to other colleges, then high schools, and in 2006, anyone over 13. Users in the U.K. and other English-speaking countries then began signing up.

But around 2007, growth plateaued.

“The thinking at the time was (that) we’ll never have 100 million users,” Olivan said.

“That’s when the growth team was created.”

If Facebook was going to connect the world, as its mission states, it couldn’t be an Englishonly service. So Facebook turned to its users to help translate the site.

A Spanish version came in 2008, followed by dozens of others.

Growth accelerated again, and volunteer translators are still adding new tongues, whether that’s native African languages or pirate slang.

Facebook got its 100 million users by August 2008 and half a billion two years later.

By 2012, a billion people were logging in to Facebook at least once a month.

Walmart to spend $500 million on 35 supercentres, will create 7,500 jobs THE CANADIAN PRESS Walmart is placing its bets on the fresh food business, as it announced Tuesday it will open 35 more Canadian supercentres as part of nearly $500 million in planned investments this year.

The world’s biggest retailer said its long-term plan is to offer groceries in each of its Canadian stores, a move which will increase the pressure on its retail rivals.

“We love the idea of our customer coming in and buying ground turkey and taco seasoning and salad mix and diapers, getting their oil changed, picking up a pair of eyeglasses and riding home on a new bike. I mean you can get it all done at Walmart and we love the idea of that, ” said Shelley Broader, Walmart Canada’s president and CEO.

Netflix use growing in Canada THE CANADIAN PRESS Netflix continues to grow in Canada and is being used in millions of households, suggest two research reports.

Telephone surveys commissioned by the Media Technology Monitor with 4,009 anglophone Canadians between Oct. 7 to Dec. 1 found that 29 per cent of the respondents said they were Netflix subscribers.

Netflix, which launched in Canada in September 2010, no longer discloses how many Canadian customers it has.

It last reported the service had reached the one-million Canadian subscriber milestone just shy of its one-year anniversary in Canada, which was the company’s first international market outside the U.S.

The discount chain, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in Canada last month, is investing more than $376 million to build, expand, relocate or remodel its stores.

It said six of the stores will be new, 10 will be expansions and 18 will be retrofitted to add a fresh food section. One store will be relocated.

The company currently has 389 stores, including 247 supercentres that carry a combination of groceries, apparel, and household goods. It expects to have a total of 395 stores by the end of January 2015, with 282 supercentres and 113 discount stores.

Broader said the new stores will create about 7,500 jobs across the country, with the majority of the positions being temporary construction jobs.

About 2,600 will be permanent Walmart store staff.

About 250 will be at the company’s distribution centres and 60 will be in its e-commerce division.

The retailer, which came to Canada in the early 1990s, has become the country’s largest department store retailer by sales. It’s also one of the biggest employers in Canada with more than 95,000 employees.

This latest announcement is expected to solidify the retailer’s role as a serious grocery offering, and increase competition for Canadian retailers — especially for the food, pharmacy and clothing chains — who compete with Walmart.

Two main rivals include U.S. retailer Target Corp., which began expanding into Canada last year, and online behemoth Amazon, which started grocery delivery to Canadian customers last December.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 93.71 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.45 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.55 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.32 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.49 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock ma rket closed slightly higher Tuesday as the TSX stabilized a day after worries about global manufacturing performance helped send North American exchanges into a sharp

Lower-cost oil arriving at Suncor Montreal refinery by train, tanker THE CANADIAN PRESS Suncor Energy Inc. says it’s bringing lowerpriced crude into its Montreal refinery by rail and ship as it awaits approval of a pipeline project that would send Alberta oil eastward.

Canada’s largest energy company (TSX:SU) is shipping 30,000 barrels per day of crude by rail to the 137,000 barrel per day refinery, following completion of an offloading facility there late last year.

It’s also accepting marine cargoes on an “opportunistic basis” from Texas and Louisiana “at significant discounts to the international crudes we would typically run in Montreal,” CEO Steve Williams told analysts on Tuesday.

Williams said he expects a “positive” regulatory decision within the next month or two on an Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) proposal to reverse the flow of a pipeline between southwestern Ontario and Montreal, to move 300,000 barrels per day from the west to the east.

“A lot of the potential investment we talk about in Montreal is conditional upon us getting lowcost feedstock into that refinery,” Williams said.

“So we remain cautiously optimistic that we’ll see that approval in the next four to eight weeks.”

Suncor has been considering adding a coker — equipment used to convert heavy oilsands into easier-to-process light oil — to its Montreal refinery. That’s a much lower cost option than building an all-new upgrader in the inflation-prone Fort McMurray, Alta., area.

“We want to configure the Montreal refinery so we can optimize a broad basket of crudes going into there,” said Williams.

“We like the refinery.

We like the flexibility and we’ll take advantage of whatever crude is the best crude of the day.”

Williams made the comments after Suncor issued disappointing financial results Monday.

The price Suncor that was able to get for its landlocked crude took a hit during the fourth quarter, as it churned out more bitumen than it was able to sell at world prices.

But Suncor says it’s in good shape for 2014 given the steps taken at the Montreal refinery — plus another 50,000 barrels per day heading to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries on the recently started southern leg Keystone XL, the line being built

by TransCanada Corp.

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The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 18.28 points to 13,504.48.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.13 of a cent to 90.24 cents US. U.S. indexes racked up a solid gain despite data out Tuesday showing that U.S. factory orders dropped

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 49.36 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.55 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.28 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.41 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.00 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.19 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.160 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.73 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.01 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.75 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.66 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.49 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 60.24 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 67.40 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 60.24 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.49 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 36.05 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.47 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.72 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 53.27 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 67.51 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.75 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 84.01 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.83 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 68.06 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 35.39 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.62 1.5 per cent in December. But the decline was smaller than the 1.8 per cent dip that had been expected.

The Dow Jones industrials was ahead 72.44 points to 15,445.24, the Nasdaq gained 34.56 points to 4,031.52 and the S&P 500 index climbed 13.31 points to 1,755.2.

declined $8.70 to US$1,251.20 an ounce.

The metals and mining group advanced 0.26 per cent as March copper added a cent to US$3.19 a pound.

Industrials were also positive as WestJet (TSX:WJA) gained 85 cents to $25.70 as the carrier posted $67.8 million of quarterly net income, or 52 cents per diluted share, which met expectations.

WestJet also raised its quarterly dividend by 20 per cent to 12 cents a share.

Financial and telecom stocks led TSX decliners.

But Atlantic regional telco Bell Aliant Inc. (TSX:BA) gained 53 cents to $25.62 as adjusted earnings came in at 38 cents a share, beating estimates by three cents.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at closeTuesday: Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,504.48, up 18.28 points TSX Venture Exchange — 947.71, up 6.94 points TSX 60 — 773.98, down 0.31 points Dow — 15,445.24, up 72.44 points S&P 500 — 1,755.20, up 13.31 points Nasdaq — 4,031.52, up 34.56 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 90.24 cents US, up 0.13 of a cent Pound — C$1.8093, unchanged Euro — C$1.4974 down 0.41 of a cent Euro — US$1.3513, down 0.18 of a cent Oil futures:

US$97.19 per barrel, up 76 cents (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,251.20 per oz., down $8.70 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.383 oz., up 3.3 cents $719.61 kg, up $1.06 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 947.71, up 6.94 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 184.65 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’14 $3.20 higher $429.60; May ’14 $3.40 higher $440.00; July ’14 $3.70 higher $449.00; Nov. ’14 $3.40 higher $464.20; Jan ’15 $3.40 higher $469.70; March ’15 $3.40 higher $475.00; May ’15 $3.50 higher $477.90; July ’15 $3.40 higher $480.20; Nov ’15 $3.40 higher $476.40; Jan. ’16 $3.40 higher $476.40; March ’16 $3.40 higher $476.40.

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.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 261,240 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 261,240.

Groups want meeting with Raitt over grain backlog

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Prairie farm groups frustrated with an ongoing railway grain backlog want federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt to intervene to help get their crops to market.

The groups say they wrote to Raitt last month seeking a meeting with her in Ottawa for the last week in February, but she has not responded.

Lynn Jacobson, president of the Alberta Federation of Agriculture, says farmers want to know why Ottawa can’t get railways to ship more of the bumper crop to port for export to customers around the world.

“The transport minister has to get involved in this,” he said Tuesday.

“This is a crisis situation and something has to be done. It affects not only the agri-

culture community but the whole economy in Western Canada.”

The federal government is aware that grain farmers have been watching the quality and value of their crops decline over the last few months in fields or in storage because of the transportation bottleneck.

Agricultural groups say they warned Ottawa about the potential of the backlog months ago and haven’t been shy about lobbying for change.

Doug Chorney, president of Manitoba’s Keystone Agricultural Producers, recently wrote an opinion article that has been published in some Prairie newspapers that calls on Ottawa to take action sooner rather than later to fix the bottleneck.

The article lays the blame on “abysmal service” by Canada’s two major railways.

It says the monopoly Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) and Canadian National

Railway (TSX:CNR) have in the marketplace allows them to provide inadequate service without fear of consequences.

“We need short-term intervention by Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and the federal government because farmers need to get their crops to market as soon as possible before more sales are lost,” wrote Chorney, who farms near East Selkirk, Man. “This is not a once-in-a lifetime situation. Instead, it will be the norm in a few years. Will we wait until then to fix our rail system, or will we begin to do it now?”

Norm Hall, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, said his group wants to tell Raitt face to face that the Fair Rail Freight Service Act passed by the Conservative government last year isn’t working and should be amended.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 95.60 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.81 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.50 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.64 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.05 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.18 Cdn. National Railway . . 59.32 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 164.37 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 37.58 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.63 Cervus Equipment Corp 23.85 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 44.96 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 45.89 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 26.99 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.41 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.82 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.82 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.48 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 45.70 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 65.90 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.72 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.26 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.72

Stocks plunged Monday after data showed the U.S. manufacturing sector continued to expand in January but at a slower pace than expected.

Other data showed a similar performance for China’s manufacturing sector, which added to anxieties about emerging markets.

These negative developments come at a time when the U.S. Federal Reserve is cutting back on a key stimulus measure —bond purchases that have kept long-term rates low and supported a strong rally on stock markets.

The withdrawal of stimulus is also proving to be difficult for emerging markets that had benefited from a steady inflow of cheap money courtesy of Fed easing.

Now, they’re being hit with steady outflows of that money, which in turn has pressured currencies and raised worries that economic problems in emerging countries could spread to developed markets.

Some analysts suggest markets that benefited strongly from the Fed’s loose monetary policy have been ripe for a correction. The S&P 500 rocketed more than 30 per cent last year but is already down 5.75 per cent from the start of 2014.

The tech sector led advancers, up 1.22 per cent.

The energy sector rose 0.76 per cent as March crude in New York gained 76 cents to US$97.19 a barrel.

But Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) shares lost 63 cents to $35.01 after the energy giant posted quarterly operating earnings of $973 million, or 66 cents a share, 12 cents short of expectations. It also hiked its dividend 15 per cent to 23 cents a share.

The TSX gold sector climbed about 0.67 per cent while April gold

SPORTS

B4 Rebels tumble to Giants in OT

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Giants 3 Rebels 2 (OT) VANCOUVER — Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter was looking for a more disciplined performance from his club heading into Tuesday’s Western Hockey League meeting with the Vancouver Giants.

The Rebels ran into penalty trouble in their previous two meetings — back-to-back home-ice losses to the Lethbridge Broncos (in a shootout) and Tri-City Americans — and Sutter knew that trend couldn’t continue if his team was to open a four-game B.C. Division trip on a positive note.

The Rebels were wellbehaved, allowing just three Vancouver power plays, but

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but we needed to get more out the stage for a third period The 27-22-13 Rebels are in of our power play tonight,” in which the Rebels outshot eighth place in the Eastern said Sutter, pointing to two their hosts 11-8 while creat- Conference, just one point and half minutes of fruitless ing several top-flight scoring back of the Regina Pats and five-on-three man-advantage chances. two behind the Kootenay Ice play the Rebels and Swift Current enjoyed during Broncos. the game.

Red Deer is C o n n e r seven points Bleackley forced clear of the ninththe overtime with place Prince Alhis 24th goal of bert Raiders, who the season — on downed the visit— RED DEER REBELS GM/HEAD COACH BRENT SUTTER ing Broncos 5-2 Red Deer’s lone successful power Tuesday. play — at 15:47 of the third “We made a good push in The Rebels continue their period. the third period and it’s just B.C. Division swing tonight The Giants led 1-0 after one disappointing that we didn’t against the Kelowna Rockets, period on a goal by defence- get two points out of it,” said then head to Prince George for man Dmitry Osipov and in- Sutter. “But we’ll take the one Friday and Saturday meetings creased their lead to 2-0 when point and move on.” with the Cougars.

Thomas Foster potted his sevBartosak finished with 27 Red Deer’s next home game enth of the season at 12:48 of saves, while Lee turned aside is next Wednesday versus the the middle frame.

26 shots. Red Deer was one- Medicine Hat Tigers.

Aspen Sterzer got the visi- for-six on the power play. The gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. tors on the board just under Giants were zero-for-three com four minutes later, setting with a man advantage.

‘...WE NEEDED TO GET MORE OUT OF OUR POWER PLAY TONIGHT.’

On the road their own man-advantage units came up dry at the worst times in a 3-2 overtime loss.

Cain Franson tipped a shot by past Rebels netminder Patrik Bartosak 4:20 into the extra frame to lift the Giants to victory before 4,615 fans at the Pacific Coliseum.

“We were certainly better in that (discipline) department

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Calgary Flames’ Michael Cammalleri, right, breaks away from Montreal Canadiens’ Brendan Gallagher during first-period NHL hockey action in Montreal on Tuesday.

Flames squander chance in Montreal FAIL TO TAKE LEAD ON TWO-MAN ADVANTAGE OPPORTUNITY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Montreal 2 Calgary 0 MONTREAL — The Calgary Flames squandered a golden opportunity.

With the game still scoreless early in the second period of Montreal’s 2-0 victory over the Flames on Tuesday, Calgary was given a chance to take the lead with a full twominute, two-man advantage.

Tomas Plekanec was in the box for roughing, as well as Lars Eller for handling the puck on the ensuing faceoff, but Calgary’s struggling power play took only three shots on Carey Price — none too threatening.

“Not acceptable, obviously,” said Mike Cammalleri, who finished the game with three shots on goal, including one on that two-man advantage.

“It’s crucial for us to get that goal.”

Cammalleri was facing his former Montreal team for the first since being traded to the Flames in Jan. 2012.

“It was a timely 5-on-3,” he said. “If we had been a little more patient, we might have gotten the look we were looking for.”

Instead, the Flames, ranked 26th in the league with an extra skater, only took shots from the perimeter and had little traffic in front of the net.

Stopping those shots was a Montreal goaltender in fine form.

Price kept out not only the Flames’ three chances on the 5-on-3, but all 27 shots he faced

in the game for his fourth shutout of the year and second in four games.

With the shutout, the 22nd of his career, Price tied former-Hab Jose Theodore for seventh on the Canadiens’ alltime shutout list.

slapshot by Mark Giordano and was visibly hurt on the play.

“That’s what our penalty kill is all about,” said Price.

“We have some really gutsy guys who are willing to do whatever it takes to kill penalties. And that’s why we were so successful.

It was a big momentum boost for us.”

The Canadiens, the league’s thirdbest short— MIKE CAMMALLERI handed team, have now T h e H a b s n e t m i n d e r , killed off 27 straight penalthough, looked to a big shot ties. block by defenceman DougThey last allowed a goal las Murray as the decisive mo- while playing with a man down ment with the man down. on Jan. 24 against Detroit.

Murray, who spent the full Rene Bourque rewarded two minutes on the ice, got his penalty killers late in the down on one knee to block a same frame, scoring the even-

‘IT WAS A TIMELY 5-ON-3. IF WE HAD BEEN A LITTLE MORE PATIENT, WE MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN THE LOOK WE WERE LOOKING FOR.’

tual winner for the Canadiens at 16:15.

Bourque came to Montreal (30-21-6) two years ago in the trade that sent Cammalleri to the Flames (21-28-7).

Coming into the game, Cammalleri had amassed 72 points with the Flames since the swap — Bourque had 30 with the Canadiens.

He added a big one against his old team on Tuesday.

“I was getting a lot of quality scoring chances this last week.

“It’s nice to finally get one,” said Bourque, who finished the game with a goal, three shots, four hits and a blocked shot.

“It doesn’t really matter who you’re playing anymore.

I’ve been gone long enough.

But it was nice to contribute.”

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Lukacs adds speed, smarts to volleyball Kings Over the years the RDC Kings have always had It was during the Kings trip to California where what is considered an undersized middle blocker. they played a pair of university teams, including the It hasn’t affected their success and this year is no two-time NCAA champion University of California different.

Irvine that Lukacs stepped into the starting role.

At six-foot-four Justin Lukacs is a bit undersized, “Coming in the first year you don’t expect to play but more than makes up for it with his much, but since Christmas I’ve been playathletic ability and volleyball knowledge. ing a lot,” said the Calgary native. “It’s “He’s shorter than what you consider been a pleasant surprise.” an ideal middle blocker to look like, but Lukacs got involved in volleyball with he’s extremely athletic and has a high volthe Elite West Club program plus played leyball IQ,” said Kings head coach Aaron three years of senior high school volleySchulha. “Plus he’s super fast.” ball at Bishop Carroll.

But it may be his ability to read the “When I first started I didn’t know play and get into position that may have much about volleyball and they made me been a negative. a middle right away. I’m not sure if they “There were times during the first saw something in me or they just needed half of the season where he had difficulty a middle, but I’ve played nothing else blocking because he was getting there too since.” early,” added Schulha.

The last two years of high school BishDANNY “We talked with him on understandop Carroll finished third in the city and RODE ing he has more time than he thought. We was sixth at the provincials last year. worked with him over the Christmas break “That was good considering we had a (in California) and since he’s ran with it.” rag-tag bunch of athletes,” he said.

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It was during his Grade 12 season that Schulha scouted Lukacs.

“I was looking at playing post-secondary volleyball, as I love the sport, and one of the first days I could be contacted Aaron said he wanted me. That was a factor . . . if someone wants you that makes a difference. I talked with him a bit and it was a perfect fit.”

Lukacs is taking open studies and is more than likely around for one more year before switching to computer science at Mount Royal University.

“I don’t know about next year, but I’m flexible,” he said. “It depends a lot on this year and if I’m back next year we lose a lot of the bigger guys and I’ll have to take on more of a leadership role.”

No matter what the Kings will still have a talented starting lineup next season as they have one of the deepest benches in the ACAC. “You can see that during practice,” said Lukacs.

“We always play the starters against the other guys and it’s always close.”

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COLLEGE: Kings need split to wrap first place As for facing larger middle blockers, Lukacs isn’t worried.

“I’ve been playing against good teams in club and I was up against bigger, tougher guys and used to it,” he said.

He’ll see some tough competition this weekend as RDC faces the Grant MacEwan University Griffins in a home-and-home series — Friday at RDC and Saturday in Edmonton.

It brings together the top two men’s teams in the nation with the Kings No. 1 and the Griffins moving into the second this week.

“I’m looking forward to it,” said Lukacs. “Last week we played two tough matches (against SAIT) and this week will be the same. I believe we’re prepared and hopefully we can take care of business.”

The Kings need a split in the two matches to wrap up first place and go into the playoffs, set for Feb. 2123 at RDC, as the top seed.

The Queens, who are ranked fourth in Canada, also need to split to finish first. The Queens are 17-1 with Grande Prairie and ninth-ranked GMU at 15-3.

The women get underway at 6 p.m. with the men to follow. ● The basketball teams are off this week. The Kings, who have wrapped up first place heading into the ACAC finals, Feb. 28-March 2 at RDC, have moved into fourth place in the CCAA rankings. ● The hockey Queens finish regular season play with a twin bill against the SAIT Trojans — Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena and Saturday in Calgary.

The Queens have wrapped up the third and final playoff spot with the Trojans six points back. ● The hockey Kings have a tough test this weekend as they face the first-place SAIT Trojans Friday in Calgary and Saturday at 7:15 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

The Kings are tied with NAIT, three points back of SAIT. ● Hockey Queens forward Jade Petrie, who had two goals and three assists in a pair of games against NAIT, is the RDC Boston Pizza female athlete of the week.

Basketball Kings Taner Parrington, who had 28 points and 18 rebounds in a pair of wins over St. Mary’s, took the top male award.

Volleyball middle Shelby Bromall, curling lead Taylor Eno and basketball forward Mozanga Ekwalanga were also considered among the women. Volleyball right side Braden O’Toole and hockey forward Logan Sceviour considered on the men’s side.

The volleyball Queens were named the Breathing Room team of the week. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

BOURQUE: Goal off pad Bourque was rather fortuitous on the play, notching his eighth goal of the year when a Brandon Prust pass banked off his left leg and beat Flames netminder Reto Berra.

“Prust just waited for the defenceman (Dennis Wideman) to go down, got around him, and threw it out in front,” said Bourque. “It went off my shin pad.”

With Cammalleri serving a two-minute hooking penalty in the game’s final minute, David Desharnais added an empty netter for the Canadiens.

Berra got the nod in nets in place of Flames starting goaltender Karri Ramo, who injured his lower back in the first period of Calgary’s 4-3 overtime win over Minnesota on Saturday.

Berra made 25 saves for the Flames, which snapped a five-game winning streak with the loss.

“We can’t fault Reto (Berra) for his effort,” said Calgary head coach Bob Hartley. “It gave us a chance to win. He came up with big saves at the right time.”

Redblacks sign veteran QB Burris

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Henry Burris couldn’t pass up the chance to help build a franchise from the ground up.

The veteran quarterback signed a three-year contract with the expansion Ottawa Redblacks on Tuesday, just six days after getting released by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

“The opportunity to be a part of something fresh and new was something that my family and I just couldn’t turn down,” Burris said after being introduced to the media.

“We had to be a part of this. This is an opportunity of a lifetime to leave your fingerprints, your footprint on a growing organization that will be around for years and years to come.

“To know that we were a part of what started this, that’s a great way as far as your legacy to leave a print.”

The move ends a whirlwind week for Burris, who was released by the Tiger-Cats after the club signed Zach Collaros to be their starting quarterback.

The 38-year-old — who was cut by Hamilton despite leading them to last season’s Grey Cup game — should provide immediate stability and leadership for the expansion Redblacks as the CFL returns to the nation’s capital this season.

“I really don’t look at this as an expansion team,” said Burris.

“Last season in Hamilton we had the youngest team in the league on both sides of the ball and I was changing (diapers) day in and day out. I expect some of the same challenges (in Ottawa).

“As we’ve seen in this league it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish and that gives you plenty of time to overcome your growing pains and to make your mistakes early on.”

Ottawa will be Burris’ fourth CFL team after stops with the Calgary Stampeders, Saskatchewan Roughriders, and the Tiger-Cats. He won two Grey Cups during his time with the Stampeders and was named the game’s MVP in 2008.

Burris led the Tiger-Cats to last season’s Grey Cup, where Hamilton fell 45-23 to Saskatchewan. He was tops in the league with 4,925 passing yards in 2013 to go along with 24 touchdowns and 19 interceptions.

In 15 CFL seasons, the native of Spiro, Oklahoma, ranks fourth all-time in regular-season passing yards (51,529), touchdown passes (324) and completions (3,672).

After getting his walking papers from the TigerCats, Burris was immediately approached by the Redblacks and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Both teams offered enticing opportunities, but apart from getting a chance to set the standard with a new team, Ottawa offered Burris something Winnipeg couldn’t — the opportunity to play in front of his family.

Knowing this would be his final contract, Burris said he has a number of relatives in Springfield, Mass., who are already looking forward to making the trip to Ottawa to see him in action.

Curlers beat flu bug

BY BILL BEACON THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Kesa Van Osch’s British Columbia team feels good now about their choice of veteran Patti Knezevic to serve as alternate at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

With Van Osch out with a flu bug that has been rampaging through the tournament, Knezevic stepped in to lead B.C. (4-3) to a pair of victories on Tuesday before 1,131 at the Maurice Richard Arena.

B.C. downed Allison Flaxey’s Ontario team 7-3 in the morning draw and then saw Knezevic draw to the button with her final stone to beat Sarah Koltun of the Yukon 8-7 in the afternoon.

“We wanted someone with a lot of experience as our fifth player because we’ve watched the Scotties for years and this happens (often) that the flu goes around,” said B.C. third Stephanie Baier. “We wanted someone who could come in at any position so we wouldn’t have to shuffle around and we’d stay at our comfort level.”

The illness kept six players out of the morning draw, when Saskatchewan’s Stefanie Lawton downed Quebec (1-6) 8-4 with only three players on her team.

Van Osch was the lone player missing in the afternoon, but then her lead Carley Sandwith had to quit after two ends, leaving them with only three.

Quebec was missing second Brittany O’Rourke in the morning.

They got her back for the afternoon session, only to see her leave again after eight ends.

“She threw up in the third and the sixth ends, and finally got off the ice,” Ross said of her teammate. “We’re in contamination mode.”

In the evening draw, Team Canada’s Rachel Homan improved to 6-0 with a 10-3 win over Nova Scotia’s Heather Smith (2-5). Nova Scotia was also missing coach Peter Gallant to sickness.

Manitoba’s Chelsea Carey and Lawton are tied for second place with 5-1 records. Carey cruised past the Yukon 10-4, while Lawton defeated P.E.I. 7-3.

In the other late match, New

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British Columbia alternate skip Patti Knezevic watches her shot during her match against Ontario at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts draw eight curling action Tuesday, in Montreal.

Brunswick’s Andrea Crawford earned a 7-4 victory against Ontario.

The last time a Scotties was disrupted by a flu bug was in 2012 in Red Deer, Alta. This time, the sickness is striking players, coaches and officials at random with an illness that seems to last about 24 hours.

B.C.’s young squad from Victoria looked to be in trouble when they started the tournament at 2-3 and it only looked worse when Van Osch went down.

But gritty work by a relatively healthy Baier and second Jessie Sanderson and Knezevic’s steady hand put the team back in the hunt for a playoff spot.

When Team Van Osch won the B.C. provincial championships last month to earn their first trip to the Scotties, they immediately asked Knezevic to be their fifth player.

“It was an unexpected call, for sure,” said Knezevic, who made it to the B.C. final three times but had never got to the Scotties. “I was very honoured.

“I was just hoping that I could bring a bit of experience and sup-

port and be able to step in if needed.” Baier said that if Van Osch is able to play today she will return as the skip and that Knezevic would go back to being the alternate. If Sandwith can’t play, Knezevic will play lead.

“We decided as a team that I would play wherever a player stepped out of, so no situation would be a surprise to us,” Knezevic said. “We knew going in that Carley was not well and she’d give it her best shot.

“Then we just had to make the transition. The girls have been great. We were trying to be as positive as we could and work together with what we had. I think that was the ticket.”

When a team has only three players, the first two throw three stones each and the skip throws two. It means that most of time, only one player can sweep.

It wasn’t easy for B.C., as 20-year-old Koltun scored two in the ninth to take a 7-6 lead, then left Knezevic with a tricky draw for two in the 10th. Baier jumped in at the end to help Sanderson in some furious sweeping to get the winning rock to the button.

Lightning hurts, hopes for Cougs

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Lightning 84 Cougars 51 The Hunting Hills Lightning didn’t treat their neighbours well at all Tuesday evening, now they’ll be pulling for them next week.

The Lightning beat the Notre Dame Cougars 87-51 in Central Alberta High School Boys’ Basketball League action at Hunting Hills, giving themselves a chance to finish first in the zone 4A division. However, they will need the Cougars to defeat the Lindsay Thurber Raiders when the two clash next Tuesday at Lindsay Thurber.

The Cougars could also finish first, but would have to defeat LTCHS by 36 points.

“This score doesn’t help us, we’ll have to win by a whole bunch,” said Cougars head coach Ed Major.

The Lightning were the better team Tuesday, doing a solid job moving the ball and playing good defence.

“That was the case, the only thing that bothered me was too many turnovers,” said Lightning head coach Scott Doan. “We also didn’t take advantage of what was afforded us. We’d get all the way to the hoop at times and then stop. I don’t know if it was because we were scoring too much, or what.”

Still Doan couldn’t be unhappy as the Lightning didn’t look like a team that’s been off for over two weeks.

“I was concerned because we haven’t played for two and a half weeks, but that was pretty good start to the final part of the season. And it won’t get any easier. We play Wetaskiwin Thursday and Leduc (in the LTCHS tournament) Friday. But that’s what you want.”

While Doan was relatively pleased with what he saw, Major would have liked a better defensive effort.

“For some reason we come here and can’t play against that team,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s because we know them to well, are friends with them, but we can’t seem to get past the fact

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Hunting Hills High School Lightning Teagan Booth carries the ball past Notre Dame Cougar Cierra Stephens during high school basketball action at Hunting Hills Tuesday. they’re Hunting Hills.

Some guys can’t do that.

“Defensive we didn’t play well plus they shot well, but when you leave guys open it doesn’t help.”

“Hopefully this is a wake up call,” said assistant coach Stephen Merredew.

Sean Campbell led the Lightning with 25 points while Mackenzie Wright added 19, Jesse Ross 15 and Linden Petersen 14.

Amet Deng had 16 for the Cougars.

Lightning 64 Cougars 45 The girls’ contest was similar to the boys as the Lightning rolled to a 6445 win and now hope the Cougars can defeat the Raiders Tuesday, but by a considerable amount.

“Thurber defeated them quite handily so we’d have to beat them by a lot,” said Cougars head coach Erika Pottage.

But Lightning head coach Jill de Jonge wasn’t thinking about that, she was just glad to win and gain home court advantage if the two clash in the zone semifinal.

“This was a big game for us,” she said. “I didn’t

tell the girls that, but it’s important to get home court advantage.”

Defence was once again the story of the game. The Lightning shut the door for the majority of the game while the Cougars struggled on their end.

“We tried a couple different defences and switched up a lot,” said de Jonge. “We’ve been building toward that and by switching defences it caused some confusion for them and forced some turnovers. It was nice to see that from the defence as we’ve been focusing mainly on our offence, so I didn’t know what to expect.”

Meanwhile, Pottage didn’t like her defence at all.

“We didn’t play defence and were giving them way too many layups,” she said. “But we still have plenty of time (before the playoffs) and defence is something you can work on.

“As well they put a lot of pressure us . . . full court pressure and instead of running our press break we were trying to dribble the ball through it. But we’re young and we just need

to clean things up a bit.”

The Cougars were also without point guard Autumn Letkeman, who is out with a concussion.

She’s expected back shortly.

Jaden Robinson led the Lightning with 18 points while Zaza Lockhart added 12 and Allie Busch nine. Kirsten Pinkney had 12 and Brooke Hardy 10 for the Cougars. ● In other action, LTCHS swept a doubleheader from Camrose, winning the girls’ contest 75-49 and the boys’ game 51-41.

Kelsey Lalor had 17 points and Lizzy Morneault 16 for the LTCHS girls while Bradi Lorenz hit 19 and Braxton Horbay 13 for Camrose.

Tanner Rehn led the LTCHS boys with 20 points while Jesse Kerr had 20 for Camrose. ● Other girls’ play saw Lacombe get 37 points from Kirsten Ramsay and 14 from Bronwyn Reeves in downing Stettler 6649.

Jamie Ternes had 19 and Dacia Gramlick 14 for Stettler. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

SCOREBOARD Hockey WHL Early standings All Times Pacific EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Brandon 52 27 19 5 1 199 191 Swift Current 54 26 20 2 6 180 165 Regina 54 27 22 3 2 181 193 Prince Albert 52 24 25 2 1 167 181 Moose Jaw 52 13 31 3 5 132 203 Saskatoon 55 14 37 1 3 155 230 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Edmonton 51 37 13 0 1 213 129 Calgary 52 32 14 3 3 193 146 Medicine Hat 52 30 19 3 0 177 146 Kootenay 53 28 21 2 2 171 159 Red Deer 53 27 22 1 3 163 160 Lethbridge 54 11 38 2 3 133 251 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 52 42 7 0 3 227 132 Victoria 53 34 16 0 3 163 127 Vancouver 55 27 19 6 3 188 185 Prince George 55 22 26 2 5 182 229 Kamloops 53 11 37 2 3 138 224 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Portland 53 36 12 2 3 239 161 Seattle 53 32 16 2 3 178 182 Spokane 52 31 16 3 2 179 156 Everett 53 26 19 7 1 155 159 Tri-City 53 26 22 2 3 138 142

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nay: Skapski (W, 17-13-2).

Power plays (goal-chances)Saskatoon: 1-3; Kootenay: 1-4.

Pt 60 60 59 51 34 32 Pt 75 70 63 60 58 27

Pt 87 71 63 51 27 Pt 77 69 67 60 57

d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Tuesday’s results Medicine Hat 4 Regina 1 Prince Albert 5 Swift Current 2 Kootenay 6 Saskatoon 3 Vancouver 3 Red Deer 2 (OT) Calgary at Victoria, late Everett at Seattle, late Today’s games 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.

Friday’s games Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 5 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 5:05 p.m.

Swift Current at Brandon, 5:30 p.m.

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Portland at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.

Spokane at Seattle, 7:35 p.m.

SUMMARIES TUESDAY Giants 3, Rebels 2 (OT) First Period 1. Vancouver, Osipov 2 (McEvoy, Leone) 18:12.

Penalties — Lee Van (delay of game) 7:06, Gaudet RD (holding) 14:43.

Second Period 2. Vancouver, Foster 7 (Morrison) 12:48.

3. Red Deer, Sterzer 22 (Musil, Chorney) 16:11.

Penalties — Bartosak RD (kneeing) 2:05, Volek Van (tripping) 8:24, Sterzer RD (roughing) 8:51, Atwal Van (roughing) 8:51, Morrison Van (delay of game) 9:31, Sward Van (delay of game) 9:33.

Third Period 4. Red Deer, Bleackley 24 (Sterzer, Kopeck) 15:47 (pp).

Penalties — Franson Van (cross-checking) 3:02, Charif RD (holding) 12:40, Traber Van (crosschecking) 15:06.

Overtime 5. Vancouver, Franson 21 (Morrison, Sward) 4:20.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Red Deer 7 10 11 0 — 28 Vancouver 10 11 8 1 — 30 Goal — Red Deer: Bartosak (LS, 25-17-0); Vancouver: Lee (W, 15-15-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)Red Deer: 1-6; Vancouver: 0-3.

Attendance — 4,615 at Vancouver.

Royals 7, Hitmen 2 First Period 1. Calgary, Rankin 16 (Zipp, Lang) 12:17.

2. Victoria, Blomqvist 18 (Hodges, Fransoo) 16:35.

3. Calgary, Brassart 23 (Thomas, Helgesen) 19:31 (pp).

Penalties — Nelson Vic (charging) 18:18.

Second Period 4. Victoria, Carroll 23 (Nelson, Walker) 18:46.

5. Victoria, Nelson 17 (Blomqvist) 19:37.

Penalties — Rissling CAL (elbowing) 4:26, Hodges Vic (cross-checking) 5:00, Virtanen CAL (hooking) 9:09, Rissling CAL (fighting) 11:29, Kanzig Vic (fighting) 11:29, Virtanen CAL (checking from behind) 13:37.

Third Period 6. Victoria, Carroll 24 (Hicketts, Hodges) 3:46.

7. Victoria, Oleksyn 1 (Soy, Walker) 5:19.

8. Victoria, Fisher 4 (Crunk, Fushimi) 8:11.

9. Victoria, Carroll 25 (Soy, Fransoo) 15:03 (pp).

Penalties — Rissling CAL (holding) 10:07, Brassart CAL (slashing) 14:32, Rankin CAL (high-sticking) 18:27.

Calgary 9 7 10 — 26 Victoria 11 20 15 — 46 Goal — Calgary: Driedger (L, 20-13-3); Victoria: Vollrath (W, 14-5-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Calgary: 1-2; Victoria: 1-6.

Tigers 4, Pats 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Mumby Reg (tripping) 5:37, Bredo MH (holding) 14:23, Leier Reg (interference) 14:57, D’Amico Reg (tripping) 16:38, Owre MH (too many men) 17:33.

Second Period 1. Medicine Hat, Vannelli 12 (Bredo, Valk) 2:02 (pp).

2. Medicine Hat, Cox 16 (Sanford, Valk) 5:20.

3. Medicine Hat, Valk 29 (Doty, Lewington) 8:40.

4. Regina, Stephenson 25 (unassisted) 11:47 (lp).

Penalties — Burroughs Reg (tripping) 1:25, Allan MH (interference) 9:16, Koules MH (inter. on goaltender) 19:15.

Third Period 5. Medicine Hat, Koules 18 (Stanton, Butcher) 6:52.

Penalties — Stephenson Reg (cross-checking) 12:49, Vannelli MH (roughing) 17:29, Burroughs Reg (roughing) 17:29, Christoffer Reg (inter. on goaltender) 17:29.

Medicine Hat 8 12 9 — 29 Regina 10 19 13 — 42 Goal — Medicine Hat: Langhamer (W, 14-9-2); Regina: Wapple (L, 17-12-1).

Power plays (goal-chances)Medicine Hat: 1-6; Regina: 0-4.

Raiders 5, Broncos 2 First Period 1. Swift Current, Gordon 20 (Harris, Burns) 6:54.

2. Prince Albert, Valcourt 17 (Morrissey, Draisaitl) 8:13 (pp).

Penalties — Odgers SC (too many men) 7:17.

Second Period 3. Swift Current, Lernout 7 (Burns) :51.

4. Prince Albert, Draisaitl 20 (Conroy, Morrissey) 15:13.

Penalties —None.

Third Period 5. Prince Albert, Danyluk 3 (Craig) 7:12.

6. Prince Albert, Draisaitl 21 (Morrissey, Valcourt) 8:42.

7. Prince Albert, Draisaitl 22 (Valcourt, Cheveldave) 19:52 (-EN).

Penalties — Heatherington SC (tripping) 4:49.

Swift Current 8 16 12 — 36 Prince Albert 14 15 8 — 37 Goal — Swift Current: Laurikainen (L, 17-15-0); Prince Albert: Cheveldave (W, 18-18-2).

Power plays (goal-chances)Swift Current: 0-0; Prince Albert: 1-2.

Ice 6, Blades 3 First Period 1. Kootenay, Reinhart 25 (Descheneau, Franko) 4:38.

2. Kootenay, Descheneau 32 (Reinhart, Franko) 6:34.

3. Kootenay, Descheneau 33 (Reinhart, Murray) 9:45.

4. Saskatoon, Millette 13 (Gomerich, Busenius) 15:36.

5. Saskatoon, Lipon 4 (Harland) 17:26.

Penalties —None.

Second Period 6. Kootenay, Franko 16 (Reinhart, Descheneau) 1:28.

7. Kootenay, Descheneau 34 (Reinhart, Franko) 4:49 (pp).

Penalties — Millette Sas (tripping) 3:52, Busenius Sas (delay of game) 9:44, Martin Koo (interference) 12:19, Cross Koo (interference) 15:34, Dea Sas (slashing) 18:14, Stovin Sas (tripping) 18:34.

Third Period 8. Saskatoon, Hebig 8 (Busenius, Sanvido) 5:19 (pp).

9. Kootenay, Franko 17 (Descheneau, King) 19:24 (-EN).

Penalties — Valiev Koo (interference) 3:46, Zajac Sas (fighting) 15:47, McPhee Koo (fighting) 15:47, Clayton Sas (fighting) 18:28, Vetterl Koo (fighting) 18:28.

Saskatoon 9 11 11 — 31 Kootenay 14 14 11 — 39 Goal — Saskatoon: Trombley (L, 7-18-0); Koote-

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 55 36 16 3 75 167 120 Tampa Bay 56 32 19 5 69 163 139 Montreal 57 30 21 6 66 139 139 Toronto 58 30 22 6 66 171 180 Detroit 56 25 19 12 62 146 158 Ottawa 57 25 21 11 61 164 182 Florida 56 22 27 7 51 137 175 Buffalo 55 15 32 8 38 107 164 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 56 39 15 2 80 178 133 N.Y. Rangers 57 31 23 3 65 150 141 Columbus 56 29 23 4 62 167 156 Philadelphia 57 28 23 6 62 157 165 Carolina 55 25 21 9 59 138 153 New Jersey 57 23 21 13 59 133 142 Washington 57 25 23 9 59 164 173 N.Y. Islanders 58 22 28 8 52 160 191 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 58 34 10 14 82 205 161 St. Louis 55 37 12 6 80 189 130 Colorado 56 36 15 5 77 168 148 Minnesota 58 30 21 7 67 142 145 Dallas 56 26 21 9 61 161 161 Winnipeg 58 28 25 5 61 163 167 Nashville 57 25 23 9 59 142 172 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 58 40 13 5 85 191 143 San Jose 57 35 16 6 76 170 139 Los Angeles 58 30 22 6 66 137 127 Vancouver 58 27 22 9 63 143 152 Phoenix 56 26 20 10 62 160 167 Calgary 56 21 28 7 49 132 175 Edmonton 58 19 33 6 44 150 196 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Today’s Games Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

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

SUMMARIES TUESDAY Canadiens 2, Flames 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties —None.

Second Period 1. Montreal, Bourque 8 (Prust, Eller) 16:15.

Penalties — Plekanec Mtl (roughing) 4:36, Eller Mtl (face-off violation) 4:36, Giordano Cgy (roughing) 11:16, Backlund Cgy (roughing) 11:16, Plekanec Mtl (cross-checking) 11:16, Plekanec Mtl (slashing) 11:16.

Third Period 2. Montreal, Desharnais 9 (Pacioretty, Subban) 19:49 (en-pp).

Penalties — Cammalleri Cgy (hooking) 19:29.

Shots on goal by Calgary 4 15 8 — 27 Montreal 5 14 8 — 27 Goal — Calgary: Berra (L, 7-15-2); Montreal: Price (W, 24-17-5).

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

Islanders 1, Capitals 0 First Period No Scoring.

Second Period No Scoring.

Third Period 1. NY Islanders, MacDonald 4 (Nelson) 2:16.

NY Islanders 8 7 13 — 28 Washington 8 8 6 — 22 Goal — NY Islanders: Nabokov (W, 10-10-5); Washington: Neuvirth (L, 4-6-2).

Power plays (goal-chances)NY Islanders: 0-5; Washington: 0-6.

Panthers 4, Maple Leafs 1 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — None.

Second Period 1. Florida, Gilbert 3 (Campbell, Huberdeau) 1:14 (pp).

Third Period 2. Florida, Campbell 6 (Gomez, Fleischmann) 5:21.

3. Toronto, Clarkson 4 (Kadri) 9:31.

4. Florida, Matthias 6 (unassisted) 13:22.

5. Florida, Goc 10 (Kopecky, Weaver) 17:30 (en).

Toronto 4 8 9 — 21 Florida 19 18 11 — 48 Goal — Toronto: Bernier (L, 20-16-5); Florida: Thomas (W, 15-16-3). Power plays (goal-chances)Toronto: 0-0; Florida: 1-2.

Bruins 3, Canucks 1 First Period 1. Boston, Lucic 16 (Krejci, Iginla) 5:12.

Second Period 2. Boston, Iginla 16 (Chara, Lucic) 7:59 (pp).

3. Vancouver, Diaz 1 (Kassian, Stanton) 11:28.

4. Boston, Paille 8 (Boychuk) 17:06.

Third Period No Scoring.

Vancouver 9 10 9 — 28 Boston 5 13 14 — 32 Goal — Vancouver: Luongo (L, 19-14-6); Boston: Rask (W, 25-13-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)Vancouver: 0-2; Boston: 1-3.

Jets 2, Hurricanes 1 First Period No Scoring.

Second Period 1. Winnipeg, Ladd 13 (Frolik, Little) 12:57.

Third Period 2. Carolina, Nash 7 (Bowman, Ruutu) 2:42.

3. Winnipeg, Thorburn 2 (Trouba, Wheeler) 18:57.

Winnipeg 11 9 7 — 27 Carolina 9 12 8 — 29 Goal — Winnipeg: Pavelec (W, 18-21-4); Carolina: Khudobin (L, 12-5-0).

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

Rangers 5, Avalanche 1 First Period 1. NY Rangers, Callahan 10 (Hagelin) 14:16.

2. NY Rangers, Callahan 11 (Richards) 17:35.

Second Period 3. Colorado, Landeskog 17 (MacKinnon, Stastny) 6:37 (pp).

4. NY Rangers, Stralman 1 (Zuccarello, Brassard) 7:30.

Third Period 5. NY Rangers, Brassard 10 (Zuccarello) 1:58.

6. NY Rangers, Richards 15 (Callahan, Hagelin) 18:24.

Colorado 4 14 10 — 28 NY Rangers 20 15 8 — 43 Goal — Colorado: Varlamov (L, 28-10-5); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 21-18-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)Colorado: 1-3; NY Rangers: 0-3.

Wild 2, Lightning 1 First Period 1. Minnesota, Niederreiter 10 (Spurgeon, Zucker) 16:04 (pp).

Second Period No Scoring.

Third Period 2. Minnesota, Heatley 11 (Spurgeon) :34.

3. Tampa Bay, Filppula 20 (St. Louis, Gudas) 13:53.

Tampa Bay 11 11 13 — 35 Minnesota 8 14 4 — 26 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 27-8-4); Minnesota: Kuemper (W, 7-3-2).

Power plays (goal-chances)Tampa Bay: 0-2; Minnesota: 1-2.

Senators 5, Blues 4 (SO) First Period 1. St. Louis, Morrow 9 (Berglund, Oshie) 14:08.

Second Period 2. Ottawa, Karlsson 14 (Spezza) 14:50.

3. St. Louis, Oshie 13 (Paajarvi, Pietrangelo) 15:09.

4. St. Louis, Backes 20 (Schwartz, Jackman) 19:55.

Third Period 5. Ottawa, Michalek 8 (Spezza, Zibanejad) 5:52.

6. Ottawa, Turris 19 (Karlsson, Cowen) 7:02.

7. Ottawa, Spezza 15 (Zibanejad, Methot) 8:27.

8. St. Louis, Leopold 1 (Schwartz, Roy) 11:08.

Overtime No Scoring.

Shootout — Ottawa wins 3-2 Ottawa : Zibanejad goal, Spezza miss, Da Costa goal, Michalek miss, Turris goal.

St. Louis : Oshie goal, Steen goal, Tarasenko miss, Shattenkirk miss, Lapierre miss.

Ottawa 13 8 10 0 — 31 St. Louis 9 23 13 5 — 50 Goal — Ottawa: Lehner (W, 7-10-3); St. Louis: Halak (LO, 23-8-4).

Power plays (goal-chances)Ottawa: 0-1; St. Louis: 0-7.

Stars 3, Coyotes 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Michalek Phx (hooking) 1:05.

Second Period 1. Phoenix, Vermette 21 (unassisted) 9:18.

2. Dallas, Horcoff 7 (Seguin, Peverley) 12:32 (pp).

Third Period 3. Dallas, Roussel 9 (Garbutt) 3:25.

4. Dallas, Garbutt 11 (Eakin) 19:33 (en).

Dallas 13 19 8 — 40 Phoenix 11 7 10 — 28 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (W, 21-15-9); Phoenix: Smith (L, 19-16-9).

Power plays (goal-chances)Dallas: 1-4; Phoenix: 0-2.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Bruce Harrison of the Delburne area, a member of the Ray Jamieson rink, delivers his first stone of the 69th Annual Farmers/Farmerettes Bonspiel Tuesday at the Pidherney Centre. The combined men’s and women’s ‘spiel runs through Saturday, with all three Farmerettes event finals going at 10 a.m. and the five Farmers event finals at 1 p.m.

Curling 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts At Montreal Standings and results Tuesday after the tenth draw of the 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women’s curling championship, Feb. 1-9 at Maurice Richard Arena (all times Eastern): ROUND ROBIN Province (skip) W L Canada (Homan) 6 0 Alberta (Sweeting) 5 2 Manitoba (Carey) 5 1 Saskatchewan (Lawton) 5 1 N.L. (Strong) 4 3 B.C. (Van Osch) 4 3 N.B. (Crawford) 4 3 N.S. (Smith) 2 5 P.E.I. (Dolan) 2 5 Ontario (Flaxey) 1 5 Yukon/NWT (Koltun) 1 6 Quebec (Ross) 1 6 Tuesday’s results Eighth Draw Saskatchewan 8 Quebec 4 B.C. 7 Ontario 3 Canada 10 Alberta 5 Manitoba 5 Newfoundland & Labrador 3 Ninth Draw B.C. 8 Yukon/NWT 7 Nova Scotia 10 Quebec 5 New Brunswick 8 Newfoundland & Labrador 6 Alberta 8 P.E.I. 5 Draw 10 Canada 10 Nova Scotia 3 Manitoba 10 Yukon/NWT 4 Saskatchewan 7 P.E.I. 3 New Brunswick 7 Ontario 4 Today’s games Draw 11, 7 a.m.

Alberta vs. Newfoundland & Labrador; P.E.I. vs.

New Brunswick; Nova Scotia vs. Yukon/NWT; Quebec vs. B.C. Draw 12, Noon Quebec vs. Manitoba; Canada vs. B.C.; Ontario vs. Alberta; Saskatchewan vs. Newfoundland & Labarador Draw 13, 5:30 p.m.

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

Canada.

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct 26 22 .542 21 25 .457 19 29 .396 16 33 .327 15 34 .306 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 34 13 .723 Atlanta 25 22 .532 Washington 24 23 .511 Charlotte 21 28 .429 Orlando 13 37 .260 Central Division W L Pct Indiana 38 10 .792 Chicago 24 24 .500 Detroit 19 28 .404 Cleveland 16 32 .333 Milwaukee 9 39 .188 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 35 13 .729 Houston 32 17 .653 Dallas 28 21 .571 Memphis 26 21 .553 New Orleans 20 27 .426 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 39 11 .780 Portland 34 14 .708 Denver 23 23 .500 Minnesota 24 24 .500 Utah 16 32 .333 Pacific Division Toronto Brooklyn New York Boston Philadelphia

LOCAL SPORTS

BRIEFS

Pisko had pair of top five finishes at Alberta Cup AIRDRIE — Carter Pisko had a pair of top five finishes for the Red Deer Exelta Gymnastics Club in the Alberta Cup trampoline and tumbling competition during the weekend,.

Pisko won the provincial 2 double-mini trampoline (DMT) while taking fourth in the provincial 3 trampoline.

Tess McLachlin took second in the national level DMT and 10th in provincial 4 tumbling while Erika Blair was second in the provincial 3 trampoline and sixth in provincial 4 DMT. Paige Tiegs placed third in provincial 1 tumbling, seventh in DMT and ninth on the trampoline while Karys Zirk was fourth in provincial 1 tumbling and 10 in DMT. Mickayla Murray was fifth in the national level trampoline and eighth in DMT. Loami Rautenbach placed seventh in the provincial 1 trampoline while Lucas Muirhead took seventh in the provincial 1 trampoline and Savanna Chanminaraj eighth in provincial 2 tumbling and ninth in provincial 3 trampoline.

Oakes wins two at Sport Chek series Jared Oakes was a double medalist in the U14 division for the Red Deer Ski Club at the Sport Chek Regional Series Giant Slalom at Canyon Ski Hill during the weekend.

Oakes won the second GS on Saturday after finishing second earlier.

Also in the same group on the boys’ side, Owen Green had a pair of fourth-place finishes and a sixth over the two-days of racing, which saw four individual races.

Kale Chessor had a sixth, seventh, eighth and a ninth.

In the U14 girls’ competition, Jasmine Photinopoulos had a third, a fifth and two sixth-place finishes.

Rangers take gold at tournament GB — 4 7 10 1/2 11 1/2 GB — 9 10 14 22 1/2 GB — 14 18 1/2 22 29 GB — 3 1/2 7 1/2 8 1/2 14 1/2 GB — 4 14 14 22

W L Pct GB 34 17 .667 — 29 19 .604 3 1/2 29 19 .604 3 1/2 16 32 .333 16 1/2 16 32 .333 16 1/2 Tuesday’s Results Indiana 89, Atlanta 85 Minnesota 109, L.A. Lakers 99 Chicago 101, Phoenix 92 Charlotte at Golden State, late

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

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

Boston at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at Washington, 5 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Phoenix at Houston, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Portland at New York, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Denver, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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

WOMEN’S HOOP Hoosier Daddy got 20 points from Cori Jones in downing the Shooting Stars 61-49 in Red Deer Women’s Basketball League Pool A play Monday.

Julie Cavanaugh had 12 points for the Stars. ● Cali Payne dropped in 12 points to lead the Storm to a 35-28 victory over the Spartans, who got 11 points from Carla Stewart. ● The Young Guns defeated the Big Ballers 49-44 with Milena Viveros hitting 12 points., Amber Vick had 10 points in a losing cause.

The Red Deer Western Financial Rangers captured gold in the U12 C division of the Edmonton Silver Ring ringette tournament during the weekend.

The Rangers defeated the Calgary K’OS 7-4 in the final. The Red Deer crew led 4-1 early before Calgary scored twice to make a game of it.

The Rangers defeated the Edmonton Lords of the Ring 7-0 in the semifinals.

During pool play they downed the Calgary Ice Creamers 8-3, the Lords of the Ring 9-2 and the K’OS 1-0.

It was the third gold medal of the season for the Rangers, who are looking to grab a berth in the provincials.

Raiders to open play at tournament Both Lindsay Thurber Raiders teams will open play at 3:30 p.m. in their respective divisions of the annual LTCHS invitational senior basketball tournament Friday.

The Raiders face W.P. Wagner of Edmonton in girls’ action while on the boys’ side the Raiders meet Salisbury from Sherwood Park.

Other girls’ games Friday sees Leduc facing Lester B. Pearson of Calgary at 5:15 p.m., Sturgeon taking on Hunting Hills at 7 p.m. and Grande Prairie clashing with Calgary’s Bishop Carroll at 8:45 p.m.

On the boys’ side, Pearson meets Wagner at 5:15 p.m., Leduc and Hunting Hills clash at 7 p.m. and Grande Prairie and Bishop Carroll meet at 8:45 p.m.

The semifinals in both divisions go at noon and 1:45 p.m. with the girls’ final at 7 p.m., followed by the boys.

Grizzlys beat Camrose in OT OLDS — Dustin Gorgi scored a power-play goal at 1:30 of overtime to lift the Olds Grizzlys to a 3-2 Alberta Junior Hockey League victory over the Camrose Kodiaks Tuesday.

Kyle Star and Spencer Dorowicz also tallied for the Grizzlys, who led 1-0 after one period and were tied 1-1 heading into the third. Scott Ferguson and Trevor Costello replied for the Kodiaks before 347 fans at the Sportsplex.

Jake Tamagi earned the win in the Olds net, making 21 saves.

Devin McDonald blocked shots for Camrose.

Olds returns to action Thursday against the host Calgary Canucks, then takes on the Thunder Saturday at Drayton Valley.

The Grizzlys’ next home game is next Tuesday against the Okotoks Oilers.

Transactions BASEBALL American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Announced the addition of a second Dominican Summer League club.

Named Carlos Alfonso international development co-ordinator and special assignment scout.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Promoted Farhan Zaidi to assistant general manager/director of baseball operations.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with OF Jason Heyward on a two-year contract.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Signed OF Jason Pridie, LHP Pedro Hernandez, LHP Yohan Flande and INF Rafael Ynoa to minor league contracts.

American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Signed OF Byron Wiley. Released RHP Sean Toler.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed RHP Matt

Milke and RHP Alex Pagano.

Atlantic League ATLANTIC LEAGUE — Named Rick White president.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Traded 1B Chris Duffy to Sioux Falls (AA) for INF Tim Pahuta.

FOOTBALL National Football League WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Name Bradford Banta assistant special teams coach; Shane Day assistant offensive line and offensive quality control coach; Jake Peetz offensive quality control coach, Aubrey Pleasant defensive quality control coach.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed OL D’Anthony Batiste.

OTTAWA REDBLACKS — Signed QB Henry Burris.

LOCAL HOME

FRONT HORN MEASURING Hunters are invited to a horn measuring this weekend. The Red Deer Fish and Game Association is hosting its horn measuring on Saturday at the Quality Inn, 7150 Gaetz Ave. in Red Deer, starting at 1 p.m. People must be Red Deer Fish and Game members to be eligible for trophies and there will be youth trophies in all categories.

All entries must have been taken in Alberta. People may also submit bird and fish entrees at this event or email them, preferably with a photo, by Feb. 8 to Barry at barmar1@ telus.net or Larry at wildlarryb2002@yahoo.ca.

BLACKFALDS FAMILY DAY A day full of winter fun is set for the Monday of the Family Day long weekend in Blackfalds.

On Feb. 17 from noon to 5 p.m., numerous events are planned as a part of the town’s winterfest.

Activities include ice sculpting, slides, children’s activities, a fire department-sponsored barbecue, the penguin dip, a hunt for loonies in the snow and door prizes.

Everyone is invited back at 7 p.m. for fireworks at AllStar Park. People can also get a sneak peak of the new recreation facility in the community, the Abbey Centre, from noon to 3 p.m.. All of the activities take place in the parking lot of the Abbey Centre, on Womacks Road. A family skate, from 3 to 5 p.m., and bingo, at 3 p.m., will be held at the Multi-plex.

For more information, visit www.blackfalds.com/ winterfest.

MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY Languages will be celebrated in Red Deer on Feb. 22. at Mother Language Day Event.

Central Alberta Refugee Effort will host the event at the G.H. Dawe Centre from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Representatives from more than 10 different languages will highlight their cultures through games involving words in their languages. Languages to be represented include French, Spanish, German, Italian, Urdu, Pashtu, Tagalog, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese, English and Japanese. Door prizes and ethnic food will be provided. International Mother Language Day is recognized by UNESCO and celebrated worldwide to promote unity, diversity and international understanding through multilingualism and multiculturalism. For more information, call Cristina Franco at 403-346-8818 Ext. 248.

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 2014

Project aims to preserve natural areas

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer County farmers could be compensated for preserving natural areas under a new pilot project.

The Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) program was founded in the late 1990s by Winnipeg-based Keystone Agricultural Producers and Delta Waterfowl Foundation, a U.S. organization whose Canadian operations are based in Winnipeg.

ALUS provides a financial incentive for farmers and land owners to protect environmentally sensitive land to maintain its ecological benefits.

Red Deer County will be the third Alberta rural municipality, after the County of Vermilion River and Parkland County, to champion the program, which provides per-acre compensation for farmers for land left in its natural state.

Ken Lewis, Red Deer County’s conservation co-ordinator, said previously when farmers left potentially productive land in a natural state, it came at a cost. ALUS attempts to recognize farmers’ contributions to allowing nature to provide its benefits.

Farmers are free to end their agreements

WAVE POOL CLOSED

early and there is no requirement that public access to natural areas be allowed.

Compensation is based on typical land rental rates in a given area.

“I think it’s a great way for farmers to get paid for some of their ecological services,” said Coun. Philip Massier.

While he supports the program he said a fund must be built up to support it using outside money, not tax dollars.

“I just think this program is excellent. It is something that is needed in the county,” said Coun. Jean Bota.

Funding for ALUS projects comes from a variety of sources, including provincial and federal governments, private foundations, angler and hunter groups, stewardship councils, and environmental groups.

Lewis said the county signed a memorandum of agreement with Delta last April and that organization has provided $15,000 in start-up cash.

To get the project rolling, council voted to set up a partnership advisory committee. It will include the council and public members who sit on the county’s Agricultural Services Board, as well as a representative from Delta. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Although the wave pool, water slide and lazy river were closed Tuesday, that did not stop some from enjoying the hot pools and play areas at the Collicutt Centre. Here Benjamin Parsons, 3, along with his father Jay, not shown, play in the fountain. The main pool and water slide will reopen once unexpected repairs have been completed.

Charges stayed in connection with violent abduction

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Charges were stayed on Tuesday against a man charged in connection with a violent abduction in Red Deer in the summer of 2012.

Jason Shawn Fraser, 39, was among four people arrested by Red Deer City RCMP investigating the kidnapping and assault of a 44-year-old city man on July 12, 2012.

Police stated at the time that they believed the abduction was in retaliation for an incident on the previous day, when a 16-year-old boy was found inside city limits, bound and gagged with duct tape. Police alleged at the time that the

man believed to have been involved with the youth had been captured and beaten, and then dumped in a rural area outside of city limits.

Charges were laid against Fraser and two other adults, as well as a youth.

Fraser, represented by defence counsel Lorne Goddard, was scheduled for trial by judge alone on Tuesday and today in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on charges including kidnapping, aggravated assault and uttering threats.

The trial was over before it began, however, when Crown prosecutor James Sawa of Calgary asked Justice Monica Bast for a stay of proceedings.

Sawa said he had been unable to subpoena his main wit-

LOCAL

BRIEFS Man arrested, charged with robbery An Innisfail man has been arrested and charged with the robbery of a Red Deer liquor store.

On Jan. 23 at about 7:15 p.m., a male suspect entered the Gaetz Avenue Liquor World, at 3417-50th Ave., with a handgun.

He demanded cash from the clerks and then fled.

Red Deer City RCMP have charged Rory Alan Jackson, 46, with robbery, using a firearm in commission of an offence, use of disguise during commitment of an indictable offence and failure to comply with an undertaking.

Jackson remains in custody and will appear in Red Deer provincial court on Feb. 18.

ness, the alleged victim of the abduction, and was therefore unable to put him on the stand to testify.

Charges were stayed earlier against one of the adults, for similar reasons.

One matter remains outstanding, Sawa said outside of the courtroom.

Goddard offered no objection to the stay, which means the case against his client remains in limbo for up to a year.

If there has been no action in the proceedings by the end of the year, the case will be dismissed.

Fraser remains in custody on other charges, laid earlier this year.

Late in January, he was sentenced to two years after plead-

winnings.

But Marantz said the machine did get the numbers right — only they didn’t immediately sink in with Maxmillions winner Webber, who purchased the ticket on Dec. 20 from a West Park store.

Man charged in bank break-in Police have charged a man with breaking into a Red Deer bank.

Red Deer City RCMP attended a break and enter at the TD Bank at 5001 19th St. on Jan. 13 at 7 a.m.

It was determined that the break-in had occurred at about 3:30 a.m.

The suspect pried open the door separating the ATM from the rest of the bank, setting off the security alarm.

The suspect moved through the bank but did not find anything of value.

Several images of the suspect were captured by video surveillance and released to the public. Joseph Kine, 30, of Red Deer has been charged with break and enter.

He has been released from custody on conditions and will appear in Red Deer provincial court on Feb. 21.

ing guilty to illegally obtaining and selling prescription drugs.

Fraser was arrested on Jan. 17 by members of the Red Deer ALERT law enforcement team investigating claims that he had obtained drugs including oxycodone, diazepam, clonazepam and morphine by using multiple doctors to fill the same prescription.

Police estimated the street value of the drugs at more than $100,000.

The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams are combined units comprising members of the RCMP, municipal police and Alberta Sheriffs. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate. com

ier had suggested the county contribute $10,000 but it did not get to a vote.

New traffic signals New traffic signals have been installed at the intersection of 22nd Street and Adamson Avenue/Inglewood Drive.

The lights will flash yellow and red to alert motorists of the new signals at the intersection. The signals will be fully operational on Thursday.

Drivers approaching a flashing yellow signal may proceed through the intersection with caution. Drivers approaching a flashing red signal must stop, observe the right of way and proceed when safe.

Pedestrians and drivers are asked to be aware of this new signal and use caution in the area.

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Red Deer County has turned down a funding request for a new Innisfail playground.

The nearly $350,000 project would see a new playground built between École John Wilson Elementary and St. Marguerite Catholic Schools, and will also be used by Innisfail Middle School.

County councillors supported the idea of having a better playground for school children, but noted the county had already provided $300,000 towards recent renovation and construction projects at the Innisfail schools.

It was also pointed out that matching provincial lottery funds are available for projects of this kind.

Council voted to deny funding by a 5-2 vote, with Councillors Philip Massier and Christine Moore the dissenting votes. Mass-

The MP who introduced a bill making it illegal to wear a mask while participating in an unlawful assembly or riot has been appointed to the House of Commons committee on public safety and national security.

Wild Rose MP Blake Richards accepted the appointment earlier this month.

“For many years, citizens across Canada, including our constituency, have encouraged our government’s efforts to put the rights of victims,” said Richards in a release.

“I have been fortunate to be able to do my part, and I look forward to the opportunity to do more as a part of this vital committee.”

Members of the committee will review several pieces of legislation, including the Respect for Communities Act and the Drug Free Prisons Act. As well, the committee is studying the economics of policing across the country.

“From 1985 to 2011, policing costs have risen from $137 to $375 per capita,” said Richards. “This study is taking a closer look at the underlying reasons for this.”

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

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Ticket scanner working fine There was nothing wrong with the automated lottery ticket scanner used by a Red Deer man who recently won $1 million.

Andrea Marantz, spokesperson for Alberta Lotteries, said David Webber only double-checked his winnings with the store’s retailer because he couldn’t mentally process the numbers he was seeing.

“He actually won a million and two dollars, so he saw this one and then all these zeros in the middle, and then a two” and couldn’t comprehend what that meant,” said Marantz.

“Sometimes that happens. ... When people win a large amount, they think (the machine) couldn’t be working properly.”

Some Advocate readers thought the automated machine was unreliable after reading a story on Webber’s win, which was written from a press release and suggested the ticket checker came up with only small

Playground funds rejected

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(MS) Financial planning is often mistakenly assumed to be a concern for the wealthy. That assumption essentially promotes the idea that people without much money need not worry about what to do with their finances. However, financial planning can benefit people at all income levels, even helping those at lower income levels move into higher brackets if they plan successfully.

Though having an idea of how to spend and grow your money is an idea many people would likely embrace, a significantly large number of people do not have

a financial plan. In a 2012 household financial planning survey, researchers found that just 31 percent of financial decision makers in families had created a financial plan. Some survey respondents did so on their own, while others used the services of a financial planner. Though some might be intimidated or even scared to institute their own financial plans, it can be done. For those who are especially hesitant to develop their own financial plans, financial planners can help you define your goals and make those goals a reality. The benefits of financial planning are numerous, helping people build better financial futures.

• A financial plan forces you to define your goals. One of the biggest advantages to financial planning is it forces men and women to define their financial goals. An effective financial plan should consider both short- and long-term goals. If you hope to one day own a home, a financial plan can help you figure out how quickly you will own that home. A good financial plan also can help you map out a course for retirement. Ambiguity with respect to your finances is potentially dangerous.

Saying you want to retire at 60 and developing a plan to make that happen are two very different things, but the latter can make it happen while the former won’t get you anywhere unless you take action. Be as specific as possible when defining your goals, and recognize that, depending on when you are making your financial plan, you might need to reassess those goals if they are not realistic.

• A financial plan can help you curtail your spending.

With a financial plan in place, you’re less likely to waste your money on frivolous things. Without a plan, you’re more likely to treat money as disposable, putting your financial future in jeopardy as a result.

A careful examination of your financial situation can shed light on areas where your spending is excessive.

A negative cash flow, which occurs when there is more money going out than coming in, has never been a part of a successful financial plan. Correcting

such a situation, which is often accomplished when people establish a financial plan that trims excessive spending, can go a long way toward securing your financial future.

• A financial plan can be motivational. Another significant and often overlooked benefit to financial planning is how such planning can act as a motivator.

A good financial plan will include certain measuring sticks, such as having debt paid off by a particular date or a certain day by which you hope to deposit a certain amount of money into your savings. These measuring sticks often motivate people to be more responsible with their money, and many people find living up to short-term financial goals to be very rewarding.

• A financial plan makes better use of your money.

Even if you don’t have any negative spending habits, a financial plan can help you make better use of the money you do have. A closer examination of your finances can often yield a host of ways to grow your money or save it. For example, you might have multiple insurance policies, some of which offer duplicate coverage. Examining each policy and removing duplicate coverage can save you money and help you spend that money in better ways. You wouldn’t pay for the same slice of pizza twice, so why pay for the same coverage twice? But unless you make a financial plan, you are unlikely to find those areas where you’re wasting money or discover the numerous ways in which your money can be better spent.

• A financial plan helps you grow your money. Even if you are worried about investing or especially skittish when it comes to risk, you will need to find ways to grow your money, and a financial plan can help you do just that. The concept of inflation dictates that the dollar you have today won’t be worth as much next year, meaning you will need to take steps to grow your money if you hope to have enough to get by in retirement. A financial plan can help everyone, whether they’re risk-averse or not, grow their money.

Something as simple as opening an interest-bearing account will grow your money more than if you were to put that money under the mattress. Without a financial plan that includes ways to grow your money, the money you have will only lessen in value as time goes on.

How to Prepare for Tax Time (MS) Although some are ready to say their fond farewells to 2013, thought needs to be given to the 12 months that just passed as tax-filing season approaches.

Tax season is a few months away, but it’s never too soon to begin preparations for filing income taxes.

Some people prefer to toast the new year and then arrange appointments with their accountants, while others use the new year as an opportunity to get organized and start compiling paperwork and tax questions. Preparing for tax time at the dawn of a new year can make the process go more smoothly in the months ahead. Here are some tips on how to prepare for the upcoming tax season.

• Start a documents folder. Employers, charitable organizations, banks and other financial institutions begin mailing out tax forms from the previous year in early January. Individuals should keep their eyes open for any mail that appears to be tax-related.

Store these documents in a folder that can protect any sensitive information. Such folders also make information more accessible as more and more

documents arrive in the mail.

• Begin collecting receipts and itemizing expenses.

Many expenses are tax-deductible. These can include education costs, moving expenses, home improvements, medical expenses, charitable donations and childcare costs. Store receipts and other documentation, including canceled checks, with the other tax documents. These will come in handy should an audit ever be ordered.

• Create a spreadsheet of important information. It is handy to have all financial information at the ready.

Some accountants will lower their fees if people do some of the filing preparation work themselves.

This can include creating a profit/loss statement on investments, or working up a tally of charitable donations. Make an itemized list of all pertinent information so it will be handy when tax-filing time arrives.

• Decide on a filing option. Technology has made filing taxes much easier. Tax preparation software is available for those who choose to file their taxes themselves. There also are walk-in centers that will

prepare tax-filing documents. Individuals also can visit a certified public accountant. Whatever method taxpayers choose, allow for ample time to gather information and get the taxes filed by the deadline.

Leave some wiggle room in case one filing method doesn’t work out.

• Start saving money. Although the goal is to get a refund each and every year, taxpayers sometimes owe money, which can be troublesome for men and women whose budgets are stretched thin already.

Those who owed money in the past should begin saving money for tax expenses as early as possible.

• Develop a good filing system. Many financial professionals will advise people to keep financial records for 7 years. Any tax documents should be kept together should they need to be referenced or if an audit is ordered. Designate a filing cabinet or a box specifically for tax documents.

Tax filing season is right around the corner, and the dawn of a new year is a great time for men and women to start gathering documents and preparing their returns.

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• Sort your documents.

When sorting documents, which should be done regularly, determine which include sensitive information and move them aside. Bills and other papers that do not reveal much may be stored in a regular filing system, but documents that contain sensitive information should be kept in more secure locations.

(MS) Certain personal and financial documents need to be kept for security and other purposes, while some documents can be discarded immediately. Documents that must be kept often include sensitive information, which means they shouldn’t be stored haphazardly.

Options for maintaining important records continue to evolve, but caution still must reign supreme when storing potentially sensitive documents.

• Invest in a durable, fireproof safe.

Store sensitive documents, including social security cards, marriage certificates, birth certificates, travel documents, life insurance policies, and mortgage paperwork, in a durable, fireproof safe. If you prefer to keep these items off-premises, keep them under lock and key in a bank safety deposit box.

• Organize your documents and maintain them.

Be sure to carefully label all boxes or cabinets in which important documents are stored. Create a filing system that works for your needs. You may want to organize the papers by date, type of document or your own coding method. Think about cross-referencing your tangible files with a master list so you’ll know the exact location of certain documents when you need them.

Various programs that work with a scanner or camera can now capture images of important paperwork and then convert these images into digital files that can be tagged and categorized.

The information is then stored digitally on a computer and can be retrieved with a few clicks of the mouse.

Computers that are used to store personal information should be password-protected. Never share potentially sensitive documents via email or through nonencrypted communication methods. Otherwise you risk information being stolen by hackers. When documents are stored digitally, make sure you keep backup versions. These can be kept on external hard drives or uploaded to secure servers. Should anything happen to your computer, you will have the backup version of your important files.

• Consider digital storage.

• Shred documents when the time comes. Every file

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Judgment may be an issue for friend, 65 Dear Annie: I am 69 years old, and my lovely lady friend is 65. We’ve only been dating for seven months, but I love her very much.

However, a few things about her drive me up the wall.

We live apart, and that is fine — she stays with me for a week and then goes home for a week.

Here’s the problem.

She is an impulsive shopper. She never leaves a store without picking up something, even though she doesn’t need it.

Secondly, she is a terrible procrastinator, changing our meeting times constantly. Finally, and worst of all, she is a huge risk taker. She tries to impress everyone and acts as if she is still in her 30s.

Recently, in the middle of a freezing snowstorm, she told MITCHELL me she was going to the gym. & SUGAR I said, “Are you nuts?” Her comment was, “I am a good driver and know how to handle the snow.”

A few months ago, we were at the ocean, and she decided to see how far out she could swim.

The lifeguard finally had to whistle her to come back in. She told him, “I know what I am doing.”

She once tried to hand-feed a raccoon. She now wants to try skydiving and zip lining.

I reminded her that she is 65 and needs to be a little more careful.

But she gets mad at me when I say things like that, commenting that she’s been doing these kinds of crazy things all her life.

I am really afraid that one day her luck is going to run out. How do I address this situation without upsetting her? Or am I being overly protective? — Worried Dear Worried: Please do not assume that age is a factor. Plenty of 65-year-olds are perfectly healthy and extremely active.

Unless your friend has a physical condition that limits her zip lining and skydiving, don’t upset yourself over it.

Hand-feeding a raccoon is simply idiotic, however, and some of her behaviour indicates that she lacks sound judgment. If that’s a recent development, she should see her doctor.

Otherwise, we suggest you stop reminding her how old she is. She seems sensitive about it and is likely to overcompensate.

Dear Annie: I am a caregiver for my husband, who was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia three years ago.

Before that time, I had never heard of Lewy body dementia, nor did I know that there are actually four distinct dementia classifications: Alzheimer’s, Lewy body, frontal lobe and vascular.

At this time, there are 1.3 million Americans who have been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, which is the second most common progressive dementia and is believed to be under-diagnosed.

These individuals are drug sensitive, and the incorrect drugs can cause full-blown dementia.

Anybody who shows signs of dementia should see their primary care physician and request a referral to a neurologist for proper diagnostic testing — the sooner, the better.

— Trinidad, Calif.

Dear Trinidad: Thank you for calling this to our attention. Aside from the familiar cognitive symptoms of dementia (which are also common to Alzheimer’s), Lewy’s includes visual hallucinations, as well as movement disorders that may be related to Parkinson’s.

The earlier it is diagnosed the sooner treatment can begin. Those who wish to know more about Lewy body dementia can contact lbda.org.

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Parents weigh pros, cons of having kids miss school for vacations

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Heather Greenwood Davis has few qualms about pulling her children out of school for short-term trips — a practice she plans to continue in future.

In fact, the Toronto-based travel writer is such a firm believer in the benefits of learning beyond the classroom that in 2011, she took a year-long globe-trotting journey with her husband and sons (then aged six and eight).

Greenwood Davis documented their adventures — which spanned six continents and 29 countries — on her website, Globetrotting Mama.

“I know the value that travel has brought to my life, even as an adult, and how many times I’ve been places where I’ve wished: ’Gosh, if I had seen this when they were trying to teach me out of the geography book or history book, it really would have sat with me better,”’ she said in a recent interview.

“Outside of strict educational channels, too, we talk about socializing kids, instilling confidence and all of those sorts of things — and travel offers all of that.”

As a travel adviser, Sheila Gallant-Halloran said her busiest periods at work are when her clients are on vacation, such as March Break and the summer.

That’s one of the reasons the mother of two daughters, aged 14 and eight, has previously allowed them to miss school to help accommodate the occasional family vacation, like a fall trip to Walt Disney World

you are out of the limelight for now, you develop a greater receptivity among others today and things will run quite smoothly.

Wednesday, Feb. 5 Understandings are clearer and alCELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS low you to grasp the hidden meaning DATE: Michael Sheen, 45; Laura Linof certain messages. ney, 50; Tom Wilkinson, 66 CANCER (June 21-July 22): Go out THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon and join your usual group of friends. continues to travel through sensual If certain individuals seem a bit more Taurus. Material needs and distant than usual, simply inclinations towards great ignore them. You’ve got too comforts of life will domimuch confidence and faith nate through our minds toto let them ruin your posiday. Our attention will be tive predisposition. mainly directed towards LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): issues such as stability, seSocial obligations cannot renity and peace. We feel be entirely met as your atnurtured when we know that tention might have to turn our vital needs are and if towards a domestic situwhether they are well taken ation. On a positive note, care of. you will be feeling very efHAPPY BIRTHDAY: If ficient about the amount of today is your birthday, this work you will accomplish ASTRO upcoming year will be about today: slowly, but surely. understanding your material DOYNA VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): needs and bringing in more You are on the conservacomfort into your everyday tive side today and succeed living life. The way in which in maintaining a nice flowyou will go about it is mainly ing vibe between yourself and others by assessing your budgetary situation today. Take the night off and give yourunder a realistic review and by adding self permission to experience some in a tad of imagination. You may want intense feelings of romance and joy. to bring in a more comfy look into your LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your focus working area too! is entirely channelled towards private ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s time matters and towards the wellbeing of to be realistic about your financial your own family or your parental roots. needs and your budgetary situation.

You struggle to find a balance between A tax situation or a loan may give you your partner’s needs for security and a headache at this time. Materialistic your family’s domestic situation. purchases really tempt you. You are SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You find also more attuned with all forms of art yourself at great ease to communicate and music. and to relate to your children. You are TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A friend recreating a beautiful energy among or an acquaintance can prove to be each other which brings a soulful kind much more receptive to your needs of connection. Enjoy the fun they bring than your own romantic partner or a along. business alliance. Your mate might act SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): a bit too distant right now. Agreements You are concerned with certain unremade now are instilled with your solved issues which seem to be stemstrong faith. You are getting closer to ming from your past. When you associyour dreams. ate and identify yourself with your own GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Even if set of values, you will easily reconnect

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or an extended break for travel around Easter.

“Work commitment is the biggest thing for me. But certainly there are price considerations,” said Gallant-Halloran, Ottawabased luxury travel adviser with Vision Travel/Lush Life.

“I have a lot of teacher clients, for example, they can only go on (vacation during) March Break ... it is very difficult for them to take off other times.

“As a result, they’re going for when the majority of people are trying to travel with their children, so they’re paying higher costs for flights....

“If you’re stuck and you have to travel at that time, you have to actually book far in advance to get the best pricing. And if you don’t have that liberty, then you’re stuck.”

Having children miss several days, a week or more from school for non-essential travel may prove appealing to parents looking to squeeze in family getaways within busy work schedules or seeking to save with last-minute deals.

But a British couple with three children recently paid a high price when their kids missed class.

Natasha and Stewart Sutherland had booked a week-long fall trip to Greece a year in advance.

Previously, the Department of Education allowed teachers to grant leaves of absence for family holidays during the school term in “special circumstances” of up to 10 school days per year. But amendments enacted last September removed references to family holiday and extended leave, as

with your sense of worthiness and happiness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your usual crowd seems a bit more distant and non responsive. Do not drown yourself in negativity as this will not resolve anything. What you can do instead is to simply keep in touch with your folks and your siblings. Pick up the phone or send them a message.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Career responsibilities are weighing you down. Simultaneously, your attention is required at home, but you may need to finish certain tasks before you at-

well the “statutory threshold” of 10 school days.

The Sutherlands were forced to pay more than more than $1,800 in costs and fines. Meanwhile, an online petition seeking a reversal of the amended rules has gathered more than 200,000 signatures.

“Teachers often do get requests for homework when students are going to be away, and it does require additional work for the teacher planning what activities will be meaningful for a student when they’re not in class, and trying to make sure that they do get caught up on assessments,” said Dianne Woloschuk, president of The Canadian Teachers’ Federation.

But Woloschuk, who has 35 years of teaching experience in Saskatchewan’s rural and urban school systems, also noted that “vacations can have education value.”

“I guess it depends a lot on how the parents will approach that,” said Woloschuk, adding that she thinks teachers would be concerned about students who are struggling missing school for a vacation.

“There are students who are very well-organized and who are able to handle something like this, perhaps better than others.

It just depends. And then parents also have a responsibility to ensure that students are following through with homework if that’s been requested.”

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tend your family obligations. You’ve got sustained confidence in that things will work out well in the end.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You can experience a nurturing and fulfilling friendship with someone quite prominent and influential. You are also feeling outspoken and quite in control of your mind. When you put your mind into something, there’s no arguing with you.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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BRIEF Netflix puts its money on 3rd season for House of Cards NEW YORK — Netflix says its acclaimed drama House of Cards will get a third season.

The online video provider had previously been cagey about the future of the series, which initially received a two-season order of 13 episodes apiece.

It returns with its second season on Feb. 14, when all 13 episodes will join the earlier 13 hours on the Netflix website.

Netflix offered no details concerning production start or release date for the third season’s 13 episodes.

House of Cards stars Kevin Spacey as a diabolical former U.S. senator now risen to vice-president.

The first season instantly made Netflix a force in the arena of original video content and snagged nine primetime Emmy nominations. Robin Wright won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Spacey’s scheming wife.

Toronto-based folk band coming to The Hideout The Wilderness of Manitoba is coming to a venue near you.

The Toronto-based folk band performs on Saturday, Feb. 8, at The Hideout, in Gasoline Alley south of Red Deer.

Since forming four year ago, The Wilderness of Manitoba has released three albums, two EPs, and toured Europe, Canada and the US. The group also had a song featured on the NBC series Parenthood.

It’s been an exciting few years —

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ABOVE: Arcade Fire performs during a benefit concert Monday, October 1, 2012, in Montreal. Montreal’s Arcade Fire has nabbed a leading six Juno nominations Tuesday.

RIGHT: Toronto’s Born Ruffians earned a breakthrough group of the year nomination after a decade of making a name for themselves internationally.

BELOW: Serena Ryder’s album Harmony won last year for adult alternative album of the year and is now nominated for album of the year.

cause there’s always a small overlap between eligibility periods, explained the Juno Awards’ manager of awards and special events Laura Bryan.

This year’s nominees had to release music between Sept. 1, 2012 and Nov. 13, 2013, the same months as the previous year — so any artist who released music during the overlap was allowed to submit again to any category in which they hadn’t already received a nomination.

Blurred Lines crooner Robin Thicke — a longtime L.A. resident who pulled in three Juno nominations because he from getting a standing ovation at the End of the Road Festival in the U.K. to playing the Philadelphia Folk Festival and meeting Levon Helm.

The Wilderness of Manitoba kicked off 2014 by performing at the SXSW Festival in Austin, after being nominated for two 2013 Canadian Folk Music Awards — for Pushing the Boundaries and Vocal Group of the Year.

The four members — vocalist Will Whitwham on guitar, piano and ukulele; vocalist Amanda Balsys on violin, vocals and percussion; Wes McClintock on bass; and Sean Lancaric percussion — are recording their fourth album before embarking on a Western Canadian tour.

Fans who see the group at The Hideout are bound to hear some brand-new tunes, as well as older ones, like Echoes.

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George Lucas’ plan for museum rejected SAN FRANCISCO — The stewards of national park land at the base of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge have rejected a museum proposal by Star Wars creator George Lucas.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports the Presidio Trust’s seven-member board voted unanimously on Monday against Lucas’ plan and two others that were under consideration for an 8-acre site overlooking San Francisco Bay. The trust, however, said it would work with Lucas to find another site for his museum within the park.

Lucas wants a showcase for his collection of popular art, including illustrations by Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish.

David Perry, a spokesman for the producer, said the Lucas group was surprised to hear there were other possible sites for the museum in the park and would continue to work with the trust.

possesses Canadian citizenship by virtue of his actor father, Alan — was announced as a performer at the show, as were Ryder, Tegan and Sara and City and Colour.

The host has yet to be announced.

This year’s nominations were declared at a packed press conference in downtown Toronto, with many of this year’s award contenders in attendance — they were invited under semi-mysterious circumstances, with most allowing only cautious optimism that the invitation was a precursor to a nomination.

“I thought they were just being like: ‘Hey, come on out,”’ said Halifaxraised electronic album of the year nominee Ryan Hemsworth, a rising star whose remixes of artists including

Mikky Ekko, A$AP Rocky and Grimes have won international acclaim.

“I don’t know too much about the inner workings of the Junos — it could have been an evil little twist . . . But I’m very happy they nominated me.”

After the announcement, the award hopefuls were whisked through a gauntlet of media — typically after sending a flurry of texts to proud loved ones.

“I told my mother,” said Welland, Ont., country singer Daniel Romano, vying for roots & traditional album of the year: solo. “She asked who else was in the category and I haven’t written back yet. “‘Well, who are you up against?’

Chill out, ma. It’s fine. One step at a time.” ence of marijuana and Xanax in his system.

Bieber gets March trial date for charges of DUI, resisting arrest MIAMI — A trial date has been set for Justin Bieber in Miami for his recent arrest on charges of driving under the influence, resisting arrest and driving with an invalid license.

A Miami-Dade County judge set trial for the three misdemeanours for March 3. Bieber’s attorneys have already filed a written plea of not guilty.

Initial trial dates are often delayed.

The 19-year-old pop star was arrested Jan. 23 in Miami Beach after what police called an illegal drag race between two exotic sports cars driven

by Bieber and R&B singer Khalil Amir Sharieff. Sharieff was also arrested on a DUI charge.

Breath tests showed Bieber’s blood alcohol content below the .02 threshold for underage drivers. But police say a toxicology test detected the pres-

Williams to perform Happy on Oscar telecast LOS ANGELES — Pharrell Williams will perform at the Academy Awards.

Oscar producers said Tuesday the producer-performer will sing his nominated song Happy. There was no word on whether his Grammy Award-stealing hat would make an appearance.

Williams wrote Happy for Despicable Me 2. It’s nominated for original song along with U2’s Ordinary Love from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Let It Go by Idina Menzel from Frozen and Karen O’s The Moon Song from Her. The 40-year-old Williams has been on quite a run with prominent roles in the recent hits Get Lucky and Blurred Lines and with four Grammy wins, including producer of the year.

The Oscars will be presented March 2.

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TORONTO — Toronto’s Born Ruffians earned a breakthrough group of the year nomination at this year’s Juno Awards, after more than a decade of making a name for themselves internationally for their energetic, jangly guitar pop.

So just after nominations were announced Tuesday, the band’s elated principal members couldn’t help but poke fun at the distinction.

“We’ve been a band since high school, almost 11 years — it’s been a long time. So breaking through after that long is less of a ‘breakthrough’ and more like softly pawing at the wall,” joked bassist Mitch Derosier.

“Like timid cats trying to get in,” chimed in frontman Luke Lalonde.

“We’re coming! Here we come!” added Derosier.

Nevertheless, the quartet was pleased to find itself amidst a slate of Juno nominees largely ruled by heavyweights.

Montreal’s Arcade Fire, whose expansive fourth album Reflektor topped charts upon its October release, led the way with six nominations only two years after claiming a leading four Juno trophies, including album and group of the year.

The consensus at Tuesday’s news conference seemed to be that the ambitious rockers were the ones to beat.

“We’ll be honoured to lose to the Arcade Fire,” laughed Wes Marskell of Toronto’s the Darcys, whose intricate record Warring is nominated alongside Reflektor for alternative album of the year.

But other front-runners have also been here before.

Michael Buble — an 11-time winner and last year’s host — earned five nominations including album, single and artist of the year, while five nods also went to Serena Ryder, a four-time winner who nevertheless has to be considered one of the year’s only newcomers to the top categories.

The other act to finally crack the Junos’ upper echelon was Calgary-reared outfit Tegan and Sara. The Quin twins scooped up four nominations for their slick Heartthrob, a clever pop reinvention that finally propelled the duo near the top of the charts.

Other four-time nominees this year included Celine Dion (a 20-time winner), Hedley (now 25-time nominees) and Drake, now a 20-time nominee who wrested an album of the year nomination for Nothing Was the Same but whose platinum singles Started From the Bottom and Hold On, We’re Going Home were excluded from recognition.

Oddly, Ryder’s album — Harmony — won last year for adult alternative album of the year and is now nominated for album of the year. Similarly, Classified and David Myles’ Inner Ninja won rap recording of the year at last year’s show — and the duo actually performed the jaunty tune — and now it’s nominated for single of the year.

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COOPER Robert Matthew 1971 - 2014 It is with deep sadness that we announce our beloved husband, dad, son and brother, Mr. Robert Matthew Cooper of Blackfalds, Alberta passed away unexpectedly on January 29th, 2014 at the age of 42 years. Rob (Robbie) is survived by his loving wife of 11 years Loretta and son Dennis of Blackfalds. His parents Wayne and Pamela Cooper of Calgary, Brother, Ryan Cooper and Sister, Jennifer Brkic. He is also sadly missed by Raymond and Louise, Crystal and Larry. Robbie was also a loving uncle to Kaylee, Alex, Lilyan, Sydney, Luka and Felicia.

He is forever remembered by numerous Cherished Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, friends and neighbors.

Rob was an avid hot wheels collector and spent many hours on eBay buying and selling. He enjoyed comparing cars with his neighbor Verne when he wasn’t tinkering on his beloved 61 Comet wagon or some project he always had on the go. Rob was a decorated Boy Scout member and leader. Later he received the Duke of Edinburgh Award for volunteerism and community service. He enjoyed studying the bible, volunteering, music, antiques, sketching cars, building models of all kinds, and cruising in his mustang.

He was a beautiful pianist and artist. He loved spending time in his grandpa’s recliner with his dogs by his side and his cat on his lap and a good cup of coffee. He attended many car and antique shows with his son, Dad and Uncle Max. He studied sheet metal mechanics and graduated a journeyman from SAIT. He spent the last 11 years with Hawk Custom Sheet Metal in Red Deer. Ever the adventurer, Rob created many things out of sheet metal, including a sluice box to collect gold dust from Central Albertan rivers.

“Coop” was always laughing, joking around and loved a good prank. A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer on Saturday, February 8th, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

Interment to follow at a later date. Donations in lieu of flowers may be left in his memory to a homeless charity of choice.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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MILLER John Grant Miller passed away on Friday, January 31st, 2014 at the age of 66.

Grant was a devoted husband to Jacalyn (née Hudson) and father of nine children. He practiced law in Innisfail, Alberta for more than 37 years and was known by many through his work and service in the community.

Grant is the eldest child of Joyce Pauline (née Davies) and James Rex Miller of Cardston, Alberta. He was born in his mother’s hometown of Bilston, Staffordshire, England on 28 October 1947 and came to Canada by boat at 10 months old with his mother. The family settled in Cardston in 1954. After serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in England, Grant graduated first from the University of Lethbridge and then law school at the University of Alberta. In 1976 he settled in Innisfail to practice law at the firm that soon became Miller Lehane & Wild. Throughout his life Grant volunteered in many capacities both within the LDS Church and in the community. In his career as a lawyer, Grant always tried to be understandable and kind with his clients. Grant also helped those with limited resources, at times working pro bono or arranging to be paid by whatever means his clients could afford. He will be dearly missed by his wife Jacalyn and children David (Aimee), Cardston, AB; Janet (Darryl), Okotoks, AB; Logan (fiancé Rachel) Kelowna, BC; Chris (girlfriend Jamie Rowen), Toronto, ON; Steven (Andrea), Saskatoon, SK; Lisa (Dave), Edmonton, AB; Clare (boyfriend Ryan), Red Deer, AB; and Evan, Vancouver, BC; and his fourteen grandchildren.

He is also survived by his parents, Joyce and Rex, and brothers Scott (Janice), and Craig (Kathy). He is welcomed home by his beloved daughter Angela, who passed away in April 1978. A Memorial Service honoring Grant will be held at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5698 55 Ave. Cres., Innisfail, Alberta on Saturday, February 8th, 2014 at 11:00 a.m . with a luncheon to follow.

E-mail your condolences to: legacyfh@telus.net LEGACY FUNERAL HOMES LTD., Cardston Assisting the Family. Phone 403-653-3222.

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McINTOSH Patricia Joan 1958 - 2014 With incredible sadness we announce the very sudden death of our daughter and mother February 1, 2014.

Pat died at the age of 56 and will be forever missed. Her only wish after death was to have her body donated for scientific research. We are working towards this for her.

A celebration of her life will be held at a later date.

You know we love you Patti!

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Obituaries ROSS Brenda It is with heavy hearts and immense sadness to announce the passing of Brenda Ross of Red Deer, AB, on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at the age of 53 years. Brenda is survived by her two loving children Ronnie and Brandy Ross; brother Randy Butlin; sisters Debra Buffalo (Danny) and Crystal Jones; along with many aunt, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, many friends and co-workers.

Brenda was predeceased by her husband Bernard Ross; father Percy Jones and her parents Andrew and Charlotte Butlin; sister Patricia Carriere; uncle Chester and aunt Cassie Mornson; fatherin-law Ronald T. Ross; brothers -in-law Arnold Ross and Victor Crier. Brenda will be fondly remembered for her caring nature, genuine sense of humour, and her ability to find the positive in anything.

She enjoyed being outside, gardening, socializing with good friends, reading a good book, and spending evenings around the fire pit. With a work ethic second to none.

For those who wish to pay their respects to Mrs. Brenda Ross, visitations will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Thursday, February 6, 2014 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel on Friday, February 7, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. Interment will follow at Alto Reste Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Brenda’s name may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913-50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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SCOTT Reginald Andrew Jan. 9, 1973 - Jan. 28, 2014 It is with immense sorrow that we announce the passing of Reginald Andrew Scott.

He earned what many desire; he became a true legend in his family. Reg was a remarkable man that could take simple tasks and turn them into epic journeys. He had the gift of being able to see a brilliant and beautiful finish; it did not matter if it was a house, a family event or a friendship. Reginald leaves behind: his wife, Jennifer (Gladstone), two amazing children Raechel Sophia and Eva Brynne; Father and Mother Reginald and Lana (McPherson) Scott; Sister Paula (Scott) Lenz and husband Jason; brother Cameron Scott and wife Kristine (Bennett); sister Tanya (Scott) Butcher and husband Michiel; mother-in-Law Joanna Hansen and sisters-in-law Becky and Mandy Gladstone.

Reg was a proud uncle of Jared, Kyle, Stephanie, Jenna, Kaitlyn, Alissa, Sydney and Madison; a grandson of Marie McPherson and Wilda Morris; a memorable nephew of many aunts, uncles, and a cousin to countless many. He was a life-long friend of Dave Long, Roland Deleeuw, Kevin Goddard and Bert Kisjes. To everyone who was a friend of Reggie’s, know that he was proud to have you share in his life. A celebration of Reg’s life will be held at the First Baptist Church, Lacombe on Saturday February 8th, 2014 at 2:00 pm. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to any Central Alberta, SERVUS Credit Acct # 58848497 Union under Reg Scott’s name to establish a fund for Jen, Raechel and Eva. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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MILLER Lucy 1940-2014 Mrs. Lucy Miller of Red Deer passed away with a strong but valiant fight. She was determined not to let the cancer win. She drifted away peacefully with her family at her side on Sunday, February 2, 2014 at the Red Deer Hospice at the age of 73.

Lucy was born on March 2, 1940 at Picture Butte, AB as a daughter to 1st generation immigrants from Croatia (Yugoslavia). She enjoyed the simple and long-term rewards in life; Patience, (true) confidence and a noble heart were but a few of her most alluring traits. Along with this, the nature of “sacrifice” was understood and exercised without thought as if it were second nature to her very spirit. Lucy enjoyed life to the fullest through finding and fostering the strength in others, first and foremost through her family. For the many that knew her personally, this was an obvious accomplishment through her daily choices and the corporations (owners) she so chose to support in her career. Special thanks to those that supported her in those industrious times at Farmland, Phoenix Construction, Goodman Roofing and Van Alta Management. Among those most cherished was her spouse of 45 years Bill (William A.) Miller. They enjoyed many adventures together and had a wonderful retirement life. With the passing of her husband Bill (2006), she acquired newfound strength in socializing with many new and old acquaintances from her past. Warm blessings and thanks to her golfing friends, her wonderful neighbors, dress club ladies and the nurses who adopted her as an honorary nurse and provided solace to the heavy hearts of her surviving children. Lucy will be sadly and deeply missed but lovingly remembered and forever cherished in the hearts of her family and many friends. Lucy leaves to mourn her daughter Brenda (Darcy) Hall of Red Deer, AB and her son Craig (Audrey) Miller also of Red Deer, AB and her grandchildren; Payden, Chase and Nolan. She will also be missed by her sister’s, Doris Radisic of Edmonton, Stella (Rob) Evans of Vancouver, BC, Annie (Jim) Northsworthy of Vancouver, BC. Lucy was predeceased by her loving husband, Bill, of 45 years. Her parents Sam and Danica Radisic, two sister’s Mary Slovak, Helen Radisic and her brother Michael Radisic.

Lucy ( Mom) was a fighter she gave this battle her all! She will always be known for being everyone’s inspiration to being so positive. She will be truly missed by all. Thank you to Dr. Graham the Cancer Center in Red Deer and Dr. Daniel for the wonderful care you provided our mom over the years. Special thanks to the Red Deer Hospice for making our mom, and our family feel so at home. Thank you for taking such wonderful care of our mom. A Funeral Service will be held at CrossRoads Church, S.W. corner of Hwy. 2 and 32nd Street, Red Deer on Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Interment will follow at Mount Calvary Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. Memorial Donations in Lucy’s honour may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer, AB. T4R 3S6.

Arrangements in care of Lenore Jacobson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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WHITNEY 1931 - 2014 It is with heavy hearts and happy memories that we announce the passing of Donald George Whitney. Don passed away in Red Deer, Alberta on February 1st, 2014 at the age of 83. Don was born in Consort, Alberta January 10, 1931 to Ray and Jessie Whitney. Don embraced an active and full life enjoying his family, his work and his leisure. He was loved by many and lit up the room with his smile and dreamy blue eyes. Don is survived by his four children, Cheryl (Gordon) Blonke, Brenda (Robert) Claude, Dwayne (Sue) Whitney, Cindy (Troy) Pugh, eleven grandchildren, and fifteen great grandchildren, many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Don was predeceased by his wife Gladys, his parents, and his sister Shirley Knockleby.

There will be a memorial tribute in Don’s honour held on February 8, 2014 at 2pm at Legacy Estates, 56 Carroll Crescent, Red Deer, Alberta and a Celebration of his Life will take place in May of 2014 (details to follow). In lieu of flowers please make donations to the Parkinson’s Foundation.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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Our cat, Shadow, went missing on the morning of January 21st. He is a 9 yr old all black male neutered cat w/his front paws declawed.

Yellow-green eyes & a torn, healed ear. Tattooed. With the temperature dropping, we are starting to fear the worst. He normally only spends time outside sunning on the deck so his disappearance is very alarming. Reward for his safe return. Anyone w/information can contact Hayley at 403-506-7446 any time of day.

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Legal Assistant positions in the areas of Litigation and Corporate/Commercial are available. Minimum 2-5 years experience in the relevant fields is a requirement. Cores III accreditation for the Corporate/Commercial position is highly recommended.

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Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Team in Hinton.

Alstar has been serving the oil and gas construction industry since 1969.

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS & DERRICK HANDS Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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ELEMENTS is looking 5 Beauty Treatment Operators.

Selling seasonal gift packages & personal care products in Parkland Mall-4747 67th St Red Deer, $14.55/Hr. Plus bonus & commission, F/T, Beauty certification req’d email resumes: elementsreddeerbto@ gmail.com ELEMENTS is looking for 5 retail sales reps. selling season gift packages and personal care products in Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + bonus & comm. FT. No exp. req`d. Please email elementsreddeer@gmail.com

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIST Pidherney’s is a progressive company that offers competitive wages, benefits and a pension plan.

We require a full time Information Technologist for our Blackfalds office. MCSE/MSSA, CompTIA Network, Server, Security Certifications are preferred. CompTIA A+ Certification and experience are the minimum requirements for all applicants.

Purchasing Card and Accounts Payable Administrative Assistant For further information and to apply for this position, please visit the Division’s website at www.rdcrs.ca

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Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, and supply of liquid nitrogen (N2), liquid carbon dioxide (CO2), liquid natural gas (LNG), and compressed natural gas (CNG) for the energy industry in both Canada and the USA. Ferus has a great corporate culture with an excellent work/home life balance, strong team atmosphere and encourages the development of their employees for future growth.

Ferus requires a CO2/LNG Field Operator to oversee the daily operations of the Ferus CO2 and LNG production facilities.

The position is based out of the Joffre production office and the candidate must be willing to travel. All duties will be performed in a safe, environmentally friendly & cost effective manner.

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & bath products $14.55/hr. + bonus & comm. Beauty cert. req’d. Location Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer. email premierjobrdbto@ gmail.com SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com STORESMART Self-Storage seeking F/T Assistant Centre Manager for 40 hours per week. For job description and how to apply, go to www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs.

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www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products is expanding and are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years B-train trailer experience.

ADS Drivers are required to safely operate company equipment and provide a high level of customer service, delivering our products within central Alberta. ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and maintain legal transportation paperwork and driving practices. This position requires a valid Class 1 License, with previous off road forklift experience a definite asset. We offer quarterly cash safety bonuses as well as a comprehensive 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) Paid Vacation Safety Bonus All applicants are subject to a pre-employment physical and MVR check.

Interested Applicants may submit a resume, along with a current drivers abstract to: Advanced Drainage Systems Canada Inc. 4316 Gerdts Ave. Blindman Ind. Park Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8 Fax: (403) 346-5806 E-mail ken.mccutcheon@ ads-pipe.com Position closing date: Feb. 10, 2014

Utility Construction Classifieds Company seeking Your place to SELL employee to manage and Your place to BUY maintain all aspects of safety program in Red SMALL Manufacturing Deer/Olds area: Company Looking for a • Conduct training, new Journeymen Framer or hire orientation and Equivalent with exp. Basic safety meetings • Monitor all work for tools required: Steel Toed Boots and hard hats. compliance with safety Indoors all year round regulations Mon-Friday work week, • Investigation, reporting occasional weekend and resolution of safety Please send resume to: incidents inquiries@sheltersrus.ca • Manage corporate WCB Fax:403-348-8109 program including reporting, claims management and injury Truckers/ prevention Drivers • Maintain COR • Minimum 5 years’ experience BUSY Central Alberta Business Contact Wayne at Grain Trucking Company 1-403-556-8563 or email looking for Class 1 Drivers Opportunities resume to waynec@ and/or Lease Operators.

FRANCHISE b-lineutilities.com We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus OPPORTUNITY. DNR Powerline program. Grain and super Construction requires B exp. an asset but not Journeyman/ necessary. If you have a Apprentices/Labourers for clean commercial drivers various projects in Alberta. abstract and would like to Long term employment. start making good money.

Excellent opportunity for fax or email resume and apprenticeship. Excellent comm.abstract to benefit packages. Fax 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net resume to 403-742-5759 Tired of Standing? or email: dnrwelding1 Find something to sit on @dnrwelding.ca Attention: Noel. No Phone calls in Classifieds For the Red Deer area. please. Drug and Alcohol Please contact program in effect. memphisbluesprairies Central Alberta’s Largest DNR Pressure Welding @gmail.com Car Lot in Classifieds requires B-Pressure Welder Crew Foreman, lead hands, labourers for Misc. various projects in Alberta.

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Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent ACADEMIC Express benefit packages. Fax ADULT EDUCATION resume to 403-742-5759 AND TRAINING or email: dnrwelding1 @dnrwelding.ca. Attention: WINTER START Ryan. No Phone calls please. Drug and Alcohol CENTRAL AB based truckGED PREPARATION program in effect. ing company requires Feb. 10 START DNR Pressure Welding & Owner Operators Powerline Construction SPRING START & Company Drivers requires Journeyman in AB. Home the odd Heavy Duty Mechanic with Support experience in fleet mainte- night. Weekends off. Late • Community Worker Program model tractor pref. nance for Heavy & Light 403-586-4558 duty trucks. Excellent • Women in the Trades benefit packages. Email F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

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Please email resume to Joey Huckabone joey@pikewheatonchev.ca Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

860

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Experienced Siders Needed Call 403-588-3210 Flooring Installer needed for Specialized Flooring company. 5 yrs or more experience in all types of flooring installation. F/T position available to business minded, service oriented person, who has a valid license, vehicle & tools, bondable. Fax resumes & references to 403-340-0046, or contact us at 403 357 7728

The candidate will be responsible for: • Supporting the daily operations of the Ferus CO2 and LNG production facilities by assisting in optimizing, troubleshooting and performing corrective actions with the goal of maintaining optimum facility production • Assisting in new facility commissioning and existing facility project additions or expansions • Ensuring correct environmental and safety practices are performed and upheld at the Ferus facilities • Assisting in training CO2 and LNG facility operators as required

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

The candidate will require the following skills, experience & certification: • Gas compression operations experience • H2S removal system operations experience an asset • Refrigeration system operations experience an asset • Pipeline operations experience • Gas processing facility operations experience • CO2 experience is an asset but not required • Current H2S Alive & First Aid certification • Current Class 5 Drivers License • Basic computer skills & knowledge of production and sales reporting an asset Ferus offers a competitive compensation package including a competitive base salary, bonus incentive plan & an excellent Benefits Package, including a Group RSP Savings Plan.

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, please fax resume to: 1 -888-879-6125 or email humanresources@ferus.com

by Feb. 21, 2014 We thank you for your interest, however only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

830

850

Please reference: CO2OP-1113-JF 357116B7

Please forward resumes to:

hr@pidherneys.com or fax to 403-845-5370

Sales & Distributors

Trades THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T DISHWASHER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

WANTED:

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

customer service experience.

P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

820

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons Food Service Manager 5 positions, F/T & P/ T, $9.95 - $18/hr. depending on exp. and availability.

Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights and evening shifts. 3-5 yrs. exp., completion of seconOIL & GAS OPERATOR dary school. Start date Bearspaw currently has a ASAP. Apply in person position in our Stettler field 6620 Orr Drive. operations for an intermediate Fax: 403-782-9685 oil and gas operator. Applicants Call 403-848-2356 must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or JJAM Management (1987) journeyman instrument Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s mechanic and possess Requires to work at these strong mechanical skills, Red Deer, AB locations: be quick learners, motivated 5111 22 St. and hard working and live 37444 HWY 2 S or be willing to relocate 37543 HWY 2N within a 20 minute commute 700 3020 22 St. to workplace location. This Food Service Supervisor 8 position offers a challenging Vacancies, 1-2 yrs. exp. work environment, attractive req’d. P/T & F.T. SHIFT benefits with competitive WORK, $9.95 - $13.50/hr. pay and significant room Apply in person or fax for promotion. resume to: 403-314-1303 Please submit resumes Attn: Human Resources email:kwolokoff@ bearspawpet.com Fax 403-252-9719 Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Restaurant/ Hotel

Reporting to the CFO, the JJAM Management (1987) Junior Accountant will be Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s responsible for all of the Requires to work at these accounting functions (i.e.

Red Deer, AB locations: inputting of supplier 5111 22 St. invoices, quarterly 37444 HWY 2 S preparation of GST 37543 HWY 2N returns to be reviewed by 700 3020 22 St. CFO, preparation of Food Counter Attendant monthly financial reporting 8 Vacancies P/T & F.T. package, payments of SHIFT WORK, $9.95 supplier invoices, bank $10.98/hr. Apply in person reconciliations, etc.). This or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 position plays a role in LUAU Investments Ltd. establishing financial (o/a Tim Hortons) policies, procedures, Food Counter Attendant internal controls and FT and PT positions reporting systems, ensuring available for day, night, that systems are in place evening and weekend to produce accurate and shifts. $9.95 to $11.25 per timely reporting of financial hour depending on experiresults. Candidate must ence/availability. Apply in have University degree or person at any of these college diploma, with 3-5 locations 4217 - 50 Ave years of relevant work 6721 - 50 Ave experience. Email: 7111 - 50 Ave dsmith@wiseisi.com 62 Carleton Ave or email timhire@telus.net

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

has a full time career advancing position available as a TREELINE General Legal Assistant.

WELL SERVICES The successful applicant Has Opening for all will have completed the positions! Immediately.

Legal Assistant Program, All applicants must have and have prior experience current H2S, Class 5 with working in a law firm. This Q Endorsement, (No GDL position requires someone licenses) and First Aid. who displays a team player We offer competitive outlook, demonstrates wages & excellent benefits. effective communication Please include 2 work skills, has the ability to reference names and multi-task, and work in a numbers. fast paced environment.

Please fax resume to: We offer an excellent 403-264-6725 working environment, Or email to: benefits, and the tannis@treelinewell.com opportunity for personal No phone calls please. and professional growth. www.treelinewell.com Please respond in confidence with a cover ZUBAR Production letter and resume to: Services Attention: Human is currently taking resumes Resources for experienced Johnston Ming Manning Production Testing LLP 3rd Floor, 4943 - 50 Personnel Street Red Deer, AB Email resume to: T4N 1Y1 rdzubaroffice@telus.net Fax: (403) 342-9173 or fax to (403)346-9420.

Email: hr@jmmlawrd.ca Must have all valid tickets.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Professionals

Clerical

810

“Committed to enriching the lives of our workforce, while Providing quality energy construction solutions”

760

ADAM & EVE UNISEX In the Parkland Mall is seeking P/T / F/T HAIR STYLISTS Please call Laurie 403-350-4341

LOST- “Live,Love,Laugh” hoop with charms on it on Friday Jan. 24/14 between 9 am & 1 pm. Sentimental memories. If found please call 780-806-1633.

Personals

740

Experienced Oilfield Construction Lead Hands Experienced Oilfield Construction Labourers Industrial Painters

Professionals

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! 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

MILLWRIGHTS & WELDERS for work in Red Deer.

Please fax resume to 1-403-229-4079

Now Hiring Overhead Door Tech & Helper for Ponoka overhead door company.

Pay DOE to $35/hr. Contact Gerald 403-963-5000 or email doorsondemand@ hotmail.com

Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry.

www.ferus.ca

Heavy Duty Mechanic Journeyman Grande Prairie

Ferus’ Operations division requires a Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic to join our growing team to service Ferus’ expanding fleet of tractor & trailer units in our Blackfalds and Grande Prairie Bases.

Reporting to the Shop Foreman you will be responsible for a variety of duties in a service oriented environment. Working in the Oil and Gas Field you will be required to work effectively unsupervised, have good working knowledge of Heavy Duty Truck and Trailer repairs, combined with a great attitude. A CVIP inspection license or the ability to obtain one is required. Due to the nature and volume of work some overtime and on call work will be required.

Heavy Duty Mechanic Apprentice or Journeyman Blackfalds

Reporting to the Shop Foreman, this individual will be responsible for a variety of duties in a serviceoriented environment. The successful candidate will be willing to work towards their Interprovincial Heavy Equipment Technician certification and have completed at a minimum their 3rd year apprenticeship requirements. This individual must be highly motivated and mechanically inclined.

Ferus offers a competitive compensation package including a competitive base salary, bonus incentive plan & an excellent Benefits Package, including flex days, flexible spending account and a Group RSP Savings Plan.

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, please email your resume

To: humanresources@ferus.com or fax 1-888-879-6125 Please reference: Ad #RDGP-MEC-0513 357290B20

Oilfield

356969B3

730

357119B16

Computer Personnel

We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 D3

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ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT 2007 INFINITI G35X

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 MERCEDES Benz CLS 500 lthr., sunroof, 115057 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 HUMMER H2

2006 PONTIAC Solstice 26080 kms., 5 speed,

$24,888

Sport & Import 348 8788

$6000.

403-347-0461

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 LAND ROVER Range Rover supercharged, 4X4, nav., sunroof, lthr.,

$33,888.

348-8788, Sport & Import

2006 Range Rover Sport HSE Sport & Import 7652 50 Ave

2007 PONTIAC G5.

Manual, 130,000 km. Great cond. Winter & Summer tires. Well. maint. N/S.

$25,888

2005 LEXUS ES 330 FWD, lthr., 41,100 kms,

$15,888. SOLD

348-8788 Sport & Import

2006 34’ Gulf Stream Yellowstone. Sleeps 4, 3 slides, new awning, washer, dryer hookup, equipped w/Arctic & Sub Arctic pkgs, custom skirt & more! $34,900. 403-8878405

$10,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 ACURA RSX Premium auto 57,000 kms.

2003 DODGE Durango SLT Plus, 4X4,

2006 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV platinum, mint

$12,888

$21,888

$8,888.

Sport & Import 403-348-8788

DO YOU HAVE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 DODGE RAM 1500 4x4, quad, gold , c/w topper, 2 sets of tires. Exc. cond.

2006 GMC C4500 4X4, Duramax, 170,000 kms.

VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

$5,550.

348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

348-8788 Sport & Import

ALL WHEEL DRIVE 2007 530 XI BMW. Original Owner, 143,000 km. Exc. Cond. Regularly Maintained,

2007 TOYOTA Tacoma V6

2008 VW GOLF CITY

4X4, 114903 kms.,

Fully Loaded!

$19,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

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2007 CHRYSLER 300 103198 kms.,

2008 Audi A4 2.0T

$10,888

$9,888.

Sport & Import 348 8788

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 FORD FIESTA. $8200, 5 spd, 11,000 km.

Exc. cond. Great on gas.

Medical reasons.

Ask for Doug **SOLD**

2007 COLORADO, 28RK, Dutchman, 32’, slideout, back kitchen, shower, king bed, TV, stereo, air. loaded

2008 BMW X5 3.0si

2009 RANGER XLT 4x4, 70,000 kms.,

2011 GMC Sierra 1500 Hybrid 4X4, 6.0L, lthr., 81735 kms.,

348-8788 Sport & Import

TRADES CONSIDERED 403-598-0682

348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2009 VW GOLF, manual, 90,000 km.

Winter pkg,

2012 CHEV Silverado 2500 LTZ, diesel, lthr., tonneau cover,

403-391-1770

348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 FORD F-150 Lariat 4X4, htd. lthr., sunroof,

2008 Escalade ESV. Nav. Dvd camera 6 pass

2010 ACURA MDX tech package 91,000 kms

2012 INFINITI G37X

$12,888.

$30,888

Sport & Import 348-8788

Sport & Import 348 8788

Sport & Import SOLD

2008 FORD F-250 XL

2010 CHEV 1500 4x4 8 cyl. Kuhmo Tires.

$26,888.

403-346-9816

$19,888.

AWD, htd. lthr., panaroof,

$15,900.

$27,888.

$28,888.

$10,500.

$32,888

2007 H2 hummer, mint condition, 59,000 kms, new tires & rims, original rims and tires to buyer. Call Art 403-304-0727.

348-8788 Sport & Import

403-304-2118

$27,888.

$18,888.

$36,888

$27,888

348-8788 Sport & Import

$39,888.

$6000 FIRM.

2011 CHEV Silverado LTZ 6.2 L, lthr.,

Denali AWD

$22,900. 403-784-2482

403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 GMC Yukon XL

348-8788 Sport & Import

403-342-4318

348-8788 Sport & Import

Sport & Import 348 8788

$19,888.

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

403-348-8788

Call 403-350-4323

2002 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta GLS 1.8L,

2008 GMC Acadia SLE AWD, 8 passenger, 90,485 kms,

$10,000.

403-845-4146, 844-5698

348-8788 Sport & Import

403-741-6844

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 FORD F150.

$15000.

$19,888.

2005 KIA SORENTO, silver, 147,000 km.

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

AWD, auto., loaded.

Summers & snows, 106,000 km, 1 owner, exc. cond.

Must sell.

4X4, 6.4L, 92754 kms.

8th Annual Red Deer Collector Car Auction & Speed Show.

Mar 14 - 16. Westerner Park, Red Deer. 150,000 sq.ft. indoor show. Exhibitors space avail.

Consign today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGAuctions.com

$17,900.

348-8788 Sport & Import

gold medal sales spectacular $

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2013 BRAND NEW VW PASSAT’S BLOWOUT ON NOW Stk #V34429. gas & Diesel available,

2011 ACURA MPX ELITE SH-AWD Stk #V44781A. 9 pass., loaded, 1 owner,

Starting at only

only 87,000 kms

$

21,385 or $140/bw

$

39,990 or $289/bw

$

$

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2013 AUDI Q7 QUATTRO

Stk #VP4819. 333 hp supercharged V6, fully loaded, Save $18,000 off New Price, only 3,000 kms

$

69,990 or $449/bw

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2013 VW TOURAG AWD

Stk #V34389. last one! loaded, nav, camera, HID lites, panoramic roof, comfort line, 280 hp, V6, 8 spd.

Blowout Priced

$

49,990 or $323/bw

0

$

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2012 SCION XB

Stk #V44814A. fully loaded, premium audio, LED’s, 3M & Tint, bluetooth, spoiler, only 46,000 kms

$

14,990 or $111/bw

0

Down!

2012 LEXUS RX350 AWD

Stk #V44783A. ultra premium pkg. with all options, 1 owner

$

42,990 or $309/bw

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403.342.2923

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Misc.

Help

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the Support

SPRING START •

Community Worker Program

•

Women in the Trades Program

•

Math and Science for the Trades Program Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

BOWER AREA WESTPARK AREA

ROSEDALE AREA Reichley St., Reinholt Ave., Robinson Cres. Area 100 Papers $540/mo.

Heavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1840

Dogs

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

Household Furnishings

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

ENTERTAINMENT Centre, solid cherry. $50.

403-342-4442

stuff

IKEA pantry/storage unit.

White with opaque plastic front panel. Excellent condition. 71”x 16”x 16”.

Asking $80. 403-340-3693 Evenings

1500-1990

(Reliable vehicle needed.)

ANDERS AREA INGLEWOOD AREA MORRISROE AREA

Children's Items

VANIER AREA

Call Prodie: 403-314-4301 for more info SUPERVISOR/Administrator req’d for busy downtown pharmacy. Flexible hours, part/full time. Please fax resume to 403-347-5454 or email: sproules2@shaw.ca

880 BEN

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1550

Concrete forming equipment Dura-Form 4’ x 2’, 5’x2’, 7’x2’, 8’ x 2’, lots of inside corners and fillers, most of forms are in cages.

To view call Randy 403-843-1099 cell 587-679-2334. For pics and detailed equipt. list emai: thepelletiers@ xplornet.ca

SUNNYBROOK AREA

1720

COFFEE table set, 3 piece glass & wood. $100.

403-342-4442

wegot

Building Supplies

1580

LIKE new black leather chair and matching foot stool $90 403-986-1720 SOFA & loveseat, Sklar Peppler, beautiful, like new, $500. 403-342-4442

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

2 QUEEN COMFORTERS, $30/ea or 2/$50.

2 THICK WARM BLANKETS, like new, $35/ea.

ELECTRIC ROASTING PAN, like new, $30.

403-348-6449

DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino DISHES, 3 sets of 8 place setting, $45. each.

403-343-6218

PARTS

PERSON or APPRENTICE DUTIES INCLUDE: ATTRIBUTES:

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.

HISTORY painting 15 x 30 called the Chief Crowfoot signing of the Peace Treaty, $200.

403-347-7405 HOLY Man’s & Medicine Man shield (Sarcee & Cree), approx. 24” to 36” long. These items are generally found in museums or movie sets ($200 for both) 403-347-7405 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

- Customer Service rep - Receiving - Shipping - Inventory control

SET OF HEAVY DUTY MAGNETIC TRUCKERS ROAD FLARES. $30.

403-348-6449 357214B5-11

or drop off resume, Attn Bill in Service

Pd. $1800. Asking $600 obo., some cat scratches on seat, but good cond.

403-597-3958 Cash Only

Collectors' Items

Travel Packages

Misc.

Help

880

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

Grain, Feed Hay

wegot

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

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

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Anders St. / Armstrong Close Addinnell Close / Allan St. Abbott Close / Anders St. Anders Close INGLEWOOD AREA

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

ACROSS from park, 3 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $1125/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. March 1 403-304-5337

3060

Suites

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955 PONOKA, lrg. 1 bdrm apt. incld’s, laundry & all utils. $750. Avail. end of Feb. no pets, n/s 403-993-3441

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

3080

Roommates Wanted

AVAIL. - 1 bdrm. w/full bath, $600/mo. incl. all utils. + cable, washer & dryer. Call 403-343-3361

3090

Rooms For Rent

$450 MO/D.D. incl. everything. 403-342-1834 or 587-877-1883 after 2:30 CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $525. 403-346-7546

Lamont Close Lund Close

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

SUNNYBROOK AREA Somerset Close Springfield Ave.

ROOMS FOR RENT, close to uptown. Employed gentleman. Rent $400/mo, s.d. $250. 403-350-4712

3140

Warehouse Space

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615 Start your career!

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Automotive Services

5010

2008 Escalade ESV. Nav. Dvd camera 6 pass $32,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

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Antique & Classic Autos

5020

2006 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV platinum, mint $21,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

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

Cars

5030

BRAND NEW 1340 sq. ft. bungalow, 2 bdrm., den, dbl. att. garage. $384,900.

Call Glen 403-588-2231

RENO’D FULL DUPLEX in Ponoka.

3 bdrm., 1 bath per side. $257,000. 403-963-0204

2008 Audi A4 2.0T $19,888.

Sport & Import 348 8788

2006 Acura RSX premium auto 57,000 km $12,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040

12 UNIT apartment building located in quiet Red Deer neighborhood.

Contact Mike Dandurand Sundance Realty & Management 403-343-6655 391-7945 LAST 2 remaining full duplex lots in desirable neighborhood in Central Alberta. Very well priced with 4 plex as a discretionary use. Contact Mike Dandurand Sundance Realty & Management 403-343-6655 391-7945

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4430

Private Mortgages Our Rates start at 8%. We lend on Equity. Bus. For Self & Bruised Credit Ok. Ron Lewis 403 819 2436 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by March 14, 2014

PO Box 20004 RPO Mountview Red Deer, Alberta T4N 6X5 AND PROVIDE DETAILS OF YOUR CLAIM.

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4400-4430

Money To Loan

who died on May 28, 2012

If you do not file by the 1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville date above, the estate 4 dr., saftied. 403-352-6995 property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

Locally owned and family operated

FINANCIAL

DEREK ARTHUR MITCHELL

Hanne B. Petersen

4040

4100

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of

2007 INFINITI G35X AWD, auto., loaded. Summers & snows, 106,000 km, one owner, excellent cond.

Must sell. $15000.

403-845-4146, 844-5698

NEW CONDO

Income Property

6010

Public Notices

www.laebon.com

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

5240

Misc.

Automotive

PUBLIC NOTICES

Laebon Homes 346-7273

Condos/ Townhouses

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

2008 VW Golf City $9888 Sport & Import 348 8788

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

5190

Auto Wreckers

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

HOMES

Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

1998 FORD EXPLORER. Great shape. Dependable.

Command start. $2800.

403-346-7911

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403-340-2042

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Consulting

1090

WCB HELP If you have been cut off benefits or feel you have not received the benefits you are entitled.

Call Norman Zubot consulting(29yrs WCB exp) Ph: 587-521-4691.

Cell: 780-982-9822 norman.zubot@shaw.ca

Vanson Close / Visser St. Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

5000-5300

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4020

Houses For Sale

ROOM in Westpark, n/s, no pets. Furnished. TV & utils incl. 403-304-6436

MORRISROE AREA Vista Village

CLASSIFICATIONS

ROOM FOR RENT $550./mo. 403-352-7417

Law Close / Lewis Close

40A, 41 and 42 Ave. between 39 St. and 44 St. $111/mo.

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4010

Something for Everyone CLEARVIEW bi-level. 2 bdrm., Everyday in Classifieds 1 bath, 5 appls, balcony.

Close to park & bus. $900 FREE Weekly list of +utils. 403-210-1360 properties for sale w/details, GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. prices, address, owner’s apartments, avail. immed, phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer rent $875 403-596-6000 www.homesreddeer.com LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only MASON MARTIN n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

5040

SUV's

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LANCASTER AREA

Langford Close

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

2190

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

GRANDVIEW AREA

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.

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Issard Close

West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

1900

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1870

2 NATIVE Blackfoot medicine and war shields (keepsake) $80/ea.

403-347-7405 STARTER comic book collection, graphic novels, 50 comic books $200 Tim 403-340-8215

Isherwood Close

ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

DEERPARK AREA

MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $303/mo.

1 bdrm. condo on Pine Lake, fully furn., $900 utils. incl. except cable & phone Avail. now 403-862-2796

12V 3000 lb. remote control winch $80; New in box. 403-887-4981

WOODEN ROCKING HORSE. $25.

CHILDS ROCKING CHAIR, $20.

STUFFED ROCKING HORSE, $10.

B & D 109 pc. drill/driver kit WOODEN TIME OUT set $25; 148 pc. B & D drill CHAIR, $10. piece home tool kit $30.

NEW GRACO TRAVEL CRIB, 2-stage basinet. Converts New in box. 403-887-4981 to play pen. 32”X23”. $65. CARPET Steamer, Hoover 403-755-3556 Used 3 times. $75.; New Home depot sells $199.

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- Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically inclined - Computer proficient - Previous experience preferred but willing to train • Full-time position.

• Must be able to work weekends.

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3030

Condos/ Townhouses

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1860

CLASSIFICATIONS ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer

PONOKA ~ March 1st.

3 bedroom 1/2 duplex.

4 appliances. Rent $950, d.d. $950. No pets.

403-346-3943

fluffy and extremely cute! 2 BDRM. balcony, blinds, Non shedding, shots done $1000 rent no pets avail.

587-987-3422 or email: Mar. 1. 403-343-8387 LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, wendyschedel@gmail.com SOUTHWOOD PARK tamarack, poplar.

3110-47TH Avenue, Price depends on location. Sporting 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, Lil Mule Logging Goods generously sized, 1 1/2 403-318-4346 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner Sorry no pets.

BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / www.greatapartments.ca Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

3200

Misc.

For Rent

1600

Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

1830

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2 PAIR New Men’s Size 10 AQUARIUMS, (2) 90 gal.

3 BDRM. DUPLEX 250 PAGE gold mine book lined safety toe boots. $1200. both 403-505-4777 of masterpiece information IN CLEARVIEW $30/ea. and instructions on the This great 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath 1 PAIR New Men’s fleece construction of the North home offers great space lined zipper black boots, American Native crafts and on a quiet street. At just Cats size 10. $25. clothing and designs that $1425/mo it will go quick.

403-887-4981 †Call Tina at 403-896-8552 are difficult to find. Hawkeye Diary of Indian Craft 2 VERY SHY 5 MO. OLD to take a look! and Information Volume 2.

ORANGE BROTHERS. Hpman.ca With each page full of Completely neutered Computers information for all needed & litter box trained.

5 BDRM home in Ander’s items. $25 per book.

Need to go to home together, available for immed.

403-347-7405 as they have bonded.

CORNER computer desk. possession for one year.

Sweet personalities, but $75. 403-343-6218 No pets, N/S Rent need to be socialized to $2650/mo., D/D $2650. humans. 403-782-3130 403-358-6070

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting. EquipmentPerfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Pets & Supplies

1660

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk

Misc.

Help

1590

Clothing

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880

Misc.

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Contractors

1100

Escorts

1165

EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

ALL TRADES Home Maintenance 28 yrs. exp.

Retired electrician. Call Rick 403-318-4267 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

Massage Therapy

1280

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

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Massage Therapy

1280

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Personal Services

1315

REIKO’S Finest Asian Massage

In call only. 587-377-1298 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 5003-50 St.

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELP FOR SENIORS:

in home or facility family business est. 1999 bondable staff, great rates, gift certificates avail.

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Snow Removal

1380

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HEALTH

D5

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 2014

Sugar at the heart of risk THOSE WHO ENJOY SWEETS FACE A MUCH HIGHER RISK OF HEART DISEASE: STUDY

BY LINDSEY TANNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Could too much sugar be deadly? The biggest study of its kind suggests the answer is yes, at least when it comes to fatal heart problems.

It doesn’t take all that much extra sugar, hidden in many processed foods, to substantially raise the risk, the researchers found, and most North Americans eat more than the safest amount.

Having a cinnamon roll with your morning coffee, a super-sized sugary soda at lunch and a scoop of ice cream after dinner would put you in the highest risk category in the study.

That means your chance of dying prematurely from heart problems is nearly three times greater than for people who eat only foods with little added sugar.

For someone who normally eats 2,000 calories daily, even consuming two 12-ounce cans of soda substantially increases the risk.

For most North American adults, sodas and other sugary drinks are the main source of added sugar.

Lead author Quanhe Yang of the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention called the results sobering and said it’s the first nationally representative study to examine the issue.

Scientists aren’t certain exactly how sugar may contribute to deadly heart problems, but it has been shown to increase blood pressure and levels of unhealthy cholesterol and triglycerides; and also may increase signs of inflammation linked with heart disease, said Rachel Johnson, head of the American Heart Association’s nutrition committee and a University of Vermont nutrition professor.

Yang and colleagues analyzed national health surveys between 1988 and 2010 that included questions about people’s diets.

The authors used national death data to calculate risks of dying during 15 years of follow-up.

Overall, more than 30,000 American adults aged 44 on average were involved.

Previous studies have linked diets high in sugar with

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A vendor sells cotton candy at Safeco field during a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Seattle Mariners, in Seattle. A new study published this week in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine says diets high in sugar are linked with increased risks for fatal heart disease, and it doesn’t take that much extra sugar to boost the risk. increased risks for non-fatal heart problems, and with obesity, which can also lead to heart trouble.

But in the new study, obesity didn’t explain the link between sugary diets and death.

That link was found even in normal-weight people who ate lots of added sugar.

“Too much sugar does not just make us fat; it can also make us sick,” said Laura Schmidt, a health policy specialist at the University of California, San Francisco.

She wrote an editorial accompanying the study in Monday’s JAMA Internal Medicine.

The researchers focused on sugar added to processed foods or drinks, or sprinkled in coffee or cereal.

Even foods that don’t taste sweet have added sugar, including many brands of packaged bread, tomato sauce

and salad dressing. Naturally occurring sugar, in fruit and some other foods, wasn’t counted.

Most health experts agree that too much sugar isn’t healthy, but there is no universal consensus on how much is too much.

U.S government dietary guidelines issued in 2010 say “empty” calories including those from added sugars should account for no more than 15 per cent of total daily calories.

The average number of daily calories from added sugar among U.S. adults was about 15 per cent toward the end of the study, slightly lower than in previous years.

The authors divided participants into five categories based on sugar intake, from less than 10 per cent of daily calories — the safest amount — to more than 25

per cent.

Most adults exceed the safest level; and for 1 in 10 adults, added sugar accounts for at least 25 per cent of daily calories, the researchers said.

The researchers had death data on almost 12,000 adults, including 831 who died from heart disease during the 15-year follow-up.

They took into account other factors known to contribute to heart problems, including smoking, inactivity and excess weight, and still found risks for sugar.

As sugar intake increased, risks climbed steeply.

Adults who got at least 25 per cent of their calories from added sugar were almost three times more likely to die of heart problems than those who consumed the least — less than 10 per cent.

For those who got more

than 15 per cent — or the equivalent of about two cans of sugary soda out of 2,000 calories daily — the risk was almost 20 per cent higher than the safest level.

Sugar calories quickly add up: One teaspoon has about 16 calories; one 12-ounce can of non-diet soda contains has about 9 teaspoons of sugar or about 140 calories; many cinnamon rolls have about 13 teaspoons of sugar; one scoop of chocolate ice cream has about 5 teaspoons of sugar.

Dr. Jonathan Purnell, a professor at Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cardiovascular Institute, said while the research doesn’t prove “sugar can cause you to die of a heart attack”, it adds to a growing body of circumstantial evidence suggesting that limiting sugar intake can lead to healthier, longer lives.

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46494B5

NEW YORK — If you don’t get a job because you’re a woman, or you get fired because you’re black, or you get transferred to the night shift because you’re gay, there’s a law for that. But if you’re punished at work because you need time to take your child to the doctor or talk to your confused elderly mother, you might be out of luck.

In most places around the United States, there’s no specific safeguard against employment discrimination based on a worker’s status as a caregiver.

Connecticut and the District of Columbia are exceptions. Legislation that would change that is pending in New York City and California, but business interests have objected.

At a recent hearing on the New York City bill, Dena Adams testified that she lost her job at a nonprofit organization when she was switched from a regular day shift to irregular night hours, couldn’t get nighttime child care and didn’t want to leave her 11-year-old daughter alone.

She offered to work weekends and holidays, then requested a consistent night schedule and finally asked if she could bring her 11-year-old daughter to work with her.

She was turned down every time, she said, though other workers were given hours that allowed them to go to school.

“I said, ‘Oh, no, no, no, something is not right here,”’ she told a City Council committee. “That’s when I realized, you know what, this is discrimination.”

But there was no law against it, and Adams had to look for another job.

Proponents say various demographic trends have fed the problem and created the need for new laws: more single-parent households, more households with both parents working and more elderly people who need family care.

“In previous generations, there was this concept of the stay-at-home parent — a mother — who would be available to deal with all the domestic responsibilities,” said Phoebe Taubman, senior staff attorney at A Better Balance, a legal organization that helps workers meet the demands of work and family.

“Now both parents are working, work hours are longer than ever, schedules are unpredictable, overtime is frequent and there’s just no way to be everywhere and do everything for everybody.”

The Center for WorkLifeLaw at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law said in 2012 that only a few states and a few dozen localities have laws that go beyond the federal Family Medical Leave Act.

That law is limited to serious health conditions, employers with 50 or more workers and employees with a year on the job.

Connecticut and the District of Columbia protect all workers with “caregiver responsibilities,” while Alaska, New Jersey and Oregon protect workers with child care but not elder care responsibilities, the centre said. It found 67 local ordinances, most of which covered only child care.

A bill in the California Legislature would cover those who provide “medical or supervisory care” to children, spouses or parents, but the state Chamber of Commerce claims it’s too vague and “a job killer” and has successfully opposed it for several years.

In a letter to the Legislature last year, the chamber said the bill would “dramatically increase the amount of frivolous litigation.” It said medical care could be interpreted as “administering over the counter medication once a day.” And it said there are enough existing protections.

Among the California bill’s proponents is Derek Tisinger, who claims he was denied a promotion in the Bakersfield Fire Department because he had sole custody of three children. The department had earlier made it difficult for him to take time off for child care, he said, “although they bent over backward to make sure the guys on the softball team could play softball.”

He lost a lawsuit on appeal — the city denies he was passed over because of child care issues — and now campaigns for a new law.

The New York City bill would add “caregiver status” to race, religion, disability and other forbidden reasons for employers to discriminate. It defines a caregiver as someone who provides ongoing care to children or to others “in a dependent relationship” who suffer from a disability.

It calls on employers to make “reasonable accommodation” to caregivers.

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